Posts Tagged ‘design’

Layer Tennis

Posted in Illustrator, Photoshop, video on February 13th, 2009 by markcoppock – Be the first to comment

Adobe CS4 presents the 2009 season of Layer TennisLayer Tennis:

Two competitors will swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post it to the site live. A third participant, a writer, provides play-by-play commentary on the action, as it happens. A match lasts for ten volleys and when it’s complete…

But I’m still agreeing with people who say the CS4 logo looks like a TV station’s (mentioned ~4:00 in):

Web design trends with great examples

Posted in web design on January 22nd, 2009 by markcoppock – 1 Comment

Smashing Magazine has two great articles: Web Design Trends for 2009 and More Web Design Trends for 2009.

A bunch of trends are described and shown: rich UIs, PNG transparency, big typography, one-page layouts, huge illustrations and vibrant graphics (a fave: Versions for Mac), more white space than ever, etc. etc. etc. They’ve identified 31 distinct trends/design elements, most ranging from pretty cool to very very.

While things like all-Flash sites can be considered passé, here’s a new one that I love: the 2010 Prius site. Great sound design, and it helps that it’s finally a good-looking car.

Your picks?