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Greatest Illustrator artworks I love Part One

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:24:52 +0000

Yukio Miyamoto – Masters of Adobe Illustrator

Yukio Miyamoto has been using and abusing Adobe Illustrator since the biginning of time (well, since the late ’80s at least.). Professional Artist Yukio Miyamoto’s artwork is showcased and sample throughout the book.Yukio’s artwork has appeared in a number of books, from design books. Yukio has trained thousands of people in all areas of graphics for the Mac and win.

His illustrator works for instrument and object are amazing. The result looks like photo effect which is hard to believe is made by vector illustration.

His mucha are also sooo beautiful. If he could make a Tarot card, I will definitely collect it.

Image source from google image search

Max Kostenko

A very talent illustrator lives in Moscow, Russia. He creates a lots of stunning cartoon characters which you can’t forget after seeing them.

Image source for www.behance.net

Sveta Dorosheva

Her beautiful fairy-tale and Calligraphy illustration just stole my heart.

Image source for www.behance.net

Andreas Krapf

a super talent illustrator from German.

His works always shows a very interesting stories. He tweet’s some fairy tale story into his version which gives them a new life. Very creative !!!

Image source for www.behance.net

COLOURlovers

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:44:26 +0000

To be brave to put some colours that you will never think to put them together. But you know what they will surprise you. Think hard in your head is not gonna work, you need to get a tool.

Photocopa – to create a color palette from the picture you like.

Not bad! It’s just a small part of COLORlovers.com

Create a color palette yourself,

then you can create patten by using these palette.

If you can’t find the pattern you like, you can create your own pattern.

Some CSS Tricks

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:56:36 +0000

Some small and common css trick to remember, by the way I gave up on IE6 now, so don’t really care whether the style it will work on IE6 or not.

1. Fixed on the left, and scrolling on the right

The inspriation is from http://www.nuyustore.com/ . I like the way nüyu display the content. this is very simple to do by using CSS.

CSS:

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#col1 {
float:left;
margin-right:30px;
position:fixed;
width:260px;
}
#col2 {
float:left;
margin-left:300px;
width:650px;
}

HTML:

<div class="col1">fix position content, for example navigation menu</div> <div class="col2">scrolling content, for example main content</div>

See some examples of the fix navigation

2. footer always at the bottom of the page

This is an very classic problem for lots for front end developer. My method is based on Matthew James Taylor’s post.

CSS:

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#wrap{ min-height:100%； position:relative, background-color:#fff; width:1000px; margin:0 auto;}
#header{ width:948px; padding:0 26px;}
#main{ width:948px; padding:47px 26px 165px 26px; overflow:auto;}
#footer{ position:absolute; bottom:0; height:165px; background-color:#666； width:100%; padding-top:35px; }

/*If IE 7 & IE6*/
#main {height:100%;}

HTML:
<div id="wrap"> <div id="header">...</div> <div id="main">....</div> <div id="footer">...</div> </div>

3.Min height/Width & Max Height/Width for IE7

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#{

max-height:400px; /*for Firefox and other broswers*/
width: expression(this.height>; 200 ? "200px": true); /*for IE only*/

}

#div{

min-height:600px; /*min height work for all browsers */
height: auto !important;
height: 600px;

}

4.reset CSS style

1 2	html, body, div, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, ul, ol, dl, li, dt, dd, p, blockquote, pre, form, fieldset, table, th, td { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

5. To show the hr with image background use

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div.smldivider

{

clear:both;
width:100%;
background-image:url(../Images/dotted-line.jpg);
background-position:left center;
background-repeat:repeat-x;
height:5px;
border:solid 0px #f2f2f2;

}

div.smldivider hr

{

display:none;

}

[/css]

>HTML:>

[ccie_html]<;div>;<;hr/>;<;/div>;[/ccie_html]

6. locate the elment in middle horizontally

>CSS:>

[cc lang="css"]
#sec_nav
{

width:950px; /* the width must be defined */
margin:0 auto; /*auto can make the sec_nav location in the middle or in the middle of some container */
text-align:center;
height:25px;

}

7.Conditional Comments for different version of IE browsers

[if IE 6]> <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text.css” href=”ie6.css”> [endif]-->

8.p: before and p: after and the property of content , for example:

1 2	p:before, p:after { content: “” ”; color: gray; }

1	{ content: url(para.gif) }

This is a quote.

Result: “ This is a quote. ”

9. Get ride of the link border

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a:link{ outline-style:none}
[/cs]
But keep in mind the outline may be very important for user who use the keyboard to browser the website.

>10.IE White space bug>

There is a white space under the images in IE

Solution: add <;div>; wrap the link and image <;img src=”images/test.jpg” alt=”test image”>;<;/div>;

>11. Some CSS selectors>

[attribute^=string] - This looks for the string at the Beginning of the Attribute.
[attribute$=string] - Looks for the string at the End of the Attribute.
[attribute*=string] - Looks for the string Anywhere in the Attribute.

>12. CSS hack for Safari only
>[cc lang="css"]

/* To target a safari browser issue */

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0){

Element{
}
}

13. Bicubic Image Scaling

You’ll love this one. Does the bad image scaling in IE bothering you? If you compared other browsers and IE, IE’s rescaled image doesn’t look as good as other.

Adde this in the css : img { -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic; } to make the image look smooth in IE

…More to come

Feminine and Cute Design Website

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:42:43 +0000

Pretty and cute is definitely my cup of tea. I love butterfly, flourish background, cute icon and illustration thing. In this post, you will be able to see some very beauty and extremely cute website design. Hope they can bring some inspiration to your life.

Feminine

RedVelvetart online Shop that sells hand craft staff.

Darling Tree Personal Website for Joanna klima

Freepeople online fashion boutique

Susannah Conway Personal website of Susannah Conway

Little excitement after shopping in Oasis

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:43:13 +0000

Haven’t shop in Oasis for ages. Today I walked pass by, and the big sales sign dragged me in. (It’s the same reason I went to Zara-to grab a bargain) After 5 mins scan in the sales rows. I gave up and start looking at the new collection. Puff sleeves, strips, shoulder pads is every where. I absolutely love the new trend. As a very efficency shopper, 6 outfit is chosen in 10 minutes and that’s why I like go shopping on my own. To be honest, all the clothes I picked are looking good on me. This make my heart start bleeding (I will be bankrupt). This is one of the clothes I picked at the end. Trust me, you will look very slim in this top.

For more look, please visit Oasis Online Shop

By the way, for someone if you haven’t used and heard about Polyvore website. You should start to us it now specially when you are not sure how the different clothes match to each other. This is for you plus it’s fun to use. Check out the Explore-Polyvore.

Alice in Wonderland

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:57:00 +0000

I am so in love with these images, since I was a little girl I always like watching TV cartoons, Alice in Wonderland is one of my favourite. I always remember Alice is looking for the Rabbit with the clock every where.

Visit Alice In Wonderland for more images and preview movie clip.
Other Alice

Love Colors

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:11:57 +0000

Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite.

When used in the right ways, color can save on energy consumption. When used in the wrong ways, color can contribute to global pollution.

As a powerful form of communication, color is irreplaceable. Red means “stop” and green means “go.” Traffic lights send this universal message. Likewise, the colors used for a product, web site, business card, or logo cause powerful reactions.

COLOURlovers is a great tool to work out the best combination color palettes for you website theme.

Color Scheme Designer 3 another great tool to find the color and color palettes.

ColorZilla – find any color reference on web. ColorZilla is a very useful add-on for Firefox. It’s very easy to use. Click the color picker icon on the left bottom corner of the browser window to active the function.

More features:

Webpage DOM Color Analyzer
Analyze DOM element colors on any Web page and create a corresponding palette
Locate elements on the page that correspond to a given color
Find out what CSS rules specify a given color
Save, bookmark and share the palettes

What colors stand for:

Black : power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery
White: light, goodness, innocence, purity, and virginity. It is considered to be the color of perfection.
Purple: royalty, power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.
Blue is a masculine color; according to studies, it is highly accepted among males. Dark blue is associated with depth, expertise, and stability; it is a preferred color for corporate America.
Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety.
Yellow is the color of sunshine. It’s associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.
Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.

Free Color Theory Quick Reference Poster

Rainbow Walk » colors

Greatest Illustrator artworks I love Part One

Yukio Miyamoto – Masters of Adobe Illustrator

Max Kostenko

Sveta Dorosheva

Andreas Krapf

COLOURlovers

Some CSS Tricks

Feminine and Cute Design Website

Popular Tutorial Blog

Little excitement after shopping in Oasis

Alice in Wonderland

Love Colors