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According to themselves Colourlovers.com is “a resource that monitors and influences color trends”. This website looks a bit like Adobe’s Kuler, but Colourlovers supports patterns and palettes. See the colourlovers website for yourself at the website.

Colourlover.com screenshot

Graphic design, web colours

I have a Wacom tablet which a very nice pointing device when drawing vector images, but did you know you could paint with it as well? MyPaint and ArtRage are both great tools to paint virtually. Unfortunately MyPaint is not available for the OSX platform. Interested? Check out the examples made in MyPaint and ArtRage.

MyPaint screenshot

Artrage screenshot

Graphic design, Software artrage, mypaint, paint, wacom

Andy Fitzsimon has a nice tutorial on his blog, showing how you can create cool effects in Inkscape using spiro. Mind that you need the most recent build (0.47) in order to do this fancy stuff. The tutorial can be found here.

example of spiro

Graphic design inkscape, svg, vector

So you have this great Web 2.0 project but do not have time to create a logo for it? No worry! This logo creator helps you, and have a logo ready in no-time!

example

Graphic design, web logo, tool, web 2.0

A little old but still cool to see: amazing photorealistic vector drawings. Keep in mind: These are drawings and no photographs

an example

Graphic design drawing, vector

A friend recommended me this blog about usability. The write about various topics, which are usability related.

Graphic design, HCI, Software, web HCI, usability

Smashingmagazine had a really nice article on their website showing best practices when creating a portfolio. Check their article.

Graphic design, web

Sometimes you see a very nifty font on a website or in a PDF file but you do not have a clue which font it is. WhatTheFont! helps you finding your font.

WhatTheFont! instruction

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Graphic design design, fonts, graphics

Yesterday I helped a friend of mine in developing the new style of his blog. I used Adobe’s Kuler to find out some nice colour combinations. Further I drew the logo in Inkscape. Below is a short description in how I drew the logo:

1. I used the text tool to add the “dammIT” text
2. After this I converted the text into an object
3. In the node-select-mode I made the “T” as high as the top of the “d”.
4. I moved the top-left part of the “T” to the left
5. Added a white rounded corner background.
6. Exported it as a PNG and send it over to Michiel, who added his winter picture.
7. The result:

dammIT logo

Links about colour combinations

• Colour schemes and palettes
• Colour combinations
• Colour harmony calculator
• Kuler

Graphic design colours, graphics, inkscape, vector drawing