Archive for May, 2009
Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Coding Calendars (again) – Lists and Sprites Oh My!
A few weeks ago I wrote a tutorial explaining how I coded a calendar for a client project at my day job (Brunello Creative). After some comments from readers I realized that wrapping a link around an h3 element wasnt semantic! eeeek! I also realized that I probably had a case of div-itis. So heres [...]
19 Comments » - Posted in Tutorials, Web 2.OH, Web Design, design by Niki Brown
Saturday, May 30th, 2009
Question of the Week #5 Design Education
Its time for question of the week #4! I’m going to post a short little audio clip asking you a question. Feel free to chime in and let me know what you think! I’d love to get a discussion going on in the comments!
Listen!
16 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Question Of The Week, design, design ethics by Niki Brown
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Tutorials Gone Wild…
It all started out with a harmless tutorial made by another designer. Which then prompted me to tweet this. I know I tend to rant about things on twitter from time to time, but I think I hit a nerve here. Some of the tutorials I have seen lately have been reducing design to a [...]
34 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Tutorials, design, design ethics, illustration by Niki Brown
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Question Of The Week #4 Balance
Its time for question of the week #4! I’m going to post a short little audio clip asking you a question. Feel free to chime in and let me know what you think! I’d love to get a discussion going on in the comments!
This weeks question:
Listen!
11 Comments » - Posted in Question Of The Week, Web 2.OH, design, design ethics by Niki Brown
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Quick Tip #32 Aligning In Illustrator
In this quick tip I show you some tricks and tips of the align tools in illustrator. As always – leave a comment and let me know what you think! And don’t forget to subscribe via iTunes.
8 Comments » - Posted in Graphic Design, Screencasts, Tutorials, design by Niki Brown
Monday, May 18th, 2009
Coding Calendars For The Web
*update* I have re-done this tutorial with unordered lists and css sprites. Check it out here.
Calendars are such an everyday object for most people – they are literally everywhere, in print, on our cell phones, computers and on the web. I recently had to design and code a calendar at work and learned a few [...]
