David Leggett over at Tutorial 9 has a great set of tutorials called “School of Photoshop” thats pretty cool if you havent tinkered with the program at all. The tutorials go from preschool to 9th grade. I’ve been using photoshop for years and i still found some usefull tips and tricks! Go check it out!
http://www.tutorial9.net/school-of-photoshop/
SVA thesis project by Joshua Hester. You’ll Be Fine is a website featuring health topics on sex, drugs and video games aimed at young adults freshly out of college up to their mid-thirties.
Hi, I’m Niki and I’m an RSS addict. Heres a lovely compilation of design realted blogs that I actually read (not just glance at) on a daily basis!
A lovely blog about all things web, with some sweet video tutorials!
Swiss designer gone NYC. She’s got a good eye for all things design
A Blog thats all about type. Updated about once a week, but the posts are so full of awesome content that its worth it!
Von Glitschka’s design blog – mostly about his own work but still a great read!
A blog about all things packaging related
Quite possibly the best web design blog ever
Writings about design and culture
What blogs do you actually read on a daily basis? I’m looking for some recomendations! Leave a comment and let me know!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the internet did everything for you? Well, not EVERYTHING, but…most things? I perused my massive list of bookmarks and found 18 useful web 2.oh-ish-esque something or other generator/automators that are useful to designers/internet addicts.
Enjoy!
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Make long words shorter! – great for twitter
URL shortening and then some: click/referral tracking, automatic page mirroring, an API, and thumbnails
Coded Preview is a handy little app for web designers and coders. It allows you to create simple HTML preview pages, showing what a template should look like when coded. Coded Preview can also be used to create splash pages.
Online generator that will make lists for you, chose from several styles flavored and cured with css!
The best online form service out there, hands down.
Generate HTML/CSS code and images for rounded corners.
Cool online site mapping tool – easy to use and easy to share with clients. I’ve used this with clients before and they seem to like it. You can also export XML sitemaps!
Super simple CMS – just add tags with the class=”cushycms” and ftp info and BAM! You can edit pages. I set up http://northstarrcommunications.com this way 
Watch the video on their homepage.
Too lazy to buy a windoze computer and test websites in IE (5.5-8)? Let Net Renderer do it!
Ever wonder what Trebuchet MS looks like at 1em with 1.6em leading and 2px letterspace? Type Tester lets you see!
Tabbing navigation made easy.
Web 2.OH made easy.
Self explanatory
Lorem Ipsum….web 2.OH style!
Check me out in my red flannel running suit!
Color pallete generator/community
To lazy to refresh your twitter page (if you use the web interface) ? Twit refresh refreshes every minute!
Last but not least….a graphic header generating website. I TOTALLY used this back in 1997 to make graphics. haha. oh man!
Logos are probably the most difficult aspect of graphic design. You have to say so much with so little. Below are 9 logos that have caught my eye lately. Click on the logo for a link to the designers website. Enjoy!
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