MINI ICON Set – july download

Its a set of 10 icons for the PCs and Webdesigns.
Available as PNGs & ICOs

These icons are meant only for personal or non-profit organization use, their commercial use is strictly prohibited. Please give credit and link me when you use them.

Monospaced fonts

 

Most of the time we talk about serif, sans serif fonts, there is one more type which is quite important and widely used in digital interfaces & web.

Monospaced fonts.
Monospaced fonts are fixed width typefaces with all the glyphs of same width.  Also identified as fixed-pitch. These typefaces became popular or might be invented because of typewriter.

The TUTS family

There is a thousands of tutorial sites popping up regulary on web, but there are only few which actually makes a mark and provide some meaningful tutorials and resources. 

The Tuts family is one of them.  

 

Main topic of site is PSD (photoshop), but you will also find some great articles about design trends & inspirations.

Signboard Redesign

 

There is a big problem in being in designer; you can’t roam around freely avoiding things as one in the image below.

It’s a signboard hanging on this wall from a long time and it regularly directs me & everyone who enters my university campus.

So, how is it?
Good type selection, good contrast, nice & costly vinyl print, what else someone wants from a signboard !

But does it perform the task it is assigned for?

Providing me directions…I think no!

Let’s figure out why & what’s the solution for it?

Wallpaper of the Month – July

A blog is of no use until unless it doesnt provide anything for free , at designjunction you will get icons,patterns,applications resources, wallpapers & wordpress themes too.So, here is our first candidate for the freebie lane, its a wallpaper i created a long back for my desktop, now sharing with you all.

1280 x 960    1280 x 1024    1680 x 1050 ( widescreen )  
you can also find this wallpaper at my deviantART gallery.   
 

 

Web 2.0 design trends

 

Apart from usability, functionality & technology upgrade there is one more thing which differentiates Web 2.0 from its previous era – the Visual Trends.

On every new web page with a web 2.0 label you will discover more & more glossy, shiny, colorful, trendy visual styles. One reason behind these visual styles being so famous might be the thousands of design tutorials saying “Web 2.0 buttons, badges, glossy text etc.etc. Well, the reason would be anything; these visual styles are a real visual treat for the user, but only if used with limitations.In this post, i will try to cover up some of the web 2.0 elements we see around us.

lipsum.com

Lorem ipsum, the standard placeholder text in graphic and typesetting industry. It demonstrates the dummy text, font or layout.

 

The most common lorem ipsum text reads as follows:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Designers, clients & Web 2.0

I see a lot of confusion around me when we are talking about web 2.0, its more of kinda buzzword for industry, clients & sometime even designers. As a web designer, i tried to explore a little more in WEB 2.0 as my first post.

This term was first originally coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004. Stephen Fry (actor, author, and broadcaster) defines Web 2.0 as

“an idea in people’s heads rather than a reality. It’s actually an idea that the reciprocity between the user and the provider is what’s emphasized. In other words, genuine interactivity, if you like, simply because people can upload as well as download”.

Hello World, Welcome to just another design blog.

I am Nitin Garg and accidentally I have prepared myself to actually start a
blog, reasons – to share my work/ ideas/ thoughts, to communicate & a bit of
shameless self-promotion. Here I will talk about art, aesthetics, design, web,
usability and other interesting random stuff happening in world.

If you want to appreciate me, criticize me or hire me, just mail me at nitingarg@live.com or have a look at my deviantART portfolio at http://www.freakyframes.deviantART.com