You have no idea how screen printing works? Then watch this pretty rough guide to screen printing by Andrew Bell, a graphic design student at the Glasgow MET.
A pretty rough guide to screen printing from Andrew Bell on Vimeo.
Home Hacks
This Home Hack over at the kitchn had me look: How To Clean Tough Burnt Stains Off Stainless Cookware.
Keep this checked.
Keep this checked.
Marco Arment’s (and my) “Entire Message” search in Mail.app hasn’t worked for a long time, always just inexplicably returning zero results for any search. Today it was finally causing enough of an inconvenience that he searched for a fix.
He learned that for “Entire Message” searches, Mail just uses Spotlight on the message files. So if you leave this box unchecked* in Spotlight’s preferences, “Entire Message” searches simply won’t work, and neither Mail nor Spotlight felt it necessary to tell him this. (You also need to ensure that ~/Library/Mail isn’t excluded from settings in that Privacy tab.)
He was impatient, so after fixing that setting, he told Spotlight to manually import the messages immediately:
mdimport ~/Library/Mail
As soon as that completed, “Entire Message” searches started working.
* he had unchecked it because mail messages always cluttered up the results when I was simply trying to launch an app or find a document.
Consistent PNG quality across browsers
Here’s a helpful tip I got from my friend Olivier on how to save out your png’s to guarantee a consistent color/saturation quality across all browsers:
- in Photoshop, turn on proof colors (view -> proof colors)
- make sure your proof setup is set to “monitor rgb” (view -> proof setup -> monitor rgb)
- when you save for web, make sure you do 24 bit png, interlacing OFF, and uncheck convert to srgb
Voila.
Eric Sanderson pictures New York — before the City
400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife — accurate down to the block — when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn’t get delivery.
How a Sewing Machine Works
I have been staring at this animated gif for the last 5 minutes. Fascinating. How a Sewing Machine Works.
Artwiculate
The fabulous team at Atto made another nifty site called Artwiculate: The twitter-based Word of the Day competition helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words. To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear on the artwiculate.com site where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.
Follow them on twitter: @artwiculate
Custom Twitter Backgrounds
Smashing Magazine is running an interesting article on effective Twitter Backgrounds (Scroll down on their post for an impressive and inspiring collection of people’s custom backgrounds). Primary focus of their article is to explore various techniques to create unique, memorable and effective Twitter profile pages.
Playful Learning Experiences
Jolayne from Urbanpreschool pointed me to this amazing resource for parents called Playful Learning. It’s filled with educational activites for parents and their children. What a resource. Hat tip to Mariah Bruehl, the force behind Playful Learning.
SIGNS by Pentagram
Pentagram Papers 39 features signs from the personal collection of author and legendary Texas musician Joe Ely, photographed by Randal Ford, and a series of large format portraits of homeless people by Austin photographer Michael O’Brien. Ely wrote the foreword.
Simply moving.
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
Here, James Earl Jones recites the alphabet. This one is like the one on “Sesame Street: old school” DVD where he counts from one to ten. The pronounciation of every letter is crystal clear.
(via H&FJ)
Academic Earth
Time to get brainy: Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars: academicearth.org.
(via undrln)
Creative Tip: InDesign Guides and Easy Math
In this short 3-minute clip, Jason Hoppe shows you how to place guides precisely in InDesign the fast way. Let InDesign’s control panel do the math for you!
Letter Boxes
These oversized kraft boxes reintroduce the alphabet not as 26 distinct letters, but as the result of combining geometric parts. The 4-inch cubes may be viewed and stacked from any direction, creating unexpected shapes and letterforms. Letterboxes by The Design Office
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
The 50 Most Popular Web Design Blog Posts, Resources & Cheat Sheets of 2007
Some personal highlights:
The Importance of White space – One of the oldest principals of design is white space, and knowing how to use it properly could mean wonders for your design. Popular site A List Apart tackles the subject.
35 Designers x 5 Questions – What better way to learn technique then to speak to those who know it best? 35 of some of the brightest minds in web design get put on the spot and share some insightful expert advice.
(via muhsashum)
Remove unwanted people from public photos.
This tip comes in handy for graphic designers who need a quick way to get pedestrian-free photographs of their signage or environmental projects. There is a classic digital photography technique for removing unwanted people: Take several shots of the same scene using a tripod — then layer those photos in Photoshop. People move around between shots, so you can use parts of one photo to erase an unwanted person from another. A good tutorial is available for this technique: How to remove tourists from your photos.
Creativetechs‘ twist is to use Photoshop CS3′s improved Photomerge feature to automate this task. Simply shoot a collection of photos, erase the unwanted people in Photoshop, and let Photomerge stitch together a finished image.
There are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World
Slate presents Donald Gunn’s list of the twelve types of ads. Read the accompanying article (by Seth Stevenson) here.
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Unclutterer mosquito solution
The unclutterer links to an interesting article on using plants as a mosquito repellent solution. G, worth looking into?
how to moonwalk
Do you know how to moonwalk?
free university lectures
Check out these free university lectures. A few that stood out to me:
