The Adobe Illustrator workspace is designed to allow you to be as creative as you want without a lot of distractions. In this excerpt from UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, Rick Moore shows you how to choose the right measurement…

The Sixties seem to be enjoying a comeback, thanks in part to the television show “Mad Men.” Here’s a look at some images from women’s magazines from the era. Are we sure we want to glorify those times?read more…

Go Public with Photoshop CS6 Beta
Having you been playing with the Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta? Have you been making cool stuff? More importantly, do you want to make cool stuff with the Photoshop CS6 beta??
The Photoshop team wants…

Pithy wisdom on putting ideas into action from Jack Dorsey, John Maeda, Seth Godin, Jill Greenberg, and many more.…

The SPD 47 awards gala is nearly here. All SPD members will be receiving their invitations through the post soon. Be sure to book your seats and tables quickly as space is limited.This year the invite doubles as a handy…

The Sixties seem to be enjoying a comeback, thanks in part to the television show “Mad Men.” Here’s a look at some images from women’s magazines from the era. Are we sure we want to glorify those times?read more…

The design community has suffered another tragic loss with the passing of Hillman Curtis, who died yesterday after what an announcement on his website called “a long and fiercely-fought battle with colon cancer.”This sad news comes on the heels of…

An exhibit was held capturing ‘The Creation of Art in Tokyo’ from different perspectives. Artists from a total of 8 countries, including Cambodia, Switzerland, Thailand, Taiwan, China, Germany, Japan ……

Thoughts of connection was heated up. Japan Media Arts Festival calls for entries in four divisions; art, entertainment, animation and manga, from all over the world and gives winning artists the opp……

A peek behind the scenes at iconic designer Milton Glaser’s creative process from Jonah Lehrer’s new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works.…

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About Nidhi Chanani
Inspired by everyday life, illustrator and Smartpress.com customer Nidhi Chanani creates work to make people happy. She shares these images with friends and family and calls that everyday love. Her work shows moments from a day that…

Designers often work so diligently for clients, we often forget to work for ourselves.
Our own logos, collateral such as business cards and websites, and marketing campaigns suffer a bit of (okay, a fair amount of) neglect as we delegate…

Have you been playing with the Adobe Photoshop CS6 beta? Have you been making cool stuff? More importantly, do you want to make cool stuff with the Photoshop CS6 beta?
If so, the Photoshop team wants you!
read more…

Today we have a guest post from Liz Presson. Liz’s mission is to encourage those sentenced to life in a cubicle farm to think outside the traditional office. Through her version of “Yelp for co-working spaces”, WorkingRemote.ly, she’s spreading her…

Reviving Mitte, reviving Berlin. 　 One night in February 2012, despite the freezing cold, Auguststrasse in central Berlin was filled with people gathered for the opening of a new art complex. Crowds w……

To kick off the first challenge on the newly launched Heineken Ideas Brewery open innovation platform for Heineken Innovation, Janne Kyttanen, Creative Director of Freedom Of Creation and pioneer of 3……

I recently completed this Digi Pack CD Design for a Dominic Finley, a singer/songwriter client who I’ve worked with before. His new CD is named ‘The Songs of Neil Diamond‘ and as can be seen, has been designed in a…

Excerpted from Photoshop CS6 Beta Preview on lynda.com.

The most obvious change to Adobe Photoshop CS6 is its darkened interface. If you work in Lightroom, then you are already familiar with a dark gray workspace. If not, this Lynda.com video…