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CSS Pattern Library and Gradient Tutorial

CSS Tartan Plaid: background-color: hsl(2, 57%, 40%);
background-image: repeating-linear-gradient(transparent, transparent 50px, rgba(0,0,0,.4) 50px, rgba(0,0,0,.4) 53px, transparent 53px, …

Posted in Resources, Tutorial, Useful Code, Web

You Must Sell Your Ideas

Even a brilliant idea won’t sell itself. And isn’t this layout great?

Posted in Amusement, Fiddling & Time Wasters, Typography, Vocation & Profession

Bring Home the Baron: Creative Teambuilding

Simple: Building a great creative team is about hiring great people and letting them do their work.

Posted in Amusement, Editorial, Vocation & Profession

Another Interesting Opensource Mapping Script

“Nope, that’s not the true size of Greenland.” Open, Forkable, NOT Google Based, and some 3D: What’s not to love?

Posted in Technical Geekery, Useful Code, User Interface Design, Visual Concepts, Vocation & Profession

Retro Illustration Tutorial

“To achieve a retro effect, try drawing your lines with the Brush tool and then cross-hatching back over them with the Eraser tool.”

Posted in Artists & Designers, Color Theory, Design History, Drawing, Packaging, Repost From Cited Source, Tutorial, Typography, Visual Concepts