Illustrator: Christina Ung
Christina Ung is an illustrator based in Thornhill, Ontario. She graduated in 2007 with a BAA Illustration degree at Sheridan College and since, have illustrated for several editorial publications and commercial clients across North America. Her works appears in group exhibitions and have achieved recognition in both Communication Arts & Applied Arts award annuals.
Released a Free Vector Social Media Icon Set
I just released a free social media vector set at IconDock. It consists 48 icons of the most popular social networks plus a standard RSS and email icon. The icons are available at 16px and 32px in EPS, PNG, and GIF format. Please tweet or blog about it to share the love. Thanks!
Server Moved to InMotion Hosting
In case you havent noticed, Ive moved my hosting to InMotion Hosting. Im using one of their dedicated servers for all my projects and it has been very stable. They also offer a lot of affordable packages from shared hosting to VPS hosting. In term of tech support, they are the best Ive experienced by [...]
Daily Drop Cap
The Daily Drop Cap is an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day she will post a decorative initial cap which you can use for your blog posts. Below are some of her designs. Follow her site for more.
Article: Web Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010
Read my new article about Web Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010. It covers design trends with sample sites in both design and technology perspective. It looks like CSS3 is going to be in this year. Read on to find out why.
DIY: Lego Router
Watch how Luke Anderson converted his Linksys wireless router into a Lego router. If you would like to build one yourself, download his detail documentations.
iPhone App: Lego Photo
To all Lego and iPhone fans: Lego just released a free app that lets you generate Lego brick mosaic images from any photo. The app is fun and easy to use. Tab to select a photo from your photo library or take a new photo with the camera. Then you can tab again to [...]
Article Link: Process of Redesigning N.Design
The Process of Redesigning N.Design (article) is finally published on Web Designer Wall. It explains every detail about the redesign as well as shows you the process images. Ive also talked about how other web sites inspired me. Read the article now to find out how I recycled my old illustrations and created something new.
Site: Art in My Coffee
Art in My Coffee is a site by Jina Bolton and Meagan Fisher where they showcase coffee art from around the world.
WordPress Short URL for Twitter
You may have noticed that Twitter no longer automatically shorten URLs in the tweets. The great thing is now you can promote your own domain in the tweets. If you are using WordPress, you can take advantage of the default permalink structure to shorten URLs. Instead of posting the "pretty" URL, you can shorten [...]
Parrot AR.Drone: iPhone-Controlled Helicopter
Wow! It is a helicopter that connects via WiFi and uses your iPhones display as controller. It has built-in cameras and ultrasound sensors that lets you take full control of the helicopter. You can even play reality games with it. Visit ardrone.parrot.com for more videos and info.
Creative: McDonald?s Steaming Bus Shelter Ad
A steam machine was built inside the bus shelter and periodic bursts revealed a message Your Free Coffee is Ready . Creative!
Layers App Giveaways
Layers is a Mac software that allows you to capture everything on your screen (such as cursor, application windows, palettes, menus, dock, desktop icons, etc.) as a layered Photoshop file. This tool is extemely useful for creating tutorial screen captures. I have 5 licenses to giveaway. Enter a comment in this post before [...]
How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
LOL: comic strips about how a web design goes straight to hell. Most freelance designers have probably suffered this before.
Blowing Installation By Tokujin Yoshioka For Hermes
I recently came across this YouTube video and I thought it was very creative. It is a window display by Tokujin Yoshioka for Hermes, Tokyo. It features a model blowing at a hanging scarf.
