Design Articles

A Japanese design firm created some amazing vector illustrations. There is something about vector art that I just love. Maybe it is the vibrant colors that you normally don't pull off with traditional art.

Adobe made this color schemer called Kuler. Create color schemes and save them to your kuler. Rate other peoples' color schemes and view the highest rated ones! I love it.

I love 3D imagery but don't like the hefty price tags of Maya/3DSMax, so this is very exciting to me. Adobe CS3 Extended has 3D support.

3D and motion support with the ability to edit 3D content and incorporate it into 2D compositions, paint and clone over multiple video frames, and more

The only thing that worries me about this is that Photoshop is a resource hog already, I wonder what is going to happen when you add all of these new features.

The only example of Photoshop using 3D is an aluminum can - how lame. But I am interested to see if this will be easy enough for people who normally only work in 2D to expand their horizons. I'm sure at first it will be the normal case - noobs pick up 3D and make websites into unusable monstrosities - but when people learn to use 3D then the internet will be a better place!

The Tango Icon Set is the best and most complete free icon set I have seen in a long time. If you need a specific icon, you can most likely find it in there. Brilliant!