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Few weeks back, a reader sends me a picture of this stock vectors and asking me whether I can show him how to achieve the result. Well, it’s a illustration depicting a wave of lines that comes in different thickness and shades of blue. I did some tryouts and find that it’s not that hard to achieve. For this tutorial, I will show you how to create the wavy patterns of lines similar to the stock vec
Ever fancy of using Japanese fonts that are cute and unique? Today, I’m going to introduce 5 new Japanese fonts that you can download for free and use it right away! Kodomo Maru Gothic (こども丸ゴシック) This font give a sense of the naive handwriting style by the small kids. It has the standard Hiragana, Katakana, Numerals and Kanji that students learn during early primary school years. Download OTF (per
Perhaps you had been to design school, learning web design skills that are actually quite outdated and not practical anymore, and been wondering where is the best place to learn the best practices of web development. Well, in this post I will show you some really useful sites that teach you real web development skills. Personally, I think that the best place to learn about web design or developmen
Yup, it is time again. Time is running really fast and we will have a brand new year of 2012 in very near future. As usual, there are a lot of annual roundup design related posts that show the best quality of design or resources written by dedicated publishers in 2011. Just like what I did last year, I collected some “Best of 2011” article links and list it in this post for easy reference for ever
It’s been a while since I posted tutorial article. In this post, I will show you how to create a smart sticky navigation bar easily with just few lines of Javascript codes, powered by the mighty jQuery. Smart sticky navigation bar is a bar that sits at its original place above the fold, but when you start scrolling down the long page, it will sticks at the top of the browser window and follows, si
[Updated] We all knew that there are a lot of websites showcasing the great usage of fonts and type treatment on various mediums like web or on the print, but sometimes you just want to know what font they are using. Well you can use font identification service to check the similar fonts, but is there any resources that tells you the font name? Well there are, I found 3+ websites that not only sho
When comes to presentation, normally we will rely on softwares like PowerPoint or Keynote. These are really useful tools, but for people who doesn’t have the softwares, we still can use free online tools like Google Doc’s Presentation. But now there is another new way of doing presentation slides which is by using web-based HTML entirely. The benefit of HTML presentation slides is compatibility. P
Recently I found another interesting style in Web Design as the boring scrolling experience become really unique and fresh. Scrolling in either horizontally or vertically, it brings the whole new perspective towards creative presentation on the web. We can see how the designers telling a story through scrolling down a page, and the creative placement of the graphic elements that react according to
Few more days to go which marks the end of the brilliant year of 2010. It’s been an exciting year for the world of Web Design and the social web, a lot of new ideas, great designs, resources and tutorials that we all can collect and learn. There are a lot of “best of” roundups from various blogs and here I put up all together in a post for easy reference. I categorize the best of roundups into 8 b
As a Web Designer, Adobe Photoshop is a superb tool for designing websites and many other designs as well, and it becomes one of the designer’s must know arsenal. In the current Web scene, there are many resources that being provided free of charge or labeled as open source. Well same goes to Photoshop and graphic resources. I found 10 websites that dedicated to provide quality free Photoshop (PSD
In the modern Web Design, the implementation of a grid system is getting popular and become a common practice, thanks to the 960.gs and design pioneers like Khoi Vinh. With grid system, designers are able to lay out the structures in a more refined way. However, these grid guidelines are normally invisible on the design output. But I found that there are some websites that has visible grid lines a
When comes to Web Design blogs, everyone will think of world popular blogs like Smashing Magazine or CSS Tricks. As a person that obsess with Japanese designs, I also go to Web Design blogs that originate from Japan. With my knowledge in Japanese language, I can generally understand the articles and posts from the blog. Actually there are quite a number of blogs and it is quite informative! Below
As many of you guys already know, Twitter let us to express in less than 140 characters, then connect and meet new friends. And in Japan, Twitter is really a hit and many of the Japanese tweets are “mumbles“. But besides that, despite of limited characters, we can also find some Twitterers that actually educational and teach Japanese! There are a few of notable Twitter accounts that teaches Japane
Ever fancying of having some cool Japanese fonts instead of using the boring default system Japanese fonts? Well, you are in the right place. Here I found another 5 unique Japanese fonts that is free for download. Why another? This is because I wrote a similar post before which is “Cute Japanese font for download” and successfully helped people to find a more unique Japanese fonts. It is quite har
Here I present you the dotted world map vector free for download. It comes with three different dot sizes which is fine, medium and large to cater for different purpose and needs. This dotted world map is based on the world map resource from Deviant Art, and I overlay a dotted pattern on top and slowly remove the unwanted dots to form the shape of the world. It took me several days to accomplish t
Probably you already know this, but I still want to take an opportunity to write about it. The post banner above is done by wonderful Japanese Foliage™ brushes brought to you by DesignFruit. In fact that I used this stunning sets of brushed for my several previous banner designs. The brushes are very high resolution and has a variety of different brushes to play with. The creator, Jason Gaylor cre
While browsing through good web designs recently on Twitter or via web design galleries, I noticed a trend of using content blocks in variable size and design to form an interesting bento box style design. It’s usually designed in a grid, for example 3×3, 4×4 or other configurations, and then making it visually interesting by being creative with the block sizes while conforming with the underlying
I had been working with Photoshop for more than a year and through out this year, I designed works by using this great tool, really can’t live without it. In Photoshop, the layer blending had been the most frequently used in most designs. By applying layer styles, the design won’t be flat and it looks good. I used a variety of style combination to achieve the desired result. And here, I decided to
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