Speckyboy Design Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2020

How to Help Your Clients with Website Content Strategy – How to get the processes of creating and organizing content moving in the right direction. Devbook – A new kind of search engine made just for developers. What Makes CSS Hard To Master – Thoughts on what frustrates some developers about CSS. The Grumpy Designer Looks Ahead to 2021 – The definitive tongue-in-cheek look at how the new year will impact the web design community. 10 new rules of design – Leading experts say that it’s time

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The COVID-19 lockdowns have had a very different effect on people. While the boredom made some depressed, it actually helped others discover hidden talents. Take Anna Chojnicka, who started creating adorable banana peel artworks. To pass the time and keep her creative juices flowing, social entrepreneur Anna Chojnicka started experimenting with banana peel oxidation as an art medium.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The latest evolution of the Visible Technologies brand is starting to come into view. Above is the new Visible Technologies logo. The new logo takes the visual language of statistics and seamlessly integrates it into a clean, easy to read word mark. The bar graph into the V also gives the impression of movement, showing that Visible Technologies is on the move leading the new media revolution.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 19, 2020

19-year-old artist Haru Otomi certainly has a way with a pencil. The talented illustrator is responsible for some amazing drawings of cats that look so real, you almost want to reach out and pet! Their latest may be the best to date–an illustration of a cat where fur, whiskers, and eyes are impossibly real. Otomi spent 46 hours drawing this fine feline.

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Speaker: Amber Asay, Creative Director and Founder of award-winning design studio Nice People

Understanding what trends are happening and how they’re impacting the competitive landscape is crucial to providing top dollar design strategy to your clients. With so many trends coming and going, it can be overwhelming to determine which ones you should capitalize on and which ones might not be worth the trouble. In this exclusive webinar with Amber Asay, we’ll explore graphic design trends that need to die, trends that are starting to pick up and why, trends that have come and gone, and how t

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The latest evolution of the Visible Technologies brand is starting to come into view. Above is the new Visible Technologies logo. The new logo takes the visual language of statistics and seamlessly integrates it into a clean, easy to read word mark. The bar graph into the V also gives the impression of movement, showing that Visible Technologies is on the move leading the new media revolution.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Yesterday was a big day for us over here at Urban Influence. Our new site snagged a few Website of the Day Awards! The post Urban Influence Wins Some appeared first on Urban Influence.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Asaf Kliger Sweden’s new IceHotel is giving some of the world’s most incredible ice caves a run for their money. This year, artists have created six one-of-a-kind suites in what is being billed Icehotel 31, which will stand until April 11, 2021 – when the hotel melts. h/t: mirror Asaf Kliger We’re talking everything from a room decked out to look like an enchanted frozen forest to giant icy toys.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We talk a lot about branding on our blog, but we rarely discuss our thought process in the design phase. Design is a key tool in communicating a brand experience, and even the soundest strategy can fail if not communicated correctly through design. There are a wide range of variables when approaching design, however there are several considerations that we believe are essential to every project… Read on for more details.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 19, 2020

There are only 21 LEGO Certified Professionals in the world and Junpei Mitsui is the only one from Japan, and the youngest-ever when he was named a LEGO Certified Professional in 2011 at the age of 24. More: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube h/t: twistedsifter Born in Akashi City, Mitsui’s latest LEGO masterpiece can be found on permanent display at the Hankyu Brick Museum in Osaka.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

With release of the latest iTunes 10, Apple has thrown it’s hat into the social media ring. Ping is an addition to iTunes which allows people to spy on friends, strangers, and celebs and discuss the one thing you’re most likely to have in common: music. Apple makes no illusions about Ping – this is a service created to help you buy more music.

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Design You Trust

DECEMBER 19, 2020

A woman has baked a 6ft cake of a nurse hugging Father Christmas to thank NHS staff for their life saving work on the frontline. More: Rosie Dummer, Instagram, Facebook h/t: dailymail Rosie Dummer spent two weeks painstakingly preparing the giant cake which served up 1,200 portions and weighed more than 30st. The mother-of-four, from Manchester, was asked to prepare a cake for Channel 5’s Amazing.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

When proclaiming a boycott of BP, the common rhetoric seems to be that you’re only hurting the families that own the franchise stations (and not the evil corporation). Brand association is a powerful thing for better or worse, and despite the baseless droning that protest only hurts the innocents in this case, new data is showing otherwise. The post Why Slacktivism Works (RE: The BP Boycott) appeared first on Urban Influence.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We’re happy to announce that Wood Shed Production has snagged a few features and nominations on various website award galleries. Coming off some Website of the Day wins for our own site, we’re super excited to keep the ball rolling with Wood Shed. As of today, you can find Wood Shed Production on the Awwwards, CSS Design Awards and One Page Love.

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Speaker: Sean Adams, ArtCenter College of Design

Thomas Edison once said “Vision without execution is hallucination.” This statement applies not just to invention, but to graphic design. One of the greatest strengths of graphic designers is the ability to first develop a concept and then execute it to make it real. From visualization and ideation all the way through to actuation and execution, each step of this process takes skill and expertise.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. On one hand, JavaScript will let you easily implement any multitude of sins – similar to languages like Ruby, Python, etc. On the other hand, you can also pull of some pretty neat tricks with an expressive language like JavaScript. As the level of interactivity that people expect from the web continues to increase, much of the logic that used to run on the server side has transitioned to the client side – e.g. executed in the browse

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We talk a lot about branding on our blog, but we rarely discuss our thought process in the design phase. Design is a key tool in communicating a brand experience, and even the soundest strategy can fail if not communicated correctly through design. There are a wide range of variables when approaching design, however there are several considerations that we believe are essential to every project… Read on for more details.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

With release of the latest iTunes 10, Apple has thrown it’s hat into the social media ring. Ping is an addition to iTunes which allows people to spy on friends, strangers, and celebs and discuss the one thing you’re most likely to have in common: music. Apple makes no illusions about Ping – this is a service created to help you buy more music.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

When proclaiming a boycott of BP, the common rhetoric seems to be that you’re only hurting the families that own the franchise stations (and not the evil corporation). Brand association is a powerful thing for better or worse, and despite the baseless droning that protest only hurts the innocents in this case, new data is showing otherwise. The post Why Slacktivism Works (RE: The BP Boycott) appeared first on Urban Influence.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with JavaScript. On one hand, JavaScript will let you easily implement any multitude of sins – similar to languages like Ruby, Python, etc. On the other hand, you can also pull of some pretty neat tricks with an expressive language like JavaScript. As the level of interactivity that people expect from the web continues to increase, much of the logic that used to run on the server side has transitioned to the client side – e.g. executed in the browse

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Yesterday was a big day for us over here at Urban Influence. Our new site snagged a few Website of the Day Awards! The post Urban Influence Wins Some appeared first on Urban Influence.

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Urban Influence

DECEMBER 19, 2020

We’re happy to announce that Wood Shed Production has snagged a few features and nominations on various website award galleries. Coming off some Website of the Day wins for our own site, we’re super excited to keep the ball rolling with Wood Shed. As of today, you can find Wood Shed Production on the Awwwards, CSS Design Awards and One Page Love.

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