I stumbled upon a interesting blog about the color of the sun. Most people will think the sun is yellow but its actually not. The color of the sun is in graphic design terms : #fff5f2
The original article can be found here.
Here are some more stars and there colors.
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
For the “universe” designers out there
Looking for inspiration
A new site called Site Inspire has been setup to catalogue and catagorise websites that have been submitted to it, not by genre, but by style, theme and type.
Excuse me, you dropped your shadow…
Drop shadows, gradients and bad shading effects (along with Comic Sans!) are the bane of bad web web design and a curse of Web 2.0! Everybody’s using them. Used effectively they look great and can add real depth and dimension to a good design. Used improperly though and they smack of amateurish inexperience and band-wagon jumping (I [...]
Shaddapp@font-face!!!
Ok, not quite in the Joe Dolce school of productivity, but this is all over the web at the moment and needs a mention.
While choosing a project for my degree, I toyed with the idea of creating a plugin for Firefox which would allow developers to include their own fonts in stylesheets and webpages by [...]
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines…
Smashing Magazine have an excellent article called 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines.
Lots of very good points and observations.
Check it out
The browser that just won’t die…
As a web developer and long time supporter of aesthetic design, especially with regard to good web design, I have long embraced the recent developments that (have continued to) make the web great. I loved AJAX when it first arrived, jQuery is ground breaking and the design standards that have been adopted (and adapted) over [...]
Free stock photography
The good people over at Smashing Magazine have provided a comprehensive list of free and commercial stock photography websites. This is an extraordinary resource, often an invaluable one. We regularly use stock photography in Arekibo to give context and improve our template designs so this resource is highly useful. Be sure to check out the table at [...]
Lance Armstrong - The Bikes of Stages
Check out the Trek Bikes of Stages a campaign, exhibition and website that supports Lance Armstrong Livestrong campaign.
Arekibo are hiring CSS/HTML developers
Arekibo are hiring CSS/HTML designers and developers with 2/3 years experience. W3C and JavaScript skills essential.
Please send you CV with examples of work to jobs@arekibo.com.
We look forward to hearing from you.
A taste of @media 2009 - London
@media 2009 has been a great display of what is going on in the web industry at the moment and what is most likely to happen next. A good deal of professionals sharing their passion for the Web, work, concerns and ideas, always in a critical but constructive way.