Fantastic little drawing program from Harmony
Harmony makes it dead simple to create interesting images like these two that I did earlier today. Definitely worth a play.
Love the feel of this homepage. I guess I’m a sucker for clouds and hills (cf: Windows XP Bliss)
Oh man, these are great. Especially Tatooine.
Maintaining aspect ratio
Here we are in 2010, a good bazillion years since the advent of the internet. Image editing has become a thing of the masses, what with everything from the iPad to Photoshop Elements making it easy to resize, recolor, and otherwise manipulate photos. So you’d think that something simple like resizing an image would be part and parcel of the repertoire of your average Joe, much less a web professional.
Unless, I guess, you work for the Gizmodo Department Of iPhone App Thumbnail Rendering And Posting.
“Since the Renaissance, many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the ‘golden ratio’. Therefore in typography it is a good suggestion to consider using only these numbers to structure your chosen point sizes to. It will give your whole document a natural elegance.”
fred design » Simple rules for good typography
Typotheque
Interesting story on updating a font for improved legibility of the numeral “1” - spawned by, of all people, Al Gore.
