Getting ready to wrap up the year opens the slow season. However creativity for designers, illustrators, painters, photographers, typographers and anyone involved in the creative processes, or visual communications will not slow down. The need for creative inspiration goes on …. in this edition :
- Polk State Was a Beginning, and Without It, I Wouldn’t Be Where I am Today
- 5 Easy Ways To Create A Brilliant Background For Your LinkedIn Profile
- This Graphic Translates Web Design Feedback into Plain English
- LEGO BRICK: pinhole camera snaps tiny thumbnail-sized ‘photos’
- I am the Jackie Robinson of Hip Hop Graphic Design!
- How optical illusions trick your brain
- Art Department Faculty Work Featured at the Kellogg Gallery
- Cincinnati Design Awards honors wide range of local projects
- … and more!
Getting ready to wrap up the year opens the slow season. However creativity for designers, illustrators, painters, photographers, typographers and anyone involved in the creative processes, or visual communications will not slow down. The need for creative inspiration goes on …. in this edition :
- Polk State Was a Beginning, and Without It, I Wouldn’t Be Where I am Today
- 5 Easy Ways To Create A Brilliant Background For Your LinkedIn Profile
- This Graphic Translates Web Design Feedback into Plain English
- LEGO BRICK: pinhole camera snaps tiny thumbnail-sized ‘photos’
- I am the Jackie Robinson of Hip Hop Graphic Design!
- How optical illusions trick your brain
- Art Department Faculty Work Featured at the Kellogg Gallery
- Cincinnati Design Awards honors wide range of local projects
- … and more!
The pinhole camera made from a single LEGO BRICK: Device snaps tiny thumbnail-sized ‘photos’
A student has created a tiny working camera out of a Lego brick. Graphic design student Ryan Howerter, 21, made a fully functional pinhole camera, which creates tiny photographic prints, housed in the space of the small toy block.
The Lego fan’s tiny camera takes minuscule black and white photographs measuring 0.16 square inches (one square centimetre square).
Full story : www.dailymail.co.uk Here we see the Lego Pinhole Camera in reference to a Lego man
This Graphic Translates Web Design Feedback into Plain English
We’ve all heard stories of people who look at a website mockup and say something like “It needs more pop!” or “Make it sleeker,” without being specific about what they’re looking for. It can be a pain, but this tongue-firmly-in-cheek graphic translates those phrases to language you can actually use.
If you’re a designer, or have worked on a redesign project as a developer, tester, or even project manager, you’ve probably heard the empty, “gut” feedback from the people in charge about how they want a design to make them feel as opposed to what it should look like. It can be frustrating to be sure, and you’ll catch that in the graphic below, but it does actually offer some suggestions and guidance to help you build a design they may be looking for. 
Beware, this site is full of stalker links and screen spam …
That’s why we’re showing you the Full Size infographic here
You can visit the web page at : lifehacker.com
Polk State Was a Beginning, and Without It, I Wouldn’t Be Where I am Today
In the 50-year history of Polk State College, there are thousands of stories of alumni who have achieved success in the health sciences or public safety or business.
More rare are stories like that of Sam Romero, who from Polk went on to study at one of the country’s most elite arts institutions and now works as the head of graphic design at Florida Southern College. Full story : Sam Romero — www.polk.edu Click here for the full size photo
I am the Jackie Robinson of Hip Hop Graphic Design!
Brad Puet is a street and documentary photographer based in Seattle. He writes :
It was 1987. I had just gotten off work and walked across the Kitsap Mall to Sam Goody to look for this album. I heard that it had just got out and I wanted to be the first of my friends to have it. I walked in with money in hand and asked the sales person, “Ya’ll got the new Eric B. and Rakim “Paid in Full” out yet?” The sales person didn’t say a word and just led me down to the small section of “Rap” they had in the store. Careful, the Huffington Post is known for pop-up spam, screen and other predator links Full story : huffingtonpost.com Click here for: another good example
NEXT: we’ll wrap it up with:
Art Department Faculty Work Featured at the Kellogg Gallery Cincinnati Design Awards honors wide range of local projects 5 Easy Ways To Create A Brilliant Background For Your LinkedIn Profile, How optical illusions trick your brain … and more
Art Department Faculty Work Featured at the Kellogg Gallery
In one room of the W.K. & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, a graffiti installation spans an entire wall. Another area showcases mixed media works of paint and recycled materials. And throughout the gallery are pedestals featuring a recently published guide to color principles and a portfolio of typefaces.
What do all of these pieces have in common? They’re all the work of Cal Poly Pomona art department faculty. Full story is found at polycentric.csupomona.edu This was our favorite piece of the show!
Cincinnati Design Awards honors wide range of local projects
The multidisciplinary event will honor work created by Cincinnati-area firms that encompasses a wide spectrum of project types, ranging from local Cincinnati endeavors to initiatives as far-reaching as China and Europe.
“The fact that it is multi-disciplinary makes it totally unique—we don’t believe there are any other professional design awards programs like ours,” says Jeffrey A Sackenheim, Vice President of SHP Leading Design and Co-Chair of the awards. Full story : soapboxmedia.com Click here for: Take a look at this
5 Easy Ways To Create A Brilliant Background For Your LinkedIn Profile
The transformation has started. LinkedIn has begun rolling out a feature that allows you to upload a customized background for your profile.
A few months ago, LinkedIn provided this functionality to Premium members, and it’s now being made available to freebie members. It will roll out over time, so if you haven’t been notified, be patient; you will. Full story : www.forbes.com
Philip James Bailey said :
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
How optical illusions trick your brain
Optical illusions are images that seem to trick our minds into seeing something different from what they actually are. But how do they work? Nathan S. Jacobs walks us through a few common optical illusions and explains what these tricks of the eye can tell us about how our brains assemble visual information into the 3D world we see around us. Full story : Nathan S. Jacobs Click here for: Take a look at this
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