The New Yankee Stadium: Not every fan’s baseball paradise

Yankee fans seeking a moment of interaction and a player’s signature are often leaving disappointed.  As creators of the guest experience, it’s interesting how easily small details can be overlooked and amazing the impact those details have on the end user experience.
New York Times

Icon Design Tutorials

icondesignSixrevisions.com posted up 50 different icon design tutorials covering every type of icon imaginable. If you are a designer, and following in our Self-Taught series, this is a must read.

What do colors mean?

You hear a lot about colors and the emotions they represent, how they can change the way a person feels, and how important they can be in communicating your message. That’s all fine and dandy, but if you don’t know, at the core, what they are supposed to represent and how to match them together, you’re going to wind up sending mixed signals. So, to prevent you from inadvertently communicating to your guests, customers, clients, etc. that you are depressed and hate them, we’ve pulled together a few resources.

The Thought Behind Pepsi’s New Logo

If you’ve ever wondered how an industry-leading company goes about redesigning their logo, you are in for a treat. PepsiCo recently relaunched their brand with a snazzy new logo, and the initial thought-concepts from the agency who won the job are available on Scribd. Fascinating…

Design: In the Eye of the Beholder

I don’t know what quality makes a great logo incredible, or a poorly designed one so dang ugly. I do know, however, there are giant leaps between good logo design and bad logo design. Today, we can thank the New York Times for illustrating this point through Super Bowl XLIII.

The Logo Design Process

Anyone who has attempted to design or manage the design of a logo knows how frustrating a process it can be. Revision after revision results in piles of wastecan paper two feet high. Sometimes it pays to take a step back and look at process.

SUMO Paint: Web-Based Photo Editing v1.0

Web-based photo editing seems like the next natural step in the world of e-services. Sites like Photoshop Express provide guided changes, but SUMO Paint recently released v1.0 of their web-app, a virtual Photoshop anywhere you can find the web.

Revolutionize Your Presentation Flow with Prezi

If you would rather wow your next big presentation, give consideration to Prezi, an online presentation application that builds your slides along two-axis maps and presents them by rotating and zooming. Pretty slick…

Rock Your Design with a Color Theme from Adobe

The days of the color wheel are long over, my friend. This is an oldie, but an absolute necessity for anybody in the design world. Adobe’s website application Kuler is the ultimate color theme generator on the web.

61+ Free and Professional Fonts

Ever have trouble finding the perfect font? So have I. When you get stuck, take a look at the 21 Most Used Fonts by Professional Designers – one’s bound to catch your eye.

The Best of SlideShare: “The Brand Gap”

Ever wonder what it is that separates a strong brand from a weak one in our ever-changing business climate? How do some brands carry through the rough patches with their feet firmly planted on the ground? If you are interested in an in-depth look at what a brand is and how to translate that brand promise to your audience…

Why aren’t you using SlideShare?

Bottom line is, if you are simply looking for a secure, free way to share PowerPoint presentations, SlideShare is second to none.

Web Developing -101: Self-Taught Artistry

Continuing in our series, you photoshop-ed some images and piece together some tasty illustrator backgrounds. Now you want to get those items on the web. The single greatest resource I use, rather than asking, “How do you code a form action again?”, is the web-developer’s handbook.

How to Motivate Creative People

For the readers in our crowd, we present to you an eBook – How to Motivate Creative People, by Mark McGuinness from Wishful Thinking.

Illustrator -101: Self Taught Artistry 2

The second in our self-teach series, and following the wildly popular Photoshop -101 post, we thought we would provide you with some resources for the much more perplexing Adobe Illustrator.

Logo Design Inspiration

Be your work flow on the web or sitting in your local bookstore coffee shop reading, these two resources will provide all the logo inspiration you need.

Photoshop: The World’s Largest Free Texture Site

Now, whenever someone says they have the “World’s Largest” anything, I usually stay away. Gift shops, balls of yarn … you know the type. I don’t know why I clicked, but if you are in need of a texture for a design project, you should really head over to CG Textures.

Photoshop -101: Self-Taught Artistry

As many of you have probably heard me say at some point, “Become your own teacher.”  Be inquisitive, and when a question arises, don’t immediately turn to your cube-buddy and ask, “What does the pen tool do again?”
Instead, Google it. Or, in the case of design, get proactive around your learning.  There are tons of [...]