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Vintage Ad Browser
Posted by cherished in Design, Inspiration, Marketing on January 11th, 2010
Here is a fascinating site if you need a little design, illustration or marketing inspiration from the days of olde. See what the hippest styles and products were for any decade for since the late 1800’s and search for terms that might interest you.
www.vintageadbrowser.com
Color Trends Toolbar: my gift to you
Posted by cherished in Inspiration, Software/Tools, Web Design on August 22nd, 2009
As a designer, you know that there are probably millions of ways to arrange color palettes. Our environment is continually informing us of colors that best represent a slice of our humanity at any particular time. Technology, current events and philosophical beliefs are just some things that move and shape our color trends. Since following color trends is an ever changing, organic and creative process, there will never be one definitive resource on the matter. However, designers and manufacturers must stay on top of these patterns, to incorporate them, to respond to them or at least, just to be aware of them. In my efforts to stay on top of this ever changing and inspiring world of color, I have created a handy color trends toolbar to include quick and easy links to some of my favorite sites on COLOR.
(click to zoom)
As a special gift, I would love to share this very helpful color trend toolbar – “Cherish COLOR”.
- Designed for anyone who researches color and trends along with those who just love color and art
- Especially helpful for manufacturers, licensees and artists
- No risk, completely anonymous, no strings attached
- It works on Windows, Mac and Linux and on all the major browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and finally Safari.
This easy to install tool bar has links to the most popular and useful sites in the areas of:
- Color Trends + Palettes (Sites, Blogs, Google Search, Books)
- Color Mixing (Color Tools, Color Management and Color Software)
- Color Me Fun (+ Games)
- Built in Google search engine
- Internet Radio (Add your favorite stations)
- Note Pad
- Weather
- E-mail Notifier
- Plus customize it by adding many “gadgets” of your choice
Please feel free to contact me with any feedback. You are also free to share this free tool with any design professionals you know would benefit. Enjoy!
You may download the browser toolbar here!
The Ultimate List Of Online Color Tools For Web Developers
Posted by cherished in Design, Inspiration on July 7th, 2009
by www.webdesignbooth.com (click here for the full post)
As a web designer, we will always deal with colors. There are a lot of useful online color tools such as color wheel, color scheme, color palette, color picker, and etc.
When i try to search for a complete list of online color tools, i can’t found any. So, i decided to collect them and share the list as a useful resource for other web designers.
Let’s start looking at the list:
Color Wheel
1. 4096 Color Wheel
2. Color Wheel from Colors On The Web
3. Color Wheel Color Calculator
Color Scheme
4. Infobound Color Schemer
5. Color Scheme Designer
6. ColorToy 2.0
7. The Color Wizard 3.0
8. Hex Color Scheme Generator
9. Color Schemer Online v2
10. Color Combos
11. Instant Color Schemes
12. Color Schemer from dhtmlgoodies.com
13. Daily Color Scheme
Color Palette
14. Slayeroffice Color Palette Creator
15. Toucan Color Palettes
16. Pictaculous
17. Pro Color Palette Software from Colourlovers
18. Color Palette Generator from DeGraeve.com
19. Color Palette Generator from jrm.cc
20. CSSDrive’s Image To Colors Palette Generator
21. The Color Tool
22. Palette Man
23. Big Huge Labs Palette Generator
Miscellaneous Color Tools
24. Kuler
25. Kolur
26. Color Codes Matching Chart HTML
27. Color Combinations Tester
28. Color Explorer
29. Color Hunter
30. Website Color Match
31. Color Theory @ ColorJack
32. ColorBlender
33. ColorDb
34. ColorJack: Color Generator
35. ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)
36. ColorMixers
37. ColoRotate
38. ColourGrab
39. Hex Color Code Chart & Generator
40. Unsafe Colormatch
41. Web Color Visualizer
Internet Archive
Posted by cherished in Education, Inspiration, Multimedia on March 9th, 2009
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
Now go exploring . . .www.archive.org
Creative Day
Posted by cherished in Inspiration on September 10th, 2008
Excerpts from: http://creativeday.unitedsituation.de/ressources.html
The Artist Way at Work, The book reveals why imagination and curiosity are the keys to success and satisfaction at work and in life. It will make you more creative in your business, but just as important, it will make you more creative in your life as a whole. The result will be a heightened sense of authenticity, adventure, excitement, and candor.
See also, The Artist’s Way and www.artistswayatwork.com.
Sark is an amazing author and artist who wrote eleven books about creative living. I own 4 of her 11 books, there are 2 that i highly recommend:
Creative Companion: How to Free Your Creative Spirit
Succulent Wild Woman: Dancing With Your Wonder full self
See also, www.campsark.com
Official creativity and innovation day website!
The creative guide for creative and unconventional people.
See also, www.creativecareers.com
Creativity at work is a resource for developing personal creativity and organizational innovation in the workplace.
Creativity web is a resource center giving you information to help you become more creative.
Isotope Lab is a website dedicated to creativity for designers, with many exercises to rediscover your designer roots.
Another girl at play is a showcase of 25 women that are making a living by creating their art.
1000 journals is an attempt to follow 1000 journals throughout their travels, to see where they go, and what people do with them. The goal is to provide methods for people to interact and share their creativity.
Anyways… a site for stories told step by step.
Motivation123 A web site where you’ll discover hundreds of simple tips that help you find motivation. Check out the monthly newsletter, worth to subscribe (and free!).
The Lost Soul Companion Project fosters a sense of community for struggling artists of all kinds. Actors, musicians, writers, artists–and artists at heart–can become better equipped to deal with life’s disappointments and more motivated, productive, and better prepared for success as well.
The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women
An Idea a day will publish an original idea every day for the rest of time. The ideas published will be free of copyright, however valuable they may be. They are there to be read, to be enjoyed, to be exploited. Whatever. The project represents a completely fresh approach to the handling of ideas and intellectual property. This is not a get rich quick scheme. There are no plans to float, no advertisers or sponsors lined up. idea-a-day.com exists because it can. Because it will be fascinating to see what happens when these ideas are made available to the world.
Free Rice
Posted by cherished in Inspiration on June 6th, 2008
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