Beautiful Dynamic Desktops
So Apple introduced the idea of dynamic desktops in Mac OS Mojave last year but deigned to only provide us with two options. Since then its been quite difficult tracking down alternatives but today I stumbled across a project which is making that easier.
Its a collection of dynamic wallpapers that you can use with your Mac to experience the passing of time as you're busy working!
its free and also includes tips and guidance on how to make your own dynamic wallpapers from your own photos.
Dynamic Wallpapers only work with Mac OS Mojave and later.
Visit: https://dynamicwallpaper.club
Let us know in the comments how you get on!
Apple’s Jony Ive designs a $250,000 Unibody Diamond Ring!
Sir Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer at Apple and Marc Newson have come together to create a one of a kind ring hewn from a single lump of diamond for the Product (RED) charity initiative.
Heres a quote from the Sotheby's catalogue:
...with their mutual obsession with transformning raw material into objects of value, Ive & Newson's design is singular, clear and un-compromised by the traditional metal settings and bands that have previuously been required to create 'diamond rings'. Theirs will be created by removing material rather than adding-an ambition made possible by the extraordinary scale of the stone which will enable the ring to be completely made of this material.
Its certainly a feat of enginerring to be able to create a ring like this but we dont imagine we will see many, the size of diamond required to make this beast of bling precludes it from becoming a standard design. It looks like this may be a one off. The ring hasn't actually been finished yet and will be made to fit the winning bidders chosen ring size and will be constructed with 2-3000 facets - the highest amount ever seen in a cut diamond.
Visit Sotheby's for more information
Learn the basics of Colour Theory
Colour is manipulative, controlling, enchanting and beguiling. It follows, then, that it pays dividends to learn the basics of what makes colour work and how to effectively use it in your design and branding projects. Not everyone studies colour theory at school nor has had the pleasure of reading Kandinsky's work notes on its psychological and spiritual effectiveness.
I just discovered, however, a rather spiffy website that goes far in visually explaining the basic fundamentals of colour theory as well as providing some links to some very useful tools.
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Open Brand: Amazing storage of your company Brand Assets.
Web apps pop up and disappear all the time, mostly over promising and under delivering.
Open Brand, however, is very different.
When one begins the arduous task of building a company brand, it can be a messy undertaking. You end up with PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop & InDesign files all over the place. This does no favours for the streamlining and improvement of your brand over time. Open Brand provides a neat little spot to put all of these files as well as buildings a digital style guide to your companies image.
The great thing about Open Brand is it allows you to make your assets public, so if you require that the press or partnering companies use the exacting standards that you have used yourself, there really is no excuse for them to mistype a tag line or get the spacing wrong on a logo.
Best of all its free for up to 15 assets (which is more than enough for the vast majority of companies).
I can see this being very useful for designers who create brands for other companies (a la me!) and looks like they are constantly improving things.
Do take a look!
www.openbrand.com
Excellent article on Colour Theory for Web Design and Branding.
I came across this remarkably concise and awesome article on colour theory and its application in websites and design. It serves as a great resource for anyone embarking on creating or rejuvenating a brand who wants to be clever about it.
CLICK HERE
Brilliant Free Texture Photographs - Urbandirty.com
This website provides tons of free textures for you to use royalty free on your websites, design projects etc! some really strangely beautiful images of urban decay.
Another not Mac blog! - print your own technical paper...
This website is very cool, it has lots of paper generators for graph paper, manuscript paper and paper you may have never heard of, whats great about it is that you can specify the size etc and it will generate a pdf for you to print! very handy indeed!
Moo.com - Not strictly Mac but too great to miss!
Moo cards, the biggest thing in contact cards since the victorian carte de visite!
Quite a community has built up around moo.com and their prices are very VERY competitive. For me the most amazing thing is that they let you have a different image on every card!
Please do check em out and post your moo cards on here for all to see!
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PixelGirlPresents - Fantastic source of icons and wallpapers...
Pixelgirlpresents is one of those websites that hosts some strange and altogether wonderful digital artwork for your use as wallpaper for your mac or iphone.
Enjoy!