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Everything I Have…

A fantastic bit of introspective work by Simon Evans...

Cinema Palettes to inspire

Cinema Palettes to Inspire Twitter account Cinema Palettes takes screenshots from classic films and translates them to ten-part color palettes. Though based on a momentary still, each spectrum of shades seems to encapsulate its movie's overall mood: the somber, otherworldly blues of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the dreamlike pinks and purples of [...]

Make it short, make it snappy, make it count.

What's the ideal message length? Facebook: 40 characters Tweets: less than 100 characters Blog posts: seven minutes Subject Line: 28-39 characters Video: between 30 seconds and  2 minutes. People love video, but your customer's attention span is dreadfully short. Wistia found that the completion rate for 30 second video is close to 90 percent, but it [...]

Mima House, Viana do Castelo, Portugal

WE LOVE: this house designed by Mima Architects, which started from the intention of planning a dwelling that responds directly to the lifestyle of our society. Large windows on each elevation have wooden frames and hinge open as doors. With customised plywood panels, which are provided separately to transform the windows into walls and to create privacy when necessary. [...]

Vector vs Raster

EXPLAINED: There are two basic types of electronic image files: vector and raster (pixel-based) Vector… is scalable and resolution independent, allowing the user to increase and decrease the size to any degree and while remaining crisp and sharp, both on-screen and in print. Vector art consist of lines, curves and shapes with editable attributes such as [...]