Minimalist Movie Posters
Tuesday, 2nd February at 09:04pm
Great work by Jamie Bolton
Via Slash Film
The many sliders of Photoshop CS4
Sunday, 8th November at 01:29pm
Preferences —> Memory Usage
Adjustments —> Brightness/Contrast
Filters
Blur (note the rendering of the thumb arrow)
Layer Blending
Layer Style
Threshold
Color Balance 
Things to keep in mind:
- These can be found in just Photoshop; I can’t imagine what I’d find elsewhere in the suite. Actually, fine, here’s the first one I found in Illustrator CS5:
- The most common out of all these seems to be second one, Brightness Adjustment.
- They’re all ugly. The only near-acceptable one is the Layer Style slider.
- None of these looks like the standard OS X slider:
[Source] via Daring Fireball
Blood Lamp: Carefully Consider Your Energy Use
Tuesday, 22nd September at 07:21pm
A somewhat unnerving illustration of energy use by designer Mike Thompson. Think twice about leaving that 100 Watt bulb on all night…
Via Inhabitat
Problems Are A State Of Mind
Tuesday, 7th July at 12:11pm
The UK Plug: Redesigned
Wednesday, 24th June at 12:25pm
Every so often, I see something that I use every day completely redesigned with face-palming excellence, and this folding UK plug design is such an item… One look at it and you’ll wonder why every single plug isn’t already like this.
