As I mentioned on Friday, Jerry is recording a CD and we have had a few days in Sydney. Since both Design 08 and Sydney Biennale is on I was not short of places to visitor things to see. Between visits to Berkelouw Books which by far got most of …
Bg Patterns is a online tool that is aimed at web designers who want to create background patterns easily and quickly but I am sure textile practitioners will see all sorts of ways to use this tool to provoke design ideas. You can change the colour and transparency while rotating …
This article by R Berdan is aimed at photographers but since its main focus is on Composition and the Elements of Visual Design. Since these topics apply to all areas of the visual arts I am sure readers will find it useful. Berdan clearly discuses line, shape and form then …
Causes of Colour starts out with the question “Why are things coloured?” and proceeds to answer it. Along the way they explore all sorts of aspects of colour and why we perceive it as it is. The complexities of colour are well explored like why some things have iridescent surfaces …
Kathrine Tyrrell has recently published on Making a Mark some great posts on a colour and colour wheels as she has been developing a matrix of theories about colour space and in an earlier post Kathrine wrote a colour round up. Related to this is yet another article Hues – …
I reviewed the flower maker back in 2006 but Meggiecat’s post reminded me of this nifty program so I checked it out again. It seems to me that the Flower Maker is improved since I last looked at it. (I could be wrong as my memory might be playing tricks …
