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Art Criticism and Metamodernism
Unsurprisingly, given these social and aesthetic shifts, scholars and critics alike have started to speak of an end to postmodernism. The current paradigm has been variously called altermodernism (curator Nicolas Bourriaud), cosmodernism (literary theorist Christian Moraru), hypermodernism (philosopher Alan Kirby) and automodernism (cultural theorist Robert Samuels). We ourselves, linking the social and aesthetic changes to changes in capitalism, have argued for the use of the term metamodernism
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Engineers take big step toward using light instead of wires inside computers
Stanford engineers have designed and built a prism-like device that can split a beam of light into different colors and bend the light at right angles, a development that could eventually lead to computers that use optics, rather than electricity, to carry data.
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Want To Learn Using Sketch App? Here Is A Collection Of Resources And Tutorials
The rest of the article contains tutorials and resources for Sketch that will make everything seem easier.
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Designer’s Delight: Must Have Free Resources
Your website needs to be a stage for attracting visitors who might eventually turn into your valued customers. There are many freebies available for your WordPress blog or your personal website. These are a set of fantastic tools consisting of massive icons, badges, kits, photos, images, textures and much more.
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Thoughts About Responsive Navigation On Mobile Devices
The web design industry has created some interesting responsive navigation patterns, I think we have more work to do. Where are we and where should we go?
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Simple InDesign tricks to speed up workflow (and get you paid faster)
Like many designers, I learned InDesign by leaping headfirst into it and figuring it out as I went. (In my case, I transitioned from the Illustrator-centric package design world to the InDesign-centric marketing design world.) I started with the immediate, need-to-know functions. As time went by, I snooped around and learned some simple ways to make InDesign work more effectively for me. What a difference those techniques have made!
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Why UI and UX Design Mean Nothing Without Great Content – And Why You Want It To Be This Way
Do you know how big the difference between a million and a billion is? If you’re like most people, you’ll say: Sure, it’s a thousand. The problem is, if you say “a thousand” you’re thinking about the difference between $1 and $1000. That’s huge, but we are confronted with these numbers so often in our daily lives, that we have forgotten how far they are apart.
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Orion, Dragons and Dream Chasers: What’s behind Modern Spaceship Design?
As NASA prepares for the debut test flight of the first spaceship in more than 40 years to carry astronauts beyond Earth, a fleet of privately owned vehicles is in development to take over transportation services to and from orbits closer to home.
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Graphic Design ABCs: A Glossary of Basic Design Terms
The YTD team updated this glossary of graphic design terms for design newbies and experienced artists alike.
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The 80/20 Hybrid Approach to Designing in the Browser
Designing in the browser has been a point of discussion for a few years now and still is. With the web design world switching to flat design, designing in the browser has been seen as the future, but it is really that effective?
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Excellent Collection Of Web Color Picking, Palettes & Scheme Generating Tools For Designers
I believe the title says it all.
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Your Design Work is Suffering Because You're Afraid of the Wrong Answer
"Why?" One of the best tools a designer can have. Why is a powerful thing to ask if you really want to get to the bottom of something.
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27 Free Texture Packs for Your Next Design Project
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Responsive Responsibility
Just over four years ago Ethan Marcotte penned the article “Responsive Web Design”, and a year later we published his book by the same name at A Book Apart. It’s no stretch to say that both have gone on to shape the very way we design websites now.
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Fresh Design Resources For Your 2015 Projects
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Ease into Design Projects with These Great Free Resources
Creating design resources is definitely tough. But creating design resources that everyone uses is tougher. Every designer loves to have his resources being used and talked about. So what is it that makes designs usable? One absolute metric that speaks for itself is “the time spent by the user” on the site. To put it in simple words, if a user is hooked to the website, implies that the site is usable. To put it simply, your user interface design should be so brilliant and beautiful that it keeps a person hooked to the page they are using, be it on any platform – mobile, website, application or software.
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The Proposal to Redesign the Dollar That’s Weirdly Blowing Up the Internet
When Travis Purrington, an Idaho-born designer, embarked in 2011 on a project to redesign the dollar as part of his master’s degree...
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7 Great new freebies (Vectors, WordPress Templates, UI Kits)
We have some of the best free design resources that will definitely help in your projects and drive your clients crazy.
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A unified approach to grown structures
The video shows 15 different variations of one computational growth process. Based on this process we created a series of 3D printed wearables in cooperation with Prof. Neri Oxman from the MIT Media Lab.
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Choosing and Creating Backgrounds for Design Projects
From patterns, to videos, to images, there are a lot of things to choose from when it comes to selecting the perfect backdrop to any design project. While the texture or image you choose is not necessarily intended to be a main part of the overall message, it can have quite an impact. Today we’re sharing a few tips and tricks for how to choose an effective background.
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