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Designer Toolbox: Critique

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

This is the Designer Toolbox series where I’ll share tools that I find useful as a designer. You can view the previous Designer Toolbox post about Color.

Design is a true community. We all use each other for inspiration and help each other out via collaboration, critique, and support. Sometimes, especially freelancers, don’t really have the opportunity to share process work with fellow designers. I wanted to share some venues that I find useful in receiving feedback. Of course, you may not want to share freelance projects, but it is great for personal projects.

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Upcoming Minneapolis Designers to Check Out

Friday, February 5th, 2010

I put together a list of young Minneapolis Designers who I went to school with at the University of Minnesota. If you’d like to be added to the list, let me know. And if I forgot you, I’m really sorry I just couldn’t find your web site!

All these designers are really awesome. So take some time and check out their sites and blogs.

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Design Every Day – Week 05

Friday, February 5th, 2010

January came to a close with more designing.

Day 24 – Monkey Illustration

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Designer Toolbox: Color

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

I’m starting a series called Designer Toolbox featuring various tools that I use frequently, as a designer. All the tools are web based and may include organization tools, resources, downloads, tutorials, etc. Today, I want to share the color tools I use quite often.

Adobe Kuler

When I am creating color schemes, I enjoy using Adobe Kuler. A Flash web tool, Kuler allows users to create color schemes utilizing color properties such as monochromatic, triad, complementary, etc. Users can save, share, and download their color schemes for use in Adobe Creative Suite programs.

A very neat feature is the ability to choose colors from an image. The user can upload an image or choose one from Flickr, and Kuler automatically retrieves an editable color scheme.

The themes community is a nice way to share color schemes or find inspiration. Users can download or save other color schemes, share and tag their own, or discuss the color schemes.

Use Adobe Kuler