PUBLIC MARKS with tag "graphic resource"

We serve as the national library for the United States, based in Washington, DC. With more than 134 million items preserved on some 530 miles of bookshelves, we're also the world's largest library.

The supershape equation is an extension of the both the equation of the sphere and ellipse - Based upon equations by Johan Gielis - Intended as a modelling framework for natural forms.

banque d'images

Banque d'images

After hearing about the impact and success it had in Microsoft, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on prototyping in PowerPoint 2007. Amongst a few things Manuel Clement suggested a few weeks ago in his presentation about “wireframe prototyping with Office PowerPoint 2007″, was to create a toolkit of commonly used GUI components to copy and paste when designing the prototype screens. That’s what I set out to build.

Tired of searching and remembering keyboard combinations for umlauts and other special characters? Want to get the most out of your fonts? Then PopChar is the right tool for you. PopChar makes "typing" of unusual characters easy without having to remember keyboard combinations.

Khoi Vinh has been touting Grid Layouts for years. From his efforts there have been many, many solutions to helping people use Grid Layouts successfully. Thanks to a recent brilliant idea of Jon Hicks and code execution by Teevio, I present to you Grid Layout JS.

A few months ago I wrote GridMaker to aid in producing grid-based web design mock-ups in Photoshop (and later Fireworks). Whilst very primitive it was well-received and many have informed me how useful they’ve found it. At the same time it was clear that there were a number of issues so I went back to GridMaker and made a number of changes.

Change the settings (by dragging the sliders, clicking on the bars, or editing the values) to calculate the overall width of your grid.

Over 320 mini pixel icons! All Free! These mini icons are designed at 14×14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical). However, if you are using more than 10 different icons, you must give a link back to N.Design Studio.

Sanscons is a small spinoff of the Bitcons icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing. The icon design is exactly the same, the only thing missing is a background - allowing you to set it to any color you so desire. The inspriation behind making a CSS-centric icon set came from Chameleon made by Dan Cederholm.

Because of Web 2.0 trend, patterns is kinda gaining back its popularity. But indeed, patterns will really enhance the beauty of a website. Besides to used as web design, patterns also can use as desktop wallpapers! I’m not saying those Windows ugly wallpaper patterns, but here, I compiled a list of 4 websites that provides free and nice patterns.

Books with patterns

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs extremely useful.

The Shift LiveSurface Layered Image Library: high-resolution Photoshop image templates with pre-masked, embedded 3D surfaces.

Games are more fun when you play with good toys, and we here at the HPLHS really like detailed props. We've already done a lot of the work of making highly authentic period prop documents, and now we're able to share them through the web. The HPLHS is happy to offer a collection of 1920s/30s era gaming prop documents that you can download and print. Although ome of these props are adapted from Hollywood movies and TV shows, most have been created exclusively for this website. Whether you play live-action or around the table, these props will intensify your role-playing games.

The world has seen thousands of artists and millions of great pieces of art, but we chose just a handful of pieces of art from some of greatest masters of painting to show a little of how they were inspired by color… or perhaps, how they inspire us with color.