Category Archives: Design

Inspirations for Artists and Designers

By Young Koh | Published: July 30, 2010
I find this site very inspirational and thought provoking. Great galleries of modern art and photography from new and known artists: www.booooooom.com Right…, I’m not too crazy about their choice of URL though.
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Giving users something they can use

By Young Koh | Published: June 14, 2010
Apple is usually sensible especially when it comes to their website design and usability. But I noticed something on Apple’s site that sort of insulted my intelligence. This happened when I was browsing their site for a new Macbook Pro. Once you drill down to the product detail you will see an image of the [...]
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The iPhone Cover-Up

By Young Koh | Published: June 10, 2010
The new iPhone 4, like generations before it, is a beautifully styled object. It appears cunningly simple at first but the amount of attention given to detail and design of each piece that make up the exterior is truly admirable. The texture, the curve, the sheen and the bevel of each button and pieces are [...]
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Thanks We Love WP!

By Young Koh | Published: May 25, 2010
Thank you We Love WP for accepting my blog in your gallery. You can vote for me on welovewp.com!
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PIXLR – it’s like Photoshop built into your browser.

By Young Koh | Published: May 12, 2010
Checkout this cool free online image editing tool. It’s called pixlr.
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Understanding your clients

By Young Koh | Published: May 10, 2010
Hardest thing about being a designer is not the designing itself, it’s understanding clients. We all have dealt with indecisive clients who don’t seem to know what they want and change their mind all the time. There are times when approvals or design sign-offs seem to have no effect at all. Most designers don’t have [...]
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Flash – How to hide layers from movie without deleting the layer

By Young Koh | Published: December 7, 2009
I had quite a few people ask me how they can hide a layer in Flash without actually deleting that layer. The little “X” below the eye icon hides a layer from view while you’re working on a file but doesn’t hide that layer from a published movie. What if you don’t want certain layers [...]
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Design Inspiration

By Young Koh | Published: October 20, 2009
No one is an island. All graphic/web designers need to be inspired from other designers every now and then. Here is a nice collection of newish design trends that some might call ‘web 2.0′ like look and feel. http://www.instantshift.com/2009/10/06/77-inspirational-example-of-pricing-page-designs
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Get to know WordPress, but learn other stuff too

By Young Koh | Published: June 22, 2009
I’d like to single out yet another skill-set a web designer must be aware of. It’s WordPress. The enormous popularity of the WordPress platform along with blogging and simple content management has transformed the way we build lightweight websites. It’s unlikely that a large scale site or application would be built entirely of WordPress but [...]
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Picasso had it easy

By Young Koh | Published: June 22, 2009
Oh yeah. He just created art as he saw fit. If Picasso thought blue should be the color, blue it was. No one questions why. If he decides a woman’s right eye should be twice as large as her left, that’s okay too. When he thought a nostril of a goat would be a good [...]
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