Original Source: https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/detect-website-change-notification/
To know when a website changes its content, you have to go to that website and check it frequently and manually. This doesn’t sound like much work, unless it comes to an e-commerce site or a…
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Clever Brand Identity For European Space Agency
abduzeedo
Dec 18, 2017
Tata&Friends Studio shared an super smart and elegant brand identity project on their Behance profile for the European Space Agency, or ESA. Rethink cESA is the European Space Agency and its mission is to shape the development of space exploration. Less known than it’s American counterpart NASA, but just as strong in its achievements. ESA is part of the elite in space exploration. The result is a clever usage of negative space to create a rocket with one of the letters of ESA.
Icon Magazine asked us to rebrand any possible thing for their rethink section. As we’ve been in love with the idea of rebranding the European Space Agency since a long time, we knew we had to go for it. Our rethink goal was to awaken the curiosity of people to space & understand the achievements of a united Europe in exploring the universe. Union makes force.
Brand Identity
This new approach brings a memorable branding that fits with the modern and futuristic ideas of ESA, helping them to awaken interest in new generations.
Tata&Friends Studio is a design studio focused on brand identity, graphic design and illustration. They are based in Madrid, Spain and we definitely recommend that you check their work out at http://tatafriends.com/
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Artificial intelligence is something that brings a lot of excitement. We see it everywhere; it’s used in chatbots, in banks, in everything remotely-related to management. We even have AI that translates texts for us and manages our content. Still, designing is about arts, creativity. You don’t imagine a machine being ‘artsy.’ It needs to feel […]
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A few years ago, people were required to come up with a huge sum of money in order to turn their product idea into reality. Without money to fund their project, they wouldn’t be able to create a unique product to sell to the public. Today, however, business owners and inventors can present their idea […]
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As a serial Entrepreneur, I know what it feels like to start a business and not get orders for your product. When I started 6 years back, it was less crowded and we all knew who our target market was, and the saturation was less in the field of Entrepreneurship (in my niche). At that […]
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Abduzeedo’s Best of 2017: our 80 most popular articles of the year – Part II
AoiroStudio
Dec 15, 2017
We are about less than 3 weeks before the end of the year, we decided to make our year in review for you guys. We feel now would be the best time before we turn our computers off for the holidays! Let us introduce our picks for Abduzeedo’s Best of 2017! This year, we have seen a rise of UI/UX but you guys are still into projects related to illustration, 3D, CGI, graphic design and more. This year, we have featured 900+ projects and made 300+ daily design inspirations. Let’s keep going and from the Abduzeedo team; Happy Holidays everyone!
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Year in Review (In chronological order) – Part II
41. Gradient Exploration with Radial Series
42. Incredible Graphic Design Process for a Poster by Partee Design
43. Black & White Photography: Exploring Huacachina Lines
44. Fantastic Doodles by Visothkakvei
45. Conceptual Art & Illustration by Sylvain Sarrailh
46. Art Direction & Advertising: Everything is okay Until it’s not.
47. 3D Rendering & Digital Art: Suprematism & Constructivism
48. Digital Photography of Hong Kong by Ludwig Favre
49. Graphic Design: a New Poster Collection Spring
50. 4th of July Illustration by Brian Miller
51. Astonishing Papercut Artworks by John Ed De Vera
52. Illustration & CGI: Kiplinger Magazine Spread
53. Digital Art Series: Pop Culture Dystopia
54. Eerie 3D Rendering Work by Stuart Lippincott
55. Illustration: Mayweather V McGregor by Yann Dalon
56. Delicious Brand Identity and Packaging: Utopick Chocolate Bars
57. Elegant and Minimalist Web Design Ideas
58. Natura Insects: A series of Insects made of Flowers
59. Interaction Design & UI/UX: Sherpahire.comd
60. Surreal Illustration Style: The observatory
61. A Collection of Solar Eclipse Photography
62. Stylish UI Design for Nike SB Concept Project
63. Beautiful Vector Illustration by FUGSTRATOR
64. Street Art & Illustration: Seawalls Mural
65. Spectacular Drone Photography
66. Wallpaper of the Week x Unsplash – The Shape of Dorset, UK
67. Dazzling Neon Artworks by Juliette Oberndorfer
68. 10+ Embroidery Works That Will Brighten Your Day
69. Tokyo Photography Series: Neon Dreams
70. Introducing the 2017 Selection of the Unsplash Awards
71. Introducing InVision Studio: the World’s most powerful screen design tool
72. UI Inspiration: Some more Fresh UI/UX Interactions
73. 80s Throwback with Netflix’s Stranger Things 2 Tribute Posters
74. Illustration & Graphic Design: Butcher Billy’s Stranger Tales: S2
75. Beautiful Photography with the iPhone by Eric Van Nynatten
76. Workspaces Inspiration: Some Ideas to spice up your productivity
77. Graphic Design on Instagram by Lucas Berghoef
78. UI Inspiration: This week’s selections from Outcrowd, Nicola Baldo and more
79. Awesome 80s Typography with The Sonnyfive
80. Mind-boggling Vector Illustration Work by James Gilleard
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While there’s certainly no shortage of books on Dieter Rams, a hefty new tome cuts to the chase with surely what all designers really want to hear: the titular Ten Principles for Good Design. But alongside concise, helpful lessons from the great Rams, the volume also shows (as if we didn’t know) exactly why he’s the man to be learning from, discussing his role as part of the birth of the Braun design ethos in the mid-1950s; and showcasing his product design work from the Jorrit Maan Collection.
There’s also a clear, helpful timeline of key points in Rams’ life and career, revealing just how talented he was at such a young age: the designer wasn’t even 30 years old when was appointed head of the Braun Design Department in 1961.
The volume opens with what it titles 'an important question'. As editor Cees W. de Jong writes, “back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world about him – ‘an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.’
Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As good design cannot be measured in a finite way, he set about expressing the ten most important principles for what he considered good design.”
Rams was ahead of his time in taking an approach to product design that not only brought aesthetics and functionality to the fore, but also prioritised durability and ease of use for those they were designing for. It’s this legacy and those all-important principles that this book presents so beautifully.
The quiet, confident layout designs let Rams’ work speak for itself while showcasing imagery of 100 items in a detailed, considered way
Alongside contributions written by Rams himself, including his Tokyo manifesto and an essay entitled ‘Design – Ritual of a Hopeful Society?’, the book also publishes interviews such as an in-conversation piece with Erik Mattie, and a contribution about the importance of teamwork to industrial design by the Braun Design Team.
Naturally, the book design, layout and typesetting (by de Jong, VK Projects, Naarden & Asher Hazelaar, and Dutch studio Puls Ontwerp) takes Rams’ aesthetic principles and shows them in action, in book form. A few of these – as outlined in his 10 principles – are “good design is innovative; good design is aesthetic; good design is useful”.
The quiet, confident layout designs let Rams’ work speak for itself while showcasing imagery of 100 items in a detailed, considered way. Among these are, of course, Rams' famous coffee grinder, but we also see less celebrated objects like shelving systems and cigarette lighters.
In another helpful nod to design as a utopian idea that should be as easy to use as it is beautiful, the final part of the book presents a chronological overview of Rams’ designs, categorised by function, presenting a narrative of not just of his work, but also the evolution of industrial design.
Original Source: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/12/monthly-web-development-update-12-2017/
Today I read an eye-opening article about the current young generation and their financial future. It’s hard to grasp words like “Millenials”, and there’s much talk about specific issues they face, but, for many of us, it’s not easy to understand their struggle — no matter if you’re older or younger than me (I qualify under the Millenial generation). But Michael Hobbes’ entertaining and super informative article revealed a lot to me.
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Beautiful Houses: Fighting House by studio_suspicion in South Korea
AoiroStudio
Dec 15, 2017
I am a huge fan of watching foreign movies and TV shows on Netflix, I really enjoy learning about other cultures especially seeing how people live their day-to-day in other countries. I think that is the beauty of traveling! What brings me to today’s subject by taking us to South Korea and its architecture (P.S. I would definitely love to travel there!). I stumbled across this design by studio_suspicion of what they called: the Fighting House. It is such an unusual approach but I love the reasoning behind this design. Located in Sageun-dong in Seoul, a reminiscence area surrounded by a history. This coming forward with a space with a maximize the floor area ratio that would include the building owner, client’s unit, eight rental units and alongside with a functional elevator. This is a true mixture of contemporary residential environment, what do you think?
Credits
Park, Tae Sang ; Cho, Soo Young
Photography by Ryoo, In Keun
Manufacturers VMZINC
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This set of demos explores 3D particle animations using three.js and easing. All of the particles and shapes in these demos are made from basic geometry/material/mesh sets in three.js, such as spheres, lines, and boxes.
The Concept
Making animations with a lot of small moving parts is a lot of fun. Applying different timing offsets and easings to each part or group can make for some interesting visualizations. And even though these can look great in 2D, adding subtle 3D perspective to your animations can make them even more visually appealing. Having the concept of a camera and 3D grid can also aid in the debugging and development of your animations. You can zoom in, zoom out, and view your animation from different perspectives to tune it perfectly.
Repeating animations like this is great for loader animations, backgrounds, and transitions. In these demos they are treated as site loader animations. I hope this inspires you to make your own 3D particle animations!
Benefits of three.js and a 3D Environment
Most of these animations could be made roughly comparable with something like SVG or 2D Canvas. However, adding subtle animations and positioning in a 3D perspective brings them to life. There are also performance benefits from working with three.js/WebGL. These animations only scratch the surface of what three.js is capable of. Custom geometries, materials, lighting, shadows, and shaders can take these to the next level. There is a lot of room to grow and expand from this fundamental starting point.
My goal with this set is to show what a baseline set of particle movements can achieve, with minimal flexing of three.js.
Debug Mode: Grid, Camera, and Timescale
To enter debug mode, click the debug icon in the top right. This will add a 3D grid to the scene, which gives a better sense of how everything is moving in 3D space. It adds camera controls, which allow you to zoom, rotate, and pan. And finally, a timescale slider is added to speed up, slow down, and pause the animation. This is useful for working on the timing and positioning of your animations.
#1: Rotating and Scaling Rings
This demo shows a series of rings that are scaling and rotating with slight offsets. The particles are also moving back and forth on the z-axis.
#2: Simplex Noise Lines
This demo shows a series of particles that form lines of two different colors. The particle position is being set by simplex noise, with tapered off magnitude near both edges. Over time, the lines rotate and move back and forth on the on z-axis.
#3: Circle Separations
This demo applies some simple physics to each particle. They all spawn in the center, and then push away from each other so that they all have their own space.
#4: Twisting Double Helix
This demo shows a double helix, almost like a simplified visualization of DNA. It is twisting and untwisting while rotating.
#5: Raindrops and Ripples
This demo shows a raindrop effect with rippling when they hit the surface of particles. The rain drops are made out of boxes that get stretched as they fall. When they hit, a ripple object is made that has a ring, and an invisible sphere that grows out that affects the particle positions and opacity.
#6: Spinning Fan
This demo shows three lines of particles that form a shallow cone shape. Each particle has an arc line with a randomized length trailing behind it.
#7: Square Lattice Blending
This demo shows boxes being stretched based on their position. The movement of each box is slightly offset. Four different color boxes are placed closely to each other and blended with additive blending to create the white color. As the boxes move, the colors lose their full overlap and reveal the underlying colors (red, green, blue, and magenta).
#8: Simplex Noise Particle System
This final demo uses a slightly different method for rendering the particles than the other demos. It uses THREE.BufferGeometry() and THREE.Points(), which allows us to render more particles at once and keep good performance. The particle movement is determined by simplex noise. Finally, additive blending is used to create a brighter effect when the particles overlap.
References and Credits
three.js
fast-simplex-noise.js
Robert Penner’s Easing Functions
3D Particle Explorations was written by Jack Rugile and published on Codrops.
