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This week’s Mash Up is a short one with only seven articles and several bonus articles attached to the listed articles. The mash up includes articles I found helpful or interesting. As the title says, I found some great articles in design, CSS3 and two great inspirational articles. Both of them are worth checking out. One is about matte painting and the other is about silhouette photography.
Design
The 3 stages of design maturity
“Whether you’ve been designing for 10 minutes or 10 years, there’s much to be learned and figured out. Depending on your path with design, some things will vary, but for the most part, there are three main stages of realizations/characteristics most designers go through.”
Why Designers Should Take Up Photography
“Certain aspects of photography lends itself so well to design work that it might make you wonder why it isn’t on the list of must-have design skills. Actually, a lot of art and design schools do include a photography component in their programs, and I can see why: because it helps.”
6 Important Stages of Developing a Creative Design Idea!
“Most clients consider graphic designers to be magicians who can come up with creative ideas with a swish of their wands. But the reality is otherwise. Thinking of an original design idea isn’t magic that can be whipped up in a matter of seconds. It entails an entire and elaborative procedure of transporting the idea from the designer’s brain to its final end-result.
But the hardest part for a graphic designer is to explain their creative process to bad type of clients or project managers. Even though designers go through the entire process, still they cannot put in words the feelings attached with the entire endeavor. So how does a creative design idea reach to its final destination? Today, we analyze the different stages through which a graphic designer goes in order to develop a brilliant design idea.”
CSS3
CSS3 Flexible Box Layout Explained
“The flexible box layout module?—?or “flexbox,” to use its popular nickname?—?is an interesting part of the W3C Working Draft. The flexbox specification is still a draft and subject to change, so keep your eyes on the W3C, but it is part of a new arsenal of properties that will revolutionize how we lay out pages. At least it will be when cross-browser support catches up.
In the meantime, we can experiment with flexbox and even use it on production websites where fallbacks will still render the page correctly. It may be a little while until we consider it as mainstream as, say,border-radius, but our job is to investigate new technologies and use them where possible. That said, when it comes to something as fundamental as page layout, we need to tread carefully.”
Inspiration
60 Astonishing Matte Paintings That’ll Take Your Breath Away
“Here are 60 incredible matte paintings that I’m sure will take your breath away.”
30 Expressive Silhouette Photography
“Here are 30 Examples of Silhouette Photos to endear you with the depths of Photography and perhaps inspire you to try and take some of your own. Feel free to browse as there’s just so many exciting things to learn about Photography and you have one to check out today…”
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