I came across this website – http://kuler.adobe.com/ – a little while ago but didn’t take time to experiment with it much… However, yesterday was a rainy bank holiday so I chose a few pictures taken during the past summer and uploaded them to my Kuler. Kuler is actually a free tool (simply create an account) by . . . → Read More: Kuler – Nice tool for designers]]>

I came across this website – http://kuler.adobe.com/ – a little while ago but didn’t take time to experiment with it much… However, yesterday was a rainy bank holiday so I chose a few pictures taken during the past summer and uploaded them to my Kuler. Kuler is actually a free tool (simply create an account) by Adobe that allows you to create colour themes from your chosen images. You can then save these themes, share them with people (the “Kuler Community”) and download them as .ASE files that can be added to your Adobe application’s swatches panel.  Yes, we can all use our little eyedropper tool in Photoshop or Illustrator to directly chose our swatches, but there’s something nice and cool – and let’s say it, a little bit of laziness can be welcomed in your busy schedule -  about asking the random Kuler to do it for us! We can also tell Kuler what sort of mood we want (deep, colourful, etc.) and it will influence the colour scheme. To have various colour themes saved somewhere comes in handy if you have a client who wants a certain atmosphere reflected in a logo/poster/brochure/etc. Simply find an images that inspires that atmosphere, and tadammm: Kuler will give you a good starting point by identifying a scheme that can work for you! Then you can take it from there, stop being lazy and do your designer work.

Vick @ Yellow Car Design

How happy would you be to receive that nicely crafted box of presents? Very happy I’m sure! I took that photo for fun before sending it (for fun + for the fact that with the postal services you never know if a parcel is going to reach its destination… better have a proof that yes, we did . . . → Read More: Christmas Design]]>

Gifts

How happy would you be to receive that nicely crafted box of presents? Very happy I’m sure! I took that photo for fun before sending it (for fun + for the fact that with the postal services you never know if a parcel is going to reach its destination… better have a proof that yes, we did bought presents for everyone!). Taking that picture made me realize how great baby blue and dark red go well together, and how it should officially replace green and red as the usual Christmas colours. Anyways, just a thought!

vicky

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Cadeaux de Noël

Aimeriez-vous recevoir cette belle boîte pleine de cadeaux? J’imagine que oui, elle est tellement bien décorée (ahah!). J’ai pris cette photo pour le fun (et aussi pour avoir une preuve que oui, nous avons acheté des cadeaux à tout le monde! Après tout, avec la qualité du service postale, on ne sait jamais si un colis va arriver à destination ou non…). En tout cas, cette photo m’a fait réaliser que bleu ciel et rouge foncé vont vraiment bien ensemble et que ces couleurs devraient remplacer la combinaison habituelle du rouge et vert en tant que couleurs officielles de Noël. Bonne idée non?

vicky