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- grafician-1
https://www.illustrationlink.com…
lots of illustration stock libraries - many free
- Salarrue1
https://images.squarespace-cdn.c… is a powerful and extensible knowledge base
that works on top of your local folder of plain text files.
https://obsidian.md/- Get yourself a Tana invite ;)
https://tana.inc/grafician - I use https://www.dendron.… for the same thing (PKM personal knowledge management)uan
- whoa, nice.Salarrue
- Get yourself a Tana invite ;)
- grafician-2
"The People’s Graphic Design Archive is a crowd-sourced virtual archive that aims to expand, diversify, and preserve graphic design history. It includes finished projects, process, correspondence, oral histories, articles, and other material in the form of images, documents, videos, audio, as well as links to other relevant archives and websites"
- shapesalad0
Desech is now opensource
- Continuity1
Since Ianbolton asked how to defeat paywalls in the notes of the UK is Fucked thread. If you're a Firefox user, this handy-dandy plug-in will sort it:
- Awesome. I keep saving websites that do this, but the one's i've bookmarked don't seem to exist anymoreIanbolton
- Projectile1
OK you can now create a landscape in any composition you want!!
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/stu…- super handy when you want a bg image that doesn't mess with your textProjectile
- 1:24 rotflsted
- Mental!shapeaspect
- Projectile5
A quick tutorial for changing colour... even to black and white!! Never knew about range with the hue/sat tool
- it's a short so doesn't embedProjectile
- right click. copy video url...or paste video id after .com/watch?v=
(shorts are stored as normal yt videos).uan - yeah... that's been the way since early 2000s.shapesalad
- WHAT YEAR IS IT . TIFFnb
- God I hate all these "Shorts" on Youtube!utopian
- God, I hate vertical video. If I could go back and stop Hitler or vertical video it would be a hard choice.CyBrainX
- Shorts are ok on mobile app, should not exist on desktopdrgs
- You can mute the shorts row on desktop. Just hover top right.garbage
- Excellent info, cheers. Before I start shouting at the (creative) clouds again, am I right in thinking you can't save these to playlists?MrT
- haha I feel like we've learned more about YT than Photoshop hereProjectile
- ^ lolgarbage
- PhanLo0
- You can also download Moho, and super super quickly adjust your stroke thickness along the path, animate trim path -do it linear over a long set of frames,shapesalad
- export as - then use as a track mask in AE and us time remap to fine control the easing. Overall quicker to execute that his method.shapesalad
- I usually use the draw this plugin and draw it out. Adjust some key frames and good to go.PhanLo
- utopian2
Cinematic Scroll Animation
Take any video and transform it into immersive web experience using our WordPress plugin. Image sequence animation plays and rewinds on scroll. Easy integration into any page with just a few clicks! Out now on WordPress repository.
Freemius WordPress Plugin
?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=113761626
https://scrollsequence.com- https://codepen.io/M…
basics are just some lines of code...uan - Just built one of these haha, oh well.slappy
- https://codepen.io/M…
- jagara1
"Instead of simply tossing carrots in the vegetable drawer, take a few minutes to cut off the greens and submerge the carrots in water. You’ll be rewarded with carrots that stay crisp for weeks, not days." https://www.masterclass.com/arti…
Tried it, works well. Finally. Fuckin' things kept rotting within a week.
- you'll be rewarded with mould manky water carrots in just a week.shapesalad
- The carrots I buy last weeks in the drawer. Hmmmmonospaced
- You have to change the water once in a while, works fine.jagara
- Buy fewer carrots?slappy
- Here, you can only get a one kilo bag. Especially if you want organic.jagara
- Eat more carrots?slappy
- bulletfactory1
Fucked-up mockups for your designs.
https://fockups.com/
- Gnash2
“Cambridge University Library collections represent an invaluable contribution to world heritage spanning four thousand years of human thought. Cambridge Digital Library seeks to open up this knowledge to the widest possible global audience, for research, for education or for simple curiosity and wonder.”
- grafician1
https://colorandcontrast.com/#/
"This website is for designers to learn about color, contrast, and how it can affect experiences of a user interface. It provides quick access to relevant information at any point in the design process.
The content is thorough, but concise, and provides contextual insight to assist you in making educated decisions about color and contrast."
- shapesalad1
"Collection of thinking tools and frameworks to help you solve problems, make decisions and understand systems."
- grafician6
Vintage Design Inspiration (in progress)
Calling cards: (Victorian-ish)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…Record Labels (Misc.)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rk…60s Record sleeves (60s)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30…Factory Sleeves
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kh…70s Concert Tickets:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kh…Vintage Type
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…Punk Flyers: (80s/90s ish)
https://www.flickr.com/groups/36…“Bands on Paper” (More scanned flyers)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/el…Vintage Childrens’ books:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37…Matchbooks (50s/60s Eastern Europe)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/li…Peculiar Manicule (Psychedelia/Mod Design):
https://www.peculiarmanicule.com…Vintage Coupons:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ro…Borders:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/18…“Sliders, Spinners, Wheels”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ae…2nd Spanish Republic
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ha…More Paper Ephemera:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79…Vintage Menus:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/me…Fiorucci:
https://www.itsnicethat.com/arti…50s Stuff
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ba…Coronet Records
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ba…American Art Posters:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bo…Travel Posters:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bo…“Folk Typography”
https://flickr.com/groups/folkty…Vintage Packaging:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jo…British Library Vintage Illustrated Type
https://www.flickr.com/photos/br…More Vintage Matchbooks:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ma…Vintage Postage Stamps:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mi…- A treasure trove
:-)PhanLo - Credit where credit is due... ;)
https://twitter.com/…Centigrade - Ah you did... my bad! It's right at the bottom of your post. Fair play.Centigrade
- great links, thanks!utopian
- Nice one, thank youGardener
- Yup, great find, hope it's usefulgrafician
- A treasure trove
- utopian0
- Damnit, I hoped this might generate vector outputsNairn
- See https://halftonepro.… @Nairn; paid BUT will export an .svg.ideaist