Design and art

Design is often viewed as a more rigorous form of art, or art with a clearly defined purpose. The distinction is usually made when someone other than the artist is defining the purpose. In graphic arts the distinction is often made between fine art and commercial art.

In the realm of the arts, design is more relevant to the "applied" arts, such as architecture and industrial design. In fact today the term design is widely associated to modern industrial product design as initiated by Raymond Loewy and teachings at the Bauhaus and Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm) in Germany during the 20th Century.

Design implies a conscious effort to create something that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing. For example, a graphic artist may design an advertisement poster. This person's job is to communicate the advertisement message (functional aspect) and to make it look good (aesthetically pleasing). The distinction between pure and applied arts is not completely clear, but one may consider Jackson Pollock's (often criticized as "splatter") paintings as an example of pure art. One may assume his art does not convey a message based on the obvious differences between an advertisement poster and the mere possibility of an abstract message of a Jackson Pollock painting. One may speculate that Pollock, when painting, worked more intuitively than would a graphic artist, when consciously designing a poster. However, Mark Getlein suggests the principles of design are "almost instinctive", "built-in", "natural", and part of "our sense of 'rightness'." Pollock, as a trained artist, may have utilized design whether conscious or not

Reasons for color association

Black is often seen as the 'color' of death in Western culture. Black represents darkness and the unknown, and death is associated with the extinguishing of light. The association of white with death in Eastern cultures could come from the white cloth used to enshroud corpses (as in Egyptian mummys), the pale skin of a dead person, or the stark whiteness of bones and skeletons. Many Eastern cultures also view death as the passage into a higher state of being (Buddhism, Hinduism), and thus could view white as a positive color association for death. Red is often a color representing violence, war, aggression, or passion; this is probably because red is the color of fire and human blood.

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Successfully change Windows Vista

Finally I can apply to window xp in my notebook, which is the operating system Vista. A night of more than 7 hours I try to install all the components in need. my notebook types Compaq CQ40.

During the time I use Vista, so many things that are difficult to do, make the connection settings that are very difficult, the configuration is very complex and not easily understood. and also many applications for software design does not work easily in the run, sometimes does not express support vista ... uuhhhkkk! very provoking once !.....

But after I change into XP, all is very easy, not until this morning something strange happened on my notebook...I just hope that all smooth

Prefer the creativity

in visual communication is important to understand when people see our work ... if that message to the people who view it, what do we mean Communicate success to many people ... (when many other people / friends what we understand what we produce, and they say it's hot ... what a nice picture! ... great ... then you can be successful!)


if the I prefer the creativity! here showed a very original idea ...
and the second, also important for the technique, to add aesthetics to the works that we created ...


do not cease to create, proud of the work yourself!
and be self -

Design is a tool to solve the problem

Design is a tool to solve the problem.
For example, if one of there new products.
New products have problems, how the product is known and sought by target?
PROMOTION usually be done in the promotion and use of various media as a means of communication through design.

3 important points about the portfolio

I have 3 important points about the portfolio:
- The portfolio should be in accordance with the type of search / design firm is required
- The quality of the portfolio to meet the requirements
- How the presentation should be interesting potfolio / creative..

My hope...

I prefer to install the Required Skills from installing softwares especially Salary. Because the most illustrasi work and animation, when the interview process is long-long and difficult, usually a skills test in the studio. The good skill illustrasinya the more likely to receive. After that new negotiations on price and follow with a contract

Differences in the recruitment industry in the design

During this I noticed there are some differences in the recruitment process in the design industry.

Obviously, every company has its own policy regarding the vacancy should be filled, but I think there may be useful to think this problem because I think members MLF also in a position to recruit (and not only the position of looking for work), and may only be used as input / consideration when hiring or looking for a job.

The security of your Joomla directory with htaccess

the security of your Joomla directory with htaccess

We may often have problems when creating a new folder in Joomla. we make sure the file "index.html" function as the cover of the directory, so that the files in the directory that we have not seen. the file "index.html" is very important as the cover slit security joomla website that we wake up. But now there is a more simple way so that we do not create confusion the file "index.html" new every time we make a directory / folder new.

To do this is to create the file. "Htaccess" in the directory you want to amankan. this file to work to sub-sub directory. So we do not need to create the file. "Htaccess" in the sub directory.

I create a file "htaccess.txt" using notepad with the contents as follows:


Order allow, deny


Options-Indexes
Options + FollowSymLinks

ErrorDocument 404 / index.php
DirectoryIndex index.php


RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-F
RewriteCond% (REQUEST_FILENAME)!-D
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php / $ 1 [L]


After you save the file "htaccess.txt" and open the Command Prompt. Use the

ren htaccess.txt. htaccess

to change the file "htaccess.txt" to ". htaccess".

Once finished, upload the file. "Htaccess" to the directory you want. After that you try to access the directory. See the results!

I suggest you upload a file. "Htaccess" on the public directory (eg public_html).

If for example you already have a file. "Htaccess" default Joomla add your script just above the file.

Features of Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended

Since Macromedia was bought by Adobe Photoshop and remove the CS3 products, there are no special features that users can create the impression. But this time, CS4 product from Adobe is adding many new features that are very much different from the previous version. Let's see what are the.

3D painting and compositing

You can color the object three-dimensional (3D) with photoshop and after that can save them to the object in 3D with the general format is often used.


Adjustments panel

Improve the image quality is now very easy using the adjustment bar, have provided a template for different variations of its quality of your images.


Fluid canvas rotation

Canvas in photoshop cs4 is now easier for us to freshen up and working. You can freely zoom, menskala, mendistorsi image at will. You should try it for yourself to find out what is the comfort:)

Content-Aware scaling

This feature is really incredible. Previously if we want to enlarge the picture horizontally (sideways) or vertically (up) in accordance with the size of canvas, the image will not look normal or not proposional. We have to manually fix it so that images look proposional. But with this feature, Photoshop is very smart to keep the image will remain proposional even if we enlarge the image to the side or up, not the proposional. Really save time.


For the photographers, many features of color correction added.

Change the image into Vector (Vector Magic)

Change the picture to the form of cartoons, or more precisely to the form of a Vector is not easy work, what else is done manually, in addition to accuracy, we also need to be compelled to take the image processing software such as CorelDraw and Adobe-Photoshop, even though there are tools dedicated to facilitate the process of creating images cartoons so the results are still less than the maximum.


Vector Majic is a online service that provides convenience in the process become a vector image in a flash with a very satisfactory result, we only upload The picture and wait a while then the results will be displayed directly on the page. Support a format that can be used, namely JPEG, GIP, PNG, BMP and TIFF, and can be downloaded in EPS format, SVG, PDF, and PNG. If not satisfied with the resulting image vectors colleagues can edit their own pictures manually.

Short Tutorial Vector Magic:

1. Make registration by pressing the link Sign up

2. Then, fill Email and Password

3. Not for the verification email

4. Then do the login process (normally the first time we directly entered the list of the login page)

5. To create a vector, click the Browse button and then select the image

6. Press the Upload button and wait for the process of loading ....

7. Until the picture here have experienced the process of vector

8. If the result is less vector maximum please edit

9. Images that are ready to co-vector in the download and do not forget to verify your email address.

Hopefully this tutorial useful:)