My kids were grumpy at breakfast this morning, so I had this idea to make a quick banana peel trucker hat for the banana to wear using the peel of the banana. This cheered them up and it made the banana look relatively hip.
How to make:
1 or 2 bananas. One to make the hat, one to model the hat. This could also be made using one banana. Carve the shape of the hat using an x-acto knife. Leave one of the banana peel sides longer, to make the rim of the hat. Most bananas come with a little sticker. Use this sticker to serve as the logo on the hat, if you want your hat to have a logo.
Simple project, takes about 5 minutes yet the memories will last a lifetime.
To prepare a brain for dissection, it is first preserved in a process that takes months and then frozen. Next it is placed in a motorised tissue slicer specially built by Annese and his team to accommodate an organ as big as the brain (see video). A blade peels away layers about as thick as a human hair, which look like super-thin slices of prosciutto. They are collected with a paintbrush and placed in a salty solution. The sections are then laid out on glass slides so that they can be stained once dry. The purple dye used in the video stains genetic material in each cell, making fine anatomical structures visible.
[...] a very simple technique packaged into a single action.
Simply select the action and press play. Your document will be converted into a 16-bit document and a new layer applied to the top of your group/document fixing all the banding in that document.
Unfortunately, this will increase the document’s size dramatically. When exporting assets, copy merge and export to a new, 8-bit document. This will reduce the size while keeping the beautiful gradients. Note: You must apply this action inside every smart object.
Here´s a further explanation. If you´re using Ps CS6 you don´t need that action because there´s a built-in option to dither gradients.
Valentina typeface is a sincere tribute to my grandmother in the form of typography and therefore bears her name. Valentina is a classic didone that follows some of the canons proposed by Bodoni in the eighteenth century but incorporates many of the characteristics of the antique Spanish punches of the time. It is a complete font of 457 glyphs, in which there are 125 alternative lower cases or the 46 ligatures.
Mobile devices and the visual language of apps may well have the single largest impact on how we design identity over the next decade. We are entering a period where the lines of differentiation between logos, icons, symbols, favicons, and app buttons are completely blurred. These elements have always been visual cousins, but the results of their inbreeding is creating some new strains of solutions that don’t fit with conventional branding models.
Are these app buttons or are these logos? Designers are tasked with creating identities for entities that may only live in the virtual world. If a mark is to primarily live on the menu of a mobile device, do you design a logo and place it on a button or is it best to integrate the two from inception? Is it imperative to use the glossy reflective visual vernacular for a button, and if you do, is that effect part of the actual logo or does it just appear when the mark is used for that purpose? Expect to see many more of these app logos appearing off-device in unnatural surroundings.
