Posted on July 8, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
Design is a funny thing in that you can learn something new about it every day of your life. What better way to learn about design than by reading about it from other design professionals. I have come up with my list of top design books for beginner to advanced designers. These books are so [...]
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Posted on July 6, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
In photography, bokeh is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light.” Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
Traditional Japanese tattoos are intricate pageants of rich design. An art that has matured into perfection, Japanese tattooing originated from the woodblock prints of the late Edo period (1804-1868). The Japanese technique is called tebori (“to carve by hand”) — using bundled needles at the end of a bamboo stick to insert charcoal ink into [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
How often do you find yourself performing the same series of commands in Photoshop? When there are typical tasks that you perform on a regular basis, you have two choices; you can do things the hard way by performing each step every time you need to perform the task, or you can get smart and [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
Papercutting is the art of cutting paper designs. The art has evolved uniquely all over the world to adopt to different cultural styles. The oldest surviving paper cut out is a symmetrical circle from the 6th century found in Xinjiang China. By the eighth or ninth century papercutting appeared in West Asia and in Turkey [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
What exactly is a CDN? A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to [...]
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Posted on June 22, 2010 by Lucas Cobb Design
In this article I’m going to showcase some very famous design crews and graffiti artists to get your creative juices flowing. We will see some amazing work and hopefully they can get you on track to that next big design. Graffiti is an art form all its own and carries with it an illicit stigma, [...]
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