Louis Daguerre’s ‘Boulevard du Temple,’ 1839. Click image for full view.
Louis Daguerre (Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre) was born near Paris, France on November 18, 1789. He was a professional scene painter for the opera with an interest in lighting effects. Daguerre began experimenting with the effects of light upon translucent paintings in [...]
Responsive web design has recently become a usual trade in web design. Almost everyone wants a mobile version of their website. It’s pretty essential due to the number of devices getting out on the market these days. With that, comes various screen resolutions. [...]
Well, I guess you have already realized that I love looking around and finding interesting, inspiring and beautiful stuff . This gave me an idea for a weekly round up where I can show you some of the best random and beautiful things I come across everyday. We will be calling it “The ACH Weekly [...]
Continue Reading →A blind contour drawing is similar to a contour drawing except the fact that you look at your object all the time and not at the paper. That’s the primary reason for the term “blind” . This exercise is widely used by art teachers because it is the best and simple means to teach [...]
Continue Reading →For designers who only design for the Web, you precisely know what platform you’re going to be working on because you know that whatever you do is definitely going to be on the Web. It’s completely different in print, as you need to initially decide what kind of print material you’re going to [...]
Continue Reading →Jim Woodring is a cartoonist, comic book author, artist and toy designer from Seattle. He also produces fine art works in a variety of other media comprising of painting and charcoal. He is known for his dream-based comics he published in his zine Jim and also as the creator of the anthropomorphic cartoon character Frank, [...]
Continue Reading →For those of you who don’t know about The Creative Panic, it is a spectacular blog with the basic aim of drawing something(anything) every day for a whole year. The project started on January 20th 2011 and is near to an end on January 19th 2012. Ben is a graphic designer with more [...]
Continue Reading →I had a look at this amazing wall painted animation video by BLU on Vimeo. It is an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life and how it could probably end. This is definitely a great work of art. Have a look.
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Smashing Magazine has compiled a list of excellent free fonts. Some of them are noteworthy and really good. Want good free fonts for your next design? Have a look at Smashing Magazine’s 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design
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Though beauty as a whole defines a huge array of things, art is a major part of it. All forms of art eventually lead to pieces of beauty.
A work of art is intentionally created to spring a sense of beauty to the beholder. The sense can be varying according to the type of art [...]
Continue Reading →Recent Articles
- Louis Daguerre, a pioneer of photography
- Get started with responsive web design
- The ACH Weekly Roundup
- Blind contour drawing
- Things to consider when designing from web to print
- An Interview with Jim Woodring
- An Interview with Ben Hood, from The Creative Panic
- Big Bang Big Boom
- Free fonts
- The relationship between beauty and art
- What is art?
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