If you are a big Mac fan, you will love this CSS dock menu that I designed. It is using Jquery Javascript library and Fisheye component from Interface and some of my icons. It comes with two dock styles - top and bottom. This CSS dock menu is perfert to add on to my iTheme. Here I will show you how to implement it to your web page. Read on…
Numbers of people have asked me how to do the phoenix illustration on my site. Was it vector? Did I use Illustrator or Photoshop? Well, here I will tell you my design process from concept sketch to final illustration. Hope you will find this useful. Read on…
I was contacted by Darlene Lowe, who is an Art Director at MacLaren McCann and also my former college classmate. She asked me to vectorize an illustration for one of their projects, POGO (Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario). POGO was founded in 1983 by a group of pediatric oncologists to champion childhood cancer care and control. Each year POGO hosts a gala event to raise the bulk of their funding for cancer research and aid for the children with cancer and their families. This year theme is Hollywood (glamorous, celebraties, red carpet, etc.) So they provided a concept sketch that they needed to digitalize. Instead of just vectorizing the sketch, I suggested to add some colorful Photoshop effects to go with the glamorous theme. Here is the final illustration. Read on…
Here is a series of "I Love" favorite icon that I designed for fun. They are perfect for blog sites and I thought it would be fun to share them. Favorite icon is a 16×16 pixel icon that appears inside the address bar. If you are using Firefox or Safari, look up in the address bar, you should see that I’m using the "I Love Illustrator" icon.
There are various themes in the package and hopefully you can find one that matches with your site. I also included a layered PSD in the zip, just in case you want to design your own. Read on…
Since I launched the Phoenix Theme, numbers of people asked me to release my Phoenix Theme. I’m sorry, I can’t because this theme is freshly developed and it is an icon of N.Design Studio. However, what I can do is give out my Phoenix illustration as desktop wallpapers. It is available in high resolution for both desktop and laptop screen. I hope you will like it. Read on…
Every day, I come across 10 to 30 design websites, sometime I find very good design websites and I’ll bookmark it. The main purpose of Best Web Gallery is to share the good design I found. It is an inspirational gallery showcase where I collect and feature all the best design sites.
Best Web Gallery is powered by WordPress with some plugins. Here is the list of plugins that I used. Read on…
