http://www.takashiirie.com/silent Web and graphic designer - Takashi Irie\\\'s portfolio Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:30:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We, designers all know designing with grid is essential. This amazing 960 Grid System is so helpful and save my time so much nowadays when I do mocking up. The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/web-design/you-are-gonna-love-it-960-grid-system/ This is probably that fastest and easiest way to viewing images across the web! The great add-on called PicLens by Cooliris allows us search images in full-screen using Google, Yahoo, SmugMug, Flickr, Photobucket, DeviantArt, and etc. The full-screen sideshow is an amazing cinematic presentation of the results on a kind ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/news/stunning-browser-add-on-called-piclens-its-just-amazing/ Many of my reader might know already about it though, finally, we, Mac user can preview brushes without loading them in Photoshop but the ABR Viewer!! If you have lots of brushes like me, you might have wanted to view all brushes that you have at a time without slowing down ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/download/abr-viewer-for-mac-user-preview-your-brushes-with-it/ As we know, vector art is very useful and I love vector arts because we can scale it without making it blurry like pixel images. Some of my reader emailed me asking how to make original vectors, so I post this with a hope to help my readers. Since Adobe Streamline ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/illustration/great-online-vectorization-tool-vector-magic/ Many of my readers may have already stumbled across the great site, misprintedtype.com V3 , but for readers who don't know about it yet, I want to introduce the site. From Brazil, Eduardo Recife has created many of grungy and nasty but wicked fonts and lets us download them for ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/resources/nasty-and-shortcut-fonts-at-misprintedtypecom-you-cannot-miss-it/ Although there are many useful online generator out there, especially this great site, Stripe Generator 2.0 saves time for me a lot. You can make any style of stripe how you want, also you can download and play around stripes that someone made before. It's so useful!! Cheers! http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/web-design/great-online-generator-stripe-generator-20/ I like the use of distressed elements in design sometime and when the design needs a grassroots or urban feel, especially distressed or rusted texture can save the day. Even distressed textured websites are not new but are still very popular. Urban Dirty is a delarge project by Paul Burgess. It ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/illustration/great-free-texture-library-site-urban-dirty/ SLUM SILENCE - Taking It Back (Jason Hodge's mix) [Goodfamily Rec.] TOKA PROJECT - People [Robsoul Rec.] JASON HODGES - My Style [Aroma Rec.] JULLY BLACK - Sweat Of Your Brow (Jason Hodges Remix) [Aroma Rec.] SOUND REPUBLIC - Pimp (Hodges in the Guesthouse) [Guesthouse Music] FILTHY HOTJIZZ - Jurassic Filth [LEG] NATURAL RHYTHM - Go ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/dj-mix/dj-live-mix-on-september-5th-2007/ Most of my reader knows this mix, but I need to post this again… DJ SNEAK - Funky Rhythm(Fries & Bridge Remix) [Robsoul Rec.] JUSTIN MARTIN & SAMMY D - Swamp Thang [Dirtybird Rec.] JT DONALDSON - Vanguard Nights [Vista Rec.] HAZEL - Klub Connection (Fries & Bridge vs Chris Carrier Mix) [Robsoul Rec.] DJ ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/dj-mix/dj-live-mix-on-february-9th-2006/ Most of my reader knows this mix, but I need to post this again... INLAND KNIGHTS - Handwriting [Drop Music] PHIL WEEKS - Hypnose (Tony Hewitt Afterdark Dub) [Robsoul Rec.] DEL COSTA & PEDRO GOYA - Break [Thrasher Home Recordings] COLETTE - Feelin' Hypnotized (Jason Hodges Mix) [OM Records] DIGITAL MINDS - We Gotta Believe ... http://www.takashiirie.com/silent/dj-mix/jack-your-body-dj-live-mix-on-february-5th-2006/