Color palettes, interior designs and fun stuff
Friday, February 27, 2009
CSS Drive has launched the new Image to Colors Palette Generator! To get start you'll need to upload an image or submit an image URL to generate a color palette based on the image's primary colors.The extra benefits you can get from this handy Image to Colors Palette Generator:
- It supports various image file format: .PNG, .GIF, .JPG and JPEG
- Instantly generates Photoshop swatches (.ACO) and CSS stylesheet (.CSS) as you can download these files for further design process.
- Click on one of the color on the palette will show you the Hex code of that related color. You can compare between the Selected color and the Current color, as the Current color swatch will dynamically changes the color and hexa when your cursor is moving on the color palette.
- It produces 4 different palettes for efficient use of extracted colors, which are: Light Color Palette, Medium Color Palette, Dark Color Palette and Complete Color Palette.
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The new Chicago-based interior design business Kelly + Olive is offering a giveaway to How About Orange readers! (You don't have to live in Chicago to take advantage.) If you've been helplessly wondering what to do with that blah room in your house or apartment, the "young, professional, modern, whimsical, pragmatic, ecclectic, and thrifty" pair from Kelly + Olive will help you solve your decorating dilemma.
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Could these be the 20 Most Interesting jQuery plugins? AjaxLine.com seems to think they've got a great collection of plugins, including the Ajax Fancy Captcha that helps you protect your web pages from boys and spammers.
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And I simply love this little chair. Covered down to the legs with fabric, the chair appears to be dressed in a pantskirt.
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Twelve-year-old Max Wallack of Natick spent a day last week being followed around by television cameras, hanging out with engineers and building a model of his latest invention: A shelter for the homeless made from plastic, wire and packing peanuts.
The folks at the WGBH show "Design Squad" selected Wallack's idea from more than 1,000 entries for their Trash to Treasure contest. As the grand prize winner, he will receive $10,000 from the Intel Foundation and a laptop computer.
Labels: chairs, color theory, concepts, css, interior design, jquery
Artists, Designers, and Illustrators...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
This is your chance to be a part of AP/LABz, the next generation product platform!Put your best designs in the mix, and push the limits with full color, vector, continuous tone, photo realism, original art, textures, and anything else you can imagine.
ARTSPROJEKT will select and produce 10 winning designs. These designs will be sold online through ARTSPROJEKT.com and offered to high-end fashion retailers nationwide. The grand prize winner will also receive $1,000 cash. All 10 winners will take home up to 25% of all online sales.* If your design is selected for retail sale, you’ll share in those profits as well!*
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Read through a simple list of Design Features of Web 2.0.
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Found a website all about what inspires this one funky gal in Australia. "My name is Lyndsay, and this is my web-based scrapbook of things that inspire me: music, decor, design, fashion, paper crafts and whatever else takes my fancy!"
Head over to LMS: Design, Music, Decor and General Inspiration >>
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SeeSaw is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other goes down.
So what would a see-saw chair look like?
Dubbed as 'Swingers', this piece of furniture is in fact, a set of two back-to-back chairs scrambled into one. So, two people might never face each other while sitting on same chair.
Labels: artsprojekt, chairs, contest, furniture, inspiration
Sit in your retro chair for a design discussion
Monday, June 2, 2008
This morning RetroToGo.com has a post featuring the Enzo retro swivel chair by Darlings of Chelsea. This chair is so adorable, I love it and must have it. But that will have to come at another time when there is more than lint in my pockets.*~*~*
Core 77 has a discussion going about what "design art" actually is, or isn't. Alice Rawsthorn wrote about it recently in the International Herald Tribune. "'Design-art' is a commercial phenomenon, not a cultural one. It's a label adopted by auction houses in the hope of flogging limited-edition furniture for higher prices than it would muster if relegated to the unfashionable category of 'decorative arts.' And it has been very effective, commercially at least. A new season of design sales starts Monday with the opening of the Design Miami/ Basel fair in Switzerland, followed by auctions in New York next week. Despite the purists' sneers, collectors' interest in 'design-art' is still increasing, and as the market matures, a less ditzy side to it is emerging."
Hmm, well I guess she has a strong opinion on the matter.
Labels: art gallery, awful design, chairs, retro
Discovery Artist's Rocker
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
This has to be the coolest (or as Brae would say Cooliest) children's rocking chair I have ever seen!This rocking chair made especially for your child artist has a pencil box armrest with sliding lid, a "flip-down" drawer beneath the seat for paper, markers, crayons and other art supplies and rotating color wheel at the top. The back of the chair which you sit against is also an 8 x 10 frame where your child can store their most favorite work of art for all to see (when they're not busy rocking of course).
Plus on the seat it has a cute little poem, "Apples are Red, Oceans are Blue, I love to make pictures, Especially for you! So give me some paper, I'll put on my smock, And start my next masterpiece, My Art Rocks!"
How perfectly adorable is that!?
Unfortunately it is too small for my little boy, but man he so would have had it if I had known about this a couple years ago!
Here's a link of you are interested in reading more about it!
Labels: artsy, chairs, children, rocking chair
Sit on light...literally..Fuwapica
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
"Fuwapica is high-tech furniture illuminating your favorite colorcaused by the pressure produced by you touching or sitting on it."Okay, so this has to be one of the coolest chairs I have ever seen. I wonder how bright it would glow if I sat on it. Could you get it to blink if you jumped on it? Imagine how sweet musical chairs would be with glowing seats like this one.
Whoa, but what if you got up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water, and you walk into the room and the seat is glowing but no one is there. Spooky. And of course I WOULD think of something so bizarre. Haha.
Chair designs for kids!
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
"The chair for a child with the quality for an adult." Le Baron is a children's chair for children between the age of 1 and approximately 10. They can come with or without legs and in a couple different colors and materials.
The designer's website states the following:
"They experience round, secure shapes to be cosy spaces, in which they can be seated in a sheltered surrounding. Above all the chair provides a sense of security."
How absolutely cute is this chair!? It is so perfect for the modern day child. So maybe they are ergonomically designed and give security, they are also adorable and look super comfy. Um...will they be making this in adult size?
Labels: chairs, children, furniture
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