Awesome Painter Steve Ellis

Awesome Painter Steve Ellis
http://www.stevellis.com/

Department Of Eagles - No One Does It Like You (Official Video) Marcel Dzama & Patrick Daughters

Site Optimization, What Is The Best Width?

by Michael on July 20, 2009

RESOURCE: http://michaelmindes.com/1024-optimal-width-2009

If you have ever worried about optimizing a website or blog, the question always comes up.  What is the best screen resolution to optimize for?  Today, in 2009 the answer is simple.  You should optimize your site for 1024 pixel width.

The Old Boring Advice

“You should optimize your site so that the least common denominator has the best usability.”

This has a great all inclusive feel good notion to it.  I however do not live by those rules.  Instead I believe that anybody with a monitor resolution with 800 pixel width can suffer some horizontal scrolling.  My visitor demographics concur.

The New Exciting Advice

After getting 480 visitors to my blog since I started using Clicky Analytics I have sufficient information upon which to base my optimization.  Not counting resolutions that must be for handheld devices, only 2.2% of my visitors had resolutions of 800 pixels or smaller.  Why would I optimize in a way that penalizes 97.8% of my visitors?  If you look at the analytics further, you will notice that 12.9% of my visitors had pixel widths of 1024 or smaller.
Optimizing for 87.1% of my users by making the width of my blog optimized for 1280 pixels is very tempting.  What do you think I should do with the optimization?

Arno 80s Style Illustrations Airbrush

Resource: http://trendland.net/2009/02/01/arn0-illustrations/#

Arn0 Illustrations

By Cyril Foiret 01 Feb 2009 @ 9:56 am | Categorized ART, FEATURED, ILLUSTRATIONS |

Arn0 is a French Designer/Illustrator with a lot of talent, his portfolio is full of amazing images, and he worked with the biggest brands in advertising, His website is nicely done (image above), with a little tint of humor. Arn0 is part of Debut Art Agency – which is one of the best worldwide Illustrator Agency – Little Bio about him: ‘After receiving his diploma from ENSAD (Paris) and his master of Arts at CalArts (LA), he has worked in X-Men and The Hulk for Marvel Comics (NY), then Star Wars at LucasArts (SF), finally ending up with The Muppets, Sesame Street and special effects at the Jim Henson Creature Shop (London)’ – See his Website / Debut Art Portfolio

RESOURCE: http://designm.ag/resources/free-illustrator-brushes/

Although some of these brushes take LOTS of space (esp the marker ones) pretty cool resources.

27 Sets of Useful and Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes

By: Steven Snell | January 20th, 2010 | 24 Comments

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For Illustrator users, high-quality brushes can save time and help to produce impressive results. In this post we’ll feature 27 sets of free brushes to spark your work with Illustrator. For more brushes, see 45 Excellent Sets of Adobe illustrator Brushes and 30 Sets of High-Quality Adobe Illustrator Brushes.
Chalk Illustrator Brushes

Illustrator Grunge Brushes

Illustrator Grunge Brushes 2

Scatter Brushes

Brushstokes

Illustrative Brushes

Teardrop Foliage Illustrator Brushes

Vector Marker Brushes

Technix Brushes

Construct Brushes

Ink Sketch Lines

Illustrator Thick Brushes

Smoke Brushes

Woodcuts Brushes

Spanners Brush Pack

Inky Pen Brushes

DRW Brushes

Artistic Brushes

Glowing Blurry Brushes

Rope Brushes

Abstract Brushes

Floral Brush Kit

Circles and Drips Brushes

Dash Dot Brushes

Ornate Borders

Scatter Brushes

Snowflake Illustrator Brushes

For some great Photoshop brushes please see:

• 250+ Light Effect Brushes for Photoshop
• 500+ Watercolor Brushes for Photoshop
• 500+ Photoshop Texture Brushes
• 400+ Floral Brushes for Photoshop