Posts Tagged ‘subtraction

“I’m not sure I’ve seen an illustrative style quite like artist Alvaro Tapia’s before. He uses a bright, almost Technicolor palette and yet his images are dark and even creepy. He also manages to harness randomness and spontaneity in a remarkably deliberate manner.” via Subtraction Go to Source

Massimo Vitali

In: web resources

1 Dec 2010

Wonderful body of photographic projects from Massimo Vitali (warning! full screen Flash). via subtraction Go to Source

Tumblr’s Identity Crisis: Following a very positive review, Khoi Vinh describes why he’s not a Tumblr user: As much as I admire it, though, I can’t bring myself to use it. Partly this is because one of its key ideas, the conspicuous omission of comments, is a deal breaker for me. I really value the [...]

Basic Maths is a rock-solid, standards-compliant and microformats-friendly WordPress theme. Every template is based on a rational, methodical typographic grid for impeccable layout guidance. PLUS, a shortcut (SHIFT + ALT + G) magically displays the column structure on a transparent layer. Change up Basic Maths’ minimalist color scheme in a matter of seconds: a theme [...]

When creating vectors, I sometimes need to delete large areas of artwork. Sometimes I just mask the artwork, but other times I want to get rid of it all together. This is were the Eraser tool comes in handy. Holding down the Option / Alt key with the Eraser tool creates a marquee area and [...]


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