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Posts Tagged ‘design’

Change is Good: Mutapic

November 16th, 2009

Here’s something to get your learners’ week off to an engaging start. Stimulate their creativity! Encourage your students to do some brainstorming and graphic design in one fell swoop. Mutapic is a free, intriguing online digital image generator that’s great for rapid design.

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Dramatic Chromatics

May 26th, 2009

Color Schemer is a cool, web-based color coordinator. It’s handy when chromatic appeal is an integral factor in a project-based unit. Why not share this with students and teachers who routinely fret over getting the perfect look for a webpage, slideshow, or graphic?

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To the Letter: Flipping Typical

May 1st, 2009

Being the font fanatic I am, I often obsess over which typeface to use for my different projects. Characteristics such as weight, slope, width, and serif bedevil my mind. Being the trekking techie I am, I never know which computer I’ll be accessing to complete a given task. I hate being tethered to a particular computer, preferring to meander from machine to machine as I work. Thankfully, I ‘m pretty fickle and will work on any available desktop or laptop. Thanks to Stuart Robinson’s fantastic Flipping Typical site, I can examine, compare, and contrast all of the popular typefaces residing on the computer I’m currently using. If I’ve installed a new font on the machine or one of my favorite fonts doesn’t appear, I can click the font name in the black bar at the top of the screen, type in the name of the font, it will become the main font. Spiffy!

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