Indianapolis Web Design Blog

This is quite funny, but true. I have been in this situation myself. //

Grab the last 10 years of Indy 500 color schemes. Download all 10 Photoshop palletes or use your color picker to grab the hex values for these color schemes. If you’re using Firefox, I recommend the Colorzilla Color Picker Extension. //

Who says that something good can’t be had for free. Check out this great set of restriction free Icons from the Crystal Clear icon set by Everaldo Coelho. Why would someone want to give anything away? It’s guerrilla/viral marketing of course. Well done, Everaldo! Technorati Tags: crystal_clear, free_icons, guerrilla_marketing //

This is an experiment that aims to prove how we are receptive to subliminal messages in marketing. The conclusion is amazing. Watch this video and see how the results of a design project are predicted through the use of subliminal message presented to the designers prior to the project. Technorati Tags: subliminal_messages, marketing, advertising, design [...]

Whenever I watch TV I always seem to get hung up on certain goofy commercials. Take air fresheners, for instance. Every time I see an air freshener commercial I see more “Features” packed into it – akin to software bloat. These days it goes way beyond nice-smelling air, and I guess we can thank marketers [...]

Kudos to Ft. Wane (Indiana) native. I read an article in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette yesterday about his website, familywatchdog.us. As it turns out, I have used this site in the past when I moved and was impressed at it’s operation. While not the greatest design, I was able to easily search my area [...]

If you’re a designer or went to any kind of graphic design school, you’ll find this amusing, yet pertinent: Technorati Tags: graphic_design, 20/20, humor, design //

The Background For years now I have been designing die-cast car packaging for a local company here in Indianapolis. It started with niche pieces revolving around racing, – as you know, this is the racing capital of the world. Pace cars, IRL series, Indy 500 winners and special promos. //

I found this post amazing. Someone dug up a bunch of old Soviet photographs that had been retouched, massively in some cases. Of course this was way before computers- when you had to retouch photos without photoshop. All the good old days. “Photoshop” was actually a photo shop. See how “photoshop” can actually make two [...]

The Ultimate List of 2560×1600 wallpapers includes only the websites where one can download high-quality 2560×1600 (WQXGA) wallpapers for free. This list does not include sites which offer crippled, watermarked, or ultra-low quality versions with the intention of selling you a better quality version. //