Thursday, June 21, 2018

📝 Issue #334: 8-Point Grid, New for Designers, CSS Units You’ve Never Heard Of, The DesOps Handbook, and more…

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NEWSLETTER ISSUE #334 JUNE 21, 2018

Massive Discounts on Stock Photos

Good stock images are expensive and that's why we have a special deal for you: Get either 100 or 200 images of your choice, at any size, from Depositphotos from just $99 (instead of the regular $299), any time with no expiration date and no daily limit! That's less than $1 per image! See this deal.

DesOps Handbook

Design Operations, or DesOps for short, is a new approach to design that aims to amplify the value of design by taking design thinking and scaling it to solve business problems. This handy, in-depth guide from InVision tells you everything you need to know about the latest industry buzz-term, and how to benefit from it.

Colorspark App

There's a whole spectrum of color apps to choose from, with more options launching every week. But few have the simple, minimalist perfection of ColorSpark. The app offers two main options: color and gradient. To generate a new color or gradient just hit the 'Generate' button, and when you find one you like hit the 'Copy CSS' button to grab the code.

8-Point Grid

One of the toughest elements to get right on any site is the typography. In this lengthy post Elliot Dahl advocates for the 8-Point Grid; a baseline grid approach that not only syncs with modern ideas of typographic layout, but is flexible enough to be used for content layout across a comprehensive range of devices.

Generative Artistry

Developer Tim Holman has released Generative Artistry, a series of tutorials explaining how to create generative art with code. From a series of tiled lines, to coding the artwork for Joy Division's classic album Unknown Pleasures, the three starter tutorials are simple to follow, even for beginners; we're looking forward to more.

What's New For Designers, June 2018

If you get excited about packing out your toolbox with the best tools, apps, fonts, and scripts, then we have a treat for you: Our monthly roundup of the very best resources for designers released in the previous four weeks includes design inspiration, essential tools for teams, some unique icons, and lots more.

Material Design is a Political Choice

Material Design is, according to João Ribeiro, one more tentacle of Google's attempt to monopolize the web. Inspired by modernism, in Material Design form follows function. As designers, Ribeiro argues in this must-read post, we should be embracing post-modernism where form itself becomes the function.

Ugly Email

If you're concerned about your privacy, then you need the Ugly Email plugin for Gmail. Installed as an extension for Chrome or Firefox, Ugly Email detects tracking scripts in your email and disables them so you can open your email without being monitored. It will even add an eye icon next to emails with tracking scripts so you know who sent them.

The CSS Units You've Never Heard Of

If you're still coding your CSS with the px unit, then you need to read Massimo Artizzu's review of the new units coming in the CSS Values and Units Module Level 4. From line-height and relative line-height, to cap height, to viewport measurements that are either inline or block, there some fascinating possibilities on the horizon.

Typographic Posters for the World Cup

Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the last week or two, you can't have failed to notice that the men's soccer world cup has kicked off in Russia. There are dozens of design works celebrating the beautiful game, but one of the best is LoveGunn's collection of constructivist typographic posters inspired by Russian designer Kazimir Malevich.

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