Elizabethan Design - Elizabeth Leonard

01/29/2021

01/17/2020

Wow, ANDI and the Accessible Colour Palette Builder are killer tools I didn't realize were out there. It's great to see the tools for creating accessible interfaces are becoming more and more friendly and usable themselves.

It’s a practice of creating apps, sites, and products usable for everyone, including people with visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities. Why should you support accessibility? You can impact someone’s life by making inclusive and easy-to-use products. One billion people have d...

01/13/2020

I found something I'm pretty sure was hidden on iStock. Check out these charming little characters!

https://www.istockphoto.com/portfolio/kouichi_chiba?assettype=image&mediatype=photography&sort=best

07/18/2019

Unit 14 is all the Graphic Designer positions. They're being negotiated this month. It'll be interesting to see how this turns out.

https://www.seiu1000.org/unit-14-printing-trades

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

04/02/2019

I totally agree. Orange is enigmatic when designing for accessibility. I've often thought black on orange looks muddier than white on orange (or at least an orange like this).

A Mini Case Study on Color Contrast

01/18/2019

Oh man, this was a great article on how subjective color definitions can be.
It reminds me that when I was about 8 or 10 I felt like I suddenly discovered turquoise, teal and aquamarine. These colors just didn't seem to exist before and I suddenly could see them. I wonder if our eyes are still developing color sensitivity in our youth (they certainly start to degrade at a certain point).

Do you see that color in your mind the same way I see it?

05/31/2018

I'm happy to be gainfully employed, but if I ever were in a situation with no reasonable prospects, I'd hope to land on my unreasonable feet as well as Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.

On the cover of brand-eins magazine 02 November 2015 The Uncomfortable Rain Boots were chosen to illustrate the cover of Brand Eins magazine, a monthly German economic magazine. The edition 11/2015 had a focus on the theme: economic nonsense As an afterthought, I am realizing this: I would probably....

01/24/2018

Flicks are a nice idea, but it's too bad they picked a word with the same first letter as "frame." As in "FPS," frames per second.

To make it easier for visual content creators to work with individual frames on screen, Facebook has created a new unit with which to measure time.

01/10/2018

This is the first I've heard of this idea and it makes a lot of carbon-footprint sense:

We struggle to maintain the speed and security of our computers. But, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, powering Cloud Desktops easily solves this problem.

10/30/2017

Adobe Users Meeting Thursday Nov 2 with Eric Grotenhuis

We have our last Adobe Users Group presentation of the year coming of this week, and it promises to be an excellent one. Those who joined us on the studio tour of Page Design will remember our charismatic guide, Eric Grotenhuis- Creative Director and Partner at Page Design. I’m delighted to announce Eric will be speaking to us about Agency Transparency: Building and motivating successful creative teams.

Page Design has a long reputation in Sacramento of hiring good designers/coders and making them excellent. Most of us are employees on a team or managing one. Eric will share with us his keys to success in bringing out the best in his teams in an ongoing basis. You won’t want to miss this!

Also, Rob Huddleston has generously donated us a copy of his new book “Adobe XD” to our evening raffle. Learn all about this ground-breaking new tool from Adobe, by winning your own FREE copy! (Must be present to win)

See you 6:30pm Thursday, November 2 at
Art Institute of Sacramento
2850 Gateway Oaks, Room 241
Sacramento, CA