Ligature XX: Behind the scene

Special thanks to the gallery team ( Ryan Keightley, Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jt Fridsma, Narayn Ghiotti, Robert Almeida, and many more!)for doing such an amazing job!

Ligature XX

Thank you everyone who helped out and came to the show. The show will be up till spring break so go check it out if you haven’t! Here’s some photos from Ligature weekend! More will be coming soon. :]

Keri Smith: Secrets Shared

This is an awesome post on Keri Smith’s* blog about working as a creative. AWESOME suggestions in chasing down creativity (and making a living doing it).

*Keri Smith is the illustrator who did the list that was on my desktop at the meeting today ;]

Kickstarter: 9hrs left to donate to Ligature!

Want to support Ligature 20, the annual UF design symposium? This student-run weekend seeks to create a richer design community in Gainesville, FL, and we need your help in making this year’s event a great success! Follow the link above to donate to our Kickstarter project; even $1 helps and is appreciated.

Thank you!

A Basic Intro to Web Shtuff

This is the PDF used for Part 1 of the web demo. 

CSS Sprite Sliding Windows

This link is for Shwendy. Sprites are a method used to put multiple states of buttons, etc. in a single image, and then reference them in CSS (for example, creating the normal, hover, and active—clicking—states of a button).

This is done to cut down on the number of images that have to be loaded = faster site.

CSS Shorthand: an Introduction

For those of you looking to brush up on your CSS, here’s an intro to shorthand CSS. Which, as it seems, saves a lot of time when styling webpages.

Potluck Meeting Today

In today’s meeting, we will look at a couple successful portfolios and then have a potluck. If you would like people to review your work, feel free to bring it in—this is optional because today’s meeting will be pretty relaxed.

Hope to see you today at 6:15pm in FAC314 :]

Gesture Drawing Tool

Generates photos of human models for some sketching practice. 

Ligature Submissions are Open!

If you’re a UF student and would like to submit design work to the Ligature gallery show, follow the link above for submission instructions. In the interest of fairness and awesomeness, all submissions are reviewed and selected by the Ligature guest speakers. Due to limited space, not all work can be included, but we encourage submissions from all majors and years.