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Feb2012072012 / Feb / 07Free Photoshop Tessellation Patterns
- posted in Design, Free Downloads
While working on a site design recently I played with creating some tessellation patterns (I’m pretty sure I had been looking at M.C. Escher that morning). I never did use these graphics for the site design I was working on, but I thought I would colorize them and create some seamless Photoshop pattern files to provide as a download. Enjoy!
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Dec2011282011 / Dec / 28Understanding the Golden Mean
- posted in Design
“Nothing to Excess” -carved into the front of the temple at Delphi.
Without getting too geeky, the golden mean or golden ratio is simply a mathematical formula that dictates proportions that are found throughout the natural world and believed to be the foundation of what we find to be aesthetically pleasing. Many artists, sculptors and architects since before the Renaissance have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio. From the leaf of a fern spiral and its relationship to the other leaves on that same curved stem, to the arms of a spiral galaxy, these proportions can be found everywhere.
