Diana is at it again with her absolutely unbelievable CSS paintings. This latest one is called Lace. Past paintings are Francine, Vignes, and Zigario.
Update December 2019: Ooooo and now purecss-pink.… Read article
Diana Smith’s Top 5 CSS Properties She Uses to Produce CSS Art
Have you seen Diana Smith's CSS drawings? Stunning. These far transcend the CSS drawings that sort of crudely replicate a flat SVG scene, like I might attempt. We were lucky enough for her to post some of her CSS drawing techniques here last year.
Well, Diana has also listed the top five CSS properties she uses to get these masterpieces done, and they are surprising in their plainness:
- border-radius
- box-shadow
- transform
- gradients
- overflow
...but of course, layered in trickery!… Read article
Awesome Demos from 2018
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Chris Coyier
Chris Coyier
This is an outstanding list of creative and artistic browser demos from this past year from Mary Lou at Codrops.… Read article
Solving Life’s Problems with CSS
Or: When all you have is a CSS hammer, the world looks like a CSS nail.
Whenever I hear a perfectly nice comment like, "Yeah, representing the tech field!" in response to my pure-CSS art, I get a sharp feeling of panic.
Like many people who work on UIs for a living, I have difficulty applying the "tech" term to myself without feeling like a fraud. Impostor syndrome is a hard thing to shake. A front-end specialist? Oh, you … Read article
Resolution Independent Pixel Illustrations
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Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle
Marcus Blättermann has made a series of beautiful illustrations that adapt to the size of the browser window (and your cursor position). Make sure to check these illustrations out on a big screen to get the full effect.… Read article