Announcing the delicious:designer

At BIG Images, we’re out to prove you don’t need to shell out hundreds of dollars for fully-featured design software. Producing something worthwhile also doesn’t need to be more difficult than helping a walrus move into a skyscraper. Design is life, and it should be experienced without barrier.

Announcing the delicious:designer 2.0 — powerful design tools for common people.

For the past two years we have been hard at work developing and simplifying complex technology, specifically applications suited for design and print. And this month, we're proud to announce our greatest achievement — the delicious:designer — an easy-to-use cross-platform vector design application. Unlike most design applications, the delicious:designer runs within your web browser, allowing access to your designs from anywhere in the world.
Furthermore, it's platform-independent. That's right; design on your Macintosh, Windows, and Linux computers with equal ease and comfort. It works wherever the internet does.

This is a small screen-shot of vector node-editing in the delicious:designer. Read more about this full-powered creative design app here.

Oh, and it's free. Yes, you read correctly. $0.00. You see, we don't believe that anyone should have to fork over thousands of dollars before they ever start creating. The tools in which you build your creations should be as free as the dreams that inspire them.

Our beta version, to be released on May 25, includes features that are common in most desktop design applications, such as:

• A full suite of bezier-editing tools
• Bitmap import
• Text frames
• Font Previews
• Export to a multitude of file formats

And the delicious:designer has many features not offered through traditional design packages, such as:

• Cross-platform compatibility
• Access to your files from anywhere in the world
• Embed your vector art directly into any web site or blog
• Collaborate with friends and customers

Ancillary techonogies

The delicious:suite of technologies includes two more that will be released on the 25th of May. The delicious:viewer and second:skin. These are based on the delicious:designer technology, and offer benefits for bloggers, web masters, and Second Life residents.

The delicious:viewer

The delicious:viewer gives everyone the ability to embed vector images into web pages and blogs with the ease and predictability of a jpeg. Once the image is online, anyone can zoom, pan, and even edit it, right on the page.

Read more about the delicious:viewer here.

Second:skin

The residents of Second Life know there aren’t many options for tailoring your own Second Life clothing. They typically require thousand-dollar professional design suites or the barely functional free design apps that come with your computer. Based on the same code as the delicious:designer, second:skin gives anyone the ability to create beautiful clothing for their Second Life avatar with ease.

Read more about second:skin here.

The delicious:designer. On May 25, beautiful design will finally be easy.

BIG images would like to thank Benjamin Lawless for the fantastic illustrations.