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100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art
2009-07-01 12:07:01
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Paper art can be traced back to Japan, where it originated over a thousand years ago. From complex paper cutting to book carving, this is an ever expanding area of design that is hardly talked about. These intricate paper designs grace museums and exhibitions...
80 Creative Ways to Customize Your MacBook
2009-07-01 12:05:54
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The MacBook and MacBook Pro are stunning examples of minimalist design. Their sleek lines, simple shapes, and uncomplicated designs are pinnacles of modern beauty. But let’s face it: they pretty much all look the same. Whether you have a basic...
Clever JPEG Optimization Techniques
2009-07-01 11:03:10
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When people talk about image optimization, they consider only the limited parameters offered by popular image editors, like the “Quality” slider, the number of colors in the palette, dithering and so on. Also, a few utilities, such...
50 Inspiring 3D Desktop Wallpapers
2009-07-01 08:05:30
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Desktop wallpapers suggestions are always welcome since sometimes we don't have time to browse to find one, so we check on the suggestions available at our favorite websites! We know that we can find tons of great wallpapers online to choose from, but...
10 Places to Download Awesome WordPress Themes
2009-06-30 05:56:17
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So you’ve got Wordpress installed on your server and you’re ready to share your thoughts with the web world. Exceptional content doesn’t need to be pretty to communicate but we can’t help that we’re visual creatures....
Super Cool T-shirt Illustrations by Tobias Fonseca
2009-07-01 06:08:54
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Tobias Fonseca is and illustrator from Brazil with a very impressive portfolio. He has created more than 20 t-shirt designs for local clients and international clients as well. Tobias has some beautiful illustrations in water color style as well vector...
30 Artistic and Creative Résumés
2009-07-01 05:01:30
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In these tough economic times, many designers find themselves applying for jobs and freelance gigs on a regular basis. So, how can we stand out from the rest and grab the attention of a design agency when they’re usually bombarded with hundreds...
The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009
2009-07-01 05:01:13
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Cell phones have evolved immensely since 1983, both in design and function. From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play...
10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know
2009-07-01 03:14:49
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There are many aspects of creating a website design. Web designers often have to play multiple roles and be very knowledgeable about building effective and usable site layouts. Most of the lessons you’ll learn in web design comes from work experience;...
Reader Tutorial: Making Little Planets in Photoshop
2009-07-01 02:50:51
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In this tutorial I will show you how to create little planets using a regular photograph or a panoramic one and Photoshop. It's very a very simple technique but with a really cool end result. Before we start let's take a look at the final result! Step...
Photoshop Tutorial: Michael Jackson Wallpaper
2009-07-01 02:50:45
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Last week we lost Michael Jackson, a true legend and without any doubt, an inspiration to a whole generation. I grew up listening to his songs and of course, was amazed by his movie clips and dance moves. The moonwalk was something I always wanted to...
An Artistic Homage to Michael Jackson
2009-07-01 02:35:48
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As the world pays tribute to the king of pop, we’ve decided to do so in WDD in a unique and artistic way. In this post, we feature a selection of some amazing artistic creations portraying Michael Jackson, created by various artists around the...
Wallpaper of the Week #55 - Michael Jackson Tribute
2009-07-01 02:29:05
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Yesterday, the world lost one of the most iconic artists that ever lived. Michael Jackson delivered an unique style and a whole generation was thrilled by his story, music and dance moves. Last year we even celebrated his 50th birthday by featuring him...
Manage Your Business on Your Mac & iPhone Giveaway
2009-06-30 05:56:19
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Marketcircle, a company who won an Apple Design Award this year in WWDC09, has teamed up with Six Revisions to give away three packages of the Daylite 3 productivity suite bundled with the Daylite Touch. For those unfamiliar with Daylite, it is a business...
Create an Online Magazine With WordPress
2009-06-30 05:55:43
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Many of us have dreamed of writing for a magazine or even being a magazine editor. However, now with WordPress you can be the writer, editor and owner of your very own magazine. With a few steps you can have the magazine designed, laid out and have writers...
Beginners can now build lucrative websites for free
2009-06-29 02:25:32
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Beginners can now build lucrative websites for free Free offers all over the internet makes it possible for anyone interested in creating a website to build an attractive website absolutely free of cost. All you need is some knowledge...
10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
2009-06-29 12:09:46
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Complex and slick JavaScript-based animation has been made easier with the emergence of frameworks and libraries that give developers the ability to create stunning and eye-grabbing animation and transition effects that make it easy these complex tasks....
How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop
2009-06-27 10:05:02
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In this web design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a professional web design with an illustrated "vector" header in Photoshop. You’ll see many techniques here including how to draw using the Pen Tool and a excellent type treatment...
25 Stylish Examples of Headers in Web Design
2009-06-27 10:03:48
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A website’s header is one of the first things a user sees when opening your website so it’s important to get it right; if a user doesn’t like your header design, they may just leave your website before even looking at what content you...
5 Tips for Making Your WordPress Blog SEO Friendly
2009-06-27 10:03:38
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Everyone’s vying for that number one spot on search results. Over the last couple years, it’s been Google who has stood head and shoulders over the rest, although the release of Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has raised eyebrows....
50 Excellent Circular Logos
2009-06-27 09:59:51
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A graphic symbol is often used as part of logo design in order to convey a particular idea or concept in an effective and eye catching way. The shapes of these graphic symbols vary a lot, but one of the most commonly used shapes is the circle. Circular...
9 Tips For Brand Building With Web Design
2009-06-27 06:22:37
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First of all, what is a brand? A brand is a symbol. Symbols are designs which represent something else, and a brand is meant to package all of the associations, experiences and characteristics into an abstract construct. This construct can be evoked...
26 Examples of Online T-Shirt Shops
2009-06-27 06:22:31
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Many e-commerce and shopping websites suffer from poor quality design. However, when it comes to online t-shirt shops, creativity is high and there are plenty of designs that are worthy of mention. Many of these sites target the artists who create t-shirt...
10 Web Design Rules That You Can Break
2009-06-27 06:22:19
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As web design and design in general have evolved, rules have been established to ensure consistent and usable designs. Some of these rules were created simply because website creators abused certain principles without regard for their users. But these...
Photoshop Quick Tips #8: Making a Planet
2009-06-24 06:43:16
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I know a lot a people think it must take hours to make a planet and it's too much work to do it, well in some cases yes, but today I will be showing how to make a simple Planet in Photoshop that should take less than 10 min and it's very useful...
Awesome Milk Typography Effect in Photoshop
2009-06-24 06:42:38
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Following the series of effects with text, there were the Water, Clouds, Light, and also some time ago the Frilly Bits... Now I will show you how to create a nice effect I saw a few months ago on DeviantArt that is a text mixed with some milk splashes....
Wallpaper of the Week #46 - Giovanni Tabolacci
2009-06-24 06:41:39
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The wallpaper of this week is from Giovanni Tabolacci a great designer and illustrator from São Paulo Brazil. Brazil. Giovanni uses a Wacom tablet to create the basic sketch then Illustrator and Photoshop to add colors and textures producing...
Photoshop Quick Tips #9: Using Photoshop Actions
2009-06-24 06:41:33
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A really good element of Photoshop that a lot of people don't even know about is the Photoshop Action, if you never used it before you should definitely check out this tutorial and see what these actions are all about. I also selected some great...
Super Cool Wallpapers by Pokedstudio
2009-06-24 06:41:22
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I was just browsing through the works of this awesome UK design studio called Pokedstudio when I came across their free wallpaper section and loved them so much I just had to share. They have a good range of styles from illustrated to 3D rendered to...
20 Beautiful Cityscape Wallpapers
2009-06-24 06:40:59
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Everybody loves changing their desktop wallpapers from time to time! But finding the right image can be really tricky, since there are virtually billions of images to choose... here, I've selected 20 beautiful cityscape wallpapers to ease your search....
Reader Tutorial: Dark Water in Photoshop by Julien Brionne
2009-06-24 06:40:43
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This is my first Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how I did my first creation whose name is Dark Water. The idea of this image was exactly to create a tutorial. To achieve this creation, you will need to download some pictures, you can find the links...
Meat Text Effect in Photoshop
2009-06-24 06:40:12
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Last week I published a tutorial showing how to mix a custom font created in Illustrator with some stock photos of milk to create a nice effect. Now on this tutorial we will sort of repeat the technique but this time using stock photos of meat and add...
Wallpaper of the Week #47 - Ee Venn Soh
2009-06-24 06:39:54
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This week we have another really cool wallpaper created by Ee Venn Soh, a digital artist and illustrator from Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Ee Venn Soh is very talented with a really impressive portfolio. You can check more of his work out at http://www.behance.net/vennsoh....
Wallpaper of the Week #48 - Hocus Pocus by Craig Shields
2009-06-24 06:39:38
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The wallpaper of this week is from a depthCORE artist and it's an incredible digital art featured in their new exhibition, the HER chapter. Hocus Pocus was created by Craig Shields, a young and very talented illustrator from the UK. For more information...
10 Incredible Wallpapers from Desktopography
2009-06-24 06:39:21
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A good way to start up a new week is to give your desktop a new look, no better way to do that than choosing one of the 10 incredible wallpapers from desktopography. They have the best selection of wallpaper I have ever seen and I have been using them...
Sparkling Hot Girl in Pixelmator
2009-06-24 06:39:06
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This tutorial will demonstrate how to create great effect using Pixelmator. It is based on an image that I created two years ago using Photoshop. The idea is to mix a photo of a girl with some light effects, using basically default filters, brushes and...
Wallpaper of the Week #49 - Osmala
2009-06-24 06:38:27
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The wallpaper of this week is from a Waldemar Anton Osmala Júnior a Brazilian digital artist that has been playing with 3D for a couple of months, but it was enough to create this really cool image, parodying the Swine Flu subject. For more...
Creating an amazing Palm Pre icon on Fireworks
2009-06-24 06:38:16
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This last saturday we saw the release of the awesome new phone Palm Pre. A lot of people already bought their gadget, but if you want one, at least a icon one, we made that for you. This tutorial will show you how to create in Fireworks the icon for...
Wallpaper of the Week #50 - Draco
2009-06-24 06:38:11
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The wallpaper of this week is the incredible design created by Draco to our new t-shirt called GODDESS OF ABDUCTION. It's the first tee for the Abdutees Limited Edition Series and coming from Draco we can't expected nothing less than awesome....
Wallpaper of the Week #51
2009-06-24 06:37:54
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The wallpaper of this week is from Genaro Desia, an illustrator also known as Surround with a simply incredible style. The 80's color scheme mixed with vectors and stars give to his work a very modern but at the same time retro feel in it. The wallpaper...
Photoshop Quick Tips #10: Using Pattern Overlay
2009-06-24 06:37:49
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Today I am going to be showing a real simple tip on Photoshop that a lot of people don't know about and it can be very useful. Creating patterns and making patterns overlay can save you a lot of work and also can look really good if you know how...
All Access to Project Chameleon
2009-06-24 06:37:38
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From the Dutch master of design Martijn van Dam comes a piece of art called "Chameleon" which is a poster for a event with such a rich design that the author decided to make a video of how it was made and the illustration for the posters also became...
Wallpaper of the Week #52 - Brett Whatmough
2009-06-24 06:37:20
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The wallpaper of this week was created by Brett Whatmough, a young and very talented graphic designer from the UK. Brett has a nice porfolio with some cool commercial works and also a set of impressive personal pieces where he shows his skills mixing...
Photoshop Quick Tips #11: Creating Glow Lines
2009-06-24 06:37:19
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Today I am going to show the basics of how to create a glow line, very easy but very useful. A lot of people have been using glow lines on their illustrations and it's really good to see a well worked piece with some good glow lines taking over,...
Wallpaper of the Week #53 - Starchild
2009-06-24 06:37:03
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The wallpaper of this week is from Luke Davis, a 19 years old student from England also known as Starchild. Luke has been playing and working with Photoshop, Illustrator and Corel Painter for the last 4 years. My name is Luke Davis, aka Starchild, I'm...
Reader Tutorial: Aurora Borealis Wallpaper in Photoshop
2009-06-24 06:36:52
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Our reader Máté Tóth brings us something cool. "There are some phenomenons of the nature that are really beautiful. The Aurora Borealis is surely one of them. It is so awesome Apple has been using it for its wall...
Wallpaper of the Week #53 - Eric Sin
2009-06-24 06:36:46
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The wallpaper of this week is from Eric Sin, a 20 year old student at California State University, Fullerton, studying Graphics Design and Illustration as majors. He is currently in his second year going onto third, and he has been active working in...
5 Beautiful Landscape Wallpapers by Julia Starr
2009-06-24 06:36:25
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Julia Starr aka Night-Fate is one of the good illustrators I watch at deviantart an as I was looking for a cool new background for my desktop I remembered she has some beautiful landscape wallpapers, so I decided to share with you guys, enjoy a new peaceful...
Wallpaper Contest
2009-06-24 06:36:09
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It's contest time guys, and we are bringing great prizes for the winners. This contest is hosted by Abduzeedo and Media Militia. This can be your chance to be recognized for the great work you always did and a great way to promote your self, so...
Reader Tutorial: Illustrating a Camaro 2010 by Julio Leite
2009-06-24 06:36:03
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Hello guys!! My name is Julio Leite, I'm a brazilian web designer living in Sao Paulo. In this tutorial I will show you how to illustrate a Camaro 2010. In case you want to check out my work go to my profile at deviantART. So, let's start the...