Creative Examples Of Street Art That Will Blow Your Mind

Creative Examples Of Street Art That Will Blow Your Mind

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Vintage and Retro Logo Design Inspiration

Vintage and Retro Logo Design Inspiration

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Stop Whining About Your Equipment, Get Out There And Shoot!

Every day I get emails from photographers asking which camera to buy so they might become better photographers. STOP!  Use what you have, get out there and shoot! As Darren Rowse wrote in a recent article about camera lust ”Sometimes I think our lust for cameras and gear could be getting… read more

30 Realistic Pencil Drawings

It’s hard to believe that all of these beautiful pictures are pencil drawings and not digital. Pencil, paper, creativity and a heck of a lot skill are the only attributes of these masterpieces. Check them out:

Gurn Drawing

Christopher Reeve

FuFu

What a Lovely Picture

Karlstadt Watermill

Snow White

Broken Heart

Yendos Nature

Pencil art by Rupak… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 201 by Alecio Calixto

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Alecio Calixto and it’s called The Crow. Alecio is an art director and digital designer from Brazil. The image was a suggestion from Alecio himself to us via email. You can also suggest us wallpapers. Just email them to abduzeedo@abduzeedo.com… read more

Web Design Inspiration: Bold Typography

Web Design Inspiration: Bold Typography

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“Go Green” Website Design Inspiration

“Go Green” Website Design Inspiration

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Best of the Week #220

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

5 Tips for Finding Inspiration

5 Tips for Finding Inspiration

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70 Amazing Textured Websites for Inspiration

70 Amazing Textured Websites for Inspiration

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30 Coffee Logo Inspirations – Warm Up Your Imagination

30 Coffee Logo Inspirations – Warm Up Your Imagination

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.136

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Fine Art Printmaking: Why We Think Printmaking is Far from Dying

When we had an interview with JP Cuison he shared how he does his prints through screen printing and painting. We go so hooked up to printmaking that we decided to do another interview with a group of print makers from the Philippines. If you’re into printmaking, make sure to… read more

You! Be Informed! #0002

Here’s our second installation of our design news series! There’s something that’s making me hungry (in a very creative, graphic design sense as well as in a literal sense) in this roundup so I’ll get right to it so I can attack the fridge afterwards!
 
– As always, there… read more

Daily Inspiration #1120

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

20+ Eye Catching Street Photography Taken By Melbourne

20+ Eye Catching Street Photography Taken By Melbourne

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Natural Light Portraits: Photography Challenge

To celebrate the launch of our brand new Natural Light eBook this week your photographic challenge is to take and share a portrait – lit only with natural light.

Image by Sebastiano Pitruzzello

Feel free to take any approach to this challenge that you want. You might like to shoot a… read more

Amazing Red Bull BC One 2011 Promo Video

Red Bull is known for making the energy drink, but also for organizing and promoting absolutely awesome events, such as the Soap Box Race, Air Race and the one I just got to know: BC One, a break-dancing fight. Awesome.

And to promote this amazing contest, Sehsucht, a creative agency from… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #150

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#150 and make… read more

Creative Sticker Label Inspirations In Package Design

Creative Sticker Label Inspirations In Package Design

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Night Moves: A Collection of Night-Life Photography

Life tends to move by at a pretty fast pace, this is not a secret to most. However, there are a few who have yet to discover that often times, at night, life moves even faster. When photographers turn their lenses towards the majesty that life has to offer for… read more

Beautiful Houses: Casa CKN in Brazil

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Fresh Inspiration: 50 Fruit and Vegetable Logos

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Nature has proven to be one of the greatest inspiration sources of all times for artists. Logos inspired by “Mother Nature” bring that rustic, organic, wholesome feeling to brands, allowing them to appear less corporate and more trustworthy. Alternatively, the foods in the logo can be drawn… read more

Beautiful iPad App Websites

Beautiful iPad App Websites

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Cool And Unique Bookshelves Designs For Inspiration

Cool And Unique Bookshelves Designs For Inspiration

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20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

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35 Superb Illustrations You Must See

35 Superb Illustrations You Must See

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Daily Inspiration #1119

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Fantastic Random Inspiration – 25 Illustrations

Fantastic Random Inspiration – 25 Illustrations

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Video Inspiration #66

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

50 Remarkable Examples Of Inspiring Typography

Knowing how much of a hot commodity typography is for the designers and the design community; we decided to showcase a huge collection of innovative and creative typography examples for our readers. Today, typography is not only the art of rearranging the typefaces rather it has become a broad medium… read more

Patrick Seymour: Artist Of The Day

Patrick Seymour is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Nintendo 64 to play some Zelda.

Now, I am not a game designer. I actually… read more

Websites of the Deep: A Showcase of Underwater Web Design

Developing a website can sometimes be a dry process, but that doesn’t mean the finished site can’t make a splash. As the lead designer at a studio called “The Deep End”, it’s always interesting to see what others have done with the underwater web design theme, and it turns out… read more

Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design and How to Apply Them in Graphic Design

After discussing the Vignelli Canon, we’re going to delve more into design principles applied in the different fields of design today. One designer that I’ve always admired is the industrial designer, Dieter Rams. His works within different industries have become classic standards of simple, elegant, and lasting design. Yet though… read more

Daily Inspiration #1118

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Bitchin’ Kitchen: How a Web Chef Cooked Up a Hit TV Show

Name a chef who wears green eyeshadow, sequined purple sweaters and leather pants with a zip-out crotch. Chances are, you’re still searching. That is, unless you’ve tuned in with millions of other viewers to watch Cooking Channel’s Bitchin’ Kitchen, where celebrity chef Nadia G totters around on heels higher than… read more

Create a Professional Home Office

Many freelancers have some dedicated space in their home in which to do their work. And setting up a great home office is key to your productivity, sanity, and professionalism.

Of course, some people don’t have an entire room in their home dedicated to a home office, but if you… read more

25 Breathtaking and Inspirational Panoramic Photographs

25 Breathtaking and Inspirational Panoramic Photographs

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Typography Mania #129

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

Architect Day: Atelier Thomas Pucher

The office of the Austrian architect Thomas Pucher design solutions in large residential, commercial, cultural and urban development in Austria, Poland, Estonia and other countries.

thomaspucher.com

Thomas Pucher was born in 1969 in Leibnitz Austria. He studied architecture in Graz, where he formed and established its first office in… read more

You! Be Inspired! #0002

We’ve had quite a lively and green weekend – we’ve got the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival closing out, and on the same day we had Earth Day. Well, if you’re going to count the Friday before the weekend, it’s more a lot more greener than we thought.
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Daily Inspiration #1117

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Geological Photography – Trolltunga

Ever wanted to play Superman and have the feeling you’re flying? Well, in Trolltunga, a small rock formation in Norway, you just may accomplish your child’s dream. These are some pictures of this amazing spot.

Trolltunga, which means Troll’s Tongue, is a cold-blooded only tourist spot which I would most definitely… read more

Theo Aartsma: Artist Of The Day

Theo Aartsma is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists and… read more

Making an Impact with Clever Marketing Materials

I’m a believer that marketing materials will never go out of style. There’s something to be said when you have something really cool to give to someone else that characterizes you and your business.

I’m not talking about one of those squishy, stress reliever balls or a pen with your… read more

Last Minute Illustrations by Ricardo Gimenes

I love the internet and what the way it allows everyone to follow their passions and make a living of them. Not that it wasn’t possible in the past but truth to be told, it’s much easier today. Take for example our friend and super talented illustrator Ricardo Ginemes. He… read more

An Eye for Detail: Exceptional Makeup Artists

As we search for inspiration, looking beyond our own fields and into other artistic arenas is quite commonplace, no matter how far from common the expressive works we find in these places may be. Which is the case today. Today we take a look at some work of an exceptional… read more

Gigzilla: An Interview with JP Cuison on the Art of the Gig Poster

You can tell by the number of music-related articles on our blog that it’s one of our favorite topics. It’s not unusual for graphic designers to have a few gig posters included in their portfolios. We scoured the internet for designers with awesome work, and found one whose posters we… read more

27 Impressive Examples of Dark Websites

27 Impressive Examples of Dark Websites

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Daily Inspiration #1116

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Surreal Illustrations by Jim Tsinganos

Jim Tsinganos is a Sydney based Illustrator with over 20 years experience. Working primarily with pastels and watercolor, he is interested in creating work with a strong conceptual basis, which in most cases turns out to be very surreal. Check it out!

For more from Jim Tsinganos visit tsinganos.com and behance.net/tsinganos

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The Perfect Office #136

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Fine Examples Of Architectural Photography – 27 Photos

Fine Examples Of Architectural Photography – 27 Photos

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Awesome HTML5 and CSS3 Website Inspirations

Awesome HTML5 and CSS3 Website Inspirations

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Vintage Vector Design Workflow: Creating a Retro Flyer Design

This tutorial will cover the process of creating a vintage inspired retro flyer design. There are four main areas of concentration to achieve this look and feel: color, type, character and texture. We’ll review a complete vintage vector design workflow to create this retro flyer design. Let’s get started.

Flyer Design… read more

How to Find and Land Clients For Your Business

Christmas is always a particularly fun time of year for me.  Sure, there are the obvious reasons of family, gifts, music, movies, eggnog and all that good stuff.  But for me it has more to do with the questions I’m asked by family members and I couldn’t help but laugh… read more

Hipster Text Effect in Pixelmator

Every time I checked Dribbble I see a bunch of posts with this sort of vintage typography style. It’s a very interesting look and very trendy nowadays. With that in mind I decided to improve my skills by trying to replicate this look and feel using Pixelmator. I will also… read more

10 Great Custom T-Shirt Design Examples

10 Great Custom T-Shirt Design Examples

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Anthony Gargasz: Artist Of The Day

Anthony Gargasz is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

Web Design Inspiration: Large Photo Backgrounds

Web Design Inspiration: Large Photo Backgrounds

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40 Inspirational Quilling patterns

40 Inspirational Quilling patterns

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Daily Inspiration #1115

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Chasing the Light: Photography and the Practice of Seeing by Ibarionex Perello ~ DVD Review

I went on a photo walk with Ibarionex Perello yesterday! Well, not exactly, but after watching his DVD Chasing the Light: Photography and the Practice of Seeing, I certainly felt as though I had.  Several months ago, I read his book, Chasing the Light: Improving your Photography with Available Light and it… read more

This Olympic Moms Video Will Make You Cry

As athletes get ready to take the global stage during the London 2012 Olympic Games less than 100 days away, Procter & Gamble has released a new ad praising mothers worldwide. Press play and cue the waterworks.

In three days, the video has received over 700,000+ views on YouTube. P&G,… read more

Bounce Back from Freelance Business Failure

When you started off as a freelancer, did it cross your mind that you might not make it? Did you consider the possibility of failure? If you’re like many first time freelancers, you didn’t.

It’s not that surprising that so many freelance businesses go under, when many freelancers don’t… read more

Wallpaper of the Week 200 by Saad Moosajee

The wallpaper of this week is an image from Saad Moosajee and it is an illustration that is a part of his new series, nature in technicolor. We also are offering wallpapers for the new iPad with Retina Display.

For more information visit http://saadart.com/

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iPad Version

iPhone Version

Resolutions:

2560x1440px
1920x1200px
1680x1050px
1440x900px
1280x1024px
1280x800px
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How Social Media Gave the UFC a Fighting Chance [INFOGRAPHIC]

The UFC 145 combat contest happens Saturday night — and is one of the mixed martial arts company’s most-hyped fights since it was founded in the early 1990s.

But the company wouldn’t be where it is today without having aggressively adopted social media over the past several years. Platforms such… read more

Best of the Week #219

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

You! Be Informed! #0001

With so many of our posts being about visual inspiration, you’d think that that’s all we get inspired from. Not so! And now we want to remedy that.
 
Every day there are so many design-related articles, news, developments and innovations bursting out of our RSS feeds, email inboxes and… read more

Best (so far) CSS3 Tutorials, Inspirations & Resources of 2012

Best (so far) CSS3 Tutorials, Inspirations & Resources of 2012

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Glass Going Green design inspiration

Glass Going Green design inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #1114

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Motion Graphics Inspiration – 32 Exceptional Videos

Motion Graphics Inspiration – 32 Exceptional Videos

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Rad Illustrations by Alvaro Arteaga

One of the greatest things about the Society6 site is that artists get to turn a single work into apparel design or mobile covers. Many artists there are really good and deserve more attention, like Alvaro Arteaga. Check his work out now.

Alvaro is a Spanish illustrator that comes up with… read more

Jonathan Foerster: Artist Of The Day

Jonathan Foerster is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists and… read more

How 3 Mashable Readers Landed Jobs Via Social Media

At Mashable, we believe that our community is our biggest asset. We love it when you tell us your success stories. Part of our mission is to empower people through social and digital media.

As Alyssa Milano wrote in her TIME 100 article on Pete Cashmore, Mashable “gives voice to… read more

Daily Inspiration #1113

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Video Inspiration #65

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

Tech Leaders Top Time’s 100 Most Influential People List [VIDEO]

Several tech leaders including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg landed on Time‘s 100 Most Influential People in the World list, announced Wednesday.

Both Cook and Sandberg have been in the spotlight in the past year. Cook has had a lot thrown at him since he… read more

Black & White Photos of Shanghai

This photo series was taken back in 2010 by the Polish photographer Marvin Stavars. Shanghai is the largest city of China by population. A complete concrete jungle that you are able to experience by these photos, and get a feeling of how massive everything is. Enjoy!

For more from Martin Stavars… read more

Creattica Redesign: Recent Inspirational Vectors

It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50 different categories. On top of that, Creattica now has better navigation, a new UI Elements… read more

Creattica Redesign: Spectacular Photoshop Magic and Freebies

It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50 different categories. On top of that, Creattica now has better navigation, a new UI Elements section… read more

Matei Apostolescu: Artist Of The Day

Matei Apostolescu is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

28 Nice Landing Page Designs

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Today we have collected 28 landing page designs. If you like this post you might also enjoy our previous post below.

34 Best Landing Page Templates Design Inspiration

kickoffapp

photoshelter

raventools

claudiucioba

localhero

tapmonkeys

tearoundapp

humanwrit

positionly

shoplocket

strawberryj

tapshop

overlapp

postable

s.imon

batch

getharvest

bundlr

votizen

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Announcement: Winners of Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway had announced the four winners of Impressionist UI Pack by DesignModo to InstantShift readers.

We’ve got more than 60 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 52 valid comments. It’s really good… read more

Massimo And Lella Vignelli: Designs That Will Outlive Mankind

There are two major things that had to be overcome in writing this spotlight on Massimo and Lella Vingnelli: One was how to approach the subjects in a different way as they’ve had so much written about them. Two, as with writing about other designers who are still living, one… read more

You! Be Inspired! #0001

Working and hanging out with creatives for at least five days a week definitely doesn’t mean that we’re sitting hunchbacked at our workstations, typing, designing, programming, or researching all day! Whenever one of us stumbles on something really interesting, we share it with everyone else through conference chat, and we… read more

Awesome Photoshop Custom Cars by Richard Andersen

I really enjoy seeing people doing cool photoshop works in photographs, doing all kinds of crazy stuff, like customizing real-life cars. That’s exactly what Richard Andersen does, and it’s pretty awesome.

Richard is a South African graphic designer. For more of his custom cars, you must check his portfolio. Do so,… read more

Creative Motion Graphics Videos

In the past couple of years I have written many articles on motion graphics; the most recent titled: Motion Graphics Inspiration: 40 Kick Ass Examples. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of some of the most creative motion graphics videos that will hopefully inspire you. So if you are in… read more

33 Inspirational Minimal Logos

33 Inspirational Minimal Logos

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Daily Inspiration #1111

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

30 Wing Logo Design Inspiration

30 Wing Logo Design Inspiration

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Lego Optical Illusions

Lego Optical Illusions

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Insane Typography Works by YLLV

Typography it’s a really interesting field, it goes from rigorous and academic typeface creation to graffiti letters formation. Anyway, a message with nice typography arrangement will be always more notable, YLLV it’s the live proof of this, just check it.

You can see more of this awesomeness at his Behance Profile.

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Creattica Redesign: Introducing UI Elements

It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50 different categories. On top of that, Creattica now has better navigation, a new UI Elements section… read more

20 Beautiful Nature Inspired Tutorials from Vectortuts+

There’s nothing like the seasons and nature to inspire great works of art. Today we have have bundled together a collection of beautiful and inspiring tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from landscapes to water drops there’s plenty of projects to help you imagine and create… read more

Pixa: Organizing Image Clutter the Smart Way

There are many tools available for organizing bits of information on your Mac, but if your goal is to get a grip on those many images and screenshots you assembled, there’s a new player on the horizon you should check out.

Pixa is a companion app for all designers and graphic… read more

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with… read more

20 Fantastic Examples of Photos with Reflections

20 Fantastic Examples of Photos with Reflections

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