45+ Fresh Single Page Website Designs for Inspiration

45+ Fresh Single Page Website Designs for Inspiration

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Best of the Week #192

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

Fresh And Interesting Print Ads For Inspiration

Fresh And Interesting Print Ads For Inspiration

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Amazing And Peaceful Space Photography

Amazing And Peaceful Space Photography

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Realistical 3D Airplane Models By Anders Lejczak

Realistical 3D Airplane Models By Anders Lejczak

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Sound Design: The Sound of Real Steel and Black Swan

Craig Henighan is a well known and established sound designer. He has worked on several big budget movies such as Night at the Museum, X-Men: The Last Stand, Sin City, Jumper and others.

In the video below, Craig Henighan (sound designer, sound re-recording mixer, supervising sound editor), Skip Longfellow (first assistant… read more

The Week In Review on the DesignMag Network

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This week we had some memorable posts. Leading the way was our most popular post (on Facebook) of all time 35 Brilliant Resume Designs. We followed that post with a part 2 later in the week entitled 27 More Outstanding Resume Designs. Finally… read more

Tim Brown on Creativity and Play

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an inspirational talk from TED by Tim Brown from IDEO who shows the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at… read more

Berto Martinez: Artist Of The Day

Berto Martinez 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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.110

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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… read more

15 Examples of Inspirational Student Design Work

15 Examples of Inspirational Student Design Work

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Counting The Time With Unusual Wall-Clocks.

Counting The Time With Unusual Wall-Clocks.

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45 Beautiful Illustrations in Web Design showcase – Wsblogz.com

45 Beautiful Illustrations in Web Design showcase – Wsblogz.com

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Daily Inspiration #953

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

15 Religious Tattoos

15 Religious Tattoos

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Badass Illustrations by Kai Spannuth

It’s no secret that every once in a while we get to find really epic illustrations. Kai Spannuth from Germany really knows how to turn innocent lab rats into huge mutated goons, and it is awesome.

Kai came up with some really good characters, like a little different rabbit family. There’s… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #122

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#122 and make sure to comeback… read more

Sites of the Week #175

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Mightybell and 10k Apart. Also we’re featuring the beautiful Kitchen Sink Studios portfolio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Beautiful Houses: Rechter House in Tel Aviv

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

Illustration Inspiration for the Weekend

On multiple occasions in the past, we have compiled the works of several artists to give our readers an extra dose of inspiration for the weekend. This post follows along that theme, only we are refining the inspirational artists to a particular medium, illustrators. So this installation is going to… read more

30 Useful Infographics for Web Designers

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Typically when it comes to learning something new within web design you have to refer to either the accompanied detailed documentation, the read-me or, if you are lucky, to a quick reference cheatsheet. Each of these options are really useful, but none have the ability… read more

50+ Epic Cthulhu Design Inspirations – Illustrations & Artwork from Mythology

50+ Epic Cthulhu Design Inspirations – Illustrations & Artwork from Mythology

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Showcase of Delightful Coffee Websites for Inspiration

Showcase of Delightful Coffee Websites for Inspiration

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Why Education Needs to Get Its Game On

Gerard LaFond is the VP of marketing for Pearson’s College and Career Readiness division and the co-founder of Persuasive Games. He’s currently working on the gamification of education through the Pearson start-up, Alleyoop.

Kids spend hours a day on sites like Facebook and YouTube. They play highly immersive video games,… read more

Daily Inspiration #952

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How to Photograph Flowers

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Earlier in the week I had the chance to sit down with a photographer whose specialty is photographing flowers. As I tend to do with pro photographers – picked his brain as we chatted and took as many notes as I could. Here’s what I gleaned from him and… read more

Video Inspiration #39

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

Logo Design: Sharks

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a very sad post about logos with apples… today it’s all about logos with sharks!

As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond,… read more

Creatively Designed Collection Of Unique Business Cards

Business cards represent your professional identity. With a creatively designed business card, businessmen and entrepreneurs can promote themselves among other professionals within and outside of their field. A business card is usually engraved with name, designation, address, telephone number and the logo design of the company. But one can use… read more

Book Suggestion: Predictably Irrational – The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

I am quite addicted to books, all sorts of books from design related to simple novels. Lately however, I have been reading some books about human behavior, mostly related to how we make decisions. I think it’s an incredible subject especially for designers like us who are trying to create… read more

Design With Dissonance

You might consider yourself knowledgeable, but you’ve probably never heard of this powerful communication and design technique that I’m about to share. I’m sure you’ve seen it in practice but never knew it was working on you — that’s how good it is. I’m here to shed light on this technique so… read more

Michal Sycz: Artist Of The Day

Michal Sycz 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

Future of Web Design NYC 2011 – Giveaway

It’s that time of the year, FOWD Future of Web Design is coming back to New York city and once again we are doing a giveaway to bring a luck winner to the event. The event will take place from November 7-9 in New York City and for those who… read more

Worldwide Photography #40: Marrakech

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Marrakech, Morocco.

For the next week we’re going to feature Jakarta,… read more

Creative Label Designs

Creative Label Designs

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21 Beautifully Designed Ads for your Inspiration

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Here at WDL we understand that inspiration can be found in all medias, including print, tv and online ads. A great website to browse to keep the juices flowing when you need inspiration in that area is Ads of the World. For this post I gathered… read more

Free Wallpaper – Tribute to Steve Jobs

Free Wallpaper – Tribute to Steve Jobs

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20 Awesome Colorful Websites That Will Inspire You

One of the most common challenges when designing a website is to develop an effective color scheme. Colors express a lot of meanings, it can change your mood, whenever you see color you can feel its pleasing effect within your soul. In this selection, i’ll presents 20 examples of colorful… read more

20+ Sources to find Advertisement Design Inspirations

20+ Sources to find Advertisement Design Inspirations

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15 Awesome Nautical Star Tattoos

15 Awesome Nautical Star Tattoos

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20 Groovy Band Logos

20 Groovy Band Logos

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15 Lovely Flower Tattoo Designs

15 Lovely Flower Tattoo Designs

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40+ Scary, Silly, & Awesomely Unique Business Card & Card Holder Design Inspirations for Halloween

40+ Scary, Silly, & Awesomely Unique Business Card & Card Holder Design Inspirations for Halloween

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Captivating Cameras Timeline

Captivating Cameras Timeline

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Daily Inspiration #951

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Galatic Graffiti Typography by Roid

We must admit we’re getting into the point where tradicional techniques and digital techniques start to blend. I mean, just take a look at the pieces o Roid, one of the MSK crew writers, he’s galactic and geometrical style remind us a lot of retro futuristic digital art. Yet, he’s… read more

UI Design: Reinstall My Apps

It’s awesome when some of our posts get attention enough to get people interested in showing their work. That’s exactly the case of the Dear Future Astronaut NY, a Swedish creative group.

They told us about their app for the iPhone called “Reinstall My Apps”, which is beautifully designed. Unfortunately, it… read more

Typography Mania #101

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

Interview with Shelby White (Wanken) + Giveaway

Shelby White also known as WANKEN is visual designer and photographer currently living in Portland, Oregon. His blog is part of a quality content that will surely inspired your retro side on visuals and photography and more. He’s also the creator of Designspiration.net, image-based inspiration resource that is really on… read more

A Collection of Inspiring Blog Designs

Since their inception, blogs have often had some of the most innovative, beautiful and creative designs in the web design community. This is perhaps because bloggers are naturally expressive individuals who enjoy visual and written expression.

Whatever the reason, blogs are always a great source of inspiration if you’re working on… read more

30 Fresh Minimal WordPress Themes (2011 Edition)

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Minimal is the timeless web design trend of basic styling a web page and stripping out all non-essential elements allowing the reader to focus solely on the content with absolutely no distractions. Achieving the balance between content and minimal design is not easy, but in… read more

35 Orange WordPress Sites Inspiration

35 Orange WordPress Sites Inspiration

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Massimo Gammacurta: Artist Of The Day

Massimo Gammacurta 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

20 Groovy State Logos

20 Groovy State Logos

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20 Cute Anime Girls To Amaze You

20 Cute Anime Girls To Amaze You

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Monday Inspiration #14: Gears of War 3 FanArt

Monday Inspiration #14: Gears of War 3 FanArt

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Daily Inspiration #950

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

The Life and Times of Steve Jobs [INFOGRAPHIC]

Steve Jobs packed a lot of living into his 56 years. If his career had ended 30 years ago, he still would have made history for helping popularize the personal computer. But he did so much more than that.

As we all know, Jobs defied F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous quote, “There… read more

Awesome New Mathias Townsend’s Works

Almost 3 years ago we featured some great pieces of work by Brazilian designer Mathias Townsend. He’s got a new website and a bunch new works to share with the world. He’s really improved over the years.

He’s done some nice infographics for Brazilian magazines, which is pretty awesome, and… read more

Introducing the Visceral 123 Klan

Weeks ago I got truly amazed when I found out this mates from Montreal. 123 Klan is super creative studio focused on illustration and graffiti. In fact, these buddies have never denied their graffiti background and decided to introduce this aesthetic on their work, the results are just beyond fantastic,… read more

Architect Day: 3DReid

In June 2007, the offices REID Architecture and 3D Architects joined forces among its more than 320 professionals of diverse nationalities and areas and created a new organization called 3DReid, which today is considered one of the top 10 firms in the United Kingdom.

3dreid.com

3DReid is the… read more

8 Simple Steps to Set Yourself Up on Social Media

Freelancers new to flying solo can be overwhelmed by the mass of marketing opportunities on the web. And while social media is a great way to promote your business, it can be enormously time consuming.

Like any marketing activity, it takes time to build up your brand, but there… read more

The Keys to Organic Designs

In the world of design we all tend to have our processes and approaches that rule how we craft our work. This is essential for most of us in the field to have in place. Our own systems that we have spent years honing and developing down to less of… read more

Graphic Design Inspiration From US Based Designers

Graphic Design Inspiration From US Based Designers

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Showcase Of 51 Freelance Designers Portfolios

Showcase Of 51 Freelance Designers Portfolios

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Apple to Honor Steve Jobs With Private Event Oct. 19

Apple CEO Tim Cook has announced that the company will honor the memory Steve Jobs with an employee event on Wednesday, Oct. 19.

The event, open only to Apple employees, will take place at the company’s outdoor amphitheater at its headquarters in Cupertino, California.

“I have experienced the saddest days of my… read more

Daily Inspiration #949

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

30+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

30+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials

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Alexey Kurbatov: Artist Of The Day

Alexey Kurbatov 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

Happy and Colorful Street Art by Pez

While I was in Barcelona I had the opportunity to see a lot Pez artworks on the streets of the city. It’s quite undeniable that the first reaction you got when you see this little fish on a wall is to automatically smile, it’s so cheerful and vibrant. It’s really… read more

The Perfect Office #108

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

Creative Portraits by Stefano Pedretti

Stefano Pedretti is a photographer from Rome, Italy. His portraits are incredibly creative and some of them are so cool and distorted that turned a real person into some kind of 3D cartoon. Check out this great selection!

For more from Stefano visit stefanopedretti.com

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Single Page Website Designs: 60+ New and Creative Examples

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

Paul Rand Will Change Your Life!

Author’s Note: In all the articles I’ve written. In all the designer profiles I’ve written and will write, this article… this testament to Paul Rand is the most worthy. If I had to write one last piece before I died, none would be so fitting or so satisfying as a… read more

Amazing Showcase of Funny Celebrity Caricatures

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A caricature is the art of producing an embroidered or indistinct portrayal of a person to generate an identifiable visual image. In general, we see lots of caricatures of political personalities and movie stars in entertainment magazines for humorous effect.

In this post, we are going… read more

The Popularity Of Vintage And Retro Adverts

Vintage adverts have never been as popular as they are now – but why? Why do people have such a penchant for collecting these adverts from the past and what can we expect the future of print ads to look like?   If you open up any old magazine or… read more

Steve Jobs, Always Inspiring

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Last Wednesday October 05, 2011, we lost an icon, one of the biggest geniuses of our times, Steve Jobs. Jobs was not only an icon, he was an idol, an eternal source of inspiration, a master. From Apple fan boys and girls to those who insisted… read more

Quick tip: Make a Worm on Illustrator

Hi everyone, today I’m going to show you some quick tips on how to make a simple but effective vector illustration inspired on the classic video game, Worms. If you are from the 80′s or 90′s you probably heard of it or had the chance to play it, it… read more

Daily Inspiration #948

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Oct 3-Oct 9, 2011

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

20 Truly Vintage Advertisements for Design Inspiration

20 Truly Vintage Advertisements for Design Inspiration

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WPW – Thanks Steve!

The wallpaper of this week is an homage we pay to the man who showed the world that technology is nothing without a good experience for the user. That design has to be at the top of the hierarchy when it comes to good products and of course that we… read more

Eye-catching Examples Of Still Life Photography

Eye-catching Examples Of Still Life Photography

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Sound Design: Elements of Nature

Today I would like to introduce you to a very creative technique to create sounds from elements of nature and day to day objects. I will share with you a few really cool videos.

The first one is from a japanese TV ad and what is interesting about this one is… read more

67 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

The news this week took a somber turn upon hearing of the death of Steve Jobs. This week’s roundup is no different. Our features pay tribute to the man who not only made Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world, but who helped to advance innovative technology… read more

Best of the Week #191

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

Sunni Brown : Doodlers, Unite!

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an inspirational talk by Sunni Brown who shows us that sketching and doodling improves our comprehension and our creative thinking (but we knew that already right!). Speaking at… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.109

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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… read more

Meet Pinterest: A Private Social Pinboard That Collects Your Online Memories

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Pinterest

Quick Pitch: Pinterest is a digital pinboard for things you love.

Genius Idea: A bookmark that makes… read more

Steve Jobs’ Secret Formula: How He Won Over Critics, Scored 317 Patents & Changed the World

I arrived at Apple’s headquarters a little before 9 a.m. after a beautiful drive down the 280 from San Francisco on a sunny July day. This wasn’t any ordinary trip to One Infinite Loop. Steve Jobs was on stage, but he wasn’t going to announce any products.

Just two… read more

Web Design Inspiration: Creative 404 pages

Web Design Inspiration: Creative 404 pages

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Friday Motion – Inspiration Dose #36

Friday Motion – Inspiration Dose #36

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New Motion Graphics Videos For Inspiration

New Motion Graphics Videos For Inspiration

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Steve Jobs the Movie? Author Sells Rights for $1 Million Or More [REPORT]

Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of Steve Jobs, including the late Apple chief’s last ever interview, isn’t even on bookshelves yet. But that hasn’t stopped one movie studio from pouncing on the rights to make a movie out of it.

According to Deadline.com, Sony Pictures has struck a deal with… read more

Daily Inspiration #947

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

10 Awesome jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

10 Awesome jQuery Plugins and Tutorials

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Golden Hour: Weekly Photography Challenge

This week your photographic challenge is to take and share a photo that was taken in the ‘golden hours’.

Image by Bethan

The ‘Golden Hours’ are those times just before or after the sun rises and sets – when photographers are often presented with light that is warm and golden and hitting… read more

Astonishing Surreal Illustrations by Ryohei Hase

What makes an illustration good? Is it the style? Is is the theme? Or is it the product of a whole set of qualities and feelings put into the canvas? Probably the last. Probably none. Probably you.

Ok, I’m just kidding. Whenever I post surreal illustrations I tend to write crazy… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #121

I will be posting some fresh free fonts 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#121 and make sure to comeback… read more

One More Thing: Classic Steve Jobs Surprise Announcements

There was no “one more thing” at the Tuesday’s Apple media event. Steve Jobs, already very ill, was absent from the conference, and the surprise announcements at the end of most events (which were often just as exciting as the main announcements) were his trademark move.

Some of these surprise… read more