77 Beautiful Examples Of Conceptual Illustration

September 3rd, 2010
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77 Beautiful Examples Of Conceptual Illustration

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Daily Inspiration #605

September 3rd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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: Score the Best Fashion Deals on the Social Web

September 3rd, 2010
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Mashable

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.

Just because the economy is still depressed… read more

InDesign and Bridge Contact Sheet

September 3rd, 2010
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Assemble a photograph contact sheet in InDesign.

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40 Awesome Works of Art Made From Paper

September 3rd, 2010
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By Tim Mercer

Paper is a humble medium. It’s often cheap and you probably have some within 20 feet of you right now. Most of us just use it for jotting down ideas, writing notes or doodling but some resourceful artists out there use it to create stunning works of art.

Often… read more

50 Fresh and Beautiful Ecommerce Websites II

September 3rd, 2010
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Specky Boy

Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant… read more

Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

September 3rd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a… read more

8 Funding Contests to Kick Start Your Big Idea

September 2nd, 2010
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Mashable

This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a world leader in managed DNS, powering the best brands on the web including Gowalla, Mashable, Twitter, Wikia and more. Follow @DynInc on Twitter.

Taking a business from idea to reality involves a good deal of attrition, ingenuity, and compromise. But no matter how much… read more

Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win

September 2nd, 2010
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Specky Boy

It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one… read more

Artistic Expressions: Needlework

September 2nd, 2010
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Layers Magazine

Some things can be so complex. Isn’t it great that Photoshop makes them easy? All you need to know is how things work and you can do whatever your imagination conjures up.

One of the billboards in my Times Square painting contains a model wearing an intricate, crocheted top. I’ve no… read more

10 of the Web’s Most Insightful News Infographics

September 2nd, 2010
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Mashable

A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.

Infographics at their best are more than just pictures — they can provide new understandings, succinct summaries, or just plain old fun.

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45 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

September 2nd, 2010
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Noupe

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

30 Fantastic and Splendid Digital Painting Tutorials

September 2nd, 2010
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Noupe

We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more

Showcase Of Appetizing Restaurant Websites

September 2nd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones create atmosphere, vibrant… read more

20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

September 2nd, 2010
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Specky Boy

Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more

iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons For Your User Interfaces and Apps

September 1st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Today we are glad to release iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style… read more

Daily Inspiration #603

September 1st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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: Follow the US Open with Social Media

September 1st, 2010
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Mashable

It’s US Open time in New York, which means tennis fever has officially hit the city that never sleeps. As the final major tournament in professional tennis, the US Open always draws a healthy audience, nationally and abroad.

Maybe you’ve been waiting for the US Open tennis tournament since Wimbledon ended… read more

Everything You Wanted in Illustrator CS5 Artboards

September 1st, 2010
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Explore the new artboard panel in Illustrator CS5 and learn about some of the new features.

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Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010

September 1st, 2010
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Tutorial9

August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!

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Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsHow To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the… read more

Beautiful Beach and Palms Wallpapers for Your Desktop

September 1st, 2010
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Noupe

We love to spice up your desktop with nice wallpapers, and sometimes with nature photography. It all depends on your mood. In this post, we’ll be showcasing Beautiful Beach Wallpapers. You’ll get to see the detail, skill, and dedication that go into creating these incredible wallpapers, and how they… read more

The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?

September 1st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In August’10

September 1st, 2010
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InstantShift

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers

September 1st, 2010
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Specky Boy

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop.

It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put… read more

Lensbaby Soft Focus Optic

August 31st, 2010
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Layers Magazine

ADD CREATIVE EFFECTS TO YOUR IMAGES BY SOFTENING THE FOCUS

The creative folks at Lensbaby have been busy coming up with more lenses for their innovative Optic Swap System. According to Lensbaby, the Soft Focus Optic “…creates a velvety soft image perfect for portraits, flowers, landscapes, or any subject that… read more

40 Tutorials and Techniques for Creating Business Logos

August 31st, 2010
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YouTheDesigner

A logo alludes to its company’s identity in its appearance and visual impact; that’s how it starts branding. Seeing how important it is, we designers must not underestimate the potential of this simple graphic, and instead hone our skills as much as possible in creating and polishing logos,… read more

Social Network Unites Writers and Fans of Short Fiction [INVITES]

August 31st, 2010
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Mashable

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Fictionaut

Quick Pitch: A social network for writers that doubles… read more

HOW TO: Incorporate Your Startup at the Right Time

August 31st, 2010
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Mashable

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet, her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Follow her on Twitter @corpnet and Facebook.

Now that we’re nearing the home stretch of… read more

Print Tutorial: Creating A Magazine Cover

August 31st, 2010
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By Cameron Chapman

Graphic design in a print environment can be a nice change for someone who normally does web design. It’s a slightly different skillset, but still incorporates a lot of the same concepts. Print projects can be an exciting new challenge, something that lets a designer stretch their creativity… read more

Best of the Vector Web – August 2010

August 31st, 2010
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Vector Tuts

As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on vector character design, creating charts in Illustrator, and vector skulls among others. We’ve also expanded this month’s offering…. read more

The Robust Collection Of (50) Mindblowing Icon Sets For Your Next Design

August 31st, 2010
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Smashing Apps

Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2010

August 31st, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… read more

350+ Beautiful Drawing Brushes For Photoshop

August 31st, 2010
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350+ Beautiful Drawing Brushes For Photoshop

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.53)

August 31st, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

Digg v4: Refreshing Social News Discovery

August 30th, 2010
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Web App Storm

How many times has your blog or website been brought down by traffic from Facebook or Twitter? Even with their combined audience of few hundred millions, no other site other than Digg has the power to bring a blog massive surge in traffic and the much deserved attention. While links… read more

How CEOs Will Use Social Media in the Future

August 30th, 2010
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Mashable

This series is supported by Gist. Gist provides a full view of the contacts in your professional network by creating a rich business profile for each one that includes the most news, status updates, and work details. See how it works here.

Today’s CEO is not social. So says Forrester… read more

Interactive PDFs

August 30th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

InDesign CS5 now offers a choice of exporting for print and a brand-new interactive PDF format to fulfill your interactive needs. The interactive PDF format supports a robust export function that takes advantage of the ability in InDesign CS5 to create multiple page sizes and includes a range of interactive… read more

An Interview With Professional Nature Photographer Jon Cornforth

August 30th, 2010
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Digital Photography School

I was blown away the first time I saw Jon Cornforth’s images.  Even more so because many of the images were taken in my native Washington State.  While we have many talented photographers in our fine state, I was also impressed with how personable Jon was on Twitter and… read more

Writing and Web Design: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides

August 30th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

A few years ago, you might not have pointed out during a meeting with a potential client that you maintained a blog. Over time, though, blogs have evolved from the being a personal hobby to a serious work tool. In fact, today, web designers are supposed to know much more… read more

Promoting Yourself To… GASP!… Live People!

August 30th, 2010
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By Speider Schneider

A friend of mine started an organization named “Creative Connect,” a twice a month get-together for anyone in the creative field. He said it was to, “get people away from their computers and to get them talking at least twice a month.” Mostly designers, programmers, illustrators and photographers… read more

The Perfect Office #52

August 30th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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?

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

50 Refreshing CSS Tutorials, Techniques and Resources

August 30th, 2010
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Specky Boy

In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more

7 Services That Will Suggest Things You Like

August 29th, 2010
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Mashable

“Unlimited choice” can “produce genuine suffering,” argues Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. His research basically sums up what your mother has been telling you for years: You don’t even know what you want.

Thankfully, the Internet does know what you want — or at least its algorithmic recommendation services… read more

Academica: Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme For Educational Websites

August 29th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It’s a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is… read more

44 Spectacular Examples Of Conceptual Photography

August 29th, 2010
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44 Spectacular Examples Of Conceptual Photography

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Best of the Week #134

August 28th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (22-28 Aug ‘10)

August 28th, 2010
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Digital Photography School

Weekly Assignment

This week we got up close with some creepy crawlies in our Bugs or Insects assignment. I have to admit, sometimes it wasn’t too nice looking through the assignment, but there were some amazing details captured. And who realized that bugs were so colorful? Our winners this week were… read more

Profile: Getting into Character with Cartoonist George Coghill

August 28th, 2010
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Vector Tuts

From bad jokes to sultry devil girls, Cartoon Character Designer George Coghill knows how to inject some fun into life. He set aside some time to talk with us about everything from the importance of knowing how to run a business to what it’s like to see his characters come… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.56

August 28th, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel… read more

40 First-Class Premium Magazine Style WordPress Themes

August 28th, 2010
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40 First-Class Premium Magazine Style WordPress Themes

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Categories: Print, Web Design

800+ Beautiful Grunge Brushes For Photoshop

August 28th, 2010
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800+ Beautiful Grunge Brushes For Photoshop

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Advanced Layer Blending

August 27th, 2010
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Learn to use the Blend If sliders in the layer options and avoid having to create complex selections or masks.

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Interview with Tim and Bram Vanhaeren from Into1

August 27th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Tim and Bram Vanhaeren, belgium based artists, run a creative studio focused on graphic design. Read how the brothers get along working together

1. First of all we would like to thank you both for taking the time to provide abduzeedo.com with this interview. Please tell us more about your art… read more

40+ Elegent Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates from 2010

August 27th, 2010
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Noupe

Today we present some useful free CSS/(X)HTML templates which are available for free download and use. You may want to consider using them for your next projects or build upon them, creating more advanced themes from these basic templates.

Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates

Blue Jeans (Demo | Download)
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100+ Free High Quality Icon Sets for Web Designers and Developers

August 27th, 2010
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InstantShift

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

The demand for good icons are too much in these days and finding the best icon sets from the pool with tens of thousands of packs is not a easy job… read more

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

August 27th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

To mock-up the user interface of a website, software or any other product, you’ll need some basic UI elements. And this is where wireframing kits and UI design kits come in handy. When you want to create a low-fidelity prototype for your projects, you can use these kits to give… read more

How To Trace a Sketch with a Vintage Comic Style

August 27th, 2010
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Vector Tuts

You can find the vintage comic style in newspapers, magazines, and in animation. In this tutorial you will learn several techniques for tracing a sketch, including how to make custom brushes, how to combine shapes and brushes and how to combine multiple brushes. You will also learn how to simulate… read more

Photography Inspiration: 50 Amazing Aerial Photographs

August 27th, 2010
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Photography Inspiration: 50 Amazing Aerial Photographs

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The Best Free to use Posterous Themes

August 27th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Don't mistake Posterous as another micro-blogging service, it is much, much bigger than that. There are no limits to what you can do with it and there are seemingly no limits to what you can post to it – photos (auto resizing), audio files and links, documents and video (auto… read more

In Defense Of A/B Testing

August 27th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is flawed. It seems to confuse the A/B testing methodology with a specific implementation of it (e.g. testing red vs. green buttons… read more

HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Your Business Facebook Page

August 26th, 2010
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Mashable

Susan Payton is the President of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an Internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.

So you paid attention to what everyone is saying and you created a Facebook Page for your business. You’ve got your press… read more

Eos Converge

August 26th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

WIRELESS MUSIC SYSTEM OFFERS VERSATILITY AND QUALITY

The Eos Converge audio system lets you play your music in any room from any source—without wires. The Eos Converge Transmitter ($99.95) comes with a USB cable, 3.5mm stereo mini audio cable, and a power adapter. When using the USB cable with a… read more

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV

August 26th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

HIGH ISO DIGITAL SLR

Veteran Canon EOS-1D and 1Ds shooters will feel right at home with the new Canon EOS-1D Mark IV camera, built on a dust- and weather-resistant magnesium alloy body. Upgraded features include increased sensor resolution and ISO, reduced noise, an increased frame rate, a new medium-sized RAW… read more

Typography as Art

August 26th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Typography is one of the cornerstones of good graphic design. Selecting and manipulating typefaces is an art unto itself. Therefore it’s no surprise that classic typography regularly makes its way into famous paintings and sculptures.

Below are some inspirational images of typography used in the fine arts to help give you… read more

45 Free Applications For Designers And Developers

August 26th, 2010
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Noupe

By Callum Chapman

Whether you’re just starting out in the graphic or web design industry, or you’ve been in it for years, the chances are there will occasionally be a time where you want to get a feel for a particular type of application (maybe something similar to Cinema 4D or… read more

jQuery Plugin Checklist: Should You Use That jQuery Plug-In?

August 26th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless development hours; a bad plug-in… read more

Wix Competition: Win One of Three $150 Premium Unlimited Plans

August 26th, 2010
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Specky Boy

Today we have great pleasure in offering our readers the chance to win one of three Premium Unlimited Plans, worth $150 each, from our friends Wix.
We do have a lot of love for Wix, they were our first long term sponsor and do hope that our readers will show… read more

Nik Announces HDR Efex Pro

August 25th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

A couple of weeks ago, I was out in San Diego hanging out with the folks over at Nik Software, playing around and giving feedback on their newest piece of software HDR Efex Pro. Today, they formally announce it! Want to see some cool pictures done with it?… read more

100 Free High Quality Wooden Texture Packs

August 25th, 2010
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100 Free High Quality Wooden Texture Packs

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Art of Type: Out of Scale

August 25th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

There was a time when few designers dared to venture into the murky world of the Adobe InDesign justification controls. The good news is that more and more users are starting to take charge of them. The bad news is one of them—the powerful glyph scaling control, unique to InDesign—is… read more

50 Stunning Examples of Photo Manipulation Art

August 25th, 2010
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Noupe

By Obaid ur Rehman

Now almost everyone knows that Photo Manipulation is art with which you can create digital miracles. Yes, you got me right! If you know how to manipulate your pictures, you can do whatever you want. Photo manipulation is one of the most creative art forms today, but… read more

Corporate Website Design: Creative and Beautiful Solutions

August 25th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

What do corporate websites have in common with other people’s children? Three things: they have their charm, like finger-paintings on the refrigerator; they can be useful, if infrequently; they are usually admired only by the people who created them.

While designers know that a user’s experience on a website has a… read more

20 Web Dev Events, 20 Beautifully Crafted Web Designs

August 25th, 2010
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Specky Boy

The initial idea for this article was to highlight all web design related events and conferences up until the end of 2010. As the article evolved, the primary focus and direction changed – no longer were we only highlighting some important and essential conferences, we soon realized we were privy… read more

Polaroid: A Free Magento Theme For Your eCommerce Website

August 24th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: Polaroid Magento Theme, a professional design skin for the shops powered by the popular open-source ecommerce web application Magento. The theme was designed by eCommerce-Themes and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free… read more

Six New Features in Dreamweaver CS5

August 24th, 2010
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Layers Magazine

Every upgrade brings something new, but Dreamweaver CS5 brings more goodies than most previous upgrades, and you can put these new features to use right away. Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery… read more

Top 5 Ways Big Brands are Using Foursquare

August 24th, 2010
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Mashable

This series is supported by The Awareness Social Marketing Hub, a leading enterprise-grade application for marketers struggling with the social media chaos of managing multiple social channels. Click here to learn more.

Unlike other more mainstream social networks, the business potential of Foursquare may not be immediately apparent. At present,… read more

Beautiful Woodwork Art

August 24th, 2010
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Noupe

By János Rácz

In the age of the Web, with personal computers and tablets, we tend to forget that art has been around for a really, really long time and that this digital field is just one of the many media in which art and design have a form. Fortunately, there… read more

Improve Your E-Commerce Design With Brilliant Product Photos

August 24th, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, flashier and more attractive your products… read more

Creating a Mobile Version of Your Site

August 24th, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Despite the obvious explosion of the mobile market some website owners feel like very few, if any users will decide to browse their site using a mobile device. Well it is time to wake up and realize that there never has been a better time to ensure your site is… read more

Amazing Digital Work by Craig Shields

August 23rd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

Digital artists are doing an great job lately. We’ve seen some beutiful pieces of digital work during this last month, and I’ve just found the amazing digital work of Craig Shields.

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He’s an designer from the United Kingdom and has got some great pieces at his portfolio. I’ve chosen some of… read more

20 Cool Twitter Accounts for Daily Fun and Inspiration [PICS]

August 23rd, 2010
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Mashable

Twitter is an ever-expanding source of fascinating information. More than just news and updates, there is also another, more fun side of Twitter that is sometimes overlooked.

You can use the real-time micro-blogging service to get a daily dose of education, entertainment, or something in between. Whether you want to expand… read more

70 Beautiful Examples Of Black And White Photography

August 23rd, 2010
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70 Beautiful Examples Of Black And White Photography

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Inspiration: Interesting & Unique Typographic Book Covers

August 23rd, 2010
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DesignM.ag

Books offer graphic designers, illustrators and typographers a great way to expand their portfolios. There are endless possibilities that can be explored when designing for book covers, and often are explored, as can be seen in this post.

I’ve had an increased interest in book covers recently after putting together another… read more

Why You Can’t Block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook

August 23rd, 2010
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Mashable

This weekend the web discovered that Mark Zuckerberg is unblockable on Facebook, and while many assumed that was an Easter egg created by Facebook developers, it turns out that’s not the case. Rather, Zuckerberg is unblockable because of an automated system that kicks in when too many people try to… read more

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch

August 23rd, 2010
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Layers Magazine

MOVE OVER MOUSE, THERE’S SOMETHING HANDIER

When the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch arrived for review, I tore into the beautifully designed packaging, eager to give it a test drive on my laptop. I quickly found that this sleek little tablet shines in its intended use—as a consumer-priced tablet for travel… read more

Cubicle Spy: At Work with Steve Rubel of Edelman [PICS]

August 23rd, 2010
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Mashable

As part of the ongoing “Cubicle Spy” series here at Mashable, we’re taking a look inside the coolest, quirkiest, and most gadget-laden offices of people who work with social media.

For our second peek into the cube, we scoped out the office of Steve Rubel, Senior Vice President and Director of… read more

DesignChat Guest – Erin Loechner

August 23rd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

This week, Erin Loechner welcomes US to the conversation as she has been writing about design on blogs for longer than most. Erin is a freelance design writer/blogger whose work has been featured in Glamour, Dwell, Lucky and Nylon magazines. She muses daily on her award-winning website Design For Mankind,… read more

100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Conferences and Events

August 23rd, 2010
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Mashable

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming listings, check… read more

4 Things to Consider When Creating a Business Logo

August 23rd, 2010
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Mashable

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

With all the noise on the web today, good branding is more important than ever. Even if your business is not a cutting edge tech startup, the… read more

How Limitations Improve Design

August 23rd, 2010
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Web Designer Depot

We often complain about the multitude of limitations which we’re faced with every day as designers.

From browsers, to screen resolutions, to user interactions, we seem to constantly be struggling to find some way of thinking outside the tiny little box of “best practice” which we’re constrained by.

Limitations are abundant but… read more

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

August 23rd, 2010
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Noupe

The Internet is bursting with knowledge. Whatever you want is available at your fingertips, and learning new techniques is so easy with the load of useful tutorials that guide you step by step. Adobe Illustrator is powerful indeed, but when used right, it can perform feats that humans will marvel… read more

A Design Is Only As Deep As It Is Usable

August 23rd, 2010
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Smashing Magazine

There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a few simple examples. Because the Web design industry is now flooded with a lot of raw talent,… read more

50 Awesome New jQuery Plugins

August 23rd, 2010
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Specky Boy

The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.

Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.52)

August 22nd, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even… read more

70 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt Shift Photography

August 22nd, 2010
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70 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt Shift Photography

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Daily Inspiration #594

August 22nd, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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

Wallpaper of the Week #113 by Perttu Murto

August 21st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

The wallpaper of this week is really cool design by Perttu Murto, a 24-year-old graphic designer, art director and illustrator from Finland. Pettu has been involved in graphics for almost 8 years and was also selected as the Young Advertisement Designer of the Year for 2007 in Northern Finland. His… read more

Best of the Week #133

August 21st, 2010
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Abduzeedo

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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.55

August 21st, 2010
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Specky Boy

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel… read more

Interview with Ricardo Gimenes

August 21st, 2010
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Vector Tuts

You may already know about the blog, Behind the Websites. In today’s interview we’re going to meet Ricardo Gimenes, illustrator and founder of the site. Ricardo is a São Paulo based Brazilian designer and illustrator who has worked with variety of clients around the world. He says he has… read more