3D Sidewalk Chalk Art: 40 unbelievable photos

Manfred Stader

Tracy Lee Stum

Julian Beever

Kurt Wenner

Edgar Müller

Eduardo Relero

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Daily Inspiration #494

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

Inspiration: Fashion-Centric Vector Illustrators

Most people turn to Photoshop if the project they’re working on needs high-level editing on details such as facial features, lighting and shadows. However, if you’re looking to create detailed, scalable illustrations, Adobe Illustrator offers a superb selection of vector-based tools, such as the Pen and Pathfinder. For this reason,… read more

How to Get More Web Design Sales by Painting Your Nose Red

Walk into the next prospect meeting with your nose painted red and you are sure to attract a lot of attention. And why wouldn’t you? How many web designers do you think the prospect will consider that have red noses? Chances are – only one. You will certainly be memorable… read more

Daily Inspiration #493

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 Create a Cubist Masterpiece in Illustrator

Cubism is one of the most outstanding movements in abstract art. Geometric shapes, vivid colors, simple figures, and textures are all distinctive features of this style. Let’s try to recreate the cubist painting in Illustrator inspired by works of Pablo Picasso – after learning some simple techniques you’ll be able… read more

3D Type with Repoussé in Photoshop CS5 Extended

The new Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended is about to be released, it was announced already and among the new features there is one really special that is the Repoussé. This new feature or tool will allow us to create 3D objects extruding texts, selections, paths and layers masks. It’s a… read more

Daily Inspiration #492

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

Photoshop CS5 Review

THE LATEST VERSION OF PHOTOSHOP HAS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

Photoshop is now 20 years old and in its 12th version. One wonders how many new features can be added to such a mature program. Photoshop CS4 had some nice new additions, but its new feature list seemed to be shorter than… read more

A Personal Selection of Premium Character Design Websites and Resources

It’s important to not get overwhelmed with all the information out there on character illustration and design. In addition to finding a selection of high quality sites you want to participate in, I recommend buying one or two books at a time and working all the way through them. While… read more

Zombie Inspiration: 50 Awesome Artworks

Zombies have been portrayed using all types of media, from books like H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘In the vault‘ and comic books like the ‘Bombie the Zombie’ in 1949, to movies like the brilliant ‘Evil Dead‘ series, timeless music  videos like ‘Thriller’ and more recently first-person shooter games like, ‘Left 4… read more

Stylish White Package Design Inspiration

Last year we published an article featuring some beautiful dark package designs, it was the Ultimate Dark Package Design Inspiration. Following the same idea in this post we will feature only white package designs, but as usual, we tried to look for very stylish examples to really inspire you.

For more… read more

Daily Inspiration #488

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 New Tutorials for Manipulating Photos in Photoshop

Photo manipulation is one of the most common practices of photoshop users and designers. Aside from faking images, This type of technique can create unique and outstanding art designs. Learning how to manipulate photos could be fun and that’s why we compiled a list of photo manipulation tutorials… read more

The Perfect Office #33

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

Daily Inspiration #486

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

Interview with Tony Soh

To many in the vector community Tony Soh needs little introduction. Tony runs an excellent vector blog called Vector Diary and is an all-around great illustrative designer. In addition to this, he also wrote the first tutorial for us here at Vectortuts+ and regularly contributes to various creative blogs… read more

Daily Inspiration #485

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

Viacom Details Secret Google Conversations About YouTube’s Pirated Content

As it continues to make its case against Google and YouTube in a $1 billion copyright lawsuit, Viacom has released previously sealed documents that the media company says show, “Google made a deliberate, calculated business decision … to profit from copyright infringement … [and] coerce rights owners like Viacom… read more

Daily Inspiration #484

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

Graffiti Brazil: Falge

Thiago Falgetano, was born in 1983 in Sao Paulo, “Falge” is known by the abbreviation of his last name since he was in high school. The love for art comes from when he was just a child drawing all over the walls and the furniture on his house. At school… read more

Daily Inpiration #483

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

Daily Inspiration #482

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

UK Visual Search Company Plink Acquired by Google

Visual search was the talk of the town circa 2007, with startups such as Quintura showing great promise; then the buzz died down slightly, only to resurface late in 2009 with Bing launching Visual Search and Google launching its vision of a mobile visual search engine, Google Goggles.

Now, Google… read more

The Gradual Disappearance Of Flash Websites

If you want to “go big” visually with a website, delivering complex interaction and a rich experience across a wide range of browsers, Flash is the only way to go. Right? Nope. Given the widespread adoption and advancements of modern browsers and JavaScript libraries, using Flash makes little sense. But… read more

45 Humorous Examples of 3D CG Creatures Artworks

Here is a funny collection of some interesting, beautiful and well-designed 3D CG Creatures Artworks. Although we have already posted some articles on computer graphics, this post is unique and original. In this post, we have compiled a list of CG Creatures Artworks that are very attention-grabbing and just nice… read more

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Brings Sexy Back

Adobe will unveil its new Creative Suite 5 on Monday April 12th at 8AM PDT, just a few hours from now.

You can catch the official launch online here, however, if you can’t wait, we’ll be revealing all the juicy details before the official launch… right now!

The Adobe team kindly invited… read more

Photographing Children – Photographing their Art

Since I began writing here at DPS, I’ve been shooting out little lists of tips for photographing children. But each little point on those lists has so much potential for further exploration in and of itself and it would be a shame not to delve deeper. Today, I am reflecting… read more

Daily Inspiration #479

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 Digital Creation of Fabric

Fabrication

In the seemingly never-ending saga of my painting, Times Square, I have yet another little tidbit to share with you from that piece of work—the creation of fabric. There’s a large billboard in the scene that shows a model wearing a soft, white blouse. The blouse is loosely draped over… read more

Daily Inspiration #477

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

Daily Inspiration #476

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

Ligh Painting Guide by Christopher Hibbert

Light painting, also known as light drawing is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a light source or by moving the camera, that’s the Wikipedia.org definition and in this guide/tutorial Christopher Hibbert will give us some tips on… read more

Photoshop: Applying Fixes using Adjustment Layers and Masks

In a previous post I showed how to fix this image by creating duplicates of the background layer, fixing one copy focusing on the shadows and fixing the other focusing on the highlights and then blending the two layers using masks. If you find masks tricky to use or if… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2010 (Easter Edition)

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

A Showcase of Watercolor in Web Design

Watercolor is such an old school element. Artists have been using watercolor for hundreds of years, and web designers have adopted the style for good reason.

Watercolor is a great way to add depth, interesting subtle textures and colors. It can really give your site an authentic,… read more

Acrylic on flesh: the magic world of Alexa Meade

Alexa Meade is an incredibile 23-year-old artist who has invented a painting technique that “makes 3 dimensional space look flat, blurring the lines between illusion and reality“.
The photos after the “jump” are really fantastic…trust me.

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Tuesday Total Textures #12

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

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The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop

Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of… read more

Free Music Monday: 10 Totally Free Track Downloads

Welcome, music fans! Thank you for joining us for this week’s edition of Free Music Monday, where we offer you 10 free tracks, sets or albums in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.

Read on, right-click and enjoy some free tunes collated eclectic-style. If there’s a genre you’d like… read more

And the Children’s Laureate for 2009-2011 goes to the illustrator Anthony Browne

He is British man born in Sheffield. He is 63 and his books have been translated to 25 languages. He writes and illustrates children books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1985. In 2000 he became the first British illustrator ever to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award, for his… read more

40 Excellent and Breathtaking Digital Painting Tutorials

40 Excellent and Breathtaking Digital Painting Tutorials

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46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings

46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings

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5 Fun Weekend Photography Projects [Part 1]

If you’re stuck for something to do this weekend why not give a new photography technique a try? 

1. Light Graffiti

Fire Island – by sebastien.b

Light graffiti is everywhere at the moment and is a fantastic to way to get creative with light trails at night. Set up your camera on a… read more

Waterworld: Underwater Images and Tutorials to Inspire You

Turtles, fish, octopus, whales, mermaids, jellyfish, and shells – all residents of the underwater kingdom and water itself inspire illustrators from all over the world. That is probably because we also came out of the water and cannot live without it. Here is a set of funny, realistic, and fantastic… read more

Daily Inspiration #463

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

35 Awesome Digital Portraits of Women

By Obaid ur Rehman

This post showcases the beauty of digital painting portraits. As an art lover, I always admire and enjoy painting portraits as they require more skills and time. Capturing female beauty and emotions in a portrait is a very difficult task that requires talent and skills.

For this session,… read more

Melting Girl in Photoshop

One of the best things in Photoshop, in my opinion, is that we can create all sorts of effects and photo manipulations mixing regular stock photos. A few weeks ago I used a few images to come up with a sort of surrealist design of a melting girl face over… read more

Introducing Paul Hollingworth

Since I’ve first seen his work I really admire him. Paul Hollingworth is a graphic designer , photographer & illustrator from England. Take a look at his artworks, which are very clean, simple but very powerfull & well-thought. Thanks Rik for showing me one of my new favourite artists.

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Sadly he… read more

How SXSW Bands are Using Online Music Videos

As we’ve seen in the past, a music video can launch a band into the indie stratosphere when shared in the online space — YouTube even got hip to the trend with its Musician’s Wanted program. This state of affairs got us wondering: How do some of today’s up-and-coming… read more

Beautiful & Inspiring Artworks by Ben Heine

Ben Heine is a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer. His galleries are filled with great stuff and he can walk beautifully between several art directions, creating amazing pieces in any way he goes. Ben studied graphic arts – and worked as a graphic creator for 8 years -… read more

Tired Of Photoshop’s Complexity? Try These Free And Easy Apps For Your Photos

If you are tired of Photoshop and its millions of hardly use features? then try these. There must be something simple, light-weight, quick and easy photo-editing tools which also does not cost anything to use. So, luckily there are tons of web-based photo editors available. Well most are crap, but… read more

30 Funny Print Ads that’ll Make You Laugh

In the world of print advertising, there’s a small window to grab the audience’s attention. Being restricted to a still image means the message must be very strong and catchy. Ad agencies often rely on humor to achieve this. A humorous print ad campaign starts with a funny idea,… read more

Acryl Paintings on Three Dimensional Surfaces by Alexa Meade

A friend passed me the link to a gallery today. At first I wasnt really impressed. They looked like typical acryl painting – and that is the mysterium – they werent. Alexa Meade , a Washington DC based artist, uses acryl paint on three dimensional surfaces to make them look… read more

A Collection of 30+ Useful Maya Tutorials

Maya is a high-end 3D application that enables the user to create highly realistic images using the various tools provided by the software. The software allows you to create images in 3D format. Several designers in the web are into using this software to design the ultimate image…. read more

The Amazing Art of Disabled Artists

Some of the best artists deal with disabilities in their everyday lives that the rest of us can’t even imagine living with, and use art to communicate with the world. The results are often stunning.

We’ve collected biographies and sample pieces from outstanding disabled artists, both famous… read more

Daily Inspiration #457

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

From the Imagination of a Child

This is a very interesting and down-right cool concept. Artist/Illustrator Dave Devries takes the doodles and sketches of very young kids and realizes them into fully fleshed 3-dimensional illustrations using color, texture, and shading. It makes me want to dig out my old drawings that I did when… read more

Showcase Of Web Design In China: From Imitation To Innovation

China is a country with five thousand years of civilization. It is a multi-national entity extending over a large area of East Asia. China’s cultural influence extends across the continent, with customs and writing systems adopted by neighboring countries including Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

China has gone through numerous ups and… read more

How to Make an Inspired, Golden Painting in Illustrator

In this tutorial we will travel back in time to recreate the painting style of one of the most outstanding symbolism artists – Gustav Klimt. His works are full of warm golden colors, simple ornaments, irregular patterns, natural symbols, and asymmetric shapes. We will work to produce this style with… read more

The Talented Mister Gross

Everybody think Alex Gross (1968) is an amazing and talented  illustrator. And he is. There are a lot of influences in his art. From Renaissance to Japanese  advertising.

Alex graduated in 1990 from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California.

“His earliest artistic influences were comic books and… read more

Daily Inspiration #455

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

90+ Smoking Cinema 4D Tutorials and Best Techniques

Cinema 4D is a 3-D application that is popular amongst matte painters in film production, largely due to the BodyPaint 3D functionality. It is equally popular amongst motion graphics artists, thanks to its excellent integration with compositing application pipelines, and a very artist-friendly, customizable workflow and interface. It has been… read more

35 Amazing Traditional Art Paintings

By Obaid ul Rehman

Traditional art has always been the source of inspiration for many artists and designers. With its conventional look and feel, it appeals your visitors and let them amaze on your creativity and artistic skills. In this post, we have piled up an inspiring list of some great… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Scraped Grunge

The other day I was wandering around some back allies in my town and came across all of these cool poles that had been painted and scraped and repainted over and over again. I thought it gave these grunge textures a very cool feel, almost like an abstract acrylic painting… read more

How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop

By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training

There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers.

To start with, locate an image that could benefit from more… read more

40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

You simply… read more

Playing with Watercolor Brushes and Masks in Pixelmator

I have already created some tutorials about watercolor effects; however, I also want to create a workflow that is extremely simple but that produces a beautiful result. Therefore, I invented this tutorial, which uses only basic watercolor brushes, a photo, and a layer mask.

This tutorial is part of a series… read more

Daily Inspiration #449

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

35 Incredible 3D Renders

Unbelievable, magical, miraculous… one can go on using adjectives, but nothing can come close to describing what 3D renders can to. It can transform your imagination into stunning pictures in a way such that it becomes difficult to distinguish between the real photo and the virtual one.

Applications like 3D Max,… read more

45 Amazing Digital Portraits

I simply love digital portraits… they can be drawings, paintings & airbrushing or whatever other technique you may like. I think it’s pretty impressive the talent that some artists have on creating digital portraits that are amazing. Amazing for its realism, perfection, lines or even for its details. Maybe I… read more

80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

Topaz Adjust 4 AND a New Cintiq 21UX

Hey everyone, Happy Monday! Today I am happy to hear that there are two really cool additions that I think you’d be very interested in.

Topaz Adjust 4
Topaz Adjust is one of those products that sits on the computer of many a digital artist (myself included). it takes… read more

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations

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88 Ultimate Round-Up of Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less… read more

Daily Inspiration #442

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

Food Design At Its Best: 40 Extraordinary Examples Of Edible Art

Everybody knows you’re not supposed to play with your food but that doesn’t stop these artists from creating some rather extraordinary edible art. Far from the mountains you used to make with your mashed potatoes, these masterpieces could go on display in a museum. Mixing together a little food and… read more

The Wild and Tender Photography of Rodolphe Simeon

Rodolphe Simeon is a french photographer living in Canada. And this is not the only thing mixing cultures in his life: he speaks French, English and German.

The first time I saw his pictures was in the brazilian magazine Zupi,which I recommend to read or at least to visit its site…. read more

Daily Inspiration #440

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

A Round-Up of 50 Fresh Photoshop Tutorials and Techniques

As a graphic designer you will never reach the point were you can say “Yep, I know everything, nothing left for me to learn!“. It doesn’t work that way, graphic design is a constant evolution of learning new techniques, knowing latest design trends and all the while staying focused… read more

Art Manifestos and Their Applications in Contemporary Design

The way you express yourself with words is a crucial extension of your creative identity. Professional designers are usually busy focusing on the visual aspects of their craft, but visual arts and literary arts collide and coincide regularly. The two fields meet not just in typography, but also in press… read more

Daily Inspiration #437

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

Steve Jobs visits Wall Street Journal, trashes Flash again

Click the “read more” link to see some more tidbits from the meeting and some analysis of the remarks.

It bears noting once again that none of these quotes are confirmed, direct quotes from Jobs, but rather hearsay from others purportedly present at the meeting. That having been… read more

Daily Inspiration #436

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

Surrealist Drawings by Reality-must-die

I have been working on a few designs heavily inspired by the Surrealism, because of that I was looking for some references and visual artists that are influenced by this style as well. Then I stumbled upon Reality-must-die at DeviantArt. I couldn’t get much information about him, I know he… read more

75 Mind-Blowing Examples of Concept Art

Concept art is the ideas visually presented to anyone in the form of drawings, paintings, quick sketches, sculptures, thumbnails, and any type of art that defines the purpose or attempts to explain the meaning. This is a relatively new designation popularized by artists working in the automobile and video games… read more

How To Create A Vintage Camera in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, we’ll reproduce a fairly old camera: a Halina Super 35X.

We’ll use various tools and techniques to create a vintage camera from scratch, from the basic Marquee Tools (to create simple shapes) to the Brush Tool (for highlights and shadows).

The tutorial has 23 steps,… read more

Acrylic Paintings by Ryan Jacob Smith

Portland-based artist, Ryan Jacob Smith explores themes of environmental consciousness and the human body in his acrylic paintings. He is a graduate, with honors, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California (2001), and incorporates much of his Orange County upbringing in the street culture style of his work…. read more

Seth Godin on What it Takes to be a Linchpin [INTERVIEW]

Steve Cunningham is the CEO of Polar Unlimited, a digital marketing agency.

In his book — Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? — Seth Godin poses a challenge: Take your gift, whatever it is, and use it to change the world.

In the tradition of his previous books, Godin has not settled for a… read more

Interview with David Pache of Helvetic Brands

David Pache is a branding expert from Switzerland. His work is grounded in design principles, which gives him a strong platform to create unique identities from. He has recently rebranded his studio under the name Helvetic Brands, as that better describes his services.

David prides himself in not overcomplicating identity solutions…. read more

Best of the Week #106

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

Awesome Illustrations by Alex Dukal

Alex Dukal is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Buenos Aieres, Argentina. He has done works for popular magazines in Argentina such as Fierro, Lápiz Japonés and others. Also he has contributed with his illustrations to some childeren’s books, which it’s his currently job.

In 2000 Alex traveled to… read more

The Future of HDR and its Use within the Camera

A Guest post by Dave Ware from Whalebone Photography.

This note is aimed to be a quick discussion on High Dynamic Range and possible future enhancements to improve it.

What is High Dynamic Range?

High Dynamic Range is a digital processing effect used within photography to combine a number of images of differing… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #86 – Erik Schumacher

The wallpaper of this week is an amazing image created by Erik Schumacher, a German student currently studying Physics at the university of Dortmund, specialised in the fields of photomanipulation and space art, but always trying to broaden his skills into other areas such as matte painting and digital painting…. read more

Interview with Matt Lyon – C86

Matt Lyon, aka C86, is a talented, vector illustrator living in London, UK. He has a background in teaching graphic design to young adults, he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London, and he has successfully transitioned into working as a full-time illustrator. He’s inspired… read more

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models + Live Video = One Sexy Stream

Starting February 9, 2010, red-blooded males (and females) can get closer than ever before to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit models of their dreams. Sports Illustrated will be using Ustream for several days of interactive model action streamed live to the web.

The web broadcast promotion is part of the Sports… read more

35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary Tonge

35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary Tonge

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Wonderful Ateliers at City of Arts

Today our architecture inspiration comes from Cordoba, Argentina. It’s a campus with ateliers to several art classes, such as painting, sculpture, photography and music. I can say that the mix of colors and the vibrant forms are amazing, and I can imagine how all this architecture can influence each one… read more

Creating an HDR-like Image From a Single RAW File in Lightroom

A Guest Post by Pye of SLRLounge.com.

Introduction

If you have been anywhere near the photography world in the past couple years, I am sure you have heard of HDR by now as there have been countless tutorials floating around on how to create HDR images using 3 bracketed exposures in programs… read more

Architect Day: Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava adds to his architecture the art and of power engineering. After years of study in these areas, he can bring large structures to existence, giving life to his paintings.

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Photos from site calatrava.com.

Santiago Calatrava was born on July 28, 1951 in Valencia, Spain. At age 8 he began to… read more