Sites of the Week #125

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Estratti.net and A Modern Eden. Also we’re featuring the awesome Designmoo blog and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

How To Make Innovative Ideas Happen

In one of his recent presentations, Frans Johansson explained why groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas than their counterparts. After watching his presentation The Secret Truth About Executing Great Ideas, my thoughts began to surface about how meaningful the presentation was regardless of a persons industry, culture, field… read more

Lightroom or Aperture? 3 Factors to Consider

Over on my blog, I entertain reader questions weekly. Today I got a question so great I wanted to share the answer with you fine people!

Q. “I have tried both Aperture and Lightroom and I can’t make up my mind. So which one should I get?”

A. At first, one might… read more

Amazon Web Services Offers Free Cloud Access

Amazon.com just revealed a free usage tier for its Amazon Web Services (AWS). The announcement was just a footnote to its Q3 2010 earnings call, but it has broad implications for Amazon and the future of the Internet.

Starting on November 1, new AWS users will be able to take advantage… read more

25 Stunning Black Business Cards for Print Design Inspiration

25 Stunning Black Business Cards for Print Design Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #646

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

Canon Powershot S95 Review

At first the Canon PowerShot S95 seems to be just another point-and-shooter: compact, all black and stylish. Then a quick glance over the specs and external controls leads you to think otherwise.

Canon Powershot S95 Features

The CCD has 10.0 megapixels; the lens is a fast f2 zoom that has a range… read more

Plan Your Next Vacation From a Single Dashboard

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: Wanderfly

Quick Pitch: Wanderfly is a travel recommendation engine that… read more

10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

PHP is the language behind some of the most powerful and pervasive web applications around, including the ubiquitous Facebook and the unstoppable WordPress.

Learning a new language can be daunting, so… read more

Guidelines for Effective E-mail Management

By Robert Bowen

Many of our readers are constantly talking about the burden that weighs on their days stemming from an overflowing inbox. Day in and day out they are receiving such a high volume of e-mails that this communication tool becomes too cumbersome to remain effective, and instead begins to… read more

Business Icon Set (Contains 20 High Quality Icons In PNG Format) Giveaway

WebIconSet.com is running a contest, where 15 winners will get the premium business icon set and each set being with 20 high quality Business icons in PNG format. Well, you guys know what WebIconSet.com. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

Web Icon Set aims to provide you the best professional… read more

Now You Can Print Your Facebook Photos at Target

Kodak Picture Kiosks at most Target stores in the U.S. now feature newly added “Social Network Connectivity” for printing physical copies of Facebook photos.

The enhanced kiosks are a product of a partnership between Target and Kodak. Customers will be able to use them to log in to and access Facebook… read more

iPhoto ‘11 Brings More Social Tools and New Print Options

At Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event today, the company unveiled the next version of iLife, iLife ‘11. One of the signature parts of the iLife suite, iPhoto, is getting a pretty impressive overhaul.

The new iPhoto ‘11 features more full-screen modes for photos, faces and places, more album themes and… read more

35 Awe-Inspiring Booklet Designs for Print Design Inspiration

Booklets are useful tools in conveying information and in advertising. Aside from being easy to carry, they are less likely to bore the reader since their content is shorter. These printed materials can be used mainly as manuals, guides, and flyers to give readers a brief but concise… read more

Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services

In the mid-80s the desktop publishing revolution began with the introduction of the Mac Plus, Aldus PageMaker and the Apple LaserWriter printer. It took quite a few years for these tools to make an impact on the design and publishing world, but once they did, there was no looking back.

In… read more

Samsung Galaxy Tablet Pricing Revealed

Pricing and launch details for at least one of the carrier partners for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tablet have been revealed.

The device will sell for $599.99 on Verizon Wireless beginning November 11. According to the company, data plans for the device start at $20 per month, which comes with… read more

HOW TO: Avoid Being a Disaster Client

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

No one wants to be immortalized on a website like Clients from Hell, which documents the worst of clients from the web designers’ perspective. Partly because no… read more

100+ Examples of Mind Blowing Bird’s Eye View Photography

A bird’s-eye view is an elevated view of an object from above, with a perspective as though the observer were a bird, often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps. The terms aerial view and aerial viewpoint are also sometimes used synonymously with bird’s-eye view. The term… read more

59 Interesting Print Ads From 22 Companies

59 Interesting Print Ads From 22 Companies

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Is the iPad Really the Savior of the Newspaper Industry?

Even before the iPad was revealed, analysts, pundits and the publishing industry were already heralding the tablet as the platform that would save the industry from declining readership and dropping revenue.

The iPad’s high-res display, large screen, digital delivery and interactive capabilities were lauded as the next generation of tools that… read more

Awesome Freebie: Web Accessibility Checklist Desktop Wallpaper

Today we have yet another awesome freebie for you – a useful Web Accessibility Checklist desktop wallpaper with a grungy feel that features some super simple yet often forgotten reminders for your websites accessibility.
It has been designed by Giovanni Scala from QuicklyCode.com.

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14 Essential WordPress Development… read more

Palm Pre 2 Officially Revealed

HP has officially revealed the Palm Pre 2, and with it confirmed many of the details about the device’s specs that leaked onto the Web last week.

The Palm Pre 2 — the first smartphone from Palm since HP purchased the smartphone-maker — sports a 1 gigahertz processor, 5-megapixel camera, slide-out… read more

Interview with Claire Latchem aka Superfex

Claire Latchem — aka Superfex — is an Illustrator and designer from South West of England. Claire says, character design, animation, model making, vector and tattoo design influence her work greatly. She also enjoys exploring vivid color palettes and different line weights. Her style of illustration is cute, energetic and… read more

Nicereply: Feedback on Your Email Quality

Today’s communication between customers and businesses rely heavily on email, which also happens to be something not commonly associated with customer satisfaction and feedback. Sure, big companies have some sort of customer feedback system via email, but it’s usually in regards to support provided over the phone, in person or… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of PrintRunner (Set Of 250 Color Business Cards Of Your Choice) Giveaway

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which you could win business cards from PrintRunner.com. We ran the MySql random query and selected these commenter to give them business cards of their choice.

Roland
Luigi
Jonathan
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PrintRunner.com is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California…. read more

Leica V-Lux 20 Review

Here’s another LeicaPana compact with a Leica lens married to a Panasonic-designed body and electronics. And if you think the V-LUX 20 looks like the latter’s Lumix DMC-ZS7 (or DMC-TZ10 in Australia) you’re precisely on the money.

There are some differences: among them a slightly different handgrip and some other cosmetic… read more

How Social Search Will Transform the SEO Industry

Joe Devine is the Chief Executive Officer of The Search Engine Guys, LLC (TSEG), a full-service web marketing company based in Austin, Texas.

Facebook and Bing announced last week an agreement that would allow Microsoft’s search engine to return results based on the Facebook “Likes” of the searcher’s friends. Additionally,… read more

Apple Declared “Marketer of the Decade”

Ad Age has unveiled its very first Marketer of the Decade award recipient: Apple. Although the famous fruit has only won Marketer of the Year once in the last decade (but has been a contender or runner-up nearly every year), the Ad Age staff decided to pull the company out… read more

WiMAX 4G Coming to New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2010

The next-next generation U.S. wireless technology is preparing itself for primetime in major metropolitan areas. New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles will each have 4G WiMAX by the end of 2010.

WiMAX will serve as Sprint’s fourth generation (4G) wireless option. Verizon and AT&T have both selected long term… read more

BlackBerry Style Brings $99 OS 6 Device to Sprint

RIM and Sprint have announced BlackBerry Style 9670, a new smartphone with a flip design, a full QWERTY keyboard and two screens, available only at Sprint come October 31.

The Style features BlackBerry 6 OS, a 5-megapixel camera with Flash and video support, GPS, Wi-Fi and an expandable memory slot that… read more

Common Security Mistakes in Web Applications

Web application developers today need to be skilled in a multitude of disciplines. It’s necessary to build an application that is user friendly, highly performant, accessible and secure, all while executing partially in an untrusted environment that you, the developer, have no control over. I speak, of course, about the… read more

5 Gadgets that Broke New Ground in 2010 [Mashable Awards]

As part of the upcoming Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Best Gadget.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please contact sponsorships@mashable.com for more information.

The year hasn’t been heavily… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Oct 10-Oct 16, 2010

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

How to Edit Multiple Files at Once in Lightroom

Adjusting several images at once in Lightroom is not only simple, but a huge time saver for batch editing. When you have many photos from a shoot that you want to adjust the same way – such as a wedding or sporting event – these simple steps… read more

Blog Action Day: Web Apps for Water

This year AppStorm is taking part in Blog Action Day to raise awareness about clean water and water conservation.

In this post we’ll take a few minutes to consider how the wonderful world of web apps affect water resources and how you can use them to benefit not only yourself but… read more

The Business Behind the Internet TV Revolution

This post originally appeared on Forbes.com, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about social media, business and technology.

The television is about to become the latest medium to get a major makeover at the hands of the Internet. Already more than half of Americans are watching TV and surfing the web simultaneously…. read more

E-book Sales Up 193% So Far This Year

While print book sales continue to decline, e-book sales are up 192.9% this year to date, according to figures gathered from 14 publishers by The Association of American Publishers (AAP).

E-books now make up 9% of all trade sales in the U.S.; last year, they made up a mere 3.3%.

E-book sales… read more

How 4 Small Businesses are Using Location-Based Services

The Small Business Round Table Series is supported by the British Airways Face-to-Face Program, which offers U.S. entrepreneurs and small business owners critical tools for building business relationships abroad. See www.ba.com/contest before October 21.

With limited staff and resources, small businesses often don’t have the time to test all the latest… read more

BAD 2010 – Clear Information in Water Inspired Infographics

This year Vectortuts+ is taking part in Blog Action Day to raise awareness about clean water and water conservation. A large part of raising awareness about any issue is clearly communicating the issues. When you need a powerful way to clarify information and make it stand out visually turn to… read more

Blog Action Day: Get Your Mac Involved!

This year AppStorm is taking part in Blog Action Day to raise awareness about clean water and water conservation. We’re going to take a moment to think how using your Mac also uses up the world’s water resources, and showcase a few apps useful for understanding this better.

We’ll also think… read more

HOW TO: Help Solve the Global Water Crisis with Social Media

This post is in support of Blog Action Day 2010: Water.

Lack of clean water is an issue that’s easy to overlook because we take it as such a given. Thirsty? There’s a bottle. Dirty? There’s a faucet to clean yourself. From the perspective of the industrialized world, it’s hard to… read more

Create a Wallpaper for Blog Action Day

Today is Blog Action Day, a day when bloggers all over the world unite to discuss a particular topic. What a lot of people may not know is that Envato founders, Collis and Cyan Ta’eed founded Blog Action Day in the summer of 2007 hoping to raise awareness about the… read more

6 Ways Freelancers Can Go Green

The theme of this year’s Blog Action Day is water. That means that approximately 2,500 blogs around the world are, in some way, writing about all-precious H20. At FreelanceSwitch, that got us thinking. Aside from not having to drive to work, how can freelancers go green—and fluidly continue doing so?

There… read more

The History of Web Browsers

A Web Browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the web.

Today’s web browsers are faster and more feature-rich than ever before. If you’re not sure which one you should use, then it’s not a easy task to pick one as i have seen many… read more

Organization Tips For Web Designers

As a web designer, you’re often forced to wear many different hats every day. You’re the CEO, creative director, office manager, coffee fetcher and sometimes even janitor. That’s a lot for anyone, and it certainly makes it difficult to find any time for quality creative thinking. Organization in any operation… read more

How to Identify a Font

What is the font used for the title of Friends? How about the typeface of that old copy of Moby Dick you picked up at that garage sale? The back of your Starbucks pastry bag? And please tell me, how can you find the font on a worn out… read more

Fujifilm Finepix F80EXR [REVIEW]

Digicams with 10x zooms seem to be driving the lower end of the market … and a good thing too, I say.

Available in black or silver, this little camera is deceptive, to say the least: built into a shiny, double coated lacquer finish, it is light, easily pocketable and thankfully… read more

Sharpening Follow Up and Winners

Thanks for all of the comments the other day about my upcoming sharpening class. I have to say I love the way this community jumps in to help and I honestly appreciate all of your time. I know we don’t have a lot of it, and I’m grateful you spend… read more

Factors Influencing Your Overall Website Design

When most people check out a new website, they sometimes think “yikes, this website looks like total crap” or “wow, this is one of the best website designs I’ve ever seen!” What is it that makes the great websites look so great?

In my experience, Website designing is not a… read more

A Look Inside InDesign CS5

InDesign CS5 has arrived with lot of new tools, panels and features. Let’s have a closer look at these changes and discover how they can improve our workflow, productivity and, best of all, our creative process. Time to also think outside of the box, since InDesign is starting to explore… read more

Sample Restaurant Menu Printing Ideas to Wow the Senses

Sample Restaurant Menu Printing Ideas to Wow the Senses

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30 Funny Print Ads for Promotional Banner Printing Ideas

30 Funny Print Ads for Promotional Banner Printing Ideas

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Stylish Graphic Design and Illustrations by Philipp Zurmöhle

Philipp Zurmöhle is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Nuremberg, Germany. He is currently working at Adidas in Germany but is also available for freelance projects.

For more information about Philipp Zurmöhle visit his Web site at http://www.phillennium.com/ or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/philippzm

SEVEN MONKEYS

Seven Monkeys poster – Submission… read more

How to Make a Two-tone Landscape Using Photoshop RAW

Creating black and white landscapes is a powerful way to capture stunning tones with a traditional subject. However, if black and white is a bit too boring for you, you can easily take it to the next level and turn your image into a two-tone landscape that… read more

URL Shortener Bit.ly Now Generates QR Codes, Too

URL shortening service bit.ly announced Tuesday that users can now automatically generate QR codes that, when scanned with a mobile QR code reader, automatically direct users to shortened links.

To create a QR code, visit bit.ly, write or paste in a URL address, click “Shorten,” and add .qr to the end… read more

The Digital Newspaper: Hands-On with 4 Top iPad Apps

Consumers have more digital options for reading the news than ever before. From pithy, one-line updates on Twitter, to RSS feed readers with customizable content, to dedicated apps from newspapers on mobile devices — choices are endless.

But it’s the on-the-go mobile apps we are interested in here, with a hands-on… read more

35 Fresh Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials

With the help of Abobe Photoshop you can turn your usual image to an interested photo artwork. In this post we present a couple of recent useful photo effect Photoshop tutorials that may help you improve your skills and enhance the quality of your artworks.

Combine Stock Photography… read more

6 Steps to Landing Local Jobs

Freelancing online seems to be all the rage, but making connections in our own cities might provide projects that are bigger, more high profile, and lead to more consistent work.

Landing local jobs might take a different strategy than landing projects online, one that is more about being seen in… read more

A Case for Adobe Fireworks against Photoshop and Illustrator

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This is a guest post by Andy Killen.
I’ve been a full-on Fireworks user now since the first release way back when it was owned by Macromedia. What Fireworks offered then is still as true today. A true web design environment with the right tools to do the job you… read more

16 Examples of Classic Heavy Metal Posters and Cover Art

16 Examples of Classic Heavy Metal Posters and Cover Art

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Creating Custom Shirts With ShirtMockup

Mockups are great. They’re really good at allowing you to show others what your design is going to be like before it’s even finished. That’s no different with t-shirt designs. Sometimes, you spend so long working on the design itself that you don’t put much thought about how you’re going… read more

50 New Useful CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

These are great times for front-end developers. After months of exaggerated excitement about HTML5 and CSS3, the web design community now starts coming up with CSS techniques that actually put newly available technologies to practical use instead of abusing them for pure aesthetic purposes. We see fewer “pure CSS images”… read more

Twitter Prepping Ad Product for Small Businesses

With Twitter’s ad-based business model now evolving on what seems like an almost daily basis, the company has revealed plans for a big new target: small businesses.

In an article published by The New York Times on Monday, recently promoted Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says the company, “would offer a self-serve… read more

Top iPhone Developer Discusses the Future of Media Apps [VIDEO]

Last week, we profiled ScrollMotion, a company that brings books and magazines to mobile devices in innovative and compelling ways.

ScrollMotion is responsible for the new Esquire app for the iPad — an app that offers a new take on translating print content for digital consumption for an additive and not… read more

10 Great Apps for Remote Access & Support

Among other things, remote access of a computer is primarily used for accessing files or to provide support and maintenance. Even the age of the cloud, it might be against the policy of your company to store and retrieve official documents from third party servers. Alternatively, decent remote access apps… read more

Ruby for Newbies: Installing Ruby and Getting Started

Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. Today, we’re starting a new screencast series here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go along with Ruby development. Today, we’ll look at why you might… read more

5 Fun and Safe Social Networks for Children

If you have young children on Facebook or MySpace, they shouldn’t be — at least legally. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) prevents websites from collecting personal information about children who are under the age of 13 without their parents’ permission.

Many children bypass this law, even on sites that… read more

HOW TO: Manage Your Presence on Google Maps

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

Did you know you can use Google Maps to promote your business? Many of the features that you might normally associate with Yelp are actually included in… read more

40+ Useful Online Generators For Web Designers

By Cameron Chapman

Generators can be a great way to save time in your web design projects. High-quality generators can create graphics or code or even layouts in a matter of seconds or minutes, things that might take an hour or more if done by hand. Below are some useful generators… read more

What’s New for Web Designers – Oct. 2010

New apps and websites seem to be appearing on an almost daily basis, but trying to find the good ones among them can be tough, especially considering how many are not that great.

That’s why every month we research and showcase some of the best and latest resources available for web… read more

40 Fresh Examples of Minimal Web Design

There is nothing more inspiring than a clean and minimal website. A design with few elements representing something. The saying “less is more”, even though somewhat cliche, couldn’t be more true. We already published here a A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs and a list with 60 Minimal and… read more

5 Fun Products to Personalize Your iPhone

Ever notice that it’s the little things that help you express your individuality? The way you tie your laces, how you take your coffee, or a special product that you’ve personalized.

Everyone and his dog seems to be toting an iPhone these days, but you can at least differentiate yours with… read more

Fujifilm Finepix HS10 Review

In an era of small digicams this is a monster. The size of a DSLR, it weighs a little under 750g and, mounted into the front of the body, is its big, big feature… a 30x zoom that stretches from a 35 SLR equivalent of an enjoyably wide 24mm starting… read more

32 New Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

The Mashable Awards have officially kicked off and so far the response has been great. In support, we’ve rolled out a series of stories looking at each awards category in more detail.

Those three awards posts were joined by a bunch of tools and resources from the past week or so…. read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Oct 3-Oct 9, 2010

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

A Guide to the Most Popular Tools in Photoshop

Working in Photoshop can be confusing to say the least, especially if you’ve just bought a new dSLR or made the switch over from film to digital. While there is a huge learning curve for this program, the benefits of proper image editing are certainly worth the… read more

30 Beautiful Showcase Postcard and Brochure Printing

30 Beautiful Showcase Postcard and Brochure Printing

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Succeeding as a Freelance Illustrator: FSw Interviews Oliver Weiss

I am always fascinated by a freelancer that dominates his or her field. For Oliver Weiss, it’s illustration. This award-winning freelance illustrator from Germany has plenty of insight into securing well-known clients–and also some tricks for surviving the professional award circuit.

How did you get into illustrating?
I have always wanted… read more

PrintRunner Giveaway (Win A Set Of 250 Color Business Cards Of Your Choice)

PrintRunner.com is running a contest, where 13 winners will get the sets of business cards and each set being with 250 color cards of user choice. Well, you guys know what PrintRunner.com is. Lets say it once again for n00bs.

PrintRunner.com is a full service high quality… read more

Stunning Vintage Style Print Advertising From Canada

Stunning Vintage Style Print Advertising From Canada

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The Reinvention of Print, One App at a Time

On the ninth floor of a nondescript building in New York City is a very unique company that is poised to change the future of publishing. This company has more than 11,000 apps in the App Store, deals with some of the biggest players in publishing and is able to… read more

5 Game-Changing Social Media Marketing Campaigns [Mashable Awards]

As part of the upcoming Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Most Creative Social Media Campaign,” click HERE for our previous coverage. Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas! Sponsorships are available. Please… read more

9 Free Resources for Learning Photoshop

This post originally appeared on My Life Scoop, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about using social media and technology for a more connected life.

If, like most people, you haven’t “layered” since last winter and only “merge” at speeds of 60 mph and over, getting accustomed to the lingo and layout… read more

10 Captivating Time-Lapse Design Videos

The design process is fascinating, but almost always takes more time than the casual viewer can afford to invest. But time-lapse techniques can condense hours of work into a more manageable few minutes for your viewing pleasure.

From logos and websites to magazines, and from pen and paper to advanced design… read more

Photoshop Elements 9 Reviewed

It can be tempting for a lot of designers to consider buying Photoshop Elements rather than regular Photoshop CS5.

After all, Elements will cost you less than $100, whereas Photoshop could cost you ten times that amount. And not everyone is clear on what the differences are… read more

Esquire for the iPad: Not Just Another Magazine Under Glass

“Hello, I am Javier Bardem. Welcome to Esquire magazine.”

So opens the October edition of Esquire for the iPad, the first issue the Hearst-owned title has created for the device. The walking and talking video of Bardem quickly fades into a close replica of the October print cover, featuring a crisp… read more

Fantastic Digital Arts by David Fuhrer

David Fuhrer is a self taught freelance artist born in 1985 in Bern, Switzerland. The 90′s has a clear influence on this work especially because we grew up in that decade and started experiment with computer creating visual art.

With focus on Illustration his work is full of details with some… read more

FreelanceSwitch Flickr Contest: Submit Your Photos!

FreelanceSwitch has created our first FreelanceSwitch community flickr group, and we’re giving away prizes to celebrate! Instead of regular ol’ blog images, we want to feature photos from our community on blog posts. Submit your photos to the flickr pool, and if we choose your image, you’ll be credited in… read more

92% of U.S. Toddlers Have Online Presence [STUDY]

According to a recent international survey of 2,200 mothers, 81% of children under the age of two currently have some form of online presence — ranging from a single photo uploaded and shared by their parents, to a full-fledged profile on a social networking site. A full 92% of children… read more

Sony A390 Review

To my considerable delight, we now find ourselves surrounded by a multiplicity of options when facing a choice of camera, especially in the interchangeable lens division.

You want it small? Go for the Micro Four Thirds models or Sony’s NEX duo or Samsung’s clever NX… and it appears Canon will soon… read more

Why Should You Publish a Regular Email Newsletter?

Why bother with a regular newsletter? Because it’s a fabulous way to build relationships with the people who are – or could become – your clients.

Now, you’re probably thinking that, in these days of text messaging and connecting via social networking sites, email has become stodgy and boring. And that… read more

Food for Thought – Creative Food Advertising

If there is one category of advertising that I really love and which can also get me salivating  it’s ‘Food’.

Advertisers are always thinking up clever ways to get us excited about brands food products with some creative and clever advertising.  Take a break and take a look and get some… read more

Useful Collection of Cheat-Sheet Desktop Wallpaper for Web Designers

Typical cheatsheets tend to be over-sized documents, far too large to be viewed in its entirety on a desktop and not too handy for the super-fast reference that is needed. To get the full benefit of any cheatsheat, your only real option is to print it out and keep it… read more

Five Useful Design Techniques and Coding Solutions For Web Designers

As designers, we have to create an intuitive user experience, solve design problems and provide a beautiful and functional user interfaces. Unlike print design, we don’t have the luxury of designing in a static area; rather, our canvas is ever-changing in its content, browser width, page length and more. We… read more

Clothing Hang Tag Design: 12 Trendy Examples

Clothing Hang Tag Design: 12 Trendy Examples

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A Beginner’s Guide to Outdoor Portraits

If you’re new to portrait photography, starting your work outdoors is an inexpensive and simple way to experiment with your camera. There’s no need to construct a studio environment, and learning how to manipulate natural lighting is a great skill to acquire. Below are a few… read more

Verizon to Launch 4G Network in 38 Cities By Year’s End

Verizon Wireless announced its plans for rolling out its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network at today’s CTIA conference. Verizon plans to launch LTE in 38 major U.S. markets by the end of the year.

This initial rollout should cover more than 110 million Americans and will be concentrated in major… read more

AppShelf 2.0: Managing Your Software Registrations

There’s a good chance that you’ve made a significant investment in the applications on your Mac – if not in their purchase cost, certainly in the time you’ve invested making sure you’ve got the right apps to suit the way you work.

What would happen if you had to reinstall OS… read more

Designing The 2010 Cleveland Browns Season Tickets

Is everyone ready for some football? Today, we have a special treat for you. Chris Modarelli, Art director and Senior Designer for the Cleveland Browns has taken some time from his busy schedule to walk us through the process of creating a season ticket design for the Cleveland Browns. Let’s… read more

Celebrating Vintage and Retro: 60 Remarkable Designs

Old memories always evoke a sense of nostalgia and melancholy. Technology has a very revolving effect on our life and things have changed dramatically, yet vintage and retro designs can be very inspirational. In this post, we present a showcase of beautiful vintage and retro graphic designs and posters.

Vintage… read more