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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The Music Series is a collection of posters done by the Argentinian graphic design studio called Minga. The series features ten posters that each represent a style of music, check out the posters and see what style fits you best. <!–break–> For more from studio Minga visit http://www.estudiominga.com or behance.net/minga A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be—Abraham Maslow About the author Hi! I’m Paulo Canabarro and I’m here to post some really cool stuff for you, if you have any ideas or any requests please get @ me – pvpcanabarro@gmail.com you can also Follow me on twitter! Sponsored Links:
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As long as there have been computers there have been computer geeks. And as long as there have been geeks there have been geeky comic strips. Don’t you miss reading comic strips in your daily newspaper? It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with comic strips and graphic novels as modern age designers love to experiment with things and try to convey their message in creative and compressive manner.
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
With a simple and direct methods described in this tutorial, you can create a female portrait easily. This process will have you creating anatomically correct human faces in no time. Final Image Preview Below is the final image we will be working towards. Want access to the full Vector Source files and downloadable copies of every tutorial, including this one?
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Feb 8, 2010 General
One of the first composition rules we learn in photography is the rule-of-thirds. But once you’ve understood this concept, what else can you do to improve the composition of your photos? It will get you started, but there’s more to composition than where you place your subject in the frame. Today we’ll be exploring a few more aspects of photographic composition, to ensure you’re completely clued up on how to take brilliant shots! I’ve never liked the term ‘rule-of-thirds’.
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Feb 8, 2010 General
Donating money to a charity should be as quick and easy online as it is to stuff a few coins in a collection pot on the high street. It should also be apparent what the money will be used for. With these two things in mind, it is surprising how often charities miss the mark when it comes to their online donation screens. Fiddly pull-downs, peculiar microcopy, trillions of steps, and minimal transparency.
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
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? <!–break–> Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!).
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology . While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were wondering when we were going to get into the nitty-gritty of actually creating some color schemes. Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talking about methods for creating your own color schemes, from scratch .
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
CSS does a pretty darn good job of helping to lay out a web page… but not always. Even with all the versatility that CSS offers (including CSS3), it sometimes is not enough and, dare I say it, I really hate to say it – HTML tables are on [very few] occasions missed, as they can fill in the holes that CSSes layout techniques may leave behind. Thankfully we do not have to venture down the road of HTML tables, there is a White Knight that can save is, as it always does – there is jQuery and its marvelous community of developers that release an endless river of powerful and always useful plugins. jQuery Masonry Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery.
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Transparency effects in logo design help bring to life a digital mark, adding that extra level of depth and color. This showcase of examples provides some great design inspiration and shows how designers have creatively used transparency and overlaying effects to build unique logo designs. Goosebumps – Jared Milam Meca – Andre Oliveira Andy Fiord – sbDesign Nethik – Aurelie Ronflard Boss Hog Studio – Mathieu Schatzier Paranaiv – Are Sundnes Munich 2018 Museum of London – Corey Porter Bell Saol – Stefan Romanu Zipliner – David Pache Lexpro – Kirill Demidenko Pangur Glass Craft – Sean O’Grady Road Interactive – Kerimov Stanislav Chopeh – Pete Lacey Sylion – Joan Pons Moll tmiint – Bojan Stefanovic Immobiliare.com – Mattia Moretto The Creative Company – Andre Gagnon Go Play – David Pache Wrapture – Nexqunyx SIC Group – Misha Lepshey Pousada Anduara – Dadado World Moto – Firebrand Creative Atelier – Aleksandar Grkinic Demiu – Dalius Stuoka Robin Rutherford, DDS – Bart ODell Better Yet – Firebrand gonorth – Cris Labno Amova – Roger Oddone Seeing Double – J.Garner Pounamu Ngai Tahu – Simon Thornley A.M.T. Ceramics – Efektyvus Dizainus Capital Universe – Meansmore Free Realtor – Kirill Demidenko Otis – Craig Scott Russell Business Card Design Project Walkthrough High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes Free Hi-Resolution Paint Stroke Photoshop Brushes Create a Cool Wet Ink Typography Effect in Photoshop Free Keep Fit Vectors – Give Your Designs a Workout!
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Feb 8, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Last week I was checking out some of the Typography Mania posts, and got really inspired to try something new. So I decided to create an abstract composition with light effects and apply that as a texture of a text, everything done only using Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create an easy and super quick text effect in Photoshop. We will play with Brushes, Blend Modes, basic filters like Blur and Liquify, and also text.
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