GCSE Student Launches New Appstore Hit with Help From ‘The Studio of Dreams’
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration
For the past 3 weeks, our friends from ustwo™ have been working on a radical new iPhone app with the latest member of the team, Jack McLean – a 16-year old work experience student. Here are all the details of the incredible story and an exclusive interview with Jack. Having recently finished his GCSEs, and unlike most teenagers over the summer holidays, Jack intended to spend his free time doing work experience, making sure his dreams of becoming a famous iPhone app developer became a reality. In just 3 weeks he developed, produced and launched Terry Touch™ – with some help from the team at ustwo™.
Tags: articles, fashion, filmspiration, friends, game, illustration, Inspiration, iphone, jack, people, photography, terry, ustwo, work
How to Make an Internet Web Page
Aug 31, 2010 General, Tutorials
Do you browse the internet often? Are you amazed at how many internet web pages there are in the world today? Don’t you wish you could get a piece of that action? You’re probably thinking that in order to build an internet web page, you have to be some kind of computer genius.
Tags: development, friends, funny, humor, internet-web, notepad, picture, Tutorials, web page, word
Mona Lisa via Email
Aug 29, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
It took Leonardo da Vinci 4 years to almost finish painting the Mona Lisa, and historians say that the work never really ended. According to an ancient anecdote, da Vinci ordered clowns and singers to make Ms. Lisa smile. 500 years later and all you need to do in order to have a portrait made of…
Tags: artist, Design, Fonts, freebies, friends, Inspiration, life, photography, salvador-doggi, tools, Tutorials, web design inspiration, work
40 Cool Twitter Background Designs
Aug 27, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Twitter is a continually growing trend with a shocking popularity worldwide so it’s impossible to avoid a Twitter-related article here (the Twitter icon on the right side of this very article is enough proof of my statement, and very hard to ignore, indeed!). This time we will discuss about Twitter from a designer’s perspective and we’ll be referring to Twitter background designs – something you really shouldn’t take for granted if you care about giving a clue of your personality to your followers, and that at the first glance! So we’ll be looking at some Tweeter backgrounds that are impressive because of their original and very well-balanced graphics, and, in fact, because they have style! A Twitter background is much less demanding than that of a site or blog, but considering that thousands of people could relate to you through that, you should give it a bit of thought, however. Basically, you have to decide about a picture that you place on your Twitter page and usually you get the best results either if you choose a very complex photo-manipulation or composition that catches the eye or if you prefer a simple but striking and very original photo that is cool to look at and makes quite an impression! Don’t forget about the most important element, though – the background that you choose should be a close reflection of your personality! I hope the examples in this article will inspire you for that! Tamar Weinberg ( @tamar ) Adam Plitt ( @adamplitt ) Eric Steuten ( @ericsteuten ) Veronica Belmont ( @Veronica ) The New School ( @thenewschool ) Mark Nikolewski ( @mnik ) Praveen ( @praveenar ) Matt Clark ( @imagedesigns ) Go Media ( @Go_Media ) Michiel Nagtegaal ( @designia ) Chris Spooner ( @chrisspooner ) Happy Tree Friends ( @happytreefriend ) Fresh ID, LLC ( @freshid ) Mark Fulton ( @DotSauce ) Steven Pitts ( @stevenpitts ) Fire Eagle ( @fireeagle ) Basti Hirsch ? ( @cervus ) Wotto76 ( @wotto76 ) iJustine ( @ijustine ) Doug Cone ( @nullvariable ) Jarrod De Lange ( @Designer_Wall ) Knox ( @knoxeo ) krftd ( @Krftd ) Lisa Worsham ( @LisaWorsham ) Eric Bush ( @PlanetXbox360 ) CowboyX ( @cowboyx ) Killer Tweets ( @badasstweets ) Aviary.com ( @Aviary ) Vince Blackham ( @vinceblackham ) Michael C.
Tags: background, best-twitter-backgrounds, custom, Design, downloads, friends, illustration, Resources, stumbleupon, templates, twitter
“Buddycons” – Vector Social Media Icons
Aug 19, 2010 General
Today we’re giving away a wonderful set of social media icons designed exclusively for WDD by Orman Clark, a web designer from the UK. The icon set is called “Buddycons” and includes 126 vector social media icons. Included in the set are PNG versions of all 126 icons in both circular and rounded variations as well as a vector source file for easy resizing. The icons are free to use for personal and commercial usage, however, redistribution is not allowed, so if you’d like to share these icons with your friends, please direct them to this page so that they can download their own copy from here.
Tags: advertising, Design, designer, development, download, freebies, friends, icons, naldz-graphics, orman-clark, social-media, spoon-graphics, vector-social
15 Creative Book Cover Art
Aug 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
I’m not a really big fan of reading, but I like to think that a book cover can tell you a lot about what you’ll find in it! Book cover art is a great way for graphic designers to showcase their skills to the world at a mainstream scale. Most of the book covers I picked are made by designers so maybe I’ll start reading a little more. 94 Incredible Patterns for Design and Illustration A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth Century Sources Classic Graphics Today’s Designs Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces David Choe Fullmetal Alchemist 23 Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing & Ethical Guidelines Hand Job A Catalog of Type Jon Burgerman Pens Are My Friends Latex for Fun Lemon Poppy Seed Multitasking Creativity Linger Milton Glaser Graphic Design The Big Book of Layouts Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far Your turn now – seen any good cover art lately? Shoot some links and we’ll update the post!
Tags: Art, articles, cover, david-choe, designer books, Designers, friends, Inspiration, latex-for-fun, twitter, Web Design
Winners of “How to Build a Successful Blog Business” by Collis Ta’eed
Aug 13, 2010 General, Inspiration
Last Friday we started a new Inspired Freebie session with our friends from Envato offering three copies of the must have book for every blogger – How to Build a Successful Blog Business by Envato’s evil genius himself – mr Collis Ta’eed. See the winners after the jump! The Winners We randomly picked three winners: Marianne Ho Enrique Garcia Andy Park All winners will be contacted via email. Thanks everyone for entering the giveaway and stay tuned for the next one, that will start in a few hours!! The Book If you’re not one of the lucky winners then do yourself a favor and award yourself :-] You won’t be disappointed!
Tags: build-successful, business, catalin-zorzini, Design, eed, facebook, freebies, friends, Inspiration, ta-eed, Web Design
How To Get More Clients From New Clients
Aug 13, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Yesterday I discuss How to Get New Clients From Existing Clients . Generating new client leads should be a major undertaking for any freelancer. You should never stop seeking new opportunities, but remember that you have to do this without losing sight of existing clients. One effective way of balancing these two is to allot a different time each week on marketing and sales and a different time for existing client work.
Tags: article, custom, Design, download, downloads, facebook, flash, friends, illustration, power, Resources, services, stumbleupon, Tips, Tutorials
Stop Designing Aesthetics, Start Designing Emotions
Aug 9, 2010 General
Despite the somewhat provocative title, you shouldn’t really stop designing aesthetics. Gradients and colors and contrast are all good, but there’s a more important side to web design that many people overlook most of the time: Designing emotions. Discussing emotion in design is a bit of a hot topic at the moment, it seems to be popping up in more and more blog posts and speaker sessions. In fact I saw at least three different web designers say that it was the subject of the talk which they had recently submitted for next year’s SXSWi.
Tags: creating-emotions, Design, development, emotions, friends, start-designing-emotions, usability
Win 500 Premium Business Cards and an iNotePad From SonicPrint.com
Aug 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Do you need some new business cards? Looking for a hand-held device that will never crash? Well, we may have the perfect giveaway for you. Today, our friends at SonicPrint.com are giving away 500 free business cards to 2 Colorburned readers and an iNotePad to everyone who signs up here ! SonicPrint is an online print company that specializes in Full Color Business Cards , Brochure Printing , and Postcard Printing.
Tags: accessories, brochure-printing, business-cards, contests, Design, friends, giveaways, Inspiration, photography, Photoshop, Resources, search-engine, seo, up-for-grabs
