Photography in colors: Orange
And the Photography in Color series is back! Now we present to you the orange collection.
Orange: It’s a highly visible color, used to express excitement, heat, humor and happiness. It’s naturally “tasty,” because of its associations with food. Orange is also inspiring and communicative, and when used with other colors can also represent coziness.
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Beautiful and creative Toy Art roundup
Toy Art is a contemporary movement using toys as fashion or for collector. Mostly created by designers, illustrators or plastic artists. We’ve selected beautiful, creative and inspirational vinyl toys for you. Enjoy it!
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How To Do a Vexel Pop Art Photophop
Roy Lichtenstein has inspired many artists till nowadays, with his beautiful paintings simulating the comic style, marked by the presence of primary colors and reticulated aspect. Now we are going to digitally recreate this style in a newer vision using the vexelling technique in Photoshop.
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Photography in colors: Yellow
The Photography in Color series is back with beautiful and inspirational photos for you. Enjoy the yellow color.
Yellow: Spontaneous, dynamic and euphoric, the yellow color represents richness and prosperity, because it’s associated with gold. On the other hand, can represent fear, selfishness and hate.
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Inspiration from Pinback Buttons
Some inspiration from Pinback Buttons which I personally love. Would love to have the first set with all the Photoshop tools 🙂
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20 Great Tutorials for Digital Painting
Digital painting is a beautiful art that requires too much ability and discipline. I’m always amazed by the incredible talents we see on this area, so we have selected 20 tutorials for beginners and advanced painters. Enjoy and practice!
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Photography in colors: Pink
This week we’ll brighten up the Photography in Colors series with Pink. Check out the different tones and combinations for this sweet color.
Pink: Mainly associated with female genres, it’s delicate and sweet. Suggests calm and tranquility, but also can indicate energy and happiness if saturated. read more…
Shiny 3D Text in Photoshop
This tutorial is going to show you how to use a simple 3D text as an element for modification using Photoshop. This is the final result:
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Photography in colors: Green
This week’s color for the photography series is green. Also take a look at the Red and Blue entries.
Green: Easily associated with nature, represents the adventurous spirit. A symbol of hope, good luck, safety and balance. This positive color is also relaxing for the body.
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Photography in colors: Blue
Continuing the “Photography in Colors” series, today we present you with the Blue collection. Enjoy it!
Blue: Many people’s favorite color, can be used for various purposes: fashion, design, decoration, etc. It’s a pacific color, clean, formal, and is considered serious in many situations. Interpretation changes according to the kind of blue.
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Photography in Colors: Red
Today we are starting the “Photography in Colors” inspiration series. For each series, we are going to choose a color and then select beautiful photos in which this color stands out. We’re beginning with the primary colors, and today the chosen color is red.
Red: The color of opposite things, religion and hell, innovation and rebellion. It’s a hot color, vibrant, happy, dynamic and funny. It’s useful to distinguish specific parts, especially the ones that need attention or caution. It’s also the color of love, passion, romance, sensuality and sin.
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Super roundup – Sketches, doodles and hand-drawn elements
These elements have lit the web like a fever.They have a lot of different uses. Hand-drawn things are always unique; we can create an enormous variety of layouts using them. To help you in your designs, we made this super roundup including icons, brushes, vectors, fonts and tutorials for this trend.
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Business Cards 101: Everything you need to know about it
Why is it so important to have a business card?
The business card is your/your company’s face for the client, the way that they will (or not) remember you. Besides its main function (provide contact info) the business card should be a quick representation of what you do in a memorable and creative way. It can add status and value to your work, making your service be noticed for its quality. Give a good card and people will be impressed, keep it, and remember you when they need your services. Always take your business cards with you, we never know when we’re going to meet a potential client.
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Best Design Trends of 2008
A huge shift in design has being happening. Designers are attempting to recover some of the old methods and tools that haven’t been used since the computer boom. No more glossy and shiny gradients; instead of that, handwritten notes, doodles, watercolors and collages have been explored. As it’s hard to create handmade designs, they are being recreated digitally with handwritten fonts, watercolor and doodle brushes, and digital collages. We hope that this trend inspired by the old methods and styles (like vintage and retro) stays a little longer, getting more and more creative. Let’s remember some aspects of this big trend from 2008.
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25 Top Design Posts of 2008
We selected this year’s 25 top posts from design related blogs. Each day, more and more, the blogs are becoming great tools for designers as inspiration sources and a new place for learning. Check the list!
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Free Swirls Compositions
Two vector compositions with urban and organic elements: buildings, birds, foliage, and the good old swirls.
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Inspiration from designer's shoes
From the basic need for protection to pieces of art, shoes aren’t the same. We are going to see the application of graphic design to add concepts and values to shoes. They are more than clothing pieces, they are ways to express yourself, your own style. Get inspired by these we present you.
Nike
Nike usually invites designers and artists to create design projects for their shoes. It couldn’t be different: amazing designs and concepts as you can see below.
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Creating a logo: The process
Creating a logo is not ONLY a matter of “creativity”, it also requires knowledge, discipline and organization. But to make it easier we have some steps to follow. Of course it should not be a rule, but it’s a good way to better understand the needs of your client and effectively offer the solution for his problem. We’re going to talk about the creative process to help the flow of ideas.
The process of creating a logo (or other design project) is based on some main steps:
Problem > Design Brief > Research > Concept > Development > Presentation > Final Analysis
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