By Jacob Gube

Font choice, letter-spacing (tracking), line height, foreground/background colors, size, style — all of these oftentimes disparate attributes must work together cohesively in order to produce typographic compositions that are harmonious and viewed by its audiences with resilient assiduity. For your visual inspiration, here are websites that exhibit skillfully composed typography.

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by Paul Maloney

Regardless of personal opinion surrounding logos and branding the fact is a good solid logo will only help you business succeed.

Whether it’s the typeface or the mascot, people will remember your brand through the logo so it pays to have something memorable and creative.

I have scoured a large number of logos to showcase 30 logos of companies I personally found creative, aesthetic and inspiring.

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Tutorial Details:

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• Estimated Completion Time: 2 hours

Final Product What You’ll Be Creating

This tutorial shows the potential the Appearance Palette in Adobe Illustrator. We’ll be building an elaborate neon sign, utilizing the Appearance Palette to speed up the process and remove the need of drawing complex paths.

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Bull Car 3D Rendering

Computer graphics has become truly remarkable about re-creating and illustrating reality. And while most artists still face major obstacles when it comes to rendering organic material, there’s a small subset of 3D images that have been scratching perfection for many years now: 3D vehicle renders. There are so many realistic and beautiful artworks, and if it weren’t for the 3D forums and galleries, you wouldn’t know whether you’re looking at a photograph or a computer-generated render. In this collection we’ve brought you some of the best, most inspiring works, where the physical perfection is often mixed with artistic solutions, a real eye-candy!

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Brian McKinney - Creative Consultant, Internet Strategist

A thirty year veteran of the advertising, marketing, and corporate communications industries, Mr. McKinney held the position of creative director at two Dallas based corporate communication firms and has managed, and produced projects in all media formats including; Internet, interactive multimedia, print, audio, video, film, traditional and digital photography, and live events.

He has worked as an Internet Strategist since 1995 when he was hired to manage corporate Internet, Intranet, Extranet strategy and implementation for Bristol Hotels & Resorts when it was the largest Holiday Inn franchise owner in the world.

Additional Internet experience includes:

• Served as vice president of e-business strategy at Rare Medium, Inc., a publicly traded international Web services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, where he was responsible for Internet strategies for high profile clients including; Wyndam Hotels, Neiman Marcus, Home Interiors & Gifts, Dallas County Community College District, Corporate Express, Forbes Magazine, and Tivo.
• Developed core set of strategic initiatives for Select Payment Processing, a company specializing in ACH based payment processing products and services. Primary areas of focus included the development of online and offline marketing communication strategies and advertising content designed to promote the launch one of the first all electronic Internet check services in the U.S. Select Payment Processing was later purchased by banking services provider Jack Henry, Inc.
• Developed content strategy and managed the content development for NewEnergy.com, owned by Constellation Energy, the largest supplier of commercial electricity in North America (Fortune 200).
• Developed comprehensive Internet strategy for hillwood.com, the largest real estate development firm in Texas and for alliancetexas.com, the Web presence for AllianceTexas, a 17,000-acre master-planned, mixed-use community located in north Fort Worth developed by Hillwood, a Perot Company
• Developed client facing Internet marketing strategies for New Media Gateway, a digital technology firm whose client base includes over 80% of the Fortune 1000.
• Managed texasford.com, a statewide Internet presence for over 250 Ford dealerships across the State of Texas.
• Managed operations of the Web development and digital media department for First ROI a marketing agency serving over 400 community banks and credit unions located across the United States where his team won the “Best in Class” Award for Banking from the Interactive Media Council.

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Composition can simply be defined as how elements are arranged in a photo. You can choose to stand far away or move close up. You decide what type of lens to use. The basic skills of composition can be learned and practiced, and this tutorial is meant to add some tools to your arsenal, because compositional elements are just that, tools. Each one of these sections is a little trick that can apply to different situations. So let’s get started!

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Online video continues to be an area with huge growth and expansion for small businesses and brands. Video is such a great way to connect with users and to tell a story in a way that words or static images often can’t.

Thanks to advances in technology, buying equipment and producing video is easier and less expensive than ever before. The harder tasks are getting video online, serving it across platforms, and integrating it with your existing advertising strategies.

Fortunately, there are some great web services and companies out there dedicated to helping business owners expand and improve their online video strategies.

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For a lot of us, Facebook, like Twitter, is a part of our every day lives. We should be keeping tabs on our favorite sites, organizations and tutorial creators right? Check out this roundup of a ton of fan pages that you should “like” if you aren’t already!

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Tutorial Details

Program: Adobe Illustrator CS4

Difficulty: Beginner

Estimated Completion Time: 30 mins

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Today we’re going to be taking a look at the photographic effect known as bokeh. Although bokeh is simply “blur”, using it in an effective fashion can add real style and depth to your images. We’ll point you in the right direction to learn more about this technique, and showcase over a hundred stunning examples of bokeh photography.

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