Working with computer graphics has become quite easy if you know what you are doing. Texturing and adding layers upon layers of photo realistic materials is a blast once you have created the wire frame that is making up your character or object. However the modeling itself is the real hard part. If you for example are trying to create a photo realistic person with all his/her features entirely correctly modeled and textured you can be sure that you have to spend quite a lot of time in front of the computer.

Professionals learn new tricks and shortcuts each day and today, if you have a lot of money, you can use 3D scanners to grab the perfect features in just a few minutes. Texturing though is done per hand and is always fun however it is a really time consuming process that takes both skills and patience.

But once you get the result you’re after it can be quite amazing and awe inspiring. Not only do I think we’ll see more and more actors getting their own computer generated double but it can secure their legendary performances beyond their life span. Once they leave this earth their CG double can take over and make sure they keep on doing movies even though they are no longer present. Makes for a great new era in movie making don’t you think?

I’ve gathered some of the most inspiring and amazing computer generated characters/humans I have ever seen just to prove to you that what you see in movies nowadays isn’t always what you think it is. There might not be a person behind those eyes at all. Think about it…

Author: Desiree Lunsford | Title: Simply Jessica | Website: Artwork

Author: Jian Xu | Title: Body Builder | Website: Artwork

Author: Nicolas Boyer | Title: Selena | Website: Artwork

Author: Everett Houser | Title: Cry of Athena | Website: Artwork

Author: Mariano Steiner | Title: Winter Sun | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: In The Flash | Website: Artwork

Author: Dmitrij Leppé | Title: William Patrick Corgan Wearing a Wig | Website: Artwork

Author: Qin Hu | Title: Johnny Depp | Website: Artwork

Author: Joseph Francis | Title: Were You Praying at the lares Shrine | Website: Artwork

Author: Ning Zhang | Title: Deep Blue | Website: Artwork

Author: Laura Nardinocchi | Title: Serena | Website: Artwork

Author: Frédéric Scarramazza | Title: Denisa Top Model | Website: Artwork

Author: Viktor Yakubovich | Title: Beauty of the Nature | Website: Artwork

Author: Dias Leong | Title: Kurumi Imari the Idol | Website: Artwork

Author: Toru Murano | Title: Rare Shark | Website: Artwork

Author: Oleg Koreyba | Title: 3D Portrait of Sheikh Zayed | Website: Artwork

Author: Pasquale Giacobelli | Title: Allan Kardec – The Coder of the Spiritism | Website: Artwork

Author: Dimitris Katsafouros | Title: Rock is Dead | Website: Artwork

Author: Phil Shoebottom | Title: Napoleon: Total War | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: Old Black Guy – Displacement Study | Website: Artwork

Author: Jelmer Boskma | Title: Johnny Depp | Website: Artwork

Author: Jorge Barrero | Title: Pearl Earring Scarlet Johansson | Website: Artwork

Author: Petr Chegodaev | Title: Amy is Absinthe | Website: Artwork

Author: Jonathan Clark | Title: The Perfect Weight Revisioned | Website: Artwork

Author: Jarek Switalski | Title: Robert De Niro | Website: Artwork

Author: Deniz Özemre | Title: Court Gown | Website: Artwork

Author: Max Aristov | Title: Sumo Oomph | Website: Artwork

Author: Lee Perry-Smith | Title: Substance – The Identity | Website: Artwork

Author: Chengjie Wang | Title: Good-Bye | Website: Artwork

Author: Everett Houser | Title: Surrender | Website: Artwork

Get professional web designing training to pass 000-833 exam and become expert using JN0-141 tutorials and JN0-342 study guide.

In today’s reality there is as much fiction as in any new blockbuster movie being released from Hollywood. Everything we thought were real is often revealed to be nothing but good imagination portrayed on a piece of poster or on a camera lens for us to breathe in like we didn’t have a problem with it. When we look at photos today we usually see things we think is real however perfected in every way. Everything from cosmetic commercials to simple and innocent pictures of us when we were young. Even buildings defying gravity is sometimes done so well that we just take it for granted that they are real in every sense of the word.

We have grown custom to special effects and we have even started to demand it when we go to the movies for example. But have we totally forgot about the real world we are living in? Do we no longer care if the products we buy is portrayed from reality? Have we totally missed to react when it comes to the fiction we now call reality?

As in all ages there is something that will alter the view of reality and I suspect this is our times bender. I think it has been creeping up on us without us knowing it and that is the only thing that is bothering me. When someone is exposed to a change that is taking shape over a very long period it is most likely impossible to see the change before it’s too late. However if it is a good or bad one only the future will reveal. No matter how you look at it there is great hope and fear in the technology that we see coming to life.

I have gathered a great number of photos that you thought were real. Some may even keep arguing about their authenticity even after I have proven that these are all computer generated images. But fact remains, these are all entirely computer generated photographs that is paving the way for the future. There is something exciting over them but still very daunting but as Howard Hughes would have said it…and repeated it… -”It’s the way of the future!”.

PS: All “Photos” have their own “wireframe” if you follow the link to the authors artwork portfolio.

Author: Alexander Tomchuk | Title: Girl on a Chair | Website: Artwork

Author: Farrokh Tabande | Title: Volume Light Int | Website: Artwork

Author: Andre McGrail | Title: Suzuki Intruder 250LC | Website: Artwork

Author: Maciek Ptaszynski | Title: WSK M06 | Website: Artwork

Author: Frank Basinski | Title: Rising Cumulonimbus | Website: Artwork

Author: Austris Cingulis | Title: Ciku Cakas | Wesbite: Artwork

Author: David Aguirre Hoffmann | Title: Mercedes Benz 260D | Wesbite: Artwork

Author: Alfa Smyrna | Title: My Bedroom Design | Website: Artwork

Author: Robert Mejía | Title: Diamonds | Website: Artwork

Author: Pedro Duarte | Title: Montblanc Mesiterstück Nr149 | Website: Artwork

Author: Anas Yakoub | Title: Ford Mustang | Website: Artwork

Author: Ilya Pivovarov | Title: Apples | Website: Artwork

Author: Daniel Kochlowski | Title: Land Rover – Desert Trip | Website: Artwork

Author: Goran Kruhonja | Title: Ford Shelby GT 500 | Website: Artwork

Author: David Slachta | Title: Norway Tromso with AUdi A5 Sportback | Website: Artwork

Author: Saleh Al-Enezy | Title: Dining Room | Website: Artwork

Author: Miika Harranen | Title: Converse All Star | Website: Artwork

Author: Ed Kachaami | Title: 2009 Rolex GMT Master II | Website: Artwork

Author: Su Yeong Kim | Title: Big Velly Sea Horse | Website: Artwork

Author: Geri Allen | Title: Ford Mondeo – Driving Rain | Website: Artwork

Author: Alex Medi | Title: Mountain View | Website: Artwork

Author: Morteza Najafi | Title: Power | Website: Artwork

Author: Frances Gainer Davey | Title: Cola and Apples | Website: Artwork

Author: Bertrand Benoit | Title: Vintage Furniture and Industrial Loft | Website: Artwork

Author: Nuno Braz | Title: Prague | Website: Artwork

Author: Morteza Najafi | Title: Rainy Night | Website: Artwork

Author: Marco Lama | Title: Simple Architectural Visualization | Website: Artwork

Author: Ales Zvolanek | Title: Football Shoes | Website: Artwork

Author: Dimitri Dillmann | Title: In The Desert | Website: Artwork

Author: Angelo Becattini | Title: Yacht 153′ | Website: Artwork

Artwork, especially computer generated, can sometimes be created quite fast and easy. But then there are images that takes forever to create. Some artists even fear the exceptional time consuming hard work it takes to create a truly great and mesmerizing picture. Even though the new generation 3D software’s are unbeatable in terms of structured and streamlined work flow it can be quite daunting to put together a detail rich environment or object that progress through the ordinary and usual. Not to mention the high amount of creativity and ideas it requires to create a truly interesting and inspiring image.

I decided to hunt down the most meticulously detailed pieces of computer generated artwork to showcase the awesomeness some artists possess. Every single image displayed in this list is entirely created using a 3D software and some kind of image processing software to enhance and add some after effects to make the image even more alive and interesting.

What follows is a list of 25 totally impressive pieces of imagination that didn’t just “happen” to impress me but blew me entirely away. To try and understand what kind of time went in to each and every image is just now worth the gray cells working overtime. One thing is for certain though. They’re killing all competition, each of them!

Author: Stefan Morrell | Title: Sakura | Website: Artwork

Author: Quentin Mabille | Title: 3D Illustration Futuristic Industrie | Website: Artwork

Author: Vladimir Kufeld | Title: Mechanical Sleep | Website: Artwork

Author: Ognian Bonev | Title: Worlds Collde | Website: Artwork

Author: Radoslav Zilinsky | Title: Worth Enough? | Website: Artwork

Author: Ognian Bonev | Title: The Outpost | Website: Artwork

Author: Weihua Wei | Title: The Sun Light of Forest | Website: Artwork

Author: YongLiang Bao| Title: Music Engine | Website: Artwork

Author: Alex Roman | Title: Shiba Ryotaro Memorial Museum | Website: Artwork

Author: Stefan Morrell | Title: Futurescape | Website: Artwork

Author: Michel Lanoie | Title: Kingpoby’s Ruins | Website: Artwork

Author: Stefan Morrell | Title: Alpine Village | Website: Artwork

Author: Toni Bratincevic | Title: Experiment Chamber | Website: Artwork

Author: Peter Kolus | Title: Pontiac | Website: Artwork

Author: Alex Ritter | Title: Perpetuum Mobile | Website: Artwork

Author: Stefan Morrell | Title: Urban Environment | Website: Artwork

Author: Davis Lieknins | Title: The Twigman | Website: Artwork

Author: Kazuhiko Nakamura | Title: Automaton | Website: Artwork

Author: Wei Ming | Title: Unpredictable Contact 2 | Wesbite: Artwork

Author: Thierry Canon | Title: Destroy City | Website: Artwork

Author: Laurent Ménabé | Title: The Library | Website: Artwork

Author: Richard Minh Le | Title: Achitecture Of Color & Identity | Website: Artwork

Author: Nicolas Richelet | Title: City’s Heart | Website: Artwork

Author: Kazuhiko Nakamura | Title: Metamorphosis | Website: Artwork

Author: Meats Meier | Title: The Last Of The Leaves | Website: Artwork

Download HP0-J36 tutorials to pass HP2-E24 exam and become expert in web designing with our 000-086 training course.

If you’re anything like me, you may be getting tired of seeing the same people on those “designers to follow” lists we often see crop up here on design blogs. I scouted around the underworld of Twitter to see if I could dig up any incredibly awesome, yet under-followed creatives. And in the spirit of anti-establishment counter-culture I hereby announce the 10 of the most underexposed and fresh creatives on Twitter. Ok, so there are probably tons of you out there, and that’s the point of this article. Whether your field is web, design, digital painting, branding, logo design or any creative field – we want to hear from you. So if you know of any designers that need some love, or if you are that designer (I’m down with shameless self-promotion) – leave your Twitter name below so we can all share in your stealthy awesomeness.

@DavidCousens – Bio One half of Cool Surface illustration. We draw stuff for money!
As an illustrator and occasional tutorial author for Advanced Photoshop magazine & Digital Arts magazine, David makes the list by virtue of his propensity to share his knowledge with anyone willing to learn. You can view his blog and tuts here.

@robertoblake – Ever since I was young I always knew I wanted to become a visual artist. Learning about Photoshop put me on the path to achieving that dream.
Roberto is the unfailing voice of encouragement in multiple graphics communities for up-and-coming designers. You may know him from the Advanced Photoshop website, Photoshop Creative website and DeviantART. He also has a blog where he regularly showcases new talent. You can check it out here.

@PANDA_DESIGN – The design is inside of @pandaziri. Here tweet & RT about design, webdesign and technology for designers.
RT’s are awesome but fresh meat is what we need, and PANDA_DESIGN delivers. The image below was designed in collaboration with @cifero.

@designthatrocks – Creative Director for Design That Rocks, offering design for web & print, project management, consulting & branded line of limited edition DTR products.
Craig Bower tweets about some of the most interesting design related articles around. If you’re interesting in web, print and even iPhone topics, this is the guy to follow.

@An1ken - Bio Freelance Digital Artist and Active Blogger
Creator of CreativeOverlow.net Jacques van Heerden is the voice behind An1ken. Not only is An1ken the bringer of premier daily design fodder as well as a perpetual flow of design-related tweets, he also has a smoking hot portfolio (check it here).

@eyedesignstudio – Proprietor Eye Design Studio. Artisan handcrafted web & print design for lifestyle brands. I love design + vintage finds + PDX + foodie fun + social media
Along with her consistent stream of interesting design-related tweets, Eye Design Studio is a member of the sisterhood known as Branding Salon. They are a group of enterprising women from around the world, banding together to make their mark in the online branding industry. Because we’re worth it. Because the web needs more chicks.

@brand-nu – Creative thinking expressed in colour and shapes. Or something like that.
Radim Malinic is a rock star in the design community, worthy of every panty-throwers attention. As one of the most established graphic artists around today, he has published two design books and clocked up an impressive portfolio of clients. Check out his website here for some of the most awesome graphics on the net.

@Fantasiox – Fantasio is a digital artist, collaborator, illustrator, steampunk aestetic, storyteller for the eye, loves coffee, pin-ups and art that speaks for itself.
There are some truly awesome artists mulling around the underworld of Twitter – Fantasiox is one of them. His Twitter background will give you a good idea of his style – to see more of his incredible work visit his website here. This piece is a rendition of Stanley Lau´s “Pepper” character in a retro-cyber-style that was also included in his book “pepper-project“, which was released this year.

@henning_art – Norwegian digital artist, working as Art Director in the computer game industry in Athens, Greece.
Follow Henning as he tweets about his latest artworks. Best of all he has a pretty nifty collection of digital painting tutorials on his website. To best appreciate his work, check out his amazing portfolio here.

@FeryKloucek – I’m a PRO cyclist at first, but I’m also a graphic designer & photograph! 100% addicted to graphic design and all the things around!
Purveyor of premium A-grade RT’s, FeryKloucek filters out the noise and gives us only the crème de la crème of  design links buzzing around twitter.

Honorable mentions:

@vpstudios – I am a Graphic Designer from the cowboy state. I do both in-house work and client work.
@FriendsofDesign – Training by professionals for professionals… for all you budding DTP or Web Designers.
@giographix – Bio Small Graphic and Web Design Studio interested in SEO, CSS, PHP jQuery, Flash, AIR, Motion Graphics, Illustration and of course- Social Media
@graphixdesign – A treat for Graphic Designers
@RIVETstudios – We are RIVET studios design // art direction
@designussion – Designussion, a blog focusing on inspiration and showcases
@phototownship – Photo Idea, Photo Art, Photography, PhotoShop, Lets have fun with photos…
@devongovett – Web developer/designer and standards advocate
@Doubleolee – Graphic & web designer who loves his PS3 and football a little too much and doesn’t want to grow up just yet. half geek/half sports legend
@Andy92 – A web entrepreneur / freelancer who is setting up a few web startups, and working for a web design magazine.
@indigomay – Curious, dreamy, love to create things..often want something blue but red.
@JThompsondesign – Working hard on http://blogpost.dj23.net/. Student designer in Product and Graphic Design.
@dsaportfolio – Eu sou um webdesigner legal e feliz. I’m a cool and happy webdesigner.
@dave_woods – Web Designer from East Midland UK, specialising in user interface design, HTML, CSS and SEO

As a continuation of the last post about Typography design in 3D (Mind-Blowing Typography in 3D | part 1) we have now come to the second part. Last one showcased 25 pieces of simply stunning and truly mind-blowing 3D typography and projecting awesome inspiration and I am now going to further showcase 25 more 3D typography designs. I want to further address the fact that these designs and the execution takes a long time and is no where near easy to create. However, today pretty much everyone sees some sort of typography art whether it is in an ad or in a book but they are all around us. It’s just up to your own imagination how you create them and so far it has been the common execution to put letters and words on top of each other. However, this is not how it has to be.

I am still looking for some typography art that is organized in another manner however it seems those are short of supply. Maybe it is because stacking words on top of each other is both easy to view but also saves space in a limited area where the design is to be created.

If you yourself have created a piece of typography art please don’t hesitate to send it in to Minervity.com and if found inspirational enough I will be sure to publish it here for people to be inspired. After all Minervity.com is all about sharing and learning.

Artwork by Stillontherun

Artwork by EndEnd

Artwork by Serial Cut

Artwork by Serial Cut

Artwork by Static Moment

Artwork by Coming Through

Artwork by Love

Artwork by Star

Artwork by dr4oz

Artwork by Unknown

Artwork by Vibe

Artwork by EndEnd

Artwork bt Typeneu

Artwork by Jeff Finley

Artwork by Renaud Fetterer

Artwork by Vexeta

Artwork by Ink

Artwork by Alex Engelmann

Artwork by Alex Engelmann

Artwork by [Re]Encoded

Artwork by Esthetic Core

Artwork by Til01

Artwork by Excosoldier

Artwork by TheKellz

Artwork by Luiggi26

Typography is one of the true art forms that I find the most appealing when looking through magazines or surfing the web. The amount of detail sometimes implemented is just mind blowing and you can really see that the artist has taken his or her time to put the typography piece together. After floating around on the Internet in search for the most eye catching 3D typography artwork I came up with nothing short of a truly amazing list. I am sure there are many more inspiring pieces of 3D typography artwork out there so if you find any that you think I might have missed please don’t hesitate to mention a location to them in the comment area.

What should be mentioned here is that most of these are done in a 3D client like Maya, 3D Max or Lightwave. Using Photoshop or Illustrator to create these would take infinitely longer than any of these software’s so don’t even try. The way these 3D typography designs come out is pure skills in lighting, texturing and creating all the objects that are present in the design. Designers usually also use Photoshop to sort of “top off” their design by including real elements such as leaves, small items and effects. So a whole bundle of software’s are probably used to create most of these.

Typography Artwork by Tony Ariawan

Artwork by Artek92

Artwork by Hoe Yi

Artwork by KidsWithTools

Artwork by iunewind

Artwork by shydog1978

Artwork by Kyle Bean

Artwork by Serial Cut

Artwork by Serial Cut

Artwork by dkomov

Artwork by Jeff Finley

Artwork by Kim Holtermand

Artwork by luuqas

Artwork by Fanzi

Artwork by Stephanie DeArmond

Artwork by Jeff Osborne

Artwork by Wojciech Pijecki

Artwork by João Marques

Artwork by Tanin-André Hohmann

Artwork by Grafi-Ray

Artwork by Craig Ward

Artwork by Niels van Doorn

Artwork by Eskimo Square

Artwork by Curtis Baigent

Artwork by Chaz Madani

Join 350-040 web designing course to learn the art of typography and also download 642-973 and 70-272 videos to get useful information on web designs.

Minervity.com is a great site for resource and inspiration. We came up with an idea of creating a “Creative Corner” where the aim is for designers/developers to have an area where we talk to different designers and developers and ask them a question related to their field. We feel this would be a great way to help out the up and coming designers as well as an area for other designers to also get inspiration and insights as to the tools used and trends followed by their peers.  We feel that it is also a good way for us to showcase some of the work and ideas behind both the up and coming as well as the seasoned designers.  For this month’s edition we concentrated on Firefox extensions.

Firefox Extensions add more extensive features to the browser; some add simple toolbars while others can add a wide range of new features.

Main Image.

Here are the designer/developers’ answers to our question:  Which is your favorite Firefox Extension (s) to use when developing a website?

@andysowards

This one is easy. My favorite Firefox tool is Firebug. Hands down. I could not, and will not, live without it. Sample of work I provided is my site, AndySowards.com, which I used firebug on pretty much the whole way through, it definitely helped me build the look and feel of the sites css/javascript/jQuery fairly quickly and without any pain .

The reason that it is so invaluable is because it allows you to fully understand the html/css/javascript that is on a page, very quickly and easily. It has made my css building/manipulation process at least 75% faster if not more. I can just build out the css and have the page styled exactly how I want it in firefox, then just copy and paste the css into the appropriate place. Its that easy! Of course IE, Safari, and Chrome, may need some tweaks. But FireBug allows even the more difficult tasks to be accomplished within minutes! Finding css issues is so easy now. Thank you firebug. You rock.  Check out his website: http://www.AndySowards.com

@obox

I rely heavily on “TidyHTML” and the Firefox Web Developer toolkit to dev sites.

Without those two items I feel lost, Web Developer is perfect for tracking ID’s etc when styling widgets in WordPress themes. It also helps with spotting div sizes and picking out style values.

TidyHTML is perfect for getting your site w3c compatible. I only use TidyHTML when splicing up designs and converting them to CSS + HTML.

So yeah, without those two tools I would be lost.

Since I use them for every site we develop I will just attach a screenshot of one of our themes because of the way I used the Web Developer toolkit to style the sidebar.

Details of screenshot: Press Theme http://wwwdemo.obox-design.com/press/

@adammccombs

My favorite tool called the 960 Gridder. 960 Gridder is a jquery based tool that overlays any webpage with a 960px grid. It’s great for testing size and spacing to make sure your layouts are pixel perfect. 960 Gridder is cross-browser compliant and works well in Internet Explorer 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3 and Chrome. Safari 4 Beta and Opera 9 is also working as expected and it should work in Safari 2.x-3.x also.  960 Gridder is built upon the very famous JavaScript framework jQuery.

960 Gridder will automatically identify if jQuery is present at the website and if it is not, it will include it. However, 960 Gridder isn’t affiliated with the jQuery authors at all.More information about 960 Gridder can be found at: http://gridder.andreehansson.se/.  Check out more of his work http://www.mccombs.me/

@iBlend

My favorite Firefox tool by far is FireBug (http://getfirebug.com).  Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

Firebug’s CSS tabs tell you everything you need to know about the styles in your web pages, and if you don’t like what it’s telling you, you can make changes and see them take effect instantly.

Firebug is always just a keystroke away, but it never gets in your way. You can open Firebug in a separate window, or as a bar at the bottom of your browser. Firebug also gives you fine-grained control over which websites you want to enable it for.

I use this tool to tweek styles and html on my local.  Once it looks right, I will edit the real files and upload them to the server.  I recently used this Firefox tool for the release of my new website (http://thewebblend.com). TheWebBlend is a community for designers, developers and tech junkies that keeps you current with a summary of the latest in web related news and trends.  Check out his site: http://thewebblend.com

@printedproof

The most helpful Firefox tool for me is FireBug. FireBug is an add-on that allows me edit, debug, and find CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live on any of my projects as well as any other live pages on the web.

I grew up designing for web using Dreamweaver and GoLive, so in other words “drag-and-drop”. I have no formal coding education. The past three years I have spent programing dynamic websites with Joomla! and WordPress.  For beginners like myself it is extremely helpful to have the ability to see the code of websites that have elements and designs that you may want to mimic or develop in your own ways. By finding the code behind these sites you can easily find what you are looking for and make it your own. This is big for developers who use pre-designed templates. Many times you can find other webmasters using the same template that they have customized. Access to the HTML/CSS/Javascript behind the scenes will help learning how it was done.

FireBug is great tool even for established designers and developers to debug and clean up messy code. FireBug allows me to easily find where an element resides within the HTML or CSS of a website. I can then go back to my files and make any necessary adjustments or changes easily.  Firebug also lets you make changes on the fly and see them immediately in your browser. You can measure and illustrate the margins, borders, padding, and sizes of elements to easily alight and locate. Use Firebug to break down load times to improve speed. It even includes a powerful JavaScript debugger so you can pause execution at any time.  Firebug pops up at the bottom of your window and is unobtrusive. In no time you can build upon your skills as a developer or simply streamline the process.

@lastwebdesigner

The first one colorzilla :http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/ A really good tool for colors, with come really nice features. I use it for choose and test the color palette on my websites, and for check colors on other web sites,when I’m getting inspiration, or simply when I see a good web site and I want to know the color that is using.

The second is another classical ad-don used by a lot of web designers, the “Web Developer Toolbar“. I use a lot of the CSS options, making tests on the CSS and exploring other CSS websites around the world. It’s a really good tool. I use the re-sizer too for tests in different resolutions. Well, it’s a really good an useful tool. Also, I think FireBug is a must for any designer. The third ad-don is another great tool. It’s the “HTML Validator” for Firefox. This is a great add-on as I don’t need to go to the “W3″ page every time to validate my HTML code. I can just validate the source code while I’m working on it locally. It’s a great tool as I just have to take a look at the bottom-right corner on my Firefow browser window and see if the code is validated or see where it finds some errors. Very useful. I like it a lot. The fourth ad-don is a great one for SEO and to improve your position in the search engines. “Firefox SEO Tool”

I use this to get information about websites, competitions, keywords and checking my websites, it’s a good tool, if you use this in its fullest way it can help you to find how to improve your position on Google and other search engines. And another important factor, it gives me information about social bookmark links and you can disable this add-on with just one simple click.

The last one is a must for any designer/developer. FireBug, a plug-in that I don’t think needs an explanation. Everyone in the world knows what it is and how useful it is if you are developing a website. There are, in particular, two functions that I use a lot. It’s the console for Testing/Debugging my Javascript/jQuery/Ajax and inspector to “inspect” the HTML elements of the website.

@giographix

Flash Switcher

This extension allows you to easily switch from one flash player plugin version to another, or also to remove or save the currently installed plugin (maybe for testing the express install).Once installed you will find the “flash switcher” icon in the Firefox statusbar at bottom right (and also in the Tools Firefox menu). Click on it and a list of available options will appear.

The extensionhas been tested on the followings Operating System: Window XP, Ubutntu linux, Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard. Flash Switcher has been as essential to our Flash development as FireBug has to our HTML debugging. Before finding the now indispensable add-on, we had to keep a stockpile of player plugin installers and browsers in order to properly debug a Flash movie.

With a complicated full-Flash microsite such as the one we created for WayHuge.com, we used Flash Switcher to test Flash player detection and to switch to a debugger version of the player to do a live debugging in the SWF. Having the ability within the browser to easily test Flash pages with different player versions has made Flash Switcher a stable in our Flash development toolbox and helped us get WayHuge.com to a successful launch!

@svgrob

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse.  Firebug makes it simple to find HTML elements buried deep in the page. Once you’ve found what you’re looking for, Firebug gives you a wealth of information, and lets you edit the HTML live.

Firebug is probably the ultimate web development plugin that Firefox has.  Anyone who codes for the web needs this plugin.  Firebug enables you to change CSS and debug JavaScript on the fly, live and yes in real time.

This is such a powerful way to work, as it saves time by enabling you to find out why your site is broken, without the laborious save and reload.

If you do not have firebug and you use HTML/CSS or Javascript, get it, it will change your developing life.  Here is a little introduction for you: Nettuts: 10 Reasons Why You Should Use Firebug

@ruhanirabin

I wrote an article about your topic on my site its the 10 Web Developers Firefox Extension, check it out here.  For this article I chose  a  must have tool for the SEO beginners and experts alike. Beginner web masters and seos will find SeoQuake useful for estimating effectiveness and competitive ability of their SEO efforts.

In the hands of professional SeoQuake will become a powerful and indispensable tool for analyzing optimization and promotion level of internet web-projects. SeoQuake can be distinguished from similar projects by a wide range of parameters available for analysis, simplicity of use and also a tool for creation of custom parameters.

SeoBar

SeoBar can be described as an additional toolbar, which shows the values of selected parameters for the page currently opened in the parameters shown by SeoBar is fully customizable by user window. Set of Inclusion of parameters in SERPs parameters for search results under each search result shown on SERP. Set ofparameters shown is fully customizable by user. Loading of parameters can be handled in two different ways – simultaneously with the loading of the SERP or after SERP loading, by user demand. Ranking of the results by selected parameter in ascending/descending order and storing results in file are available features.   After submission of the query into the search engine user is presented with SERP with search results. SeoQuake shows values of the parameters for search results under each search result shown on SERP. Set of parameters shown is fully customizable by user. Loading of parameters can be handled in two different ways – simultaneously with the loading of the SERP or after SERP loading, by user demand. Ranking of the results by selected parameter in ascending/descending order and storing results in file are available features.

@maddisondesigns

My favourite Firefox Addon and the one that I use the most, would be the “Web Developer” toolbar (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer). I use it every time I develop a website. I love the “Display Element Information” (Ctrl+Shift+F) option. It’s great for seeing the layout of your Divs and for seeing what Classes/Id’s are assigned to them. Another great feature is the ability to easily disable/enable JavaScript. This is great for testing, especially with the increased usage of JavaScript frameworks like JQuery and MooTools. The Web Developer toolbar has heaps of really useful options and is an invaluable tool when developing websites. Visit his site: http://maddisondesigns.com

@pixeljedi

Primarily, i’m a lover of colorzilla and fireftp.  fireftp has been used on most of what I’ve done.  start at ccconline.cc and branch out to all of our corresponding sites.

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily.

Regarding these two tools, colorzilla and fireftp . . . the simple answer is ease of use. FTP within the browser makes sense: upload alongside the program to download. It enables fast-switching for viewing and testing of files. Colorzilla’s just a beast to make sure that I can snag a color that catches my eye and hold on to it for future use.

Two things make my life easier as a designer. Firstly, the smoother my Mac runs, the faster I can work. There’s nothing worse than trying to push work out as fast a possible and then upon the simplest of actions, opening Finder for instance, your little color wheel cursor appears…spinning and spinning… for no apparent reason other than to test your patience. It’s called a cursor for a reason – I have a special name for mine. The second thing that helps me is having the right combinations of tools that enable me to work as efficiently as possible. Below is a list of useful (and free) apps that I use consistently to help me as designer and web developer to work more efficiently and get my Mac running fast and smooth.

1. App Cleaner

AppCleaner is a small application that allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps. Installing an application distributes many files throughout your system using space of your hard drive. When you uninstall these apps, many of these bits and pieces are left on your hard drive, needlessly taking up space.  AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them. Simply drag and drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It automatically finds all the related files specific to that app and adds them to the AppCleaner window for you to review. You then have the option of deleting all the files, or keeping the ones you think you may need at a later stage, should you reinstall the app. You then simply click the delete button. No more orphan files on your disk!

2. Monolingual

Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language files from Mac OS X, in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. As designers, we usually have huge files which can very quickly eat away at your hard drive space so getting rid of any superfluous files is sometimes very necessary. Having a fair amount of freed-up space on your hard drive for Photoshop to use as a scratch disk will help you work on your files will less drag, especially if your RAM is limited. If you’re running out of hard drive space, this is the app for you.

3. Quicksliver

Quicksilver is an application that lets you reach any program, folder or file in a few keystrokes and is aimed at increasing user efficiency. It allows you to use the keyboard to promptly do things like launch applications, manipulate files and data, run scripts, or send email. You don’t have to go searching through your files to find something and you don’t have to worry about how your folders are arranged. You can customize its search options to include your address book, iTunes, and recent email addresses. Set this application to load at start up then customize a quick launch key so it can be at your fingers when you need it. This is the fastest way to find files and open applications.

Alternate: Namely

4.  Growl

Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X. It allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications so you know what’s happening on your computer at all times. Growl installs itself as a preference pane and is added to the Mac OS X System Preferences. Users are able to fully control notifications by going to this pane. Here the interface will allow you to enable and disable Growl’s notifications for certain applications in their entirety, or select specific notifications for each application. The display options of the notifications can also be fully customized from small non-intrusive floating icons in the corner of your screen, to larger ones with sound.

5.  Teleport

Teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs. It allows you to synchronize your pasteboard between computers (and limit the size of the pasteboard if you wish), so you can cut from one computer and paste in another. It also allows you to transfer files by simply dragging them from one Mac to another (although this tends to work better with smaller files).

Teleport will need to be installed on all Macs you wish to link up. After installing you can find the program in the System Preferences pane. You will need open up two ports on your firewall they will be saved as “trusted hosts” under the security settings.

6. OnyX

OnyX is a multifunction utility for Mac OS X (PowerPC and Intel). It allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its system files; to run miscellaneous tasks of system maintenance; to configure the hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock and of some of Apple’s own applications; to delete caches; to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and much more…

Alternates: Deeper and TinkerTool

7. MagiCal

MagiCal is a menu-based clock and calendar. It features a huge range of configuration options for how the time and date are displayed, and can operate either in conjunction with, or as a replacement for the built in system menu clock. In addition to this, MagiCal features a handy drop-down calendar that can be torn off and placed anywhere on screen.

Alternate: MenuCalendarClock

8. FileZilla

FileZilla is an open-source, cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface. It is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Features include a message log, site manager, local and remote file and folder view, and a transfer queue. FileZilla also allows you to perform multiple file transfers simultaneously.

Alternate: Cyberduck

9. Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio is a top IDE for web developers. It offers integrated language support for HTML, DOM, JavaScript and CSS. Customize your Studio with additional plugins for PHP, Jaxer, Ruby on Rails, Python, Adobe AIR, Apple iPhone and Nokia S60 development. For Java support, plug Aptana Studio into Eclipse. Also available for Windows and Linux.

Alternate: TextWrangler

10: Disk Inventory X

Disk Inventory X is a hard drive analyzer for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps”. If you’ve ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will tell you which folders and apps are eating away at your hard drive space. New features include a finder context menu plugin with an “Open in Disk Inventory X” command for folders (this needs to be installed manually in the preference window) and a new selection list which can show all files or limit them to a list of a specific file type.

Bonus App. Adium

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X. It can be used to connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services, including, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, AOL, GTalk, ICQ, Facebook, LiveJournal, Bonjour, MySpaceIM, Skype, Twitter and more. The latest version includes support for file transfers, and for the Growl notification system. Adium is highly customizable and allows users to alter the appearance of dock icons, contact list styles, message windows, and emoticons.

Sign up for 1Y0-A11 online web designing course and get expert E20-522 reviews and HP0-J33 tutorials to pick the best idea on how to create inspiring web designs.

The Internet has been one of the most used medium. People now go online for information with the primary objective of learning and getting inspiration. During the days when most people were not as active on the Internet, magazines and books were the main sources.

The benefit of subscribing to design magazines and design resource blogs are tremendous. You not only open your world to fantastic tutorials, freebies, inspiring portfolios, but you also get a glimpse on the insights of designers. What works for them, the tried and tested.  What is also great is that they have special sections that tackles the news, design trends, artist tools.

They are also laid out in a manner that is easy to read and ease of navigating  through the articles is what makes them a very ideal source of information.

We have handpicked 10 web design magazine| resource blogs with awesome style for your reference and inspiration.  We recommend you visit and check them all out.  We guarantee that you will have an astonishing range of learning tools that will keep you up to date and in the loop of what is happening in the design community.

(picture link)

Smashing Magazine

Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.

Perhaps the most remarkable yet overlooked aspect of the design community is its friendly, enthusiastic spirit. Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience with fellows designers.

WebDesigner Magazine

The WebDesigner Magazine is part of Imagine publishing.  Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer specialist magazine publishers, with over 20 print magazines and 20 websites published worldwide within the entertainment, computing, digital photography and video games market sectors.

And all this since 2005!

Web Designer is the premier magazine for aspiring online creatives and industry professionals. The monthly title offers cutting-edge practical projects spanning XHTML, CSS, Flash and WordPress as well as hosting features and interviews with the web community’s most influential people. Each issue also has a dedicated Industry section covering news and views from the trade, website showcases featuring the finest design talent and a free CD of valuable resources. The official blog site at webdesignermag.co.uk offers additional editorial, exclusive interviews, reader support plus a series of entertaining podcasts from the magazine team.

Web Designer: Defining the Internet through beautiful design…

Six Revisions

Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your work flow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.

The creator and primary author of Six Revisions is Jacob Gube, a web developer and designer who works with PHP, .NET, Flash/ActionScript, XHTML, JavaScript/jQuery/MooTools, and MySQL. His work environment includes: Windows XP, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Notepad++, Firebug, Web Developer tool, and on occasion puTTY. His passion is anything involved in the creation of beautiful, standards-compliant, accessible websites and applications.

Fuel Your Creativity

Most people find that true creativity isn’t a constant presence in their lives, no matter how much you fool yourself into thinking that. We’d like to introduce you to Fuel Your Creativity. This gem is the place to turn to when you’re having one of your “I’m-going-to-implode-if-I-don’t-get-an-idea-soon” moments. Don’t lie. You know you have them.

Check us out when you need some inspiration. We have some pretty cool articles and even cooler links to various sites that will keep you informed on how other creatives like yourself get things done. There are even interviews with said creatives that give you a glimpse into their world. There are some cool worlds out there.

SpeckyBoy Design Mag

Speckyboy Design Magazine launched in October 2007, as my personal web design homepage. I was just taking (what felt like) a giant leap into freelance design and consultancy, and needed a home base for my potential clients to get in touch with me… Somewhere over the following months this site changed direction, when I realized I was getting more and more visitors.
It started with an article called Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers, and it did very well on delicious, and the visitors increased. By then I had caught the blogging bug.

From that initial article I have tried to cover every aspect of web design and development offering FREE and HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES as well as attempting to inspire through our showcases. I am not a graphic designer (I still use Adobe Fireworks), but do love it and certainly appreciate it, the same goes for typography and photography.

InDesign Magazine

InDesign Magazine is a bimonthly periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the thriving community of InDesign professionals. With editorial direction by page-layout guru and author David Blatner and CreativePro.com editor in chief Terri Stone, InDesign Magazine brings you the in-depth features, reviews, and tutorials you need to master Adobe InDesign.

InDesign Magazine is published in the PDF format only. You’ll love the electronic format–click on a URL and Acrobat opens the page in your Web browser. Cut and paste complex scripts. You can even watch movies in the PDF! You can also print out single pages or an entire issue if you prefer paper to monitor.

InDesign Magazine is an independent publication, not an Adobe product. InDesign is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.  The magazine features the hottest designers works.  One will get a peek at what designer’s are up to and what InDesign is capable of.

Web Designer Depot

Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices.

We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community.

The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more.

If you’d like to become a contributor to this website by either writing a post or tutorial or by providing some freebies to our users, do not hesitate to email .

Noupe

NOUPE passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface.

Whether you have an interesting tutorial or example that you would like to share on Noupe or just found an interesting website design , this is the place to get the word out.

• All i ask is your subject should be Related to Web 2.o, WebDesign, Freelance, Ajax, Graphics or Blogging for it to be valid for submission
• If your submission is approved be sure that you will get the credit by posting either your site’s link and/or name with in the article.
• Well, that’s it, just fill out the form from their site and hit submit!

You can contact Noupe  via e-mail info[at]noupe[dot]com

Abduzeedo

This blog was created and developed by Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil).

My first contact with the Internet happened in 1995 and 1996 I started playing with it as a designer. I have a degree in graphic design and I’ve been working professionally since 1998, here in Brazil, at least in my town, I could say that it was the very beginning of the Internet.

The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis. Another thing that I want to do with this blog is to improve my English skills, as a Brazilian and non-native speaker of English, it’s a good way to practice it. By the way, you might find some English mistakes, maybe a lot sometimes, but I will try my best to make it as legible as possible.

“The blog’s name means abducted in Portuguese. I changed its spelling to add ZEE (my design company) instead of abduzido”

.Net Mag

.net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, featuring tutorials from leading agencies, interviews with the web’s biggest names, and agenda-setting features on the hottest issues affecting the Internet today. If you’re serious about web design, then .net is the magazine for you!

At Future, we base everything we do around clusters of like-minded individuals who are passionate about their interests. At this time of overwhelming choice, people want trusted editorial services more than ever before. And this is what Future does best. From computer games to films, from cycling to music-making, we provide magazines, websites and events that inform, entertain and unite these communities. We share the same passions as our consumers. These insights and our expertise are helping us to build and exploit our market-leading positions across different platforms in all of the core sectors in which we operate.

If want to learn how to create successful web designs then join 642-072 online web designing course and get expert 642-145 study guide and 642-971 design tutorials learn professional web design.

Consumers view products by its form, color and most specially by its packaging.  With so many products trying to vie attention to catch the consumer’s eye while in the supermarkets or shops.  One element used by designers is the play on fonts and the emphasis is given on typography.  The kind of typography here that we will be showcasing can be described aptly as display typography, it is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. Type is combined with negative space, graphic elements and pictures, forming relationships and dialog between words and images.

Color and size of type elements are much more prevalent than in text typography. Most display typography exploits type at larger sizes, where the details of letter design are magnified. Color is used for its emotional effect in conveying the tone and nature of subject matter.

We have put together a collection of various package design with typography as the main element for your inspiration. picture source

Brooklyn Fare’s Packaging

A colloquial brand calls for the creation of a personable typeface.  Because the brand is based on copy meant to engage the customer, the proprietary typeface we created, Fare Serif, needed to echo that same playful tone. It is friendly and accessible and meant to be used BIG. Was  applied it to everything, and we mean everything, in the store. The design team created a branding strategy that would give the store a unique voice, garnering attention and setting it apart from its competitors. The voice came through in a literal manner with text as the focus of the brand rather than imagery. We used our most excellent copy writing skills to achieve the right tone; one with the edgy humor that New Yorkers welcome.  An amazing array of package yet one look and it just mold the product line into one brand identity.

The Manual Company

Hand done typography give a lot of character to the package design for The Manual Co. a leather goods store.  The boxes you see above are designs by Peter Gregson studio, a creative design company from Novi Sad, Serbia. Here one can see the beauty of typography when used in package design.  Their work has won the studio many awards and earned them great respect in the industry.  Hand made fonts is one style that will never go out of style.  It truly brings out the personalized feel to the product.  The play of colors is also amazing with the black background as the canvass for each of the boxes and the words are truly emphasized.

Boxed Water is Better

Part sustainable water company, part art project, part philanthropic project, and completely curious.  Boxed Water is Better is a boxed water company.

Started with the simple idea of creating a new bottled water brand that is kinder to the environment and gives back a bit – we found that it shouldn’t be bottled at all, but instead, boxed. So we looked to the past for inspiration in the century old beverage container and decided to keep things simple, sustainable, and beautiful.  About 85% of the Boxed Water container is made from a renewable resource, trees, that when harvested in a responsible, managed, and ethical way serve as an amazing renewable resource that benefits the environment even as it’s renewed. We ship our boxes flat to our filler which is significantly more efficient compared to shipping empty plastic or glass bottles to be filled.

Superfused

The ability of designers to look at the world around them and decipher its meaning and relationship in order to communicate and narrate it is the essence of our practice.  Often the creative process is defined by challenges and limitations, and sometimes by observations and explorations. This self-initiated piece was created after experiencing a hard disk breakdown, where months of work were lost forever. Inspired by what was left, the tiny fuses on the circuit boards connected by fine electrical wiring, it worked as constructive healing and informed a positive outcome out of something that would otherwise have had a negative effect on the working morale.

This design project was a test of how to use even failure in your favour as a creative. Superfused became a symbol for the creative state of being pumped up with creative energy and not letting negative occurrences hold you back, something like a superpower for designers.

Milk

Packaging design by Alvaro Rubio.    “Bon vivant” means a person who enjoys the good things in life, especially good food and drink.

The design is very minimalistic and pure but also fun and frisky with the use of bold colors to highlight the product category.  Very challenging work for a designer, considering milk is pure and the design should then be able to embrace that essence.  The bottle used here is unique as well.  The over all look of a product must be considered in all cases of design and here the designer has managed to create an impact.

Milk Package

A selection of excellent packages to discover later on bottles of milk. Most are designed with cross-stitch, very creative in the studio Hattomonkey.

Hattomonkey is a Russian design studio. It was founded in 2008 in Novosibirsk. The specialization of Hattomonkey is graphic design. They create logos, corporate ID, brand ID, packages design. Their aim is to help companies and their goods to take customers attention. Their activity is based on researches and analysis. That is why they always create competitive designed products.  i feel that they have been successful with their aim with the products design.  They played on color as well as on the font.  Very creative and truly eye catching.

Compra en Positivo

This beautiful typographic inspired bottle was designed by Moruba. The bottles are for the institutional campaign to promote trade.  Their client Gobierno dela Rloeja.

Moruba is a creative studio that enjoys resolving graphic communications problems.  The designer’s task is straight forward communicate a campaign and execute to make sure that the target of the message easily captures the meaning.  Simplicity is marked here with such elegance.  An institutional campaign is a communication strategy that is commonly used to communicate an answer to an issue that the company is being viewed on. Or when a company in question shows goodwill for a cause that they strongly support.

Xococava

Xococava (pronounced shoco-cava), an extension of its big brother restaurant, Cava, is whimsical hybrid of a stand-up tapas bar crossed with an ice-cream parlour.

Inspired by Spanish and Mexican cultures of chocolate and Italy‘s love affair with geleto, Xococava features artisanal ice-cream and hand-made chocolate. With such unusual creations as prune/Pedro Ximenez sherry ice-cream and choriso, dark chocolate truffles, the store caters to Toronto’s burgeoning “foodie” culture.   Concrete created an identity program that utilizes strong typographic forms. This extend to the chocolate “periodic table” that uses two-letter combination to identify the different flavours of chocolate.

The Chocolat Factory

The chocolate factory package was designed by ruiz+company of Spain. Here’s a great example of a well designed graphic identity that is simple and clean.

Designed by Ruiz+Company for Spanish chocolate company Chocolat Factory, the identity features a clean sans-serif (which looks like DIN) and a wonderful color palette. The package design highlighted here are award winning designs. And you can see why.   “The fact that the company’s founding partners are, respectively, an architect and an interior decorator, has probably exercised a decisive influence in this sensitive approach to design. As Michel Laline himself explains: “When we first launched the company, we realised that no one had used design in the sector as yet, so that formed the base of the business: chocolate and design.” And according to Titus Ruiz: “The concept of the brand was very clear from the start: design with content.” – excerpt from Lovely Package

CD Cover

“Music shares many common ideas and themes with the visual arts. For example, repetition, rhythm, harmony, tone, shape, space, scale, line, texture and colour are terms common to both the musical and visual language”- Jacob Cass – How to create a CD cover

Here is a classic example of a very cool typographic inspired CD cover.  Designed by Sabri Akin.  Deep Purple - Child in Time ‘Cover Exercise’  If you do check out his work, he is akin to the typographic style.  Good use of white space.

It is truly rare to see product such as CD covers using typography as the main design, you would usually see pictures and images.  But here the songs for the album is given more emphasis.

Tison Incence

Here is a packaging design a fictitious incense company. designed by Louise Beaudoin.   The color palette is vibrant and the font used is very much appropriate.  Simple and clean.

A young passionate designer, Louis Beaudoin has been working in the Montreal design scene for more than 2 years. On top of a BACC in graphic design obtain at UQAM, he completed a DEC in industrial design at Cégep du Vieux Montréal. In the last few years, he has been working as a graphic designer for the publishing house Québec Amérique and more recently as a freelancer for design agencies such as Upperkut, Thomas design et communication and Chez Valois.

Warm and Cosy

Warm and cosy was designed by Transfer Studio.

At a time of great creative work, your brain, spirit and body need a break. Especially if you are in the middle of winter and the dark and cold is getting to you. Joined by friends and colleagues we embraced the Swedish tradition of feasting on homemade saffron buns washed down with tenderly prepared mulled wine.

Invites for the festivities where drawn by this need to rethink the everyday routine. By using a common object as the framework for storytelling (a simple paper cup holder) and screen printing the information on to it, they formed a tactile feature that made guests feel both exclusive and co-authors prior to attending the event, and instantly conveyed the message of what to expect – a warm and cosy break on a cold December day.

Happy Planet Shots

Tired of typical Energy shots that currently dominate the market with their toxic taste and less-than-credible-ingredients, Happy Planet has brought their reputation and knowledge of healthy natural beverages to the emerging shots category.

Happy Planet Shots are formulated to address four specific occasions: Energy+, Immunity, Detox and Glow. By infusing specially-selected herbal wonders from around the world with key vitamins and minerals, and with a premium fruit juice base, each shot provides a total net effect that both tastes good and that works. With no added sugar, no preservatives and no artificial ingredients, each 75 ml is a shot of pure concentrated goodness.

Subplot Design’s strategic role involved an extensive audit of the current shots and functional beverage category as well as liaising with Vancouver’s InQuest Consumer Insights & Planning, who conducted in-depth positioning consumer focus groups. Subplot then worked with Happy Planet to create a solid brand positioning strategy, followed by bottle and packaging design.

Learn how to create inspirational designs with 117-101 online training that also includes self paced 70-686 video tutorials and JN0-531 study guide.