Samurai martial arts are admired as the greatest example in today’s modern world culture. Not only the historical achievements, but also the spirit in their teachings is what we could learn and apply in our life. As the middle or upper echelon among all warrior classes, they are expected to be bounded by a set of rules in order to behold their brave and loyalty. Many, or most, Japanese will still hold the morale of samurai arts ever in both everyday life and modernized martial art lessons.

Let’s know more about these Samurai warriors. They are the followers of The Way of The Warrior which is known as “Bushido” in Japan. In fact, it sounds as the word – “Chivalry” in the European medieval period. It means the philosophical foundation or code of conduct for a Japanese samurai warrior. Therefore, Bushido must be strictly followed to discipline up the life of Japanese samurai, including moral code of loyalty, martial arts, honor and so on. Samurais devote their life to their patriotic and military duties. It is all about “freedom from fear”. This kind of Bushi spirit is worthy to be kept along the journey of modernization.

Samurai martial arts, traditionally, are for those who serve in close attendance to the nobility. Now, the Japanese samurai affection has obviously spanned over the globe and become the international samurai arts. Under the comparison, the influence scale is larger in most Asian countries. Even so, the Japanese samurai character is quite unique and will not confuse you with any other characters.

You can hear the “samurai” term in many warrior stories, digital artworks, animations, mangas, video games and movies. Samurai arts, either manual or digital, try hard to reveal their powers and strengths. As a respect, the artists will not neglect any detail-rich elements from the Samurai wearing to their use of fascinating weapons. Their armors inside samurai arts are mostly inclusive of various short and long swords, pole arms, firearms, bows and arrows.

And for this we list some digital artworks and concepts about samurai martial arts so that you can compare and contrast how these artists portrayed one of the greatest warrior classes in the history. It will be hopefully the inspirational gallery for you.

Afro Samurai

It is a manga written by the manga artist – Takashi Okazaki.

Rebeca Puebla

She is a 3-D artist from Madrid, Spain.

Samurai Warriors 3

This game is the 3rd installment for the Samurai Warriors series which is created by Tecmo Koei and Omega Force.

samgen wallpaper – genji

Note how many swords does this samurai hold and more of dinmoney’s digital works in deviantArt.

Otako Naoko

A piece of work from Raynkazuya’s portfolio.

The Return of Samurai Jack

It is from an artist called ijulgogan in deviantArt.

Mononofu

Like Bushi, Mononofu is other name for Samurai.

midnight samurai

A piece of great work from ClearMirrorStillH2O.

L5R Crane Samurai

This is from Genzoman in deviantArt.

Mournful Grey

This is from sXeven’s digital portfolio in deviantArt.

Shiba Tsukimi

A powerful, strong and yet beautiful woman with her brilliant skills of combat.

Kitsune samurai

He is a shadow Kitsune who is from another timeline and drastically different planet where has not only mankinds.

samurai 037

He is being called as “The Wanderer” or “The Master Jubei”.

Ninja vs Samurai

You can find more about this series from Sundang’s deviantArt portfolio.

Samurai Vs the Zombies

This is for the Legend of the 5 Rings TCG by BenWootten.

samurai guard

Look closely, you can see the Samurai’s detailed beautiful face.

Samurai Warriors

This video game is also known as Sengoku Musou in Japan.

Crimson Samurai

Every single detail is so obvious and inspiring in this picture.

Samurai

It is the typical samurai warrior’s wearing.

Samurai Knight

The left side is the European Knight while the right side is the Japanese Samurai.

Mariachi Samurai

Mariachi Samurai is one of the fantasy characters from Jose Lopez.

Gypsy Samurai

She is a gypsy, samurai and woman.

Last Samurai: Wallpaper

This is the newly cropped version of the original work.

samurai attack

The texture and sense of depth in this picture is pretty nice.

Samurai Warriors 2

It is a sequel to Samurai Warriors video game.

samurai and the fish

It is from the hands of mahlukat.

Samurai Girl

The female samurai sometimes gives a tougher feeling compared to the male warrior.

Shampoo

This intriguing character is from ProdigyBombay on deviantArt.

Character – Dark Warlord

He is named as Shen Ku as well.

Copper Samurai

Another samurai digital art from dinmoney.

Every single element on your desktop can be customized and tailored to your preference, from the window shape, wallpapers to icons. By Mac OS customization, they all are saying that you can bring your desktop from zero to hero. You merely need to be creative to replace words or icons and pick up a cool background. Then, you have already started to customize OS X. Getting more and more familiar, there are a lot of stuffs that you can play around with your desktop customization.

Simply enlarging icons or changing font styles, you can feel the difference in your desktop appearance. If you are photographer, you can put up the most favorite masterpiece from your collections to be your desktop wallpaper. It just seems as the showcase for your photographic works. Besides, wallpapers can be changed within a preset time period. Hence, you can view different pictures or have various desktop interfaces in one day. Sure, desktop customization does not stop in here. You can magically transform it into super hi-tech experience, as long as you can hit it on the right track with some tools and your brain.

Across the internet, you can easily find some useful widgets, applications or tutorials to teach you how to customize OS X to your satisfaction. GeekTool is one of the popular tools to customize OS X desktop. It receives a lot of positive compliments and comments. Compared to other alternatives, it can be considered as a neat and user-friendly utility that directs you to run little scripts or “geeklets” to show out all necessary and useful information such as RAM, CPU usage, calendar and images on your Mac desktop.

After the Mac OS customization, what you can tell is not only the visual enhancement of browsing your desktop, but also the useful and convenient functions. For example, you can add in the basic system statistics, current weather, news feed or more gadgets to ease your daily life needs. Furthermore, customization does not necessarily equal to complexity. You can either make it as a tech-geek or simple and nice. Minimalism is often used to develop and customize OS X to a user’s heart content.

Desktop customization, or specially referring to Mac OS customization, can allow you to create your personalized beautiful and productive desktop space. Whenever you feel bored, you can remake it with your innovative and intelligent mind.

Enjoy their desktops!

Seattle Harbor + Geektool + Yahoo! Widgets

Widgets should be arranged in the way not to block the harbor view.

Shorty’s GeekTool Setup

Left and right columns incorporate all the things well.

Desktop 2 – OS X Tiger

With more widgets, your desktop color and images must be carefully chosen.

May shot

A plain purple background fully tells you what is minimalism.

Desktop – OS X Leopard w/Dock Expanded

Putting icons and widgets in four desktop corners is a great idea too.

Skyrim – Desktop Screenshot

Keeping icons small and aside will make your desktop more neat.

Gaia 09 for Snow Leopard

Color palette is crucial to define the feelings of your desktop.

OS X – Leopard

Again, wallpaper should be simple when more widgets are on the screen.

Veritas feat. Neon

Homogeneous is helpful to achieve a minimalist’s concept.

OSX Lion custom desktop

Colorful desktop will not lead to complicated feeling.

Grays

Desktop could be as modern as your working space.

My Desktop by santoscreative

Cute icon sets gain popularity and attention.

Mac Toon Customization

Without any gadgets, it is quite comfortable.

New Mac Screenshot

A desktop seems like a photo frame.

Urban Desktop

Picking up the right wallpaper is imperative in doing customization.

Mac OS X

You can choose only displaying what you need on the window screen.

Africa ss

This customization sounds like asking you to throw away all icons and left out the wallpaper.

My Mac OS X desktop by ibnadem

Make your widgets as part of the wallpaper.

Back to me

Focusing on window screens and folders, instead of the wallpaper.

Bokeh

You can notice the clock and time inside the bokeh.

Mac Os Lion September

When you see it, you hear the waves.

locol

Black and white often produce the beautiful things in our life.

My Desktop for Easter by ivica221

Your desktop could be your room, so do arrange it well.

Passing the Days

It is so seductive when you open your Mac each time.

Tlo

Putting all pictures aside in small size is great, isn’t it?

That is why there is tons of free software out in the market today to assist web designers and developers in their duties. The demand for website creation has led to the increase of free software and tools in the market to make the website designing job easier and more cost efficient.

Some people might even argue to an extent that free software for web designers are actually better than paid software! One of the reasons is because free software has an entire community (of both developers and users) to get involved in fixing problems and bugs. Another reason why free software for web designers is good is because of reliability. A lot of the famous free software available on the Internet today is popular due to its satisfactory performance and good reviews from users. Therefore, you can be assured that most free software, especially those which are highly rated, are of exceptional quality.

In this article, we present to you a collection of excellent free software in the categories of messaging and communication, project planning and organizing, image editing and design, coding and CSS, FTP, debugging and testing and site promotion.

Messaging and Communication

Google Reader

An RSS reader which keeps you up to date with the latest news on the Internet.

Pidgin Instant Messenger

Instant messaging client which hosts a lot of chat clients like AIM, MIRC etc.

Project Planning and Organising

2 Plan Desktop

Planning and scheduling software.

2 Plan Team

Team planning and scheduling software (links 2 Plan Desktop).

Image Editing and Design

Photoscape

Basic photo editor.

Pixia

Japanese photo editing software (available in English).

Splashup

Web based photo editing application.

Coding and CSS

Snap{css}

Notepad like css application.

Komodo Edit

Simple CSS editor that extends to Firefox.

Notepad++

Based on Scintilla, it is a powerful code editor.

FTP

WinSCP

SFTP, SCP, FTP software.

FireFTP

FTP client that is integrated directly to Firefox.

FileZilla

Open source FTP for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Debugging and Testing

Deskzilla Lite

Deskzilla is a desktop client for Bugzilla bug tracking system.

Bugzilla

Defect and bug tracking software.

HTTPLook

Test and debug Internet applications that work over HTTP protocol.

Abbot Java Gui Test

Test the Java UI.

Anteater

Write tests for checking the functionality of a Web application or of an XML Web service.

Site Promotion

Traffic Travis

Comprehensive collection of essential Market Research, PPC and SEO.

Page Speed

FireFox add-on that evaluates the speed of your website and gives suggestions on how to improve its speed.

A brief history is that FTP has existed back in 1971 and is one of the oldest protocols that support the Internet. A computer based FTP clients are programs that were installed into a computer that enables file transfer between the machine and server. FTP clients can be very useful not only for making websites but also for download and file transfers. In fact, most web hosting services provide their own brand of FTP client or file transfer services that is similar to FTP clients, however based on personal experience their services are normally slower and sometimes complicated to operate and became too much hassle when one is transferring bulk files between servers. Which are why most users prefer to install a computer based FTP client to speed things up and the program itself will only take up a small space in your computer. Therefore, for this particular article we will be featuring free FTP clients for Windows users.

Among most of the Windows FTP clients featured on the list, each of them has their own special feature, while all of the featured Windows FTP clients on the list are available for free; some of them require a small fee for a service upgrade. Some of the free FTP clients features and supports other functions such as drag and drop, thumbnail generator, folder locking and some security functions.

However, while me dedicate this post mostly for Windows users, we have also included a few free FTP clients for Mac users (seeing that yours truly are one of them). But a note to mention here is that, while certain FTP clients only supports one operating system; other FTP clients also provide different versions to support different operating systems. For this particular article, we have collected different free FTP clients that provide and supports different features; we hope that this will help our users get started.

FileZilla

One of the most popular and common FTP program available, it uses little resources and is fast and efficient.

Go FTP

Presenting itself as the fastest multi-threaded FTP program in the market; stating that it works 314% than its competitors.

Core FTP

This FTP program places great importance on security, its a great tool to exchange files from different servers.

FTP Commander

A free and paid version exist for this FTP program.

Total Commander

A successor of Windows commander and features a thumbnail generator for images as well as Multi language and unicode support.

FTP Voyager

This FTP program features feature such as Synchronize Folders, Folder Locking, Power transfer and more, it might just be the tool you need.

Free FTP

The program describes itself as a simple and reliable file transfer FTP client.

Classic FTP Client

A fully featured, free FTP client available for Mac OS X and Windows.

Cross FTP

A user-friendly FTP program written in Java allowing it to work on any Java-enabled machine.

Cyberduck

One of the best FTP clients that is free for Mac users, it is also available as a dashboard widget.

OneButton FTP

An FTP client that focoses on simplicity, drag and drop usability as well as file queuing.

Fugu

Fugu is a graphical front end to the command line Secure File Transfer application (SFTP) built into Mac OS X.

WinSCP

Free SFTP, FTP and SCP client for Windows.

AceFTP

It provides features such as Drag and Drop and SSH secure file transfer.

FTP Surfer

FTP Surfer is a professional FTP client featuring an Internet Explorer style user interface including an address bar, history, and favorites menu.

While, the genre of animal photography encompasses all sorts of animals, there are two different categories of animals that the photographers will be dealing with. The safer option will be domestic animals, such as domestic pets like dogs, cats, and hamster and in some cases reptiles. The more challenging aspect of will be wild animal photography, featuring wild animals (lions, bears, birds) in their natural habitat. For this topic, we decided to dedicate this particular post to animal enthusiast and feature some of the more amazing and inspiring animal photographs.

When tackling with this particular photography genre, photographers might start with domestic animals, seeing that they are less dangerous, less afraid of humans and photographers might even be able to stage a particular scene with the animals. However, some photographers might wish to challenge themselves with wild animals, but these animals are unpredictable, seeing that these animals might be easily frightened and might attack or run off when they feel threaten. This is also one of the reasons why the photographer should make proper research in order to understand the habitat and behavior of a particular animal before hand; it is also wise to know the kind of shots that you want to take prior the shot too. Patience is also a very important factor when dealing with animal photography, seeing that you might have to stay put in one area for an extended period of time before you manage to capture your subject and even then there are also many times that a photographer might return home empty handed.

It is advised that you should always set your camera properly before hand, normally a faster shutter speed is recommended and some knowledge on the animal subject, such as the season that they appear, their behavior and habitat will make things easier for you.

We hope our readers will enjoy and be inspired by this week’s collection. For those interested, it is always recommended to start small and practice with your pets at home; and should you attempt wild animal photography keep in mind that a little distance will never hurt.

DJ Sugar

A cat name Sugar with lovely blue eyes.

King Cardinal

A fantastic shot of a King Cardinal, which is also hailed as America’s popular song bird.

How Cute Can You Possibly Get?

The photographer was lucky to come across this little white baby fur seal in South Georgia.

Look Into My Eyes

A close up shot of a Snowy owls perfectly focusing on its distinctive features.

Zen Fox

Happy animals are the most beautiful animals, the photographer manage to capture of a fox that looks as if it is meditating.

Crag Martin

A beautiful picture of a bird taking flight.

Introspection – Marsel Van Oosten

A picture of a snow monkey taken in Japan.

King Fisher – Nissim

A rare photo shoot of a King Fisher and its prey.

The Golden Mirror – Marsel Van Oosten

This was shot at sunrise at a waterhole in South Africa of a Hippo peeking out of water.

What About Me? – Lise De Serres

A beautiful moment captured of a fox and her offsprings.

Happy Lunar New Year – Mirror_Lake

A beautiful picture of a White-eared Sibia surrounded with plum-blossom in Taiwan.

Mandarin Duck

Mandarin duck spotted in Diergaarde Blijdorp, Netherlands.

Brown Bear and Salmon

A bear waiting for its catch at Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska.

Eyes only for you

A great composition of a peacock in close up.

White-peacock

A photo of a peacock sitting on a fence bordering the Pittsburgh Zoo.

White Tiger

A shot of a white tiger laying by a pool in beautiful lighting.

Red Panda

A red panda captured in a nice pose and composition.

Golden Monkey

A group of Golden Monkeys in Everland, Korea.

Rajan Snorkeling – Jeff Yonover

An Asian elephant called Rajan is caught on picture taking a dip while using its trunk as a snorkel.

White Horse

A white horse’s portrait taken in its majestic stance.

Hooves

A different kind of way to look at horses.

Like A Prayer

Japanese White Eye, taken at Jishan Youth Activity Centre. Taiwan.

Flamingos Partying – Pedro Szekely

Flamingos in Laguna Hedionda in Bolivia in one of the amazing sights you will ever see.

Deep Blue Dolphin Love – Patrik Jones

A dolphin couple passing by taken in Yokohama Sea Pradise Water Tunnel.

St Barth Iguane

A picture of an iguana captured in vivid colours and details.

Rack cards are basically used to explain more about a certain place or product and to assist the person reading it to make decisions. For example, rack cards in the form of maps can be put in the hotel lobby for the convenience of visitors to get around the holiday destination. Event rack cards contain the details for the event it is publishing like concerts, parties or formal events. A rack card definitely looks more classy and attractive compared to your regular invitation card of tourist maps. Some people even use rack cards as a form of creative business cards!

Many companies are now turning to the usage of rack cards instead of regular brochures or mini newsletters because of its simplicity and stunningly attractive design. Companies and suppliers know they have to sell their product, service or attraction in a short period of time, therefore, it is essential that rack cards are able to attract the attention of the target market and at the same time provide sufficient information without going overboard.

Do rack cards sound interesting to you? Well, you might want to come up with your own design of rack cards for your business, or maybe for yourself as a business card. If you feel lost and do not know where to start, we present to you a collection of professional rack cards. Do take note at the attractiveness and the diversity of our collection below. We hope that you might be able to take some of the concepts or get some ideas from this showcase below. We wish you all the best in creating your own rack cards!

Assurant Property Inspections

Property Inspection Agent.

Sprouts

Plant for the future.

POP Rack Cards – The Miami HeraldEl Nuevo Herald

Blue, Black and White.

Salton Sea History Museum Rack Card

All you need to know.

Buried Treasure

Win a car!

President Casino – Offsite Informational Brochure

Simple casino promotion.

Rack Cards for Anniston Museum of Natural History

Welcome to the museum.

Peaks and Pints

Promoting Beers.

Suncoast Careers Rack and BS

Looking for a job?

Direct Mail and Rack Card Design

Holidays for everyone.

Graduation Announcements // Promo Mailer Rack Card

Simple name card.

Hunley Rack Card

Information about the submarine.

Les Miserables

Rack card for a play.

Best Life Therapy

Therapy made simple.

Biltmore Hotel Coral Gables

Spa information.

Elite Canvas LLC

What we have.

American Family Values Ad and Website

America for all.

Premier Signs – Rack Card

Need a ride?

Classic Cable Cars Rack Card

More about cable cars.

Basil and Peppercorns

Party?

Performax Fitness Rack Card

Time to hit the gym.

Art Party

Invitation to the party.

Sunday Chronicle and Movies rack cards

Movies, movies and movies.

Ravinia Education Program Rack Card

Open for information.

Springfield Museum

Tour information.

Boys & Girls Club

Children are the future.

Downtown at the Gardens

What’s Downtown?

Northeast Rentals & Sales

Rental and Sales.

Lane Company

Lane Company.

Main Street Station Rack Card

Main Street show.

Art Exhibition Catalogs, Walton Art Center

Beauty of art.

Believe in the night effect, and you will set the stunning output of an object or a country. It shows the magic of light on a city. Witness a building in day and night will let you know the great contrast. In night shots, there are actually several light sources such as moon light. Nonetheless, they are weak so that you have to make use of artificial lightning such as flash or play with the camera settings.

In fact, looking at the night photography is where you can see the true skill of a professional photographer. Shutter speed, exposure, depth-of-field and ISO play a combination with the low lightning in order not to have blurry or over-bright night shots. The surrounding items sometimes can compensate for this tough production too.

Besides, you may not need very sophisticated equipment or tool kit to help you in achieving the spectacular night photography effect. Only a basic digital camera with controllable features and good stabilization can do so. Those controllable features are as basic as above rather than changing lens. Even without a tripod, you can have nice night photography pictures. However, it may not able to up to comparison level with those professional cameras.

Yet, tripod is absolutely better if you have one. Additionally, a cable release will reduce the failure likelihood for those with shaking hands. There are always creative alternatives to replace this instrument. Find a flat and non-vibrating surface, aim your camera in the suitable position and then use self-timer to shoot. If you wish to do some long-exposure tricks, tripod with cable release is ever the best choice.

Timing is, of course, crucial for photographer. Night shots do not necessarily mean late night shots. Instead, late dusk is the perfect timing to take advantage of the remaining natural light. Your night photography pictures will be likely to have a balance between day and night. Clouds are still in details, or else you still can get a little bit water reflections. It is totally different with taking night shots in the whole darkness. Hence, they require different camera settings as well.

Balancing all these is hard but do ask yourself: “Do you want to miss out on the gorgeous fireworks?” It’s just one example that tells you that many night scenes are beautiful to be your night photography photos. Learn and be familiar with it.

Unsurprisingly, there are many avid photographers who prepare to accomplish this night mission when the night knocks the sky. Below are some of their amazing works:

Floating Headlights

Other than the heavy metal effect, the sky movement is another highlight.

Niagara Falls at Night

Lightning let people to observe the mighty of Niagara Falls, even at night.

Pearl Farm Beach and Resort – Davao City

Clear water reflection catches your attention.

city of lights

A city is the other city when it is illuminated at night.

A Night Under The Bay Bridge

Great color and reflection hold your breath away.

Pedestrian bridge over Drava river

Another awesome bridge shot under the green blue lightning.

Fireworks at new years eve

It is not easy to capture fireworks in such dedicated texture.

Milan Train Station at Midnight

It absolutely does not look like taking at night times.

Skybar

Taking iconic Petronas Tower inside the photo frame is creative.

Port in Blue

This night shot is pretty with foreground and background balance.

Chicago Skyline

Told you earlier, a city is magically transformed under the night sky.

Cologne at Night

Bridge with chapel is a great combination, taking the blue sky into account.

Night Sky Over the Church of the Good Shepherd

It is a fantasy, isn’t it?

Positron

Again and again, reflection adds more points to photography.

Singapore Night Photography – Merlion Park

You will not imagine such a beautiful scene when standing at there in the days.

Shoot that Bridge

Shooting bridge from a bottom angle is unique.

Night Photography of Houston, Texas Freeway

Expressway is always a good spot for night photography.

Marina By The Night

Definitely, you cannot find the line to distinguish between real object and its reflection.

Night Photography II

It is just another example of fantasy photography world.

Night Mountain

The mountain is hard to be believed as a real mountain.

Blue of the Night

Night shots are ever more breathtaking than day photography.

At night

Long-exposure effect is always there with the car headlights.

Flinders Street Station at night

Car headlights, sparkling “stars” and the Flenders Street Station is the nice combination.

City Night Scenes Wallpapers

Yes, it is a wallpaper rather than photography.

Night St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney

Looking at the city landscape from the top gives you another view.

Merlion Night Scene

Cityscape does look good at the night with the building lights.

Night: Melbourne Yarra River

Reflections are just too close to the reality.

Waterworld

All things are frozen in that moment.

Sakura by night

Sakura is proven to be elegant flower, either in days or at nights.

94th Floor

Panoramic view of a city is ideal at the late night.

Summer night in Stockholm Archipelago

Moon and those tree branches make up a good composition.

Night Shooting at Moulton Barn

Purple sky and illuminated house only come to be true inside a night shot.

Aurorus Reflectus Colosseo

Colosseo presents more than a history remaining in here.

Nile at Night

Which object do you focus, the full moon or the tall tower?

Night Watch

Always, we have to watch over the night skies to discover something.

Night blankets the land

Everything in this earth rests when pressing the shutter button.

In the night

A people is lying his back on the tree.

Sydney Opera House

Beautiful skyline overtakes the gorgeous Opera House.

Navy Pier after the Storm

Stare at the wheel as long as you can. It is how the photography attracts people.

A hazy shade of (almost) winter

Blue color reveals the winter well.

Night Lights

Night lights are unique to wait you presenting them by the camera.

Due to the success of the arcade game, Street Fighter then entered other markets like films and animations, card games, novels and mangas, games on the computer and console and the music industry. Up to this day, there are more than seven series of Street Fighter games with its fan base still growing even after years of being in the market.

One reason why people are so mesmerized by Street Fighters is because of the beautifully drawn up graphics, animations and cool fighting techniques. Playing a game of Street Fighter or watching a Street Fighter movie will definitely get your adrenaline rushing. To further add on to the beautiful animations in the games and comics, designers and artists today have also published tons of artwork based on Street Fighter characters.

With so many characters to choose from, artists and designers have endless choices of pictures and art to come up with. Whether it is a fighting scene, or a portrait, Street Fighter characters suit all forms of creative artwork.

In this article, we present to you several interesting artwork of Street Fighter characters which will definitely impress you. And hopefully, it will inspire you to come up with your next Street Fighter artwork. Enjoy!

In the Night

Beautiful colours of Street Fighters.

Victory

A collection of Street Fighter characters.

Street Fighter II

A collection of Street Fighter II characters.

On Fire

Several Street Fighters ready to face their opponents.

Akuma Rage

Akuma in a fury.

Ryu on Fire

Ryu up in action against Ken.

Ryu Hadouken

Ryu performing the Hadouken.

Juri in Purple

Juri in purple under the dark lighting.

Elena Versus Makoto

Elena up against Makoto.

Street Fighter versus Tekken

Street Fighters up against Tekken characters.

Check Us Out

Five Street Fighters posing.

Fast Paced Action

Six Street Fighters showing off their skills.

Vega

Vega in a bloody backdrop.

Street Jam

Street Fighters along the alley.

Vengeance

Five Street Fighters standing side by side.

Street Fighter Kids

Street Fighters depicted as kids.

Blue Fighter

A Street Fighter against a blue background.

Street Fighter IV

Street Fighter IV characters.

Out of the Woods

Three Street Fighters walking along the path.

Free for All

Street Fighters up against each other.

Against the Beast

Three Street Fighters up against a larger opponent.

Classic

A sepia coloured Street Fighter photo.

Battle Rage

Three Street Fighters up against each other.

Red Rage

Street Fighters with red fury eyes.

Cammy

A painting of Cammy.

Cute Karin

Karin posing cutely.

Full Moon

Ibuki preparing for battle under the moonlight.

Battle Scene

A series of photos depicting a battle scene.

What’s Happening?

A group of people walking in just to see a Street Fighter battle.

Tribute

A drawing as a tribute to Street Fighter.

In today’s article, our focus will be on black and white logos. In its essence, almost all logo designs begin with a simple sketch in black and white before more intrinsic design and colours are added in. A logo design in black and white represents the logo in its basic and simplest form. That is the reason why, some companies and organisations prefer to have their logo in black and white instead of colourful. Black and white is not only simple, but is looks classy, elegant and professional at the same time.

Nike, Playboy and Chanel are some of the worldwide names that use a straightforward black and white logo design. Despite the simplicity, people around the world recognise these brands with ease. Not only that, black and white logos can be improved with colours later on to add a little bit of spice and diversity to the original design.

Without the usage of colours, the other elements in a logo hold a bigger importance in representing the company and the story. Nike is famous for its tick, Playboy for its playboy bunny while Chanel is well known for its double C’s. When people see these shapes, they immediately recall the company, even without having to look at the name of the company below the logo. This shows that simplicity is one of the keys in black and white logos.

Other factors like font and image size also affect the effectiveness of a logo in reaching out to the targeted audience group. But we will discuss further about that in another article. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy our collection of beautiful black and white logos below!

All seeing eye

Pyramid Eye.

PetWise

For wise pet owners.

Maison del Embajador

The hotel for you.

rogue media

Real news.

Festival de Jerez

Welcome to the festival.

Belief Pictures

Videos and motion pictures.

cat people

Strictly for cat lovers.

Exclucive3

Exclusive logo.

MvG

3D logo.

Obie’s Fillin’ Station

Need a refill?

Horris

Swimming all over.

AVR Graphic Design

Designer logo.

Falcon Express

Express postal service.

ahmed abd el-halim

Hi, I’m Ahmed.

panda

Panda which communicates.

Arctic Aero

Four sided alliance.

Sweet Adiction

For sweet people.

Fénix

Logo for a ONG that helps women rebuild their lifes.

Night Golf

Moon golf?

Fuerte Surf Ventura

Wave!

Queen’s Glass

Only for the royal people.

quey

Simple.

bye bye wc

Goodbye.

petite mafia

Cute mafia.

Deep Sound

Sound solutions.

4vezde

Neverending logo.

Dream Runner

Just keep running.

act

Global research.

Traditional

T for traditional.

The Select Few Logo Mark

Alphabets.

MIchał Borowiec

I’m a bear!

What makes minimalist websites stand out from other regular websites? Minimal design is the key to minimalist websites. Compared to normal websites, minimalist websites have less design, graphics and wording. These websites basically keeps the website clean to the core contents and information. Minimalist websites contain very little, but rich and descriptive graphics, uses interesting typography, minimize word usage and also utilizes zone placement for different sections of the websites (menu, search box, tabs, title, etc.).

Despite its simple looking wording and layout, creating a minimalist website is not as easy as it seems. Website designers have to strike the right balance between clean designs and the amount of information provided. Designs should be simple, but not too boring nor plain. And the wordings and typography should be in the right font and the right amount. Eliminating too much information might leave your viewer with many questions in mind, or in the worse case scenario, lost on your website. While on the other hand, having too much information will turn your viewer off and might deter him from exploring your website further. Always keep in mind, designs and wordings are the bare essentials of an effective minimalist website.

Our collection below presents 30 exceptional minimalist websites that will definitely amaze you with its simplicity and uniqueness. Some of the sites below have totally eliminated effects and graphics, leaving only the content while others choose to display more information and graphics, without making the website looking clustered and keeping it easy to navigate. We hope that you might be inspired to change your current website or blog layout and typography to utilize a more minimalist design, just for a change. We are sure it will definitely amaze your site’s readers and viewers. We sincerely hope you enjoy our collection below!

Jamie Gregory

Hi Jamie!

Portfolio of Jonathan Belton

Jonathan’s site.

Hot Meteor

Red to attract.

Hering Berlin

Corporate website.

Jean Delbrel

Comic designer.

Ben Bate

Simple designs for everyone.

80/20

Grey is the colour.

Leo Burnett

Simplicity.

Indie Labs

Welcome to bigcartel!

We Were Sofa

Sofa which builds websites.

Rob Treutel

Treutal’s simple website.

DOGMA

Sample pictures and designs.

monty lounge industries

Usage of typography.

The Uprising Creative

Don’t cry.

Fontsmith

Fonts for everyone.

Rodrigo Corral Design

I do design.

Black Box Press

Notebook designs.

Studio MIKMIK

Sample work.

Design Intellection

Simple blog.

RHYTHM Design Studies

Dominos.

SimpleBits

Step by step tutorial.

Half Of Us

A little for society.

Bit This!

Blue and white.

The DECK

Simple article.

Sam Dallyn

Designs.

LUXUX

Colourful.

Wearable Print

We make stuff!

TH= SUM

Online branding.

Type]Media 2010/11

Media.

Jonnotie

Application designer.