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Beautiful Pictures of Churches

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:29:07 +0000

I really love those old, classic churches. It might be a tiny one in a village, or it might be a gigantic one that took many, many years to be completed. No matter what kind it is, I just know that some of these are so beautiful that they deserve… read more

Desktop Wallpaper: 80+ Most Breathtaking Places on Earth

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:24:04 +0000

There are many sources of inspiration that designers look to when trying to get their creative juices flowing. I think there is none better than the breathtaking landscapes that nature has to offer. In this post you will see some of the most beautiful places on earth. You will see… read more

Appboy Gets a New Design, iPhone App and Best Buy Partnership

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:48:31 +0000

Back in October we wrote about Appboy, a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled… read more

Our Latest Book: How to Write Great Copy for the Web

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:07 +0000

Last week I introduced you to the latest collaboration between Rockable Press and FreelanceSwitch, How to Write Great Copy for the Web by Donna Spencer. I am happy to announce that the book has been launched today and Rockin’ List members get a $5 discount on the digital book, bringing… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Scraped Grunge

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:14:45 +0000

The other day I was wandering around some back allies in my town and came across all of these cool poles that had been painted and scraped and repainted over and over again. I thought it gave these grunge textures a very cool feel, almost like an abstract acrylic painting… read more

Daily Deals for March 9, 2010

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Apple Store: [iPods] Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $139 + free shipping
iTunes Music Store: [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Pocket Heart, Diner Dash, Magellan RoadMate, more
MacUpdate Promo: [Security/Anti-Virus Software] Lockngo 4 for Mac… read more

Win 1,000 Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:59:30 +0000

Next Day Flyers has offered to give 1,000 business cards and $25 of printing credit to a lucky reader of Designm.ag.

If you’re not familiar with Next Day Flyers they provide offset printing services and specialize in quick printing, mailing and finishing marketing materials. They are available to print business … read more

Daily Inspiration #452

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:58:46 +0000

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:48:43 +0000

Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it… read more

GDC 2010: Ngmoco explains how Eliminate Pro was built

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

ARTIST

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:58:39 +0000

Personal Illustration.

Winners of 5000 Business Cards from UPrinting

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:44:55 +0000

Today we’re announcing the winners of the UPrinting contest that we held on WDD for the past week.

Many thanks to all of you who participated. The response was great and we’ve got almost 500 comments.

Each of the 10 winners has won a set of 500 free business cards of their… read more

Report: RIAA pressured Apple into creating iTunes LP

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:00 +0000

Palm Looks to Bring iPhone Games to webOS with New PDK

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:27:27 +0000

Palm has announced the beta release of its Plug-in Developer Kit — or PDK — a new component in the webOS SDK that will make for dramatically better gaming on the Palm Pre, Palm Pixi and all future webOS devices.

Originally announced back in January at the CES show, the… read more

How to Get Free Content and Media Hosting at Screencast.com

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:18:54 +0000

Let’s say you’ve created a video or image you want to share, but you don’t want it saved to your computer. You want to save it in a safe place, where you can access it at any time. You want some storage options, and the ability to … read more

How to Pop Color Selectively Using Channel Mixers and Layer Masks in Photoshop

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:15:28 +0000

By Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions: Photoshop Actions and Training

There are literally dozens of ways to saturate your colors in Photoshop. For this post I am going to focus on one way to pop colors using “Channel Mixer” adjustment layers.

To start with, locate an image that could benefit from more… read more

MediaLoot Competition – 5 Free Year Long Licenses up for grabs

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:13:42 +0000

Once in a while a new design resource arrives that looks so good you simply have to shout about it from the rooftops and make sure everybody knows about it. And today such a resource has launched, it is called Media Loot – a lowly priced subscription-based online toolbox of… read more

PlayStation First to Sell HD Movies from All Major Studios

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:03:15 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures.

Some of the content… read more

EFF releases iPhone developer license agreement

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0000

As EFF points out, public copies of the license agreement are pretty scarce thanks to developers being locked under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the contract. EFF used the Freedom of Information Act to get its copy from NASA, which is the version from approximately a year ago (Rev…. read more

ShiftPlanning Makes Setting Schedules for Businesses Easy

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:55:38 +0000

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: ShiftPlanning

Quick Pitch: ShiftPlanning Provides free… read more

Samsung Debuts 3D TV Lineup

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:40:22 +0000

3D is set to be big this year, and Samsung is hoping to tempt early adopters with a promotional offer that attempts to combat one of 3D TV’s main problems — lack of content — by bundling in a 3D movie with certain sales.

The promotion takes the form of… read more

FileMaker 11 now available with charting, reporting improvements

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:30:00 +0000

Launch

Right off the bat, the introduction screen is new (after the splash screen “wobbles” into view). It’s wider with more options, like a link to the online resource center. There you’ll find video tutorials, starter solutions (more on that later) and access to consultants. They’re all extremely useful… read more

Using Adobe Bridge to Create a Mosaic

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:12:41 +0000

Get Creative with Adobe Bridge

Many people, understandably, think of Adobe Bridge as a visual file browser, and of course, that’s its strength. But thanks to the Output module, Bridge also offers some interesting design possibilities. In this example, we’ll use Bridge to create both a filmstrip of images and a… read more

iPad will lack some standard iPhone apps at launch

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000

Thus, the mystery begins. Where are The Final Five? Chen suggests that they’ll be released as free apps in the App Store. John Gruber believes that design problems caused the team (specifically, Steve Jobs) to withhold the apps. I agree with John and Brian.

Consider the calculator app. It… read more

MacHeist Offers Early Access to Tweetie 2 for Mac

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:40 +0000

Tweetie for Mac is the newest bonus edition to the MacHeist nanoBundle 2, which gives Mac users an opportunity to buy a variety of software for a discounted price. Additionally, buyers will also get early access to the pre-public beta for Tweetie 2 for Mac, plus a free… read more

Win a Bokeh Kit: Competition

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:17:50 +0000

Today we’re giving away 6 great little kits to help you create some stunning Bokeh effects from Bokeh Masters Kit. Thanks to Udi Tirosh (follow him on Twitter here) for this offer. Here he is to introduce the concept behind the kits and to introduce the competition.

The Challenge

A while back… read more

“Tron Legacy” Trailer Featuring Jeff Bridges Hits the Web [VIDEO]

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:15:25 +0000

New Academy Award-winner Jeff Bridges reprises his role as arcade regular and computer programming genius Flynn in the trailer for Tron Legacy, which just made its official web debut today. The film is a long-anticipated sequel to the 1980s geek classic Tron, and this is the first full-length trailer.

The… read more

Cisco CRS-3: Download Library of Congress in Just Over One Second

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:37:10 +0000

Cisco has announced a new routing system that they say is going to speed up the Internet in a big way. Dubbed the Cisco CRS-3, the company claimed that the new system – currently being tested by AT&T – is three times faster than its predecessor, which was… read more

Build Your Own iPhone Specific Website

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:31:58 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted some legit content. I have been very busy lately with work, freelance, running BoomSkins, etc. Recently I just finished my first iPhone specific website. It was created in an incredibly short time (less than a week) and generated it’s first sale within 15… read more

Stunning Illustrations by Jessica Oyhenart

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:07:21 +0000

I was trying to figure out what to post today… so I started to check some old bookmarks I have, and my attention was caught by some awesome illustrations that I couldn’t believe I haven’t posted yet. These are stunning.

The girl behind these is Jessica Oyhenart, an awesome artist from… read more

Go Tribal Helps Friends Coordinate Informal Plans

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:09 +0000

Launching in beta today, Go Tribal tackles the other side of the equation from formal event services like Meetup or Plancast by helping members organize informal group plans. By identifying when users are free and available to hang out, Go Tribal hopes to eliminate some of the hassle involved… read more

15 Best Free Online Tools for Web Design & Development

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:43 +0000

15 Best Free Online Tools for Web Design & Development

Amazon is Working on a Better Web Browser for Kindle

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:02 +0000

Ask any Kindle owner about browsing the web on the device, and you’ll get the same answer: well, you can do it, but… And then you’ll hear how abysmal the browsing experience really is. Having tried it myself, it made me want to whip up my iPhone and its… read more

Postbox adds Things and OmniFocus support

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0000

How to Make an Attractive Vector Butterfly

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:40:57 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to make a vector butterfly using the blending mode from transparency box and the gradient mesh. The techniques shown in this tutorial will help you make shades on objects and liquid transition of colors. Believe me it is very easy.

Step 1

Let’s start… read more

30 Fashionable T-shirt Designs

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:33:41 +0000

File Type: AI, EPS, and CDR
License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use

This set of professional T-shirt designs can be used in a variety of ways, with 30 different emblems to choose from you’ll be sure to find something for your next project.

MediaLoot Is Now Open! Premium Resources For Designers

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:15:14 +0000

MediaLoot Is Now Open! Premium Resources For Designers

50+ Free Resources for Charts and Graphs Solution

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:08:21 +0000

A chart or a graph is a visual representation of data, in which “the data are represented by symbols, such as bars, lines, or slices”. These symbols can represent tabular numeric data, functions or some kinds of qualitative structures. For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Charts… read more

8 Tips for Photographing Wildflowers

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:42 +0000

In this post, Steve Berardi from PhotoNaturalist discusses eight tips for photographing wildflowers.

To get the softly diffused light in this photo, I waited for an overcast sky. (Photo by Steve Berardi)

With spring on the horizon in some parts of the world, you may be thinking about photographing some beautiful wildflowers… read more

Tuesday Total Textures #9

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:02:07 +0000

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

This week’s Textures… read more

How To Use Curves in Photoshop

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:24 +0000

If I were forced to give up all but one image adjustment tool, I would keep curves. Hands down. The curves adjustment tool is an integral part of every professional’s knowledge base and image editing package.

Even if you’ve taken a good photo, chances are it can be improved or it… read more

A look at the framework of Apple’s iPad ad

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0000

In making his case for the iPad, Apple CEO… read more

30+ Corporate WordPress Themes

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:57 +0000

We’ve compiled 30+ excellent corporate WordPress themes from ThemeForest for your next corporate client. Either download the themes and customize them to your client’s needs or use these designs as inspiration to create a unique WordPress template from scratch.

Corporate WordPress Themes

Dark n’ Clean

Agivee

idea Business Shop

Creative.Biz

Universal Business

Spacio WP

Foursquare is Back in the App Store

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:43:22 +0000

A couple of days ago Foursquare’s iPhone application disappeared from the iPhone App Store due to “hiccup”. If you doubted that was true, worry no more, as the application is back in the store.

Here’s the official explanation of what happened: “Last week, Foursquare accidentally released to the App Store… read more

Architect Day: Octavio Mestre

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:57:41 +0000

Professor of architecture in Barcelona, Octavio Mestre, who has provided numerous services to the Catalan city, now has major projects in Spain and is already present in other European countries with homes and housing of high quality.

Photos from site octaviomestre.com.

Octavio Mestre graduated with honors from the Higher Technical School of… read more

Astounding Ajax/CSS Forms: 30+ Modern Trends , Tips and Techniques

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:20:00 +0000

This article with the title 30 amazing css ajax form will explain the various techniques, tutorials, examples relating to the form. read more

Motion Graphics And 2-D Animation: 10 Tips For A Clean Workflow

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:45:07 +0000

By Melinda Rainsberger

More and more, designers, illustrators and coders are being asked to animate. Animation adds energy to a brand and heightens a customer’s emotional response. The software to do it is reasonably priced, and Internet connections can now deliver high-quality video. For these two reasons, animation-based advertising is booming… read more

8 Mac Apps to Embrace Minimalism

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:36:09 +0000

We posted earlier this year about how to clean up your Mac, but today I thought it would be interesting to share a selection of applications that can really simplify your Mac experience. While being “minimal” isn’t everything – and nor is it for everyone – it’s a fun exercise… read more

40 Superb T Shirt Designs Which Will Make You Look Twice

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:29:00 +0000

Want to stand out? Buy a unique T-shirt! In this article you are going to�find a lot of cool and creative t shirt designs from talanted artists. read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.27

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:59:55 +0000

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

Top 8 Dreaded Favors Asked of Web Designers

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:02 +0000

Long before you officially take the profession of graphic or web designer, your friends and family will support your ambitions by developing your talent. At first, your loved ones inspect your work and if they like what they see, you’ll get flooded with their requests for one page flyers, t-shirt… read more

Inspiration Smorgasbord

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:50:24 +0000

Ok Go – This Too Shall Pass

And Then There Was Salsa

Saul Bass: On Making Money vs Quality Work

Kaleidoscope Made from Typography by Katerina Orlikova

avantgarde by Max Quolin

Larent Nivalle Photography

Crush+Lovely

Hipstamatic iPhone App

Haäfe & Haph

Simon Collison

Playing with Vectors in Illustrator

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:07:48 +0000

Last week I decided to spend some time playing with Illustrator and trying to come up with a cool black and white artwork. My inspiration came from some skateboard deck designs which have this sort of 3D effect without using gradients or anything, and not exactly a woodcut effect either…. read more

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part1)

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:52:40 +0000

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of February. You’ll find everything from a stunning retro futuristic… read more

Steph Tirion, creator of Eliss, annouces Faraway

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 +0000

iPhone devsugar: The need for multiple ipa delivery

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

Each of those applications must be registered with a unique app identifier, each one takes up a separate slot when installed on your iPhone’s home screen, each application occupies a separate App Store listing, complete with its own screen shots, marketing material, reviews, and so forth. Each one must be… read more

Oscars Fashion, Winners and Speeches: Google Names the Search Leaders

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:43:05 +0000

Google’s latest blog post has revealed what Oscars-related searches topped the hot search list during the Oscars.

This is probably no surprise to most of you: some of the most popular searches were related to stars’ fashion choices? So who topped the list? The leading fashion-related searches were… read more

Entering The Wonderful World of Geo Location

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:56:29 +0000

I thought I could not be out-geeked. With a background in radio, and having dabbled in the demo scene on the Commodore 64 and hung out on BBSes and IRC for a long time and all the other things normal kids don’t quite get, I thought I was safe in… read more

5 Advanced CSS Pseudo Classes that will Save your Day

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:33:00 +0000

In today’s article I’m going to take a look at 5 pseudo-classes that will simplify our design process and reduces a lot of time to create a certain visual effects. You will also find demonstration below each point. read more

HP Slate Demo Shows Off Flash Support [VIDEO]

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:31:29 +0000

One of many upcoming tablet alternatives to the Apple iPad, HP’s forthcoming Slate device was teased briefly by Steve Ballmer at Microsoft’s CES keynote earlier this year. HP and Adobe teamed up to offer a couple of video demos of the HP Slate (embedded below), with an emphasis on… read more

Did Blog Buzz for “Hurt Locker” Predict Its Oscar Win?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:01:40 +0000

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web.

The data in question comes from… read more

Daily Inspiration #451

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:34:29 +0000

25 Examples of using Fire in your Designs

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:30:47 +0000

25 Examples of using Fire in your Designs

6 Tips for Writing an Artist’s Statement

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:09:32 +0000

A Guest Post by Chris Folsom.

Recent talks with a local shop have prompted one of my least favorite tasks… writing an artist’s statement. It is an incredibly difficult task to describe your own work without sounding arrogant or self-absorbed. Worse yet, if your images span a variety of… read more

New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated Charts

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:38:06 +0000

Google has just launched Google Public Data Explorer. The new Google Labs tool offers a visual way to look at and analyze large public data sets on a variety of popular search topics.

The tool is specifically designed for avid data crunchers like students, journalists, policy makers, and could be… read more

iPad ad reveals book pricing and NYT button

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0000

Several of the books had prices clearly displayed (you’ll get a better look here), ranging from US$8 to $15. For example, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “True Compass: A Memoir” is listed for $14.99, while “Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World… One Child at a Time” by… read more

“The Cove” Movie Uses Oscars to Promote Social Media Activism

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:01:10 +0000

One of the men responsible for The Cove — 2010 Oscar winner for best documentary — used the Academy Awards stage to promote a web and mobile-based activism campaign tied to the film’s save-the-dolphins subject matter.

During the acceptance speech, dolphin activist Ric O’Barry held up a sign saying, “Text… read more

How to design a print ready business card design in photoshop

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:55:02 +0000

How to design a print ready business card design in photoshop

Steam Brings Portal 2 and Half-Life Series to Mac

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:47:57 +0000

Massively popular online games distribution platform Steam is headed for computers running Apple’s Mac OS X in the near future. Developer Valve Software plans to release native Mac versions of all of its games, including the upcoming and highly anticipated Portal 2, which it will release for Mac and… read more

Creative Use of Blur in Digital Photography

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:12:40 +0000

If you’d like to download the images used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only.

Sharpness is an important element in any photograph, but a creative use of blur—whether from shallow depth of field, motion blur,… read more

A Private Web: Digital Journal with Penzu

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:00:20 +0000

Remember when people used to keep journals and diaries? Okay, maybe some of you still do—but mass sharing has taken over in recent years with platforms like WordPress, Tumblr and Twitter. Every day millions of people share their immediate thoughts and moments of life—to millions of strangers; what happened to… read more

Apple prepping Wi-Fi iPhone for China

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:00 +0000

The iPhone has failed to thrive in China, due in part to an active black market and the Golden Shield Project (GSP), which censors certain Internet content. To comply with the GSP, devices that include wireless Internet have been required to use China’s own WAPI standard. Meeting that requirement forced… read more

Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:52 +0000

Design & Code a Cool iPhone App Website in HTML5

25 of the Best Non-Profit Websites

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:49:34 +0000

In recent years the quality of non-profit websites has improved dramatically. Fortunately, a growing number of organizations are recognizing the need for a quality website and the opportunities that it presents. In this post we’ll showcase 25 well-designed sites of non-profit organizations. If you enjoy this collection please see the… read more

Why Designers Shouldn’t Settle

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:47:29 +0000

Ugly designs abound on the web, and behind each and every one of them is a “designer”.

In many of these cases the designers behind the sites are simply incompetent.

They’re often amateur designers or those who have little or no design training or people who design their own… read more

How to create thumbnail gallery using Easy front-end framework

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:54:00 +0000

With numerous lightbox scripts I have used so far, I often found myself spending much more time in setting up things then I wanted. On almost all of them you first need to mark up your thumbnail gallery, then paste some images, then paste some CSS, then initiate JavaScript… read more

The Perfect Office #27

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:08:59 +0000

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Maternity Photography – Studio or Location?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:10:55 +0000

“Everyone loves someone who’s pregnant” -Knocked Up

When you do maternity sessions, are you more likely to do them in a controlled atmosphere or do you take your momma on-location?

Any type of photography presents it’s own challenges, pros and cons. Maternity photography has it’s own set of challenges and knowing these… read more

New & Amazing Portfolio of Emeric Trahand

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:59:39 +0000

Graphic designer, Art director, Illustrator, Emeric Trahand works with a special emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas and communication goals, with a very high attention to details. Inspired by everything, everywhere, interested and enthusiastic, he is in complete love with visual creation.

To check out more of his new works visit… read more

Draw a Glowing, Vector Pocket Watch – Front and Back

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:28:49 +0000

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw the front and the back side of a pocket watch from scratch. This tutorial is detailed and by the end you will know how to draw all kinds of shapes, like cog-wheels and small screws. You’ll learn to create the scatter… read more

Delicious Library: Catalog Your Media in Style

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Have you recently bought a book, DVD or a CD you already own, but had forgotten about? No? But you do know every single book, DVD, game, CD, gadget or toy you own?

If you just screwed up you forehead trying hard to think of everything, maybe Delicious Library is something… read more

The Ultimate (Fresh) Collection Of High-Quality Free Social Media Icon Sets

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:19:48 +0000

A beautifully designed icon is the perfect way to represent your product or service, and they always come in handy whether you want to place them on your blog or want to represent yourself in an outstanding manner. A comprehensively designed icon can provide your user with the memorable metaphors… read more

Progressive enhancement: pure CSS speech bubbles

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. This tutorial contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.

30 Various Artworks of Astro Boy

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:44:42 +0000

The Japanese Manga is a widely known series that consists of comics and print cartoons in the Japanese language. This type of artwork has created a phenomenal influence over the publishing industry. One of its most influential series is The Adventures of Astro Boy, claimed to be the… read more

14 Free Mobile Application Development Icon Sets

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:14:15 +0000

The gap between the desktop/laptop and the mobile device is becoming smaller and smaller, it has never been a better time for mobile app development – The market is huge, very lucrative and highly profitable. Our ever growing appetite for more powerful and better mobile devices has pushed the demand… read more

40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:02:27 +0000

Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

You simply… read more

Common Questions About Design Professionalism

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:48:52 +0000

The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional… read more

Mac tips and tricks: how to batch resize photos without extra software

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:10:53 +0000

Select the images you want to “batch resize”

Open them in “Preview”

Press CMD+A to select all the images

Now from the “Tools” menu choose “Adjust Size…” and change the image dimensions as you prefer (often you will have just to modify the width).

Than remember to “Save All” the images from the menu… read more

50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:05:49 +0000

After showing you A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs a couple weeks ago, it’s time for us to add some textured designs to our lists. Textures are a great way to give a special touch to a website. They can be used in a specific part of the layout… read more

Most Creative Ads Series: Domestic Abuse

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:30:42 +0000

Domestic violence can happen to anyone, regardless of age, gender, race, sexuality, wealth or geography, yet the problem is often overlooked, excused, or denied. Female is the worst victim in the disaster. Studies show that between one quarter and one half of all women in the world have been abused… read more

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:30:53 +0000

20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do)

“Alice in Wonderland” Has Record-Breaking Opening Weekend

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:10:56 +0000

Entertainment Weekly reports that Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland drew almost $40 million in box office revenue on Friday, setting the stage for what will likely have been a $100 million (or more) weekend. The film will definitely beat the previous record for this weekend of the year —… read more

Daily Inspiration #450

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:01:21 +0000

Quick Tip: Working With Illustrator’s Workspaces

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:05:35 +0000

Learn how to work with Workspaces in Adobe Illustrator. Workspaces allow you to arrange the Panels and other interface elements in Illustrator. Learn to work with the built-in default Workspaces Illustrator CS4 comes with, as well as how to customize your own workspaces to suit the type of job you’re… read more

Giotto’s Vitruvian tripod, true genius

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:06:06 +0000

Now, whilst I’ve not tried one of these new Giotto’s Vitruvian tripods, they certainly look quite good – what’s your opinion?

Giottos Tripods on Amazon

Giotto's tripod folded

Giotto Vitruvian tripod – PRESS RELEASE

Inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, the new Giotto’s Vitruvian VGR tripods are designed to offer photographers not only… read more

The Reader’s View: Best of your feedback, comments and opinions

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:45:00 +0000

To begin with, reader efinkGr had a comment for Sang Tang’s post “Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X,” saying “You know i wish they never got rid of the apple icon on the command key. I miss it :’( ”

That prompted some… read more

5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:25:26 +0000

Cliff Atkinson is author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (New Riders, 2009).

What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notice that your audience is looking down, busily typing on their laptops and smartphones? And what about… read more

Interview with Dacosta!

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:24:55 +0000

Dacosta is an independent artist currently based in Vancouver and is the founder of Chocolate Soop, Inc. He specializes in vector graphics and character design. This self-taught designer has over 10 years of professional experience. He’s influenced by Japanese culture, graffiti and industrial design. He works in a variety of… read more

8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:59:06 +0000

We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at some hints, tips and tricks that will help you get the… read more

reMail may be reIncarnated as it goes open source

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0000

It could download all of your emails in… read more

Playing with Watercolor Brushes and Masks in Pixelmator

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:25:08 +0000

I have already created some tutorials about watercolor effects; however, I also want to create a workflow that is extremely simple but that produces a beautiful result. Therefore, I invented this tutorial, which uses only basic watercolor brushes, a photo, and a layer mask.

This tutorial is part of a series… read more

Leica S2 – First Impression Review

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:05:40 +0000

This Review of the Leica S2 is a guest Post by Justin de Deney from Camera Advice.

Invitation to Leica

A Lamborghini speeds by as I cross Berkley Square, on my way to the Leica showroom in the heart of Mayfair, central London. I have received an invite to view the new… read more

Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Would Make You Say ‘Wow’

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 09:11:01 +0000

This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art That Make You Say ‘Wow’. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.31

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:46:20 +0000

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 28-Mar 6, 2010

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:43:23 +0000

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #90 – Neil Hanvey

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:09:56 +0000

The wallpaper of this week is an artowrk created by Neil Hanvey, a designer, illustrator and web developer from Hereford, United Kingdom. For this wallpaper Neil shows us a design to support the victims from the earthquake in Haiti, the design is called “Hope for Haiti”.

For more information we… read more

Top 10 Geekiest Decorations for Your Home or Office [PICS]

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:50:51 +0000

We certainly wouldn’t advocate turning your office, cubicle or home office into some kind of over-the-top dork theme park, but a few witty items carefully placed here and there can brighten up the dullest work space with some geek chic.

Having an office gives you the chance to display things… read more

Mac 101: Going Commando with Command-key shortcuts in Mac OS X

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:30:00 +0000

The Dave Hill Look in Lightroom

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:00:47 +0000

Dave Hill is a genius. Period. I could look at his images all day long and his behind the scenes videos are strangely addictive. Naturally, thousands want to create his hyper-real, painterly, utterly hypnotising look on their images.

The first observation one can make about his method is the painstaking attention… read more

Aqua scrollbar art

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:00:00 +0000

Rumor: Best Buy sticks Core i7 logo on MacBook Pro page

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Today’s moment of thrill (which is almost certainly just a website error, but you never know), courtesy of tipster Zach, is the appearance of a Core i7 badge on the Best Buy page for the 2.53Ghz 15″ MacBook Pro. Other models are still showing the correct (as of this moment)… read more

Best of the Week #109

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:10:20 +0000

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to… read more

This Week in the Digital Photography School Forums (28 Feb – 6 Mar ‘10)

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:13:55 +0000

Weekly Assignment

As February has come to an end, so has our series of food assignments. Our last food assignment was focused on Beverages. Whether those were drinks that warm you on a cold day, or the cool refreshing drinks of summer, we wanted to see them all. Our winner this… read more

55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:08:27 +0000

As you already seen in our previous posts about slideshow presentation designs that representing the key information in slideshow presentation is a hot trend now days. There are many reasons to use a slideshow or image slider in your web designs as the key to smart strategic web design is… read more

Gowalla Launches for Android

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:09:09 +0000

The battle for social geolocation domination has expanded to Google’s Android platform, as Gowalla, the primary competitor to Foursquare, has just made its debut on Google’s Android app store.

The new Gowalla 1.0 app isn’t some secondhand version of its iPhone counterpart — it’s completely packed with an array of… read more

5 Great Extensions To Manage Various Tasks On Google Chrome

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:25:17 +0000

From opening a new tab to restoring or saving our session, we perform various tasks in our internet browsers. Sometimes these tasks are present in the browser in an already convenient enough manner to make life easier for the user. But at other times, in the form of extensions and… read more

Comics of the Week #15

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:09:56 +0000

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile… read more

Xbox LIVE Beats PlayStation Network in Reader Vote

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:52:45 +0000

We had a very hotly contested matchup this week in our long-running Faceoff series, with Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE going up against Sony’s PlayStation Network for favorite online console gaming service. After an astounding 35,055 votes we’re ready to declare the winner…

… and Xbox LIVE takes the win! They’ll obviously… read more

Flickr faster with Flickit Pro

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:00:00 +0000

New Version of Foursquare for iPhone Coming Soon [SCREENSHOTS]

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:14:07 +0000

A new version of Foursquare for the iPhone is on the way and it will feature a revamped interface, a brand new user tab, and a new checkin history view.

This version of the app – v1.6 – should be heading to the App Store soon. Nick Starr shared screenshots… read more

FRIDAY POLL: Will Desktops Be Irrelevant Soon?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:33:06 +0000

Happy Friday, people! Along with the venerable tradition of Follow Friday, today also marks this week’s edition of the Friday Poll.

Last week we wanted to know if location checkin services freak you out in terms of privacy concerns. Reactions were pretty mixed, although many of you felt like services… read more

Footer Design Collection of Beautiful Websites

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:30:54 +0000

Footer Design Collection of Beautiful Websites

20 Clean And Modern Free Fonts

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:00:52 +0000

20 Clean And Modern Free Fonts

revMobile: write iPhone and iPad apps without knowing Objective C

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:00:00 +0000

Daily Inspiration #449

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:59:57 +0000

LEAKED: More Juicy Microsoft Courier Details and Pics

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:57:14 +0000

We’ve been following the rumor mill avidly on Microsoft’s alleged “digital journal” device dubbed Courier, and today sees another spate of leaked images and details courtesy of Engadget.

The Courier is a hinged device that combines elements of a tablet, an e-reader, and a netbook (sans physical keyboard). It’s reported… read more

Freebie: High Res Spray Paint Textures

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:56:08 +0000

Today we have a high-quality set of 8 spray paint textures to release to DesignM.ag readers. The textures are from Sebastiano Guerriero of WeGraphics. This is a follow up to the first set of spray paint textures released at WeGraphics.

The textures are free for personal or commercial purposes (which includes… read more

18 Fresh Design Blogs For Fueling Your Creativity

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:15:51 +0000

18 Fresh Design Blogs For Fueling Your Creativity

SMILE: Weekend Photography Challenge

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:03:18 +0000

La verità dello sguardo, l’ipocrisia del sorriso – by pensatore Istintivo!

This weekend’s photography challenge is something that we should all have at least some access to – it’s to photograph and share an image on the theme of ‘Smile’.

Feel free to take whatever approach with the theme that you like… read more

10 Free 8×5.5″ Photo Albums by Pixable

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:00:50 +0000

Taking pictures of every moment in life is the norm these days, now that we have cameras in our phones, laptops and other mobile devices—not to mention ever smaller dedicated point and shoot cameras. You share all those photos on Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and similar sites, but what about doing… read more

26 Cityscapes in Web Design to Inspire

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:30:49 +0000

26 Cityscapes in Web Design to Inspire

How to Effectively write a design article

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:00:47 +0000

How to Effectively write a design article

How Companies are Using Social Media to Make Better Decisions

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:33:22 +0000

Mat Fogarty is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions. You can read more of Mat’s posts on the Crowdcast blog or follow @crowdcastinc.

Collaboration and crowdsourcing are the realities of today’s public Internet, and the trend is now gaining real traction in the workplace…. read more

A Look Through 14 Beautiful Video Game HUD Designs

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:30:45 +0000

A Look Through 14 Beautiful Video Game HUD Designs

Create Tilt-shift Miniature Effect in Photoshop

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:00:44 +0000

Create Tilt-shift Miniature Effect in Photoshop

Reiner Knizia’s Money app worth spending time with

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:00:00 +0000

We recently took a look at the iPhone version of Reiner Knizia’s card game Poison and there are a slew of other “decks” (ok, programs) available in the App Store. Today, we turn our focus to the card game Money [$1.99, iTunes link], which might be the best card game… read more

Top 20 Free Windows Mobile Social Media and Networking Apps

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:58:22 +0000

There are thousands and thousands of social networking and media apps for the iPhone and for Android, we all know that. But what about all the apps for Windows Mobile? Certainly, Win Mob is no where near as popular within the mainstream of mobile users as the other two, but… read more

How to Create a Shiny Vector Strawberry – Vector Premium Tutorial

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:23:39 +0000

We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to control the lighting in your illustrations while creating a juicy strawberry, then we have an awesome tutorial for you.

This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

In this tutorial we will learn… read more

WDL Premium: Colorful Grunge Textures

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:56:17 +0000

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These twelve textures were created by combining public domain images of nebulae with existing grunge textures to give them a wonderfully unique, colorful feel. There some of the most unique textures you will ever see, and are… read more

20 cool & creative business cards for your inspiration

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:30:36 +0000

20 cool & creative business cards for your inspiration

The Awesomeness of Ninjas

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:27:10 +0000

As tradition demands, we MUST have fun on friday. We all had a tough weekend, and nothing better just to chill a little bit, right? Fabio and I were talking about that fun movie Ninja Assassin… we thought it would be a great idea for a post, Ninjas!!

So I went… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #38

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:22:15 +0000

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#38 and make sure to comeback… read more

So You Want to Enter the Photography Business?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:06:54 +0000

The photographic industry is one of the most challenging, difficult, and competitive for start up businesses. The statistics prove it. Take this 3 year study discovered by Dane Sanders in his book Fast Track Photographer: In the 1st year, 60% of photographers give up their business. Of that remaining… read more

Fantastic City Lights at Night Photography

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:55:49 +0000

There are some fantastic photos featuring city lights that I see when looking through photo compilations. So I decided to put together a gallery of some amazing inspirational photography featuring city lights at night. Some of these are amazing!

Let me know what one is your favorite. Also, if you know… read more

Print Magazines for Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:32:54 +0000

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it’s vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and… read more

How To Find Your Files Faster with Tags

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:00:14 +0000

As more online web apps such as Flickr, Delicious, and Gmail adopt the filing system of tags over a folder structure, tagging is growing more and more popular as a way to keep hoards of digital files organized.

Tags, from Gravity Applications makes tagging files universally across your Mac a breeze…. read more

How to Make a Killer Viral Photo Gallery

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:45:37 +0000

This post is by the online imagery experts at Shutterstock, a subscription stock photo agency.

You see photo galleries all over the web: The top 10 such-and-such photos, or 25 amazing this-or-that pictures. If you’re like us, you click on almost every one of them. Themed photo galleries on blogs work… read more

Sites of the Week #92

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:12:05 +0000

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as FWA and Cog’aoke. Also we’re featuring a wonderful Wordpress Theme called Simplify Business and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

10 Free Beautiful Calligraphic Fonts

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:11:58 +0000

By Paul Viluda

The word “calligraphy” is derived from two Greek words, denoting “beautiful writing”. Calligraphy or the art of writing has thousands of years in its history and development, and indeed calligraphy fonts, which we often use these days on our PCs to create a postcard or a wedding invitation… read more

Recreating CNN’s Beveled Navigation Buttons with Pure CSS

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

When CNN recently redesigned their website, they created a strongly-branded and beautiful header section that includes a navigation bar with beveled buttons. Although CNN’s navigation bar utilizes CSS sprites for highlighted and active buttons, the primary design of the buttons (the beveled effect) is done with pure CSS.

WTFJeans Have Special Pockets for All Your Gadgets

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:32:32 +0000

If you were ever frustrated by the lack of iPhone/iPod Touch pocket on your jeans, here’s a treat for you: wtfJeans. This freshly launched indie jeans brand was just a blueprint 3 months ago, but things happen fast on the Internet, and now you can order them from the… read more

A New Meme is Brewing: YouTube Caption Fail

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:54:46 +0000

Don’t get us wrong, we love YouTube’s new automatic captioning feature. A couple of years ago it was almost unimaginable that someone (or something) could take videos, convert speech to text, then translate that text into 20 or 30 languages, and do it all automatically, in a blink of… read more

5 Things That Can Make (or break) A Killer Website Design

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:38:00 +0000

There are things that you should (and shouldn’t) be doing during your website design process. Regardless of the size of each item on the list, the impact of each item is equally huge when you look at the bigger picture. read more

Redesign and Other Tuts News

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:52:15 +0000

Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to big screens. Read on to learn more about the redesign… read more

Creative Work of Tim & Bram Vanhaeren

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:04:06 +0000

Tim & Bram Vanhaeren are both very talented graphic designer based in Kapellen, Belgium. You are probably familiar with their work, we have already featured some of their works here on the Wallpaper of the Week and Daily Inspiration, therefore, nothing better than a post about Tim and Bram.

Tim… read more

The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Floral Typography

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:02:15 +0000

Floral Typography is a form of art that coalesce typography, calligraphy, and lettering to create dynamic, flourishing designs. Since flowers are universal images that never go out-of-date, many designers opt to create floral typography for their designs. With floral typography, you can create appealing and noteworthy designs that capture the… read more

Join Over a Quarter of a Million Photography Enthusiasts and Improve Your Photography Today

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:39:42 +0000

One of the most popular parts of dPS is our weekly newsletter. Each Thursday/Friday (depending where in the world you are) we send it off to 276,501 subscribers (that number is going up every minute or two as new people join).

The free weekly newsletter is:

a recap on the newest tips… read more

Rumor: Sony developing PSP phone to challenge iPhone

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000

Since the introduction of the App Store in 2008, a new mobile gaming juggernaut has emerged, seemingly out of nowhere — the iPhone/iPod touch. With the forthcoming launch of the iPad, whose larger screen and more powerful CPU could make it a gaming powerhouse, it means there are now three… read more

Daily Inspiration #448

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:20:17 +0000

HOW TO: Get Started With Spotify

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:44:53 +0000

Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boasts around five million users and around six million tracks from the major labels as… read more

American Idol Strips Contestants of Social Media Accounts

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:28:06 +0000

This year American Idol made headlines for pushing out individual Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace accounts for each of its 24 finalists. However, the show made a drastic change in strategy last night by consolidating all of them under the AI9Contestants username across sites.

Twitter followers of each of the individual… read more

Shooting for Stock Photography Sites

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:13:29 +0000

Love them or hate them image libraries are a great way of generating an extra revenue stream, and because the websites don’t discriminate against people who aren’t classed as ‘professional photographers’, advanced enthusiasts and amateurs have just as much chance of selling as the pros. But as with all areas… read more

9+1 Worthy Adobe Air Applications for Web Designers

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:58 +0000

9+1 Worthy Adobe Air Applications for Web Designers

Should you be building universal apps for App Store?

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:00:00 +0000

Right now, I’ve got a bug up my sleeve about the whole issue. I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for a lot of apps. Just because you *can* merge an iPhone app with an iPad app, and sell one product, you shouldn’t — unless the functionality is significantly… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:50:06 +0000

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

9 Ways Freelancers Disrespect Their Own Time

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:47:49 +0000

As a freelancer or independent designer, the most valuable asset you have is your own time. Your ability to earn a living relies upon your own time management, which will allow you to perform income-generating services for clients. With effective time management you may be able to earn… read more

Please Don’t Shoot the Designer

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:45:37 +0000

Please Don’t Shoot the Designer

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:30:56 +0000

100+ Vintage Textures and Photoshop Brushes to Decorate Your Design

Send Email and SMS Messages Using Voice Commands With Vlingo for iPhone

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:56:01 +0000

Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pretty major update to its iPhone app, adding the ability to send e-mail and SMS… read more

Create Photo Albums for Print with InDesign

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:46:02 +0000

Recently, I attended a seminar taught by wedding photographer David Ziser. While I learned a lot of good photography tips, one thing that caught my attention was an app David showed for laying out wedding albums. Typically, a wedding photographer has to narrow down his shoot to about 100 photos… read more

Simple File Sharing and Collaboration with drop.io

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:57 +0000

While visiting my apartment leasing office, I was randomly asked if I knew anything about computers. This question is always an interesting one as it tends to go in so many different directions. The issue at hand involved sending a ~90MB video to the corporate office of the leasing agent…. read more

30 Coolest Minimalist Print Ads

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:00:52 +0000

30 Coolest Minimalist Print Ads

60 Best Icon Sets for Developers and Designers

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:30:50 +0000

60 Best Icon Sets for Developers and Designers

Microsoft’s “Project Pink” Mobile Project is Real and Coming Soon

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:01:57 +0000

When Microsoft unveiled its plans for Windows Phone 7 Series last month, one part of Microsoft’s long-rumored mobile strategy was revealed. However, the second part, Project Pink — a rumored Windows Mobile/Zune mash-up with a heavy emphasis on social networking — wasn’t mentioned at all.

Today Gizmodo is reporting that… read more

Custom Movie Posters: 15 Design Examples & 7 Other Resources

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:48 +0000

Custom Movie Posters: 15 Design Examples & 7 Other Resources

Win an HP Officejet 4500 All-in-one printer from TUAW and HP

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

The Officejet 4500 All-in-one Wireless Printer is a slick unit that can print, copy, scan, and send color faxes. Like many HP products, it works very well with Macs and “those other computers,” so if you can use it even if you haven’t yet become a Mac fanatic like the… read more

Fantastic Content Sliders for your Inspiration

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:48:27 +0000

Content sliders are extremely versatile forms of navigation that can be used to display all sorts of information, such as images, popular posts, social information and product features.

Some have automatic slideshow capabilities or buttons to scroll sideways or up and down, and most of them feature a transition… read more

Ultimate Roundup of 750+ Free Photoshop Layer Styles

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:30:47 +0000

Ultimate Roundup of 750+ Free Photoshop Layer Styles

3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:04:55 +0000

Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog. Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

If there was any doubt… read more

Dear John Makinson and Penguin, please don’t “reinvent” books

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:00 +0000

paidContent:UK has an article on a presentation by Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson gave here in London on Tuesday. Makinson presented ideas on how publishers might approach Apple’s iPad and the iBookstore. Makinson revealed “We will be embedding audio, video and streaming in to everything we do. The .epub format,… read more

6 Places to Find Superb, High Quality Mac Icons

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:35:04 +0000

Although the icons that ship with OS X are wonderfully designed, there’s no harm in a change from time-to-time. It might be a complete rework of your system icons, or just a case of replacing one or two for specific applications.

Today I’ll be showcasing 6 places where you can find… read more

Mac OS X’s Automator: I learned it by watching you!

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:00 +0000

The Inspiring Work of Sam O’Hare

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:38:56 +0000

Earlier this morning I saw a really cool video from Sam O’Hare over at koikoikoi.com – a site filled with inspiring stuff. The thing is that Sam’s video was so cool that I decided to search more about his work to show here to you, besides the video, of course…. read more

The Inspiring Work of Sam O’Hare

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:38:56 +0000

Create Character Driven Book Cover Art Using Illustrator and Photoshop – Part 2

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:35:58 +0000

Amazing Poster Designs by Paul Tebbott

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:13:07 +0000

Paul Tebbott, also known as Horizon Fire, is a self-taught graphic designer and electronic musician. His graphic work is so amazing with a unique style and great flow throughout each piece. Check it out.

To check out more of his works visit his website www.paultebbott.com and his Flickr Gallery. To… read more

Using Aperture 3’s Places

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:09:02 +0000

A Guest Post by Chris Folsom.

One of the great new features of Aperture 3 (get an upgrade from previous versions here) is the ability to add location data to photos and then display those photos on a map based on where they were taken. While similar features were previously… read more

Lucien Rose Complex in France

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:49:21 +0000

This housing complex in Rennes, France, was a project idealized by Edmond Herve, Rennes’ mayor from 1977 until 2008. Last year, 2009, the project was finally conceived by Atelier du Pont Architects as an example of modern and social architecture.

The Lucien Rose complex was built keeping the historic and the… read more

Microsoft’s First App for Android is Called Tag

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:24:55 +0000

Admit it: seeing Microsoft release an application for Google’s operating system seems a little weird, doesn’t it? Still, it’s true; Microsoft has launched its first Android app, called Tag.

We wrote about Tag a couple of weeks ago; simply put, it’s an app that lets you link physical objects with… read more

How to Work with a Marketing Expert if You’re a Freelancer

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:20:35 +0000

As a freelancer, you may find yourself either a) too busy or b) too clueless to handle your own marketing. This happens more often than you might think, and even some excellent freelancers with a strong reputation aren’t doing a very good job at marketing.

But you, you’re smarter than that…. read more

Now Embed Free Online Photo Editor In Your Website With Picmeleo

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:22 +0000

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage… read more

70+ Fresh and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:49:36 +0000

As you already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more

45 Stylish and Beautiful Fashion Photos

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:47:09 +0000

By Obaid Rehman

In this post, we are going to showcase some extremely charming examples of Fashion Photography which has been defined as a field of photography dedicated to put on show clothing and other fashion items. It is usually conducted for advertisement purposes, but now with the advancement of fashion… read more

Beautiful Illustrator Artworks By Artists Around The World

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:10:02 +0000

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software for illustrating that allows users to produce beautiful artwork, technical illustrations, and even graphics for both print and the web. Adobe Illustrator is a multipurpose vector illustration tool and its versatility makes it the most preferred choice among many professional artists and designers.

In the… read more

CSS3 Loading Spinners Without Images

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:00:00 +0000

While playing around with css-transform to make various shapes, I saw a way to create animated image-less loading spinners such as used in a lot of webapps and of course on the iPhone.

Falling Off the Wall Text Effect – Photoshop Tutorial

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:02:40 +0000

At some time or another we have all seen it – neighbourhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their… read more

To Sketch or Not to Sketch – That is the Question

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:41:46 +0000

Close your eyes and picture this scenario. You have just landed a dream contract with a client and you are anxious to start working. You have already consulted with them regarding the subject matter (a logo, a website, a brochure, etc.) and you’ve written up a design brief. It’s time… read more

JUMP: New Forum Assignment

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:08:30 +0000

This week’s Assignment theme is JUMP. It reminded me of this image that always made me chuckle. While perhaps not technically perfect it sure captured a moment (and that’s a big part of what photography is all about):

Image by Mikey Da Photographer

Check out the Jump images others are submitting and… read more

22 Fresh High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:34:55 +0000

Whether it’s textures, Photoshop brushes, or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with our readers. We try to post at least one collection of freebies every week. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on… read more

Coming Soon: How to Write Great Copy for the Web

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:47:33 +0000

A couple of years ago, FreelanceSwitch brought you How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer by Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, which helped a lot of you find your feet in the world of freelancing. Since then, FreelanceSwitch and Rockable Press have been working together to bring another great guide to your… read more