30+ Design Articles, Resources and Much More To Motive and Inspire
The online design magazine and blogosphere is an ever changing circle of knowledge, inspiration and advice. I love to keep in touch with blogs through my RSS reader and can find myself always reading up on many articles on a weekly basis.
After missing out my roundup last week this is a bumper two weeks worth of brilliant articles found across the web. Each article links back to the original location online. Submit to our Community News Here
30+ Design Aricles, Resources and Much More
Taken from across the web there are over thirty articles and feature topics such as: facebook and the design community, WordPress security, Photoshop actions in photography, hashtag madness and much more.
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Showcase of World Cities Honoured in Typography
I love travelling and visiting the wonderful cities of the world and I’m also very proud of where I live. While I was looking for some inspiration and browsing for the branding of cities I came across this great site. The site in question is CitID. The aim of the CitID project is as they put it – “to gain global consciousness by giving a (type)face to every city worldwide”.
It’s also a great way for cities of all sizes big and small, wealthy or poor to get recognition. Why not be part of it and participate yourself and give your city or favourite city the recognition it truly deserves. Found on Web Design Mash
60 Striking Typography Wallpapers to Spice up Your Desktop
We all love desktop wallpapers as they always come in handy and you will always find a wallpaper to express your feeling or mood. I know some of my friends who keep changing their desktop background almost on a daily basis. Unless like me, who rarely change their desktop wallpaper. So, How about you? When was the last time you changed desktop background?
In this post we present Striking Typography Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting to spice up his or her desktop. All wallpapers can be downloaded for free from their original source. Found on ThemeFlash
Sweet Collection of Candy Photography
This week in our ‘Photos of the Week’ collection I bring you some very sweet, some very bright and colorful candy. Seeing all this candy just makes me feel kind of nostalgic. I get visions of Willy Wonka’s factory. Hope you enjoy the collection and… yes! The Candy Man can! Found on Web Design Mash
That’s right – we’ve injected some Botox into the jowls of the GritFX T-Shirts website. Dave and I (that’s me, Manz) have been sweating over the keyboards for the last few weeks re-vamping the site. The new look website is now live, so visit www.gritfx.com and check it out. Found on GritFX
Design a Beautiful Cosmic Spacescene in Photoshop
Ever since I saw the recent Star Trek movie I’ve been itching to create a gorgeous sci-fi inspired cosmic space scene. I eventually found the time to do so and created a piece of artwork named ‘First Light’. Follow this step by step walkthrough of its creation in Photoshop, from the making of the planets, to the vibrant nebula and bright lens flares. Found on Blog Spoon Graphics
Blog Launch: 5 Tips for Sucess
Everyday, more than 10,000 new blogs are created. But how many are still maintened 3 months later? Probably less than 1%.
Launching a new blog is never easy. First, you have to make it known to the audience and get it indexed by search engines. But the biggest part of the work is to show your authority and make visitors come back to your blog. After launching several websites myself, I’m going to show you 5 tips to launch your blog successfully.
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How to Reduce the Loading time of Your Blog
One thing that every blog owner wants is that his or her blog should have a faster loading time and should load in a split second. And, with Google using site speed in search rankings now, these things have become more vital and important. A fast loading blog is always preferred over the one that takes ages to load. But, how do you optimize your blog so that it has minimum loading time? Found on Admixweb
Chibi Vector Illustration Showcase
With the goal of becoming a better “vector artist,” and just better at digital illustration all around, I have been doing a lot of personal (not for work/client) illustrations. I quite enjoy it, and have tried my hand at a few styles of illustrating that were new to me as well. One of the styles that I am particularly fond of, is creating “chibi” illustrations. Found on Nymphont
Why Hiring a Photographer Is So Expensive
I’m often asked about how much people charge for photography, and then frequently in the context of portrait photography. I guess people really like to get their picture taken. Honestly, I tell them I don’t really know what other people charge since I’m new to the area and only really know the rates in the big cities in the US. A guesstimate I give them is 500 for a session on the high end and that is for professional quality prints and props to boot. If you want your wedding done its gonna cost more in the 3000 dollar range for a days work. Found on Nenuno
Fifa 2010 World Cup Captured Via Photography
The curtains have finally fallen on the greatest event in sporting history, the FIFA World Cup 2010. A new champion was crowned as Spain lifted the trophy for the first time beating the Dutch by a solitary goal. Graphic designers and footballers alike, the whole world was spell-bound by the enchantment of World Cup Fever. It truly has been a momentous one month of football packed with scenes of extreme action, drama, emotions, jubilation, upsets and what not. Found on Graphic Design Blog
Our Favourite WordPress 3.0 Tutorials, Resources & Videos
With WordPress 3.0 being released only a few weeks ago, many great resources have been put together! With all major releases there were some minor teething problems but with this round-up of well written resources you will learn about what 3.0 has to offer, from WPMU integration to custom post thumbnails. Found on Nenuno
31 Beautiful Examples of Portrait Photography
We are always trying to cross a lot of different types of inspirations on Inspiredology. We tend to post more on web design, probably because I am a web designer first and for most. If you are a consistent reader of Inspiredology, you will know that we try to dab in everything, movie posters, logos, business cards and photography. Found on Nenuno
Top Design Books for Designers
Design is a funny thing in that you can learn something new about it every day of your life. What better way to learn about design than by reading about it from other design professionals. I have come up with my list of top design books for beginner to advanced designers. These books are so full of knowledge it would be a shame not to check some of them out. Let me know if you have a favorite design book in the comments, I’m always looking to add one or two more to my library as well. Enjoy! Found on Nenuno
“If you build it they will come” – an iconic line from an iconic movie alas sadly it doesn’t hold true for your website. When you launch your site you need to get traffic to it..There are a myriad of ways of doing this but one way is backlinks. In this post I’ll discuss a bit about backlinks, what they are and why you should be trying to get them. Found on Teesinapod
MIT researchers including pranav mistry has developed a computer control system that works just like
a mouse, without a physical mouse being present. users place their hand on a flat surface and move it
around as they would with a mouse, clicking the table and scrolling. the mouseless system tracks the
user’s hand with an infrared laser beam and an infrared camera. Found on Design Boom
Creative Robotic Digital Artwork Showcase
A creative thought can come to mind at any moment, but seeing how much films can have a large impact on creativity and design trends you can see why we put this showcase of fantastic art work together. Found on Nenuno
Toy Story 3 Concept Art and Fan Art
Whenever I watch something from Pixar I like to go online and research about it… browse around fan art, concept art and further details I can find about it. This time I found a very interesting site, heyuguys.co.uk, where they had the opportunity to go to San Francisco to meet the people involved in making Toy Story 3… and they got access to some really nice concept arts. So I gathered some of their concept arts and a few fan art to show here to you cause I believe that many of you also like Pixar and their animation world. Found on Abduzeedo
All the Useful Plugins for WordPress Comments
The WordPress comment area must be managed, organized and stylized with CSS and WP hacks or the easy way, using plugins. There are here 47 WordPress plugins and I hope they will help you. Found on Design your Way
60 Visionary Examples of Creative Photography 2
Creativity can be expressed in almost anything. In this case we have creative photography. We rounded up an awesome collection of fun and entertaining images that will make you look twice. Who knows maybe one of these images will inspire you to create something unique! If you would like even more creative photography, check out our previous post here. We hope this will get those creativity juices flowing. Found on InspirationFeed
Last Air Bender Movie Posters & Review
The Last Airbender was one of the most anticipated movies this year, and with amazing movie poster artwork like this and the stunning work done on the trailers its no surprise. Today I’m going to cover my thoughts on the poster artwork as well as offer you my views on the movie itself as well as the controversy behind it. Found on Roberto Blake
Designing a Facebook Fan Page: Hints, Tutorials and Tips
Despite its privacy issues, Facebook clearly has a key role in global Internet activity. It has become a kind of universal social network, being used for both personal and business needs. For many individuals, companies and organizations, Facebook has become an integral part of their branding strategy and promotional campaigns. Found on Smashing Magazine
Twitter Sneakers and other Customizable Kicks
Check out these incredible custom sneaker designs from Brassmonki. Each one is mocked up on the computer and then hand painted using spraypaints. He uses chemicals to remove the shoe’s coating first so the paint sticks. He mostly only uses Nikes, of course. Found on Craziest Gadgets
There are several skills that all graphic designers should have under their belt. However some of these exist outside learning the Adobe Programs, color theory and the principles of typography. Sometimes designers and the people who work with them struggle with either technical or administrative skills. Over the next few days I will cover some of these skills and provide you with some resources to help you. Found on Roberto Blake
Dale Doughety Gets the Skinny on Manufacturing in china
The thought of manufacturing in China can seem daunting, particularly to smaller firms and individual designers who don’t have any contacts in the country. In the following video, MAKE editor/publisher Dale Dougherty talks to Liam Casey, who runs a supply-chain business in China and often serves as a sort of manufacturing liaison between Western companies and Chinese factories Found on Core77
40 Amazing Dual Screen Wallpapers
We are Gen Z and we live in a world where change is the only constant. When everything is changing so quickly, so why shouldn’t our wallpapers? After all, it’s the first thing we see after turning on our machines. Wallpapers contemplate your atmosphere and your mood. You will notice that people use different wallpapers if they are relaxed or if they have a tight schedule. Found on Noupe
65 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations Art
Throughout history, great designers always found new ways to show their creativity to express themselves and create new trends and techniques to remark their work apart from the rest of the crowd. Photo manipulation is an art in itself, that requires a skill and precision as we know, it is one of the most creative artforms to come out of the digital age. Found on InstantShift
design student kevin scott designed this unusual bending bike that not only folds up tightly but can be
used to locks itself up. the de montfort university industrial design student designed the bike to make its
safer and easier to lock up your bike in the city. his design looks like a normal bike when in riding mode,
but a simple level on the frame triggers the frame to go from rigid to pliable. Found on Design Boom
Fortune’s Smartest Designers in Tech
Fortune’s 50 Smartest People in Tech article highlights individuals in the expected categories of CEO, Analyst, Engineer, Scientist, Academic and, we were pleasantly surprised to see, Designer.
The entire list is well-worth a gander, although there is no thumbnail gallery so you have to click through all 50 individually; but if you’d like to hone in on the Designer category, their picks are as follows.
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After the presentation of the prototype last year, ‘andromeda’ by UK designer ross lovegrove for japanese lighting company yamagiwa has now been released. the hanging light appears as if it were some kind of sea creature floating in the ocean. LED clusters emit light via mirror reflectors within its delineated configuration, distributing pure brightness and shadow,
and creating an ambiance which appears much like reflections of water. Found on Design Boom
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We can show lots of emotions symbols with the use of Red color in photography. Red is used as a symbol of guilt, sin and anger, often as connected with blood or sex. Red is also used as a symbol of courage and sacrifice, as in blood spilt in sacrifice or courage in the face of lethal danger. In this article we collected 50 amazing red color photographs to show the power of Red Color Photography.
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