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Digital Madness #01: A Mixture of Inspiration
This first edition of Digital Madness is a collection of short films, commercials and animations that I came across and thought it would be good to share the inspiration I got from these great clips.
A Collection of Posters from Popular TV Shows
An awesome collection of graphical posters from popular TV shows.
iPad Frenzy and Other Mobile News
Last week was a huge week with respect to mobile news and buzz, primarily driven by the impending launch of the iPad on April 3rd.
Logo Process – WavePulse Acoustics Identity Development
Detailed logo development process for recently completed project Wavepulse Acoustics.
Tileable doted background pattern
This time we prepared a tileable dotted background set u can u can use for a web or print project of any kind. The pattern is given in 11 different colors and contains various size circles and dots.
40 Excellent jQuery Plugins To Work With Data Presentation and Grid Layout
The roundup of 40 excellent jQuery plugins to work with data presentation and grid layout
Clipping Path | Image Masking | Retouching Service at Low Cost
Color Experts International is a 24 hour and overnight online Graphic Design and Image Manipulation service provider. Clipping Path and Photoshop Image Masking Service is our Specialty.
20 Best 404 Error Page Design Examples To enhance the Usability of Your Site
The error “Server not found” is a message displayed when users try to access a webpage or file on your site that doesn’t exist, is shifted, or has been completely removed.
New features introduced in CS5 version of Flash Pro and Dreamweaver
We have make a look for the latest feature introduced in the latest CS5 version of Flash Pro, Dreamweaver and flash catalyst. Before it’s release.
50 Fresh Beautiful Navigation Menus
In this post I’d like to take a look at more than 50 stellar examples of navigation menus that positively impact the design of a website. The list includes a great deal of variety.
20 Best PSD to WordPress Service Providers
A quick website setup is what everybody loves these days. The level of competition has been raised so much that no webmaster can afford to let their prospects wait for his website to stand and run.
40 Mind Blowing Latte Art Designs
A latte (from the Italian caffelatte, meaning “coffee and milk”) is a type of coffee drink made with hot milk.You know art is everywhere and with the help of your imagination you can create
16 Simple Tri-Fold Brochure Designs
See how you can play with the folds to create a design that effectively delivers your message to your audience.
10 Beautiful Business Card Design Tutorials
Business cards deliver business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.
30 Beautiful Chinese Landscape Wallpapers
In this list, we complied 30 Beautiful Chinese Landscape Wallpapers. These wallpapers are retouched with Adobe Photoshop which make them more beautiful.
15 Eye-Catching Posters of Animals
A showcase of 15 eye-catching posters of animals personally hand-picked for your viewing pleasure.
Lion In The Dark Free Wallpaper
The wallpaper has been entitled “Lion In The Dark” and is available in 8 different wallpaper resolutions including resolutions for the Iphone and even the Ipad.
Graffiti tribute – 21 Outstanding wall paintings
We, artists, always find unusual ways to express ourselves through stunning graphics, turning mostly everything we see into canvases that reflect our imagination. Here are a few “canvases” that
Organize Your WordPress Sidebar Smartly
WordPress widgets administration screen, is simple and easy to use with a sexy ajax interface.
However, the widget screen might not enough to customize your sidebar like you really want to.
15 Medical Brochure Design Examples
A medical brochure design that works should have a design that challenges the ho-hum stereotype of the word “medical”.
15 Tree Postcards’ Designs for Arbor Day Inspiration
15 examples of tree postcards’ photos and designs to inspire your own Arbor Day postcard creations.
The Most Fascinating Flash Websites You’ve ever Seen
10 most fascinating unusual and outstanding examples of Flash based websites you’ve ever seen!
It can be hard as a client to find a reliable freelancer who doesn’t charge through the roof – here are a few tips to get you on your way. Also free tumblr themes can be really useful!
The Essential Elements of a Successful WordPress Design Site (Part 3)
This series of articles aims to discuss the key points, some things I hope to discuss are to open your blog up to guest writers, be aware of your friends contributions and how giveaways can help.
25 Fine Crafted E-Commerce Website Designs
These 25 e-commerce websites showcase some design masterpieces that are not only beautiful, but accessible and useful. Enjoy these unique and custom e-commerce shops. No cookie-cutter designs here. Also consider using a WordPress minimal theme.
60+ beautiful handpicked wallpapers for your iPhone
Collection of more than 60 amazingly beautiful iPhone wallpapers. Check these out now… I think it is important to have a good looking and one of best iPhone 4 cases.
TypeTalk: Position Hyphens and Other Glyphs Properly
The hyphen in a font is usually vertically positioned to look best next to lowercase characters. So what do you do when that hyphen is next to cap-height characters and looks too low?
60+ beautiful handpicked wallpapers for your iPhone
Collection of more than 60 amazingly beautiful iPhone wallpapers. Check these out now…
Here’s how to make the right impression with your next business card design.
Discovering the Totoro Forest Project
The Totoro Forest Project started quite some time ago and it was to achieve the salvation and promote the conservation of Sayama Hills, a forest near Tokyo that inspired Miyazaki for his film …
40 Amazing and Fascinating Photographic Manipulations
Today, lets take a look at 40 Amazing and Fascinating Photographic Manipulations in Photoshop that intertwine reality and fantasy with extremely creative results.
3 Reasons Why Freelance Designers Fail
There are 3 things that I have found tend to cause freelance designers to stumble, however, despite an iron will to succeed.
90 Creative Advertisements You Will Listen To
In this article you gonna find lot of creative and funny advertisements that will probably uplift you and definitely inspire.
20 eye cachy eye wallpapers watching you
As we all know wallpaper is an image used as a background on a computer screen, usually for the desktop of a graphical user interface.
Three Videos that Prove the iPad Will Be a Huge Hit
I have been saying this for years, the name of the game in consumer electronics is usability.
Mobile Interface Development: Ultimate GUI Toolbox for Android, iPhone, iPad, Palm Pre
User interface development is an important part of the mobile application development. At the same time getting started with it you can spend hours just looking for the right tools.
Gurafiku:Japanese Graphic Design
From posters to bookcovers, from old Ukiyo-e prints to webdesign, Gurafiku offers a sampling of the treasures to be found when exploring Japanese graphic design.
Understanding SEO Importance for Your Website Productivity
In fact SEO represents a science. The most important and effective science existing on the internet.
Let’s face it; freelance job boards suck. I mean, they REALLY suck! You’re a professional freelancer and you go to these boards with every good intention, just to walk away disappointed.
How to Make a Blog Post Using Flickr and Posterous?
WordPress offer interaction with other sites using remote publishing. This is very helpful feature in which you can share your content across the internet through single platform.
This Photoshop tool can help you test different fonts and letters(glyphs)
Quick Tip: Cool asymmetric rays in Illustrator
I’ve put together a quick tip of how to create cool rays that have an aspect of randomness, but still maintaining that clean look. For this, you don’t really need a graphic tablet…
Digital Art Empire, Redesign, News & Stats
Thanks to the design community
The new design here at Digital Art Empire has already helped to increase the community interaction and general positive energy around the blog.
Free Icons : Gold embedded Leather Social Icon Set
I am giving away the ‘Gold embedded Leather Iconset‘. So, go ahead and download it and let me know what you think about it.
Top 31 Good Looking Premium WordPress Themes
Professional and good looking premium wordpress themes that actually worth your money. These themes will help you to increase your blog credibility.
30 Impressive Examples of Reflection Photography
Reflection photography is difficult to describe real hidden beauty. It is a truly endless exploration of beauty that includes water (including water droplets), mirror of Glasses.
A Trend of Multi Column Mega Drop-down Menus with 30 examples!
The Mega drop-down Menus became the latest trend in web sites and I guarantee you those are really the best approach to highlight best content available in a web site.
50+ Amazing Examples of High Speed Photography
In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see.
A Quick Tutorial on Mixtape Cover Design
Check out this cool tutorial on mixtape cover design.
Designer Showcase – The Beast Is Back
A showcase of work from the illustrator The Beast Is Back
25 Creative and Artistic T-Shirt Designs
Here are 25 creative and artistic examples of t-shirt designs
Strategic and not Subjective Color Selection
Color is a tricky element in identity development & there are many ways of managing it. If any phase of development is measured on specific goals then gauging color appropriateness is no different.
Here is my collection of 100 free movie fonts from around the web. Each and every font has been researched to make sure that it matches the film, or at least is very very close.
You’ll be impressed, really high quality set of stock icons released by iconshock
Iconshock released a new icon set called PERSPECTIVE, a more serious and realistic way to update your applications.
How I Took Inspiration From Our 600+ Year Old Family Crest
In this article I’ll show you how I took inspiration from our 600-year old family crest.
Create a Vibrant Colorful Alcohol Product Ad
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a vibrant, colorful alcoholic product advertisement in Adobe Photoshop, using some easy techniques and quality stock images.
Diesel Jeans Advertising Campaigns – 45 prints
Diesel is an interesting brand which attracted a lot of attention through its (let’s say) bizarre campaigns.
47 Customizations for the Thesis WordPress Theme
Want to learn how to customize your Thesis theme? This is the place to be. Here you will find 47 guides and tutorials on every aspect of Thesis customization.
Free icon sets: Really original and high quality google buzz icons.
Perfectly designed icons, with original and unusual concepts, for the google buzz social system.
57 Great Websites Where You can Download Free Fonts
A very comprehensive list of best free fonts websites available on the web. Download thousands of free fonts.
Why Caring for Users is More Important Than Caring for Search Engines
Would you buy from your own store? This is a very important question one should ask oneself when one is running a store of any kind.
54 Awesome Background Patterns for Designers
Now a days you can see the usage of beautiful Seamless pattern for complete website backgrounds
Introducing the Best Thesis Resource Yet
Theme Thesis has relaunched in a big way. Now you can find the internet’s largest skin gallery as well as customizations, tutorials, and community news.
Graphic Design Artist Feature: Lets Start A Riot
Lets start a Riot aka Noura, is a great artist I have found through Flickr. She uses musicians and bands as her arts focal point and always produces great work.
5 Features that Would Have Truly Made the iPad A “Magical” Device
So, as I assume you know by now, Apple released their extremely over hyped and some say most important product ever this week, the iPad.
Working with Adobe Photoshop Text Effects and Blending Options
This is a quick tip for Photoshop beginners about how to alter blending options applied to a text for a nice and realist effects against a stripes background.
Create a simple paperclip icon in Illustrator
Hi there. This is a really fast tutorial. In only seven steps you’ll learn to make a paperclip icon.
Interview: Roberto Blake Graphic Designer and Digital Artist
Today we interview Roberto Blake, who is a digital artist and designer, already he has enough skills to make most of us jealous of his talents.
Using Texture Layers to Enhance Your Photographs
This PhotoShop tutorial will teach you how to use textures and layers to create a gorgeous graphic for your next web design project or piece of art.
62 Fresh & Impressive Photoshop Tuts
These are some of the freshest and most popular
tutorials from around the interweb. We searched
hard to gather together a selection that covers most
aspects of design using Photoshop.
Codeingiter Shopping Cart, Kaimono Kago: Installation added
Kaimono Kago v1.1c Beta is released and installation is added.
Creative and well-designed Event Websites. 30 Amazing Examples
What? When? Where? Managing an event is not a very easy task. There are a lot of important things you should consider when planning an event. One of them is to create and make a site that…
30+ Excellent Single Page Website Designs For Designing Inspiration
Single page websites is an emerging trend nowadays. Designers love to experiment and observe how people interact with their work.
94 Interviews With 39 Designers, Developers And Bloggers
Interviews with your fuglemans will show you a little part of each of their success story and help you understand their successes.
Tweetburner – make your shorten URLs
Tweetburner is the webservice that lets you shorten URLs, post them to Twitter and follow statistics about them. Tweetburner allows you to keep track of what happens to
Tweetburner – make your shorten URLs
Tweetburner is the webservice that lets you shorten URLs, post them to Twitter and follow statistics about them.
Quick Photoshop Tutorial: Create A HD Television Icon
Join in this easy to follow and quick quality Photoshop tutorial teaching you how to create good looking HD television icon now!
27 Marvelous Old Circus Posters
A roundup of 27 marvelous old circus posters showcasing the creative use type, color, and images.
22 Beautiful Postcards from Paris
A collection of 22 beautiful and breath-taking sites in Paris captured on travel postcards.
How to create Pink Lady Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you will learn how to retouch a face and create a pink background from different shapes. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started!
At Conferences, No One Can Hear You Scream
A room full of strangers is already awkward enough. Throw in the fact that you’ll only know them for the next 4 hours and it gets even weirder. This should help you through your next conference…
We manufacture wire mesh, stainless steel mesh, perforated sheets, welded wire mesh, Dutch woven wire cloth, Chain Link Fencing and GI Barbed wire.
Find latest Lifestyle news headlines, Videos, pictures and in-depth coverage of lifestyle, Fashion & Beauty, Celebrity, and Wife & Husband from India Next.
Find the latest news and video about celebrities, TV, movies, books and music at India Next Entertainment News.
Find information about Business Tech, Personal Tech, Science and Security at India Next. India Next also provides Technology news, video covers.
India next delivers the Top Latest World news and Headlines from US, UK, Gulf, Pakistan, India, China, Europe and rest of the world.
Choosing the color of website is the one of the most important part of web designing. Some prefer to have light backgrounds while some like dark websites.
5 Best SEO Guides For Beginner
Search engines have a short list of critical operations
that allows them to provide relevant web results when searchers use their system to find information.
Tweet call – Now tweeting is truly tweeting
Ever since twitter existed, I used to wonder why I should call it tweeting when I am actually typing.
SEOCommunity is a place for all indian SEO Professionals, webmasters, Bloggers and Intenret Marketers to discuss latest happening and issues in the world of SEO.
Dropbox – The magic box for all your files
Whether you are travelling the world, running a business or just organizing your life over different computers and phones,
You shouldn’t have too much time for doing it
Try to recall how it was, when you had to do homework. When did you start to do this? One night before? Two nights? Probably not earlier.
63 Pro and Delicious Social Media Icon Sets for Your Website
The most interesting and creative social bookmarking icons. This is the ultimate list with most cool social media icons.
Interview with artist Hollis Brown Thornton
Hollis Brown Thornton is an artist who keeps alive the classic drawing on paper using only his talent, acrylics, oils and permanent markers, currently merging…
Logo Design and Creative Process for Intralytix
If a box of phage solution (Intralytix) was to fall off a truck, how would the average person who happened upon the box react? An depth creative process by John McHugh.
Sketch a Cute Dog Face in Illustrator
In this vector tutorial, I’ll be showing you how to sketch a cute dog’s face in Illustrator using a pen tablet. In this case, I’ll be using Illustrator CS4 in conjunction with a Wacom pen tablet
A fresh formula for freelancers looking for fortune and fulfillment.
20 Fresh And Creative Logos To Inspire You
Inspiration loss? Sit back, grab a coffee and enjoy some visual eye candy. Here are 20 fresh and creative logos brought to you by Logo Bliss.
Vector freebies and premium: floral, wings and t-shirts
Our team has just released a few new vector goodies we hope you will enjoy. The brand new packs we’ve created are the …
30+ Excellent Photoshop Web layout Design Tutorials
Adobe Photoshop is a powerful and versatile application for creating high-quality designs. In this collection, you’ll find 30+ excellent tutorials on creating web layouts in photoshop.
Create A Sleek Looking iPad in Photoshop
We will be recreating one of the most beautiful and revolutionary product from Apple, the iPad.
Should Web Design be Timeless or Trendy?
It’s often easy to fall into the latest trends when trying to be relevant. This post looks at the balance a web designer should choose when faced with the decision to go timeless or trendy.
What Bloggers Can Do With Their Old Designs?
Redesigning is kind of new trends with blogs, as Smashing Magazine, Mashable & larger number of other bloggers are…
I am a Wilmington, NC photographer and my blog is about different subject material with photos about our coastal area and my personal sitings, thoughts and projects.
Choosing the color of website is the one of the most important part of web designing. Some prefer to have light backgrounds while some like dark websites.
9 free colorful cloud textures
It’s time for another high resolution set. This time its all about cloud and color. We have prepared a collectionof 9 free high resolution colorful cloud textures.
What’s coming up in WordPress 3.0
A beta version of the next version of WordPress has recently been released, you can test it but you shouldn’t use it on a live website.
Don’t forget the power of the negative space
I think the best way to describe the negative space (or white space) in design field is to compare it to the pause in a musical song.
10 Flash Sites that you can’t quit staring at!
inspirational showcase that represents what flash technology and creativity can give when multiplie together
Our joomla setup: how a web-dummy did setup a website from scratch
The story of our website: how a web-illitterate did put together a commercial website using joomla.
The evolution of a GUI and the pulsating life of a UX
The story of Tabbles GUI – looking for a way to create a user-friendly relational file manager.
33 Firefox Addons Made Popular by Users
You know Firefox is the most popular browser of all time and there are a lot reasons for this kind of popularity.I think one of the most important thing is the Firefox Addons.
25+ Beautiful And Creative Business Card Ideas
It doesn’t matter in which business you are, a professionally designed business card is as important as your identity. Let’s take a look at these outstanding business cards which show that
Digging into Channels as an Extraction Tool – Part 2
This is the second half of a 2 part series on how to use channels in Photoshop as a means of extracting a subject from its background.
Out Of The Ordinary Websites – 47 Examples
You have to admire the designers who have the courage to make a website with a unique style, one that you can’t be included in a trend.
Most popular gadget blogs and websites arranged in a 15 top list. Read most interesting gadget and hardware articles daily.
Create lightweight jquery fade manual slideshow
From my previous article of content slider , today I am using same HTML and CSS but producing fade effect rather than slide one.
Beautiful Examples of Conceptual Photography
Conceptual Photography is one of the forms of presenting the ideas of Photographer. These ideas convert into different expression like in symbolism which can be interpreted by the viewer.
Freebies: Various Useful Icons For Your Project
I would like to start this post by thanking all the great designers that have come up with all the free high end icons that are available out there on the web.
Resources – The Evolution of Print Advertising
This post brings together 22 examples, laid out chronologically, representing the creative and technical development of print advertising throughout its history.
Top 7 Operating Systems for Serious Server Applications
While important, the technical specifications of the hardware inside a computer that will be used as a server are not the only factor that will influence its performance
How to Create a Grunge Letterpress in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to create a grunge letterpress with the use of text layers, a single texture layer, cloning and mask painting with some very easy techniques.
25 most creative examples of doodle art
In this article, I have showcased some of the coolest doodle art found on the web. Some of them will just blow you away.
71 Impressive Nature Inspired Wallpapers
Desktop wallpapers aren’t they great, we love them, especially nature
inspired ones. Nature and the environment has always been a favourite
subject of mine.
A showcase of the latest and greatest in one page website design
20+ Extraordinary Website Designs To Inspire You
The industry of website design and development is very productive nowadays. The year 2010 has brought some big changes in the web designing trends.
1STWD March 2010 Features: Top Design Links And News
Top featured design links and news from 1stwebdesigner. Showcased all the best design related stuff and articles found from March 2010 about blogging,seo,design,coding.
How to make Necklace in Adobe Illustrator
Today in this tutorial you will learn how to make necklace in Adobe Illustrator and you will also learn that how to make Pearl effect.
Amazing CSS3 Techniques You Can’t live Without
CSS3, along with HTML5, is shaping up to be one of the most exciting and useful Web technologies in years.
Create a modern web layout for Joomla, WordPress or Drupal
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a modern web layout in Photoshop for Joomla, WordPress and why not Drupal.
70+ Beautiful Dual Screen Desktop Wallpapers
In this post, I present 70+ beautiful dual screen desktop wallpapers. You can download even more beautiful wallpapers from those links.
Today you’ll get some high resolution Bokeh textures. I’ve taken the pictures a few days ago during my stay at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt.
12 Great Brushes Resource Sites
As a Photoshop designer, you always need high quality brushes for your work. Here is the list of my top 12 brushes resource sites to help you find the best Photoshop brushes around.
25 Premium Email Newsletter Templates For Successful Marketing
Email newsletter is highly underestimated in design world mostly, this article will start article series, this time showcasing premium email newsletters!
Adding Slideshows Setting to Kaimono Kago
Kaimono Kago is a Codeigniter + BackendPro based shopping cart and it has a slideshow in the webshop front-end. Since there are many javascript slideshows are available, it will be nice that …
165 Beautiful 3D Flash Websites
It’s not a secret that Flash websites can be considered as a different kind of art in website community because of their limitless animations and stunning designs.
Why I Screwed Up At Freelancing
During the early days of my freelancing career, I made a ton of mistakes that had pretty big consequences – find out how you can avoid these mistakes in your freelancing career!
10 Awesome Wallpapers to Makeover your Desktop
24 Imaginary and Conceptual Photography
Many people find such type of photography mesmerizing and they simply enjoy the concepts being portrayed in the photography.
Free WordPress e-Commerce Theme: Dangdoot
DangDoot WP e-commerce theme that it is suitable mostly for major/indie music recording companies, bands, musicians, music products affiliates, music event or simply online music stores.
UptimeRobot – Your website watchman
The most important part of managing a website is checking the uptime of the website time to time. Despite being a crucial task it is always neglected.
How to Draw A Very Detailed RadioTape From The 80’s
Remember the old days where cassette tape and FM radio still rules? The Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Ozzy Osborne was the king! Great memory isn’t it?
How to Select Facebook Application Developers
You’ve designed an excellent Facebook application. But who should be chosen to develop it? Find answers in that article.
The Power of WordPress Custom Fields
Custom Fields is the most powerful tools for customizing template files, these are special fields in the WordPress database that you can create yourself by giving them a name
Ad Earnings of Top Design Blogs
Ever wonder what the top design blogs make each month in advertising? Check out the numbers!
15 Freelancers from around the world
You may know that Underworld Magazines has Weekly Inspiration but now we added a new addition called Freelance Designer Showcase.
Andres Borghi – The Future of Argentine Film Direction
Hi Concept Dezain friends, this time we will learning about an Argentine director that promises to go far, Andres Borghi, he is 27 years old and was born in Buenos Aires …
Evolution of Graphic Design in Fifa World Cup
Logos help brands establish the name and define the character of a corporation. There always lies some reason behind the logos that are used by the big corporate brands.
Twitterfeed – Feed your blog to twitter
Twitterfeed automatically twitters your RSS feed to all of the tweets following you on Twitter. Signing up is simple; you need an OpenID account (use your Yahoo OpenID) and well,
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Logos help brands establish the name and define the character of a corporation. There always lies some reason behind the logos that are used by the big corporate brands.
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