Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn't remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor? Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas. And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don't always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.
This article features desktop wallpaper sets that are, without a doubt, the absolute cream of the crop, and the epitome of beautiful and flawless digital artwork sized down to cover your desktop perfectly. While the wallpaper artist list might not be that extensive, I settled on the fact that it just wouldn't be. With the few artists I've featured, the amount of quality high resolution wallpapers is almost overwhelming.
These videos and the artistic creativity that went into them is absolutely amazing. What is even more amazing is the fact that the artists aren't famous and banking. This article is dedicated to those who share a common interest for papercraft and stop motion video. Enjoy.
Are you an amateur video producer, novice, professional, or just someone in need of quality templates for such things as DVD covers, cases, inlays and boxes or perhaps a music producer / artist looking to save a bit of money by designing their own CD print media? If so, I've put together a nice list of both DVD and CD related templates for you to assist in the independent process.
Textures are absolutely fantastic when working with a variety of mediums. For instance, if you need something to spruce up a photograph, logo, website elements or just about anything else graphic-based, chances are you can find a texture somewhere to help. This article contains my favorite free high resolution textures that I think are absolutely interesting to look at and could also be very well useful for a designer.
After my constant bothersome attempts to contact them, the Design Give team finally cracked and made time to finish up our interview. To give you a general idea of what Design Give.com is all about, and why this interview was so important to me, I'll offer up to you this beautifully written statement by the team.. As artists we were given a talent to create, it's up to you to use those talents to try and make a difference in the world.
I've put together a massive list of 31 online web applications that offer you the ability to do most anything you could want to do to your photos and other graphics. While some of the websites offer a premium service, they all offer a free service as well.
Pictoplasma is one of the most impressive, stunning, visually inspiring and overall mind blowing entities out there for publishing, exhibiting, and writing on artistically conceived character design and art and the relationship between the character design and the message behind the piece. I definitely believe that if you're into design of any nature, especially logo design or designs meant to represent a larger entity of any sort, then Pictoplasma should be an organization that you are at least somewhat familiar with.