1. 10 Clever and Effective Series of Advertisements

Companies spend thousands upon thousands of dollars every year in advertisement. Some companies even spend millions of dollars. Print advertisements take up a large portion of those advertising dollars.

There are different types of advertising techniques that these companies use in their campaigns. One such technique is to use a series of advertisements to promote a particular product or brand. Today, we will look at 10 clever and effective series of advertisements as well as the reason why I chose to include each of them.

2. 30 Excellent Tutorials for Create Illustrator Cartoons

Cartoon characters favorite of every age peoples and specially art designers love to draw famous and some time new characters for make new trends, in this article we sharing some great trainings as “30 Excellent Tutorials for Create Illustrator Cartoons” where we presenting some awesome techniques for make cartoon characters.

3. 50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

Using illustration in web design gives the designer the opportunity to convey there own personal and unique style, and be able to say “this site is mine, and look what I can do”. Very few web design styles give an artist this opportunity.

4. 35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding Of 2009 For Your Inspiration

This is the post dedicated to the logo rebranding in 2009 of few renowned brands. This post will give you an idea in one place for great logo design trends in this age. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new logo for his client or himself. Overall, logos showing in this list are simple, sleek and decent having a look of current web 2.0 trend. The usage of color scheme, font selection and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them in detail it will must boost your creative logo design ideas professionally and motivate you to design your new logo in a way that people will never forget that you have made it. This is a list of 35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding In 2009 For Your Inspiration and Information.

5. 10 Predictions for 2010

Every December I look forward to compiling a list of predictions for the coming calendar year. I have been doing this for almost 20 years now, and thanks to a combination of heavy research and a little bit of luck, I’ve had a pretty high accuracy rate. Sure, there have been some misses in the past, but the majority have been on the money. Don’t believe me? Check out last year’s list.

6. Stormtrooper-Inspired Art and Design

Arguably the most iconic image to emerge from the multi-billion dollar Star Wars franchise, was that of the Stormtrooper. To this day, the Empire’s elite soldiers continue to influence artwork, product design and fashion. Below is a collection of Stormtrooper-inspired art and design to dazzle and delight your senses.

7.  Google’s Web Design Lead – Michael Lopez Interview

I recently had the tremendous honor of catching up with Michael Lopez, Google’s Web Design Lead, by phone to ask him a few questions about designing the famous Google doodles. Michael is part of a small team of designers who are responsible for changing the Google logo into an exciting work of art. Michael and his team spend their time brainstorming about upcoming doodles, oftentimes getting their ideas down by drawing or writing on a white board or even a scrap of paper.

8. Do UI Patterns Destroy Innovation?

We have been using patterns to solve problems for a long time. Generally people (in our industry) would define a pattern similar to this definition found on wikipedia

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.

9. Typo Madness #1

Here you are some amazing typography works, enjoy!

10. 35 Realistic 3D Robots Illustrations

Very Stunning and Facinating 3D Robot Characters designs and illustrations. Looks very reall. Robots have always been my favorite things to watch in movies and Artworks.

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1. 16 Cool Cellphone Concepts Which Won’t Be Implemented

When it comes to good design, Apple knows its stuff. The iPhone was able to single-handily change the mobile industry and also how we look at phones. The superb design of the iPhone has inspired many artists out there to come up with their own cellphone concepts that blur the line between design and functionality. Here is the list of some of the most stunning cellphone concepts.

2. 10 Creative Watch Concept Designs

We have written a post about 10 Modern Watch Designs several days ago. According to the heated response, we decided to continue our time travel and introduce you with 10 creative watch concept designs. In this post, you will find bizarre handcuffs watch, super futuristic spaceship watch design as well as the confusing Liquid Time watch…

3. 50 Funny and Creative CG Creatures

While I was browsing the net I found some funny CG 3D creatures that you’ll surely like! Some of them are amusing and some are scary but they are all great! Most of them were created using 3D applications but there are also a few created using other applications like Photoshop. Anyway, they are all created by talented artists so let’s check them!

4. 25 Creative Blog Header Designs

For designers, website and blog headers are frequently areas where creativity is on full display. In this post we’ll feature 25 blogs with unique header designs. For more blog design inspiration please see our blog gallery Blog Design Heroes.

5. 34 Amazing Designer’s Photoshop Work – Bigger is Better

I am really excited about publishing this post because i have collect some amazing images from worth1000.com, these are really awesome.

I have found many categories in worth1000 but i like this one. because this is very different instead of others. Giant people in city and they are doing daily life with big one city, i really love that scene.

That was contest on worth1000.com and now these are best one artworks from the contest. all images are make in photoshop. cropping, shading outstanding.

6. Orange Website Showcase

Color Wheel Pro says:Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.

7. Content Mosaic: The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs

The other day, Jon and I were talking about different types of articles that are posted on many blogs and sketching out a tentative schedule for my contributions here at SpyreStudios. During that discussion, Jon raised a very interesting point, suggesting that some types of content affect traffic in different ways. Some are more like a sugar rush – you put them out there, do a bit of promotion, and see the traffic come in fast and furious. Others have a more sustained effect – they may not have the same immediate traffic results (though they might do that too), but they do tend to bring in more traffic over the long run, through things like search engines.

8. 35+ Usability Resources for Web Designers

Usability should be a priority for every website. Without usability, even the most beautiful design will be ineffective. In this post we’ll feature a number of resources, tools, software, checklists, articles, and more, that can help you to design and develop highly usable websites.

9. 40 Outstanding Typographic Poster Designs

For typography lovers, posters can be an excellent source of inspiration. Skilled designers can do amazing things with typography and text effects, and in this post we’ll feature 40 outstanding poster designs.

10. World’s Top 10 Most Succesful Logo Designers

Logo designing is an immensely delicate art which can go a long way in making or breaking a brand. Some men and women have conquered such professionalism in this field that they have left a great impact on our society. The designs we come across in our day to day life have been created by these “artists”. Below are the personalities who have achieved fame in this field.

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1. Creative Christmas Advertisements

With Christmas coming up we have selected the most Creative Christmas Advertisements. Besides all the magical moments it is a great opportunity for companies to wish everybody a Merry Christmas or relate those magical moments to their brand.

2. 58 Photos of Faces Where They Shouldn’t Be

Everywhere I look, I see faces. The cabinet is looking at me. The lightswitch is looking at me. The cereal is looking at me. And it’s all because of your submissions to this week’s Anthropomorphism Shooting Challenge.

3. What to do with less than perfect shots

Even the best of photographers have bad days or shots that just don’t make the cut. Do you ever find yourself wishing there was something you could do that would breath new life back into those shots to make them somewhat presentable? I’ve got a quick trick for you to do just that and it requires very little Photoshop work.

4. 10 excellent Illustrator text effect

In this post, we are providing some exceptional and beautiful illustrator text effect those you don’t want to miss.

5. Creative illustrative print ads

Print Ads, a part of everyone’s life, no matter if its a newspaper, magazine, packaging or anything, is always a difficult task for a design agancey or a graphic artist to come out with a creative print ad. The graphic expert needs to be very creative to accomplish the challenging task which can deliver a message across with a single image and can leave a mark in users mind. There are various kind of print ads we see in our daily life some are humours, some real creative, typographic, illustrative and other…

6. Old Christmas Designs of Your Favorite Online Stores

When the holiday season in full swing, let’s mention something that’ll for sure glue your eyes open! This time we’re featuring famous websites and the ways they altered their Christmas custom designs within the years of functioning.

Having searched for Christmas season customizations, we’ve compiled the set of websites that’ll take you to the nature of festive customization options and give the background of the symbolic Christmas imaging.

7. 50+ Creative Logo Designs That Use Letterform Marks As A Symbol

A logo is the most important element of brand as well as essential for creating a great brand identity and evidence of a business’s reliability. When designing a logo, knowing which type of mark would be the most appropriate for the application will help you achieve a stronger solution.

In this collection, we present 50+ creative logo designs that will use Letterform marks as a symbol to convey the brand message that will hopefully inspire you.

8. 25 Most Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

The Christmas is approaching and here are some fine Photoshop tutorials related with Christmas.

9. 336 Hours of emotions

Infographic of 336 hours of my emotions throughout the course of 2 weeks. Emotions were averaged out and then plotted on a bar graph.

10. Top 10 Reasons Santa is a Great Designer

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1. What an Animal – Illustrations of Pigs

Pigs have always been used in cartoons and in different forms of media. They have been used to depict slopiness, being fat, and sometimes, they have even been used in advertising due to the fact that their cuteness appeals to some people. They are also known for the” piggy bank.” Most children had one growing up.

2. 35 Fresh and Cool Web Design Interfaces for Inspiration

Everyone knows that DeviantArt is the best place for you to submit your art-works, and web designers like to submit their works to this community art website. Enjoy the featured list of 35 fresh and cool web design interfaces from DeviantArt that was hand-picked by me and in my opinion!

3. The Coolest Blogazine WordPress Themes of 2009

We’re starting the end-of-the-year roundups with the coolest WP themes you should consider when starting a new online-mag-blog or while revamping your old one. Here are our choices. Don’t hesitate to leave some suggestions an opinions in the comments.

4. The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

5. 60+ Superb Ideas of Print and Online Advertisements

Most famous brands using that way in both way of designs like Print Media designs and web banner designing, we always try to present our product in better way and follow exceptional design work which you can seen in whole listed advertisements. Hope you leave your comments and also share if you get help from this listings or somewhere else resource, you can share with our visitors and readers.

6. Stunning Black And White Macro Photography

Close-up photography provides exclusive opportunities to make creative and impressive photographs. This type of photography also referred to as Macro Photography. With macro photography, small and complex features that are impossible to tell apart from a distance are displayed with vivid detail.

In this inspirational post, we’ve collected black and white macro photographs taken with various Cameras, if you enjoyed any of the photographs showcased, please visit the photographer and leave them a comment!

7.  The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009

What a great year it has been for design related articles. So many new blogs, new blog writers, great content, great resources, a lot of inspiration, it really has never been a better time to be a designer.

In this round-up we have collected fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials.

8. 10 Amazing Typographic Poster Tutorials

Below are 10 amazing tutorials that teach you how to create typographic posters. Some are created in Photoshop and the others in Illustrator so you can improve your skill in new ways with these programs while creating some beautiful posters! I hope you guys find this post useful!

9. The Best and Worst Identities of 2009

2009 has been a great year for Brand New, with a bottomless source of new and redesigned identities from around the world, and we’ve all had good fun critiquing them in sickness and in health. But it all comes down to this: The Best and Worst. I have gone through all the archives and selected the top 12 in each category.

10. Monday Morning Inspiration #25

This Post belongs to our “Monday Morning Inspiration” Series. Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

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1. The “Wow” Factor in Web Design

Everyday, we go through hundreds of different websites. With Twitter and RSS feeds, we are able to see an excessive amount of sites in just a short time. Most of the websites that we visit are forgettable, they don’t leave a lasting impression.

2. 50+ Mac Applications with Great Interface

Having used Mac for quite some time, I discover that I deeply fall in love with smooth and sleek interface offered by most of Mac built-in applications.

And the good news is, there are many third-party applications out there developed with more or less the same design standard as those built-in Mac apps. More than fifty sample screenshots of beautiful Mac applications are ready to amaze you after the jump.

3. 24 Free High-Res Concrete Textures

24 Free High Resolution Concrete Textures for all of you to download. These textures are for personal and commercial use and no credit is required when used. Download this texture pack quick and easy by following the download link below, you will be using these textures in your own designs in no time at all. [...]

4. 50 Mind-Blowing Space Artworks

Space has always fascinated humanity.  The concept of an almost infinitely vast and complex universe stirs the deepest emotions in the viewer.  From movies, TV shows, science, music, and art, outer space has had an incredible influence on our lives.  And whether you’re a NASA scientist, a die hard science fiction fan, or just sitting in a cubicle working, space art can take your breath away.

5. 50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing ,publishing websites and tracking, processing, administering your financial things.

6. How to Set Up a Killer WordPress blog

Welcome to part 4 of this series on How to set up a killer wordpress blog (we are almost there guys!!!!). In this part We`ll be choosing our plugins. The first thing you need to know is that there are lots and lots of WordPress plugins, so in some cases, I`ll be listing more than one for the same purpose, just in case you don`t want to use the same as I do, or just want to try something new, it`s you choice!.  There are some plugins that may need template modification, so I`ll let you know as we go along. Well Lets Get Started.

7. 40 Cold Colour Palettes For Winter Inspired Web Designs

Don’t you hate it when you are designing a website, but you just can’t find the “perfect colour set” that makes your website flow? Trying to find nice colours really frustrates me, so that’s why I go and look at colour schemes on many different colour websites. Compiled here is a list of 40 cold colour palettes for winter inspired web designs.

8. 35 Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For 3D Artwork

Adobe Illustrator is a best vector illustration application. Using illustrator you can create cutting edge graphics and give your artworks 3d effect too. May be illustrator is not the best tool to create 3d objects, as there are lots of 3d tools available, but still you can create realistic-looking 3D artwork.

9. 30 cool 3d and Text Effects Tutorial in Adobe PhotoShop

Today i covered 30+ amazing 3d text , bubbles, glass, Stunning effects on Text. These are high quality adobe Photoshop tutorials from various toped ranked websites.

10. Free Design Resource Roundup

Hundreds of free brushes and icons, loads of holiday giveaways for designers and more goodies! Today’s free resource roundup is totally jam-packed. Download now and help us spread the love this season by bookmarking, tweeting, or sharing this post. Ho ho ho!

11. Create a Zoomed In Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial will walk you through a simple process of giving a zoomed-in effect for your illustrations. This can be used in numerous ways, but primarily for designing instructional visual material.

12. The Evolution of Olympic Torch

Today, the 2010 winter torch relay just passed my city. It is the first time that I have a close look of the torch. It looks more elegant than I thought and just raised my interest of the past torch designs. Back to 1936, torch is only a functional torch, doesn’t have a lot designing element.

13.  12 of The Best Free Website Analytic Tools

To most serious webmasters website analytics are a major part of their life. Knowing who is coming to their website and how they got there is an important factor to building a successful website but being able to make changes because of access to this data is even more important as it will bring both growth and profit.

Without the creation of such informative and helpful software, webmasters would be clueless on how their website is doing and what they can improve on. Obviously, different software supply different features and at the end of the day its down to a webmasters preference to which software they use.

In this post, Designussion are showcasing what we think are the best free website analytic tools available on the Internet.

14. 60+ Creative & Inspirational Newsletter Designs

How about creating an equally good newsletter that matches its company’s standard. Many companies practice sending newsletters periodically/occasionally to their clients. Many do it because their competitors are doing, but some do it purposely. Among many reasons couple of reasons which seems logical to us are: -

• Spreading awareness and giving an insight to the customer/client about what is going on in company.
• To create an impression about themselves as a company, sort of brand building practice.

15. 20+ New Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Today we are going to tell you about 20+ Excellent Free WordPress Themes that you probably haven’t seen. WordPress themes always come in handy either if you are a professional coder or a newbie to the blogging world. WordPress is simply one of the most powerful blogging platforms that the blogosphere has seen and we hope that this article helps you to identify some new themes that you left unnoticed.

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