1. What’s Brand?

Brand is an important part of any business. So why do some of us claim we brand businesses, when we fall so short on it’s definition and limit ourselves at logo design? There are many factors that affect a brand and these factors can contribute to a unique and long-lasting brand. We often overlook the real meaning of brand and we need to understand it to fully comprehend the field.

2. Winter Olypmic Games Posters from 1924 to 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will begin today on February 12th in Vancouver, Canada. I thought it would be interesting to see how the design trends in Olympic posters have changed during the years.
In this article you will find every official poster from the winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2010.

3. 16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup

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1. Weird Photoshop mistakes – 25 Super Bloopers!!

In this highly developed and advanced world of graphic design, softwares like Photoshop and Corel Draw are a blessing for graphic designers. Almost all forms of graphical material that is published, be it print ads, news clippings, photos, movie posters or magazine covers, are created using the magical techniques of Photoshop.

2. Adobe announces CS5 release date, second beta of Lightroom 3

Adobe has put up a counter, and announced a launch event for the release of Adobe Creative Suite 5 on April 12 at 11am EDT. Though little is known about the features of CS5, Adobe had previously announced that it will give Flash CS5 the features to allow devs to build Flash-based applications and then export them to the App Store’s .ipa standard. This will effectively allow developers to build iPhone apps in nothing but CS5. If you’ve registered for an Adobe ID, you’ll be able to view a video broadcast of the launch event on Adobe TV. CS5 will also be Intel-only, Cocoa and 64-bit native.

If you want to download YouTube and convert them to another extension youtube downloader

3. 40 Ultimate Useful Mind Mapping Tools

Mind Mapping Applications working as powerful in this era for taking notes, capturing ideas, represent words, exploring concepts or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

4. Creative Toilet Paper Designs

Toilet paper designs are normal boring white tissue paper but they don’t have to be here is a collection of creative toilet paper designs.

5. 10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros

Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear to a job interview or a business meeting, a sharp looking social profile or website is the first step toward being taken seriously online.

6. 30+ Out of the Box and NEW Portfolio Design

Showing your work online is a bit tricky if you want to come up with a layout design that has the sticky factor.
Today, we have collected 30 out of the box and new website portfolio designs that risk their site structure with unusual approaches. That’s what makes them different and leave an unforgettable impression. Hopefully you will find some creative ideas that you can develop further in your future designs.

7. 20 attractive and Striking Black and White Websites

The possibilities for color in web design in 2010 are a long way from the limitations of the Web Safe Palette of a few years ago. Rather than being limited to 216 colors as we once were, we now have millions to choose from. But sometimes, distancing ourselves from all those options and designing in good old Black & White can result in some striking work.

8. Most Practical CSS Cheat Sheet Yet

There’s an abundance of CSS cheat sheets on the web, but most of them gloss over the properties designers use in day-to-day work, preferring instead the kitchen-sink approach of showing all properties. This cheat sheet was designed with a more practical philosophy, so that designers who need a quick description of a property don’t need to open a browser. Included are the following sections: selectors, the box model, positioning, text and fonts, borders and lists, and a bit of miscellany that comes in handy every once in a while.

9. Heineken Creates a Unique Brand Experience

A Standout Creative Campaign
There’s plenty of talk about the changing face of advertising. Every day I read about the fragmentation of markets, of channels, of brand messages, of how the task of connecting to consumers is becoming more and more challenging. And then you come across an example of an ad that has so effectively risen to those challenges, it simply reminds you that creativity is the answer. A work colleague sent this absolute ripper of an integrated campaign for Heineken to me today.

10. 11 Logos Having Striking Graphic Designing Tricks

For everyone Interested in branding  take a look at these amazingly designed logos deciphering the exact brand they are selling in a very easy way, unnoticed yet manipulative. You look at them once, they are enmeshed in your minds…

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1. Eye Popping Pics of Cyborg Animals from Photoshop Contest

The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web. Artists took pictures of real animals and filled them with images of gears, wires, and electronic gizmos. The results look pretty amazing. There are cybernetic reptiles, android mammals, and even a robot chicken. Take a good look at some of these cool robot-animal pics below; we’ve got tons and there are many more on the Worth1000 website.

2. The iPad paradox: Less is more

The introduction of Apple’s iPad predictably divided gadget fans into “love it” and “hate it” camps.

The haters say iPad lacks multitasking, a webcam, Flash support, a USB port, massive storage, a removable battery, CD and DVD support, RAM upgradability, multiple OS support and other features.

The lovers are less clear about why they want one. So allow me to propose the same list as above. It works just as well. The iPad is desirable for what it doesn’t do — can’t do — as much as for what it can do.

3. 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

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.

4. The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.

5. 12 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions For Designers

Google Chrome is not a popular browser yet but still it’s growing fast and as a web developer or designer, you must be among the earliest to adopt new browser technologies. What help you a lot are extensions of browsers though Chrome does not offer many extensions but still there are lots of extensions, those can be very handy for designers and developers.

Here, we have compiled a list of 12 useful Chrome extensions for designers. Don’t hesitate to try all of them and if you already have used any of it don’t forget to share your experience with us.

6. 50 Extraordinary Creative Free Fonts for Designers

Fonts always are one of the essential part of Graphic and web designs, when working on design projects weather your designing for the web or for print its always essential to have a good collection of fonts.

7. 10 Reasons your Business needs a Brand Identity

Having a brand identity in today’s competitive business market is no longer an option. It’s required. A brand identity is essentially a promise from businesses to their customers. Depending on the company and the nature of their business, it can be excellent service, exceptional products or affordable prices.

8. 40 Excellent Examples of Black and White Photography

Black and white photography attracts you with its detailed attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in rather than the play of beautiful colors common in other forms of photography. This is the main reason of its impenetrable allure.

9. 15+ Amazing Project Management and Collaboration Tools

Everyone knows about what is project management. It’s nothing but planning, organizing and managing the resources.But how to do? What is the right way to do it. Are there any tools available for project management and collaboration. How these tools can be useful and what are the features. These are the things we are going to analyze in this article. We will see best project collaboration tools available on web to manage projects easily.

10. High Speed Photography : Frozen in Time

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. High speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event. Depending on the event to be photographed, methods range from use of ultra-short time flash exposures to producing lots of exposures in a split-second. Seemingly frozen in time, a lot of photographers have their own special method doing high speed photography. The usual photographic flash component offers a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). But photographic flash component used in high speed photography is so much quicker than this, and it creates a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This let you to freeze time through pictures that are happening tremendously fast.

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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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