Photo Inspiration; 3D Contest and Easter Brushes
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Sunset Balloons by TiaraMia, isn't this a clever, simple and yet gorgeous photo? I love the colors!Pixel2Life has a tutorial online about taking photographs of aquariums. I could have used this last month when we took Braeden to the Baltimore Aquarium. I struggled with the lighting and angles at which I could get a good shot of what was inside the tank.
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Okay so aside for the balloons and aquariums, I admittedly don't have much inspiration in my brain today. But I did come across a contest on the web for those of you who dabble in 3D design. It is from the evil villain in the TeknoChronicles of Z, General ShadowFinger, and he has a contest "Benign Design Contest in 3D".
"Finding good design talent is almost as hard as getting 10,000 giant mutant crabs to obey you."
The deadline is June 30, 2009.
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And here is a link to E-maniacs so you can scoop up their collect of Easter themed photoshop brushes. You'll find bunnies, eggs, baskets and all other sorts of spring time Easter fun.
And here is a link to their Easter icons, much fun to be had with these cute graphics.
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Just found another contest type opportunity for you. This one isn't as intense as the 3D contest above. The company is looking for a logo designer who will be able to create an original logo for a new website.
They say, "You create the logo, we pick it and we will give you your fee."
The logo is for the Company: "Networking Works"
It must include the words "Speed Business Networking" in a smaller font.
Labels: 3D, brushes, contest, icons, logo design, photography, photoshop
Artwork Competition M.O.R.P.H.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
In June 2009 DJ and producer Alex M.O.R.P.H. will release his debut artist album PURPLE AUDIO on VANDIT Records. According to this we are looking for an innovative, creative and suitable cover artwork, which brings the audible energy and beauty of Alex album to the visual outside. Express your musicially inspired feelings and design the cover artwork for Alex M.O.R.P.H. PURPLE AUDIO!Deadline 14th of April 2009
The album could be in the shops with YOUR COVER! And not only this - your artwork will appear at Alex' Purple Audio World Tour, a merchandise line and global online promotion and album presentation!
And on top of it you and your 5 best friends will be invited to the VANDIT Night in Berlin with Alex M.O.R.P.H. and Paul van Dyk, at the 2nd of May as VIP guests.
Enter here the artwork competition >>
Labels: album cover, contest
Board Games and Theme Parks
Sunday, March 15, 2009What thrills would you seek in the Blizzard Entertainment theme park of your dreams? This is your chance to show us.
We're challenging you to design and illustrate your own Blizzard Entertainment Theme Park, including roller coasters, water rides, shows, shopping areas, food courts, game areas, patrons, and whatever fantastic attractions you desire.
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Here's one I'd like to know and this article thinks it can teach me.
How to Design Website which Google Likes?
Here are some of tips listed...
Design and Content Guidelines
1) Make a site with a clear hierarchy and text links. Every page
should be reachable from at least one static text link.
2) Offer a site map to your users with links that point to the
important parts of your site. If the site map is larger than 100
or so links, you may want to break the site map into separate
pages.
3) Create a useful, information-rich site, and write pages that
clearly and accurately describe your content.
Refer to the link above for more.
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Six Revisions had people vote on their favorite web design tools.
Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Panic Coda, Photoshop and Firebug are the top five favorites. I have to admit I'm a little bit surprised by the Adobe products showing up in the top five.
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Into board games?
Design a board or card game that includes a shared component (or components) as a core part of the game with "Wind" as the theme.
One of the core mechanics of the game must have something to do with one or more components being shared between the players.
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Last but not least here is a link where you can download some Zodiac icons.
Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn
It includes 177 AI Files!
Labels: blizzard, board games, contest, icons, theme park, web design
Blogging Design Contest; Don Norman Design Cues
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Do you love blogging? If you love blogging and also got design skills, then I'm sure you'd love to hear about and be a part of this new contest sponsored by WordPress and Infectious, a company that specializes in designing vinyl car decals and laptop and iPhone skins.WordPress have recently partnered with Infectious to launch the "I <3 Blogging" design contest, to create laptop and iPhone skins just for bloggers. The contest is open to anyone, and there is no fixed theme so its basically up to your imagination and interpretation but also, the design should be an image that represents the voice of bloggers everywhere.
Deadline: March 31, 2009
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The key to smart strategic Web design is finding an appropriate and interactive way to display information. One comes upon endless possibilities when searching for ways to display information. One solution, slideshows and sliders, is an excellent way to display information such as images in an organized and compact manner. Slider galleries are excellent for organizing content into a nice clean module.
For more on slideshows in web design click through to Smashing Magazine >>
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Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.
The three ways that good design makes you happy >>
Labels: blog, contest, slideshows, smashing magazine, web design
The Design Museum and more
Monday, March 9, 2009
Discover Design is the newest addition to London's The Design Museum's online resources. Discover Design is an interactive resource for teachers and students that will stimulate critical and creative approaches to design and help you make the most of visiting the Design Museum.*~*~*
Artician.com, a new community for creative professionals, allows designers, artists, photographers, and other creative individuals to build completely personalized portfolios for free. It aims to provide an effortless way for designers to create and manage a portfolio in a professional or personal environment.
You can customize pretty much every aspect of your portfolio, so you can match the look of your portfolio to your style and your personality. It takes some time to figure out the interface because of the plethora of options though.
The only downside to this service is the google ads in the right sidebar, but you can get rid of them for $5/month if you decide you need a cleaner interface for a month or two when looking for a job.
"Artician.com is reshaping and innovating the creative web space for people around the globe."
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2009 DiabetesMine Design Challenge, an online competition to encourage creative new tools for improving life with diabetes.
Do you have an idea for an innovative new diabetes device or web application? This is your chance to win up to $10,000 to realize your design concept, and potentially help transform life with diabetes for millions of people.
This competition is open to all. We welcome entries from any individuals or organizations passionate about diabetes and product design ― patients, parents, caregivers, students, entrepreneurs, developers, engineers, etc.
We also welcome entries from kids under age 18, which will be judged in a separate category.
Three winners will be selected to receive the following prizes:
* $10,000 in cash for the Grand Prize winner;
- plus a mini-workshop with Health and Wellness experts at the global design and innovation firm IDEO
Labels: contest, design museum, portfolio
Beer for women, PS brushes, design checklists
Monday, February 23, 2009
Beer for Women Ad Design ContestThere are an array of ads out there that are aimed at men as beer drinkers, and a disparaging lack of ads for women. At the Beer Babe, I challenge you to find creative ways to approach the growing ranks of female beer drinkers in the world through media!
Deadline is March 31, 2009
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850+ Super Cool Tech Brushes for Photoshop
Using circuits,linings,wiring or even blueprints could help achieve a better futuristic results but will take time doing all the details needed.
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Here's a link to a Common Sense SEO Checklist >>
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Signage and color contrast
Contrast between the foreground and background is one of the most important factors for the ease of reading. If coloured text is used on a bright background the contrast will be weak, for optimal contrast results is white text against dark colored backgrounds. In signage & wayfinding design color is the combining factor to harmonize the sign with the environment. Color programs will distinguish signs from each other and can offer an indication of the message without having to be able to understand the language of the sign.
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PSD Fan has a tutorial on designing a "Retro Futurism Space Scene," using a variety of lighting effects and photo manipulation.
It looks a bit rushed to me in terms of the final image, but the concept and potential is definitely there. It could create a cool backdrop.
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Here's a list of 99 Graphic Design Resources everyone should know about, you probably do know a lot of them, but it's always great to have one single page you can bookmark and return to later down the road.
And here is a link to 20 Typefaces To Start A Designer's Career.
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Spunk United Magazine, you might not be able to read it all, but you'll most likely be inspired but what you see from start to end. Definitely make sure to take time and look through the archives.
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For the most amazingly, beautiful landscape photography you will ever see, please go to DesignMags Landscape Photography Showcase. The images are just breath-taking. I'd pretty much like to step into all of them for just a minute.
Labels: brushes, contest, design, photography, photoshop, signs, typography, web design
Artists, Designers, and Illustrators...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
This is your chance to be a part of AP/LABz, the next generation product platform!Put your best designs in the mix, and push the limits with full color, vector, continuous tone, photo realism, original art, textures, and anything else you can imagine.
ARTSPROJEKT will select and produce 10 winning designs. These designs will be sold online through ARTSPROJEKT.com and offered to high-end fashion retailers nationwide. The grand prize winner will also receive $1,000 cash. All 10 winners will take home up to 25% of all online sales.* If your design is selected for retail sale, you’ll share in those profits as well!*
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Read through a simple list of Design Features of Web 2.0.
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Found a website all about what inspires this one funky gal in Australia. "My name is Lyndsay, and this is my web-based scrapbook of things that inspire me: music, decor, design, fashion, paper crafts and whatever else takes my fancy!"
Head over to LMS: Design, Music, Decor and General Inspiration >>
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SeeSaw is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other goes down.
So what would a see-saw chair look like?
Dubbed as 'Swingers', this piece of furniture is in fact, a set of two back-to-back chairs scrambled into one. So, two people might never face each other while sitting on same chair.
Labels: artsprojekt, chairs, contest, furniture, inspiration
Design competition, web optimization and tips
Friday, February 20, 2009How many software companies that develop for Windows, choose to brand their websites to look like Vista? Well here are 22 websites that were designed to look like Apple.
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Design a Futuristic Athlete Graphic
Learn how to create a futuristic athlete graphic using a combination of layer masks, brushes, the pen tool and various blending options.
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50 Sure-fire Web Design Tips
Though one of them says, "Optimize your page to be viewed best at 800×600 (the most popular resolution at the time of this writing)." Which I don't believe is true.
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The SDC global design competition is in full swing around the world. This year, the grand final will coincide with the SDC international conference on 25-26 June in Goa, India and, to tie with the theme of the conference, the brief also incorporates an aspect of sustainable thinking within the original design and/or final design application. The main criteria for entries, as previously, will be to demonstrate the creative, imaginative and original use of color in either fashion or textiles; a full set of rules are available to download fro their site. *~*~*
And I'd like to introduce you all to "Design {for} Baby" which is a site I stumbled upon earlier this morning. It looks to be a review site where different writers discuss items they have received. They also host a number of giveaways.
All of the items they blog about are for babies and/or families. Their current giveaway is for a personalized wooden block from a company called Woodgroove.
I can tell you I'll definitely be subscribing to their feed and bookmarking the site.
Labels: contest, design baby, design tips, tutorials, web design
MyPrinties inspires creative children
Sunday, February 15, 2009Paper Art Creative has 16 pop-up card designs to share. The last set of creative animal paper craft, pop up card designs included: Sea Otter, monkey, teddy bear and sitting dog. Now that all the samples and designs are created they'll be working on sharing tutorials on how to make them.
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Printies(TM) toys are making their debut this week at the American International Toy Fair in New York City (February 15-18). Toy Fair attendees will be able to create their own custom Printies stuffed toys at Techno Source's hi-tech toy factory using home inkjet printers (Jacob Javits Center, Booth #3149). Printies Design Studio kits and refill packs will be available at retailers nationwide in fall 2009. The entire line will retail for under $20 and is appropriate for children ages 6 and up."What child wouldn't want to have the power to design their own toy and then watch it come to life exactly as they imagined it?" says Eric levin, president, Techno Source. "First, at MyPrinties.com, kids have access to powerful design tools that are simple to use, and completely kid-friendly. Then, thanks to our specially designed Printies fabric sheets, kids can print their creation right onto pre-sewn fabric templates that are ready to be stuffed. There is no cutting, no sewing, no gluing, and most importantly, no mess! The end result is a stuffed toy that looks amazing and is 100% created by the child."
The Printies online design studio at MyPrinties.com will offer kids an online experience that is simple, intuitive and entertaining. MyPrinties.com will offer children thousands of professional art assets and design tools like coloring, painting, and resizing effects. There, children will be able to start with a blank canvas or select from quick start templates that allow them to customize professional designs. Kids can customize everything from a Printies’ hair to its toes and can even add scanned photos and other images for truly limitless customization.
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If you think you can design Tennis Art for Ellessa's 50th Anniversary International Art & Design Competition, then head over to their contest page to download the packet and read up on the terms and conditions.
Labels: children, contest, myprinties, paper art, pop up cards
Weekend design links to ogle
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Kreative Garden posted 23 Wonderful Origami Designs. Interestingly enough there is even a portion of the post dedicated to web icons which are designed to look like origami including one for flickr. Plus there is an origami alphabet set which is very cool.*~*~*
Logo design resources, A List of 11logo design inspirational websites and poster art inspiration from Mieczyslaw Wasilewski - Poster artist.
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At the Melaka Campus the "Web Design Competition" and "Banner Competition" is back!!
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Oh My So Cute posted an entry about cute handmade soaps. They found them on flickr and then followed through to find they are items on sale at Love Lee Soaps.
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Crystal's Creations has been working on their website. Stop in for inspiration, designs, layout ideas and helpful hints, hidden freebies from the digital scrapbooking challenges in the Challenge of the day and a recipe from time to time also.
She also has freebies available throughout the site if you're a good enough detective, like the scrapbook freebie of Grandmas Kitchen.
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Meet the design team at Cuttlebug Challenges. Their blog states their goal is to provide you with inspirations to use the Cuttlebug to create and preserve your memories. Each week their Design Team members will bring you fun ideas to use in your own creations. We created this blog for the love of the Cuttlebug machine and all the things you are able to do with it :)
Labels: contest, crystals creations, cuttle bug, kreative garden, logo design, oh my so cute, origami, scrapbooking, soap
The Office Design a t-shirt contest and more
Monday, December 22, 2008
Dzine Blog has a list of 20 Beautiful Christmas Icon Sets. I for one love the Polar Express inspired set and am trying to think of something fun to use them with. Any ideas?*~*~*
BittBox re-released 18-high resolution Photoshop brushes for download today.
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In case you still need gift tags and packaging ideas, you can find a mother lode of options over at Tipnut, including a link to even more from Sugarloop.
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Get your creative juices flowing and create a one of a kind t-shirt design with The Office as its theme and submit this to NBC's The Office T-Shirt Design Contest.
The winner will be picked by the show's producers, but visitors of the site can help them narrow it down by voting for their favorites design. The top three most popular artwork will be shortlisted as "finalists" from which the producers can pick the best. The chosen design will be sold at the NBC Store.
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Tell me you have always wanted to know how to enhance a to-do-list... Well if you have then Query7 has a tutorial for you.
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And here is a fun link on making blurry background effects using CSS.
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I think you'll find this list interesting as well, 2008 Most Popular Design posts, Tutorials and Resources. In their showcase, you'll find a variety of articles and posts from the most interesting web-design/development-related web-sites published in 2008.
Labels: contest, css, icons, links, paper, t-shirt
Thrilling Thursday Designish Links
Thursday, October 16, 2008Have you ever wanted to show off your design talents and participate in the making of a premium WordPress theme? Thanks to the team over at Woo Themes, it looks like that is now a possibility with their new Woo Contest.
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Whoever is behind BustAName.com deserves a small shiny statue made of precious metals. BustAName makes you feel like you are always making progress towards an available name, which almost makes the process fun. Web usability guru Steve Krug once observed that we humans tend to "muddle through" the web - and we actually don't mind doing so - so long as we feel we are making progress towards our intended goal. BustAName will quickly give you that sense of moving forward towards a decent and available domain name as you creatively muddle through all the ones that are already taken.
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CSSCount list of Vintage, Retro and Modern Website Designs for web designers inspiration in no particular order.
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Diana Nock has been collecting sketches of The X-Men's Nightcrawler, and with nearly 200, has put the entire collection online: The Nightcrawler Sketchbooks. Here's one by Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.*~*~*
Fifteen students from The Art Institutes have been chosen to represent their school in The Humane Society of the United States' fourth annual Cool vs. Cruel fashion competition. The Cool vs. Cruel competition inspires design students enrolled in The Art Institutes' fashion design programs in its schools across North America to produce fur-free, animal-friendly fashions by using their own creativity to replace animal fur.
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From 16 October 2008 to 31 March 2009, London Transport Museum will be hosting a retrospective of a hundred years of outstanding posters design for London’s transport system.
Entitled "The Art of the Poster - A Century of Design", the exhibition will bring together 60 original posters along with photographs, letters, concept sketches and artist's materials to trace the history of London Underground's championing of design from the first poster commission in 1908.
Labels: comics, contest, css, domain, fashion, links, themes, wordpress
T-Shirt Design Competition
Tuesday, January 8, 2008"The current theme this time is: I Am Thinking..
To celebrate Allmightys one year anniversary, we are launching an open t-shirt design ideas competition. We want your ideas, about anything and everything. Show us what you are thinking, what interests you and what we should be thinking. Anything goes!"
Submission Deadline: 11th February 2008, 23.00 GMT
Once the winner is announced and the shirts are created portions of the proceeds will be given to cancer research. As for the winner's prize, it is pretty much ongoing, every 3 months commissions they have made on the sales of their t-shirts.
Sounds like a sweet deal to me, so jump on it!
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