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
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
Alex Wilhite Oil Paintings; Plus Some Challenges and Inspirations
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Alex Wilhite has been deaf since birth. He has been painting when he was four years old. He attended to Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis at age of 4 until 15 years old. He was awarded B.F.A. from the University of North Alabama and M.F.A. in painting and art history from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He has had several solo and group exhibitions all over the USA, Japan, and Europe include the White House under President Clinton.He now has an Etsy shop which just opened on February 2, 2009.
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Would you like to get over 1,000 icons for free?
The best of best collections of free icons collected mainly from the icon gallery sites and interesting articles. Webbyarts is glad to display the best list of icon resources for free icon set download. The download icon set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.
They also have a post with "31 Spectacular Logos for your Inspiration" to boost up your inspiration.
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Web Designer Depot has a post with 13 iPhone Apps said to be perfect for Graphic Designers. The applications help with task management, enhance photos, sketching and a whole lot more.
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ARRL announces second homebrew challenge
In 2009, ARRL ups the ante in the Second Homebrew Challenge by upping the power limit to 50 W. All entries are due no later than February 28, 2010.
"Low power (QRP) operation is fun, but often a little more power is even more fun," said ARRL Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR.
"For our new challenge, we are asking readers to design, or adapt a published design (with appropriate credit), and build a 50 W amplifier to follow a 5 W/40 meter transceiver. This could be used behind one of the radios from the original challenge, or from other QRP radios at similar power level."
There will be two cash prizes for this challenge. In addition to the prizes, the winners will receive the usual QST page rate for published articles.
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Design Is Mine has intrigued me again with their Flickr Friday piece from yesterday. It's called Flickr Friday: Into a Story Book.
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Greenlaunches is offering another chance to win a stylish eco-friendly gift for its ardent readers as well as all those who care for our planet and environment.
Participate in the contest to walk away with a chic, green bag by Matt & Nat.
All you have to do is suggest interesting and innovative ideas to recycle plastic bottles. Anybody from any corner of the world can share their passion for a greener life and grab this $300 bag recycled out of plastic bottles.
Labels: alex wilhite, apple, challenge, design is mine, Etsy, flickr, icons, logo design, painting, web design
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
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