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?

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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.

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    Thrilling Thursday Designish Links

    Thursday, October 16, 2008

    Have 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.

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    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.

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    Fantastic Friday Links

    Friday, September 5, 2008

    I'm too tired to do my own post, so I'm surfing around and finding some fantastic Friday links for you design people! It'll be fun, come treasure hunting with me.

    So you want to display Flickr Group in Word Press? Well, Pixel2Life has a tutorial focusing on that very topic.

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    Interested in learning more bout Javascript? I know it is a daunting lesson to learn but it can be fun. I recommend this article "JavaScript classes for n00bs."

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    For some reason cute vector graphics are a favorite of mine. In fact, I save them and many times print them out. It is true, my office walls are decorated with many a vector animal of cuteness. For a look at 70 Cute and Cheeky Vector Animals, click here.

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    Design Spotter had a quick bitty about a indoor/outdoor white sofa which has contemporary appeal with modern flair. The designer is Christian Vivanco from Mexico and the sofa is tres chique, so check it out.

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    Have you ever wanted to know how to build your own Dawn Simulator? Well, MetaFilter posted a DIY Dawn Simulator just for you.

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    Last but not least, don't forget to head over to the CrazyLeaf Design Blog for their list of the Best Photoshop Resources from August 2008.

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    Suh-ooooper design links

    Tuesday, August 26, 2008

    Hate to break it to you but this article "Cross-platform Table-free Web Design," is a couple many years too late...

    And so, there is a contest ongoing called "Tees for the People" and here is a link to possible Barack Obama contenders. One of which is shown here; they all have very similar features.

    And then my friends, we have a link to more links with WOORK and their Daily inspiration: 10 Websites to get design inspiration.

    Just in case you were wanting to speak at the Game Design Expo...they are looking for individuals to do just that.

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