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Helpful Resources for Graphic & Web Designers

Nur — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:27:23 +0000

How many times have you visited a Web site and thought that you could do a better job if only you had the knowledge and skills? Or perhaps you have a great idea for a Web site but don’t know how to get started?

What was once exclusively a task for professionals, Web designing, has become more accessible to amateurs, thanks to loads Web Designers. With the help of Online Web Designers resource, you will be able to design your own Web site like a pro.

Web design requires many programs to make a Website attractive and fun, including:
Using Web editors like Dreamweaver
Image editing tools like Photoshop elements
Drawing utensils like Illustrator
Background markup and scripting languages like HTML and CSS

After going through these links, I hope You will be able to create superb Web pages that will charm and impress all of your visitors! Ref. Web Design for Dummies.

1. 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

2. Design Knowledge Intermediary

3. Web Design Library

4. 75 Helpful Web Design Resources

Here’s a bunch of my favorite web design resources that I use everyday. The following resources have been a huge help to me and I highly recommend them. Whether you’re already a professional web developer or you’re just getting your feet wet there’s plenty of information that can help you.

5. Web Design Resources

6. Top 10 Sites for Web Designers

7. Top 15 Most Popular Website Design Websites | January 2010

8. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

Summary:
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.

9. The World’s Best Web Design

10. 27 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials

11. Web Design Tutorials

They have a quality collection of articles, tips, guidelines and tutorials on effective web site design. From web design tips & ideas to HTML, CSS Styles, Fireworks and Dreamweaver tutorials, you’ll find all you need to know about current web design trends right here.

12. A wall of design ideas, web trends, and tutorials

13. Design Tutorials

14. Good practices in design

Topics include HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Web Design & Style, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Accessibility, Usability, and Web Standardization.

15. Cool Homepages

16. Top Web Resources

17. Best Web Resources for Getting Organized

18. My 50 favorite design resources

There are thousands of design resources on the web which can lead to an overwhelming experience when looking for inspiration or ideas, so I created a list of resources that I use on a regular basis. Here is a list of 50 design resources that can be helpful to any designer or marketer.

19. 16 Best Web Design Galleries for Inspiration

In this article you’ll find 16 of the best and most popular web design galleries ranked in order by the number of votes

20. Designer forums

21. Web Design Trends For 2009

22. Best Designs

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design. TBD is usually updated every weekday, with the exception of holidays.

23. 10+ Sites To Add Amazing Effects To Your Photos

Trying to make your photos more interesting? Thinking about learning Photoshop to add some creative effects to images? How about achieving similar results by nothing more than point and click?

24. 22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop

Creative Digital Photography Inspiration

Nur — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:52:16 +0000

Art is the product of human creativity: a medium to create pleasure as well as express the conditions of life and feelings. Art also records history: who we are; what’s around us; and how we interpret life, feelings, and interpersonal interactions.

This concrete expression has come in many forms: prints, drawings, paintings, and sculpture. With today’s digital technology, however, the art form of photography reaches new creative levels, taking on new forms as people flock to this new digital medium.

In this article, I cover the selective work of Digital creative art form of photography.
Ref. Digital Art Photography For Dummies, All images are property of Digital artists and related Photographers. wparena.com is not responsible for the distribution of images. We are just displaying these images for inspiration for Digital Artists.

Design Professionals on WordPress

Nur — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:00:17 +0000

Sometimes words alone are not enough to convey a message. However, creating a Web page that includes both text and pictures is more involved than randomly inserting graphics on the page. You must strike a proper balance between information presented as text and information conveyed through images.
WordPress platform helping Graphic Professionals to convey and presenting their creativity.

True, a single picture can sometimes provide more meaning than ten Web pages of text. However, even the most meaningful images require a bit of explanation. WordPress giving the strength to Design Professionals to present their Design Work.

Across the Web, pages make extensive use of graphics. Unfortunately, many sites that offer great visuals lose impatient visitors who are not willing to sit through long download times.
Than WordPress came and now ruling the Web, specially Web Professionals providing their services through this stage. Here you will find lots of tremendous examples of Graphic Professional those are using WordPress.

1. Creative Ad Awards

2. Tavshan

3. Slav911

4. 2am Web Design

5. CSS Broadway

6. Minimalismi

7. Logo Nest

8. lbsquat

9. Professa Grafix

10. Lift

11. Elastika

12. Kidrobot Dunny

13. Flickrdesign

14. WeGraphics

15. BizThis

16. Custom WordPress Design

17. Onion Blogg

18. Hix Design Studio

19. PressCEO Design

20. Shocas

21. Usinagem Garcia Couto

22. Baia dos Golfinhos

23. CSS Religion

24. Media with Impact

25. Brian Casel

26. Pirata London

27. Cowlor Magazine

28. DNA

29. Logo Heroes

30. DAunion

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31. Johnson

32. Patagonia Creative

33. What the Frog

34. StyleProne

35. Go Media

36. reADactor

37. Lodjixmedia

38. Holster®

39. Web Design Hobart

40. Dapur Pixel

41. Dazmoob Portfolio

42. Phases Website

43. PSD Penguin

44. IOKON Media

45. Digital Motos

46. Design in the Raw

Theme Based Digital Arts and Painting

Nur — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:49:00 +0000

The impact of digital technology has transformed traditional activities such as painting, drawing and sculpture, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. Here I have collected few artist work which are story or theme based, hope you like their work.

1. Steampunk Myths and Legends(Stymphalian birds)

In Greek mythology, Stymphalian birds were man-eating birds with wings of brass and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and were pets of Ares, the god of war. Furthermore, their dung was highly toxic. They had migrated to Lake Stymphalia in Arcadia to escape a pack of wolves, and bred quickly and took over the countryside, destroying local crops and fruit trees. Ridding the land of these birds was one of Heracles’ Twelve Labors, and some sources claim the Stymphalian birds were the same avians that attacked the Argonauts.

2. The last tooth from Arthur

Once upon a time king Arthur did not want to go to sleep because of a problem with his tooth. His last tooth was wobbly. His son, who saw that his father was worrrying, asked him why he was so afraid to loose his tooth since he already lost a lot. King Arthur explained that he had a dream the tooth fairy was taking his last tooth. Since his childhood he was afraid of the tooth fairy.His son laughed and told the father:“This is just mythos and legend!“

3. strong monsters need strong teeth

The story is about the monster who has a big dream to be super monster or strong monster.but seem to be his dream never come true because he has only two small teeth and to be strong monster need strong teeth.

The idea with poster on the background is from Jawine Westland.

4. HUNTING SEASON

Between late autumn and early spring is the most exiting time for this species, because most temperate species of frogs reproduce and grow at this time. at this time they enjoy and take a break from fighting,no sword no armor no pain etc, they have a quite long tongue which they can move quickly, the frogs have no chance to run away,probably just if they´re lucky.

5. Marilena Mexi

In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of mythological entities in human female form. They were typically associated with a particular location or landform. Others were part of the retinue of a god, such as Dionysus, Hermes, or Pan, or a goddess, generally Artemis. Nymphs were the frequent target of satyrs.

Nymphs live in mountains and groves, by springs and rivers, and in valleys and cool grottoes. They are frequently associated with the superior divinities: the huntress Artemis; the prophetic Apollo; the reveller and god of wine, Dionysus; and rustic gods such as Pan and Hermes.

6. Gamayun

Gamayun is a prophetic bird of Russian folklore. It is a symbol of wisdom and knowledge and lives on an island in the east, close to paradise. Like the Sirin and the Alkonost, the Gamayun is normally depicted as a large bird with a woman’s head.

In his esoteric Christian-Buddhist cosmography Roza Mira, Daniil Andreev maintains that Sirins, Alkonosts, and Gamayuns are transformed into Archangels in Paradise.

more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamayun

7. Newborn – The Mother of Future

“The Mother of Future”
About the theme;
“Sees the future, will exist always life with each way”
I believe that with each way will exist life in the planet for always with each way, the mother symbolizes the fertility and the wings that I added the eternity. The mother or is person or Robot it will always bring in the world life.

8. Baalhu

She is Baalhu, one of the Ancients. Legends say she dwells in the mountains, waiting for the brave and desperate to seek her out. She richly rewards those who find her, granting them anything they desire… and taking their souls as payment. Before they die, those mortals are forced to return to her. She places their souls into the bodies of bluebirds, cuts out the heart – - staining their chests red – - and sets them free into the world to be her eyes and ears.

Never tell a secret when there are bluebirds nearby. She might hear you.

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=162099

9. Lathgerta

10. Spectacular2d-”dragon Crash”

On searches of the gone dragon by name “Zigfried”, left the king of hamsters “Sigismund fourth”
the leader of the order of iridescent hamster (this the ancient cult of the hamster- fanatics considering itself the true soldiers of light). After taking with itself the most loyal soldiers: daring Samurai “Hairy ear” the powerful soldier “BIGtooth”, fearless and courageous kamikadze “Hamsterfly” even one large “squirrel the horseman”. they left in the way! By the rumors reached from the adjacent kingdom, dragon was noted next to the castle located in the possession of Sigismund’s old friend – lord “Gopher”!
At that time the lord Gopher was in the military march, and using this, dragon Zigfried after breaking one of the towers of the castle reached the wine cellar and randomly trampled the granary….
As you already know, granary for the hamsters is this sacred thing almost the same as statue of the godly iridescent rodent, After this news our courageous heroes began crazy furious, But to capture dragon, it is sufficiently difficult….therefore after developing artful plan… they got to work ….sequential time after flying in into the already native wine cellar, Zigfried is opened the bottle of “Chateau Tour Verite, Bordeaux ” but instead of the cool and astringent wine, there is something small and furry fell on him, and suddenly engage him directly in the nose, from the shock and the weekly hangover, dragon jumped out from the tower and even could not fly further events you can see on the engraving of16 centuries completed by one of the participants, (hamsterfly) he are only one, who had luck not to arrive in hospital….

11. Fatamorgana

After a long time the answer to ‘Is there other sentient life in the universe?’ has come, and Earth doesn’t like the answer.

The Zeron are here, they are high energy, featureless shape-shifters. More than that, much like lichen they are the fusion of two species, to produce a new Zeron an ‘energy seed’ has to combine with another being, and humans have the highest compatibility.
Are they ‘evil conquerors’? Would it be right to condemn them to extinction? Is there another solution?

These human maquis aren’t concerned with
philosophical dilemmas, they believe they are fighting for human survival. Often, though, things aren’t how they look.

12. Spartan warriors

A tribute to the film 300. Located in thermopylae appear Toni Pérez, his wife Lidia Miralpeix and their dogs. They have killed thousand of persians and now they are taking a break.

13. Fatty shiny person is Tzar Berendey

14. ARCVS matte painting

there is a an ancient structure looks like a collosal bridge.It’s unknown that who built it and who lived in it. But this bridge was a city itself, with narrow corridors, archways. But it’s ancient and now deserted. A new civilization built their cities near this bridge structure and also discovered it’s ancient halls. Maybe they use it for food and weapon stock, or maybe homeless use it for shelter.

15. The ‘SECRET’ Secret Agent

The secret agent ignored the explosions. He ignored the fire… the screaming… the blaring horns… the half naked woman clutching his bulging muscles. Time stood still.
Mustering all of his internal fortitude and visualization skill, the agent triumphantly tuned out the world and focused solely on his objective.

He ignored the witnesses. He became deaf to the angry voices. Threats bounced off of his ego like bullets hitting Kevlar. The laughter bounced too. Nothing could penetrate his mental defenses and reveal his secret identity. Nothing! Not even the reality that all of this, everything, existed only in one exotic locale… his IMAGINATION.

16. Rabbit Menace

Wolves and Rabbits are disputing the World.
For a long time Wolves ruled all the territory but the rabbits rise as opponents to the dictators, apparently with success.
Wolves suffered terrible losses in battle and heard rumors that the rabbit army constructed a menacing long range shooting vehicle code name Wolf Redeemer to conquer the World, capable of bringing a despair storm to whatever troops that its cannon is pointed, so wolves sent a highly trained and mean agent to gather all information possible even if that costs his own life.

17. Mileena the beautiful headhuntress and her magic violin

I don´t need to tell a story here, let the image speak instead

18. TITAN

Expressing a warrior looks very strong and brutal.

19. King of the Hill

20. Alice

It shows some sort of an alternative adventure of Alice in Wonderland: in order to be allowed to stay in the world behind the rabbit hole she has to marry one (or maybe more, guess they aren`t that pedantic in Wonderland^^) of the inhabitants there

21. THE METAGAIA

The Characters’ name is The Metagaia, and one of her abilities is to amplify light through the alien chlorophyl in her body and expel it as plasma at varying heats, varying concussive force, or a combo of the two. The manipulation of such allows her to amiably grow exotic plant life or destory entire planets depending on her whim and how much light she absorbs. Given her gentle nature and respect for life she prefers the former rather than the latter unless provoked.

22. Golem

Golem is an ancient hebrew name for a magical creature that is created from clay and earth, then brought to life through the use of kabbalistic incantations and prayers.
Throughout history , stories of the Golem have been known, in biblical literature, jewish folklore, and even into modern day film and literature, one of the most famous versions being Mary Shellys , Frankenstein.

23. Chandra

Chandra. Is in reference to chandra the hindu goddess of the moon, and fertility. and similar to other ancient mythological goddesses, such as Ishtar and Diana.

24. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

25. Bio-Mechanic Allegory

Critic and Comment most welcome.

Creative Photoshop Human Body Photo Manipulation

Nur — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:12:20 +0000

Photo manipulation is the coolest things to do with Photoshop and its get crazy if designers do experiments on human body. Joining a monkey’s head to a human body can be tricky, but that’s no problem to Human Descent, a great “digital geneticist”.
In this collection some of these are so real that one can almost say it’s the true thing. For more of their manipulations, just make a visit to their photostream. You’ll have scary feeling and fun for sure!

1. Ultradialectics: Firestarter

Ultradialectics: Rhinoman

Back to Earth by garthim

Feel my rage

What color is death

Guardian Angel

Cyborg by garthim

Taken by Sea by garthim

2. Damnengine: Held By Nothing

The Circle Forward

3. Brain Twisting

4. Iwona Sbeijn Eeritrocite

5. The Sleep of Reason

6. Jasonfelix

7. Pedrojulien

8. Cargo Collective: Face

9. Electric Medusa

10. Into 1: Spelling

11. BATTLE ANGELS

12. jesar-one: Crescendo

13. Diami Cd Player

14. Diamante Murru

15. Tom Miatke’s Classic

16. CULT by kharlamov

17. Tony Dorio

18. ALBERTO SEVESO

19. Zach Bush

20. Benjamin Delacour: Vision

21. Zach Bush created for Slashthree’s Artpack: Order vs. Chaos

22. Cristiano Siqueira’s Metamorphosis

23. David Waters’s The Struggle

24. Pawel Nolbert’s Chocolatopia

25. Kidults Machina magazine

26. Nikon Coolpix Colour DNA

Nikon Coolpix Colour DNA

European Campaign, Spring/Summer 2009

27. Roberto Gamito’s

28. Hannibal Chew: Can You Dig It

29. D-image studio

30. Hand-made Mysticism

31. Alberto Raviglione

32. Ethiopia, Mursi people

Ethiopia, a Mursi woman with the traditional lip plate, Lower Omo Valley. This is real photo.

33. Laquatus: The Creative Mind

34. R’n’B Group 3Some

35. Roberto Gamito’s Summer Experiments

Telephone man

Creative Advertisements That Inspired You

Nur — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:20:24 +0000

Being a graphic designer, it’s really tough job to make things look beautiful or cool or cutting edge. Our job is to solve problems. Problems such as how to make complex information easier to understand and navigate, how to communicate a concept more effectively or how to get someone to think more deeply about an issue or to persuade them to take some action.
Whether it’s an ad, a book jacket, a brochure or a web site interface, good design and good ideas solve problems. I have complied a best advertising work of different designers and I hope you must like them.

1. Collector: sugarrhyme.com

2. Pringle’s ads

3. ASUS Advertising

Copyright p3xelart

4. Adidas Advertising

5. Heavy Duty

6. Kleenex: Soap dispenser

Tagline: “Got flu?”
Advertising Agency: Trampolim Comunicação, João Pessoa, Brazil
Copywriter: Bob Ferraz

7. The Selby Poster | Jonathan Zawada

This poster was created by Sydney based artist Jonathan Zawada from photographs on The Selby. The signed and numbered posters are limited to an edition of 275. The poster is 24″ x 35″, offset printed in the USA on Glossy paper.

8. Olympus Ad

9. UNIONAIR Ad: Shoot the prices

10. Pimp Your Feet C.A.T

11. Orange Brief

12. Photo of the Night

13. Mehmet Turgut

14. Delphic Cherub: Artfolio of Simon Schulz

15. iPod play your music

16. Coke PL

17. Coke: Happiness Factory

18. Coca Cola Light

19. Oresteia Theatre Poster

20. Helados yogurt planet

21. Natural Photoshop

22. Ouwenz

23. When The Shit Hits The Fan

24. M&M’s: Vote Blue

Creativity comes from the spark of an idea: but what causes the spark? It can be a word or an image, an idea or event: and sometimes different sparks can lead to the same result.

25. Human Machine

26. Lee Ads by Troyt Coburn

27. Firs: DKNG Studio

28. More Go Graphics

29. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

6m long poster designed for a clothing store in Merksplas, Belgium. No direction from the client, total confidence from him, pure caviar. Photo shoot: Hans Huylebroek