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Best YouTube Videos Made by Brands

Posted on 16. May, 2011 by JenniferMoline .

Marketing on YouTube takes more than spending large amounts of money. While many brands launch YouTube campaigns, only a select few have what it takes to gain fans and move up YouTube’s ranks. Here are the top ten: 1. Project for Awesome Touting good causes, this brand has made it onto YouTube’s homepage. It compiles [...]

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5 Music Album Covers Featuring Retro Typography

Posted on 09. Apr, 2011 by JenniferMoline .

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Typography is more popular now than ever before; it’s stylish, creative and isn’t limited to using words to express an idea – the shapes of the letters themselves can signal part of the message. The use of retro or classic fonts is a growing and very popular art form – especially in the creation of [...]

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10 Flickr Groups for Reflection Photography Inspiration

Posted on 18. Feb, 2011 by JenniferMoline .

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Want a new camera gadget that doesn’t cost hundreds or even thousands? Try a mirror or a puddle. Photographing reflective surfaces is a great way to show off skill and ingenuity. If you’d like your photography to play with point of view, explore multiple views of a subject, and use landscape reflection to show space [...]

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Blue in Web Design – 45 Inspiring Examples

Posted on 16. Jan, 2011 by Hilde Torbjornsen .

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We've recently shown you our picks of both red in web design and the use of strong earth tones. It seems a lot of designers find these collections inspiring in different ways, so this time we've had a look at blue. The color blue is often related to sky, water and referred to as a natural universal color. It can be used to have a design look both conservative and modern in combination with the right elements and typography.

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ShareCG: Tons of Free Resources

Posted on 14. Jan, 2011 by SmashingShare .

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What about a website that offers tons of graphic related resources? ShareCG is one of them, with thousands of resources in categories like tutorials, 3d models, materials, textures, animations, software, plugins, photography, poser stuff among others. All these resources for absolutely free and uploaded by their authors.

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124 Frozen Photos of Ice

Posted on 12. Jan, 2011 by SmashingShare .

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The folks at Gizmodo published 124 photographies for a new challenge: Frozen Ice. There are, without any doubt, some fantastic photos form landscape to spectacular and intriguing macro shots. The goog news for amateur photographers is that each photo has technical details like camera used, aperture, lens used, filters, etc. so you can have an idea of what was needed for that pretty ice shot.

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EXPOSÉ 9: Call For Entries

Posted on 11. Jan, 2011 by SmashingShare .

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Ballistic Publishing is proud to announce EXPOSÉ 9, the ninth edition of the premier annual artbook celebrating the creative talents of digital artists worldwide. EXPOSÉ is the digital art industry’s premier annual publication, featuring the finest digital artwork the world has ever seen.

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50 Inspiring Dark Web Designs

Posted on 04. Jan, 2011 by Hilde Torbjornsen .

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Web design showcases are many and they're a very popular way of getting new inspiration when you're trying to be creative with your own work. This time we've once again looked through hundreds of designs to find some of the best dark ones. These succeed using dark palettes to capture the viewers attention.

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Illustration Round up by talented artist Lou Simeone

Posted on 27. Dec, 2010 by SmashingShare .

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Illustration Round up by talented artist Lou Simeone Today, SmashingShare in association with Recave looks at the work of Lou Simeone, a talented illustrator.

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Getting Inspired for Christmas With 30 Pieces of Amazing Digital Art

Posted on 24. Dec, 2010 by Hilde Torbjornsen .

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Getting Inspired for Christmas With 30 Pieces of Amazing Digital Art Christmas is here and millions around the globe are preparing for a holiday season filled with a lot of joy and quality time with their families. We've decided to put together a collection of some inspiring art for you. Hopefully these great pieces can inspire you to get in the mood for the holidays, and maybe even have you create your own pieces?

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Illustrations, Character, Graphic Development by Petshopbox Studio

Posted on 21. Dec, 2010 by SmashingShare .

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Illustrations, Character, Graphic Development by Petshopbox Studio Petshopbox Studio is illustration studio based in Bandung, Indonesia. Established in 2001 as comic studio, we were managed to create 13 comic titles for Indonesian market. Based on market demand and industry situation, we decided to broaden our business scope. Now, we’re specialized on creating game assets, character design and icon design. We’re on process of developing our own character and icon design retail.

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40 Web Designs That’ll Make You Thirsty

Posted on 20. Dec, 2010 by Hilde Torbjornsen .

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40 Web Designs That'll Make You Thirsty If you're a web designer or another creative mind that think web designs can be really inspiring to look at, you'll hopefully find this showcase interesting. Websites can be divided into tons of different categories, a category for all sorts of niches and products, color categories, typography, use of textures or images, portfolios and on it goes. This means there's always a lot of different designs to have a closer look at, both good and less good ones.