Category Archives: Inspiration
25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration
Dainis GraverisAs logo designer You can often find moments, when You cannot think of anything good, but then such inspirational like this can become very handy. There are a lot of logo showcase sites You can inspire from and usually those sites list also all logo on popular categories, so You can see which logos and actually why there are so popular, sometimes artists even add their logo creation workflow there, allowing us to see what's really happening behind the scene. OK, now to the post - I found together 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help You become an expert as logo designer. Enjoy!
40 Web Design Artists And 102 Websites Worth Watching
I am continuing Top DeviantArtist worth watching series and now I stopped to the best web designers I could find. I only listed those artists, whom layouts I found to be really unique and inspiring, taking classical web design actually to the next level. These layouts are really artworks with amazing details, You usually don't see browsing through the web. Consider this article as inspirational article now and if You choose to watch those artists, then inspiration blasts in long term. At first I wanted to pick only 2 website examples from each artists, but there was several so amazing webdesigns, where I couldn't stop and picked 3 or 4 examples. Enjoy this list, hope this will help to get inspired in regular basis!
Logo Design Trends 2009 – Showcase
As requested I created this article and tried to select the most appropriate logos based on LogoOrange equitable prognosis, which I think is very appropriate. However these are just prognosis and suggestions, where to go and inspire You to new designs, we'll see however where those logo trends will lead us this year. I invite You to critique my picks and justify them, so we both can learn. Just read whole article and be sure to return here and check out examples of each trend. I picked logos from LogoPond and FaveUp logo showcase sites, where You can by the way get excellent inspiration sparks.
30 Deviant Digital Artists, Painters, Illustrators Worth Watching
I remember, how much people needs to get inspired on every project, when struggling for ideas or just for better feelings seeing something really beautiful. DeviantArt is the best place with unlimited artistic possibilities where to get inspired. I am starting these article series so You can watch deviant artists, who are really professionals in their sphere and also if You decide to watch them - You actually like RSS feed, You get their newest artworks delivered right to Your mailbox! I picked 2 artworks from every artist to show why I think You should follow him/her. I am planning also create these lists to web design artists, photographers etc. too, hope You'll evaluate and really enjoy these post series!
46 Sites To Get Inspired And Familiar With Hand Drawing Style
As You may notice in Year 2008 hand-drawn designs became one of the most popular creative trends, people tend to add more personal look and creative feel to their sites trying to stand out between traditional web 2.0 style, boxy layout sites. Hand-drawn design not always necessarily mean sketched or hand-drawn, there can be also creative things we use everyday like pencils, erasers, stamps, notepapers, stickers - could continue so on, but I will show examples doing through detailed research - so You could understand what's really represented with "Hand-drawn design". And actually this trend is very natural since many designers still sketch up their sites on the paper at first and only then start to design actual site.
Academy Student Photoshop Works: Poster, Journal and Logotype
Since I wrote an article and got really good feedback for creating new articles about my academy works, I talked with my course colleagues and asked them to send their works to me, so I can show You these. I am talking about lection called as Photoshop where we got 3 exercises to create a new logotype, journal (both sides) and poster. So again thanks to my course colleagues and here we got some great list with interesting works, different tastes, trends - just let me show You pictures, which can say more than words can do. Many works are created in Latvian language, so I think it's useful for You just to check out composition, illustrations and something like that.
30 Sources To Get Your Web Design Inspiration
If You are developing web designs, then You know there is times when You struggle without any ideas. That's the time when these web sites becomes handy. I collected nice list with some of the most known web gallery sites showcasing and listing well design sites into different categories, letting You to promote and demote all designs. Every site is a little bit different, so make sure to check everyone of these and pick up Your most favorite ones. Hope this list will help to get Your inspiration back.
40 Really Stunning HDR Car Photos, Resources And Tutorials
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range or HDRI - High Dynamic Range Imaging. This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from several different photographs ( usually three - with high exposure, low exposure and standard exposure) and usually merging them in Adobe Photoshop or any other image processing software for tone-mapping. HDR is becoming more and more popular with its stunning magical and surreal effects.
50 More Amazing 3D Typography works : Inspiration
Since previous article 38 Beautiful 3D typography works : Inspiration got really good results I decided to dig again even deeper and deliver even more amazing works and here You have - huge inspiration blast going to Your side!! Here is so much different and great techniques to look after, especially I liked that I found only one typography stuff with numbers "29" - it was great accent and showed that not only letters have their expression forms. Maybe this stuff is simple, but I found it important. Okay, enjoy the stuff and get inspired!!!
50 Awesome And Creative Business Cards
Business cards are cards representing company or individual bearing business information like company's or individual's name, address, e-mail, telephone number etc. Usually business cards are simple - black text on white background - including just main information and company's logotype, but there are many other creative business cards standing out and really taking attention. I took a special interest in these kind of business cards, so here is my list about the most awesome and creative business cards, I've ever seen.
