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25 Awesome Textured Websites for Your Inspiration

bmackler — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:44:21 +0000

Textures aren’t new in the web design realm but they are as popular as ever. When you use texture as a design element on a website that adds depth to your page and creates greater interest. When looking at today’s inspiration you will see that texture doesn’t necessarily have to be found only on the background, but can be achieved on the logo, navigation or content areas as well.

Lets take a look at some very impressive texture-based websites for your inspiration. We hope that this post will provide you the inspiration you have been looking for when working on your next idea. In this showcase you will find 25 great examples of textured websites using minimalistic, clean, and grunge textures.

Etta Book

Best Textured Websites

Justin Cosgrove

Best Textured Websites

Jolena

Best Textured Websites

Ryan Scherf

Best Textured Websites

Bord

Best Textured Websites

Bright Creative

Best Textured Website

Kyle Kramer

Best Textured Websites

1Love

Best Textured Websites

Mogie’s Pub

Best Textured Websites

SpreadT

Best Textured Websties

Rx Balance

Best Textued Websites

Corvus

Best Textured Websites

Head to Heart

Best Textured Websites

The Spray Studio

Best Textured Websites

More than 20 Inspiring, Creative and Memorable Advertisements for Non Profits

bmackler — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:04:56 +0000

As time goes on, more and more ad agencies, designers and advertisers are taking bigger risks and in turn reaping the awards of extremely creative, though provoking and memorable advertisements. These ads pull you in, cause you to remember the product and much of the time make you buy it.

This creativity is not limited to product advertising and is often done in the world of non profit very successfully, by selling a concept or a cause. Today lets take a look at more than 20 Creative and Memorable Advertisements for Non Profits. They are thought provoking, original and extremely creative. Drop us a line and let us know what you think of them

German Animal Protection Ad

Best Non Profit Ads

World Wildlife Foundation

Best Non Profit Ads

Wildlife at Risk

Best Non Profit Ads

Homeless Awareness : Women

Best Non Profit Ads

Victim Support

Best Non Profit Ads

Vancouver Aquarium

Best Non Profit Ads

Wildfires Burn More Than Trees

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UNICEF – Child Labor

Best Non Profit Ads

Overcrowding

Best Non Profit Ads

Shared Responsibility

Non Profit Ads

Australia Drive Safe Campaign

Non Profit Ads

Lung Cancer Foundation

Non Profit Ads

Motor Accident Commission

Non Profit Ads

World Wildlife Foundation – Emergency

Non Profit Ads

Fur Free

Non Profit Ads

IUCN

Non Profit Ads

Calgary Canada – Food Bank

Non Profit Ads

Beitecha – Anorexia

Non Profit Ads

Earth Love

Non Profit Ads

Ready New York – Readiness Challenge

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AMREF – Clean Water in Africa

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Amnesty International – Death Penalty

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Amnesty International

Non Profit Ads

People in Need

Non Profit Ads

20 Must Have iPad Apps for Designers and Creative Types

bmackler — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:45:52 +0000

In today’s mobile, on the go society, you will frequently see people working away from their desk using their laptops, smart phones and possibly even their tablets. Apple, the most popular of all tablet makers has developed an entire niche out of the potential productivity (and fun) that can be found in their iPads. While the time has not yet come to completely ditch your workstation, iIf you’re a web designer you don’t need to be tied down to it all time. Fire up your iPad and take a look at these amazingly creative and productive apps that you should start using. Most of these apps are also great for those who aren’t professional, and just like to play around.

The next time you are away from your desk and have a few minutes to kill, instead of launching Angry Birds, get some work done. Today lets take a look at 20 must have iPad apps for designers and creative types.

Adobe Ideas

The Adobe® Ideas mobile sketching software app is your ideal companion for the drawing software you love, including Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe Photoshop®. Easily sketch using vectors, layers and color themes.

iPad Apps

Sketchbook Pro

Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

iPad Apps

iThoughts HD

This app allows you to visually organize your ideas and thoughts in a a very easy to use interface.

iPad Apps

TouchUp

TouchUp brings creative photo editing to iPad, enabling anyone to make common adjustments and create captivating art with their photos. TouchUp has over a dozen effects which can be applied in layers to your photo.

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Penultimate

“The ultimate app for iPad. Stylish, powerful, and easy to use, Penultimate encourages you to take notes, keep sketches, or work through your next breakthrough idea– whether you’re in the office, on the go, or home on the couch.

iPad Apps

Phaidon Design Classic

Encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier and many more. Presented in a beautifully rendered, 3D environment, the application has been built to take full advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen and advanced capabilities of iPad.

iPad App

iDesign

“Precision 2D vector drawing & design in an intuitive and user friendly interface for the iPad and iPhone / iPod Touch.”

iPad Apps

PhotoForge2

PhotoForge2 is a must have app for any photographer: easy enough for beginners to start getting creative, yet powerful enough for the professional on the go.

iPad Apps

iMockups

iMockups for iPad is the PREMIERE mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects.

iPad Apps

ArtStudio

ArtStudio is a professional drawing / painting application. It uses advanced mathematics to attain the highest level of quality, at the same time offering incredible performance achieved through numerous code optimizations. It still remains a fantastic tool for beginners – it contains drawing lessons showing step-by-step instruction on drawing various types of images.

iPad Apps

Wondershare iDraft

“iDraft is a simple, easy to use notebook for iPad. You can draw a picture, make a record for a conference, or just write down what you have in your mind with iDraft.”

iPad Apps

Brushes

Brushes is a popular painting application designed from scratch for the iPad touch. Paintings produced with Brushes have appeared on the cover of The New Yorker on numerous occasions. It has now been redesigned to take full advantage of the larger screen offered by the iPad. Featuring an advanced color picker, high quality brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device

iPad Apps

iFontMaker

“iFontMaker is the first font editor exclusive for iPad. With the touch interface, your 100% original hand typeface can be done in 5 minutes. You can email the typography or convert it into a TTF file available in all applications such as Adobe CreativeSuite, Microsoft Office for Mac and Windows, and also in your web site as a web font!”

iPad Apps

Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express software lets you use simple gestures to quickly edit and share photos from your mobile device. Enjoy having your photo and video library right in your hand — without wasting your device’s valuable storage space.

iPad Apps

App Designer for iPad

“Design interfaces for iPhone applications, on your iPad! Wireframe a screen on the go, and e-mail it to a friend or business partner with a single tap.”

iPad App

SketchyPad

We are proud to offer you a new app for website sketching and apps interface making, including iPhone and iPad apps. This app will make designers, programmers, interface designers life much easier. Easy-to-use interface and a lot of various stencils will help you to mockup any web sites and apps interfaces.

iPad Apps

Layers

Layers for iPad offers a balanced set of painting tools completely redesigned for the iPad’s large, crisp display. With high-quality brushes, an eyedropper, a smudge tool and an eraser, Layers provides the tools you need to create great art.

iPad Apps

Web Designer Magazine

Web Designer is the premier magazine for aspiring online creatives and industry professionals. The monthly title offers cutting-edge practical projects spanning XHTML, CSS, Flash and WordPress as well as hosting features and interviews with the web community’s most influential people. Each issue also has a dedicated Industry section covering news and views from the trade, website showcases featuring the finest design talent.

iPad Apps

Computer Arts

“Computer Arts, the Italian magazine dedicated to digital design and computer graphics, is now available as an iPad App. Read our tutorials on Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Illustrator and many more, discover our features about the world of design you love and how you can make money with your skills, and learn how the professionals create their masterpieces.”

iPad Apps

Gusto

Gusto was created to embrace the workflow of web development on the iPad. Quickly identify your project with a beautifully generated thumbnail of your website. Open your project and download multiple files and folders at a time from your FTP or SFTP server. Gusto allows you to open multiple documents in tabs for faster navigation. After editing, preview your document locally to quickly see your updates. When it’s time to make your changes live, transfer your documents via the built-in FTP/SFTP client or the easy to use document publishing.

iPad Apps

25 Examples of Beautiful Fall Photography For Your Inspiration

bmackler — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:40:12 +0000

Perhaps the most colorful season of the year, Autumn is a wonderful time to find color and composition inspiration. In certain regions of the world, landscapes look as if they are literally painted by an artist with vivid colors. These photos are the perfect answer for those frustrating days when you are not sure about which go best together. You can’t go wrong with what you see below, besides being beautiful, if it is good enough for mother nature it is good enough for us.

As the weather changes, the temperatures start to drop, the colors are spectacular and the subjects extremely varied. Today lets take a look at 25 examples of beautiful fall photography that will give you inspiration.

Be sure to leave us a comment telling us which you like best

Fall Photography

25 Design Tutorials That Will Help You Create Better Posters

bmackler — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:46:17 +0000

The art of designing print material, including posters and ads, even as practice is a great way to enhance your overall skills. It is essential to constantly review technique and learn new Photoshop tricks. If you are interested in web or any graphic design in general, most of these techniques are adaptable and will come in handy as time goes on. It is vital that you also have the right place to take care of your poster printing

Today, lets take a look at 25 awesome design tutorials that will help you create professional posters and ads as you learn essential techniques that you can use on your future projects.

Retro Space Poster

Poster Tutorials

Create a Retro Urban Gig Poster

Steam Engine Poster

Poster Tutorials

Rock n’ Roll Gig Poster

Poster Tutorials

Vector Political Poster

Poster tutorials

Blend and Mask a Great Poster

Poster Tutorials

Inception Style Poster

Poster Tutorials

Stencil Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorial

Retro Ski Poster

Poster Tutorials

Iconic Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorials

Stylish Club Poster Tutorial

Poster Tutorial

Psychedelic Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Swiss Air travel Poster

Poster Tutorials

Dexter Poster in Photoshop

Poster Tutorials

Rock n’ Roll Poster

Poster Tutorial

Grunge Retro Poster

Poster Tutorials

3D Lettering Effects for Posters

Poster Tutorials

Dramatic Sequence Movie Poster

Poster Tutorials

Beer Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Terror Movie Poster

Poster Tutorials

3D Color Explosion

Poster Tutorial

Retro Typographic Poster

Poster Tutorial

Minimalist Poster Design

Poster Tutorials

Geometric Poster

Poster Tutorials

Fantasy Poster

Poster Tutorials

Awesome Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

bmackler — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:51:15 +0000

A good imagination is all you need, no need for Photoshop or a high end SLR camera. You can make an object appear farther away, close up, larger or smaller than it actually is using creative placement of the elements in the scene and proper camera angles. This technique is used primarily in photography, film-making and architecture.

Forced perspective manipulates visual perception by scaling an object where it harmonizes with other elements within the field of vision and results in a dramatic optical illusion.

Today lets take a look at some awesome examples of forced perspective photography for your inspiration.

Be sure to leave a comment and let us know which is your favorite.

Salar de Uyuni

Forced Perspective

Bokeh

Forced Perspective

Skol

Forced Perspective

Coffee Cup

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Children Stealing Large Island

Forced Perspective

Speilen

Forced Perspective

G0d’s Canvas

Forced Perspective

Must Have Stepped in Some Manure

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

What Amazing Little Creatures

Forced Perspective

Pur Vida

Forced Perspective

Catch Hand

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

Forced Perspective

It’s Too Big For the Hole

Forced Perspective

Evrenye Fighter

Forced Perspective

Collection of Creative and Beautiful Brochure Designs For Your Inspiration

bmackler — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:07:43 +0000

The purpose of a brochure is to inform the customer about the products or services you offer. Brochures can be used to emphasize the fact that you offer better solutions than your competitors. Your brochure will act as a first impression of your company for many, hopefully leading them to have interest in your services. This post will show many examples that may help you the next time you have a brochure printing project.

In our lifetimes we have all gone through hundreds upon hundreds of brochures, the majority of which were most likely boring, unmemorable and similar in style - book-like, overly wordy and generally dull.

Today lets take a look at more than 30 creative and beautiful brochures for restaurants, stores, organizations and the public sector that shatter that mold.

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Design Brochure

Brochure Design

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Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Bina

Brochure Design

Chili’s Brochure

Brochure Design

Texas Slang Field Guide

Brochure Design

Patisserie and Bistro

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Accordion Style and Dye Cut

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

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Brochure Design S. Kimari

Brochure Design

Brochure Design

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Brochure Design

Brochure Design

Collection of Awesome Single Letter Logos for your Inspiration

bmackler — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:44:28 +0000

As we have discussed before, Logo designing is a very difficult skill, with the designer trying to capture the complete essence of a product or company in a singular graphic. There are countless ways this can be achieved but sometimes simpler is better and way more effective. Logos have to carry the image of the organization and functions to create a memorable impression to the mind of the customer. It often includes a name or icon of a trademark such as shapes, colors and fonts that represents an organization.

Today lets take a look at a collection of awesome logos that were designed using single letters or shapes to form a single letter.

Single Letter Logos

Single Letter Logo

Single Letter Logos

Awesome Collection of Creative 404 Pages for your Inspiration

bmackler — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:08:10 +0000

Sometimes our website visitors end up on our sites in not exactly the way we intended and they get to a page that doesn’t exist or is currently down. Generally speaking this happens from missing content, changed link or an all together wrong link. When this happens, you get the dreaded 404 page. Often seen as a dead end, with the only way out is to backtrack, today it is taken as an opportunity to redirect, entertain and keep visitors engaged. Sadly, many web designers and developers still fail to jump on this and make the best out of the situation. There is alot of fun and creativity to be had with these pages

Having a good and smart error 404 page is perhaps as important as having great contents. Sometimes it may not be your fault visitors landed on error pages, but being able to keep him interested and then direct them back to another page is a perfect second chance to make sure they don’t leave.

Today lets take a look at an awesome collection of very creative 404 error pages. Hopefully these will give you some ideas for your own site. Remember, a 404 error is not the end of the road, its just the beginning.

404 Pages

404 Pages

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404 Page

There is a Special Place in Hell

404 pages

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Open Ended Adventure

404 Pages

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404 Pages

Red Hot Websites For Your Inspiration

bmackler — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:33:00 +0000

Red is seen as a very powerful and controlling color, which is associated with many concepts including warning, danger, love and ultimately passion. Generally, red is used on the web as an accent color to compliment an overall design since it can very easily be overwealming. But sometimes you will see red used as the primary color in a design to help it stand out from the rest and get noticed.

Today lets take a look at some Red Hot Websites that should provide you some much needed inspiration

Red Websites

Red Websites

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Corey Arnold Photography

Red Websites

Revolver