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Monthly Archive:
September, 2009

Digital light painting is the technique that can turn a dull image into an amazing and vibrant work of art that conveys a sense of movement and energy. This effect nearly always works well on subjects that are stationary or static but can be very difficult to produce on animated subjects such as people. It does take a very skilled hand to digitally paint a person with light, this is were Tony Ariawan comes in and excels.

This is week four of our weekly Twitter design resource round-up. This post showcases the best design related links that we have found and Tweeted in the past week. We love new, fresh and original resources. It could be something inspirational, a cool tutorial, a great and useful resource, or even just a damn good read. If you have any cool links that meet this criteria, to not hesitate to send them to us here…

Thunderbird as a stand alone email client is not really that powerful, yet it can be useful for basic and not business use. What if you wanted more? What if you wanted a free alternative to the many overblown, commercial email desktop applications, can it be done? Of course it can. With the added inclusion of the many freely available extensions and addons it can bring this basic desktop email application many steps closer to becoming a viable alternative to the very powerful Microsoft Outlook or any other overblown and expensive email app.

There has been a vast improvement on new web design launches this week, what a difference a week makes. The major stand outs for me have been Hello from Carsonified and the Design is Kinky Studio, CSS and Flash design at its best.
Thanks for all the recommendations, keep theme coming.

This week, two of our lucky readers can win as a first prize 250 metallic silver or gold plastic cards with black imprint on both sides (a value of $325), and as a second prize, 50 cards($155 value). All courtesy of Short Run Cards.
All you have to do is leave a comment below telling us what you would use cards for, its that simple. What are you waiting for?

Visual illustrators, in the past, were never ever mentioned in the same breath as traditional or fine artists, and they have consistently came second best in comparison with traditional graphic designers. Times have changed, and the exciting and fresh art of illustration is now firmly recognized as an art, and is gaining constant popularity, especially with young, adventurous and creative artists.

After putting in all of the time, and perhaps money, into your Wordpress website or blog, its now time to secure and protect it from outside enemies and general bad guys: hackers, spammers and all round tossers.
If your WP development knowledge is limited, your best option is to download and install plugins. They are easy to install and manage and will give you all the power and security you could ever hope for. Of course, no plugin is powerful enough to protect you from everything, we can only minimize the possible intrusions.
Below, we have twenty plugins that will help you protect your Wordpress installation.

This is week three of our weekly Twitter design resource round-up. This post showcases the best design related links that we have found and Tweeted in the past week. We love new, fresh and original resources. It could be something inspirational, a cool tutorial, a great and useful resource, or even just a damn good read. If you have any cool links that meet this criteria, to not hesitate to send them to us here…

High quality web designs have been a little bit thin on the ground this week. Is it web designer holiday season? No one told me. Anyway, these are our favorites designs from the past week. Thanks for all the recommendations, keep theme coming.

Your search for free Vector graphics is over. Below we have compiled a list of the best free web sites to freely download Vectors, most of the sites don’t qualify into a category, we’ll call them general, but in the second half of the post you will find specialized resources dedicated to vector logos, brands, cartoons and icons.

If you are looking to give your readers the option of a little bit more information or optional extra navigation, a great solution is to use Tooltips. Tooltips are a “common graphical user interface element, that are used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer…

Is the mobile operating system Android a threat to the iPhones high standing in the marketplace? Not quite, but it is going to be. The only phones that Android is available on are the G2 Touch, HTC G1, Samsung 7500, HTCMagic and most recently, the HTC Hero (which I bought).It has been gaining popularity slowly, but surely.

This is our weekly post showcasing the design related links that we have Tweeted in the past week. We love to Tweet new, fresh and original resources. It could be something inspirational, a cool tutorial, a great and useful resource, or even a damn good read. If you have any cool links that meet this criteria, to not hesitate to send them to us here…

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs. Thanks for all the recommendations, keep theme coming.
Send us a recommendation for next weeks Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration (for our review), by clicking here…

A business card is the most important tool any designer (or businessman) should have. It delivers the brand of your company and, most importantly, it represents YOU as a creative professional. It gives your potential client a glimpse into who you are, what you can do and your level of professionalism. Lets be honest, high quality work and reasonable pricing do not always speak for its self, but professionalism always does. That is what a client is looking for, someone they can rely on, trust and ultimately deliver the project they require. That is what your business card must reflect.

A month ago we ran a competition to win a free book called jQuery UI 1.6: The User Interface Library for jQuery. Clearly, with jQuerys popularity and current cool factor, a lot of people wanted this book. It was simple to enter, all you had to do was leave a funny comment writing why you really, really wanted the book.

This is our new weekly post showcasing the design related links that we have Tweeted in the past week. We love to Tweet new, fresh and original resources. It could be something inspirational, a cool tutorial, a great and useful resource, or even a damn good read. If you have any cool links that meet this criteria, to not hesitate to send them to us…

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