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30+ Inspiring Web Designs for designers

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

My personal list of 30+ websites that inspire creativity and web design. Most of my favorites are because of the simple grid based design, typography and layout (oh and don’t forget the great content!) Hope some of you find this list useful as I did! Design View / Andy Rutledge        

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15 features of Google Wave

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Google Wave is “a personal communication and collaboration tool” announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 27, 2009. It is a web-based service, computing platform, and communications protocol designed to merge e-mail, instant messaging, wikis, and social networking. It has a strong collaborative and real-time focus supported by extensions that can provide, [...]

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Advertisement Art of Mid-Century USA

Posted on 15. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Being the passionate I am, I decided to collect work of stylish beauty, preserving advertising and illustration art of mid-century America. Why? Because, if you’re looking for great artists, look first at the American mid-century ones. Remember those vintage ads, Comics. See those cartoons. Yes! What a quality! This is art! So for my learning, [...]

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30+ Web Design Artists & 99 Websites

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

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 [...]

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Theme Based Digital Arts and Painting

Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

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.

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List Of Highly Extensible: Photoshop Plugins

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Photoshop plugins are very powerful addons to Adobe Photoshop, which many people seem to forget. Plugins are small extensions to make Photoshop even more extensive while retouching photos, adding simple filter effects and more. I selected separate plugins and featured them, however there were also many huge collections of plugins, so it didn’t make sense [...]

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Exceptional Apophysis Tutorials

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Apophysis tutorial part separated in 3 parts for beginners, basic and advanced users. At the end of article You’ll find 2 more links, where You can continue Your research if You are serious about this program. It was real fun and interest compiling this article and through research I saw there are really a lot [...]

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Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Fractals are becoming more and more popular between designers and they have a good reason for it -with programs like Apophysis such fractal creation isn’t tiresome process, just play with settings, variables, scripts, plugins and get unbelievable results. At first I wanted to create one huge post with inspiration, tutorials and resources, but I reconsidered [...]

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Participate in National Competition of Smethwick Photographic Society

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Smethwick Photographic Society is one of the leading photographic societies in Great Britain. Today I’m presenting you the Photographic work of participants for National Competitions. Some of the most prestigious individuals in the photography world have been selected to judge a national competition. You can also participate in this competition.

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Warhammer Online Game Wallpapers

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

These are some screenshots from Warhammer Online turned into wallpapers. Except from some black touches near the edges they are completely unmodified. It really looks this good in game.

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Ajax Downloads Directory Ajax Free Scripts

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Ajax, sometimes written as AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML), is a group of interrelated web development techniques used to create interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Ajax, [...]

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40+ CSS Sprite Generator and CSS Image Sprites Tutorials

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Do you really understand CSS Sprite? The name might be a little misleading, because sprites aren’t little images like you might be picturing, a sprite is actually one big image. Have you ever seen the CSS technique where the “on” and “off” states of a button are contained within the same image and are activated [...]

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Creative Photo manipulation By Michael Oswald

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

There are a vast number of talented illustrators around the world but skill in art is only one side of the spectrum needed to be a professional artist. It also takes strong organizational skills, a sense of self motivation, and most importantly, a background in business. Michael Oswald is a varied artist and have all [...]

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Preview of New MSN Home Page

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Aiming to stay relevant, Microsoft is introducing a new look for its MSN.com home page. Although MSN gets far less attention than the company’s Bing or Windows Live efforts, the home page remains an important economic engine for Microsoft’s online business, as well as a significant source of search traffic for Bing.

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Strange & Funny Side of Photoshop

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Personally, I consider Photoshop Manipulation to be the best art form of the digital age. If executed well, Photoshop gives amazingly powerful results and can be a lot of fun, at the same time. There are countless interesting photoshopped images on net but most of them are old and seen many times. However, to leave [...]

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