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50+ Amazing Fall Images for Your Desktop From Flikr and Deviant

Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

Fall is a photographers dream season. It’s the time when nature explodes with color and misty mornings are whispering “Hey look at me, wouldn’t I make just the most amazing photograph”. Below are some stunning examples of this magical time of year.

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65 Hand Drawing Style Resources, Brushes, Icons And Tutorials

Posted on 01. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

As promised I finally finish my hand drawing related article series with this one. I categorized all resources so You can more easier navigate through. Here You can find the best resources You need to create hand-drawing style designs, artworks or websites. There are wood, cork and leather textures, various office brushes, photos, templates, icons [...]

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30+ High Resolution Amazing Wallpapers Part 1

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

A beautiful desktop wallpaper can significantly inspire and make Your coffee breaks a little more warmer with some eye-candy. I also tried to select and find high resolution wallpapers, but I was surprised, it was not easy – many people still forget to think about designers with huge monitor resolutions, I provided You with available [...]

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40+ Stunning Examples of a great redesign: Top Picks

Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

A run down of a collection of my favourite redesigns in recent years A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other [...]

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Digital Art and Photomanipulations by AZRainman

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

All working artists struggle to be more creative. Robert Lowell said “The painter’s vision is not a lens, It trembles to caress the light.” I got inspired from Retired young entrepreneur AZRainman, who’s is now working on his karmic balance sheet. His Digital art work and Photo manipulations are incredibly creative, and each expresses a [...]

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Some Worth Watching Traditional art by ~zalas

Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

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16 Realistic Character Design Illustrations

Posted on 17. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Take some 3D software and mix in some creative suite products and you have an unstoppable combination. While the end result produces a 2D image the fact that the base is built with programs like Zbrush allows you to create a new scene by simply changing the angle and maybe a slight re-posing. If this [...]

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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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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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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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