Archive for 'ShowCases'

Showcase of Abstract Art Illustration Portfolios

Posted on 10. Jan, 2010 by lava360.

We love illustrators as much as any design enthusiast does! In fact we love them a bit more :-] because we actually went trough a huge list and select a few with strange but outstanding works in order to showcase them here. Please feel free to comment on your favorites and suggest others.

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Showcase of Stunning Flash Sites

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by lava360.

We are going to present you some of the best Adobe Flash designs on the web. Here are our picks for the Best Flash Websites based on visual artistry, integrated sound, ease of use, and uniqueness.

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Showcase of Exceptional Horizontal Websites

Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

Horizontal websites are a great new way to create unique web experiences. Instead of the usual vertical scrolling with the majority of websites, designers have been looking at new ways for the user to view content. Mostly horizontal websites have been apparent in designer portfolios. With wide screen monitors becoming more and more popular, this [...]

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Really Great Examples of Typography

Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques.

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Super Stunning Art of Jose Emroca Flores

Posted on 30. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

Jose Emroca Flores is a senior concept designer at high moon studios, a gaming studio in San Diego, California. As often seems to be the case  with concept designers, his current projects are under a shroud of competitive secrecy, but you can see a nice range of his personal and professional work on his site.

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30+ Beautiful Digital Art of Geisha

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by lava360.

Geisha, Geiko or Geigi are traditional, female Japanese entertainers whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance. Traditionally, Geisha began their training at a very young age. Although some girls were bonded to geisha houses (okiya) as children, this was not a common practice in reputable districts. Daughters of geisha [...]

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Jaguar. The fastest supercomputer in the world

Posted on 21. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

Twice a year, the world’s top 500 supercomputers are announced. The most recent winner is the Jaguar which pretty much wiped the floor with the competition, managing a performance benchmark 69% above the IBM Roadrunner which came in second.

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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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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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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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Model Evolution With Makeup And Photoshop

Posted on 11. Nov, 2009 by lava360.

This is how Adobe Photoshop Make Models. If you want to choose your life partner, don’t judge her only with her pics because who knows, may be they are photoshoped

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