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The decade is almost over and the web design trends and standards are very change and enhanced now. The Use of CSS and the new HTML 5 is here now. At the end of this decade, the web designing standards changed with a rapid speed.  New and advanced designin and development tools available in the market and the look and feel of the websites are far better, easy to browse and eye catching.

But did you ever imagine that how the websites on the web take there start and how they look like 10 years ago? We pick some of the famous and biggest sites on the web and find there old website designs for you information. Its like a before and after story of these websites but the final result is more healthy. The websites gain more mass and health with more detailed and well managed content and makeup and web design cosmetics make these websites more beautiful and sexy looking. When you look these websites old look and compare them with today’s design, the feeling is obviously very strange and some of these old design make you laugh.

But this redesign process is still going on and new web technologies and design standards are continue to give the websites a new look and feel.  Lets see how much the web is changed in the last 10 years.

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Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the history Japanese painting is a long history of synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and adaptation of imported ideas. Japanese printmaking especially from the Edo period exerted enormous influence on Western painting in France during the 19th century.

The origins of painting in Japan date well back into Japan’s prehistoric period. Simple stick figures and geometric designs can be found on Jōmon period pottery and Yayoi period (300 BC – 300 AD) dotaku bronze bells. Mural paintings with both geometric and figurative designs have been found in numerous tumuli from the Kofun period and Asuka period (300-700 AD).

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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical  fantasy film directed primarily by Victor Fleming from a script mostly by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf, with uncredited contributions by others. It was based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, who died twenty years before the film was released.  It features Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr and Frank Morgan, with Billie Burke, Margaret Hamilton, Charles Grapewin, Clara Blandick and the Singer Midgets as the Munchkins. Notable in its use of special effects, use of Technicolor, fantasy storytelling and unusual characters, The Wizard of Oz has become, over the years, one of the best known of all films. However, although it received largely positive reviews and won three Academy Awards, it was not an all-out smash hit at the time of its original release.

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Huge and handy free country flags icons for free download. Cover all the countries in the world and you can find any flag of the country in different shapes and sizes. You can use these icons in many ways and its free to download.

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We are going to share with you 10 absolutely free and fresh websites templates. You can download the PSD source file and html5 templates are also included. These free templates are courtesy of template monster as there free design series. All the templates are very well designed and professional. So download your favorite template now. Click on the image to see the template detail and download link.

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Its not just the photography we are are going to share with you. Its Dave Hill Photography. The concept and idea involved in his work is damn superb and mind blowing. The most professional use of photography techniques and the stunning use of photo effects and photo manipulation. His style of photography is so unique and different that if you search the web, many armatures and other photographers try to create and adopt the Dave Hill style of conceptual photography and people using the photo editing software’s to apply the hill’s like effects make there photos looks like the same.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. Working for advertising and music agencies and artists, Dave Hill a commercial photographer and part-time director apply the same and made some of the most great work in modern conceptual world.

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Your business card is your identity and the reflection of your creative thinking and imagination. When you give your business card to some one, you actually tell others that this is what i am and this the way my mind think and create. The traditional business card design and printing era is over. Now a days, when you look at the business card style and examples on the web, the trend is change now. Simplicity has its own meaning now. Means simple but must be very eye catching and creative. Some of the business cards we are going to show you are simple but the look is feel is really stunning and beautiful.

Some of the business cards are very innovative and totally different. The shape cutting and the text merged with the paper is worth to watch and really awesome. The printing cost must be expensive of these cards but the quality and the end result is amazing and the money is in your hands when you show your business card to someone. Lets have a look.

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Justin Reed was born in 1979, and received a BFA in Illustration from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. We are going to present his work which is based on killer and spectacular movie illustrations. He choose some of the classic and most popular movies and movies characters like batman, joker or dirty harry and create  some of the amazing illustrations. His work is totally awesome and give you a totally different look and feel of these famous movies. Lets have a look.

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Before the other 4 gods cursed us and got angry with us or start fighting each other. We are going to showcase the traditional and ancient artwork of Greek gods and legends. This is the volume 2 and the last post in this series. In this post we give the detail of Greek gods Poseidon, Aphrodite, Hestia and Hephaestus. Artists and painters draw and create these legends to renew the history and also these historical and powerful characters use in the video games like god of war in which you can see these true legends in action. And if you watch the latest Hollywood movie Clash of The Titans, you can see these legends fighting and try to control the humans against them. Every artist or designer has his own vision and thinking to draw these legends. Lets have a look of some the artwork about the Greek or Roman Gods.

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Time to share with our readers professional and beautiful sports inspired logo designs. We pick 74 some of the best and eye catching sports logos with a great idea and very well deigned. Designers use the typography, characters and sports element to give these logos a great sporty look and very energetic feeling. If you want to design a sports based logo, these logo examples will give you a great idea and inspiration to start your own logo.

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Jose Paulo Reis, a digital artist from Feira, Portugal is working in the field of advertising. We are going to showcase some of his most professional and amazing digital artwork with a touch of class and quality. The great use of vectors, colors and advanced photo manipulation techniques,  his work reflects the idea and the dedication behind these master pieces.

Digital art is an umbrella term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology. Since the 1970s various names have been used to describe what is now called digital art including computer art and multimedia art but digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.

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Vista Print who gave brand identity and marketing solutions for small businesses all over the world starts a design challenge for designers who can design Business Cards & T-Shirts and the winners can win big cash prizes. The Challenge begins on August 3, 2010 at 12:00:01 a.m. and ends on October 4, 2010 at 11:59:59 p.m.

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Today i look through the biggest and most popular blogs on the web to see that which social media share buttons and API’s they are using as there main sharing option. Obviously there are social media services on the web (like add this) which are offering almost all the social media, sharing and bookmarking websites to share your post but blogs use some main and selected sharing buttons on the page which are there most favorite or the most popular sharing service on the web like Facebook share button and Tweet Mini Green color retweet button. Blogs these days give you all or other sharing options with some exclusive sharing option, most visible and most easy to share on the post pages.

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Origami is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami.

The number of basic origami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The most well known origami model is probably the Japanese paper crane. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper whose sides may be different colors or prints. Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.

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If you want to have a party and want others also to join you and have fun, you need a great invitation to attract and amazed them so they really want to join your party. How about design a great, amazingly creative and full of fun party poster? DJ’s  and party organizers design and distribute these party posters to invite and gather a good number of people to have fun and money. If your party poster is really a super hit design then you can achieve what you really want to be.

Lets look at some of the most amazing and inspirational party poster designs. The idea behind these posters is so strong that these posters attract me to share with our readers. The use of typography and fonts, awesome textures and stunning graphics make these posters a good piece of artwork and great advertising example. Designers use different style and nature in there designs, like retro, techno or use of characters and the objects generally use in the party like lights, cocktails and music instruments etc. So lets have a party.

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