June 5th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Takahiro Kimura
I like how the bodies are completely formed by pieces of body. Great results!
Book Art
Very original and inspiring art and illustrations exposed using books. Take a look at the website of Alexander Korzer-Robinson.
Photo manipulation
Some very heavy photo manipulation going on here.
The Dieline
Quoting the site, Established in 2007 by Andrew Gibbs, The Dieline is dedicated to the progress of the package design industry and its practitioners, students and enthusiasts. Its purpose is to define and promote the world’s best examples of packaging, and provide a place where the package design community can review, critique and stay informed of the latest industry trends and design projects being created in the field.
Periodic Table of Typefaces
A Very original way of listing typefaces in order of popularity.
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June 3rd, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Typography wallpapers
Just for inspiration some nice wallpapers using special typography at tripwire magazine.
Pattern Tap
Interesting site to help you organize your design inspiration sources. Still checking it out but might be very helpful indeed.
Quoting the site : Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the design tap for your next inspiration need.
Creative business cards
2 links to a list of creative business cards. Reminds me that I have to do something about my own pretty boring cards. At Webdesigner Depot and The Design Cubicle.
Seamless vector patterns
Always handy for website or other graphic design. Seamless patterns at Pattern Head.
Children book illustrations at Tutorial 9
Some of the nicest illustrations can be found in books for children. Check out these examples for yourself.
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May 29th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Ape on the Moon
Quoting the site, Ape on the Moon is a weblog written by illustrator Alex Mathers. The site documents the adventures of Moon Ape as he searches for the most fresh, far out and cutting edge illustration styles and techniques in the cosmos. The focus is on work processes and illustration tools through artist interviews.
Chris Brett
I really like the illustrations of Chris Brett. The grungy materials and backgrounds combined with bright colors are giving them something different.
Undersized Recession Business Cards
Very original way of dealing what hard times…
Poster inspiration
Some nice inspirational poster designs here at Abduzeedo.
Biro-Web
I just like those sketches from Biro-Web.
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February 20th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Logo design inspiration at Logo Design Love
You can find some more interesting logo design inspiration over here.
Typography toolbox at DesignM.ag
A massive resource on all stuff typo related.
Facelift
Don’t like to use sIFR for font replacement? Try Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR).
Quoting the site, an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors.
Frank Chimero
I like his work. Have a look yourself.
Smooth animated menu with jQuery
At Build Internet! you can find this nice tutorial on how to create a fancy animated menu with jQuery. Worth a look if you need such a menu.
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February 17th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Lovely Charts
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… For free.
Vladstudio
Vladstudio is the project of Russian digital artist Vlad Gerasimov. His illustrations are wonderfull. You can also download a lot of beautiful wallpapers from his site.
3d vector icon tutorial
Tutorials are a good way of learning some new tricks. This one at monofactor is a very good one. For me especially because of the subtle finishing touches that are explained.
webleeddesign
Just scroll down on this site of webleeddesign, and beware that your lower jaw doesn’t drop on the floor… . The effect that is created with only transparent images is a real work of art.
List of 40 promotional sites at 1stwebdesigner
Struggling to get more traffic to your site? Who isn’t. This lis of promotional sites might help.
Tags: isometric vector, lovely charts, monofactor, promotional sites, vladstudio, webleeddesign | No Comments »
February 16th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Illustrator tutorial at Spoongraphics
Good Illustrator tutorial. Some parts I couldn’t follow exactly as described but the good thing about that is that you try to get it done in your own way.
Typography designs
Once again some really amazing examples of typography in design. Some of these I hadn’t seen before.
Photographing textures tips at DesignM.ag
On the internet there are loads of high quality textures you can download for free. But if you need something original and you can not find it online, then you have to go and take the picture yourself.
Here are some good tips on how to photograph textures.
104 free fonts for web or logo
A list of free fonts for web designers or logo artists at instantShift.
Typechart
As quoted from their site, Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS.
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February 14th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
Aviary
Aviary features some great online tools for image manipulation. The tools are Flash based, so they run in your browser. No installations needed.
Currently these are available:
- Phoenix (image editor)
- Peacock (filter editor)
- Toucan (color manager)
- Raven (vector editor)
They are working on some other tools to be published later.
Better in Pink
I put Better in Pink here because I like the design of this website, and I like the stuff she produces. Have a look yourself.
Soho Gothic
Soho Gothic is a great new font. Besides that this site features a commercial movie to promote the font. Worth a look.
Vintage textures
Some more vintage textures for your web designs at Web Design Ledger.
Illustrator tutorials, brushes and other resources at Noupe
Another great and extensive list of resources for Adobe Illustrator.
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February 13th, 2009 - Posted categories : Daily Top 5
1. Package design
Have a look at these lovely package designs, listed at Abduzeedo.
2. Easy type art with Wordle
Wordle allows you to create beautiful typographical art with the texts of your choice. You can tweak it by using parameters like typeface, color schemes, orientation etc.
The results are often amazing.
3. Effective communication in Web design
This article at Smashing Magazine points out what it takes to achieve clear and effective communication in Web design. Quite an extensive list, very interesting read.
4. Free wordpress personal blog themes
For your inspiration, or for using it for your blog, here is a list of 50 free wordpress themes at WPZOOM.
5. Color shift in Photoshop
This article at Viget Labs is a must read! I have struggled with the The Mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift myself many times.
They provide a (more or less working) solution to this nasty issue.
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February 7th, 2009 - Posted categories : Blog, Daily Top 5
There is once again a gap in the Daily 5 posts. I will start posting links again as soon as possible. Currently I’m working on a new Wordpress theme, which will also be used for this site. This is taking some of my time which I would normally spend on Daily 5.
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