Macro Photograph

50 Mind-Blowing Examples of Macro Photography

Vladymyr Lukash

Great caricatures by Vladymyr Lukash

Hope you all had a good holiday and are ready for 2010. Here is a chart from Phillip Niemeyer and the NY Times Picturing the Past 10 Years

patterrific

Patterrific offers free seamless repeat patterns in both vector and pixel format. Furthermore Patterrific looks for pattern design resources in both the print and digital form and collects them on this website.

Breathing Light

If you do like to experiment with long exposure times and light, explore Tokihiro Sato's work. I am finding Breathing Shadow to be truly serene and contemplative. Pieces of true beauty.

Silo-1

Silo-1 creative studio is a multidisciplinary visual production collective based in Istanbul.

Walter Wick

Walter Wick is a photo illustrator and children’s book author, best known for his highly popular “I Spy” and “Can You See What I See” books.

Christmas Light Hero!

What do you get when you mix a Christmas Light show with Guitar Hero? Christmas Light Hero! A real game you play with a wii wireless guitar controller.

Simple PHP-MySQL Gallery Script

GaleriaSHQIP is a free PHP-MySQL image gallery script for easily displaying any number of images.

100+ Sites to Download Everything Online

You may know of morguefile as great place to download free photos, but supergeekland has an extensive list of 100 sites where you can download anything.

The Google Phone

techcrunch has the details on the new google phone due to launch January 2010

Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody

In case you have never seen it, The Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody, If thats not enough, Meep Meep Meep Meep Meep

The Phone-O-Scope: Attaching SLR lenses to an iPhone

Bhautik Joshi attaches a lens to his iphone.

The 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2009

Josh Warner at mashable shows us the 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2009.

49 Cool Business Card Designs

49 Cool Business Card Designs at websudasa.com

10 Web trends to watch in 2010 - CNN

As 2009 draws to a close, the Web's attention turns to the year ahead. What can we expect of the online realm in 2010?

Everything you need to know about HTML5

What's new in HTML5 and what happened to XHTML2 from techradar.

New changes to morgueFile

New updates to the morguefile. We have updated the organizer to be a bit easier to use. We also added a search for category as well as a number of bug fixes.

The Experience Imperative

While written for Industrial Designers, Ken Fry's Experience Imperative: A Manifesto for Industrial Designers holds universally true design principles, which are applicable to any creative work. Have a read through it, it will make you smarter ...

Inspiring Web Design - TheBoldItalic

The Bold Italic is a website that let's you experience San Francisco in new ways through the eyes of "bold" locals and their stories. What caught my attention is the clean IA and the great graphic design.

National Geographic's International Photography Contest 2009

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has passed, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition.

Goodbye noah

Little Noah who got all the christmas cards died Monday. Goodbye Noah, your family is in our thoughts and prayers. Please send donations to the following: Department of Pediatrics and Oncology University of Michigan 1500 East Medical Center Drive D4202MPB Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-5718 Checks payable to: The University of Michigan – Noah’s Pediatric Oncology Fund OR Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan 230 Huron View Blvd. Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 Checks payable to: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan – Memo: Noah Biorkman

50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites

Here is a showcase of 50 outstanding websites of digital marketing agencies, interactive advertising studios and online PR bureaus.

clients from hell

A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.

How to kill an idea

How to kill an idea

lensculture.com

Lens Culture is an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures.

Prix Pictet

Prix Pictet is a yearly photography prize awarded for a body of work that focuses on environmental sustainability sponsored by the Geneva private bank Pictet & Cie.

lifehacker Five Best Online Backup Tools

Local backup is a useful and necessary part of securing your data against catastrophe, but with the advent of broadband and inexpensive online storage, you've got little reason to not back up critical files to the cloud as well.

The History of the Internet in a Nutshell

Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.

Doing Good With Photos

One of morgueFile's great contributors started a photo project that let's you do good and express your passion for photography. Please visit The Photo Project and participate.

BERLIN WALL - Then and Now

20 years ago the Berlin Wall fell. At the same time the city changed its face, again. The New York Times did a very creative job illustrating the before and after combining photographs.

typekit.com

The easiest way to use Real Fonts on your website. Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

Holy smokes, that was close!

This footage was taken by surveillance videos at North Station in Boston. A drunk woman falls on to the train tracks and it ever so close to being run over by a train. Luckily a few people waiting on the platform was able to wave and get the conductors attention in time to brake early enough. via here and now

Top 5 Sites For Free Sound Effects Downloads

Whether you’re working with things like video, music, animation, games, or any other media, sound is critical. The use of sound effects can make or break a project, but sometimes finding that right, good-quality piece of audio can be difficult. Here’s the top 5 websites for free sound effects downloads.

Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games?

Are You Getting Scammed by Facebook Games? Accusations have surfaced that some facebook games can lead some more gullible players, including children, into Internet scams, especially if they have a cell phone. You can read a frank question and answer session from a facebook game developer on Reddit AMA. On a side note, if you are interested in working for facebook, see if you can solve any of these puzzles.

"We ought to be doing things that are romantic!"

Says Dr. Dyson from the Planetary Society Project. He is referring to sailing space powered by light . An idea too fascinating not to share, I find it inspiring.

japanese bar codes

Attention package designers, check out what the japanese do with bar codes. blog post here.

Noah Biorkman

Diana Harrison Biorkman has a 5-yr old son in his last stages of a 2 1/2 year battle with Neuroblastoma cancer. They are celebrating Christmas this weekend and Noah loves Christmas cards.

Send a Christmas card to Noah:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountain View Circle
South Lyon Michigan, 48178

13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App

These days, everyone wants to build their own iPhone applications, but not everyone knows how write the code necessary in order to create them. Fortunately, there are now a number of tools that allow non-developers the ability to create their own iPhone apps without knowing programming or scripting.

15 Podcasts That Will Make You Richer

Unless you’re a child prodigy like Warren Buffett, or you have a trust fund, this stuff doesn’t come on its own. It takes years of learning and experience. And what better way to learn than to throw on a podcast in the car, at the gym, or in another convenient setting?

Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009

Eric Testroete's inventive halloween costume for 2009.

6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great

6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great. The difference between good and great webdesign is relatively small. The average person may not be able to explain the tangible differences that make up great design, but they can usually spot a design they like. By examining some awesome sites, Andrew Houle attempts to put a finger on some of the small details that make up the difference.

labs.ideo.com

Welcome to the ideo workshop, playroom, garage, and launch pad. This is a place where they show bits of what they are working on, talking about prototyping, and sharing.

Website Design: 50+ Photographer Portfolios

Website Design: 50+ Photographer Portfolios from designrfix.

25 Amazing Photographers You Probably Didn’t Know

25 Amazing Photographers You Probably Didn’t Know from the blog thephotoargus.

Asterix at 50

The latest episode in the pair's comic-strip adventures will be released in France on Thursday to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Asterix story, written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo for the magazine Pilote in 1959.

Happy 50th Birthday, Guggenheim!

Happy 50th Birthday, Guggenheim!

Nook

The Nook, Barnes & Noble’s new ereader, has upped the ante. With a small, 3.5-inch LCD screen in the lower quadrant, the Nook adds touch capabilities that the Kindle definitely does not have.

the artstudents league early academic drawings

Absoultely fantastic show if you are in NYC and have the time to pop by. Early academic drawings from the Permanent Collection of the Art Students League of New York. Included in the show are fifty life drawings by students of Kenyon Cox, H.S. Mowbray, Frank Vincent Dumond, George Bridgeman and others.

National Geographic's International Photography Contest

Every year, National Geographic's International Photography Contest draws thousands of spectacular photos from users around the world. This year could be your year—send in your photos for a chance to win a digital camera kit and have your image published in the magazine.

Take a view

Take a view, the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award at the timesonline.co.uk

check out this crazy illustration

Check out this illustration by Sergey Kolesov on concept art. There is an explanation of his process further into the thread. More of his work here.

Facebook data center facility.

How many servers does Facebook have? 30,000.

Typographic Portraits That Are Absolutely Beautiful

Typography is a very popular type of art in graphics design. In recent years when everyone want to get some innovation in their artwork, typographic portraits came up with a great concept.

Content Heavy Websites with Beautiful Structure, Layout and Hierarchy

Here are 25 content heavy websites that utilize a beautiful structure, layout and hierarchy in their design.

10gui

10/GUI aims to bridge the interactive gap by rethinking the desktop to leverage technology in an intuitive and powerful way. Watch the video.

The Berlin Reunion

Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess.

Thoughts on Silverlight

Jamie Kosoy at www.bigspaceship.com shares his experience as a flash developer making the leap into building Victoria's Secret Fashion Show with Silverlight and shares some useful insight.

PhotoSketch

A group of students in China have created PhotoSketch, a project that does exactly what I just described: it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours the web for photos that match, and runs them through an algorithm, stitching it all together.

Improv Everywhere

Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 85 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.

Achille and Gian Battista Judica-Cordiglia

This was an incredibly amazing story I found via reddit, about two young Italians who were keeping tabs on Russian satellites and making some startling discoveries, in particular the last message of two cosmonauts as they disappeared into space. Originally published in the April 1965 issue of Reader’s Digest.

Similarity based image search

Charley Parker at linesandcolors.com has put together an in depth look at similarity based image search engines.

China 60 years of communism photos

China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule. See the photos at The Big Picture, Boston.com

SEO Tools

The only search engine optimization tools you’ll ever need.

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit. Via TED

dailybunny

Tough day at work? Feeling down? need a little "awwwwww". How about the daily bunny

Quique

Meet Quique, a guerilla marketing campaign for diesel helmets.

100 greatest youtube hits in 4 minutes.

100 greatest youtube hits in 4 minutes, so many memories of completely wasting time when I should be working. Enjoy!

pentagram House of Cards

Fifty-three of the UK’s leading artists and designers have created a unique collection of art inspired by Shelter’s House of Cards campaign. Shelter is a UK charity that works to alleviate the distress caused by homelessness and bad housing

SlickPlan

SlickPlan is a web-based sitemap/flowchart generator that allows for the creation of free sitemap and flowchart design.

10 Tips for Wedding Beginners

10 Tips for getting great pictures at a wedding.

Robert Frank's "The Americans"

Robert Frank's "The Americans," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

content aware image resizing

Content Aware Image Resizing is a way to re-target an image size without modifying its content ratio, in other words : non-linear image resizing.

12 Best Adobe AIR Applications for Web Designers

Here is a list from webdesignledger of 12 AIR apps for web designers that really stand out in terms of functionality and usefulness.

Dust storm in Sydney

Boston.com the big picture collected a few photos of the worst dust storm Sydney has seen in 70 years.

Year of the tablet

Looks like 2010 maybe the year of the tablet. Mac is rumored to release the apple tablet and micorosoft has a device in late development called courier.

French Law require shop'd disclaimer

A number of French deputies are proposing to pass a law requiring all published photos that were modified by means of an image manipulation program to include a statement indicating that "the photo was altered in order to modify the appearance of a person."

Trendsmap.com

Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.

50 Inspiring Vintage Advertisements

The Well Medicated Blog has curated collections of distinct advertisement campaigns. I especially enjoyed the vintage advertisement of the 50s and 60s.

Deep Green & Augmented Reality Pool

The RCVLab at Queen's University demonstrates Deep Green, a pool playing robot, and ARPool, an augmented reality system for teaching the science of pool.

The Evolution of Apple Ads

Here’s a stunning compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 70s until the present day, including a few videos ads.

Google Fast Flip

Google Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

Color Picker Pen Concept

Innovative concept pen by Korean designer Jinsu Park allows you to scan any color from your environment and instantly use it for drawing.

Kreative news

Kreative news is a new news aggregation site just like design float and digg with all the latest web design related news and articles.

GOBELINS YouTube channel

The YouTube channel for GOBELINS school of visual communication. via haha.nu. Some really amazing shorts produced by students.

10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers

Mashables 10 Terrific Web Apps for Teachers. Teachers now have a host of web-based tools at their disposal to help them stay organized and make their jobs easier.

11 Firsts In Internet History

A great look back at eleven first in internet history. Most intriguing is the story of the 1st porn site, sex.com.

Pop-up Agency

Y&R opened a temporary agency outlet in London. It occupies an empty storefront and provides a wide variety of marketing services to business owners in the neighborhood. The Instant Local AD Agency! Wondering if this can be a stand alone concept?

Poladroid: Instant Experience

A lot of us grew up with Polaroid's instant photos. We got used to the excitement of waiting for the image to appear, we enjoyed sticking them up the fridge or keeping them in our notebooks. Yes, special moments! The Polaroid company was sold off in 2001 and they will stop producing the films end of 2009 ... Now, there seems to be hope via the Poladroid. A fun and serious way to raise funds to save the film while giving away a free tool to crop your images in a polaroid way.

Beautiful Machines in the Virtual Museum of Printing Presses

Our friends from Briar Press have set up a virtual museum of historic printing presses. Aren't these machines beautiful?

If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…

smashingmagazine explores the question If Famous Graphic Artists Were Web Designers…

24 useful free vectors

24 useful free vectors from Designer Daily

Guillaume Menuel

Portfolio of Guillaume Menuel, illustrator and concept artist.

Design Feature: Dieter Rams ...

... is one of the leading industrial designers, who also inspired Apple's latest designs. Here are examples of his work. I am wondering what it would take to translate some of his design principles to the web?

golden-hour.com

The Golden Hour (sometimes referred to as the Magic Hour) is often defined as the first and last hour of sunlight in the day when the special quality of light yields particularly beautiful photographs. golden-hour.com tells you when to go out and shoot!

Furry happy monsters

Its Friday! so here are some furry happy monsters for you.

drunk monkeys

Title says it all, read the comments here.

Jaime Ibarra photos

Jaime Ibarra photos From designyoutrust. Great stuff.

cfpayne.com

One of the most prolific and recognizable contemporary illustrators, the award-winning C.F. Payne finally as a website. Via Drawn.

Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites

Here is a comprehensive breakdown of other stock image sites from smashingmagazine to check out when considering the use of stock photography on your next project.

how lens are made.

Curious how lens are made- here you go.

The Geo Quiz Challenge

The Geo Quiz Challenge is based on the wildly popular Geo Quiz segment from PRI's "The World."

Facebook Lite.

Facebook is launching a newer, simplified version of the Facebook platform, called Facebook Lite. This news comes only a day after Facebook made its blockbuster acquisition of FriendFeed and rolled out its Realtime Facebook Search.

Ambigrams

An ambigram is a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words not only in its form as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction, or orientation.

Running robot

This is quite cool, toyota engineers have built a robot that can run at 7kph.

How to Create Your First iPhone Application

Smashingmagazine has published a how-to guide to walk you through the steps to make your idea for an iPhone app a reality.

The top seven social networking sites for kids

Forget Facebook. Tweet off, Twitter. timesonline finds out where today's children are really logging on.

70+ Beautiful Damask Patterns and Textures

Damask is a weaving style or technique that originated in the early Middle Ages near Damascus, Syria. This particular style typically produced very ornate and decorative patterns in the fabric.

messageHop.com

While we were waiting for the servers to come back two weeks ago we had some idle time to play around and re-coded messagehop. Its very simple and a lot of fun, have a look and give it a try at messagehop.com

What happened?

If you have been a regular visitor to the morgueFile you would have noticed the site was down for the last fifteen days. But today we are back and this is a little explanation of what happened.

On July 15th, one of our drives in the storage array failed. That is all good and fine, drives fail all the time and a drive array consists of many disk so they can easily be replaced, as long as no more than 2 drives fail. During the process to replace the drive... kaboom. [ Technically speaking, it didn’t immediately fail, it starting rebuilding but firmware in the older Seagate ES series drives manufactured in early to late 2008 had firmware issues. The rebuild failed part way in, the techs than told the array to rebuild again, than the OS froze when too many NFS requests were in que pulling memory from the OS, than the system needed a hard reboot. Which it than came back and asked to run efsck on a large array which takes time. ] Four days of file system checks, we had all our data back, just without the file names our folders, making them unusable.

This is really our worst nightmare come true. There are around 200,000 files in 4 sizes and around 450GB. Luckily we were clever enough to keep a backup. The host has a backup system, but we really operate on a tight budget so we needed something cheap. But more importantly we made the decision not to keep all data in one location. The thinkng was, god forbid there was a fire or flood, backup and production files shouldn't be in the same physical location. So we had our resident linux contractor back it up to amazon.

Now we have the big problem that the files had to be downloaded from amazon. Originally the files were to be stored as raw files but because of issues setting up the files to sync, they were tarred and encrypted, then saved weekly. It wasn't such an issue at the time, but that is the real charm of hindsight.

We had started the download day one, and it was taking a very, very long time. We estimated 500 days give or take a week. Host and contractor had been working night and day, they opened up all the connections, made adjustments, and we were on our way to recovery! One week later all the backups are downloaded. Then word comes in an email, the backup script to amazon may have, possibly, however unlikely, corrupted the data and we are only at 50% recovered. Apparently the backup script created multiple backups of the same directories. We had 800GB of files downloaded, but with no way of knowing if any of the directories were complete and valid. We were looking at a very real possibility of coming back online with only half the files.

This was the really bad part. After some berated calls, subsequent apologies, long walks through dark alleys sobbing quietly into the night- well, it's a little bit of an exaggeration but the prospect of losing half the data was a bit disconcerting to say the least.

The community had entrusted us with their images and going back and sharing the news of having lost them felt like letting everybody down in the worst possible way. If half the files are gone what can you do at this point?

Recover what you can and hope for the best, prepare for the fall-out..

So, for the next week the contractor decoded and re-synced directories and was basically working around the clock to salvage what was possible. Mike from openphoto.net wrote us a perl script to match files and directories by pattern. The week truly felt like an eternity.

The end result was that in fact even though there were multiple copies of backups there was enough of them to make a complete restore. Huzzah! We ran a simple php script to compare the recorded file sizes and there they were, 98% files recovered, or only 4,500 files out of 220,000 were lost. This would be the part we break out into a bollywood dance number on top of a train as it rolls through the country. Happy day!

Lots of really great people wrote in with very encouraging emails. We would like to thank everyone who did write in and tweet. It really kept us going! Now, we learned quite a bit from the experience as we move forward:

1) Lesson one, backup is important, you may know it is important, but it shouldn't be an after thought. Backup should include a recovery plan as well. If it takes 3 years to recover the backup, it isn't a very good backup.
2) The second lesson comes from an old proverb, never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes
3) Lastly, we experienced the true power of the internet - it's community - even competitors wrote and offered their help. Something we all can be proud of.

Odosketch - Create your own sketch

We're not certain which impresses us more, the application or the work people are creating with it. Create you're own sketch. http://sketch.odopod.com/

animatedengines.com

Here you'll find animated illustrations that explain the inner workings of a variety of steam, Stirling, and internal combustion engines.

Free Seamless Vector Patterns

Over 500 different types of vector patterns which are perfect for print and great to be used within web design.

101 Muppets of Sesame Street

This is the 40th year anniversary of muppets.

Arlington: The Rap

Arlington: The Rap by Remy Munasifi.

9 Pet Photography Tips

Pets, unlike humans, do not understand what we are trying to do and won’t just pose for the camera! Here are 9 tips that will help you get the most of your photo session.

SlickMap CSS

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It's suitable for most web sites - accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links - and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.

When is an old building not just an old building anymore?

Interesting discussion in the NYT exploring the cultural metamorphosis from old building to architectural icon. The given example is the planned leveling of Kisho Kurokawa's historic Nakagin Capsule Tower.

Its happening today!

Its happening today!

DaVinci

DaVinci is a Microsoft Surface application that blurs the lines between the physical and virtual world by combining object recognition, real-world physics simulation and gestural interface design. Via haha.nu

The 10 Most Expensive Photographs Ever

What are some other insanely expensive photos that have sold at auction? Here is the top 10.

Free-OCR.com

Free-OCR.com is a free online OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. You can use this to perform OCR on any image you supply.

10 Crowdsourcing Marketplaces for All the Designers and Freelancers

Here’s a roundup of the most popular and interesting services that offer crowdsourcing marketplaces.

8 Great Tips to Get More Out of Your Camera Batteries

Here are 8 pointers for getting more out of your battery to keep in mind no matter what type of camera you shoot with.

New Site Features

More ways to display search results. You can now use lists, larger thumbnails and even Cooliris to display images. Look for "Page Types"

15 Forced Perspective Technique Examples

The forced perspective technique manipulates our human perception with the use of optical illusions to make objects appear larger, smaller, farther, or closer than they actually are.

kassan iphone art

Look at what David Kassan can do with an iphone.

From Walkman to iPod

Analogue cameras are still loved by a lot of people but what about the walkman? Read this fun article of a kid that was asked to trade its iPod for a Sony Walkman for some time. The comment I liked the most was along the lines of:"Glad all the technological change took place before I was born ... !"

Yuri Arcurs

Yuri Arcurs is the world’s top selling microstock photographer and has one serious micro stock photo studio. Via strobist.

30 Exceptional Web Designs

Sean Geng has compiled a list 30 exceptional web page designs for your inspiration.

cover art at it's finest

Jason Munn designed a beautiful cover for my friend's band the "The Echo Falls". I do like many more of Jason's pieces for their apparent timeless appeal.

A - Z Twitter Creative Elite to Follow

Jozef has compiled an A-Z list of creative elite designers and bloggers to follow on Twitter.

Lensbaby Composer

What is the Lensbaby Composer? The composer is a ball and socket designed lens that allows a photographer to deliver smooth selective focus. Similar (to an extent) to a tilt shift lens but much less expensive.

Designer’s Favourite Fonts & Why

Jacob Cass sent out a tweet asking my followers what their favourite font was and why.

Donny and Marie's Star Wars

Donny and Marie's Star Wars with special guests Redd Foxx, Kris Kristofferson and Paul Lynde. It horrifying but I can't stop watching it!

iPhone DSLR Remote

If you've been itching for an excuse to marry your photography hobby with your addiction for all things Apple, there's now an app that will let you take photos with your Canon SLR from your iPhone.

Perfectible Worlds

Perfectible Worlds, 2007 by Sage Sohier.

shootq.com

shootq is a web-based studio management solution that automates your business and gives you the freedom to focus on what you love

lukaszlenckowski.net

Lukasz Lenckowski is a fairly serious amateur photographer. See how he sees the world through his lenses.

Top 10: The architecture of Star Wars (pt I)

The Architects’ Journal selects the most important buildings from a galaxy far, far away

creattica.com's Web Design Articles

creattica.com's Web Design Articles, Inspiration and News - June 2009, from tools to make you more productive to new places to share your design inspiration.

scene360.com

scene360 is celebrating their 10th year on the web with the relaunch of their site.

Iconfinder.net

Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

A few links

thewebblend.com is a design news aggregator that keeps current with summaries of the latest in web related news and trends. myinkblog.com is the creation of Andrew Houle and is designed to be a resource for web and graphic designers alike.

vendor client video

This video has been going viral among agency folks like wildfire. A comical look at the vendor client relationship.

This is serious

The title says it all.

Winona Nelson

Winona Nelson is a 25-year-old concept artist living in San Francisco, CA. and our portfolio for today. Via linesandcolors

The SUPER Compact Cameras

A new breed of cameras is solving the dilemma of wanting to carry a camera with you at all times of the day but neither being happy with the pictures of a point and shoot nor wanting to carry your SLR camera and bag all day long. My strong favorite at this point is the Panasonic DMC-LX3K but there are also Sigma DP2 and Canon G10 to reckoned with. The Serious Compacts Blog provides great reviews of all the available models!

Video installation for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel

This video installation (by director/artist Marco Brambilla and Crush Toronto) for the elevators in New York’s Standard Hotel takes elevator passengers on a visual trip from hell to heaven on the way up, and from heaven to hell on the way down. Civilization.

Crop and Post!

New feature on the morgueFile, crop and post. On any image display page, look for the crop and post link under the image. You can crop the image to a size you need and post it in your blog or project, or to share with a friend. Give it a try.

Fascinating Digital Painting Tutorials

Smashing magazine has published a huge list of fascinating digital painting tutorials. If you're interested in learning to create art through this medium, here are over 40 tutorials to help you.

New Digg ad model

Digg.com is rolling out a new advertising platform — Digg Ads. Digg Ads will give you more control over which advertisements are displayed on Digg. The more an ad is Dugg, the less the advertiser will have to pay. Conversely the more an ad is buried, the more the advertiser is charged, pricing it out of the system.

Introducing smart navigation in Street View: double-click to go

You can now use Google's Street View's smart navigation to travel to a new place just by double clicking on the place or object you would like to see.

Vote for the next Hasselblad Masters!

The top 100 finalists in the Hasselblad 2009 Masters Awards Competition have now been selected. This year the voting to determine the final 10 is also open to the public! Images are now online for viewing and voting.

mrg.bz, morgueFile for tweeting

Introducing http://mrg.bz, morgueFile for tweeting. Now morgueFile has its own internal link shortening for use with twitter or any other service that requires shorter links. Visit any image page on the morgueFile and look for the mrg.bz links right below the image to give it a try.

Art vs Design Competition - Deadline Extended

Are you an Artist or a Designer? Art vs Design competition extended the deadline until midnight tonight. $25 entry free only. Enter your work for a chance to win an exhibition and other prizes.

Nick Brandt

Nick Brandt is from London, in 2000 he started photographing in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style.

40 Amazing Online Photography Magazines

As an introduction to the wonderful world of online photography magazines, smashingmagazine put together a list of the biggest and best that they could find.

Glowing monkeys!

Spending time with scientist friends from NYU it is not often they get excited about anything I hear about in the news regarding science, but this they think is very exciting. Glowing monkeys! What makes it so exciting is this is the first genetically modified primates that can pass their modifications to their offpsring.

How To Grow Fresh Air!

Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air.

The 5 Most Exciting Cameras Right Now.

neutralday.com writes of 5 cameras that have broken new ground, or are about to change the rules, or opened up whole new markets and possibilities.

Hulu Lab Doors Are Open

Headlining Hulu Labs release today is Hulu Desktop, a new downloadable application that allows you to find and enjoy your favorite Hulu videos in a rich, full-screen computer window that you can control with your mouse and keyboard or any six-button PC or Mac remote control.

Shellywan portrait

Check out this great portait by Shelly wankenobi, She also has an interesting post about some beautful art for sale from Heritage auction house

Astroboy-themovie

Astroboy-themovie is coming out Oct 2009.  Astroboy is a Japanese manga series and television program first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy.

Eirik Johnson

Eirik Johnson is a photographer currently based out of Boston, MA.

@Issue: Journal of Business and Design

Founded in 1995, @Issue: Journal of Business and Design is dedicated to communicating how quality design contributes to business success. @Issue was launched as an online blog under the url atissuejournal.com in April 2009.

Artist Chris Bennett

Artist  Chris Bennett was born in  London in 1957 and studied at the   Slade School  of Fine Art in the early ‘80s under Euan Euglow, Geoffrey Camp and Philip Sutton. He has exhibited regularly at the  Royal Academy and at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries,  London.

The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009

The Evolution of Cell Phone Design Between 1983-2009. From the Motorola DynaTAC, that power symbol that Michael Douglas wielded so forcefully in the movie “Wall Street”, to the iPhone 3G, which can take a picture, play a video, or run one of the thousands applications available from the Apple Store.

Intel rock star ad

Who’s your rock star? Very funny new ad for Intel.

Amazing Brazilian illustrations

"Brazil has become the perfect place to grow and nurture advertising art directors. Here is a collection of some of the recent best illustrative work done in advertising."

First Light Photo Project

Hello morguefile community!  My name is Nino Andonis and I will be administrating the morguefile classroom.  I have a fun little assignment for you all to start off with. Tomorrow morning, I would like you to take 1 picture of the first thing you see when you wake up.  What is your first glimpse of the world? Please click this link to upload to the appropriate folder:  First Light (don't forget keywords)

After, please rate your favorite shots in the folder and then we'll see which moments fascinated us the most.   Who's with me!?

Sleeping Giant | 11101 rezoned

Sleeping Giant | 11101 rezoned is LIC-themed photography exhibition showing at the Art Gallery at FXFOWLE Architects. I am a little bias in posting this as a resident of LIC. It is one of my favorite hoods in NYC. If you are interested in all things LIC check out the Liqcity.com blog

inspirational logo designs

Here are some examples of inspirational logo designs from dzineblog.com

Vote PX3 Prix de La Photographie Paris 2009 Competition

View and vote for the 2009 People's Choice award in each category of photography.  Vote for your favorite entries until June 1, 2009. Public Choice winners will be announced on July 1, 2009. http://px3.fr

42 amazing resources for inspirational typography

Speckboy.com has published a long list of amazing resources for inspirational typography. Here you will find everything you could possibly need related to typography.

David Carson

David Carson redefined design in the early 1990's. Hear him here on TED.

Clark Little

It all started in 2007 when Clark Little’s wife wanted a nice piece of art to decorate a wall. Voluntarily, Clark grabbed a camera, jumped in the water, and starting snapping away capturing the beauty and power of monstrous Hawaiian waves from the inside out.

The 5 minute get-up-and-get-dressed routine

The 5 minute get-up-and-get-dressed routine from a japanese game show, the best part has to be the guy tying a tie is 5 seconds. via haha.nu

creative business cards

A great post at webdesignerdepot.com about some very creative business cards.

INK'd Design Marketplace

Check out this small marketplace for design templates! It may be relevant to small business for finding a good design solution and at the same time provide designers with some extra income.

Moleskine

If you are a fan of the small moleskine portable notebooks, myMoleskine beta has launched with a small gallery of moleskine artwork from artist and designers. Check it out.

NFB competition

The National Film Board of Canada, in association with the Cannes Short Film Corner and partner YouTube, welcomes you to this NFB competition. Via Drawn!

This is a video response to David After Dentist

If you click this link, its 2:14 of your life you'll never get back, This is a video response to David After Dentist

adobeartists.com

Adobe just opened a new website to promote the fourth version of its Creative Suite showing how creative people actually use these tools to produce static and animated content. via Computerlove

Pizza box of the future

Amazing pizza box of the future. Environmentally Conscious Organization (e.c.o.), Incorporated is a design, licensing firm and manufacturing firm dedicated to improving outmoded, outdated and wasteful food packaging.

Edward Gorey

linesandcolors.com has posted a great blog post about Edward Gorey. My personal favorite of Edward Gorey has to be Gorey's alphabet.

Netdiver 10 years

Congratulations to Netdiver and Carole Guevin for 10 years of web excellence.

29 iPhone App & Website Development Resources

29 iPhone App & Website Development Resources And Tutorials Places

Miniature faking

Miniature faking is a post-processing technique, which involves selectively blurring a photo to simulate the narrow depth of field found in macro photography and some tilt-shift photography, making the image appear to be of a miniature model. (the video is all real)

Top 10 of Apps using Twitter API.

New Lists website D-Lists.co.uk has produced a Top 10 of Apps using Twitter API.

npr all tech considered

If you are looking for a great blog on technology to add to your morning reading consider NPRs all tech considered.

Inventive flash site

Very inventive and engaging user interface created with flash.

Goonies

Its the original cast from the goonies. Can you find chunk? Give up? Here's the video. By the way, missing from the photo is John Matuszak who played sloth.

Star Trek Flat

After his wife left him, JJ Abrams of Hinckley, Leicestershire spend his entire life's saving transforming his 500 sq ft flat into a Star Trek set. He started the project in 1999 and completed it in 2004, but then decided to give the flat a Star Trek: Voyager make-over.

40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

psd.tutsplus.com published a list of 40 Brilliantly Photoshopped Print Ads

DesignArtWall 31 Mindblowing Flash Websites

DesignArtWall has published a list of 31 Mindblowing Flash Websites. In this post they showcase the best of flash in terms of website design and its originality creation of 31 different flash designers.

T-Mobile viral videos

If you haven't seen them, T-Mobile viral videos using a huge crowd of people and impromptu performances in public places. Very cool stuff.

The Biggest Ever List of Design Blogs

proofhq.com has posted the Biggest Ever List of Design Blogs. A list of over 160 blogs covering design, freelancing and Photoshop/Illustrator.

Top flash sites from pelfusion.com

For your morning flash inspiration, I found a couple top flash sites list here on pelfusion.com. 15 creative flash web sites of design studios and 25 beautiful and creative flash e-commerce sites

briar press

Briar Press is a community of 32,860 printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress. It also has a great collection of borders and ornaments with a creative commons license.

Return of the morguefile blog.

We decided it was time to bring back the blog to the morguefile. If you would like to contribute to the blog, email admin AT morguefile and let us know. We will continue to bring you timely and exciting updates from our little corner of the world right here on morguefile.com.