Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Frank Loesser
Today would have been Frank Loesser's 100th birthday. The Broadway musical legend is responsible for writing and composing both Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying — in addition to composing over 700 tunes used in movies, on Broadway and on the radio.
Portrait of Maquoketa
Rose Frantzen has portrayed 180 people from her hometown, Maquoketa, Iowa. The oil paintings are 12" x 12" and were created over a twelve-month period. All portraits are from the collection of the artist. The exhibition closes July 5th so there is still a little time to see it.
2010 Photography Annual
2010 Communication Arts Photography Annual. Original, authentically inspiring images that are emotionally accessible will continue to be the foundation for what informs us, makes us think and ultimately captivates us.
Monday, June 28, 2010
700 web designs
Over the past year or so speckyboy.com has periodically published web design collections and inspirational showcases from the most popular and important design categories. In total there are 14 different and varied categories or styles and within each category there are 50 carefully chosen web designs (that is a total of 700 web designs).
Friday, June 25, 2010
Internet regulators approve XXX web domain for porn industry
After a decade-long process, the Internet’s regulator has approved a top-level domain (dot-XXX), a move that will serve to both wall off pornography from the rest of the web and raise further controversy.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
100 most funny and creative advertisement
An amazing inspirational post which features over 100 print based creative advertisement designs for you to enjoy, which will get your creativity flowing.
Places to go for design inspiration
Chris Taylor has a list of 60 places he visits for inspiration before he starts a big project, especially if he is having a bit of designers block.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Edith Shain
Edith Shain died today, she is the nurse in the imfamous LIFE Magazine photo of the sailor kissing the nurse in Times Square, 1945. The picture was taken by renowned photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, and has become one of the most recognizable photos of the 20th century. It has come to symbolize the end of WWII and the beginning of the Baby Boomer generation. It has appeared on the front of LIFE Magazine more than any other photo.
Scott's Sketchbook
Head over to Scott's Sketchbook. Some absolutely stunning work and insight to how a classical painter works.
Photoshop’s Curves
webdesignerdepot has a great break down and tutorial on how to use photoshop's curves.
Original Pac-Man Drawings
Toru Iwatani, who developed the video game Pac-Man for Namco, brought his original 1979 Pac-Man drawings with him when he spoke recently at the Festival of Games in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
First Day of Polaroid Sale Breaks a Record
The first day of a forced sale of photographs owned by the Polaroid Company – a collection that includes work by dozens of well-known artists – brought in more than $7 million Monday at Sotheby’s, breaking a record for the highest price ever paid for an Ansel Adams picture.
Keanu Reeves
Sometimes I think the internet is a really bizarre place. Take Cheer up Keanu Reeves for example. It started as a thread on reddit. Its a couple pictures of him eating lunch snapped by a paparazzi. In the pics it looks like he got the wrong order, as in this taste more like tuna salad than egg salad. Then it turned into one of those golden internet memes, it was everywhere: on gossip sites, message boards, tumblr blogs, a facebook page. The story was picked up by Time, Today I saw a funny or die video. I can't imagine how Keanu Reeves feels about all of the attention, it is probably a little bitter sweet. But interestingly one of the things that helped propel the meme was the fact that Keanu Reeves is a pretty amazing guy as stories surfaced of him giving away 50 million pounds to the costume and special effects teams.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Trees Photographed in Infrared
Trees photographed in infrared look as if they are from some fantasy world.
Complete feature guide to Apple’s latest iOS 4
A breakdown and video of all the new features coming iOS4.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Sencha Touch
Sencha Touch allows your web apps to look and feel like native apps. Beautiful user interface components and rich data management, all powered by the latest HTML5 and CSS3 web standards and ready for Android™ and Apple iOS devices.
Best Sites For Getting Free Vector Art Images
Vector images are extreemly popular in designer community because it can be adjusted to any dimension without compromising on its quality.
PilotHandwriting.com
PilotHandwriting.com is a one-of-a-kind application that captures your handwriting and allows you to write by hand on the computer.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
cupidtino.com
Cupidtino is a new dating site created for fans of Apple products- and only accessible by apple products.
photographers tweet
This is a list of the most engaged photographers on Twitter. Jump to the list here.
Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010
The “Eizo: Pin-up Calendar 2010” is really particular. You can see everything
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
30 of the Best Web Typography Resources Online
Cameron Chapman at webdesignerdepot compiles a top list of the best web typography resources online.
Eyjafjallajokull
Kerstin Langenberger, 28, trekked on foot around Iceland for six weeks to capture some stunning images of Eyjafjallajokull
Monday, June 14, 2010
Gobelins Students Animations for Annecy 2010
This year’s crop of students from the Goeblins School of Communications in Paris have created short animated films that are shown as introductions to the events of each day of the years’ Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy (Annecy Animation Festival).
Friday, June 11, 2010
Multiplicity Photography
Multiplicity is a photography technique in which the same person is photographed from different angles and directions and then the bunch of photographs are digitally re-mastered in Photoshop showing clones of the person doing different things all in one photo.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
slots are open to advertise on the morgueFile
Advertise on the morgueFile, we have 3 125 x 125 ad spots available on buy sell ads for a low ECPM.
The Sketchbook project
Thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums as they make their way on tour across the country. After the tour, all sketchbooks will enter into the permanent collection of The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view. Anyone - from anywhere in the world - can be a part of the project.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Justin Kaufman
Justin "Coro" Kaufman currently works as Art Director and Senior Concept artist at Massive black inc. Coro is also one of the founders of Conceptart.org.
The Bees Awards
The Bees Awards was created to grant recognition to the best Social Media communications and marketing practices. You are welcome to submit your work and help your industry share its excellence within the international marketing community.
t.co
Twitter’s new url shortening link service at http://t.co is used to better protect users from malicious sites that engage in spreading malware, phishing attacks, and other harmful activity. A link converted by Twitter’s link service is checked against a list of potentially dangerous sites.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Martin Fuchs Photographer
Martin Fuchs was born and raised in Vienna, Austria and now lives and works in New York City. Fuchs has been working as an editor, producer and designer for the renowned photo agency Magnum Photos since 2005. Since 2007 he is also responsible for the editorial content of the Magnum Blog.
Harper Perennial Open Call Portfolio Review
On Friday, June 11th, the Harper Perennial division of HarperCollins Publishers is hosting a portfolio review for freelance designers at the The Type Directors Club on Friday, June 11th, 2010 / Anytime from 11:00am to 4:30pm, TDC 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603 New York, New York.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Olympus PEN E-PL1 augmented reality
Another great example of augmented reality in advertising. Olympus PEN E-PL1
Five Best Web-Based Conferencing Tools
Increasingly sophisticated but inexpensive webcams, microphones, and speedier broadband make web-based conferencing more economical and attractive than ever. Here's a look at five excellent solutions for web-based conferencing.
13 Tips for Great Photography in a Developing Country
Brendan at cashewman.com after having lived in Africa has 13 Tips for Great Photography in a Developing Country
Thursday, June 3, 2010
60 Amazing Typography-Based Posters
In this roundup by bluefaqs.com, you will find a collection of 60 amazing typography-based posters. Some were chosen for their style, a few for their font choice and others were just plain witty.
Invite Media
Invite Media has developed technology that enables advertisers and agencies to use “real time bidding” to buy display ad space, and to optimize display ad campaigns, across multiple advertising exchanges, all in a single interface. And they were recently purchased by google.
Photoshop For Beginners: The pen tool
A great tutorial on how to use the photoshop pen tool. The photoshop pen tool is the most precise way to select a part of a photo, if you are unfamiliar on how to use the pen tool, I recommend giving it a try.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
repeat-x repeat-y
repeat-x repeat-y is a collection of kick-ass patterns from a plethora of designers/illustrators/artists.
Beautiful Examples of Black & White Photography
bestdesigntuts has a compilation of 25 examples of fantastic black and white photography.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
App Engine JavaScript SDK
With App Engine, you can build web applications using the JavaScript programming language, your JavaScript application runs on Google's scalable infrastructure on top of Java and Rhino, and uses large-scale persistent storage and services.
smokescreen.us
Use existing Adobe tools for developing ads and display flash without the plugin on iproducts.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)