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Fascinating Technical Product Designs
Most of the design that people think about is web design, or graphic design, or maybe advertising design. But the thing is, we all interact with design on a daily basis, whether we are designers ourselves or just enthusiasts. Every product, technological device, gadget and automobile we interact with, among other things, has a focus…
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Stunning Architectural Visualizations
Architectural visualizations are some of my favorite designs to look at. The combination of engineering and structural design, mixed with a creative flair from interior decorating, and having it all created digitally using 3D and matte painting techniques make it a beautiful type of design. Simply put, architectural visualization is the process of pre-visualizing architecture…
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Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2012
Each year, hundreds (if not more) Photoshop tutorials are released around the web, aimed at teaching techniques or demonstrating workflows and walkthroughs for a variety of projects. For beginning designers, these tutorials can be invaluable for learning new techniques. But even for seasoned veterans, Photoshop tutorials can serve a key purpose. Exposure to new design…
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Creative Business Card Designs
If you work in a creative field such as graphic design, web design, photography, music, or advertising, it’s important to express your own personal style and creativity through all of your promotional materials, whether that be your resume, your logo, or your business card. With a variety of non-traditional materials to choose from, the ability…
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Examples of Horizontal Scrolling Websites
When it comes to scrolling, most people just think of a standard vertical scrolling website, like Wikipedia or Google search results. However, there’s a lot more possibilities for experimenting with user experience and usability when it comes to content display. One of the more common techniques these days is vertical infinite scrolling, where content continually…
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Ultra-Slick VFX Presentations
One of the great changes in the VFX industry has been the ability for people to create feature-quality visual presentations on a home desktop computer. Whereas before, computer animations and renderings required entire render farms, consisting of enough servers to simulate a supercomputer, these days, computers are able to do the renderings on just a…
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Pixel Perfect Mobile and Tablet App Designs
Mobile, and specifically tablet computing have increased significantly in popularity over the past few years, and mobile computing is only expected to grow more in the future. The challenge for mobile development used to be the lack of processing power, whereas now, it’s due to the small size and lack of screen space. Designing a…
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Masterful Digital Painting Tutorials
Learning how to paint is one of the most challenging skills to learn, especially for digital artists who have become familiar with layered editing, photo effects and other digital manipulation in tools like Photoshop. Digital painting isn’t fundamentally from traditional painting, however, there are some unique advantages. Thanks to the undo button, it’s possible to…
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Pixel Perfect UI Kits for Designers
UI kits are one of the most useful resources in the web design community. Thanks to sites like Behance, dribbble, deviantART and a variety of design blogs, there are now a plethora of free UI kits available. Simply put, a UI kit is a collection of user interface elements that are created all with a…
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Fun and Instructive Icon Design Tutorials
These days, custom icons are everywhere, being used not only for web applications, but also desktop and mobile applications, application icons, favicons and even some icons that are adapted as logos. Being able to create quality icons is not as easy as it seems. It requires a minimal touch while still achieving enough detail for…
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Fresh & Useful Photomanipulation Tutorials
If you have photographs and know some photomanipulation techniques, you can literally create anything. Photographs bring an instant dash of realism to your work, without the need for hand-creating individual details like you do in digital painting, or creating a realistic 3D model. You can combine, crop, extract, blend and layer photographs together to create…
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Interesting Sites with Background Music
Music in web design can be both a gift and a curse. Many site visitors consider music to be intrusive, and quite frankly, obnoxious. It’s easy to agree with them, as many sites have banner ads and videos that automatically start playing and blasting music or other audio, which is startling and unexpected. However, music…
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