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  • Examples of Email Newsletter Designs

    Examples of Email Newsletter Designs

    When it comes to email newsletters, you have to make your readers want to open the email and read it. If you’re like me, you probably get 150 emails before you even wake up in the morning, so promotional emails tend to get pushed to the bottom of the list or automatically deleted, even if…

  • Pixel Perfect Audio and Music Player Designs

    Pixel Perfect Audio and Music Player Designs

    Audio and music players are showing up on more and more websites. Whether it’s a site like Pandora, or an app like Spotify or iTunes, it seems everyone wants to get into the music and digital audio game these days. But, although there are some standard controls, everyone is taking a different design approach. Dribbble…

  • Insanely Detailed Advertisement Designs

    Insanely Detailed Advertisement Designs

    The world of ad design is incredible these days, with so many talented artists who have mastered multiple disciplines in design. Studios like Ars Thanea and Saizen Media create some of the most incredible advertisements I’ve ever seen, and even individual designers are turning out designs that normally would have taken years to create. The…

  • Stunning Examples of High Quality Icon Design

    Stunning Examples of High Quality Icon Design

    When most people think of icon design, they think of tiny little social media icons, or cliche iOS icons involving clouds or logos. But, these days, icons are used in so many applications and in various ways, so icon designers have to be cognizant of details and potential large vs small sizes. Walking the balance…

  • Creative Examples of Illustrated Cartoons

    Creative Examples of Illustrated Cartoons

    Cartoon illustration seems to be turning into a bit of a lost art. As we move towards digitally animated and 3D movies and cartoons, traditional 2D illustration has faded into the background. However, cartoon illustration still works great for not only cartoons, but also comics and other illustrated art. While it can use 3D design…

  • Strangely Cool Concept Car Designs

    Strangely Cool Concept Car Designs

    Concept cars are fascinating, because they demonstrate some of the principles of design that will likely be implemented in mainstream models over the following years, while they also show off features or styles that are either impossible or impractical in reality. Concept cars rarely hit the road as conceptualized, but the style and design ideas…

  • Awesome Examples of Game Concept Art

    Awesome Examples of Game Concept Art

    Modern videogames have an incredible amount of work put into them. While it used to be that games were simply created by a small group of people working out of a basement or small studio, many of today’s most popular games such as Warcraft, Mass Effect and Assassin’s Creed have huge development studios behind them.…

  • Lifelike Architectural Visualizations

    Lifelike Architectural Visualizations

    Architectural visualization is an amazing field that allows for photorealistic rendering of architectural structures and designs, without the need to actual build the structure. It’s possible to quickly and easily create concepts for interior and exterior design, and navigate through the environment. This unprecedented technology gives you the ability to see your home or other…

  • Colorful and Creative T-Shirt Designs

    Colorful and Creative T-Shirt Designs

    Creative t-shirt designs have been a major trend lately, especially with the advent of web-based t-shirt creation companies such as Threadless. There are all sorts of styles to choose from, such as humorous, vector graphics, gothic, abstract and more. Creating your own t-shirt design requires knowledge of a variety of basic design principles and also…

  • Awesome Functional App Interface Designs

    Awesome Functional App Interface Designs

    When designing an app for the iPhone, iPad, Android or even for the web, it’s important to take into account not only visually interesting design elements, but also the functional design elements. Particularly on today’s high-tech mobile devices that integrate touch functionality, speakers, a camera and a keypad, integrating the functionality of all these inputs…

  • Beautiful Calligraphy in Art

    Beautiful Calligraphy in Art

    Calligraphy is a type of art that involves essentially “fancy lettering”. More specifically, calligraphy is often a hand-written and custom lettered inscription drawing on influences from Arabic or Asian influences combined with Western design principles. Calligraphy is quite popular even today, used widely in wedding and event invitations as well as fine art. Calligraphy can…

  • Epic Examples of Space Art Wallpapers

    Epic Examples of Space Art Wallpapers

    Ever since the dawn of time, man has been fascinated by the cosmos. As scientists learn more and more about the nature of our universe, the laws governing it, and the possibilities that exist in outer space, it is clear that our understanding is only just scratching the surface. Artists seek to capture the majesty…