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Laser Cut Leaves are Nature’s Unique Business Cards

Posted: July 31st, 2009, 4:30am CEST

Design Firm Tatil Design of Brazil came up with the elegant marketing idea, which they recently used in 2008 during the 55th Cannes Advertising Festival to promote their “Designing Naturally” workshop. Natural Medium, which is what they call their amazing laser cut leaves, was very popular and received at the festival.

Patent Models Record Inventions in Miniature [PICS]

Posted: July 31st, 2009, 12:30am CEST

These miniature testaments to innovation — “not more than twelve inches square … neatly made” — are the subject of a new exhibition at Harvard University, Patent Republic. The display draws on the collection of Susan Glendening, a New York psychoanalyst by day and fervent collector by night. Seventy-five of her models are on display in Cambridge.

15 Creative Wordpress Footers

Posted: July 29th, 2009, 9:50pm CEST

Vimeo's is totally awesome.

The World's Most Impressive Subway Maps (PICS)

Posted: July 29th, 2009, 1:30am CEST

It was Harry Beck's innovative 1933 design for the London Underground that freed subway map designers to take poetic license, simplifying routes, stretching and compressing distances. The most elegant maps, like Beck's design, turn the sprawling steel behemoths beneath us into visual aids, as helpful as they are fun to admire.

40 Free & Useful GUI Icons for Web Designers

Posted: July 29th, 2009, 12:30am CEST

Other than words themselves, icons are little graphics within a website that tells you how you can move to the next page, cancel a transaction, checkout the cart and the likes basically the entire navigation.

Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's Bedroom Ceiling

Posted: July 28th, 2009, 5:20pm CEST

This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his bedroom's ceiling.

10 Amazing Chairs on the Cutting Edge of Seating Design

Posted: July 28th, 2009, 12:30pm CEST

Most of us look for the the basics in a chair, things like ergonomic design, cushy padding and durable arm rests. But some intrepid designers look beyond to more eccentric ideas. Sure, not every designer chair makes for the most comfortable seating, but they’re all a bit more interesting than the average L-shape on legs.

Typeface by Toyota. The iQ font Designed By A Moving Car.

Posted: July 26th, 2009, 8:40pm CEST

The agency hired two typographers, Pierre & Damien from Please Let Me Design and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) to pull this undertaking off. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )

The World's 6 Most Versatile Fighter Planes

Posted: July 25th, 2009, 4:20am CEST

India announced this week that it is in the market for a national warplane, sparking a faceoff among the most formidable jet manufacturers. Here are six planes that are contenders—some of the best multi-role military aircraft in the world today.

When Illustration Meets Typography

Posted: July 23rd, 2009, 9:00am CEST

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27 Inspirational Horizontal Scrolling Websites

Posted: July 23rd, 2009, 4:10am CEST

Here I’ve collected 27 Horizontal Scrolling Website design for you inspiration, check it out, Perhaps if this style fits your topic it might just be the extra touch to make your site stand out.

16 Exciting Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Posted: July 21st, 2009, 4:30am CEST

Awesome Adobe Photoshop Tutorials. Some of them, I personally want to master. Check them out.

10 Reasons to Politely Decline a Web Design Gig

Posted: July 19th, 2009, 12:40am CEST

When you’re in that first round of meetings with a potential web design or web development client, there are certain statements, revelations or bits of information that serve as huge red flags.

5 Useless Robots (And Why We Love Them)

Posted: July 17th, 2009, 9:30pm CEST

Robots are made to assist us—to manipulate and improve upon our environments. But in the history of robotics there have been as many epic fails as incremental successes. Here, PM editorial adviser, author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson corrals five of the most useless robots.

Hello, Gorgeous! 15 of the Greatest Tech Designs Ever

Posted: July 17th, 2009, 2:50pm CEST

Like beauty, sleekness is in the eye of the beholder. It's impossible to define easily, but you know it when you see it. It's that feeling in your gut that says "I don't know what that thing is or what it's supposed to do, but I want one--now

Dear Diary - A Wooden Workstation [PIC]

Posted: July 15th, 2009, 9:10pm CEST

Marlies Romberg's Dear Diary 1.0 Workstation takes the wooden keyboards and PCs we are used to seeing and integrates them into a completely wooden workstation.

What Web 1.0 can teach Web 2.0

Posted: July 15th, 2009, 7:50pm CEST

GEnie, Delphi, AOL and other commercial networks once ruled the online roost. Where are they now, and what can their ghosts teach today's online communities?

Creative Advertising Photography by Thomas Lavezzari

Posted: July 14th, 2009, 3:10am CEST

Amazing and superb creative advertising works by Thomas Lavezzari, professional designer, based in Italy.

Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS

Posted: July 13th, 2009, 8:20am CEST

The content management system you choose can really make a huge difference in how much time you (or your clients) spend keeping a site updated and maintained.

30 Light and Sleek Web Designs for Inspiration

Posted: July 12th, 2009, 8:40pm CEST

This collection presents exemplary and gorgeous examples of light, bright and sleek web designs for your design inspiration.

Dolphin Inspired Personal Submarines

Posted: July 11th, 2009, 9:50pm CEST

Innespace Productions have created a series of unique dolphin-inspired submersible boats that can jump, dive and roll like real dolphins.

Safety Tests MIA for Taser's Shocking New Shotgun

Posted: July 11th, 2009, 7:10pm CEST

Taser has announced two versions of XREP. There’s a finned round for standard shotguns, and a rifled version for the Taser X12 Less Lethal Shotgun, made by Mossberg. The X12 is customised for low-velocity rounds (like bean bags and XREP) and rifled for greater accuracy. The bright yellow color warns users that it is less-lethal only

6 Tips for the Perfect Photographic Composition

Posted: July 11th, 2009, 7:00am CEST

For anyone following a creative pursuit, the notion of obeying rules that determine proper aesthetics for an image seems nothing short of ludicrous; however, such rules can prove incredibly helpful as you work to improve your photography...

Five ways Google spits on Microsoft

Posted: July 10th, 2009, 11:10pm CEST

Almost lost in the hoopla over the announcement of Google's Chrome OS were the shots the company took at Microsoft, five taunts that jabbed at Windows' most notable, and cliched, shortcomings. Google blasts, we translate.

35 Beautiful Photography Websites

Posted: July 10th, 2009, 6:10pm CEST

This showcase presents beautiful photography websites, analyzes the design trends and the reasons why these websites work.

The Roadmap To Becoming A Professional Freelance Web Designe

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 6:50pm CEST

This post is meant to act as not only a step-by-step guide, but also as a checklist for those who have already started their freelancing career

SlickMap CSS

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 11:30am CEST

SlickMap is a simple, customizable stylesheet for displaying visual sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. Source code download included.

Incredible A-Z List Of Typographers

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 11:20am CEST

Some play by the rules, while others systematically dispose of them. The more obscure the artist, the rarer professional web sites became. But as we all know, a web site does not a typographer make and, filtered through the glorious blogosphere, the cream eventually rose to the top.

HP Invent project

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 6:10am CEST

Created by recent graphic design graduates Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth from Kingston University. The project was to promote HP Workstations and it's capability of bringing any idea to life.Music: Hold Me Back by Round Table Knights

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50 Best-Of Designer’s (NEW) Download Picks and Resources

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 3:50am CEST

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch Vector Packs, brushes, patterns, Free Fonts, Icon Sets and .PSD downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community.

Door That Turns Into A Ping Pong Table

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 2:10am CEST

Ping Pong Door by Tobias Franzel

45 Free Typographic CSS-Layouts For Your Designs

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 1:30am CEST

Beautiful and free typographic XHTML/CSS-templates that you can use in personal and commerical projects without any restrictions - a gift for the design community.

26 Websites for Tutorials Starting out in Website Design

Posted: July 9th, 2009, 1:10am CEST

With more and more resources being shared across the web today, there are tons of people starting careers in web design or web development. With how many tutorials about HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP there are out there, becoming a web designer has never been easier. I collected a list of 26 great websites to follow to learn web design...

23 Curvaceous Contemporary Furniture [Pics]

Posted: July 8th, 2009, 11:30pm CEST

In a way we have seen curvaceous furniture before in antiques but in a way it has been taken to a high art for in contemporary furniture.

Brad Pitt's 14 Eco Houses for Katrina Victims

Posted: July 8th, 2009, 10:50pm CEST

The Make It Right Foundation — Brad Pitt’s massive effort to bring affordable, storm-safe, sustainable housing to NOLA’s Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Lower 9th Ward — has unveiled 14 new duplex designs from a global roster of top architecture firms.

20 great Wordpress Footer Designs for Inspiration

Posted: July 8th, 2009, 10:20pm CEST

The most intelligent use of wordpress is to have a creative footer.

How to Create a 3D Text Photo Manipulation

Posted: July 8th, 2009, 7:20pm CEST

In this intermediate-level graphic design tutorial, you'll learn how to realistically superimpose a beautiful three-dimensional text object onto a living room scene with the help of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Web Form Validation: Best Practices and Tutorials

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 11:20pm CEST

This article explores different validation and error feedback techniques, methods and approaches for web form design.

10 Useful CSS/JS-Coding Solutions For Web-Developers

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 6:50am CEST

10 useful CSS/Javascript-based techniques and coding solutionsthat can turn out to be useful for your next web-project.

The hazy future of Web typography

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 6:20am CEST

Current technology can break Web type free from the Georgia/Verdana prison, but getting all the stakeholders - Web designers, type designers, font vendors, and browser vendors - to agree on a standard may be a bigger challenge than the technology.

100+ Minimal and Typographic Package Designs

Posted: July 7th, 2009, 4:30am CEST

Time for a little inspiration. Package design can be tricky, but as you can see here, sometimes it can be relatively simple and still come across as beling elegant. Sometimes, less is more….. Here are over 100 examples of package design that either has a minimal style, or a typographic based solution.

AK-47: An Assault Rifle for Everyman (Photo Gallery)

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 1:49pm CEST

It’s probably not a stretch to describe Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK-47 assault rifle as the most important small-arms weapon of the 20th century.

30 Inspiring & Creative Examples of Colorful Pattern Designs

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 12:10pm CEST

As we all know that textures, backgrounds and patterns are the most wanted freebies on the internet. Specially designers who love all of those textures that can help their designs to become more beautiful and attractive. This collection would be really useful for inspiration and ideas.

12 Gorgeous Vimeo Videos for Design Inspiration

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 10:50am CEST

Vimeo is becoming one of the most popular video sites for users who want a place to present high quality, artistic videos. Its elegant interface and

2 Ways To Create Realistic Depth of Field

Posted: July 6th, 2009, 4:30am CEST

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create realistic "Depth of Field" in Photoshop. We are going to look at two different ways of doing it depending on what kind of picture you want to modify.

12 Extraordinary Table Designs [Pics and Vids]

Posted: July 5th, 2009, 9:20pm CEST

Product designers are never happy with the normal 4 legs-1 flat top tables. They want to experiment. And sometimes, experiments lead to amazing results.

13 Magnificent Free Wordpress Portfolio Themes

Posted: July 4th, 2009, 11:10pm CEST

Wordpress themes that you can use for your portfolio. All of these themes are free. Hope you will like them.

40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts

Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 10:40pm CEST

Unlike the serif font family, these hand drawn fonts looked less serious but they tend to give and convey strong human touch wherever they are applied. Hand-drawn fonts are hard to stand on it’s own, but they are utmost perfect for these following situations...

Ceiling Porn (SFW)

Posted: July 2nd, 2009, 8:30pm CEST

(put your trousers back on little fella. it's not what you think) It's incredible how some people live their lives looking either straight ahead or down at the ground, the only ceiling they ever notice being the one above the bed.Luckily it hasn't stopped people designing stunning ceilings.

50 Inspiring 3D Desktop Wallpapers

Posted: July 1st, 2009, 10:10pm CEST

Desktop wallpapers suggestions are always welcome since sometimes we don't have time to browse to find one, so we check on the suggestions available at our favorite websites! We know that we can find tons of great wallpapers online to choose from, so here

Creative Resume Design for Geeks.

Posted: July 1st, 2009, 11:40am CEST