Daily Inspirations no. 142
Have you ever heard about the Wow factor? It is actually about something, capable to impress one so deeply that he says “Wow!” and his jaw drops immediately. For example, you are getting into a taxi and see that the cab driver is Brad Pitt or Jessica Alba (depending on your preferences) – you say “Wow”, and that is what people call a Wow factor. However, we are here to talk about the Wow factor in art. Actually, visual or graphic design in its multiple incarnations through photography, illustrations, digital painting, cool advertising concepts, graffiti design, etc., is a very powerful generator of the Wow factor effect. Look at the stunning photograph of the panoramic tree or at the illustration of the sexy British patriotic girl, or at the Chevrolet Mi-ray roadster concept below and you’ll understand clearly what Wow factor means…
Willow Wagon by Andy Fairhurst Continue reading »
Top-rated Fonts on Fonts2u
Multiple top ratings are extremely popular these days. If we put aside all the marketing and management concepts, such ratings have only one primary purpose – to help consumers with the choice of the best product in a particular category. Since we are interested in design mainly, we now want to present you with the list of the top-rated computer fonts, compiled based on the feedbacks of users of our friendly typography expert Fonts2u.com. These free fonts represent the highlights of the modern font design. From delicate Souci Sans NL to reserved Diavlo font, and from classic JFRingmaster to artistically eroded Ithornet font – this collection will definitely draw your attention, so do not hesitate to download these free fonts and use them in your creative designs.
Daily Inspirations no. 141
Advertising is said to be the major moving force of economy today; but what is advertising if not a brilliant combination of visual images and textual message? Thus, advertising has many similarities with the visual design art, including its constituents, such as photography, digital illustration, typography, etc. Among the inspirational works, included in the today’s collection, you will find several samples of advertising projects, where different forms of visual design were employed. Also, we will show you each of those visual arts separately: landscape photography and exceptionally interesting dust photography by Thomas Edwards, cartoon illustrations, digital painting, typography art, etc. As always, a new set of free textures for your designing achievements as well as some new inspiring samples of the industrial design and architectural solutions are also here.
Johny Gogo by Carlos Gonzalez Villagomez Continue reading »
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Print Media’s Responses to Technology and the Web
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Lines That Work the Miracles – Free Vector Set
If someone thinks that lines are simple and boring, he should definitely take a look at our today Free linework vector set. In the hands of creative designers, ordinary lines can turn into the means of an endless number of different shapes and forms. Waves, curves, circles, stars, hair-like motifs – a line is actually the beginning of any picture. And today we offer a large number of them to all our visitors. But the best part about it is that this vector set, which was initially developed as a commercial product, can be downloaded from Cruzine for free today, thanks to cooperation with us of a graphic design specializing company FlavaFX. So do not hesitate and take your chance to make your projects uncommon using these simple, still so special lines…
Frequently Fly Clothing – Inventing Flyght Poster Series.
Pittsburgh based Frequently Fly Clothing recently released a poster series as a preview of their Spring 2011 line of t-shirts set to be released next week.
The artwork is an interpretation of the shirts and keep in line with the Vintage theme of the release. See all 3 posters below. You can also view them on the sites blog here.
