Inspiration Inspiration INSPIRATION! It can be elusive, sometimes mean and many times just blocked! And you start to wonder: where are those infamous muses? And you spend hours trying to catch them, watching with puppy eyes other guy’s work.
And then two feelings fill your heart: despair and the can’t-keep-your-mouth-closed (or jaw [...]
Entries from June 29th, 2007
Hunting inspiration? What about provocation?
June 29th, 2007 2 Comments
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5 Ways to Burst Your Creativity You Might Not Have Tried.
June 18th, 2007 5 Comments
Every one of us would like to have Leonardo Da Vinci’s creative mind and come up with fancy innovations with a snap of a finger.
Creativity (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.
From a scientific point of view, the products of [...]
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30 Free Vector Wordpress Icons
June 15th, 2007 69 Comments
In a previous post I offered 30 RSS vector icons. Now to match those little happy icons, I’ve made 30 Wordpress Logos to help you brighten a little your beloved blog.
To use them open/import it on your vectorial/bitmap editor of choice [Photophop, Illustrator, CorelDraw]
Download 300K in PDF vector Format
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons [...]
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What Graphic Design has to thanks to Fidel Castro.
June 13th, 2007 6 Comments
Back in 1958 Fidel Castro with a modest rebel army gains the power over Cuba.
Despite of his efforts to have an independent line he must conceal with the Russian influence on the new order. The Political posters from those years testifies that.
By 1965, in a time with tense relations with the Soviet Union, [...]
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Let Vintage Wallpaper Spice Up Your Designs
June 8th, 2007 3 Comments
You are looking at some new trendy webpage and get impressed by those rich floral textures and backgrounds, and wonder: where does that inspiration come from?
Inspiration is everywhere
Just have look around you and you will find precious sources. This time, it comes from the walls.
Antique wallpaper is an impressive source of inspiration. You [...]
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85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know
June 6th, 2007 170 Comments
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/85_Free_Killer_Resources_Every_Designer_Should_Know’;What makes a web-designer a great web-designer?
Guts and information – and bit of talent.
All designers have to defeat the same monsters.
Inspiration blocks;
Lack of material, like and unvectorized logo;
Poor quality images or their non-existence;
Low or no budget;
Unhelpful clients;
May I continue?
Well the good news is that you just need courage to persist and the [...]
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