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With winter closing in, we felt that this lovely ball of wool was just the thing to put in the mood for cosy days by the fire. This image is by Australian photographer Richard Keech (and the irony that it’s actually summer down in Australia is not lost on us either).

The image is titled “Blue Wool” and can bought as a print at: Richard Keech Photography.

Richard Keech, Blue Wool

Blue Wool

Dec
23

Best of CSS Design 2009

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Well, it is the time of the year again —. This year I’ve selected another 50 nicely designed web sites. Among the list, I notice a lot of them are minimalistic design with beautiful serif fonts. The grungy and sketchy styles are still strong. However, the large background is no longer as hot as in 2008, instead, texturized background is popular in 2009.

Sushi and Robots

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Dec
16

45+ Incredible Maya Tutorials Around

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Autodesk Maya, or simply Maya, is a high-end 3D computer graphics and 3D modeling software package originally developed by Alias Systems Corporation, but now owned by Autodesk as part of the Media and Entertainment division. Maya is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application, with all of the tools needed to do nearly every type of animation imaginable, from simulations of real-world physics to character animation with a wide spectrum of emotive expressions.

Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts even if you have more reference links related to more tutorials that our readers may like.

01. Making of Gladiator

instantShift - Incredible Maya Tutorials Around
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Adobe After Effects is commonly used for creating visual effects and motion graphics. It allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built-in tools and third party plug-ins. This software is really amazing and powerful. It’s even more interesting if you have some tutorials to start learning. In this post, we collected the best Adobe After Effects tutorials and feature it in here.

Here is 50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn. Most of these tutorials are for advance users but some of them are for beginners and intermediate.

3D Light Casting

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The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees and Christmas balls are once again in fashion… We are once again in search of items that would uplift the season. For sure most of you will look for some Christmas Concept tutorials maybe to create various of Christmas cards, wallpapers or posters. As our respond to this clamor, we have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season. Take note of the various techniques that are provided by these tutorials for you may find this tips useful in the future.

How to Create That Last-Minute Holiday e-Card in Photoshop

Christmas Tutorials

This tutorial will guide you in creating e-cards in Photoshop.

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Dec
09

50+ Excellent Posters about Design

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An excellent poster on our wall would certainly catch our attention and even inspire us. For the design aspect of us here’s a collection of excellent posters that most likely you would like to be hanged on your wall and also suit your taste buds for design.

The posters mostly tells what Design is about on their personal views and how they apply it on their daily lives. I’ve spent a few hours gathering these excellent posters to share to everyone. I hope you’ll find them inspirational for yourselves as well, and maybe create one of your own and share it to us.

50+ Excellent Posters about Design - Design was here

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Dec
08

35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story

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A picture is worth a thousand words that is the motto of photojournalist, a photojournalist attempts to produce straight, truthful and realistic photography of a particular subject, most frequently pictures of people.

We express sincere appreciation of the hard work of all photojournalists who are working for humanity, sometimes risking their life for the sake of their duties and responsibilities. This article is a tribute to all of them and their accomplishments and works.

Photojournalism & Documentary Photos

Man mutilated Rwanda
World Press Photo of the Year: 1994 James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos for Time. Rwanda, June 1994. Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu ‘Interahamwe’ militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. About the image Nachtwey says his specialty is dealing with ground level realities with a human dimension. He feels that people need photography to help them understand what’s going on in the world, and believes that pictures can have a great influence on shaping public opinion and mobilizing protest.

Man-story in 35 Powerful Photos That Tell A Story

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Inspired with that idea, I’ve collected some of my favorite vintage movie poster designs. I hope they also inspire you with new (and old) ways to capture the essence of design in your own work.

Kickin Old School with Vintage Movie Poster Designs

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Dec
03

20 Awesome Computer Desks

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These 20 Desks make your cheap IKEA set-up look like its from the dark ages.

1. V1 Desk – Flagship Edition

For $2,600 the flagship edition gets you integrated 5.1 sound and 10 different places to put your mug of coffee.

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If you are looking for a portfolio site inspiration A single page portfolio would be a prefect one. A single page portfolio site works best to showcase your design work. It is simple and quick to set up a website and perfect for designers since there is not much coding involved.

Another advantage of having a one page portfolio site is it is easy to someone to find your portfolio instead of going through various links to find your works.

Here are 24 awesome inspirational one page portfolio design.

1. Laureano Endeiza

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