Artzmania Exclusive Edition

Un numar special dedicat excusiv fenomenului Web 2.0. Mi se pare o miscare bine facuta din partea Artzmania, luand in considerare ca este una dintre cele mai cunoscute surse de inspiratie a designerilor. Una dintre putinele reviste gratuite bine facute. Lucrarile prezentate sunt categorisite astfel: Clean Simple, Web Animation, Business Corporate – Elegant, Black Colour Website, Artzmania’s favourites, Super Web Inovative, Blog.

Download and Enjoy, I did.

Dead Reality

Art Direction, Design and Illustration by Fabiano de Queiroz

www.deadreality.com

Andy Julia Photography

http://www.andyjulia.com/

Multumes X3 Team

Vreau sa multumesc colegilor de la X3 pentru superbul cadoul pe care mi l-au facut de ziua mea.

Draguta cartea, ofera informatii folositoare oricarui designer, sa ma satur putin de ea promit sa o share-ui:

“Innovative concepts to present your work

Your portfolio is your first impression; it needs to draw your attention. In this book, you’ll find inspiration and global research. which will be both open up your mind and surprise and impress your clients.

There are more than 300 images split between th following chapters:

- Traditional portfolio

- Digital portfolio”

Cadoul perfect, nu cred ca imi doream altceva decat o carte. De mult nu am mai adaugat nimic nou pe raftul cu carti.

Imagini cu tortul nu am, dar a fost foarte bun, s-a servit si supliment, iar fructele au fost pe alese.

Multumes people, sunteti draguti, ok, ar cam trebui sa ma pregatesc si eu putin ca acusi ne intalnim, bem azi, Darc again, Yey!

“Servicii profesionale de web design” Nooot!

Garcya Design. “Cu o experienta de peste 2 ani in domeniul web design si peste
50 proiecte realizate pentru clienti romani si straini Garcya Design reprezentata prin CEO : Adrian Ferenczik va aduce solutia perfecta pentru o prezenta web de calitate si eficienta… Suntem o firma mica, insa putem sa realizam proiecte mari (pe toata durata de viata a proiectului – planificare, dezvoltare, mentenanta, intretinere, imbunatatire)”

Daca ti-ai instalat Swish, sti situri de de torrents de unde iti poti downloada template-uri (templatemonster), nu trebuie neaparat sa-ti faci firma de web design, oricum, e de apreciat faptul ca: “Intotdeauna suntem deschisi catre proiecte noi (for fun) care poate nu aduc bani pe termen scurt, dar aduc experienta, care in timp ne face sa fim tot mai buni.” cum ar fi “Web Design Blog” -ul (bine ca l-ai pus intre ghilimele) unde, din bunatatea lui, Garcya ofera resurse gratuite, exemplul care mi-a atras atentia: “vector graphic” (da, treburile alea furate de pe istockphoto) pentru care ofera si suport ori de cat ori este nevoie: “vlad, to use these vector graphics you need Adobe Illustrator ! There is a 30 days trial of Adobe Illustrator CS 3, practice it out. After you selected the vector graphic with Illustrator, hit ctrl c to copy the graphic, then you can open your Photoshop and can paste the graphic there ctrl v”

C’mon Garcya, cut the crap, daca oferi gratis resurse pentru care in mod normal, cei care le folosesc, ar trebui sa plateasca, de ce mai intrumi oamenii catre software trial? Fara suparare, aduna-ti taraba, lasa curat si intoarce-te de unde ai venit.

CSSremix.com hacked

CSSremix.com recent hack-uit. De data asta avem de aface cu Turcia. Numai ce am ajuns acasa, eram pornit sa-mi aleg urmatorul site preferat si ghici ce, pana deschid un nou tab in Firefox, o muzica ciudata imi distrage atentia, hip hop turcesc, la naiba, suna foarte ciudat, vrei sa vezi cum suna, viziteaza galeria ta preferata de situri CSS. De data asta nu e nici funny, in afara de muzica turceasca, nu e nimic interesant. M-a suparat, mi-a distrus vibratorul retinal. In opinia mea, CSSremix.com este printe cele mai bune galerii de genul, au un bun control de calitate, nu publica decat ce considera suficient de bun, in felul acesta, cred ca isi va pastra valentele de galerie inspirationala, multe galerii accepta orice site subscris, iar in webdesign “prosti, da multi” nu merge.

zZz is playing Grip

Got nothing in particular to say about this.

Manipulator

Manipulator, or Jill Greenberrg, pixel perfect photography and manipulation. Jill was born in ‘67, Montreal Canada and grew up in suburbs of Detroit. Graduated in ‘89 from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Photograhy and moved to NYC to pursue a career in Photography. Guess what. She did it. Jill now lives with her family in Los Angeles. They also have a dog named Scooter.

She has a huge client list, and big names only, from Smirnoff Vodca to Discoverry Channel, from MTV to Sony Music. No need to mention more. Anyways, you need to see some of her great works. A place where you can masturbate your retina. www.manipulator.com

I am sure you want to know how did they made those children cry.

Clouds Mania

I must recognize that I once had a fetish for clouds. Anything I made had to have at least a little cloud on it. I don’t know why I did it. It helped me when I saw I was not alone, there is nothing wrong with me, it’s just a innocent design trend. I propose here a list of 10 great clouds themed websites, maybe you know most of there form the css galleries. If not, enjoy:

Pretty nice websites, huh?

If you want to create something similar, you will need to grab some Photoshop “Clouds” brushes. Internet’s garden is large when it comes to Photoshop Brushes. Where we can find these, the new “first stop” for such resources is www.brusheezy.com, yeah, stupid name, cool brushes. Ok, you won’t have to browse it this time, cause i already did it and make a bucket of clouds resources here for you. Just see what it fits for your needs and enjoy.

7x Cloud Brushes by leboef

9x Clouds Brushes HighRes by leboef

Cloud Brushes by ZavierZhX

I think these brushes here are enough for a play around. If you feel like you need more than these ones, you can browse the web for more resources, and what I recommend is www.deviantart.com, www.sxc.hu for high-res stock images, again www.brusheezy.com and I am sure there are many more, but i think this ones are the most popular and important. You will sure find what you are looking for.

You can also learn more about this “fetish” for clouds in web design, by reading the article on Design Meltdown and see the other sites that they are refering to. Design Meltdown is also a great inspiration gallery, a learn center, a resource point as well and why not a mush have bookmark.

It seems that clouds are not just an nice web 2.0 trend or element, it’s an old symbol in art as designer jason lui from China says: It is easy to find the symbol that representing clouds or mist in traditional Chinese paintings, furnitures, sculptures and architectures. This symbol expresses the ideal prospect of ancient Chinese thinkers: relax like celestials in the heaven and over the clouds. Like monks living in the deep forest: calm and peaceful. For this design, I used this symbolic mean and let people have a peaceful morning with refresh coffee, to be a short period celestial, before they get into the busy works.

Hope you found this post useful and you’ll come back for more.

Hello word!

As every first post on a wordpress blog says: “Hello word”.

This is Adrian Labos here, I welcome you to my blog. This is just a startup, I will try to write as much as I can about what’s new, what’s useful, what’s trendy, about the web. Web design, graphic design, inspiration, resources. Hope you’ll find this useful and come back for more.

I think is enough for now, I know that I just started and nothing is enough now about this blog, but I am in a pretty bad mood today and have a lot of work to do, and I think I’ll just do what any freelancer would do, I’ll try to chill a little and get some sleep.