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http://webdesignerwall.com/ A friend of mine, Francois Hoang , is organizing a design conference called Montreal Meets in Montreal, Canada Apr 7, 8, 2012. The speakers included Fabio Sasso, Shelby White, Radim Malinic, James White, and Scott Hansen. I have two tickets to giveaway. Comment in this post before March 23rd, 2012 for your chance to win one.
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IIn this post, we’re going to learn about a bit about Illustrator’s Mesh tool.It’s one of the hardest tools to master in Illustrator, but if you want to achieve a 3-D look in your illustrations, you have to really understand how to use this tool properly.We’re going to create a Super Mario-style mushroom in order to better understand how to use this tool using a real life example.
http://designinformer.smashingmagazine.com/ Category: Community This category aims to advance a professional discussion on Web design and development. It features the opinions of active members of the community, and it explores the design process and the meaning of design and its various facets. Curated by Jad Limcaco 1 . 2 . Before the very first page of a book has been read, you've already analyzed it in countless ways without even noticing.

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( 30 Minute Redesigns - Articles ) Each week I will analyze one of our reader’s websites. I then redesign their site in just 30 minutes, showing just how much can be improved in a small period of time. http://psd.fanextra.com/

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Finding high quality wallpapers for the dual screen monitor setups is not always the easiest of tasks. Wallpapers are a stylish and simple way to brighten your desktop and decorate them with some colorful and vivid images. In this round up, we are presenting a fresh collection of dual screen wallpapers so that you can choose one that fits your tastes and style. Since its inception, Drupal has had the (rather infamous) reputation of being the developer’s CMS . Designing a website using Drupal meant hard-coding every aspect of the appearance of your website. However, over time, and with the advent of Drupal 7, the picture has changed.

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Welcome to 2012 everybody! I hope you had a great Christmas time and enjoyed New Year's eve. Just like last year , I wanted to look back at my own blog to see what took place. Sadly, I wasn't able to post a lot this year due to personal circumstances. http://marcofolio.net/

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http://speckyboy.com/ This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. In a little over a month, some major changes will be occuring in the European Union in regards to Internet privacy protection. On May 26, sites that fail to comply with the EU ePrivacy Directive disclosure requirements could be subject to fines up to £500,000.

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http://10steps.sg/ In this digital painting tutorial for beginners, I am going to show you the process which I use to design a character called Isamella – The Gothic Dark Princess. If you are interested in how to digitally design and paint a character, this tutorial will be for you.

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My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and typography and create a dark vintage style motorcycle poster design. http://blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/

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http://www.myinkblog.com/ In this giveaway, 5 lucky MyInkBlog readers will get a 1 year subscription to Shape 5’s Premium WordPress Theme Club worth $110 each. Who are Shape5? Shape 5 is one of the biggest and most experienced clubs for Joomla Templates, WordPress Themes, and PhpBB3 Styles around. With over 115,000 members, they create some of the [...]

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With so many options of video players out there, it’s hard to choose which application will be best for you. I would suggest keeping things simple and avoiding future headaches of video player upgrades, new features, and bug fixes. Stick with an online based video player that will take care of all of that for you and make your job easier. If you are in to easier ways of doing things and keeping things simple, you may also want to check out www.wix.com . Wix is an easy drag-and-drop online system that is unveiling a free HTML website builder on the 26 th of March, 2012. Wix has already gained widespread popularity for their drag-and-drop Flash website builder that allows users to easily build complex, powerful, and stunning websites.

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A 13,000 sq ft new-build modernist house, located within the Highgate Conservation Area and designed by architects SHH, has now started on site, with completion due in Summer 2012. The scheme, called ‘Fitzroy Farm’, is located on a 0.45 hectare site bordering Hampstead Heath and was approved by the Camden Planning Committee without a single [...]
Clients come in many varieties. Some are thoughtful, professional, cooperative and ALWAYS pay on time. Then there are the other ones. When a client goes beyond “difficult,” to being such a burden on your resources that your other clients suffer, then you may have no choice but to cut the cord. There are many legitimate reasons to end a client relationship, including non-payment, poor communication, client procrastination, and plain old-fashioned disrespectful behavior.

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UK artist Sola has taken graffiti to a new level by fusing light painting to it. His work is not permanent like traditional tagging on walls, so it may have a better acceptance among local communities.

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The weekend, for most people, is a time to relax, unwind, and do things that aren’t necessarily convenient to do during the workweek. For us, at Design Instruct, the weekends offer an opportunity to have a little more fun than usual.

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