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50 Cool Text Logo Designs Advertisement A Logo is a very important graphical element that helps a trademark or commercial brand to be easily recognizable. Logos in the similar markets are mostly quite different from each other — they are different in their shapes, colors, fonts, and images. The Top 100 Best Business Cards from 2010 The top 100 best business cards of 2010 really are a varied collection, with more and more unique ways of creating business cards being developed every month. While large corporations typically elect for standard (and relatively boring) business cards, small businesses and freelancers can capitalize on their creativity and focused brand image to create a unique and creative business card. Large companies sometimes can create unique cards as well, as their larger budget and personal design teams can have free reign to develop something awesome. Whether you’re a fan of letterpress business cards, functional business cards, vector and cartoon cards, or even a bit more clever business card, you’ll find some awesome cards in this collection. If you missed our post yesterday, you might want to check out the 50 Best Creative Logo Designs from 2010, as there is at least one that makes an appearance here as well! If you need more business card inspiration, check out these posts:

September 2007 Wallpaper from the Top Cows, Comic Book version of Witchblade. The series originally starred Sara Pezzini, a NYPD homicide detective who comes into possession of the Witchblade, a supernatural, artifact with immense destructive and protective powers. Through the Comicbook series Sara struggles to hone the awesome powers of the Witchblade and fend off those with a nefarious interest in it. There have been many spin-off titles, which place the Witchblade in other times and settings. The character of Sara Pezzini was also featured in crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, JLA, and the X-Men's Wolverine. see all "Witchblade" Posts

20 Unique and Creative Logo Designs Logo is a symbol or emblem commonly used by companies and individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition. This post features our favorite examples of unique, memorable, and creative logos designed by talented artists from all over the world. Killed Productions Logo Clever logo designed by Sean Heisler for Killed Productions. [link] Spartan Logo 40 Amazing Photo Manipulations 40 Amazing Photo Manipulations 40 Amazing Photo Manipulations Gathered From Deviant Art. Some of the Very kool and awesome photo manipulations i came across on Deviant Art. Awesome work by awesome artists. All Artworks and artists are properly linked back. Waiting for u by *Schnette

50 Amazing Brochure Design Examples to Get Your Inspiration Out I’d like to come back to the basics of web design, I mean printing products. Do you know that printed brochures is an old and classic way to represent different information about a company and its products in order to attract more people. A business brochure is a key component of a marketing pack of any company. It looks like a small booklet that contains product info or promotional materials. A well-designed brochure can present a positive image of your company and provide useful facts about your business products and services at the same time. Unique design and perfect conception also increase your customers overall impression of your company. Amazing Wine Labels: 30 Creative and Unique Wine Label Designs 30 Creative and Unusual Wine Label Designs Amazing Wine Labels – The design of a wine label can make or break the success of a new wine introduced to the market. Even beyond the quality of the wine itself, the label plays a primary role in the purchasing decisions of customers. It is on this fact that many graphic designers have focused their attention to making creative, compelling labels that connect a bottle of wine with its buyer. To celebrate the work of these designers, TheCoolist has selected 30 of the most impressive wine label designs in recent history.

Heavenly Sword Weapon, Character and Environment Concept Art By – August 14, 2007Posted in: Heavenly Sword, PlayStation 3, Screenshots, Sony About the Author Matt Litten is a 28 year old from-the-womb gamer turned video game reviewer/blogger and current editor/owner/operator of VGBlogger.com. Matt got his first taste of gaming as a youngster on the NES and Atari, and the rest is history from there. In 2004, three years removed from high school and still looking for a career direction in life, Matt landed his first gig in the video game review business writing for the now-defunct website BonusStage.com. After the sad and untimely close of BonusStage, the former staff went on to found VGBlogger.com, and after a short stint as US Site Manager for AceGamez Matt turned his attention to VGBlogger, and to this day is dedicated to making it one of the top video game blogs in all the blogosphere.

Negative space in logo design It’s hard to beat a clever use of negative space. Here are 35 or so logos that use white space well, along with the designers/agencies responsible. A.G. Low Construction logo By Rebecca Low 35 Stunning Conceptual Digital Artworks and Photo Manipulations 35 Stunning Conceptual Digital Artworks and Photo Manipulations 35 Stunning Conceptual Surreal Digital Art and Photo Manipulations Gathered From Deviant Art. All Artworks are gathered from Deviant Art and are properly linked back to artists profiles and artwork sources. To go to Artist’s Profile Click on their name, to go to Artwork click on the artwork name and to see full view image click on the image. 100 Artworks From the Top Digital Artists in the USA & Canada Last time we scoured South America (and, strangely, Mexico!) for the best Photoshop talent going around. This week we're turning to the USA and Canada to uncover 20 of the top digital artists on the continent. Is your country or city represented? 1. Joshua M.

Peter Jaworowski: Quality & Time Peter Jaworowski is an established freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Warsaw Poland at the Ars Thanea Studio. His clients include Nike, Nokia, Warner Bros, Coca-Cola, Sony Playstation, Oakley, among others. Jaworowski shared his thoughts on timeline pressures, balancing project quality versus speed, and motivation for self-improvement. here are common struggles that creative professionals encounter across industries. Managing projects within a given timeline is one of those challenges. Jaworowski has a reputation to protect and is very focused on never compromising quality for timeline.

Creature Spot - The Spot for Creature Art, Artists and Fans I did this in the spring on commission. Pretty large size for me, so it was a real challenge balancing the amount of detail and keeping a good flow moving throughout the image without creating a nightmare for myself. It was for an office environment, so I tried to keep the creatures rather humanesque and benign in nature. And -- ya know -- let me take this moment to curse the posting editor here, which is frustrating as hell. I've spent half an hour trying to make this image show up properly. In fact, I can't get it to show up properly. Design trends for 2011 Everything inside the design world is permanently changing, evolving and adapting into new ways of expression and communication looking to satisfy the new consuming needs and set innovative exchanging channels. 2010 made a huge closure for the final year of the first XXI century decade, we witnessed the rising of tablets (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tablet among others), the demise of Internet Explorer 6 and the absurd fanaticism towards Flash (though it’s losing a lot of fans), which is going to be slowly replaced by HTML5 (we’re not saying that Flash is dead, only that HTML5 will begin to cover many of its current uses). Editorial disclaimer Of course that the common design elements such as typography, navigability, color and more have also changed and as you will see on this article, these changes must be apprehended by every designer that wants to set his mark during 2011. No more clutter, it’s time to clean things up More good examples Don’t be shy, start playing with typefaces