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Marvel Comics (Marvel Entertainment, Inc.) is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of over 5,000 characters featured in a variety of media over seventy years. This is a roundup of some of my favourite marvel character inspired wallpapers.

‘Venom V2.’

‘Spiderman 3.’

‘Iron Man.’

‘Ironman Wallpaper.’

‘Ironman.’

‘Wolverine Ready to Attack.’

‘Galactus.’

‘Captain America.’

‘Marvel Heroes’

‘Silver Surfer.’

‘Fantastic Splatt.’

‘Deadpool.’

‘Deadpool Wallpaper.’

‘Marvel Universe.’

‘Marvel Logos.’

Article written by Jared Thompson

Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

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Halloween is just a day away and i’m sure many of us have parties to go to and fancy dress costumes to make and prepare all for a few hours of drinks, fun and games. What does Halloween mean for us as designers? Well it allows us to be creative around a well established theme opening up all sorts of ways. Whether its with creative costumes, wallpapers, themes, artwork or Halloween themed packaging and products.

Looking to be inspired to make your Halloween Costume this weekend? Then look no further in checking out 12 of the best found on Toxel.com

Found over on Design Week, design group pinched post have created there own pumpkin font which has been based upon the matrix system. The typeface has been made by puncturing into the pumpkins.

My top 10 Ghostly Wallpapers to darken your Desktop

Whether you want a terrifying pumpkin, something abstract or a bloody hand they are all here.

‘Halloween’

‘Trick or Treat’

‘Think Halloween’

‘Poze Horor Desktop’

‘Happy Halloween’

‘GrimReaper Halloween’

‘Halloween’

‘Abstract Halloween’

‘Oh no s’

‘Halloween’

Two Brilliant Free WordPress Halloween Themes

Give your WordPress blog/website a few cobwebs this Halloween.

Halloween

Halloween in Blue

You’ll love these pieces of Halloween Digital Art:

Be sure to visit DeviantART for more great digital art, customisation, photography and much more, my DeviantART profile can be found here + dj23′s here.

Queen of Halloween

Happy Halloween

Halloween Witch Fairy

Halloween Natalia

Halloween

The best in Halloween Party Flyers:

Get your party promotion all spooky and scary with inspiration from these great flyer designs.

‘Bam Magazine flyer’

‘Eskepe Halloween flyer’

‘Illbotz Halloween Show Flyer’

‘Halloween Party Flyer’

‘Adv Flyer for Lucifer’

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

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Some great Halloween themed links from great design blogs:

• 55+ Amazing Halloween wallpapers to charm up your desktop: Via Instant Shift
• 200+ Truly Useful Free Halloween icons
• 35+ Free High quality photoshop brush sets for halloween
• 25 Last Minute Traditional and Downloadable Halloween Masks

• DeviantART
• Flickr

These are a selection of wallpapers found in the past week, all of  a high quality in areas of three dimensional, abstract and widescreen.

‘Paint With Creativity’

‘Remix’

‘Abstract no1′

‘Alienware Reflect’

‘Rhythmics’

‘Prime’

‘Spacewarp’

‘Experimental Boredem’

’1967′

‘The Untitled Scenes’

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

Follow Jared (@Jthompsondesign) on twitter!

Resources:

DeviantART

I have now setup a Flickr design something blog showcase group! I want you all to join and start to add your current, best, favorite works and then I will routine collate groups or my favorites and showcase them to the world via the design something blog!

Visit the Flickr group page here

Everyone has a memorable movie moment, a favorite scene or quote from a film they often find themselves repeating whenever they hear about the film. Moments can bring out great comic quotes or some great pieces of action preceded from a piece of dialogue we all remember. This is a roundup of great graphic interpretations of iconic pieces of movie history.

‘Watchmen.’

‘Ezekiel 25:17.’

’13th Warrior.’

‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.’

‘Do You Know Tyler Durden.’

‘Tremors.’

‘Life Passes Most People By.’

‘Say What Again’

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

Follow Jared (@Jthompsondesign) on twitter!

Resources:

Flickr

DeviantART

Gundam is a meta-series of anime created by the Japanese studio Sunrise, that features giant robots called Gundam. The meta-series started way back in 1979 as Mobile suit Gundam, it has appeared in many forms since and is very popular in Japan and the United States. I have collated a number of great Gundam Robot illustrations from across the Web.

Daniel Wolstenholme: Design Student at the University of Central Lancashire, Daniel is a product designer and maintains his own website and blog.

Ian Austin: Chaos Gundam in collaboration with VR-Eli, done with the aid of a line drawing.

Ivan Sanchez: I found loads of great illustrations by Ivan Sanchez, these are just three of a large selection of Gundam images which he produces which is just amazing. Be sure to check out his Deviant Art work.

Lucky Medel: Graduate of De La Salle College of Saint Benilde who works in industrial design.

Carl McGreavy: Design student at UCLAN, Carl works hard in retail as well as putting time and effort in his product design degree.

Nick Bistervelds: Is a 21 year old vector artist from Spain.

Rey Amio: “A personal variant of the XXXG-01H Gundam Heavy Arms from the Gundam Wing series. Built using high-resolution subdivision surfaces and textured using composited procedurals and dirtmaps.”

Stuart Hunt: Design student at UCLAN, the Burton-on-trent native works hard on his photoshop work and his product design degree.

Ryan: Is an anime artist from the United states, and displays great works on his Deviant Art profile.

Philip Hughes: Made using markers on rag paper, quite impressive i think you will agree.

Matt Richardson: Working under the banner of Eminar Design, Matthew is a Liverpool native and loves to work with 3D CAD software and is also working to a Product Design Degree.

Jimmy Chew: Working in art direction, print and illustration, Jimmy is from central Singapore and has four years experience.

Joy Lee: Has nine years of design industry experience, and works within the games design industry and has skills in illustration and art direction. Describing this piece Joy says: “I tried to depict scenes that would come up in animations.”

Ashley Craven: Everything this man touches is gold, his digital presentation work is often faultless keep your eye out for this product design student in the future.

Muhammad Najdi Abdul Ranie: This was hand drawn and rendered using Copic markers, pastels and colour pencils. Muhammad works in industrial design and is from Singapore.

Chad Baptiste: “This was the first mass produced Gundam, the Federation Mobile Suit RX-79 Ground Type Mobile Suit. Very armored and well adapted for earth terrain combat, the RX-79 features the same functional ability as the RX-78 Gundam but equipped with tech suitable for Earth Combat.”

Patrick Locke: Self-proclaimed genius from Canada.

Kseronarogu: Is Aconcept artist from poland.

Gemma Riley: Just launched her personal site, Gemma is a UCLAN design student working towards her Product Design degree.

Article written by Jared Thompson

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1. I was amazed to learn that the design blog is only 17 months old, what was the first mission statement to yourself when beginning your blog? Did you have a definite goal you wanted to achieve when setting the blog up?

I did not have a mission plan or goal when I started the blog. It was a personal experiment to see whether I could do it. I wanted a challenge and an outlet for my creativity. Creating the blog was a very impulsive decision, which I have never regretted.

2. What did you study at university/college and was there a specific reason you chose to study these areas?

I’ve just graduated with a Masters in Physics from University College London. I was always good at mathematics, but wanted to study a more practical subject. Physics seemed like the perfect choice. I always compare the relation between physics and mathematics to the relation between art and graphic design. Furthermore I knew that a physics degree would give me plenty of career options (even though design wasn’t one of them.)

3. Where did fudge graphics as a brand name come from? Or does it stem from your love of chocolate cereals?

I wanted to come up with a brand name starting with ‘F’ to tie in with my name. That was the only premise. It was essentially the saying “what the fudge?” which made me choose the name. A quick Google search later I discovered that Fudgegraphics was still up for grabs and so I simply registered the name. I would love to have a great story about how I love chocolate fudge (which I do) and that it is the reason behind the name, but it’s not. It was just a random name I came up with and loved instantly.

4. Having previously resided in Luxembourg was it a conscious decision to move to London for graphic design work? Or was the move more personally motivated?

I moved to London for university. At the time I had no idea that I would pursue a design career later on. I’ve just always loved the city and hence applied to London-based universities. Now that I’ve graduated I can say that I’ll stay in London due to design. The city inspires me and I got most of my clients based in the capital. I know that Luxembourg can’t offer me any of it.

5. Has the move to the UK been positive? Or are there some horror stories about living in the nation’s capital?

It’s been very positive. Although 2 years ago my flat got broken into and they stole my laptop I feel very safe here. The people are incredible and I particularly love the vibrant live music scene. I can only speak for myself, but I felt at home right away. The city is very open-minded.

6. You say you like Indie music how wide is your music taste and does this music inspire you when designing work for clients? Is there a particular band/style of music you love to listen to when designing?

Music plays a major role in my design process. As soon as I start up my computer I open iTunes. I often design for bands so it helps to listen to their music while working on their projects. It allows me to grasp the essence of the job. While working on other projects I like listening to folk and Indie rock. Lately I’ve been listening a lot to Jose Gonzalez, Iron & Wine and Damien Rice.

7. How much of a role does blogging take in your average working week, is there a specific time of day/week that you set aside to work online? Or do you just play it as it goes?

I don’t have a specific blogging schedule. Whenever I come up with a new idea for an article I’ll write it down in my moleskin immediately and work on it as soon as I find time. The time spent on the blog varies depending on my workload and inspiration.

8. You signal in your bio; Scott Hansen and James White as your two favorite artists of all time, was there a particular piece of work or group of works which really turned you onto design and decided to study and eventually make it your career?

I love every single piece of design by these two artists and discover so many outstanding designers while researching new featured artists for the blog that it is impossible to pick a specific piece as turning point. Everything just added up and gradually I fell in love with design.

9. With such a successful site, do you have other people, which help you in its day-to-day workings? Or do you undertake most of the work yourself?

No I don’t. Fudge graphics is entirely run and managed by myself. Except for Alec Schmidt who has written a couple of guest articles including the very first tutorial published on the blog. By taking control of everything, including the areas I had no experience in, I gained invaluable knowledge. Sure it took longer to get the WordPress theme up and running, but it helped broaden my design and development skills.

10. What software do you use the most as a designer and do you have a particular favorite, which can find you spend hours on end working with?

That would be Photoshop and Illustrator. Many of my designs start of in AI as simple geometric shapes. Once the main layout of the piece is done everything is imported into Photoshop where I tweak the colours and add textures to give it a more organic look. Apart from the Adobe Suite I am a big fan of Billings, which lets you track your time and send invoices. Last but not least I use iTunes every day. Music and design go hand in hand for me.

11. What would you do on your vacation time, if there was no list client to complete work for and a free calendar was all you could see?

In that case I would travel. I didn’t have a real holiday for some time, just lying on the beach and enjoying myself. Also many of my friends are spread all across Europe due to university so I would go visit them.

Fudgegraphics is Franz Jeitz, who is from Luxembourg and is currently located in London where he work’s as a freelance graphic designer. Fudgegraphics was born in April 2008 and can be described as a design inspirational blog. It is a source of freebies such as photoshop brushes, textures and vectors.

Visit FudgeGraphics Here

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Twitter has spawned up as an amazing tool in promotion of articles, social lives, news and many other things. But from looking at people’s profiles especially designers and large brands we can see some amazing twitter background designs also. Here are just a few of the best that I have seen in recent weeks and months.

@kateconsumption:

Designed by herself, I just love all the detail in the drawings!

@emilychang

Love the little character on this digital photo background.

@TadCarpenter

Some great illustrations here.

@arronlock

Simple, great typography and personally designed.

@bongobrian

Designed by the man himself, great colour scheme here.

@dasgrafik

This man has some strong photoshop skills, even if he did say so himself.

@novelhunter

Love the colour scheme and simplicity not too overcrowded. (made by @nymphont)

@fuelyourapps

Simple, clean and concise; you don’t need much more than that.

@twofivethreetwo

The avatar was drawn by @happymonkeyshoe, but the background as a whole I’m loving.

@Designfeedr

Some great illustration the eye for detail on this background is awesome.

@DesignerDepot

Brilliant colour scheme all works so well together.

@FredzGraphiks

Simple yet so effective, the colors of the background and text in the main page intertwine into one great page.

@jeff_finley

Good use of darkness in this background and allows the picture and text to stand out more.

@gracesmith

Love the photography in the hand being part of the design with the text taking over the left side.

@nymphont

Lovely texture down the right hand side with a simple picture and sticky note text.

@OuttheOtherSide

Love the angel from one of Christy’s illustrative works, concise and great use of colour to make parts stand out better.

@zixpk

Creative typography background behind the image and text with lovely use of opacity.

@prettycooltimes

Love the logo the most in this piece.

@dani

This maybe my favorite design of the lot with just everything positive and bright. Really appeals to my abstract design which is seen a lot now a days with hardcore/emo/alternative bands across the board.

@AisleOne

Minimal + Typography at its best.

@instantshift

Matches up with the instant shift website brilliantly, whilst having its own personality.

@JasonBradbury

The Gadget Show’s finest presenter shows of a great background design here.

@naldzgraphics

Again fits in so well with the same website of the creator, be sure to check that out also!

@fudgegraphics

Brilliant, i loved the revamp when the website was done up and this echo’s the same design quality.

@yankodesign

A different approach to twitter background design, who wouldn’t love the bird icon.

@boogiesbc

Love the paint dripping affect, which dominates the top part of this design.

@chrisspooner

Awesome, be sure to check out his design blog for some amazing work everytime.

Don’t Forget to check these people out and twitter and myself @jthompsondesign.

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Article written by Jared Thompson

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