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Flickr Group Showcase #2: The Best Digital Artworks

Jared — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:57:20 +0000

One of the ways in which we can all interact as a community is to join the design something Flickr group. It is a way for people to add their work which can later be collated at intervals to showcased on this blog, this is the second collection of works which has been submitted into the group.

Big Shout out to these two designers for being featured in today’s Showcase:

ArnoKath

Dark Corner Now

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Design Something Showcase: Why we all Love Typography

Jared — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:26:46 +0000

Typography can make any piece of work stand out from the crowd, the subtlety of some aspects in typography can really provide a quality edge.

The urban dictionary describes Typography to be:

The study of the design of letter forms, exhibited in type/font styles.

To many people it is different things, I personally find text art to be such a great simple yet highly motivational strand of design.

Kick back and let your Tuesday be ignited by some of the best typography from the past few weeks on the web.

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Guest Post: Amazing Cosplay Photography Collection

Jared — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:23:23 +0000

Cosplay put simply is short for ‘costume play’ and stems form the Japanese love for Manga and Anime cartoons. Although I don’t confess to be a big love of this subculture I have often found myself admiring the quality of the work gone into these type of costumes and characters.

Each picture links back to its original location on deviantART.

Wh-wh-WHAAAAT

Objection Overrocked

Question About God

Lust for Blood

Ka-Mehhh Ha-Mehhh

Breakfast at ShinRa

I can smell Sephy-stink

And so he take Sword in Hand

One Sky

Tamahome vs Tasuki

Let it Rip

Beyblade’s Back

Alexiel the Magnificent

Farewell

The Hero

Riku The Other One

RikuSora

Master of Puppets

Briefcase Battle

You Talkin’ ta me?

Pure Rasengan

Baskerville Hungers

Just Shutup and Duel Me

Something for Kuro Fai Fans

Gunsmoke’s Legend

Yami Cosplay

Houki Boshi

Link and Epona

A Pleasant Day in Ordon

Sephiroth Cosplayi

Karakura Heroes

Yusei Fudo

Kingdom Hearts 2

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Article written by Emily Crees, she is from Birmingham England, who has a great passion for all things anime and Cosplay. Check her out on DeviantART here.

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Past Desktop Designs

dan j. 23 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:38:29 +0000

I am a customisation freak, and this is something I love when it comes to desktops. Thanks to DevArt, in the past few years, every time I have changed my desktop I have taken a shot of it.
Also, as I am a computer freak, I have obtained a few too many computers, containing a few too many drives, which hold on them a few too many desktops.
Therefore this post will contain a collection of my desktops throughout the years, the first few I admit are very outdated, and for some reason unknown to me, there is a 3 year gap (I will also later produce a post with my most favoured desktops done by others):

2004 Win XP

2004 Win XP No.2

2004 Talisman

2005 Win Xp

2005 Win XP No.2

2005 Win XP No.3

2008 Leopard OSX

2009 Leopard OSX No.2

2009 Leopard OSX No.3

2009 Vista

2009 Vista No.2

2009 Leopard OSX No.4

2009 Snow Leopard OSX

2009 Ubuntu

2009 Win 7

2010 Win 7

To keep up-to-date with my desktops or for any other reason, watch me on Deviant Art.

Http://dj23.deviantart.com

Best of the Web: Design Juices

Jared — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:26:47 +0000

Whats the Best Way to Promote your Latest Article?

How do we all drive people to our site? To see the articles we all slave over for hours each day?

Each of us are all out here to get the most hits we can onto our pages, (whether it’s to create advertisement revenue or not.) There are several ways in which to achieve this, and I hope to discuss two of the easiest and simple in which to setup and carry out.

Devilishly Deviant: My Favourite DeviantART Photographers and Artists

These are some of my favourite deviants I have found to have not only great artwork/photography, but are also talkative and are willing to converse in the community as well. Be sure to check them out and favourite their works, I can also be found on DeviantART here.

Five Design blogs to Watch out for in 2010

I personally use Google Reader to organize my blog roll, and keep up-to-date on a daily basis with several blogs. These are just some of the blogs which pop out in their design, content and originality.

I Love Typography

Design and Typography go hand in hand, designers the world over use typography in logo’s, advertisements, packaging and posters. It can make any piece of work stand out from the crowd.

This round-up shows off the best in typography in all forms styles, quality is of the highest callibre and approaches range for the conventional to the unique. Design can’t be made without the inclusion of characters and type, the more consideration you give to the minor details the more you will find these subtleties give your design the edge in quality.

Graphic designers and artist’s can use typography to give there work the edge, whether they want to make it look clean cut and minimal or grunge and street like.

20 of the Best Typographical Portraits Found on the Web

Typography affects everything, its how big a title to be, its how widely spaced your having your paragraphs on your page. I want to show the best in typographical portraits found on the web, typographical portraits show the highest quality in artistry and skills. Text art is a growing passion of mine and these works are a small roundup of some of the best works you can discover today.

The Best & Most Popular Cosplay Photography from DeviantART

Cosplay put simply is short for ‘costume play’ and stems form the Japanese love for Manga and Anime cartoons. Although I don’t confess to be a big love of this subculture I have often found myself admiring the quality of the work gone into these type of costumes and characters.

Photographer In Profile: Micala Michuad

Recently I have had to opportunity to connect with several artists, photographers and designers over at DeviantART. Immediately over the past few days and weeks I have become rather drawn to the photography of Micala Michaud, I recently got the chance to interview her with a few lightweight questions. Also be sure to check out a selection of her work below, with me showcasing some of my favourite pieces by Micala.

Check out my guest posts

I was lucky enough to recently get the chance for the esteemed design site, Tripwire Magazine: ‘What Benefits does Guest Writing bring for Designers?’ If you would so kind as to read, comment, RT and/or post I would be most greatful!

Today I have also been published over at Design Woop, such a great article came out of working with @stugreeham; find the article ‘Thinking Outside the Box: Desirable Packaging Collection.’

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Introducing.. OhBrightBlack

Jared — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:14:45 +0000

OhBrightBlack is a great amateur digital photographer, found on my travels and browsing around on DeviantART. Hailing from the United States and being still young who knows what the future has in store for her! Her photography encompasses several styles and features creative subjects and styles, check out her brilliant quality work and be sure to leave your comments below!

Find OhBrightBlack Twitter Page here

Find her on DeviantART

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Owner and writer of Design Juices, 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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High-Quality Photography of Sexy Stripy Socks

Jared — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:24:30 +0000

We’ve all seen them, whether they are knee high or just over the tops of a pair of converse. Stripy socks have something about them which makes them alluring, these photographs taken from DeviantART showcase some brilliant camerawork using close-up and clever angle selection in producing some quite breath taking shots.

Each photograph links back to its original location online.

Find A True Design Icon & Stripes: The Chuck Taylor Converse & Sexy Stripey Socks on Design Juices

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Article written by Jared Thompson

Owner and writer of Design Juices, 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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Designers In Profile: Sabri Akin

Jared — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:04:48 +0000

Sabri Akin is an Istanbul based, freelance designer and photographer and a student in VCD department of Istanbul Bilgi University. His inspirations include basic geometric shape unities, technology, robots, minimalism.

Find Sabri Akin on the Behance Network

Find Sabri Akin online here

Taken from the project ‘F*ck mon ex!’

Taken from the project ‘Quarryland’

Taken from the project ‘Typography for the masses’

Taken from the project ‘I am confused’

Taken from the project ‘Tell the Truth’

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Owner and writer of Design Juices, 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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The Best Of: Design Boom

Jared — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:25:17 +0000

Design Boom is a great site for the best in design news of all types and disciplines, Luckily I am subscribed to their RSS feed. This allows me to receive each of their articles into my Google reader inbox each day. Here I am going to round-up some of my favourite articles from which they have released in the past few weeks.

Lego Big Mac

Ever Wanted your chips made of bricks?

Istvan Kulinyi: Mobil Pixel Lamp

This is one sexy lamp, made by Hungarian designer Kulinyi.

Lava: Tower Skin

International architectural firm LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin that promises to transforms aged 1960′s buildings in Sydney, into sustainable, iconic buildings.

Augmented Reality T-shirt

The future in augmented reality is amazing to think of!

Solar Powered Lawn Mower

Creative design thinking at its best!

Monopoly Revolution

The classic board game undertakes a new look.

Notion: Air Helmet

A new form of head protection for snow sports.

Airmouse

The concept aims to prevent repetitive stress injuries by dissolving the standard desktop mouse into a floating device worn on the user’s hand.

Julien Renault: Hand Forged Aluminium Stools

Hand craftsmanship at it’s very best.

House Made with 15 Shipping Containers

How can you not be a little interested in this concept?

2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals

Everyone is buzzing over the Olympics, check out the medals the athletes are vying to win.

Olympic Medal Design

The design process by Omer Arbel.

Karim Rashid for XO

You’ve seen him on Objectified now check out his furniture and stools collection.

Toronto Interior Design Show: Prototype

Love some great prototype designs.

Article written by Jared Thompson

Owner and writer of Design Juices, 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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Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010: Ultimate Collection of Links From The Design Community

Jared — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:51:00 +0000

A Gold Medal Win: the Vancouver 2010 Campaign via Fuel Your Creativity

2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals via Design Boom

Meet The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Mascots via Bitrebels

Cannon Design: Richmond Olympic Oval via Design Boom

Vancouver 2010 Advertising by Vanoc via Design You Trust

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Victory Ceremony Podiums via Core77

Picture in Picture: Where the Camera is the Focus of Attention

Jared — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:43:59 +0000

This collection is an array of photos where the camera is the subject and focus of the photographers thinking, each photo links back to the original photograph on the web.

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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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My Bookmarked Tools.

dan j. 23 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:25:31 +0000

Now over the past few months I have left this blog in the hands of the most enthusiastic blogger I have come across, Jared. I now feel obliged to post something every now and then when I find the time, but I can never think of anything that will compare to his imaginative and fantastic posts. Either way, I’m going to have an attempt.

Being a designer (product, graphic, and website) I have collected a few bookmarks throughout the time. I will therefore list the ones that I personally use, they might not be ideal for yourself, but some may catch your eye. I hope you enjoy them:

Wallbase
Looking for a new, high quality desktop wallpaper? Certainly a place to think about along with DevArt. The website layout is simple and clean, and the browsing is efficient and fast.

IconFinder
I’m constantly wanting new icons for various websites, I admit I usually scan other blogposts to find some, however I recently came across this site and found it to be rather helpful. Not just website icons, but also icons for you to personalise your computer.

Icon Resources
For more icons, ideally for websites, this post has helped me along the way.

Essential Mac Apps
There are thousands of posts about ‘must have Mac Apps’ and being a computer enthusiast I have always wanted to hop on the bandwagon and add what I think are the best apps for the Mac. However, for the time being I shall recommend this post that simply lists a selection of ideal applications.

Paper Textures
A huge collection of high quality paper textures that have made themselves useful within my graphical works. Quite a few of them, the more choice the better.

Pattern Cooler
This site offers a huge resource of patterns for you website backgrounds, some quite ugly… but also some at the other end of the scale that are very innovative and attractive.

Submit Buttons
A nice post on customising your Submit form button and getting the most of the aesthetic appeal of the element within your website.

13 Essential CSS Tools
Need to create a basic stylesheet and fast? This post has a collection of quite a range of useful tools for you to create your site layout, and understand what exactly does what.

Desktop Customisation
A collection of some of the most attractive customised desktops I have seen, actually a pos that I forgot all about. I remember that I attempted the State of Flux however I believe some of the links of the resources were broken. If anyone has any over great desktop customisation tips, please let me know.

Download Sites
A post of over 100 websites that offer a method to download certain things. Certainly something for the download junkie out there, and that doesn’t break the law.

Ubuntu Boost
Get the best performance from your Linux operating system by visiting this post and discovering what tweaks you can do to your system to speed it up.

Windows 7 Boost
Not really boosts but simple little tweaks that make the new operating system more personal. I have to say that I have grown to love Windows 7, I did follow the crowd on disliking Vista, however I do feel that 7 is a step forward in Microsoft’s market.

jQuery Resources
Love jQuery? I know I do, such a brilliant tool to enhance your user’s experience on your website. Find a few neat little scripts in this post that can help your site.

Ninite
Got a new computer, or installed a new operating system recently and need all your apps back on? Well Ninite offers a selection of freeware apps that are very popular (I use alot of them) and allows you to download and install all the apps that you want, all in one.

Firefox Hacks
If you haven’t gone to the Chrome side, or the simple side of Safari, and I hope to God that you do not use IE, then these little hacks for your firefox are to enable the app to give you the most efficiency in production. It is a dated post I admit, and most likely there are more valuable posts out there, but this one has helped me.

Audio Mashup
This last link isn’t really anything useful, but I feel is rather inspirational. If your internet does not lag, and your browser can handle many videos at once, then head on over to this link. It is a collection of videos of people playing a tune on a different instrument. They are all in time with each other and no matter what order you play a video in, they all play together. Quite interesting really.

I know this post is just linking to other people’s posts but I find these things useful and would just like to share them with you. I hope they have helped you in some way, and if they haven’t, sorry for wasting your time.

I have many more tools that I use and I know I have left thousands out, so feel free to post up what you find useful. I only got onto page 3 of my Stumble favourites when creating this post. I will try to post more soon.

Thanks.

Dan.