39 Creative Lego Advertisements

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Lego creativity is not limited to building bricks and stop motion movies, it extends even to advertising. As with plastic bricks, they can take the simplest concept and often make a powerful and witty statement.
There approach is often minimal, a trait I like, as you will be able to see in the first few images below.
There is no end to Lego creativity.
(Were I could I have linked to the original source).

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Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact

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While creating things from scratch is an awesome way to showcase your style and technique, using stock photos is an easier way to add impacting detail to your work. To be able to do all that, we’ll be using various ways to separate photos from their backgrounds, manipulating them and altering the overall lighting, contrast, and color balance to finish off this complex illustration.

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Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop

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This is an inspiration from the Bolt movie poster. In this tutorial you will create a glossy thunder logo using a few layers and some white shapes that will make the thunder more interesting and glossy.

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40 Logo Design Tutorials

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Logo design is a sophisticated and complex process. The hardest thing to do is to come up with the concept behind the logo. Once you know what kind of logo you want, you sketch and design it. Logo design is one of those thing that has to be perfected, because a logo represents an idea,  a brand and an identity. In recent contest I asked Desizn Tech’s reader what kind of post they would like to see, some readers asked about logo design tutorial. In this post, you will find 40 different kind logo tutorial from beginners to advanced level. Beside logo design, some of the links includes broad analysis behind the logo design process which should be helpful for graphic designers and web designers.

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41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes

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It takes time to search for nice looking Wordpress themes, let alone nice and yet free Wordpress themes. We constantly keep our eyes on great and free Wordpress themes released, bookmarked them and put on a showcase when we think it’s too much to keep.

This following entry comprise of nicely design Wordpress themes, magazine alike as well as high quality premium themes you don’t have to pay a penny for. This week for Wordpress, we present – 41 Great Looking Free WordPress Themes.

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Button Design Showcase

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Button design is something that may be considered a small detail and doesn’t often get a lot of attention, but well-designed buttons can make a big difference in the overall look of a site. In this post we’ll look at 40 buttons that come in a variety of shapes, sizes, styles and colors.

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Typography desktop wallpapers.

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There are many more quality type-related wallpapers for desktop, iPhone, & G1 over at typenuts.com

If you’d like to see more sizes and more designs, then let me know. You might even want to try designing your own. iPhone wallpapers are here! You might also like to try these at Veer. There are many more wallpapers and designs on the  favourite letters Flickr group.

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20 Great Digital Drawings by Patrick Brown

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The Australian artist Patrick Brown really impressed me with his drawing skills. If you play Gran theft Auto you will be amazed how similar his style is to the graphics on the game, and how he also adapts that in other drawings. Awesome work, great inspiration, Enjoy!
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17 Rounded Corner Business Cards Designs

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While doing my usual design gallery browsing for cool new artwork I noticed a resurgence in rounded corner business cards designs, which inspired me to create this post. I have always been a fan of rounded corner business cards because of the feeling you can achieve with them. The rounded edges can give your card a more friendly vibe and the rounded edges are perfect for any web 2.0 businesses, which tend to have bubbly, roundish, design elements.

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Zach Bush Interview

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Zach Bush is a self proclaimed perfectionist, and we can not help but see perfection in his artwork. Zach has an amazing gift for creating realistic, detailed and original illustrations that not a lot of designers can really match. In this interview Zach will give the readers some sound advice on how to improve, and progress as an artist. So let’s start the interview!

1.  Could you tell us where you’re from and how you got started in the field?

Hello, my name is Zach Bush. I just turned 23 and graduated from Radford University in December. I guess I am kind of a late bloomer when it comes to graphic design. I never was interested in the field until the summer of my junior year of college, when a guy from my church asked if I would be willing to design web templates for his company. He offered to pay me and purchase Adobe Creative Suite, but in turn I would have to teach myself through online tutorials. I can honestly say if it weren’t for him I would have kept my art on paper.

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