3D Photo taking

Interesting concept, something to look into.

http://digital-photography-school.com/9-crazy-cross-eye-3d-
photography-images-and-how-to-make-them

http://www.neilcreek.com/blog/2008/03/21/how-to-take-3d-photos/

Green and earthy Photoshop effects

Some more effects I want to try out.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/35-green-and-earthy-photoshop-effects/

Logopond

More logo identity inspirations

http://logopond.com/

Tutorial9

Stumbled upon a great resource for tutorials …

something for everyone lol.

http://www.tutorial9.net/

Myth of the page fold

Well this is a different message from the one we know about people
not scrolling down the pages.  Good ideas here.

http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/thoughts/
the_myth_of_the_page_fold_evidence_from_user_testing.htm

100 Websites with outstanding artistic design

Well most of them have, lol,
but this is a treasure trove of imagination.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/
100-websites-with-outstanding-artistic-design/

Mirror images .. photomanipulation

Gotta love these,
love the imaginations and the mirrored images.

http://ow.ly/15Tv0c

Different styles of navigation

This link takes us to a site providing examples of
different styles  of website navigation bars,
very interesting.

http://designtutorials4u.com/
15-website-creative-navigationmenu-bars/

Beautiful typography

Really beautiful examples of typography creativity.
Bravo!

http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/
39-astonishing-examples-of-3d-typography/

Build your online gallery portfolio

Fantastic tutorial here on how to build your own
photo gallery portfolio.
We are covering this shortly in our course, so this will
give me extra reference.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/portfolio/portfolio.htm

Photoshop tutorials

From the site Photoshop Cafe.
Could be lost here for quite some time lol.

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/tutorials.htm

15 Premium icon sets for web developers

Underneath is a link to these 15 icon sets,
they are pay to use ones and a very handy resource.

http://www.webdesigndev.com/roundups/
15-premium-icon-sets-that-are-worth-their-money

Primary design elements

This is part one of a new series aimed at new designers
or as a brief refresher course.
The author is Jennifer Farley and she is providing
these free.

http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/10/08/
the-primary-design-elements-a-new-series/

5 Beautiful text effects .. free

Here are five rather nice text effects provided
for free.  They are in layer form and provide good ideas.

http://ow.ly/15TqtI

United colours of Benetton

Beautiful advertisements.

http://abduzeedo.com/awesome-and-controversial-ads-benetton

Free unique Halloween brushes

Some of these brushes are amazing,
I downloaded the creepy trees brushes.
I cannot vouch if they are truly freebies or not as
I haven’t checked them all individually.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#5FgIa8/
designora.com/tools/photoshop-brushes-halloween//

Ads of the world

Quite self-explanatory and definitely a good
place for inspirations.

http://adsoftheworld.com/

40 free fonts for professional designs

Well, I did not know until tonight that we are not
allowed to embed commercial fonts within our web pages,
however the following sites gives links to free fonts
which are restriction free.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/
40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/

How to create our earth in Photoshop

How clever is this, I’ve just learned a new tool (for me) in
photoshop, this is really nifty,
well I am a beginner anyway, lol.

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/3d/
create-a-shiny-earth-with-photoshop-3d-layers/

20 plus creative album covers

Beautiful work in most of these,
I stand in awe.

http://webitect.net/design/20-creative-album-cover-designs-for-inspiration/

Typography .. Heist

Development of a logo from initial sketch to completion.
Very interesting and a wonderful result.

http://www.typographyserved.com/Gallery/Heist-Type/183359

Wonderful Illustrations

By Tamas Gaspar.
These illustrations are simply fanstastic!

Enjoy….

http://abduzeedo.com/wonderful-illustrations-tamas-gaspar

More abstract vector designs

Found another tutorial to play with,
one day, soon lol.

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/tutorials/
how-to-create-an-abstract-vector-design-in-illustrator

My exercise for today

Been busy today with the following exercise on symbol design.
Our brief was to design a symbol logo for a tshirt
and to include text wrap around the graphic.
I used a graphic from the net, traced around the outline of the tail,
coloured the black and white items,
drew in the waves and included the text.
I am really excited about future possibilities of this type of designing.

Graphical resumes

Well here’s another way to utilise my talents as a graphic designer,
lol,
check out these ‘beautiful resumes’.

http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2008/09/
the-20-most-creative-resumes-ive-seen-in-a-long-time-pure-inspiration/