Design Inspiration + Visual Art Inspiration

Bernie Lubell´s talk at Ars Electronica Yeah! The return of the ars electronica posts. To be honest with you, this is going to be a messy time on wmmna. There are still tons of stories to write about Conflux, my little trips to Chelsea, to Beijing and there are a few more reports in store. Right, here's the notes i took during the talk given by Bernie Lubell as a winner of the Interactive Art category.

20 design graphiques 28 octobre 2012 - graphisme - 4 059 views Cet article fait partie d’une série d’articles dans lesquels vous trouverez les images du web les plus inspirantes pour vos créations graphiques. «Bruised Water» par Marcusavedis - via Deviant Art Graphisme de Vector 619 - via Daily Inspiration Portrait par Xavier Gironès - via Daily Inspiration «SJ + Thoughts on the Matter» par Mahdi Chowdhury - via Behance Network Engagement Analytics Now Includes Facebook's "People Talking About" by Martin Homolka, Socialbakers Co-Founder & CTO Before now, we have integrated directly to Facebook so that we could offer you access across complete data sets that are publicly available. We are pleased to announce that we have integrated to Facebook Insights and that we have added a metric for “People Talking About” to our portfolio of metrics. So, what is" People Talking About" and how does this metric appear in Socialbakers Engagement Analytics “People Talking About” is a value that is visible on every Facebook page and appears below the number of fans.

Designer Spotlight: Richard Arthur Stewart Some great projects with a vintage feel from Richard Arthur Stewart. Lots more after the jump. Paul Villinski artwork > birds and butterflies birds and butterflies I am drawn to humble, yet evocative materials; in this case, crushed beer cans from the streets of New York - every one of them once raised to someone’s lips. My process of “recycling” them into images of butterflies is a quiet physical meditation, a yoga of tin snips and files and fingers.read more: • on beer can butterflies As the butterflies alight on the walls of my studio, they lead into an exploration of formal, painterly issues. Often, they want to gather into a certain shape, or fly off on a particular tangent, and I let them. They function both as marks in these abstract, three-dimensional “paintings,” and as actors in curious narratives. Some pieces develop a quirky, magic-realist quality, as if a strange child has trained the insects to perform some ritual dance we are not usually privy to.

15 Must-Have Bookmarklets For Web Designers And Developers Bookmarklets are a great way of saving time when used regularly. With just a click, they can provide so much information / help. Here is a list of 15 very handy web designer / developer bookmarklets which includes: learning the colors usedinserting a ruler on a webpagereloading CSS without reloading the whole site & more.. To use them, bookmark the "Get It" links. we heart it / visual bookmark We Heart It Believe, Feel, Love, Be, Create, Inspire. Join We Heart It What's this all about? Michael Shapcott - Part 2 Work in Progress (Graphite) I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of seeing into the future. Ultimately I feel that we are the creators of our own destiny but also that there is this mystery and force that is greater than ourselves simultaneously at work.

Graphic Exchange - The blog of Mr Cup - graphic design, print, identity, products and more... This new deck by Joe White follow the Contraband one. You know Joe and his amazing detailed design as we work together on the (sold out) 2015 edition of the calendar and he designed the front cover. Every single playing card within the High Victorian deck was designed from scratch - even the Aces, Jokers, and court cards exude the grand excess of ornamentation quintessential to the Victorian era. In a word: breathtaking. Antler is a deck designed by Tom Lane, who also creates this year edition of the front cover of the letterpress calendar!

Cool And Free Launch Page With Ajax Newsletter Almost every web project needs a "launch page (under construction page)" or a page to show when the website is under maintenance. Rather than creating a new one from scratch for every project, here is a free launch page with an Ajax newsletter. Don't forget to bookmark this resource at del.icio.us. E-mails are saved in a .txt file with ";" delimiters.

Pintics’ Founders Create ShopInterest, A “Shopify For Pinterest” The same guys who built the Pinterest analytics service Pintics spent the weekend at the AngelHack Hackathon in Palo Alto working on another Pinterest-related project. This time around, the result is ShopInterest, a DIY service that lets anyone turn their Pinterest boards into an online store. Inspired by the burgeoning social shopping trend found on sites like Fab.com, for example, ShopInterest turns your curated pin collections into web shops that include an integrated shopping cart experience. It’s “Shopify for Pinterest,” the company explains.

Logo Design Inspiration: Top 10 Galleries to Check Out A fine way to jumpstart any design project is to look at inspiring visuals, especially when your creativity is a bit depleted. After reviewing many sites, in this roundup, I’ll present my handpicked, top favorite websites for seeing examples of beautiful logos. 1.