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Comment activer l'accès hors ligne pour Google Calendar, Docs et Gmail sur Chrome Google recently re-launched offline access to major Google services on Chrome with the new HTML5 technology. This is a small guide to help you get it working on Chrome, Chrome OS and Chromebooks Offline Gmail After removing the original offline gmail access set up, Google re-introduced it as an app for Google Chrome which also has a shiny new UI. All you need to do is install the new app and click “allow access” when asked for. Gmail Offline beta is a Gmail app built to support offline access, allowing mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived without network access.

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Arsenixc Artworks Arsenixc Artworks » Illustration » No Comments » | Pictures © Arsenixc | 15 Inspiring Examples of Illustration in Web Design Even though the hot trend now in web design seems to be big and bold images, the use of illustrations is not dead. Illustrations are certainly a good way to give a design personality. From illustrated icons and small details, to hand drawn backgrounds, you can choose your own approach on how to incorporate this in your designs. But as usual, if you need inspiration, we’ve got you covered. Here is a collection of sites that do an excellent job of utilizing illustrations.

Ornate Skeletal Installations by Monika Horčicová Pablo Picasso once said, “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” And while art has evolved dramatically, the classic fundamental of anatomy remains the same. Czech sculptor Monika Horčicová creates ornate installations with polyester resin skeletons as her medium. Some might call her work morbid, others a beautiful reimagining and application of the human form. This Is Not a Photograph of Morgan Freeman This incredibly realistic painting of Morgan Freeman was created with just one finger on an iPad Air, all in one layer. Artist Kyle Lambert is a trained oil painter and illustrator from the UK who uses his YouTube account to upload time-lapses of his impressive iPad painting projects, frequently choosing celebrities such as Freeman for his subjects. Lambert told Mashable the painting took a month to create using the iPad app Procreate. "It captures every brush stroke automatically and you can export it to the camera roll," Lambert explained.

This Infinite Paradox "Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online Back in January, 2012, we mentioned that the Guggenheim (the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed modern art museum in NYC) had put 65 art catalogues on the web, all free of charge. We’re happy to report that, between then and now, the number of free texts has grown to 109. Published between 1937 and 1999, the art books/catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, Fernand Léger, and Kandinsky. s Blog » Artist Conducts Experiment Where he Draws Himself While on Different... Art, drugs and alcohol have gone hand in hand for centuries. Van Gogh was an avid Absinthe drinker and was known to finish a long day by taking a seat on a terrace with glass in hand, absinthe and brandy following each other in quick succession. Toulouse-Lautrec and Degas were also fans of the aquamarine liqueur, the former drinking it from a hollowed walking stick, the latter immortalizing it in his bleary-eyed painting, Absinthe Drinker. Van Gogh’s penchant for hallucinogens didn’t end with Absinthe.

The Highlights Of Stockholm Design Week 2013 The 62nd annual Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair (SFF) that takes place during the so-called 'Stockholm Design Week', has just officially wrapped (February 4 -10, 2013), offering architects, designers, bloggers and journalists from all over the world the chance to discover the freshest Scandinavian design around. Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Finnish companies aside, it's definitely worth mentioning that the bulk of international participants amounted to approximately 35% of the exhibitors. Thanks to the International Press Center of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden and the Swedish Embassy of my hometown Athens, Greece, I had the opportunity to visit a city I'd never seen before, during the most designicious week of the year!

New Stunningly Elaborate Scenes Created Without Photoshop by Jee Young Lee Seoul-based artist Jee Young Lee devotes weeks and months to building incredibly elaborate scenes by hand for the sake of taking a single photograph—all without the use of digital manipulation. Confined to the small space of her 360 x 410 x 240 cm studio, she painstakingly constructs every last detail of the set, from painted backgrounds to handmade props to objects suspended from the ceiling. The results are surreal, dreamlike images made all the more extraordinary by knowledge of how much grueling labor and patience went into creating each scene. At the focal point of nearly every photo is the artist herself, her gaze never quite meeting the viewer's directly. GABRIEL MARTÍNEZ MEAVE’S WEBSITE Illustration project for the handsome, new hard cover edition of the classic novel by Mexican author Juan Villoro (originally published in 2008 by Fondo de Cultura Económica, for its young readers’ collection «A la orilla el viento»). This new release commemorates FCE’s 80th anniversary; it was presented in the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, México, in December 2013. All illustrations were newly executed in traditional/digital techniques.