Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
How To: Create A Glossy Effect In Photoshop
The glossy effect is one of the most used effects on the Internet, and it's catching on more and more. What is always funny to me is that you see that glossy effect everywhere, but people don't know how to make it. So the question is really, is someone doing them all or are there just a few people k ...
A Magical World With No Gravity – Graphic Design & Photography
We've all thought about it, right? I've always wondered what it would be like if suddenly there was no gravity. When I was a little girl, I used to think about it all the time. I thought the whole concept was magical. Even now, I'm fascinated by the videos taken from inside the space shuttle whe ...
Portraits On The iPad – It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This!
When it comes to electronic gadgets, people tend to see them as bulky and proprietary machines that can't match the one thing we've had for hundreds of years, the pen. To write, draw, sketch or express ourselves, the easiest thing to do is just use a simple pen. When the iPad was launched, a lot o ...
Melting Cheese Head Art – Food Design Inspiration
Cheese heads are fun, aren't they? They are usually created in the spirit of comedy and make people laugh. I think my favorite cheese head to date is probably the Steve Jobs head.
The cheese heads I'm sharing with you today are supposed to be sophisticated art, so I will try not to joke around ...
The First Ever Drawing Of Batman’s Nemesis – The Joker
It is one of the highest grossing movies of all time. Batman - The Dark Night was a huge success and maybe it was due to the untimely death of Heath Ledger. In that movie, Heath made a legendary performance as the Joker that we will forever remember. There have been many different Jokers througho ...
How To: Make Yamaha’s VMAX Motorcycle In Paper Craft
I was never really into motorcycles when I was growing up. But then shortly after I graduated from high school, Brad Pitt stared in the movie Thelma and Louise. He was so handsome on that motorcycle, and I'm obviously not the only one that thought that. As the story goes, that movie skyrocketed h ...
Fun Food Inspired Flip Flops – Nom Nom!
Yesterday, Richard wrote an article about Edible Accessories. It got me thinking, if you are going to carry an edible handbag or wear an edible belt, what kind of shoes would complement that? After all, you would want your whole outfit to coordinate, right?
I've got the answer, and it's perfect ...
The Art of Drainspotting – Manhole Cover Creations
I've heard of using a pothole as a prop for creating intriguing artwork. There are some very interesting pictures of that here. However, I've never heard of making beautiful art by using a manhole cover!
Maybe you all have heard of this before - it's known as the art of "drainspotting." In Jap ...
Your Rainbow Colored Lunch – Photography Inspiration
We love creative uses of colors, don't you? @mistygirlph and I are inspired by vibrant, bright colors, and we feature them in our articles a lot.
A few articles that showcase gorgeous colors are:
A Look At Our World In Full Color
Colors, Colors & More Colors
I Love You More Than A Rainbow | D ...
The Flipped Axis Bridge – Driving Has Never Been So Confusing!
As if the world isn't complicated enough as it is... We have architects that try to come to terms with all the odd and confusing ideals we have learned throughout the years, but they always seem to come out short with their ideas. This one is no exception. Well, that is at least if you're not from ...
Creative Shoe Sculptures – Miami Style!
I haven't written a shoe article in about a week, so I figured it was about time for another one, right? After all, I can't get enough of shoes, and I know a lot of you feel the same way. We love them!
Like some of the shoes we've featured in the past, these shoes aren't exactly the kind you'd ...
How 2,000 Watercolor Paintings Became An Awesome Animation!
These days when pretty much every artist is releasing a song every month (it seems), it's ever clear that people are constantly trying to think up new concepts for their videos in order to capture the attention of their audience. It's vital for their survival as artists, and more often than not, th ...
Alcoholic Beverage Art – Colorful Pictures of Your Favorites
Wow, this is such an original and artistic way to turn chemistry into beautiful art! The folks at Bevshots took a little trip to the Florida State University chemistry lab where they had some fun! They took pictures of different kinds of alcohol as seen from under a microscope.
Of course, I'm o ...
The World of Manga In Papercraft Art
The whole Manga concept is huge in Japan. We all know that, right? Some of the girls there even put extra wide, tinted contact lenses in their eyes to make them look more like big, bright Manga eyes. You can read more about that bizarre trend here.
If you dig those Manga style eyes, but aren' ...
Fool’s Gold – A Fun Four Day Graffiti Extravaganza!
World famous UK graffiti artists INSA and Inkie did it! They traveled to four countries in four days for a ton of parties, painting, good times and Fool's Gold.
This European tour, called "Fool's Gold," took them to London, Brussels, Berlin and Warsaw. The endeavor was filmed for a documentary, ...