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Typographic Tee’s And Where To Get Them
I love Typography and what better way to express that than by wearing them. Typographic T shirts are my favorite. What is great about being online is that you get to check out very cool designs and buy them right away. One online shop is called the Sackwear.com.
Founded in 2005, Sackwear has ship ...
How To: Create a Fire Effect | Photoshop
Fire is one of the hardest elements to create in Photoshop and several designers and artists have tried to experiment with different tools and plug-ins in order to create the very best and believable effect yet portrayed. There are some really expensive plug-ins that you can use to create realistic ...
Freelancer Do’s and Don’ts for Growing Business
If you are an entrepreneur, you are in sales and you most likely spend part of your day growing your business by contacting leads and talking to prospects.
I think we are all in sales in one way or another. Whether you convinced your husband to marry you, you convinced your daughter to go to bed ...
Junk Art by Gabriel Dishaw
Another man's junk maybe another man's treasure holds true for artist Gabriel Dishaw. He does sculptures from found objects.
What is Junk Art? Junk Art is a three-dimensional art made from discarded material (as metal, mortar, glass, or wood). The artist truly takes time in re creating the wonde ...
Artists Finger Painting on The iPhone | AMAZING
Are you an artists that uses real brushes and real canvases to create stunning and mind blowing art pieces? Or are you even using a computer with a wacom pad to make sure you end up with a truly sizable piece? Well, I have one better on you and this is going to blow you away! If it doesn't...well th ...
New Site To Unleash the Stylist in You!
For someone who likes fashion and like to make your mark in the fashion scene, here is a cool interactive site that will surely bring out the Fashionista in you. LookLet.com. It's going to be social in mature soon as in a couple of months they will give you the chance to invite your friends to joi ...
Typography Landscape | Hand Drawn Awesomeness
I can just say wow. I have no other word to describe this very creative and awesome looking piece of artwork. Literally I am on my way here to the studio and got caught up in front of the computer looking at this person hand drawing a landscape typography piece. The amount of time this must have tak ...
Virtual Weight Loss | Photoshop Tutorial
The digital age has bright with it some weird and sometimes awkward ideal as we more and more see models that are paper thin becoming the superstars of cover magazines. It sometimes boggles me that some, really beautiful girls, go through the retouche process in order to look, what they call, flawle ...
Installation Art | in your living room
For those of you who love other people's apartments, but don't know what to do with your own, this post is for you : )
You don't need to hire a stylist, decorator or feng-shui guru to come up with a comfortable, art-inspired space. If you are like me and have collected all kinds of art, objects a ...
Grafitti – Art of Outlaws | Time Lapse
I don't claim to know or understand the lifestyle and culture of graffiti artists but I can say this. I am ultimately inspired by the many awesome pieces of work some of them do. The "Taggers" i could live without but the fine art of some is what gets me going in the morning. Walking across a tunnel ...
The Falcon
As you know, I love stop-motion films. You may not know that I have a background in Sculpture, with a focus on metal casting and found objects. I love finding objects in random places and re-using them for something totally unexpected. So this vid is a complete merger of some of my most favorite th ...
Spray Paint Design | Making The Wall
What do you think of when you hear the words "Spray Paint"? I bet you're thinking about Graffiti and malicious tagging. Am I wrong? Well, spray paint isn't just for ego walls around the city or for touching up that old bike of yours. Nope, nothing at all in that direction actually. Mike Oncley has r ...
Helvetica vs Arial
I can't get enough of these hilarious vids at College Humor. While most are incredibly funny, others can run a little on the slim side of crass. This particular vid is a rebuttal to the original Font Conference video, also super funny. I love the personalization of each font. The costumes are fab an ...
Typolution | Best Typography Short Movie Ever
As I was compiling an article about typography and it's origins I stumbled over this amazing looking and genius short movie. It depicts human evolution using only typography. Every raindrop, every branch, leaf...you name it. It's entirely created using letters, numbers and signs. Created by Olivier ...
Typeface Design | Identity Study
Creating a visually pleasing design is quite a feat and takes some thinking to pull off. Did you know typeface has a whole history of cool things behind it's creation and evolution. There is a font that defines everything. Even years and of course identities. It's easy being lost when trying to choo ...