Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Movie Lovers: Geektastic Terminator Sculpture Of Film History
As if an Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator statue isn't cool enough, this one has enough geeky goodies added to it to possibly make it the geekiest Terminator sculpture ever created.
Enrique Ramos took five months to create this statue, which is his ultimate tribute to Hollywood. If you look clos ...
Design: Google’s Creative Director Makes A Parallel World
Some people who work at Google are very focused on coming up with new ways to harness creativity, innovation and space, as we all know. For example, there is a white space above us which is unused by television after the transition to digital. Google is working to find a way to use that space.
I ...
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The Designer Guide To Data Visualization [Infographic]
Data visualization comes in many forms and differs depending on what angle you want to showcase it. As a designer, it can sometimes be hard to know what way would be most beneficial to design an infographic to get the viewers to understand every aspect of it. Usually it is pretty straight forward, ...
Auto Ink: The Wacky Automatic Tattooing Machine
Aww... what a wonderful invention. Now the next time we have a party at home and all get drunk and decide it's time for tattoos, we don't even have to go anywhere! We can just pull the 'ol automatic tattoo machine out of the closet and form a line. We can all get random religious symbols that we ...
How To: Turn Your Sneakers Into Stylin Speakers
Have you ever heard of a sneaker customizer? Me either, until today. Alex Nash, otherwise known as NashMoney, calls himself a sneaker customizer. We've written a lot of articles about sneakers; however, what Alex did is very different. We normally see artists experiment with different sneaker de ...
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Hackers vs. Adobe: How File Types Cripple Security [Infographic]
Every day we see new malicious malware spring up, and our virus software captures thousands of new and old attacks on our computers. We're constantly trying to shield ourselves from the attacks but hackers continuously find new ways to get to our information. Adobe has been a target now for about ...
Super Mario Art Recreated In An Excel Document
It's quite apparent that design and art come in pretty much every form and shape. Since we don't want to limit ourselves to paper, we are always trying to create art on whatever surface we have available. Sometimes it's on a napkin and sometimes it's even on the thin transparent air that goes back ...
The Last Breakfast Illustration: Offensive or Creative?
Breakfast cereal is a big deal here in the States. When I've had friends from other countries visit, they are always blown away by how many cereals are in our stores. If you live here, you know there are tons of them. I've always been a fan of cereal, but I probably don't like it as much as Robb ...
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Ultimate Showdown: Web Designer vs. Web Developer [Infographic]
Everyone that's involved in website design and developing knows that there are two very different jobs involved with it. First, we have the more artful side of it which is the web design itself. The designer is in charge of the look and features of the site. However, when it comes to taking care ...
What Came First: A Chicken Made Of Eggshells
I know you are probably sitting there working hard today. You decided to take a little break and surf the web to find something to give you a refreshing little visual break. Well, you've come to the right place, and I have the perfect thing for you.
Before I go any further, I just have to ask, ...
Incredible 3D Infographic Lego Map Build
There truly isn't anything that can't be explained, illustrated, built or conceived with Lego bricks. If you do a search on this blog for Lego articles, you will be blow away by the creativity and information that can be portrayed in a Lego build.
When you look at just one Lego brick, it seems s ...
The Ultimate HTML 5 Cheat Sheet
Designing websites can be quite a jungle sometimes since, with time, the number of languages at our disposal has gotten so much greater. Way back when things were new and the Internet only had a couple of million websites (if you could even call them that comparing them to today's media experiences ...
Artistic Inspiration: Laptops Created From Wood Scraps
It seems like everyday there are new articles published with ways we can help to save our environment. It's so important that we all make an effort to do what we can to be nice to our planet, after all, for the moment, it's the only place we have to live.
One thing I've learned and that we've wr ...
Design: The Drippy Hypnotic Effects of Tall Painting
There are so many styles of painting that are popular now. We've written dozens of articles about different techniques; however, this is one I haven't seen before. When I watch this, it kinda puts me in a trance. When you think about it, it seems like such an obvious thing to try with paint.
T ...
Mind Twisting Art: Cartoons Mixed Into Classic Paintings
There's a cartoon world, and there's a real world. Cartoons are supposed to stay in the cartoon world, don't you think? Whenever I see them branch out into the real world, it kinda freaks me out, like my brain can't handle it or something.
When Richard wrote about these Disney characters portra ...