‘Less is More’, an aphorism coined by the German – American architect for Coining suits the term ‘Minimalism’ in an apt way. In today’s world where everything is growing in a fast paced manner, we have to compromise somewhere to catch up with the speed, like a skyscraper cannot be constructed with all the architecture and the fine details as in case of a palace, but a skyscraper does justice to its part and everybody accepts this.
Our planet is far more impressive than we could imagine. It has the power to build landscapes that amaze us even after seeing them a few times. In this article I have gathered pictures of places in our beautiful world that are simply amazing and must be seen. There are a few man made places that were too good to be left out.
More than any other department in a business, customer service is subject to a slew of competing priorities and pressures. Control costs and making customers happy. Uphold policy while being a customer advocate. Try to upsell but stick to your average handle time. The list goes on and on. Unfortunately, attempts to shore up performance on one end of the scale can often lead to disaster in another area. Here are a few of the most common examples of where things can go horribly wrong.
While on the hunt for some colorful posters, I came across these prints by Showler & Showler. Founded in 2006 by husband and wife team Tom and Hannah Showler, the company sells posters that are guaranteed to brighten up your day. The couple currently lives in the Kentish countryside (an area of north west London) where they're raising their 4-year-old son, who, I'm sure, provides them with an endless amount of inspiration.
Are we all social networking narcissists? According to a recent infographic released by PsychologyDegree.net, social networking has not only taken over our time but also changed how we think about ourselves.
Users are amassing more than 1.2 million updates and spending one in five minutes of online time on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook each day. Every 24 hours more than 250 million photos are shared by users to an average of 245 friends, and meanwhile 90 percent of Americans think other people are sharing too much information about themselves.
New York artist Sam Spratt created a brilliant realistic series of commissioned Angry Birds illustrations for Rovio a while back and currently four of his designs (Red Bird, King Pig, Black Bird and Yellow Bird) have been released to the public. Shirts featuring each character are available to purchase from the Angry Birds online shop.
Apple won its big patent lawsuit against Samsung.
We've pulled together the six patents the jury says Samsung violated.
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions, and one of the plastic arts. Traditionally, durable sculptural processes have focused on carving and modelling, in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials, but since modernism shifts in sculptural process have led to an almost complete freedom of materials and process. We selected 25 Most Unusual Sculpture Of World, Have a look.
If you’ve been working as almost any kind of creative, you probably know that a piece of paper with fancy stamps do not always guarantees work. And you also know that having a beautiful and clear portfolio that represents you is essential. Recently we published an inspirational article regarding successful designer portfolios. But I’m not a designer and I can’t create that kind of website on my own, you’d probably say. What to do then? Pay someone a big amount of money for your website? I hold that the content stands over the packaging and it doesn’t make a big difference if your portfolio cost you thousands of dollars or couple of sandwiches. It’s much better to focus on your work and leave its presentation on safe hands. That’s why for this roundup we’ve prepared a list of 10 tools that will help you build a portfolio easily and professionally.
Typography is very important for graphic design, you can see creative typography design in Advertisements, logo designs, Print designs, package designs and web designs. Here we have added 25 beautiful examples of creative typography designs for your inspiration.
Let's face it: despite all of the positives associated with today's rapidly changing business environment, technology can also cause distractions and put a strain on our productivity. You answer 10 emails only to have 20 more in your inbox. You are expected to be available 24/7. You have to schedule conference calls with people across the globe. You are tempted to text and email during meetings. You can't stay off of Twitter during the workday.
Whatever your personal distractions may be, following these six simple steps should help you to increase personal productivity and job performance.
kero* from Japan shoots film, both 35mm and medium format. Her photos always feel airy, dreamy, and soft. Enjoy!
Artists and designers usually try to create very attractive and colorful movie posters, so that the audience wouldn’t be able to look away for several seconds or sometimes even minutes. But quite often very loaded posters are not always making that impressive effect and here minimalistic posters’ design comes to the challenge! Minimalism is an art of showing much with little and this approach sometimes gives a lot more impressions. All you need is to use as few shapes as possible and make sure you apply some symbolic details, because the last one can make a really strong effect. To give you some ideas, we’ve gathered a nice collection of Minimalist Movie Posters.
It's easy to forget about computer security. Unfortunately, by the time you realize there's a problem with your computer, you could be in deep trouble.
Most users recycle the same passwords, never update their computer's software, and, worst of all, don't back up.
Take a few minutes out of your day and educate yourself on how a firewall works, what Java is and how to disable it, and a few other measures you can take to increase your computer's security.
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Alexis Persani is a French photo illustrator specialized in surreal manipulations. In this post you can see a great selection of his work and be intrigued by the surrealism he created. As a big fan of surrealism and photo manipulations and very inspired by this work.
Paper craft is the collection of art forms which employ paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of three-dimensional objects. Paper has been the most widely used material within arts and crafts; since it lends itself to a wide variety of art techniques.
It can for instance be folded, cut, glued, moulded, stitched, or layered. Papermaking has become a new art medium lately. Painting and calligraphy though they are commonly applied as decoration are normally considered as separate arts or crafts.
Cartoon character designs are really exciting and everybody loves cartoon characters. They make people happy and refresh their mind. Character design can be a difficult creature to attempt, because although many of the classic characters familiar to us all through cartoons, entertainment and advertising look simple, that simplicity usually belies the many hours of work that have gone into their development. Today we are going to represent 25 Funny & Interesting 3D Character Designs for inspiration. hope you will like our showcase and will enjoy.
Icon sets are always helpful when you are designing a website, app or interface. It demands creativity, skills and lots of patience to design an amazing icon set.
Today, we are presenting an awesome collection of 20 marvelously designed professional high-quality, free icon sets. These are all free but make sure to read the license agreements carefully before using all icons. We hope, you’ll find thÑ–Ñ• icon’s collection a splendid aid to your tool box.
To put it simply, urban decay is the process of disrepair and decrepitude. What was previously a fully functioning city, or part of a city, is now an abandoned piece of space. A famous example of this is Chernobyl, Ukraine. The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of Western USSR and Europe.
Since its first store opened in 1962, Wal-Mart has steadily been spreading all over the United States. I can't help be reminded of a movie about a zombie-virus outbreak.
If you build a Facebook Page, will fans come? This is the great hope for many businesses. However, fans do not magically appear from the Facebook mist. People must be lured to your page. And there are some good and bad ways to go about doing this. In this article, we’ll share 10 ways to drive more fans to your Facebook page.
WordPress is one of the more popular and most used blogging software these days. Its ease of use, highly customizable properties and flexibility have made it the favourite CMS of hardcore bloggers. On the other side of the fence, mobile phones and other mobile devices like tablets are no longer meant for entertainment purposes only. One can get any information they desire through their mobile device, just by a few movements of their fingers. Users are growing more dependent on their mobile devices to get their daily information.
If you spend a lot of time on your computer, you probably want to make it a friendly place. A gorgeous desktop wallpaper will personalize your interface and can inspire you creatively.
In this collection, you will find 50 beautiful desktop wallpapers handpicked for just you. You can never have enough wallpapers – and if you’re feeling like your desktop needs a face lift, check these out.
Black and white photography is in my opinion the most creative type of photography. The lack of color in black and white photos means our brains pick up more details making this type of photography very hard for the photographer and also makes his/her talent stand-out.
Beautiful black and white photography though elegant and graceful, is really hard to achieve. It takes the right equipment, the right situation and a whole lot of skill to create an amazing black and white photo.
Most of the Consumers, retail buyers use Hi-tech televisions and Smartphones, Reading article or viewing movies or advertisements are grown tremendously. Those days are gone when we use to see banner ads or text advertisement in newspapers. some are really retarded and mostly not eye catching or inspirational, which make the consumers to buy the products.
And modern technology like After Effects and motion graphics used in advertisement which made billions of sales. May be Flyers and Night Club Banner ads created from Photoshop or Indesign may work on Local companies or state wise. But to Get attentions from buyers all over the world you should have a creative mind and design skills to create a project.
Colors, pictures, creativity; designers are quite obviously a group of people that tend to gravitate towards using the right sides of their brains… right? Or is this simply a stereotype that doesn’t necessarily ring true?
Is design exclusively artistic talent put to productive use or is it possible that the industry is equally full of analytical problem solvers? Let’s take a look at how designers think, whether you’re a right brainer or a left brainer, and how I’ve struggled through being a left brainer in an industry of right brainers.
Yes, these are paintings. Oil paintings. Seriously, I wouldn’t lie to you. When someone gave five-year-old Tigran Tsitoghdzyan his first set of oil paints, I’ll bet they never imagined THIS would be the result.
Discovered at the age of ten by Henrik Iguitian, director of the Modern Art Museum and Children’s Art Museum in Tigran’s hometown of Yerevan, Armenia, Tigran’s first solo exhibition was organized, in which he showed over a hundred pieces. The exhibition then moved onto Spain and the US. Since then, his career has been on overdrive with numerous international exhibitions and awards, artist residencies in England and South Africa, as well as achievement of a Master of Art in Public Spheres (MAPS) degree from the prestigious Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV) in Switzerland.
Twitter’s Chris Aniszcyk gave a keynote address this morning at CloudOpen and talked about how Twitter uses open source.
His talk provided insights into how open source technology can also be used in an enterprise environment for scaling infrastructure. That’s an emerging topic of interest in the enterprise world.
Aniszcyk reviewed the open source technologies Twitter depends on to manage its service...
The way small businesses keep the books is rapidly changing as mobile technology expands. Paper ledgers are an ancient artifact and even desktop software is starting to look dated compared with smartphone applications that let business owners keep track of expenditures and payments on the go.
As the technology improves, so, too, do the business uses for it.
When choosing an accounting package that's right for you, look for programs that are specifically tailored to fit the business needs of different industries, says Doug Sleeter, president of accounting software consultants The Sleeter Group. For example, accounting software publisher Sage50 has four different industry-specific solutions, including one for construction firms and another for non-profits.
It’s becoming a big challenge to pick only 10 websites out thousands. It’s great to see some of the creative useability being used for the websites listed in this post and also the creative typography being used. In this post you will find 10 Creative Designers with some really great skills and talent to make a website that would catch your eyes.
Much like the predators they so often observe, wildlife photographers move stealthily through the wild, patiently stalking their prey. They are hunters – not of food, but of the perfect moment; the kind that only nature can provide.
Aerial Photography is an inspiring art not only for the photographers but also for the lovers of this art. It is neither an impossible task nor a child’s play. With a bit rigorous effort, a photographer can catch the whole scene by the eye of his camera. The overview of any city, building, sea or anything else can motivate the people. A normal camera cannot do this scrupulous job as special aerial cameras with latest technology are the dire need to uphold the best quality at high movement. In addition, only a skilled photographer can capture the sight with his unusual potentialities instead of a man in the street. He can take photos of the land from a lofty point to cover the ground structure for inspiration of all.
Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices--such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how employees are like fossil fuels, how a business can be like a cancer, and how one of the entrepreneurs he admires most is his cleaning lady.
s a web designer, we all almost all make full use of fonts both premium and free fonts. It’s significant in order to modify our font list on normal basis. Retaining in your mind the actual expanding requirement for different types of fonts, we all are showcasing at this site 35 stylish free fonts for anyone. These fonts are really fascinating enough to fulfill a creative requires as well as at the same time, these are really just about all free then conveniently downloadable. You may actually create many of these fonts specific by giving your own creative edge.
Along with one or more new Kindle Fires, we're expecting refreshed E Ink models in Amazon's e-reader line at the company's Los Angeles event next week as well. One of those appears to be a refreshed Kindle Touch — the button below the display is gone, and the bezel has changed from light to very dark gray. The overall shape of the product and the location of the USB port and power switch appear to be essentially unchanged. From the images we have, it looks like Amazon will be touting the unit with "higher contrast, high resolution, integrated lighting, and eight weeks of battery life," even when using the light. The retail name for this unit is unclear — Amazon could simply call it the Kindle Touch again, but "Paperwhite" might factor in as well.
As a designer with an extensive art background, I find it easier to pick color schemes using concepts of color theory that all artists learn and use every single day in their work. The use and practice of color theory for designers can drastically help their designs become more professional and color schemes feel more natural. In what ways can you use color theory to help you select and improve upon your color schemes? Let’s walk through color theory 101 and talk about how you can use it to develop great color schemes for your next design project.
Some things you’ll never see…, and because of this imagination is a powerful tool. Using a combination of his own photography and some stock images, Nathan Spotts has crafted these incredible fantasy landscapes. Nathan is a graduate of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and his works have been shown and published by multiple art and design magazines, books, and galleries. He gets his inspiration from everything around him and treats photography as his best friend.
In today’s world most of the company,industries and organization has opted adversting which is the best way to reach their audience. Adversting is done my many ways like viral campaigns and high production television commercials, the print ads remains one very powerful and effective means for advertisers to reach their audience.The designer design the print ads to send message or communicate to their audience,where design should be eye-catching to attract.Here we collected some most amazing print ads for your inspiration.Enjoy !
Paper, magazines and typography have an elusive non-destructive bond. It is through the unique typeface used for a masthead that people, in the first place, recognize their beloved printed matter on the shelf. Highlighting key topics on the cover is another common use of typography. As well as these two important tasks that are entrusted on the fragile shoulders of typography, it can also play a decorative role.
Packages, when well designed, are a great source of inspiration. If you stop to analyze details such as shapes, colors, textures and typography, you will notice that package design is an art and we can certainly learn something from them. Today we gathered 23 examples of beautiful and clean package designs to show you that we can learn a lot from these designs. From color combinations to texture usage and type, these packages are pure inspiration. Make sure to click on the images to read more about each design and its designer.
If you still need a proof that art can be found anywhere, those awesome examples of great street art should convince you.
Web developers should always be abreast of the latest news. And to make their work easier and to help in saving their time a lot of talented web developers from all around the world always try to bring some new decisions and tools. To your attention, we would like to showcase some fresh timesaving tools among which you’ll find useful services, resources, generators and frameworks that you might find very interesting.
The key of having a successful viral campaign lies in really understanding the targeted demographic. The use of music, facts, comedy and sex will only help the campaign if it;s appreciated by that desired audience. But how does a video go from one view to millions?
There are some illustration styles that absolutely awe us for its coolness. One of these “styles” is when you take cute things and then you grunge it. Check it out and tell us what you think.
Internet technology and design industry have seen constant evolution ever since their inception. By the year 2011, we all have seen positive growth in the design industry; not only this, learning web designing has also become a lot easier thanks to all the information available over the internet and in libraries. Today, we will be discussing a few designs which have gained popularity in 2011 and are becoming the trendiest web designs of 2012. These trends have introduced and include some great new design techniques and they have been playing a great role in designing trendiest websites. Also, implementing these features is not a big deal because they are easy to understand with less complex coding.
Last week, I wrote about how our research has shown a steadily growing interest in retirement and other proactive financial planning topics. While this is great news, unfortunately not saving enough for retirement is still the top vulnerability of most employees. Only 18% know they are on track to reach their income goal in retirement, and the national average savings rate is only about 4%, well below the 10-15% financial planners typically recommend saving for retirement.
I'm terrified of places where I might get vulnerable and exposed to its dangers. My best guess is that underwater I might get devoured by a giant shark or dragged to the bottom of ocean by something with tentacles. But seeing these underwater pictures make my thoughts get lighter and even merrier.
We just spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley, asking around to find out who the top new CEOs are in technology.
What follows is a round of the executives of the companies that people are most excited about, and what we've learned about them.
