2012 was a huge year for Silicon Valley.
Facebook went public, Marissa Mayer joined Yahoo, laws changed to foster new industries, enterprise startups got hot, and billion-dollar companies were formed and acquired.
Now, after months of research, debate, and more research, we're happy to present the latest installment of the Silicon Valley 100, Business Insider's authoritative compilation of the people who did the coolest things in Silicon Valley this year. That means people who...
he 25 largest banks in the country had a rather exciting first week of January. According to data released by the Federal Reserve, depositors withdrew an astounding $114.1 billion during the week ending January 9. A significant portion of this withdrawal can be attributed to the expiration of the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) program.
The TAG program provided extra insurance protection for depositors, ensuring their balances, in case their bank becomes insolvent. Extending TAG was part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, but it didn’t make it into the final agreement.
Ali knocks out Cleveland 'Big Cat' Williams in three rounds at the Houston Astrodome to defend his heavyweight title in November 1966. The bout drew a record indoor crowd of 35,460.
Logo is the identity of any brand, product or company. So companies are always pay so much attention towards this field of designing. They want to hire the best Logo Designers of the industry to design a logo that can help their company to stand out in the world. This industry has so many creative people that are creating so many logo designs every month. As you all know that we publish the best of design inspiration, tutorials and resources every month. This post is the part of our best of design series. In this post we compiled a list of the best logo designs from the month of September 2012.
Really love this design concept just because it is so helpful to so many people. We often take for granted our sight – but we shouldn’t. I think more designers should be thinking outside of the box like this in order to help all people enjoy products, and keep people with disabilities in mind. There are plenty of people out there that would really love to be able to enjoy little things like a rubiks cube. Not only is this concept beautiful but its intention is pure – WIN. I am not sure if this concept has actually been put into play as a tangible product but it should be! Great idea.
Minimal posters are just awesome. Poster designs like any other print media such as minimal brochures designs, booklets, business cards, posters and print catalog are one of your effective marketing ambassadors. Poster Designs are great at getting people’s attention as long as you don’t make them too text heavy and you include an eye-catching most effective graphic in look-at-me colors.
I love Interesting Concepts, Thoughts and Ideas. Easily one of my favorite things to do is to look at design concepts and get inspired to think about my own designs or ideas, then bring them to reality! Today we have some truly epic concept design for brands and products that are either real (eventually) or just made up fake products for educational purposes. We have collected these and showcased them for your inspiration! Of course the idea of a concept may be a new concept for some (see what I did there? lol) so lets take a look at what we are looking at.
This June marks my tenth year in SEO, which means that I’ve gone through dozens of different algorithm changes and implemented SEO techniques on hundreds of websites across various market verticals.
I’ve worked both in-house and at agencies, but all this experience doesn’t mean that I’ve got the final answer on what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to SEO. In fact, I’ve made tons of mistakes along the way – and today, I wanted to share with you some of the lessons I’ve learned throughout my career.
Ok so I thought it’s been a while – you guys need some more pure 8-bit design inspiration. We did a post a while back that you guys seemed to enjoy – and I have found a ton more awesome 8-bit stuff since then, just took a while to compile it into a list! 8-Bit Graphics are a part of all of us, no matter who you are, if you were even ALIVE in the 80′s and early 90′s – you played an 8-bit game. You loved 8-bit games. (I know I did.) so lets take a trip down memory lane and enjoy these modern designs that are inspired by the love we all share of the classic video game style that started it all. However, Technically – Yes, I realize that pixel art is not “true 8-bit” but I lump “pixely” art with 8bit since it feels similar, and inspired by 8-bit.
The cartoon style rendering method lets the 3D designers to create 3D cartoon style with similar lines and shading to the 2D cartoons. However, the 3D cartoon characters design depends on the modeling of the character as well as the final rendering results.
In case you missed this, in a promotional video for the Chicago Music Exchange, Alex Chadwick plays 100 famous guitar riffs in one take, a chronological history of rock ‘n’ roll. The amazing part is that he recorded this in one take, seamlessly transitioning from one song to the next with an incredible amount of agility and grace. After listening a few times you might believe that this could be one twelve minute song and not 100 riffs. Try not looking at the video while it plays and see how many riffs you can name.
Today we’re presents 100 awesome 3D cartoon characters, 3D illustration and mysterious creatures. Very creative work focus on 3D character design, Illustration and Digital Art.
“Teodoru Badiu” is one of the best illustrator we found at behance.net. We like his work and we thought we must share with my readers and friends. I hope your also like his mysterious 3D creatures.
Steven Heller and Veronique Vienne have written a book about the 100 ideas that changed graphic design, which can be taken as a sort of chronological history for graphic design as a whole. The book makes consideration for everything, from body types and teen magazines to sexual taboo busting and designer websites, it's a great look at the roots of design.
You'll need to buy the book to get a deeper dive on some of these ideas that've changed graphic design but the full list is below...
It took Pinterest just three weeks to raise $100 million from Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten and current investors, a source familiar with the deal tells us.
Pinterest is a site where users can collect and categorize images and links from across the Internet, and then share those collections with friends. It's exquisitely designed and it's very popular with women.
Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann only visited Japan and met with Rakuten at the very end of April.
He went with plans to discuss a potential partnership; Rakuten wanted to make Pinterest the default place for its shoppers to set up wish lists for things they'd like to buy.
Partnership talks went well, and Rakuten said it would do the deal, but only if it could also invest in Pinterest.
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.
In this post we gathered some funny or humorous as well as cute digital art concepts of animals(creatures) created by the talented Rihards Donskis a.k.a. Apofis, a digital painter from Latvia. Hes work fill your heart with joy. Some of these awesome illustrations shows cute and fluffy animal artworks which adds humor to the setting. These images gives a happy and lively mood and is very much suitable for children. Take a look at these interesting artworks of cute monsters and funny fictional creatures and animals. These cuddly animal illustrations can be good mascots and are best for prints in christmas or birthday cards, children books and artbooks, and many others. Be inspired with these very creative character concepts perfect for any fantasy or fictional setting.
Distributing Flyers for Business Promotion is one of the oldest and low budget way of promoting any product or service. Companies print their flyers and then distribute them in public to make people aware of their product or service. Although in today’s time there have so many new ways of promoting business but still this oldest way is still the most popular way of business promotion. So many designers are working in Flyer Design Industry and they are creating thousands of new designs everyday. Sometimes it becomes hard to get new ideas for flyer design assignment then you look into old designs for the inspiration. In this post I am going to showcase a huge list of creative and inspirational flyer designs for the inspiration of flyer design artists.
Here's a list of tips, advice, rules and just things to know about photography from Eric Kim, a street photographer who also holds photography workshop classes. I think the gist of it is to keep taking pictures always.
Here's the full list...
Great sound doesn't have to make a dent in your wallet.
You can spend $8,000 on a pair of fancy audio gear, but that doesn't mean you're getting the most value out of your investment.
From professional music producers to the most casual gamers, we found great headphones to suit all types of lifestyles.
For audiophiles on a budget, these are our ranking of the best headphones that'll cost you less than a single Benjamin.
Why is that hard to design a great, memorable logo ? Because a picture speaks a thousand words and can effectively use a simple icon to leave a deep enough impression for the public. An awesome logo means a higher probability that your clients will remember your company and will get back to you.
Today I want to present you 100 memorable logos that were designed with a hidden message or logos that follow different trends.
