45 Award Winning Creative Advertisements

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Advertising is not simply advertising your products or services these days. With computer graphics and photography, modern advetisements allow for almost anything imaginable in the world of advertising. Companies spend millions and billions of dollars each year on advertising for their events but few ads stand out from the crowd.

In this post we showcased 45 award winning advertisements from the year 2011. You can learn a lot about being creative through these ads. You will be surprised how some advertisements manage to inspire you as well. So let’s have a look at some award winning ads of 2011.

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50 Most Impressive Photoshop Tutorials of 2011

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Photoshop has the ability to read and write raster and vector image formats. Photoshop has ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation, and authoring.

Photoshop’s primary strength is as a pixel-based image editor, unlike vector-based image editors. However, Photoshop also enables the creation, incorporation, and manipulation of vector graphics through its Paths, Pen tools, Shape tools, Shape Layers, Type tools, Import command, and Smart object functions.

There are thousands of thousands of Photoshop tutorials created by talented designers around the world every year. Here we have collected the most impressive and most useful Photoshop Tutorials of 2011. I am sure you guys will find them useful too.

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Top 10 Fastest Cars of 2011-2012

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The car that one drives is a symbol of luxury and style. Driving fast cars indeed gives a feeling of thrill and excitement and one feels as being on the top of the world. There are a number of fast cars that are available in the market. Some of them are legal and can be used on the roads while some of them are illegal which cannot be used on roads due to many reasons. Development of fast cars has been the dream of many engineers and companies. Since the first car was invented, a never ending battle among companies has been seen for the top spot in fast cars. A number of speed records have been set and broken through the course of history. As the time went on cars got faster and faster. It is 2012 now and the cars are faster than ever. Below is the list of the top 10 fastest cars of 2011-2012.

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Top 10 : Greatest 3D Street Arts of 2011

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When a drawing is made from any one dimension and a picture is taken from the same dimension it gives effect of 3D image or 3 dimensional images. 3D art is created on horizontal surface either by painting, chalking or drawing. 3D is a vey old form of art as old as 15th century, painters of those time used to decorate the house of wealthy people with these 3D effects and designs.

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Top 10 Scams of 2011

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The sad and funny part about this article is that a majority of these scams aren't that clever. That just goes to show you that it is necessary to trust, but verify.

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Top 10 Popular iPhone Apps of 2011-12

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The folks at Apple inc. are some real brainiacs as they keep developing awesome apps for all their Iphone users and die hard Apple fans. 2011 went quite good and a number of really useful and decent apps were developed. Today, we’ve come up with list of top iphone apps developed in the 2011-12 session.

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The Best Logo Designs of 2011 and what makes them work

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One of the great things about logo design is seeing the fresh new creations that stream their way in to the world of branding every year. While choosing just one is an impossibility, cherry-picking favorites is a delight. Read on to see who made the list and why:

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100 Most Creative Logo Design Ideas from 2011

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A Logo is the representative of a company, brand or service. Every company wants their logo to look unique so that it makes the company stand out from their competitors. This is the reason they are willing to pay high amounts to designers for designing their logo. Logo designers have to work really hard to come up with a unique idea for a logo design. Today in this post I am going to showcase some of the best and most creative Logo Design Ideas from the year 2011.

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Web Design Inspiration: 20 best website designs of 2011

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As 2011 year is gone design community started to summarize and make predictions about web design trends. Today I`ve counted more than 10 different articles dedicated to web design trends of outgoing year. Different writers see different trends but there`s always something in common.

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64 Billion Plays: What Online Music Looked Like in 2011 - Infographic

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In 2011, we collectively listened to 64,876,491,602 songs on the Internet. Whether it was on YouTube, SoundCloud, Rdio or MySpace, the citizens of the Web listened to quite a lot of music last year. Bands and musicians made over 3 billion new fans, who viewed artist profiles over 16 billion times. These are just a few data points recently released by Next Big Sound, a startup that tracks the popularity of music and individual artists across a range of digital music providers and social services.

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13 Promising Startups Of 2011 That Everyone Should Watch Out For

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The year that it was! 2011 was a year full of stuff implausible even in our dreams. The Facebook redesign, the advent of Infographics, the new Twitter, and (of course) the much expected new years resolutions that start to follow. My fingers are itching to talk about my personal achievements in the year 2011 but then I don’t want the editor to kick me out of 1WD for being overly personal.

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13 Promising Startups Of 2011 That Everyone Should Watch Out For

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The year that it was! 2011 was a year full of stuff implausible even in our dreams. The Facebook redesign, the advent of Infographics, the new Twitter, and (of course) the much expected new years resolutions that start to follow. My fingers are itching to talk about my personal achievements in the year 2011 but then I don’t want the editor to kick me out of 1WD for being overly personal.

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13 Promising Startups Of 2011 That Everyone Should Watch Out For

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The year that it was! 2011 was a year full of stuff implausible even in our dreams. The Facebook redesign, the advent of Infographics, the new Twitter, and (of course) the much expected new years resolutions that start to follow. My fingers are itching to talk about my personal achievements in the year 2011 but then I don’t want the editor to kick me out of 1WD for being overly personal.

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13 Promising Startups Of 2011 That Everyone Should Watch Out For

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The year that it was! 2011 was a year full of stuff implausible even in our dreams. The Facebook redesign, the advent of Infographics, the new Twitter, and (of course) the much expected new years resolutions that start to follow. My fingers are itching to talk about my personal achievements in the year 2011 but then I don’t want the editor to kick me out of 1WD for being overly personal.

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Xbox Accounted for 40 Percent of All Videogame Sales in 2011

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Microsoft dominated the videogame industry last year, with the Xbox capturing nearly half of all consumer spending from physical sales in 2011.

About $6.7 billion, or 40 percent of consumer retail spending, was spent on the Xbox, breaking down into two categories: $2.1 billion on consoles and $4.6 billion on games, according to NPD data released today.

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Web Design Inspiration: 20 best website designs of the 2011 Year

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As 2011 year is gone design community started to summarize and make predictions about web design trends. Today I`ve counted more than 10 different articles dedicated to web design trends of outgoing year. Different writers see different trends but there`s always something in common.

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Top 100 Amazing Forced Perspective Photography in 2011

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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. It manipulates human visual perception by scaling an object a size where it harmonizes with other elements around the field of vision of the spectator resulting to a dramatic optical illusion.

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Top 50 Goolge Doodles from 2011

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Every single day Google is present in our life. Being the number one search engine in the world, our needs are catered through it’s functional use. Personally I use Google for all my inquiries. What else can Google do to make my experience even more enjoyable? By providing beautifully designed doodles!

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National Geographic Photo Contest 2011

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We all love National Geographic and I am always excited when presenting new photography collection from this magazine. Photos from NG are special … probably the best out there you may find. Anyway, this time it’s about NG’s 2011 photography contest .. so again, do not expect nothing else than pure quality and of course good portion of inspiration for you).

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Tweet At 'Em All You Want, But Gen Y's Are Still More Influenced By Word-of-Mouth Marketing

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A new report out from Sitel on social media and consumer trends implies that social media is key to reaching Gen Y (those born between 1980 and 2000), but the numbers don't add up. While the Gen Y, or people born between 1980-2000, are in fact "digital natives," that doesn't mean they are actually most reachable via social media marketing.

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