Cats are creatures of sheer beauty. They are willful, independent, and proud animals. Come with us and explore the many personalities of cats in this hand picked collection of images.

Museum

by People Too

Red-Fat-Cat

by overcover

Vector Animals

by Sascha Preuss

White Cat

by rosinka

Chesire Cat

by lablue81

Cat or Tiger

by Natasha Gavrilova

Pink Chicks

by Aleksandra Marchocka

I See You

by Zhenya Vasilchenko

The Hunter

by ChewedKandi

Cyrillic Font

by Kate Toropygina

Playtime

by Alberto Cerriteno

Feline

by Kliment Kalchev

Entertainment Weekly – Feline Internet Stars

by Jessica Hische

Cats

by SFHD

.Nom.

by ChewedKandi

The Big Catch

by William Chua

Stray Grey Kitten

by joke-art

Wonder Road

by lablue81

The cat and his fiddle

by raven8t8

Gato

by jorgepacker

kitten

by depart

Cat and fish

by overcover

Happy Halloween +WP

by pure-andrea

Vector Animalia

by Elif Kavalci

JUSSTAnotherHalloweenVector

by rjonesdesign

Little playfull tiger

by d-i-a-n-k-a

This isnt a stupid cat

by black-head

Throughout history the female figure has appeared prominently in art and design. Tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator have given artists the ability to create female-based renderings in new and creative ways. Today, we have 25 beautiful photo manipulations of women to show you. Enjoy!

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Suenio en Una Tarde Invernal by ELYPhAS

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Mother-Nature-is-Crying by Thebadwolves

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Mother’s Land by Arahna-Ua

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Soccer Women by S-pov

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Midnight Bliss by Drew Williams

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The Siren by Adam Spizak

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Demeter by Tehacesequence

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Bitch by D4m

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Ice Woman by Florbela-Ferreira

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Inner Conflict by Lady-Symphonia

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Woman’s Letter by Misanthropics

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60562 by Kubicki

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Bastet by Eireen

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The Red Woman by Zepaulo

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Freedom by Rgquarkup

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Attack of the 70 Feet Woman by Ifux

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Venus by Trygothic

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Underworld by Sagim

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Dress by Razoomanet

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The world as we see it, is populated by colors. Every day we see brands and businesses using colors to define their identity (for example, the famous "yellow M" of a multinational fast-food chain). Although logos are traditionally made with minimal colors, the shift towards full color is unmistakable. In fact, a recently published article by Logo Lounge states that, for many years logos have been designed with one or two colors and recently designers have begun to look at the actual surface of the shapes as an entirely new canvas and the use of color is unrestrained. The article goes on to say that, rainbow-like color is often used to represent the concept of a full spectrum, more choices, or additional capabilities. In this compilation we present to you a selection of colorful and vivid logos that are fresh, inspiring and push creative boundaries.

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Colorful Geometric Logos

Circles, ovals, squares, and triangles are very effective in logo design. These shapes can be combined with each other and beautiful colors to achieve unique and attractive designs. You may notice, many of these logos use almost all of the seven spectrum colors.

Renda

Autentika

Star Creative

Agent Orange Logo

Signalnoise.com Logo

Common Wealth Development

Cecif

Colourspace

Tyze

Socialimagineers

Vithree

Metroplex

Fundacion ADAR

Konzentrat

Good Together

Solarswipe

Samarras

Mirapolis

Brite Click

Collective Feedback

Hudson & Hobson logo proposal

North Color

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Colorful Text and Text-Shape Logos

Text-based logos are the logos made form words or letters. Below you will see a selection of text-based logos with attractive colors that go beyond the text itself and make them visually appealing.

Beyond Media Inc

DLUX

Qwell

Instituto Portugues

Browsera

Maya

Michael Spitz V2

Vivid Ways

Odigo

Along with attractive colors and type, the Odigo logo is also an awesome ambigram: turn this logo design upside down and you will see that it reads the same both ways.

Brillio

Fete Event Marketing

101 Princess St

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Colorful Illustrative Logos

Illustration-based logos are often complex, and require a full color palette. Here you will see a selection of lively and engaging logos that use vivid color combinations and are a feast for the viewer’s eyes.

Discrete Idea

Andy Fiord Studio

Foto Skrydis

MSDN TV

Media Factory

MyStockLogo

Art Hive

Koloroo Logo

Creative Atelier

DoDo Birdy

Tullamore Estate

Retrozebra

Illusion Studio

Creative Dog

CSS Cat

Bigcolors.com

Web Designer Wall

iDream Images

Lullaby

Liga Podarkov

Musician websites have a bad name for themselves. They are often behind the times, either poorly designed or poorly coded – or both. It’s not all blue and gloomy though; there are a bunch of fantastic band and musician web designs out there – thirty-six of which can be found below. From textured designs, including Paolo Nutini and Rocket Club, to simplistic and minimalistic design, including Jamie Cullum and Jennifer Lopez, these designs cover the spectrum.

If you ever find yourself working on an artist or band’s website in the future, be sure to keep these examples in mind. This showcase includes various styles of design, from those that act as just a simple online home for the band/musician, to those which contain full-blown online stores, discographies and forums. If your favorite band has a great website, or you’ve even designed a great band website yourself, feel free to link us and the other readers to them in the comments section below.

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Textured

The use of texture in modern web design is something that web designers are no longer afraid to use on a regular basis. It helps to add a certain “style” and “feel” to a design, whether it’s a subtle grunge texture you’re using, or a lovely clean plank of wood.

The use of texture in band and musician web designs can really help to complement the style of music by that particular artist; for example, the subtle and noisy background texture in James Morrison’s design suggest his music is easy to listen to and soft, and the dark, grungy and dirty textures in AC/DC’s design suggests their music is quite loud and hard.

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Paolo Nutini

Paolo Nutini’s unique music is matched with a rather unique, elegant and slightly “vintage” style look. It’s made much more appealing by the use of illustrated typography and hanging frames which are brought to life by being different sizes and unaligned.

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Zac Brown Band

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Paramore

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Grizzly Bear

A hand-drawn colorful and retro texture has been used on Grizzly Bears web design, suggesting that they produce feel-good music that is easy to listen to and fun.

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Lily Allen

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James Morrison

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Rocket Club

Rocket Club have combined photography and grungy texture with vintage layer styles to produce a unique and compelling design. Hand-drawn patterns and bold, fancy text has been used to top the designs vintage feel off.

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AC/DC

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Third Eye Blind

Third Eye Bling (3EB) have cleverly incorporated their band names meaning into their design, by making the title “Third Eye Blind” almost blind for the human eyes to see. It’s clever, unique, and adds a bit of interest to their design, helping users to remember it.

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Plan B

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Robbie Seay Band

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Florence + the Machine

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Simplistic/Minimalistic

Simplicity and minimal styles are a popular, and still upcoming trend in modern web design. It is typically used on sites whose owners want the viewers to focus on the websites content rather than the design itself. It is popular among design, illustration and photography portfolios, as well as some online stores and news sites.

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Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum’s site design is actually quite well known across the design community for its simplicity and great use of white space. The design is elegant, easy to view and navigate, and incorporates some lovely typography and sleek silver buttons in the top right hand corner.

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The Black Keys

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Arctic Monkeys

The Arctic Monkeys use a black and white color scheme, with very little other colors being used in the design whatsoever. The high-threshold portrait images are used to fit in with the curvy illustrated-style design.

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Jennifer Lopez

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The Temper Trap

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The Rolling Stones

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U2

The navigation in U2′s design makes use of strong, bold white typography to draw attention to what’s important: the ways in which to find yourself around the site. The design is separated into three columns, making it easy to present and view lots of information on a single page, similar to columns in a newspaper or magazine.

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Nine Inch Nails

Large Typography

Large typography tends to be bold, strong and “powerful.” It’s quite often the first and last thing we look at when entering and leaving a website. It usually has the power to tell you the nature of a website. For example, Limp Bizkit’s website uses a messy and grungy typeface for the word “Bizkit” in a bright yellow against a dark background. This immediately suggests loud and intrusive.

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Limp Bizkit

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Daniel Moir

Daniel Moir’s design uses a bucket-full of modern-day effects and “trends”, such as huge typography, desaturated and low opacity images and almost (but not quite) monochrome color schemes.

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Photographic

Photographic-based web designs usually consist of photographs being used as main backgrounds. It is a great way to set a mood for your design, which is especially important with band and musician websites, as it suggests the style of music before even listening to it. For example, a shot of an illuminated street will suggest modern and pop, whereas a long-exposure shot of a torch will suggest “rave” music and dance.

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Pendulum

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The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers have used a long-exposure “light photography” shot in their background, suggesting they produce electronic and dance music. The vivid streaks of light help to bring the simple foreground content to life.

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Britney Spears

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Imogen Heap

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Pixie Lott

A great motion-blurred nightlife shot of an illuminated street has been used in the background of Pixie Lott’s website design. The motorcycle with her sitting on it is Flash animated, helping to bring the background photograph to life.

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Kasabian

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Paloma Faith

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Plants and Animals

“Plants and Animals” is another design in this showcase that is following the latest web design trends; in this case, a three-dimensional anaglyphic effect is used to bring the photographic background and bold typographic links to a completely new level of visual interest.

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The use of character illustration in web design is a great and easy way to increase the amount of visual appeal your website has. Not only does it brighten things up and make your site a bit more captivating, but it also, if pulled off well, helps your visitors remember your design (and therefore your website). Although your website’s content is extremely important, a beautiful and engaging design helps to bring everything together.

Below, we have a beautiful selection of web designs that make use of character illustration – from design blogs, to agencies, search engines, to internet applications, and even candy brand websites, to food nutrition repositories.

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DesignGiveaways

DesignGiveaways uses a hand-drawn style vector illustration of the website’s masters to jazz up their minimalistic design and add a splash of color. It adds a personal touch to the overall site, and makes it more welcoming to new visitors.

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Ewout Van Lambalgen

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Silverback

Silverback uses a detailed and quite adorable vector graphic of a gorilla to spice up their website aesthetics, and uses the character as a mascot, making it incredibly easy for users to link the character to the application and website.

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SR28

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Packaging design is a specialized area of graphic design, one that carries its own guidelines and best practices. The goal of a package is to make the product stand out among its competition, and better compete in the marketplace. Package design projects might consist of something as basic as a label to a complete packaging solution, with custom materials.

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The bottle designs below run the gamut from simple label designs on stock bottle shapes and sizes to completely custom solutions with interesting shapes and sizes that really set these products apart from others available. Many of the designs have a back-story available, so take the time to click through to the sources.

Beer, Wine and Spirits Bottles

Vodka SAMURAI

All In One

Ekrine

Cabernet Nouveau

Oravinifera

Regina Club

12 Inches

This article showcases 30+ stunning web designs that make use of the incredible watercolor effect. The showcase is followed up with a small selection of links sharing a few tutorials and watercolor textures and brushes that you can use in your own designs.

Viget Inspire

Viget Inspire is one of the most recognized pieces of watercolor-style web design to date; there aren’t many web designers who haven’t seen it! The style is absolutely stunning, and the combination of the watercolored background and digital foreground and typography mixes incredibly well together.

Deborah Cavenaugh

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall is yet another fantastic web design that is well known for its use of watercolor effects. The stunning watercolored patterns and the whole hand-made feel of the site makes it visually appealing, especially for their target audience: the creative industry.

Toby Powell

Boompa Shop

Boompa Shop have merged modern web design, such as the minimalistic footer, with some great watercolored “doodles” to create a beautiful and very unique effect for the web-based shop design.

Agami Creative

Corvus Design Studio

Corvus Design Studio have used a similar layout style to those typically used in portfolio designs, however instead of keeping it simple and plain to draw attention to their work, they’ve made the portfolio itself a piece of art, which is probably more than enough to persuade any customer to choose them for their latest project.

The Black Keys

Erguvan Platin Evleri

Erguvan Platin Evleri is one of the first to combine two popular trends in the web design industry: abstract watercolor effects and three-dimensional models. In this case the styles work very well together and are pleasing to look at; let’s hope we see more like this!

Davide Savelli

Colour of Air

Colour of Air is the first website in this showcase that uses very subtle watercolor in their design. To bring the content area below the header to life, they have used a low-opacity watercolor texture beneath the header and under the different article areas. The use of rendered noise in the design combined with subtle watercolor works great.

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One of the biggest uses of Illustrator has always been and most probably always will be logo design. All good corporate image design relies on a great composition and superb typography – this isn’t as easy as it sounds. It takes hours of sketching, hours of mocking and even hours finishing the final touches. To even get to that stage you need to know what you’re doing and do plenty of research into the industry to find out what works and what doesn’t for certain companies.

To help inspire you for your future logo projects we have compiled a collection of eighty stunning typographic logos. The logos are categorized into colors with some brief explanations on color meanings in logos. We want to know what your favorite logos are, so let us know in the comments section at the bottom of this post!

White

White is one of the most commonly used colors in typographic logo designs. It is known as the universal color of peace and represents purity, simplicity, sterility and refinement, making it perfect for professional, corporate images. The color mixes well with every other color, and tends to bring out the true power of brighter colors that surround it.

Codespeaks

Kayako

All Night Breakz

Spry

Moodboard

SPEK-R

DJ Coyote

Fence

Bckspace

Muse7

Lazy

Zoodos

Jus

Upside Down Productions

Mogul

Act

Logotomy

Black

Black is one of most commonly used colors in logo design, it is a very powerful, elegant and bold color. Using black in logos creates a sophistic look, again making it a superb choice for professional services.

Jill

Indulge

Brand

Fuel

Flat Land

Zip Apparel

Invizio

Ramin

Knoll

Collage

Liam

365 Design

Geek

Foot

Drum’n'Bass Light

Blue

Blue is usually the color that is linked with water, and can be seen being used in various water-based company logos below. Other than the obvious connection between the color blue and water, there are other reasons blue is a common color in corporate image design, such as how it helps to inspire trust and faith between the customer and company.

Undersea Productions

Aquaris

Koulak

Urban Groove

Aqua

Optim Optics

Green

The color green is often used in environmental-related companies (such as those in the construction or gardening industry) because of it’s association with nature. However this isn’t the only reason green is used in logo design – it is also a very calming color that signifies health and freshness.

Pond

Fake Logos

Ecodream

Bloom

Vessel

Yellow

Yellow is the hardest color for our eyes to adjust to, and therefore is usually only used in very minimal amounts, especially in corporate images. It’s a positive color and works very well with dark greys and black.

Wonderlist.ca

Down Town

Peter Costello

CinkiLinki

DJ Loop

Cobreo

Orange

Orange is a funky color that represents enthusiasm, flamboyance, and plenty of energy. It’s brightness captures attention easily (especially) in company logos mainly due to it’s lack of use when compared to other colors.

Mink

Disco

Burn Unit

4C4

Soda

Pink

Pink is typically associated with femininity, and is therefore commonly used in logos related to cosmetic products and health care. Different shades of pink however can induce different things. For example, the elegant pink used in the ‘Butterfly’ logo induces softness and innocence, whereas the bright pink used in ‘theBLOC’ logo suggests excitement (both below).

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Grab some vector Valentines inspiration to fill your winter days with a warmth and heart felt happiness. Rejoice in each moment of snow, frost, every breath of wind, the stars in the sky, and a lovers hand. Feast on this massive overload of lovely illustrations. Get inspired to create for this coming holiday.

Inspiration

Spread Love.

Vector illustration by Andy Gosling.

Very unique,creative and lovely graphics. The details and the colors are spectacular. Though the ground between the roots is somewhat sterile in contrast with all the leaves. The flat horizon is also a little strange. Rolling hills perhaps?

Love Birds.

Vector illustration by Edgeplus.

Fascinating birds. I love how their wings and bodies are hearts.

Love is in the air.

Vector illustration by Don Clark.

Excellent illustration for greeting cards and children’s books. Illustration makes me wonder how the artist got those lovely brush stroke textures. Some great little touches there, like the snake wrapped around the elephant trunk. This evokes philosophical reflections.

Love Wallpaper.

Vector illustration by Wallcoo.net.

The world through the window of the heart. Excellent wallpaper for your computer. The direction of movement is from right to the left (plane, birds) and is composed so the spectator sees it as a coming. Coming of Love.

Broken Love Type.

Vector illustration by Tom.

Interesting 3D composition. Good combination of colors. It turns out robots can love. In my opinion he is broken.

Sunset Love Song.

Vector illustration by toinjoints.

This is a musical message to his beloved girl. I love the small hearts and the little kitty; the style is so unique.

Bleeding Love.

Vector illustration by Yunart.

That’s rather sad. Love is cruel. The artist drew perfect hands and hair.

Love Wallpaper.

Vector illustration by mohammadamiri.

Funny character perfectly contrasts with the soft pink background. Interesting drawing technique and texture of the background. Good combination of rough and gentle.

A Simple Love Poem.

Drawing artwork by 2DCale.

Thoughts of the poet about love. What else can you think of on Valentine’s day? The artwork is done in warm colors; cute characters cause a smile. The sun’s rays and the background texture add warmth to the image.

Kittens in Love…. Sleeping.

Adobe Photoshop CS2, Wacom Graphire4 A5. Artwork by DarthEldarious.

They are in love and already have a little one. This is a beautiful composition, in the bottom cushion guess the outline of the heart. The main color is pink. What kind of love without the pink color? With a combination of green and pink, I would argue.

Love…

Vector illustration by MrEdgar.

The night is the time of lovers. Artwork uses a wonderful composition making use of bright moon against a dark foreground.

Love…

Vector illustration by thewiseninja.

Heart spreads love. Bubbles adds some contrast in the bottom of the composition.

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February was a great month full of awesome tutorials, interesting articles and interviews, and stunning showcases for inspiration.

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