Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’

May 12th, 2010

Vector Valentines Inspiration, Filled with Love, and Warm Hearts

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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May 11th, 2010

Fantastic Sci-Fi and Fantasy Movie Poster Inspiration, 1925 to 2010

Science Fiction posters are quite often the most interesting – it gives designers great opportunities to experiment with things they don’t usually experiment with on a day-to-day basis, such as futuristic lighting and unusual compositions. This post showcases ninety-nine sci-fi movie posters in total, starting with The Lost World from 1925, right the way through to Disney’s Tron Legacy which is due for release mid-December at the end of this year.

The Lost World (1925)

This showcase opens with a whopper of a movie poster from 85 years ago. The Lost World poster uses a wonderful composition making use of bright, attractive colors against a bold, dark blue background. The pale yellow border around the title of the movie makes this poster stand out from others in its time – as you’ll see below, most other film posters from the early and mid 1900’s in this genre used dark borders if any at all.

Metropolis (1927)

Cat People (1942)

Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon poster is possibly one you’ve seen before, but there’s no harm in seeing it again – it’s a superb poster. It is however a difficult one to get to grips with, at first thought you may think the creature and woman are above water, and then you realize there are bubbles and divers with spears in the background. It made me and others I have shown the poster look at it for a longer period of time than I would most other posters, which can only be a good thing for movie producers, right?

This Island Earth (1955)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

The Incredible Shrinking Man uses techniques that we still see today, mainly referring to the 2D picture with the overlapping scissors making it appear three dimensional.

The Time Machine (1960)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Barbarella (1968)

This is the first poster in the showcase that makes great use of whitespace and merging that technique with simplicity and a limited color scheme. The idea of the red border and line at the bottom of the poster is to make different areas stand out as independent elements, making the poster easier for your eyes to digest.

The Valley Of Gwangi (1969)

Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun (1969)

The use of grid-based design and different alignments in this poster makes it what it is. The whole design fits very nicely to the grid, yet the typography has broken a few rules by not matching the width of the pictures – overall it creates a cool effect that we have all seemed to adjust to and see in everyday design nowadays.

THX II38 (1971)

THX 1138 is another great example of early grid-based design in this genre of film posters. Unlike the previous poster this one breaks no rules and strictly sticks to grid lines. It creates a clean and tidy look leaving us feeling refreshed and probably wanting to see the movie.

Silent Running (1972)

Soylent Green (1973)

Soylent Green uses a similar effect to that used in ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ poster from 1957. The Riot Control digger (which looks just a little dangerous!) emerging from the four-sided picture makes the image appear three-dimensional, making it feel like (at the time) something from the future.

Close Encounters To The Third Kind (1977)

The poster of Close Encounters uses plenty of techniques that we see still being used in modern film poster design, such as ‘The Day The Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Watchmen’ that you can see later in this showcase. The glowing light effect and blurred stars creates a gloomy and suspicious mood as well as drawing your attention to the great combination of grayscale and yellow typography.

Star Wars (1977)

Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers (1978)

Alien (1979)

This original Alien movie poster from ‘79 uses the inverted version of white space, making a gloomy and dark mood with a very limited and minimal design.

The Black Hole (1979)

Mad Max (1979)

The Road Warrior (1981)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Along with this classic movie comes a classic movie poster – the very limited color scheme is brought to life using a thin off-white border. The silhouette of the flying BMX bicycle is clearly the most recognized element used in the poster, and is known worldwide.

The Thing (1982)

Blade Runner (1982)

Krull (1983)

The Terminator (1984)

Ghostbusters (1984)

The original Ghostbusters movie poster uses a technique that doesn’t include the movie title – we are seeing this technique used much more regularly in recent years from films such as The Matrix, X-Men and District 9. The technique works in the same way as logo or corporate image works, allowing us to recognize a film just by seeing the image it has been associated with.

Aliens (1986)

Innerspace (1987)

Masters Of The Universe (1987)

Predator (1987)

Ghostbusters II (1989)

The Abyss (1989)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)

Hardware (1990)

Predator 2 (1990)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Alien 3 (1992)

Super Mario Brothers: The Movie (1993)

Bang (1995)

The very limited color scheme of black and red in the poster of “Bang” creates an angry atmosphere for the viewer. Combined with minimal, bold typography and the anime-style eyes, the poster leaves us feeling curious, wanting to know more.

Species (1995)

Mars Attacks! (1996)

Mars Attacks! uses comedy and bright colors to attract viewers to their poster. The red typography against the green background makes the title of the movie stick in our minds due to being able to associate the posters unusual elements with the title.

Independence Day (1996)

Men In Black (1997)

Starship Troopers (1997)

Alien Resurrection (2000)

Species II (1998)

Species II (1998)

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999)

The Matrix (1999)

X-Men (2000)

Realistic rendering and lighting effects makes this poster stick out from a lot of the others. To date, the X-Men movies have used similar effects in their posters throughout the trilogy, and although they have slightly changed style in their latest movie, all four can easily be recognized as part of the X-Men series.

Pitch Black (2000)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Monsters, Inc. (2001)

As well as Monsters, Inc. being a truly legendary Disney and Pixar movie, their poster artwork didn’t do anything but promote the movie incredibly well. The comical renders of Mike and Sulley in a minimalistic surrounding make for a poster that is sure to inspire and stick in our heads for quite some time.

Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones (2002)

Solaris (2002)

Men in Black II (2002)

Signs (2002)

Signs (2002)

X2 (2003)

As mentioned earlier in the post, the X-Men Trilogy used a great and very realistic metal rendering to produce their posters. It is now easily recognized and associated with the X-Men franchise.

Underworld (2003)

The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

The Core (2003)

Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines (2003)

The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004)

Species III (2004)

Alien vs Predator (2004)

AVP uses a truly gruesome and interesting render in their poster, and is probably the most horrific poster in this showcase. It creates a dark and scary mood, leaving some people clenching their fists – just the type of atmosphere you need for a sci-fi movie.

I, Robot (2004)

The Matrix (2005)

Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith (2005)

The most recent Star Wars movie uses some techniques to make their poster appear older than what it actually is, making it fit in nicely with the posters of the other five masterpieces.

Serenity (2005)

Photo manipulation and montaging makes this poster come to life by combining several photographs, renders and lighting techniques into one to produce a truly sci-fi feel.

War Of The Worlds (2005)

The remake of War of the Worlds uses a magnificent three-dimensional typography effect to really make their poster come to life. This style of typography is being used more and more frequently in recent years, making its way onto posters, magazine covers and web design.

Doom (2005)

Taken from the multi-platform and legendary console game, Doom uses warm, glowing colors, cross hairs and first-person angles to make you feel a part of the poster – after seeing the poster you’re left in a tense mood, wanting to see the movie.

The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy (2005)

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

Transformers (2007)


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April 27th, 2010

Winter Vector Inspiration and Snowy Resources

Snow covered landscapes, everywhere white fills the streets, and the sky. In the mean time; happiness and inspiration exist inside the human soul. Let’s look at a collection of vector, snowy worlds. This post is filled with both winter inspiration galore and resources to keep you busy during these winter months.

Inspiration

Winter Scape

Fall of Snow

Winter Solitude

Snow is so great

Frost

Winter wonderland: penguin

Naalia 03

Fall’in love with the moon

Winter Air

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April 14th, 2010

Interface Design Inspiration | 30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page/Form

In most online business the revenue of the site solely depends on the registered and active users and Making the visitor of your site to sign up isn’t easy, nobody likes to fill in forms .

Web forms bridge the gap between the product and the customer therefore, we designers, need to figure out sound design make the form completion process easy.

But while designing the Signup page / form lot question will arise in designers mind like how should the text box / buttons should look? alignment of labels in form? the size of the textbook, where to place the tooltip link ?, to name a few. To help you in that, here i’ve collected 30 examples of nicely designed and implemented sing-up page/ form design, in various style formats which suit the over all website design perfectly , hope you like this collection

1. )PSDThemes

2. )Nibbledish

3. )Livestream


4. )Big Cartel

5. )Gowalla

6. )Next Big Sound

7. )YouAre

8. )Omgpop

9. )Footytube

10. )LaunchMind

11. )PopScreen

12. )StrawPoll

13. )Thumbslap

14. )Virb

15. )Wedding Jojo

16. )14dayz

17. )Builditwith

18. )CulinaryCulture

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March 11th, 2010

25 Impressive Email Newsletter Designs for Your Inspiration

Many newsletters are published by clubs, churches, societies, associations, and businesses, especially companies, to provide information of interest to their members, customers or employees. Sending newsletters to customers and prospects is a common marketing strategy, which can have benefits and drawbacks.

A beautifully designed newsletter can make the user more interested in your product or your service, here i’ve collected 25 impressive news letter designs, for you inspiration, which will be help-full to you on your next newsletter design process

1.) Fifty Coins

2.) Whiskey Militia

3.) Team Worx

4.) Percept

5.) Nation Toys

6.) Crate & Barell

7.) Altar 7

8.) Totally Rad

9.) Patriot

10.) Letone email

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February 12th, 2010

40 Beautiful 3D Typography Designs For Inspiration

3D Typography is usually really beautiful. and which is now more popular and we can notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites, Here i have collected 40 Beautiful 3D Typography Deisgns For Inspiration, I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired

well i’ve also compiled 25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials, So you can Try this 3d effects in your next design Project

1. )Explode by osbjef

3D Typographic design inspiration

2. )Wash Your Hands by BK1LL3R

3D Typographic design inspiration

3. )Balance by skam4

3D Typographic design inspiration

4. )Extinction by chanito

3D Typographic design inspiration

5. )CMYK by markie darkie

3D Typographic design inspiration

6. )FIRE STARTER by haniadnan

3D Typographic design inspiration

7. )DO THE DANCE by Felix Valentin

3D Typographic design inspiration

8. )NeoNation by Deetz

3D Typographic design inspiration

9. )CMYK by NeedMoreArtZ

3D Typographic design inspiration

10. )Massive attack by Demen1

11. )Free Your Mind by Niels van Doorn

3D Typographic design inspiration

12. )Summer Blast by NS-1

3D Typographic design inspiration

13. )I Love Typography by Stadno

3D Typographic design inspiration

14. )Waste Not. Want Not.

3D Typographic design inspiration

15. )URBAN JUNGLE by Mike Campau

3D Typographic design inspiration

16. )3d carnval by tariqdesign

3D Typographic design inspiration

17. )Workshop planos by dadoqueiroz

3D Typographic design inspiration

18. )Le Coffee Socks by flexgraph

3D Typographic design inspiration

19. )Creative Design by chanito

3D Typographic design inspiration

20. )Creative Tempest by Paulo Canabarro

3D Typographic design inspiration

21. )Type 3D by Lucas Bellett

3D Typographic design inspiration

22. )Twenty by aiiven

3D Typographic design inspiration

23. )stranded by bes31

3D Typographic design inspiration

24. )Sammii by marcinxp

3D Typographic design inspiration

25. )bloom nature typography design by Joey Camacho

3D Typographic design inspiration

26. )creative temptest

3D Typographic design inspiration

27. )Medusateam

3D Typographic design inspiration

28. )Riot LP Releaseby Uku-Kristjan Küttis

3D Typographic design inspiration

29. )Outsmoked by osbjef

3D Typographic design inspiration

30. )Life’s a journey by vonStrago

3D Typographic design inspiration

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