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Giveaway: 3 Winners Can Win 250 Business Cards Each
We are happy to give 250 business cards each to 2Experts exclusive readers. Yes, we partnered with one of the top business cards printing company PrintRunner and hosting this giveaway. Simply comment and stay tuned with see your name in winners list.
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What You Win3 participants can win 250 business cards each
- Business Card Size and Style: Business Cards – 2×3.5 (Standard)
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* Giveaway is open to US Residents only, ages 18 years old and above.
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Simple, just comment how would you utilize those cards and sit back relax.
Winners will be announced after 25th May,2012.
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Weekly Vector Inspiration #171
This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.
Little Backpacker by Brad Woodard
Big Fish by Brad Woodard
Self-directed by Brad Woodard
DeLorean by Monfa
Ferrocarril by Monfa
Mascaradas TYPE by Monfa
Naturaleza muerta by Monfa
FieldTrip by Travis Price
Australian Invasion Tshirt Series by Travis Price
MUTINY OF THE FLESH by J.R. Goldberg
Tasty Vector Juices by J.R. Goldberg
Tasty Vector Juices by J.R. Goldberg
Kawaii Circus Parade by Jerrod Maruyama
London Poster by Kronk
Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook by Filter017
Filter017 X Jiukoushan R.D. Series Notebook by Filter017
Nike Basketball by Vasava
YWFT Roland by YouWorkForThem
YWFT Roland by YouWorkForThem
Si Maclennan
danube by Alexandra Rusu
5 of spades – Creative Cards by Rubens Cantuni
VOID OF ILLUSION by Florian Schommer
VOID OF ILLUSION by Florian Schommer
Urkin skateboards by Ignacio Valicenti
Handshake by pal
Dames Of The Atomic Age by BrandonRagnar
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Collection Of Websites With Unique Layouts
When we look at some sites, the layout feature can only attract attention. The layout can be simple or more complicated. Sometimes a designer can break out at an amazing layout in minutes and sometimes the designer can fight for the most part with the same task. A web site with nice graphics and typography gets a huge response from visitors – the goal of every designer.
Now I’m showcasing a collection of outstanding websites with unique and creative layouts. All of these are impressive because of their stunning artwork. Take a look to the below showcase!
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Here, we tried to pick and showcase superb layout designs. Hope this showcase entertained you!
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Quickly Locate Objects in Sublayers
Here’s a handy tip if you work with a bunch of Layers. Illustrator can automatically expand and scroll to a sublayer that’s hidden within a collapsed layer. All you have to do is click on the object in your artwork and choose Locate Object from the Layers panel menu. The sample image below is taken from CS6 but should work in older versions of Illustrator.
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IMcreator: Drag & Drop to Create Your Own HTML Site
There is a common idea that, if you don’t have a Facebook profile, you don’t exist which is wrong but more and more people adhere to the global movement of being present on the miraculous network. Despite of that, in the near future or even in the present anyone who has a business must be present on Internet or else the risk of bankruptcy is near, meaning the business doesn’t exist for customers. The existence of a business shouldn’t be the main factor involved in creating a website, anyone is free and welcomed to join the unlimited number of online presences.
The level of complexity reached by web designers in creating new and new websites is amazing and only specialists could launch these and, in the most case, the payment for these kinds of services is pretty amazing. Under these circumstances, it is normal for everyone to ask himself if there is the possibility of creating a website with low or no costs; fortunately, by reading this post you will be able to build a free website.
A simple “website builders” search on Google will conduct anyone to lots of website builders, some of these really amazing, some more decent. One of the most interesting applications that allow for the building of a free website is Imcreator. By using this website builder anyone, no matter how familiarized he or she is to HTML and CSS, may create and launch a website. The huge advantage of this cool website builder is the capacity of borrowing from the user the hated part of coding. Yep, there is no HTML tag you should know (don’t worry, if you are a modest knower of HTML there are some chances to use your arsenal). Instantly after landing on their home page of the official website you will fall in love with the superb design but clearly, the reason of visiting their online presence is to use the Imcreator application to build a free website.
Depending on each one’s inspiration, you are free to select a template or, if you trust your forces, start from a blank page. A very original item that isn’t present on other website builders is the support button- here you may ask the help of an agent to chat or submit a ticket. In this way, no matter which problem someone encounters, there is a “big brother” ready to help.
Anyway, the easiness of adding pages and new element removes any potential issue almost completely. The multitude of templates impresses anyone but most importantly, satisfies all tastes from real estate to portfolios prototypes. Once you have selected the suitable template, the real miracle will come: the possibilities of customizing the websites are limitless and very complex. Other website builders allow customizing more or less, the menu, the header but imcreator goes a step further by proving alternatives for improving SEO, analyzing the ulterior evolution of the website, adding a favicon etc.
The rest of the features are very complex but at the same time simple to insert, the making of a website being mostly a fun activity and not something boring. Personally, I think it is better to test this website builder yourself and try to build a free website by yourself.
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25 Fresh and Clean WordPress Themes
Today we have a new theme collection for you called Fresh & Clean. These are another wordpress themes that got a very clean and minimal design, created with having the casual blogger in mind. These themes are perfect for all kinds of corporate sites or for personal blogs. Take a look at some of the themes presented below.
3. Uraniumoid
4. Galliumite
5. Demiurge
7. Elegance
9. Japan Style
10. Myriad Spa theme
11. Life Collage
13. Love Earth
16. Ubert
17. Framed
18. 3D Music Flow
19. Slash Wp
20. The Way Wp
21. Water Lily Theme
22. Decayed theme
24. Especial theme
25. Cool white theme
Hope this post gives you a useful info and make’s you try to present your site in a unique way!
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Fit Text Frame to Content Script
Nathaniel Kelso created a couple of really handy scripts to fit text boxes to their content. This might seem like a really basic problem, but these problems are usually the most annoying. There is a script for a text box’s Depth and a script for the text box’s Width. If you work with a bunch of typography in Illustrator I’m sure they will come in handy. Thanks to John Wundes for pointing it out. Download the script here (you need to scroll down a little ).
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30 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts
There is always a new challenge for designers and Web developers. One of the latest is definitely responsive web design, the art of serving the same web page to multiple devices including PCs, mobile phones to the tablet and iPhone that look good on all of them. Typically, you would use Media Queries to resize the overall layout, but navigation, forms, images, sliders, carousels… they all need to be optimized as well.
Web site designers and developers like to create such designs that allow users to browse their favorite websites on any device. To obtain these flexibilities in web design, layouts should be responsive. This is why we are giving you our collection of 30 jQuery plugins that will help you optimize and resize those trickier web elements. Have fun!
Blueberry is an experimental open source jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.
Photo Swipe is a FREE HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices.Photo Swipe provides your visitors with a familiar and intuitive interface allowing them to interact with images on your mobile website.
Fit text is a jquery Plugin for inflating web type Fit Text makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.
Works from large monitors to laptops, to tablets to mobiles.Pure CSS styling, CSS3 based transitions, Animations work on all modern browsers including mobile, Minimal dependence on jQuery for convenience, Simple lightweight design, adds little to your download size.
With the responsive awakening in web design it becomes important to not only take care of the visual part of a website but also of the functionality. Elastislide is a responsive jQuery carousel that will adapt its size and its behavior in order to work on any screen size. Inserting the carousels structure into a container with a fluid width will also make the carousel fluid.
Simple, semantic markup, Supported in all major browsers, Horizontal/vertical slide and fade animations, Multiple slider support, Callback API, and more, Hardware accelerated touch swipe support
A responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will have a view switch that allows to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.
Isotope has a versatile layout engine that can accommodate multiple layout modes. You can set and change the layout mode via the layoutMode option.
Adaptive Images detects your visitor’s screen size and automatically creates, caches, and delivers device appropriate re-scaled versions of your web page’s embedded HTML images. No mark-up changes needed. It is intended for use with Responsive Designs and to be combined with Fluid Image techniques.
jQuery Plugin for creating image galleries that scale to fit their container.
A jQuery plugin for making scrolling presentation decks, For example: animations, full screen images or parallaxing.
ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slideshow using images inside a single container. It work with wide range of browsers including all IE versions from IE6 and up. It also adds css max-width support for IE6 and other browsers that don’t natively support it. Only dependency is jQuery and that all the images are same size.
Hoverizr is a really small (2.5KB minified) responsive jQuery plugin that outputs manipulated images on top (or below) your targeted images. Currently, it features three effects: gray scale, blur and color inversion.
fancy Box is a tool that offers a nice and elegant way to add zooming functionality for images, html content and multi-media on your webpages. It is built at the top of the popular JavaScript framework jQuery and is both easy to implement and a snap to customize.
Responsive Web Design” being thrown around the past few months, which simple means a website that can adjust to your screen size without having to make a separate website! This came about from the simple fact that a lot of people have been making demos of this responsive web design but none seem to be using 960 grid system with 12 columns, and because of this I was forced to make my own..!
SG is prepared for 4 distinct ranges of screen size: screens.Most grid systems use one class for all units of a single size, leaving units oblivious to where they fit into the grid.Creating the code for your grid should be the least of your problems when building a site. That’s why SG keeps things simple and straightforward with as little markup and classes as possible.
Developed with love by Girlfriend’s overconfident and pretty good looking team of web developers. Tiny Fluid Grid ships with a index.html with demo code, and the grid.css containing the CSS for the grid you created.
Diapo slideshow is an open source project. You can suggest changes or improvements if you want. You can download it and use for free, you can also include it in your projects and sell it as part of a bigger work.
Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.
Slidorion caters for all kinds of content; from HTML to simple images such as this. Make sure images are the correct size, or give that slide a background to prevent objects behind seeping through.
Horizontal, vertical, and fade transitions, Display and move multiple slides at once (carousel), Prev / next, pager, auto controls, Easing transitions.
Craftyslide is a tiny (just 2kb) slideshow built on jQuery. Craftyslide aims to be different, by providing a simple, no-frills method of displaying images; packaged into a small, clean and efficient plugin.
website has a responsive design with a neat feature. When the browser window is narrow, the menu in the upper right converts from a regular row of links into a dropdown menu.
Arranging images in a montage like fashion can be a challenging task when considering certain constraints, like the window size when using full screen, the right image number to fill all the available space or also the size of the images in use. With the following script you can automatically create a montage, either for a liquid container or a fixed size container (including full screen), with the option to fill all the gaps.
Masonry is a dynamic grid layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip-side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically, positioning each element in the next open spot in the grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.
The Heads-Up Grid is an overlay grid for in-browser website development, built with HTML + CSS + JavaScript.
Let’s say you have a bunch of images you want to display, and the goal is to get them edge-to-edge on the browser window with no gaps. Just because you think that would be cool. They are of all different sizes. You don’t care if they are resized, but they should maintain their aspect ratio.
it is a simple jquery plugin helping design more responsive and adaptive websites and web applications with almost no setup.
light box is a jQuery UI media box that can display many types of content such as images, YouTube and Vimeo videos. It has many unique features like Panorama and Live Re-size. Like other jQuery UI widgets, it is Theme Roller ready.
Hope you enjoyed this collection of themes, and encouraged some to experiment with.
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Weekly Vector Inspiration #170
This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.
M Magazine, C’est une maison verte by LA TIGRE
M Magazine, C’est une maison verte by LA TIGRE
M Magazine, C’est une maison verte by LA TIGRE
IL #40, Cover + Coverstory Design by LA TIGRE
IL #40, Cover + Coverstory Design by LA TIGRE
IL #40, Cover + Coverstory Design by LA TIGRE
mondo: toy story by strongstuff
Mic’s Chilli by Steve Simpson
Mic’s Chilli by Steve Simpson
Cavistons by Steve Simpson
Cavistons by Steve Simpson
Sangwine by Lydia Nichols
Sangwine by Lydia Nichols
Glen Brogan
Ride by bandito design co
Andrew Kolb
dark-side cats by zutto
De Flore by ilya kazakov
De Flore by ilya kazakov
Man-Tsun
Man-Tsun
The Pendoring Awards 2012 by Clement de Bruin
Infografía – Composta en la ciudad by Yurex Omazkin
Migros magazine by Lindedesign
Vintage Water Pistol by Glennz Tees
Flora by Invisible Creature
Print Mighty T-Shirt by Anna Johnstone
The Manual, Iss. 2 by Always With Honor
TV EMAs by Always With Honor
Trouble in Lost Woods by Always With Honor
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40 Creative & Inspirational Photo Edit Examples
Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. They edit these photographs in such a creative way by increasing quality and overall looks of photography that even we can’t decide about what to call them, photography or photo manipulation.It requires a very creative set of skills to generate an exclusive image that can induce even the most experienced set of eyes.
Today I’ve collected really beautiful examples of creative edit photography. Hope you like them.
1. When the storm comesEdited using Photoshop by Moey art.
This photo was taken on January 31, 2012.
The unique and original print is 5,3m weith!
This photo was taken on October 10, 2011.
Illustration for for Depth core’s most recent Chapter “Obsolete”.
Made for Sense of the Season art pack.
Photo manipulation Freestyle illustration just to playing around with PS.
Based on Rage against the Machine song Bulls on Parade.
I named this place contemplation. I used a variety of oriental inspired imagery_Ryuneo.
This photo was taken on February 22, 2012 in Lima, PE.
Sky’s the limit – was made for Advanced Photoshop Germany.
A modern version of the myth of Marie Magdalena. In conjunction with elements of Eva in paradise and the pope. The church tells your story. but this is the truth? Who are you really? The wife of jesus? Or even the holy grail? The truth will probably remain hidden forever. But should they reveal the humanity in general?
Once upon a time a little girl went down the street…
This photo was taken on December 31, 2010 in Lima, PE.
Artwork for Mad in Spain 2008 exclusive artwork exhibition.
32. Manipulation by Elena Pench
collaboration together with Wojciech Pijecki called “Tertium”
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Anchor Points: John Duvengar
You might recognize some of John Duvengar’s work from recent Weekly Inspiration posts. His Bigfoot illustration is one of my favorite illustrations I have come across lately. John’s attention to strokes and subtle textures give his strong vector shapes character and a slight non-digital feel. John has some great replies to the Anchor Points questions, so read on!
The Chat Hey John, thanks for chatting with Vectips! To start, could you tell us a little about yourself?Hi Vectips crew and community. It’s a great pleasure and honor to be part of Anchor Points.
My artist name is John Duvengar, which is an anagram of my real name. I choose it when I decided to quit law to become an artist. It was not an easy decision, but I felt I really had to live my dream. I started working as an illustrator for an economic review where i experienced various technics from traditional paper and ink to digital ones. The vector technic is now my favorite one because it allows me to have an extremely precise control of my trace. The few things that I need to work are: a good tablet, a good computer, a good chair and like to be listening to good music.
If you could magically turn into a Illustrator tool, what tool would it be and why?My favorite tool is the paintbrush, because it combines the traditional hand gestural and the flexibility of the digital tools.
What’s your favorite Illustrator technique?There is a lot! But I in particular like the halftones filter from the plugin Phantasm CS. I have lost so much time trying to do perfect halftones into illustrator before it.
Do you use any non-digital tools in your work?All my designs are a combination of digital and no-digital technics. I always start working with quick and dirty sketches on my moleskine before choosing one of them to make it cleaner in a bigger size. Besides, I always dreamt about making completely non-digital comics one day, but I know it would be a huge challenge. This is my personal Holy Graal.
What are your favorite sources of inspiration?I always have been very inspired by old comics and cartoons like Popeye, to name only one. I’m also very curious about street art and I began to understand a little more about contemporary art, especially abstract art. I’m currently doing some experiments in this field.
Thanks again for the interview! Any parting words of wisdom?Be yourself, create your own style and make love not war!
Learn More About John Duvengar ETERNAL MELODY
THE HAZY GIANT
MY BUDDIES
MAD PIRATE
BLACK ORCHID
THE COOLEST GUY ON EARTH:
MORRISON BRANDY
BOTS COLLECTOR
BIG FOOT
CLOCWORK MELON
ORANGE QUICK FOOT
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Freebies: 3D Social Icons Pack for Designers and Developers
Its the time for some freebies. We are happy to release a new 3D metallic social media icons pack for free to use (Personal & Commercial). Its a pack of 15 icons which includes Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Pinterest, Skype, RSS, Myspace, Youtube, Linkedin, google, Yahoo, Delicious, Stumbleupon.
These 3D metallic social media icons are exclusively designer for 2ExpertsDesign visitors by creative team at Design Article Writer.
The pack consist of 15 icons that comes in 5 different sizes 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. These are free to use for any kind of purpose.
Quite impressive and dedicated team behind this community. They are individuals working together to help maintain their own blogs and many other medium and top class design niche blogs online. They contribute articles, templates, icons, Photoshop tutorials to many well known blogs online.
Impressed? Download them nowYou’re free to download and use these icons for personal or commercial purposes. However, they may not be sold or uploaded anywhere else for free download.
If you’d like to share this set of icons, help us spread the word by linking back to this original release. Thank you.
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We offer our sincere thanks to Design Article Writers for creating this 3D social icon pack exclusively for 2ExpertsDesign visitor community.
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35 Different Types of Liquid Textures
In the field of design Photoshop is a well known tool that allows you to create many wonderful and creative things for web designers and graphic designers. Textures make your designs perfect and eye catching, with excellent results and Liquid textures are among them. Liquid textures make your objects sticky and you can also expand your creativity, play with your eyes and minds to the arts making it more attractive with effective artwork.
In this post, we aim to share with you the stocks of cool and refreshing liquid textures from the world of creativity and design. Download and use the following textures and make your design more attractive and appealing.
1. Pink hot water tub
These are sized at 8×10 and 150dpi.
This photo was taken on September 20, 2009 in Mississauga, Ontario, CA, using a Nikon D80.
Profile shot of a beer glass. Frost topping a tasty pilsen.
Photoshop render of an orange juice swirl.
This photo was taken on April 16, 2011 using a Canon EOS 5D.
Close up of orange liquid candle.
Coffee. Dark and rich.
Some water, sun and shining in amber color
Oil on pavement on a rainy day makes pretty colors.
A mixed media texture piece.
This seamless texture was illustrated by Patrick Hoesly, a Kansas City based illustrator specializing in architectural illustrations and graphic design.
Sometimes a design requires little touches for becoming awesome rather than standard. It can be colors, fonts or the objects like icons, images and textures.This time, WRD is sharing a set of 12 exclusive, free and high-quality liquid textures to spice up your designs.
Surface of water.
shower gel.
Abstract water background with bubbles, This photo was taken on June 26, 2009.
Top view on glass with light beer.
Bubbles from an apple juice.
Hope you are refreshed with this showcase!
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Illustrator CS6
Illustrator CS6 is shipping! I’m sure most of you know and have already downloaded the the trial version, but if you haven’t, go and get it already! In the following post I breakdown some of the new features in CS6 and it’s not quite a review, just an overview at what is new. I want to use CS6 for a solid month in production work before I put up my review.
Adobe Mercury ProgramThe most significant change in Illustrator is the the Mercury Performance System. With the Adobe Mercury Program, Illustrator has native 64-bit support on Mac OS and Windows. You can access all the RAM on your computer to easily open, save, and export large files and preview complex illustrations. Mordy Golding has a good breakdown of what 64-bit Illustrator CS6 actually means and you can read more about the Mercury Performance System over at Adobe.
Flexible Interface
On the surface, Illustrator’s new interface looks darker, but there is a lot more going on under the hood. Now that Illustrator has a new 64-bit framework every panel had to be rewritten. Now a bunch of old issues have been taken care of and we can benefit from new technology. For example: inline editing of layer names, precise color sampling, UI brightness, and a lot more. Mordy has another great post on these enhancements.
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Pattern CreationCreating patterns in Illustrator can be a tedious process but in CS6 the pattern process is greatly improved. Now pattern creation and editing is quicker and more intuitive.
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New Image TraceIllustrator CS6 comes with a new Image Trace engine tailored to create cleaner tracings with less paths, anchor points, and better color recognition than in Live Trace.
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Gradients on StrokesIn CS6 you can add gradients on a stroke along the length, across the width, or within the stroke itself. You will also have complete control over gradient placement and opacity.
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Gaussian Blur EnhancementsGaussian Blur and effects such as Drop Shadows and Glows are applied significantly faster than before. To improve accuracy, preview directly on the artboard rather than in a dialog box.
Panel Enhancements
Below are some of the panel enhancements thanks to the new 64-bit framework and interface changes.
Inline editing in panelsEfficiently edit names in layers, swatches, brushes, artboards, and other panels directly in the panels themselves without using intermediate dialog boxes.
Color panel enhancements
Sample colors faster and more precisely using an expandable color spectrum in the Color panel. And now, copy and paste hex values into other applications more quickly.
Transform panel enhancements
One of my favorite enhancements is the Scale Strokes and Effects option, thanks to its new availability in the Transform panel.
Type panel improvements
Use arrow keys to change fonts in context for selected text. Glyphs for caps, superscripts, and more. It can now be accessed in one place, the Character panel.
Control panel enhancements
Quickly find what you need in a more efficient Control panel, now with consistency across options, anchor point controls, clipping masks, envelope distortions, and more.
Dockable hidden tools
Tear off and dock previously hidden tools, such as the Shape and Pen tools. Dock tools horizontally or vertically for a more efficient workspace.
Workspaces with rooms
Move fluidly from workspace to workspace with support for rooms. Achieve consistency across your work areas and maintain layout changes until you actively reset them.
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The Complete Team Behind a Heavy Visited Blog
As a web designer is hard to believe that at least once per week don’t check the most important blogs in the industry. The huge amount of information presented in addition to the high quality of these are forming a mixture that is vital in keeping updated with what is new in web design world. Anyway, we, the readers must be grateful to the never ending endeavors of the bloggers that sacrifice their time for our pleasure or informing.
Nowadays, not only the latest news in web design are presented on blogs, there is no domain not to have tons of blogs explaining superficially or in depth what is about or how to do something. The blogosphere, the totality of blogs created, is in a spectacular expansion and what some year ago was considered a fade is in present nothing neither more nor less than a complex industry.
Under these circumstances is very normal to ask ourselves if it advantageous to create and maintain a blog, could it be a solution to gain some extra money? The answer is depending on each particular situation but a blog, used smartly may be a source of money and reconnaissance. At the moment of writing this post the rumors of selling Mashable by his owner Peter Cashmore are very present and the cost of it is simply amazing and enough motivating to think seriously about the launching of one.
The bad news is that the things evolved and nothing can be achieved without a long time effort and many sleepless nights. The success is not the result of hazard, it’s all about smart work and strong will. At the beginning of a successful blog, a single blogger is enough but across time, there must be curdled a team capable of maintaining and getting more and more visitors. In order to get an idea about what suppose the expansion of a blog and how are distributed the roles I created this post, clearly, there is no precise formula, each blog has its particularities. I will highly appreciate any completion, the more ideas the better becomes the post.
1.The owner
Behind each blog is situated a person that believed in his potential and the chance of turning into an interesting voice in his domain. Usually the owner is a very good specialist, also a good writer but most important, is very decided. Peter Cashmore, as example, at the beginning of his blog was writing almost ten posts per day, which is a good ratio for any blogger. After a while (personally, I consider a year the minimum period) a blogger may think to next steps. The evolution of a blog is strictly determined by the traffic obtained and only when is reached the point where simply you as blogger are overdue is recommended to search for help.
2.The administrator
The work of administrator is very similar to the role of owner. First of all he is the chief and only the capital decisions are made by the owner (the tasks may vary according to the preferences of the owner, some wish to have a complete control while other has complete confidence in the admin). The administrator establishes the schedule of posting, which posts are good and which must be rethought. In the process of expansion are required new and new authors and usually, the admin is responsible by hiring a new one. Another role, very important, is in making the strategy on long term. A blog can’t evolve without a draft, no matter how it looks, a simple file or an impressive plan, where are stipulated some checkpoints and deadlines. This is very important to have the big picture over the entire situation. A heavy visited blog has a specialist in marketing and optimization but they must be near administrator in order to make the best decisions. Willing or not, the administrator is the brain of the blog.
3.The authors
A blog attracts people and maintains them only by providing quality information. The role of authors is also very important, without their participation the blog won’t exist. Apparently not complicated the role of an author is very difficult, they are the ones that are fighting for each new visitor. Their work is decisive: write posts, add the images and pay attention to the feedback of the readers.
4.Guest authors
Another category of posts writers are the ones interested in SEO or advertising. They write a post that must be accepted by the administrator and once it got his OK it’s published. The particularity of it is the personal bio, usually situated at the end of the post where is described in few sentences the author and here are inserted links to his websites. Apparently, less important, the personal bio is an amazing tool in the right hands. A blog may function with only these roles but for a more visited one, must be created two new separated roles: the SEO and marketing specialists.
5.SEO specialist
Google just announced a radical revolution related to the algorithm of indexing and displaying the websites, few people know that Google produces monthly mini-revolutions and changes the rules very frequently. Under these circumstances, the role of a SEO specialist becomes obvious and very important. A blog that isn’t search engine friendly simply doesn’t exist!
6.Marketing specialist
The financial aspect is determiner and by neglecting it, the end of the blog is near. A marketing specialist must take care of the promotion of the blog and he decides the long term strategy of branding. Definitely, he may be also responsible by the monetization of the blog so there must be a specialist. It may seem a little bit complicated but in fact is too simple and the roles are looking similar to the ones from any print publication. These roles aren’t fixed and anyone may be responsible for two or three of them or other may replace someone. In fact really no matter who is chief or subalterns, what really matters is the quality of the posts and the reaction of the readers. Do you agree or not with me?
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40 Minimalist WordPress Themes of All Time
WordPress themes are one of the main things you need, to start a blog. You can download and use some professional and minimal WordPress themes that are free, without coding.
Why Choose Minimalist WordPress Themes?Minimal themes make your blog look cleaner and also reduce page load time giving your user the best experience in reading your articles. A minimal theme helps the user to find what they are looking for easily. They are easy to navigate compared to heavy loaded web designs. Minimal WordPress themes are excellent for creating a unique look and feel. Also the theme can be adjusted easily as required.
To make your blog look more professional and well decorated, you can see the following list of minimal and free WordPress themes and pick. If you own a medical niche site and looking get a unique design for it. Then its worth having a look at medical web designers out there at Officite.
3. Minimal Expert Word Press Theme
4. I Love It
5. Simple Press Word Press Theme
6. Striking Premium Corporate & Portfolio WP Theme
7. Enkelt Theme
8. Box Office
11. Wall Base
12. Vimes
13. Swagger Responsive Word Press Theme
14. F8 Lite
15. Sight
17. Cross Apple-Clean Business Word Press Theme
19. Hector
20. Bon Press
21. Sideways Portfolio Website Word Press Theme
22. Dark And Clean Word Press Theme
23. Twenty Eleven
24. Daily Notes
25. Old School
26. Minimalisto
29. Delicate Word Press Theme For Free
30. Yin Yang
31. Rubidiumify
32. Switch Blade Word Press Theme
33. Inspiration Premium Word Press Theme
34. Silverio
35. Womack Themes
36. Structure Theme
37. Photo lux
38. Workaholic
39. 8 Cells
40. Folio Way
Hope you are entertained with this collection!
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Weekly Vector Inspiration #169
This post is part of a weekly series showcasing inspirational vector art. Although the series showcases vector art, some work might just be vector inspired, not created completely with vector art. If you have any art suggestions, feel free to comment! For more vector art inspiration, check out the Vectips Flickr Group.
Daniel Ting Chong
Daniel Ting Chong
Pharos NoteBooks by Daniel Ting Chong
Twist & Curls by Daniel Ting Chong
Konstantin Shalev
Konstantin Shalev
Characters and Typography by Konstantin Shalev
Characters and Typography by Konstantin Shalev
Alexander Kostenko
Alexander Kostenko
Skiing by Khuan Cavemen Co
Khuan Cavemen Co
Google x Collabo Arts by Stubborn Sideburn
Google x Collabo Arts by Stubborn Sideburn
zutto
zutto
Alphabetcha by Nathan Walker
Marceline and Kim by Glen Brogan
Kawaii Luncheon Meat by Jerrod Maruyama
Ricky Powell by Travis Price
Brownbook by Studio Muti
beatles: yellow submarine: titlecard by strongstuff
mondo: adventure time: thank you by strongstuff
double rainbow bridge poster by strongstuff
The Avengers Poster by Tyler Stout
Stanley Chow
Hulk Avengers poster by Ken Taylor
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20 Creative Office Designs Around the World
Having the office in great ways is to create a work environment for employees-impressive, well designed with elements of inspiration and motivation. A highly or less colored design with unique working environment inspires ideas and the output of their work will be much greater when compared to ordinary workplace.
Below are some modern offices that inspire genius or creative ideas from all around the globe.
1. PONS +o HUOT’s Futuristic Bubbly OfficesThe project accommodates the headquarters of two companies in Paris – PONS and HUOT – with totally fifteen executives. Consequently the unit has seven individual rooms for each director and one open-space-office for the remaining eight clerks.
This very unusual building is made up of recycled shipping containers and will become a small office building in Providence R.I.
This photo was taken on November 16, 2009 using a Nikon D3 by Dustin Diaz.
An open office design with some division of space. The space should inspire, attract and help to keep talent. Completed in 2006. Workspaces for over 20 people, Game Room, Lounge and a Secret Room behind a bookshelf. All at half the cost of boring cubicles!
This photo was taken on November 12, 2009 in Gastown, Vancouver, BC, CA, using a Nikon Coolpix S570.
The Studio is full of colour at the hive, some great art work on the walls, cookie jars full to the top and hot coffee and tea waiting for you.
View from Conference table corner.This photo was taken on February 26, 2008 using a Canon EOS 30D.
Berlin MTV office looks great, and while we only get to see the common areas in these images, I’d like to work in an office with these common areas.The space was designed by Dan Pearlman Architects and has quite a wonderful open feel to it. The colors are bright, they pot, but are also flat and easy on the eyes.
Located in Shanghai, China, Interior Design Modern Red Town Office was designed by Taranta Creations. The office is situated in a former metal factory. The excising diagonal steel structure was causing difficulties to fulfill the wish of the studio to create two floors. The distance between the structure and ceiling was too less for a traditional office layout of floor and tables.
DDB Office is located in Singapore at Pico Creative Center occupying 2 floors of 100 square meters each. A dynamic working culture at this new office workspace which later become a social network area rather than a confined individual space reflected to the new office design that was done by BBFL architects.
Design studio Ippolito Fleitz Group, over the past six years successfully managed to expand both their work load and their team through their successful design solutions in architecture, interior design, product design, and communication design. As a result their former offices failed to meet the needs of this ever-expanding design group. The studio located its new premises in Gründerzeit building, a former factory for control technology in the west of Stuttgart, Germany.
UVIT (a combination of Dutch insurance companies Univé, VGZ, IZA and Trias) is ahead of others in “Het Nieuwe Werken” (working new style) where employees cease to have their regular work space and where the organisation provides a lot of flexible workstations.
The company’s first office was an apartment which eventually was upgraded for a 10-person office that used to belong to Spike Lee. Their latest space once belonged to Jim Henson’s Studios and was found in an extreme state of disarray and was in need of a major overhaul.
Swedish fashion brand Cheap Monday, based in Stockholm. The office designed and built by Ugly Cute is divided in two floors with the upper floor serving as a more public showroom and reception area and the lower as an open designing office landscape with a custom built-in pyramid as conference room!
Internet search giant Google features several different incredible headquarters around the world, and featured here is their playful Google office located in Zurich, Switzerland. The office span 12,000 square meters, and was designed by the creative team at Camenzind Evolution. This unique space is absolutely stunning from top to bottom, and what would a fun work environment be without a slide for Googlers?
In 1973 one of the biggest European architect Ricardo Bofill discovered a cement factory, part of an industrial complex from the turn of the century, comprising over 30 silos, underground galleries and huge engine rooms. He decided to transform it into his head office and house. The remodeling work lasted two years to achieve this unbelievable project!
Pascal Arquitectos usually get job to design shop center. Now, the designer get job to design ACBC office. the concept of the design is creating the second home for the office owner. the office owner spend much time in the office. so, the designer have to design the comfortable room which it can help to add the spirit and mood in working. it can be denied, that the office atmosphere has big influence in creating emotion when people work.
Dentsu London is a fast growing business which is similar to a start-up but with a strong foundation and support of existing blue chip clients from around the world. The decision to co-found the Attik in London’s business (relocation from Leeds) means that solutions are required to encourage the integration and cross-fertilization between the two groups.
Prodigy MSN was looking for new spaces for its corporate offices, not only with the idea of changing spaces, but also to create a new laboral culture that in first place be aware with the environment and moreover, increase collaboration among employees at different levels.
Corporate giants like Google demonstrated tremendous success with their workplaces, creative businesses and make believe others to have similar work environments. I hope you also follow the same and get high success.
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Move Pattern Tiles Manually
I get some great email questions from Vectips readers and sometimes they even answer their own questions, making for great tips! Which leads me to… you can use the tilde (~) key to mannually move pattern tiles. For example, select an object with a pattern tile applied to it, hold down the tilde key, and move it with the arrow keys or one of the selection tools! Pretty handy.
Pattern tile available through the Mid-Century Modern Vector Mill Crate
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Beautiful Paper Art Works to Refresh Your Mind
Even in today’s world of modern business Audios, Videos playing a major role, there is something that keeps us back to the paper when you want to find ideas in a notebook, doodle around in a sketchbook, to gather inspiration in an album or just draw some sketches for the next project or task.
Many people think that the art of paper includes only the design, drawing and painting. But some talented artists took the usual form of art for the next level of creativity by involving new forms of cutting, folding, and sculpture. It is a flexible means for expressing our creative works trained on paper. You can create a paper airplane or a ship cutting edge, twisted curves of nature, complex geometric shapes.
To inspire you and let you see what other artists are doing things with paper, we have collected some pretty amazing works for you to enjoy.
1. Summer OwlsBy the use of bold color, strong graphic line and familiar images I create highly individual and visually appealing pieces of art that make an instant impact. My work has a distinctive hand crafted quality that pays respect to all forms of mid century design, folk and ethnic art, as well as current and future trends_HELENMUSSEL WHITE.
He’s a little bigger than the real thing.
Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia (Moscow); prior to moving to the UK in 2004 she was interested in diverse creative practices ranging from Textile Painting, Origami and Collage to more traditional Fine Art practices. Following an MA in Graphic Communication (2006, University of Hertfordshire) she continued to experiment and explore ways of bringing together all the things she likes most: typography, paper, and highly detailed hand-made craft objects.
This photo was taken on April 13, 2010 in Chelsea Harbor, London, England, GB, using a Panasonic DMC-FS7.
A medium/large sized and fitted hat assembled with cardboard, staples and glue. acrylic Amy Winehouse portrait on front.
The title of this piece is “Dinner Time” and is a one-of-a-kind creation by Allen Eckman.
8. Illustrated Paper Owl
Paper sculpture of an owl, each feather is illustrated individually before construction
Los Angeles-based artist Jeff Nishinaka is a sculptor of paper. He creates amazingly detailed 3D renderings for both the fine and commercial arts.
Campaign against all forms of prejudgment.
A Chuck Taylor Converse in cut, glued, and acrylic-painted cardboard to replicate the original shoe.
14. Paper Sculptures
All handmade papers, watercolor papers and glues are acid free. Acrylics and pastels are also used. Each sculpture is hand cut using 3 sizes of Fiskar scissors
Los Angeles-based artist Jeff Nishinaka is a sculptor of paper. He creates amazingly detailed 3D renderings for both the fine and commercial arts.
These beautiful teacups made by Swedish artist Cecilia Levy are not only beautiful to look at but also light on the environment! Made from recycled book pages, each cup and saucer is a unique piece of art that you certainly wouldn’t want to pour your coffee in. After receiving an MFA in graphic design and teaching at the College of Arts and Crafts in Gothenburg,
King of the place, here is the mighty lion.
EN HEINE (born June 12, 1983 in Abidjan, Ivory coast) is a Belgian multidisciplinary visual artist. He is best known for his original series “Pencil vs Camera”, “Digital Circlism” and “Flesh and Acrylic”.
These are some pictures of an exhibition called “Folia de Papel”. A tribute to the members of the Rio de Janeiro Samba Schools, that with enthusiasm and joy they stage this wonderful spectacle.
Cut, Glued, and Acrylic painted Cardboard.
Bas relief paper sculptures by Paper noodle. Every piece of paper is cut, curled, embossed, torn, or scored by hand, and then assembled.
These are some pictures of an exhibition called “Folia de Papel”. A tribute to the members of the Rio de Janeiro Samba Schools, that with enthusiasm and joy they stage this wonderful spectacle.
38. Xcite Fun
Bas relief paper sculptures by Paper noodle. Every piece of paper is cut, curled, embossed, torn, or scored by hand, and then assembled.
40. Calvin Nicholls paper art 4
Great Work! Hope you enjoyed to see that the paper can be transformed into.
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