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Digital Food Photography: 30 Images and Tips for Effective Shooting

Vincent Sevilla — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:35:04 +0000

Food photography, while being a specialized type of still life art form, has already formed its own following. From amateurs taking pictures of what they had for lunch to award-winning photographers celebrating a collection of cultures, food photography has us engaged.

The art of food photography is a precise one as well, requiring understanding of spacing, distance, color, and focus. Today we’ll take a look at tips and tricks to make your food appear to be the best that money can buy.

Food Photography Techniques

1. Equipment

Professional photographers use expensive digital backs on equally expensive cameras, but the barrier ...

Ruscovery

The Design Inspiration — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:05:20 +0000

Sarina Concept

The Design Inspiration — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:55:20 +0000

Top 10 Foods with High Levels of Antioxidants

yajraelle — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:53:30 +0000

Antioxidants are substances that may protect your cells against the effects of free radicals. Learn what foo offers top-notch levels of antioxidants. Brought to you by Gourmandia

TriplAgent

The Design Inspiration — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:45:17 +0000

Infographics and Statistics in Website Design

Nataly Birch — Sun, 19 May 2013 08:13:01 +0000

Quality website is based on three fundamental postulates: design, development and content. The latter has a greater impact on users rather than the first two since its changeable nature, at first place, attracts and wins users over. But what if the content – is statistics, which, to be completely honest, is not every user cup [...]

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Facebook’s IPO Investors Should Have Invested in Yahoo!

Visual Loop — Sun, 19 May 2013 07:09:38 +0000

Facebook's IPO Investors Should Have Invested in Yahoo! :

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The Healthy Farm: A Vision for U.S. Agriculture [Interactive]

Visual Loop — Sun, 19 May 2013 02:33:14 +0000

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What Can I Take to the Pawn Shop?

brittb — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:32:29 +0000

Did you know you can pawn your iPod, guitar, power tools, or even sports equipment? This infographic from a pawn shop in New York gives you a list of other items that can be pawned.

Biosfera Program [Interactive]

Visual Loop — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:23:54 +0000

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks: Beastie Boys’ cover art, 1927 London on film, the $325,000 burger and more in our weekly look at the web

CH Editors — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:44:01 +0000

1. The $325,000 Burger Researchers in the Netherlands have been working tirelessly to create an entire hamburger's worth of beef muscle tissue from laboratory incubators. An expensive process, the point of their efforts is to give legitimacy to the research, which is supported...
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Double the Price of your Next Web Design Project

Brent Weaver — Sat, 18 May 2013 10:11:31 +0000

Part of my job is consulting with web designers to help them make more money. I get to hear about a lot of pain within the web design community. It never fails. The #1 painful comment that I hear more than anything else is “we can’t get paid what we are worth.” Do you have [...]

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The Byron

The Design Inspiration — Sat, 18 May 2013 09:05:25 +0000

The Earth Warder

The Design Inspiration — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:55:31 +0000

Le Rockwood

The Design Inspiration — Sat, 18 May 2013 08:45:23 +0000

Weekly Web & Mobile Creativity n.14

Speckyboy Editors — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:06:45 +0000

It is that time of the week again, a chance for you to sit back and enjoy some of our favorite web and mobile designs from this past week. And of course, don’t forget to click the ‘Change Viewport’ button to explore each site in detail.

Roynel.co

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WNDRMNT (Responsive)

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ZURB (Responsive)

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Hyperkit (Responsive)

Hyperkit →Change Viewport

Profission

Profission →

#Music.Twitter (Responsive)

#Music.Twitter →Change Viewport

Yahoo! Weather (iOS App)

Yahoo! Weather →

Hike (iOS, Android & Windows Mobile App)

Hike →

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Companies Owned By Disney

Visual Loop — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:59:15 +0000

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Type Love: HWT Unit Gothic

Courtney — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:52 +0000

HWT Unit Gothic is the latest release from the Hamilton Wood Type Foundry, a digitization of the Unit Gothic series, which was released by Hamilton Manufacturing Co. in 1907. The family consists of seven fonts, each containing 600 glyphs that include Greek and Cyrillic character sets, plus alternate characters based on the actual special character production patterns from the Hamilton Wood Type Museum. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts.

Want more type? Check out my Type Wishlist, current Favorites and Calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Image of the Day, May 17, 2013

Ronson Slagle — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:05 +0000

Striking business card as part of an identity design for fashion label Solis by Richard Baird. Check out more here. Via Design Work Life.

The post Image of the Day, May 17, 2013 appeared first on Print Magazine.

2013-05-16 | The Great Gatsby

Jacob Cass — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:58:43 +0000

The Great Gatsby

Credits: Like Minded Studio

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New Prints by Raymond Biesinger

Courtney — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:42 +0000

Raymond Biesinger recently launched several great new prints, including a series that depicts How Illustrations Are Made, his illustrated take on the creative process. That print in particular is available on Etsy in three different color combinations: white on purple, white on charcoal and white on grey.

Also be sure to check out the other prints he’s released including, The Gulag,

Warsaw on 1 August 1944,

the USSR,

and L’Arc de Triomphe.

The Quote Illustration Project by Tang Yau Hoong

Kerby Rosanes — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:25 +0000

As creatives, most of us has been inspired by the words of famous persons that influence our career, lifestyle and even our perspective in life. These quotes motivate us from time to time to the extent that we even print and post some of them whether on our desks, workstations or hang them on walls as posters.

Expert’s Corner: Terry Lee Stone

Karli.Petrovic — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:24 +0000

Believe it or not, HOW Design Live is just around the corner. In preparation, HOW has contacted speakers from the HOW Design Conference, the Creative Freelancer Conference, the In-HOWse Managers Conference and The Dieline Packaging Conference to share a little bit about the ideas and inspiration their sessions will bring to the overall event.

One of the people we’re excited to welcome to this year’s HOW Design Conference is writer, design management consultant and creative strategist Terry Lee Stone. Stone’s general session will explore the five key stages of a design career to help you navigate the twists and turns ...

Sociedad Anónima: Hotel Boca Chica Identity and Collateral

Courtney — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:27 +0000

Hotel Boca Chica, a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, was once the place to be in the 1950s and 60s, but in recent years had lost its glamorous appeal. To turn that around, Mexico-based studio Sociedad Anónima was tasked with revitalizing its identity with a more modern, but still vintage-inspired look and feel. Get a closer look at what they came up with right here.

Photo Manipulation and Digital Art Inspiration, May, 2013

Rahul Chowdhury — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:06:29 +0000

Welcome to the second article in the new series that showcases inspirational photo manipulations, and here we are back with some amazing works or art that will amaze you once again, as promised. So without wasting any more time, let’s dig in, and see what we have here for this month.

TV Bots

Computer Man

Light Lady

Revealing Identity

Space Expedition

Guitar Imagination

Zebra Formation

Ice Cream Watch

Holding Cup

The Juggler

Golden Man

Erasing Door

Biker Wolf

Skeleton Family

Astronaut on Fire

Speed Lovers

Young vs Old

Thunderbeast

Insect Ride

Road to Victory

Poison Ivy

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How to Identify That Mysterious and Perfect Font in 3 Easy Steps

Tom White — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:00:06 +0000

Have you ever been stuck in that…

Lamborghini Egoista Concept with Ridiculously High-Performance

The Design Inspiration — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:56:57 +0000

Does the mere desire to own a ridiculously high-performance and stupendously expensive supercar automatically make its prospective owner a little selfish? Not necessarily, but if said supercar has just one seat, a case could certainly be made that its megalomaniacal owner simply doesn’t want to share the experience with his friends…

For such an owner, Lamborghini has presented the Egoista Concept – perhaps fittingly, the car was unveiled at a private 50th birthday party that the automaker seems to have thrown for itself. From what we can glean without any official announcement from Lamborghini to go by, the Egoista Concept ...

Complicated Relationship Prints by Safwat Saleem

Igor Ovsyannykov — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:20 +0000

Safwat Saleem is a graphic designer, filmmaker, artist, and the creative director at Arizona State University. When he isn’t working, he spends most of his free time creating satirical art. He recently published a series of prints depicting complicated relationships between two or more objects. The prints are clean, beautiful, simple, and best of all smart. All illustrations listed below are available for purchase on Society6.com. Enjoy!

Check out more creative illustrations! Sketchbook Drawings and Illustrations by PEZ Iconic Film Character Portraits by Mike Mitchell Seven Deadly Sins by Vincent Mahe Beautifully Executed Illustrations by Alice X. Zhang Vintage ...

Defining Your Artistic Style

Igor Ovsyannykov — Fri, 17 May 2013 08:00:23 +0000

This article was written for Inspirationfeed by Edward Stuart. Edward is an art and decoration enthusiast, as well as an online publisher for Framed Art which provides a variety of bathroom, kitchen, and inspirational art prints. He frequently blogs on the topics of art, art history, design, and home decor.

Learning to paint (or draw) well takes years of practice, and on the way it’s not uncommon to get stuck in a rut where you feel like you’re no longer improving, but you still aren’t happy with where you’re at. While some might throw in the towel here and declare ...

HTML5 Vs Native App Battle

Visual Loop — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:09:28 +0000

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How to move forward when Debt is Dragging you Down

Igor Ovsyannykov — Fri, 17 May 2013 06:53:45 +0000

This article was written for Inspirationfeed by Marie Kelley. Marie is a local debt advisor specializing in helping people escape from debt. When not at work, she writes articles on getting out of debt and dealing with creditors. A great resource for debt services can be found at Advantageccs.org.

Debt is the enemy of any bank balance. It can drag you down physically, mentally, and emotionally. Millions of people throughout human history have fallen to the iron grip of debt. When it starts to get out of control, it can seem like there’s no light at the end of ...

Case Study: Typographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition)

Jan Constantin — Fri, 17 May 2013 02:25:49 +0000

Heath 10 at The Future Perfect: Co-founder Catherine Bailey on the transformation of the historic California pottery

Julie Wolfson — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:40:40 +0000

Ten years ago Catherine Bailey's interest in lending a design hand to the small but established California pottery company Heath Ceramics took a detour that resulted in Bailey and her husband serendipitously buying the Sausalito-based company....
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Toyin Odutola “My Country Has No Name”: The Nigerian-born, Alabama-based artist discusses process, identity and selfies

James Thorne — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:51:27 +0000

A recent graduate of California College of the Arts, Toyin Odutola is already celebrating her second show at Jack Shainman Gallery in NYC. The energetic artist produces ink works...
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Deal of the Week: Hiruko: Japanese Inspired Font Family – only $9!

Speckyboy Editors — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:36 +0000

Need a clean, modern font for your latest project? You should definitely check out the Hiruko Font Family then! Inspired by Japanese culture, this font may be minimalistic in approach, but it screams classy fun in execution! And for a limited time only, Hiruko is incredibly marked down in price!

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Illustrations by Kyle Fewell

AbbieMay — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:05:24 +0000

Kyle Fewell is a Brooklyn, NY based illustrator, and below we have…

Image of the Day, May 16, 2013

Ronson Slagle — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:36 +0000

Music posters by Dirk Fowler are simple, clever and iconic. Read an interview conducted with Fowler last year with New York Times Magazine. Via Design Envy.

The post Image of the Day, May 16, 2013 appeared first on Print Magazine.

Student Work: Russell Edling: Homespun Records

Courtney — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:00:38 +0000

For his senior thesis project at the Tyler School of Art, designer Russell Edling created Homespun Records, a “small time record label that puts an emphasis on beautiful screen printed packaging.” Russell created three releases for the label, and designed and screen printed each piece himself. Be sure to take a look at his portfolio for more images.

A Simple & Clean Font by Inspiration Hut – Allister

AbbieMay — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:42:28 +0000

Allister is a simple and clean font with a great hand-drawn aesthetic to add personality and oomph to this, what would be, an everyday typeface. Just like all of our other fonts, the download includes one OTF Font file and a small text document containing the license that you have purchased alongside the font. Thank’s [...]

Ryan Frease: New Work

Courtney — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:31 +0000

Ryan Frease has been making some excellent work since the last time I checked in with him (way too long ago!) In addition to the two pieces that he created for the Super Precious Art Gallery Hamburger Cheeseburger Hotdog Show (below, both of which are available as prints here and here), his portfolio has filled out with more of the same excellent lettering, illustration and design work which drew me to his portfolio to begin with. Take a look at what else he’s been up to right here.

Thank You

The Design Inspiration — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:05:48 +0000

How to Combine Several Gradients in Adobe Illustrator

Iaroslav Lazunov — Thu, 16 May 2013 08:22:53 +0000

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes In this tutorial we will deal with some combination of gradient fills with the help of Blending modes, gradients with transparent sliders, and Opacity masks. These techniques allow us to create complex color blends, which typically have real world objects. Gradient Combining with the Help [...]

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Multi-policy discounts [Infographic]

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Second Annual National Health Care Student Survey

Visual Loop — Thu, 16 May 2013 01:38:59 +0000

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Bucket’s Portland Press: Turn a standard Mason jar into a sustainably-made French press

Graham Hiemstra — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:22:23 +0000

Sometimes Portland is just so "Portland"—and we love them for it. The small-batch-everything mentality has given birth to an endless supply of start-ups with interests varying from leather goods to ice cream. The most...
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Image of the Day, May 15, 2013

Ronson Slagle — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:59:28 +0000

Today on Design Observer, Rick Poynor discusses the early conceptual work of Croatian designer Boris Bućan, including this silkscreen poster, titled Imaginary Museum 3.

The post Image of the Day, May 15, 2013 appeared first on Print Magazine.

The Great Gatsby Inspires Design

Jessica Kuhn — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:23:44 +0000

The world of Gatsby is taking the box office by storm, rolling in $51.1 million in its weekend debut. One thing can be certain of the flick that’s directed by Baz Luhrmann and adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic: It’ll be a dazzling feast for the eyes. The art deco decadence found in images surrounding “The Great Gatsby” — both new and old — is flooding the internet space and inspiring some Gatsby-themed design creations. Take a gander at some of these new twists designers are taking with the iconic Gatsby images.

The Heads of State looked to chapter four in ...

Gorgeous Female Photography by Dylan Reyes

AbbieMay — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:36:51 +0000

This gorgeous collection of photographs are by the talented Brooklyn based…

Type Love: Live

Courtney — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:00:39 +0000

Live is a new release by Lián Types The lively brush script features three fonts, Pro, Standard and Live More which includes a set of pre-designed catch words and ornaments. Pick up a copy for yourself at MyFonts.

Want more type? Check out my type wishlist, current favorites and favorite calligraphic scripts on MyFonts.

Richard Baird: Solis Brand Identity and Stationery

Courtney — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:00:49 +0000

Designer Richard Baird—who also runs the excellent blog BP&O—recently completed this beautiful identity for Solis, the fashion label of Tel Aviv-based Lisa Grishakova. Get a closer look right here.