Blog Profile / Fuel Your Creativity
| URL : | http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com | |
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| Filed Under: | Graphic Design / Web Design | |
| Posts on Regator: | 473 | |
| Posts / Week: | 2.1 | |
| Archived Since: | January 15, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
50 Mighty Logo Designs to Power Up 2013
As its still early in the year we thought we’d turbo-charge your creativity by featuring a collection of 50 mighty logo designs gathered from well known online logo galleries. All are designs that show a display of power and might and vary in tone from serious to humorous and masculine to feminine in execution. This [...]
Beautiful Transparency in Logo Design
When it comes to logo trends, transparency seems to be having something of a moment. It’s a brilliant way to bring branding to life. A well executed transparent logo can add the next level of colour variation and depth. It’s an elegant technique that designers also use to introduce a sense of perspective to a [...]
$10,000 Contest: Design Tablet App Templates for Oomph Marketplace
The tablet app development platform Oomph has launched Oomph Marketplace, an app marketplace for self-service customizable app templates. Like Themeforest is to Wordpress templates, designers can create and sell their templates in the Oomph store.
Oomph will be launching new functionality in the coming weeks so Designers can sell templates they have created in store.
Leading [...]
TimesSquare $10,000 Logo Contest: Winners Announced
In May we mentioned that a client of DesignCrowd launched one of the biggest online logo design contest prizes to have ever been posted. The TimesSquare.com $10,000 logo design contest.
The contest closed in August after receiving 5, 845 designs from 1,300 designers from around the world.
On 12-12-12, TimesSquare.com announced the top 5 winners on its site. [...]
The Top Ten Games Apps of 2012
The iPhone App Store hit the internet back in 2008 and in just four years apps have been well and truly accepted into the mainstream. From getting on top of your finances to managing your personal fitness, there’s an app for it. But the most fun aspect of apps is the possibilities they present for [...]
Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Crowdsources Election T-Shirt Design
Yesterday Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and Minister of Parliament announced the winner of a t-shirt design contest he launched in October.
The winner is Studio71, a graphic design studio started by Shane Marchewka who...Show More Summary
Greenpeace Crowdsources Activism (Again) with Shell Oil Ad Contest
In this guest op-ed Alec Lynch, the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, a design crowdsourcing website, argues that political groups like Greenpeace are increasingly relying on the creative power of online ‘crowds’ to drive activity and create media awareness around their agenda. Crowdsourcing design is a proven way to generate creative ideas – from logo design to [...]
33 Fresh Business Cards
The first impression is always very important and quite often crucial when dealing with customers. Displaying your company or personal identity in a properly and creative fashion might be the difference between potential and real clients. Below I have gathered a small collection of 33 Business Cards that captured my attention with their style, colors [...]
50 Domestic Animal Logos
The need for unique visual identities has pushed both designers and ventures in capturing inspiration from unusual and common origins. Today, we showcase 50 logos with a slightly common source: logos inspired by animals that human beings have managed to domesticate during thousands of years. Symbolism plays a significant part in logo design and extracting inspiration [...]
Tribute to Yuri Galitsyn
The Kiev based Ukrainian illustrator and graphic designer Yuri Galitsyn passed away unexpectedly earlier this month. According to Galitsyn’s LinkedIn profile, he studied book drawing in the early 1980s at the Higher Polygraphic Institute...Show More Summary
When & How to Use Illustrator’s Live Trace Feature
Illustrator’s Live Trace option came about with the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 2, so it has been around for a while. Live Trace was designed as an easy way to convert raster-based graphics into vector graphics, be it either.gif versions of graphics or symbols or.jpg versions of photographs. Anything that involves pixels [...]
An Interview with Designer and Developer Benjamin De Cock
Benjamin de Cock is a freelance designer who works out of his home office in Belgium. His focuses are interface and icon design, and he’s 28 years old. Benjamin spends most of his time designing Stripe and Kickoff. We caught up with Ben to talk to him about his design practices and approach. What software/hardware do [...]
Halloween Special: 74 Awesome Designs to Inspire You this Holiday
Halloween is drawing to a close in some parts of the world where the holiday has become popular, such as Australia, and it’s about to begin in its homeland — the United States.
Given that it’s one of the biggest holiday events of the year, beating out the popularity even of Easter in many locations, we’ve [...]
30 Ghastly Ghouls & Other Halloween Designs
It’s Halloween and we’ve had our fun — but we all know what this holiday is really about: scaring the hell out of people! Check out these 30 awesomely illustrated designs containing skeletons, zombies, walking pumpkins and other frightening...Show More Summary
44 Fun Pumpkin & Candy Inspired Logos
It’s Halloween and we’re all going to have a wonderful time trick or treating. Let us fuel your inspiration with 44 pieces of pumpkin and candy inspired logos (and a few other bits of design for good measure). They’re two of the most important design motifs at this time of the year — and they’re [...]
30 Designs to Inspire You Before Christmas
The holiday season is fast approaching and around the globe, marketing machines are whirring into action. Your clients are probably no different and you’re under the crunch to get some Christmas-themed design work signed, sealed and delivered. Here are 30 awesome cutting edge designs from others in your predicament to jumpstart the creative process.
Season’s Greetings
It’s [...]
Showcase: 40 Logos Inspired by Clocks
A great Roman poet, Virgil, once wrote in his poem Georgics: “fugit irreparabile tempus” – the translation of which is “time flees irretrievably”. These three words are part of a timeless expression, turned by time into a well-known proverb, which is adapted into English: time flies. We are all well aware that time has never been [...]
Fixing Distorted Images with Photoshop’s Puppet Warp Tool
Photos are meant to capture a moment in time and preserve it for everyone to observe and remember. Sometimes, even the best photographer might have an image that is slightly distorted or warped. This is upsetting, because some moments only happen once, so there might not be a second chance to capture it. However, all [...]
Using the New Blur Filters in Photoshop CS6
An image is worth 1000 words, but does your image deliver the right message? Photographers are expected to capture the moment and create images that make an impact. Common effects such as depth-of-field are used to give an image depth. Creating these effects in an image after the fact hasn’t always been easy. Replicating these effects [...]
Showcase: 50 Symmetrical Logos
The word symmetry comes from the Greek symmetria, which means to measure together. Symmetrical design brings a strong feeling of balance and cohesion to a logo, and imparts that connotation to the brand being represented, too. Symmetry is also a useful tool when you want to give the viewer a sense of clarity and decisiveness. Let’s [...]