Aside from girls, one of my favorite things to look at is robots. Strange combination? Not really. Unless of course you put the two together, but that is neither here nor there. The graphic design blog Naldz Graphics recently did a post that showcased 40+ Beautiful Robot Characters Illustrations. I suggest checking it out. There’s some very cool ones in there.
As you may or may not know, I spent the last year living and working from Costa Rica. Many of my readers at Outlaw Design Blog are aware of this and regularly ask me questions about how I did it. I recently posted a 5 minute video on the subject of living and finding work in Costa Rica.
I recently got turned on to the video blog, From the Couch, by the guys at obox. If you have never seen the videos, I suggest you check them out. The videos are just relaxed conversations, and sometimes rants, on various topics that concern designers, developers, freelancers, and other creatives.
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Having been the victim of a database crash on a major blog, I am all to familiar with the importance of database backup. I think however that some designers put off this task because it is too much on the developer side of things. As a designer, I am here to tell you it is not as scary as you think. This recent post by Noupe shares several ways to easily backup your databases.
I have been doing a lot of research into landing page design and user experience here lately. One great resource on this topic is a newer blog called UX Booth. This site is all about design and the user experience and interaction with it. There are a lot of really great people behind the project/blog which leads to be believe this is going to become a very valuable resource as time goes on.
A while back I did a post of stylish retro Twitter backgrounds. Today I thought I would show off some Twitterers < --new word? who had their own creative and custom theme.
Dzine Blog, along with a few other websites have beat me to the punch. So I will just share with you this link for Dzine blog on 40 Beautiful Twitter Theme Backgrounds.
There is a ton of really cool ones here, but these are a few of my favorites:
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I’m sure many of your are familiar with the design blog, Deziner Folio, but in case you’re not I thought I would post this link. Recent Deziner Folio did a post that showcased websites that had really good looking mascots or sight characters. The use of mascots and site characters seems to be a fairly popular trend these days.
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I was recently introduced to the comedic genius of Brad Colbow. While Brad is a web designer, illustrator and cartoonist; I mostly keep tabs on him because of comic strip, The Brads.
All of the comics are things that are sure to make any designer smile. Check out one of the Twitter inspired comics below.
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My buddy Andrew over at Well Medicated did a cool post that showcases 40 Gorgeous Vintage Tobacco Advertisements. If you haven’t yet visited the Well Medicated blog, it’s a good one to add to your feed reader.
If you have been a follower of the blog for a while, but missed the redesign Andrew did a while back, I suggest check it out. It’s wicked cool.
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A few days ago, Smashing Magazine wrote a great post about how to use icons to support content. Being that there are a ton of great icon sets here on Graphic River, I thought I would share this link to help get your creative juices flowing.
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