Inspiring Illustrations by Niark1 Studio

It is hard to find the words to describe the work put out by Niark1 Studio. Its retro, its modern, its hip, its creative, its just downright amazing really. I picked a lot of cool stuff to showcase here on the blog, but you really need to visit the portfolio to see everything they do. You can visit the portfolio inthe link below:

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GraphicRiver Showcase #1

A while back I did a post asking you to share your projects that you have used GraphicRiver files on. Below are the first few responses that I got. Im hoping to make this a regular thing, so feel free to regularly contribute your work to the post linked above.

Here are this months showcased files and design in no particular order:

1. Daniel used the modern menus and buttons on Walling UK.

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Interesting Illustration Work By Alvaro Pantoja Busch

Recently I was working on a post for PSD Tuts entitled; 100 Artworks from the Top 20 Digital Artists in South America. Upon researching for talented artists South of the border, I discovered Alvaro Pantoja Busch, who is a designer and illustrator from Santiago, Chile.

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Colorful Illustration and Character Design by Jonathan Ball

Its funny, I had actually stumbled across a lot of Jonathan’s work over the years and never really connected it all together. I guess that’s the sign of a truly talented designer; when they are gifted enough to cover such a wide variety of styles and be gifted at it. Check out some of the samples below to get a better idea of what I mean. The selection below however, does not do his wide variety of skills justice. To see all the different mediums and styles he is capible of, checkout his website

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How to Redesign Your Portfolio

Ever wonder how popular designer Elliot Jay Stocks works? Well check out this blog post / screencast on how to design a portfolio site from start to finish. This is a really great video that I suggest everyone checks out.

How to Design a Portfolio Site

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Outstanding Work of Lois van Baarle

Lois van Baarle is a 23 year old Dutch girl with a style all her own. It is pert retro, part digital, and part unexplainable. Whatever you want to call it, her stuff is amazing. I found her on DeviantArt and plan on buying some of her stuff. If you like it as well, you can buy prints of some of her stuff here.
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10 Retro Cartoon Web Site Designs

I have been looking for some retro web site design inspiration lately. While I was looking for some creative designs, I cam across a number of designs that were part retro and part cartoon. I thought these website designs were all pretty unique and added them to my favorite designs bookmark folder.

What do you think?

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How Pandas are Made

I was browsing Deviant Art today and came across this cool t-shirt design entitled Low Ink by artist Nocturnal-Devil.

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Inspiration: Element Fusion Interns Site

As part of my daily routine I was browsing the CSS galleries. I often find and bookmark inspiring sites that I don’t share here on Graphic River, but today is an exception. I wanted to share the intern recruitment page for a web design firm called Element Fusions. Aside from the obvious aesthetics, I was impressed by the creative one page layout. It isn’t often you find one page layouts that are creative and not over/under packed with information.

Check out the site here

Wolverine by Chang Lip Wei

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you’ll know that I am a huge fan of all things comic related. In case you missed it, I did a post a while back on 30 Vibrant and Creative Comic Book Illustrations.

I was reading my news feeds yesterday and saw one about Wolverine on Design Flavr.

I checked out the artists portfolio on Deviant Art as well and hes got a lot of really cool stuff if you are into movies.