As I said a few weeks ago when I published the post on how much your Halloween costume sucks, if stores can start selling Christmas Decorations, then I can start celebrating Halloween! As such, I thought I would do a round up of the scariest movie posters ever.
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A while back I did a post on PSDtuts called 50 Kick Butt Book Covers. I really enjoyed looking at and finding all these really cool book covers. So much so, that I thought I would do it again and share it with you guys. Although this list is much shorter, I think everyone of these designs could easily be in “kick butt covers” category.
What do you think?
Yes, I know Halloween is still a month away. But I figure that if Wal-Mart can start selling Christmas stuff, than I can start posting Halloween stuff. I recently attended a comic/ sci-fi convention called DragonCon. As some of you may know, many people dress up at these sort of events as their favorite fantasy related character. Upon seeing some of these costumes, I realize that every Halloween costume I have ever worn was complete crap. Sorry Grandma, but until you can start making scale replica Iron Man costumes, I will have to hold true to the previous statement.
I have an obsession with icons. It’s true. I love them. I collect them like kids collect baseball cards and Pogs. Kids still collect Pogs right? If I see a cool icon set or a really polished icon, I have to download it. Even if I have no use for the icon or any project to use it on, I have to have it.
Needless to say, I am always excited when I see quality icon sets for sale on GraphicRiver. So, to inspire some of you icon designers out there, I thought I would post a round up of some of the top icon designs out there.
Check out what these mastermind icon designers are doing. Once your creative juices get flowing from all this amazingness, go and start designing some icon sets for me to buy without reason!
I have personally worked with this guy before and he is awesome to work with.
There is really nothing that isn’t impressive on this guys site. Great artwork, big clients, and super detailed icons.
While not an icon designer per say, his few icon sets are incredibly popular across a huge number of sites. Buy this icon set on GraphicRiver.
About as famous as icon designers come. This guy has tons of recognizable icon sets.
I download everything this guy does, even if I have no use for his icon sets. They are just too cool!
All of his icons are sweet, but his iPhone icon sets are as slick as can be.
If you haven’t seen any of Bartelmes icon work, you probably can’t call yourself a designer.
While these might not be the most useful icon sets, there is something to be said for their creativity.
Jojo has a lot of popular free icon sets, big name clients, and stock icon sets. All around great icon designer.
Why is it that many of us creative types seem to have fetish for techie things and cool looking stuff? I’m not just talking about your run of the mill cool stuff, but the really cool stuff that tends to have a really not cool price tag. Take this really cool watch for example.
If you are like me, you probably don’t have funds for many of the cool things you’d like. So, we are forced to do some cyber window shopping. If you are looking for some sites that showcase a number of cool gadgets, art, designers, architecture, toys, etc; then check out this list of my favorite blogs to window shop for things I can’ get.
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The Envato Network spreads so widely that it is hard to keep up with everything that’s going on across all the sites. Even with an RSS reader it can be hard to keep tabs on all the great stuff that comes from these network of blogs and market places. If it is ok with you guys, I’d like to start a new routine where I showcase some popular articles, files, and tutorials from the various Envato Network sites.
Being that August is just about over, I thought I’d go ahead and start with it!
It is funny to me how iconic brands such as Google, Firefox, Apple, and many others can inspire people to create pieces of art based on the brand. Yesterday I haphazardly came across the first image in this post. I was so taken back by how impressive the Firefox inspired piece was, I decided to see if I could find anymore. To my surprise, there was no shortage of Mozilla and Firefox inspired artworks, wallpapers, icons, and more.
On a side note, there was also quite a large amount of Firefox inspired artworks that were not appropriate for posting. If that wasn’t strange enough, there were also a number of very revealing Firefox inspired costumes. Who knew?
Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m just not talented enough, but designing web banners is beyond me. I just can never seem to design anything that small and make it look good. Lucky for me, GraphicRiver has plenty of web banner templates in the marketplace. Here are 10 of my favorite web banner templates from the marketplace.
FYI: Many of these banner sets sell pretty well…
20 web Banner, 4 Styles Font Used: Myriad
Easy to modify, change size, colors. PSD organized in layers. Ready to use!
Check my portfolio for more stuff!
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:
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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