I don’t know any designer out there who doesn’t appreciate a clever and creative ad campaign. I always find it a bit uplifting and inspiring when ever I see advertisements that are either visually stunning or amazingly creative. The showcase below is a list of ads that I have found the meet those above statements.
I would also like to point out that I found the bulk of the ads from an awesome little blog called Ad Goodness. If you enjoy browsing through creative ads and learning more about them, check out the Ad Goodness blog. There you will find over 200 pages of outstanding advertising goodness.
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Ever since I started working with Graphic River I haven’t had a chance to keep up with what was going on over at all of the other market places. I recently made my way over to Theme Forest and was excited at what I saw. There is a lot of really great stuff popping up over there. This isn’t a shameless Envato promotion piece, I just wanted to do some cross promotion to promote some of the really creative PSD website templates.
Check these out!
Blue Commerce Complete E-Commerce Theme
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I’m sure many of you have seen a few of these posters. I felt there were enough cool ones that focused only on the spirit known as absinthe that they deserved a showcase style post. If you are unfamiliar with absinthe, let me give you a bit of info that might make you appreciate some of these posters and ads a little more.
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I was working on a photoshop tutorial for a war propaganda poster this week. To start off the project I did what any good tutorial writer would do and did some research. I browsed through hundreds of really cool war propaganda posters. Whi9le there were a lot of really cool ones from world war II, I thought I would go old school and show off some of the more creative ones from world war I.
It is amazing to see how far both design and technology have come since then. In regards to design, one can only wonder what the designer was thinking on some of these. Or did they even have a real designer?
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This weeks inspiration comes to you in the form of some pretty creative fan art. The Simpsons have been on the air for over ten years. In that course of time it is only natural that they would have inspired some people. This post is some concrete proof of that statement.
Below are some really cool Simpsons fan art pictures from Deviant Art. If you are particularly found of any of the pictures in this post, please visit the artist Deviant Profile and leave them comments directly.
That said, you can tell us which one is your favorite!
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Im always looking for new sources of inspiration. While I mostly do web design related work, I find just about every form creativity inspiring. Anything from photography to digital inspiration can help inspire me. If nothing else, looking at these variety of inspirational sources at least gets my creative juices flowing. There are tones of great galleries online that showcase anything from business card designs to great website designs, but nothing really compares to a great coffee table book or design reference book.
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Before you blow this post off as just being another roundup of the same old cool business card designs, let me say to you that this is not one of those posts! This is a round up of some of the most useful resources on the web for creating a sweet business card design. This article includes some helpful articles from top graphic designers, high quality business card design tutorials, and of course, some business card inspiration.
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