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    More Amazing Hypnotic Animations by Davidope

    Well over a year ago we featured a very talented digital artist called Davidope in the post Truly Amazing Hypnotic Animations. Davidope (dvdp) is the creative director and founder of the design atelier volll and Fredlig.  He currently lives in Budapest with his Dachshund Susie and loves the danger with drinking 2 litres of Coke and smoking 40 Camels a day! You can find a daily dose of inspiration at his ...
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    55 FREE Awesome High Quality Wood Textures

    If you are a Photoshop fan then you must know about the importance of textures in Photoshop. Online Photoshop community is awesome enough to provide huge number of free textures and brushes to fellow Photoshoppers. Wood textures among those which bring awesome background look to any design instantly. Especially when you create any model portfolio then these textures helps you to create a really cool wooden...
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    The Life of a Geisha in Art and Photography

    Geisha (芸者?), Geiko (芸子) or Geigi (芸妓) are traditional, female Japanese entertainers whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance. The word consists of two kanji, 芸 (gei) meaning "art" and 者 (sha) meaning "person" or "doer". The most literal translation of geisha into English would be "artist" or "performing artist". Another name for geisha used in Japan is geiko (芸子)...
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    Stunning Showcase of 3D Street Art

    While I was visiting London the other month I came across some truly amazing 3D street art. 3D street art although drawn in 2D gives a 3-dimensional illusion when viewed from a specific standpoint. Some of the artworks are visually stunning and you can almost believe that what you are viewing is real. A lot of the street art you may see is actually clever advertising commissioned from a variety of the big...
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    The History of Typeface

    Typeface and their history is obviously an unappreciated evolution. However, the typeface from the first days of print until now is an ever changing medium, with more to it than there could ever seem to be. Typography is the study of typefaces and the evolution of printed letters. Early printers, were also typographers and the first registered one was a man named Claude Garamond. Garamond didn't invent type,...
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    Amazing 'Pencil Vs Camera!' Series by Ben Heine

    Today’s post is all about some of the great work by Ben Heine and his exciting  series titled “Pen Vs Camera”. Ben states  - "Pencil Vs Camera" is nothing but the result of a long graphic exploration and a logic consequence of my artistic evolution. It's a new concept. My primary intention was to create a "battle field" between 2 disciplines: drawing and photography, mixing imagination and reality. The onl...
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    A Showcase of Grunge in Web Design

    Web design has become more hand tooled, organic and versatile. Classic retro and vintage typography with authentic textures and withered paper backgrounds have helped bring back the grunge web design trend. Grunge gives web design more style and less uniform, there is no structure only worn out and faded graphic elements, these look beautiful and creative. The trend is inspired by the vintage and retro design...
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    Delicious Food Landscapes of Carl Warner

    I love art, I love photography and I love food. What if all these were combined? What are the chances? Well I need look no further because having checked out these truly delicious food landscapes created by the very creative Carl Warner then all my dreams have come true. Carl says that the food landscapes are taken in stages because this is to stop the food from wilting during the process and then put...
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    Common Mistakes Made by Starting Freelance Graphic Designers

    Whether you’re interested in designing logos, building websites, or helping clients to create incredible PowerPoint presentations, you may find that working as a freelance graphic designer appeals to your professional sensibilities and your distaste for traditional job markets.  There certainly are a lot of benefits to working for yourself; no annoying bosses or coworkers to contend with, no frustrating commute, ...
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    Why I Love Anime - My Top 10 Studio Ghibli Films

    8th December 2010 - I love animation and I have a vast collection of animation on display on my media shelves at home but on there you won’t find the sugary sweet world of Disney Cinema (apart from Pixar collaborations!) but a huge collection of Japanese anime. I’ve been hooked on anime since I was very young. I think the first experience of anime was Castle in the Sky and Akira. In this post I wanted to show ...
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    Why a Top Quality Logo isn’t Enough to be Successful

    A logo is a small graphical element that has as main scope the representation of someone/something. This attempt of definition is preferable to the one provided by the Oxford Dictionary or Wikipedia because the main essence is synthesized. It’s simple: you instantly recognize an Apple product after the worldwide notorious logo. In the beginning, nobody figured out the importance of logo and many people consider i...
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    30 Awesome & Different Web Contact Forms for Inspiration

    Every business needs a website and every website needs a contact form. Contact page should be visible and accessible on websites; it should be eye cache and error free. It should be with possible fewer numbers of fields and security code enabled to stop spammers. You must have seen different contact forms online with titles ping me, awake me, stay in touch, get in touch, etc... Yes, designers showing...
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    Natsumi Hayashi - A Life in Levitation

    There are some inspiring photographers out there but there are non-more inspiring than the gravity-defying Natsumi Hayashi. Natsumi is a photographer from Tokyo, Japan and can be spotted jumping up and down around the city armed with her SLR and amazing self-timing which capture these truly amazing shots. The photos which are taken at exactly the right moment show Natsumi simply levitating in her...
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    Awesome Artwork Inspired by Children's Drawings

    I've often visited my family and friends homes and admired the many galleries of children's artwork that get pinned on the fridge or kitchen notice boards. I know that when I was younger I was really proud that my mum had pinned my drawings on the fridge door and my dad even took them to work. Art is one of my many passions. Today I am still always sketching or doodling ideas on my notepad, iPad and even post-it...
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    20 Gorgeous Examples of HDR Photography by Trey Ratcliff

    If you have been fortunate enough to be using Google+ recently you may have seen one of Trey Ratcliff's stunning photographs being shared in your streams. Trey is best known for his blog StuckinCustoms.com which is the No.1 Travel Photography Blog on the web and had the honour of having the first HDR photo ever to hang in the Smithsonian. Trey's background is in computer science and math, so he brings an...
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    World in Close-up - Amazing Macrophotography Collection

    Macrophotography is close-up photography, usually of very small subjects. Classically a macrophotograph is one in which the size of the subject on the negative is greater than life size. However in modern use it refers to a finished photograph of a subject at greater than life size. Source   Source The ratio of the subject size on the film plane (or image sensor plane) to the actual...
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    Design After Dark - 90's Rave Flyer Designs

    The 90's isn't the one of those decades that sticks out for memorable design but one thing I do remember from the early 90's is the bright, trippy, euphoric design of UK rave flyers. If you can remember dancing your ass off all night to trippy repetitive beats from DJs like Sasha, Carl Cox and Grooverider whether it be in a club or field then some of these flyers you might recognize from back in the day. Let's...
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    Japan in Photography

    Japan 日本 is one of my favourite countries. I love the culture, the food and technology. Located in the Pacific Ocean, Japan is an archipelago that comprises 6,852 islands and has the world’s tenth largest population with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world with over 30 million residents. The characters that make up Japan’s name mean “sun origin” and is ...
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    Spectacular Fireworks Photography

    I've always loved fireworks. They paint the dark sky in bright neon colours and can make a huge bang that gets your heart racing. No doubt this year in November I will be standing in the cold on Guy Fawkes Night which is a celebration in my country. I will probably be holding a nice hot chocolate in one hand and a toffee apple in the other going "ooohh" and "ahhh" at the many fireworks being let off into the sky...
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    Amazing Living Architecture - Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

    You may be mistaken for thinking that these are photos taken from the set of one the Lord of the Rings movies but in actual fact these are real examples of living architecture. The bridges you see are from Cherrapunji, India which is one of the wettest places on Earth and are actually made by tree roots. These bridges are very much alive! The amazing War-Khasis tribe in Meghalaya have been harnessing the...
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    The Various Meaning of Colors

    The concept of good design represents the sum of several elements, all of them realized in a professional manner and then blended together. The final result is beautiful and functional at the same time. From this perspective, it is simple to comprehend that the quality of a design depends on more than just the components on their own. A very important factor that contributes to the overall aspect of a website in...
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    Liu Bolin - Self-Portrait of an Invisible Man

    Liu Bolin a.k.a the 'Invisible Man' is an exceptional artist from Beijing who has the ability to blend in with his surroundings by painting himself to appear almost chameleon-like in his series of work "Hiding in the City". Liu Bolin says that his work his inspired by feeling uncared for and a sense of unnecessary in the world and also as a protest against the Chinese government who shut his studio down in 2005. ...
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    51 Awesome Album Cover Designs

    The album cover plays an important part in the world of music. It's used as a marketing tool and also an expression of artist intent and over the last 50 years or so the album covers just keep getting more and more creative. In this mixed collection of album covers ranging from The Beatles to Daft Punk you can see some amazing works of art and they clearly they do their job of getting peoples attention. Although...
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    30 Gorgeous Examples of Anime Artworks

    Being an art student myself I really like anything which shows creativity, imagination and talent. One of the types of art I am really digging at the moment is Anime/Manga style. I like the look, the fantasy, the sexiness and the cuteness. I know that Web Design Mash has featured anime many times (See the list at the bottom of the post for more), but I wanted to feature some new artworks that I personally have...
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    Life in Miniature - 38 Stunning Shots of Tilt-Shift Photography

    You may think you are viewing photos of miniature villages but these are in fact photos of real life. These photographs have been taken using the special art of tilt-shift photography. The effects can be produced by the use of camera movements on small and medium cameras. The name originates from the tilt-shift lens which is normally required to produce this effect optically.  The tilt refers to the rotation of ...
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    Amazing Photography Shots Capturing Star Trails

    Capturing star trails can be a lengthy process but the end result is definitely worth it. How is it done? Well, it's done when the line of light which is recorded on a photographic medium and a time exposure is made of a star in the night time sky and using a camera on a fixed mount, and the trails are caused by the rotation of the earth during the period of time when the camera's shutter is held...
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    20 FREE New Business Card Templates for 2012

    Although we are now near to the end of February it is still time to get yourself a brand new business card design for 2012. I have searched around the web and found some great FREE templates for you to use and customise from Own Business Cards and Fresh Business Cards. Whether you are a designer, hairdresser or sales representative there is a neat collection to choose from. Get downloading today! I hope you...
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    Awesome Light Painting Skeletons by Janne Parviainen

    I saw these photos the other day and was totally blown away. I have seen light painting before but these eerie skeletons by the fantastic Helsinki photographer Janne Parviainen are the best I have ever seen. Light painting is a special technique in photography when exposures are made at night or a dark room by moving the camera or a form of hand held light.  In many cases the light source itself does not ...
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    Creative 90's Music Videos

    Continuing on from our previous post Creative 80’s Music Videos here is a superb collection from the 90’s. A decade where I think the music video really came alive.   Aphex Twin – Window Licker Love it or hate it this video by Chris Cunningham and Richard James which mocks the bling of hip-hop videos of old. The video starts with a particular lengthy intro and features a very long limo. The ...
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26 Hand-written Fonts You Have to Download

Feb 20th

Posted by Jamie in Fonts

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Typography plays a big importance in design and if you have been looking for some new fonts for that special design project that you have been working on then you might like this small collection of freebie fonts.

If you want to give a more ‘human touch’ to any of your work then here you will find 26 hand-written or drawn styled fonts which will hopefully be of some help and the best thing about them is they are all free for personal and commercial use.

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40 Free Abstract iPhone Wallpapers

Feb 18th

Posted by Anjelica in Phones

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I am forever customising the look of my Mac & iPhone. I get bored with the look of my desktop and phone pretty quick so rotating the wallpaper once or twice a month does the soul good. In this post I’m just going to focus on the iPhone for this collection that I’ve managed to sniff out and hopefully they will keep my iPhone nice and colourful for some time to come.  I must state that they may have been designed or cropped for iPhones but they are compatible with most big screen cell phones. Enjoy! More >

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Most Popular Design Links the Week 7 – 13 February 2010

Feb 14th

Posted by Anjelica in Design

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Here at Web Design Mash we are huge fans of Twitter and on this weekly post you will find the 10 most popular links tweeted by our Design Blend Account on Twitter throughout the week. These are not the top 10 links chosen by us but chosen by you and the amount of clicks they received.

If you wish to stay up to date with all the latest design news and links then follow us on Twitter and you can also click on our Twitter page for a real-time up date of our ‘Love Design‘ List featuring over 150 designers and design enthusiasts.

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25 Free Futuristic & Sci-Fi Styled Fonts

Feb 4th

Posted by Jamie in Fonts

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Here’s a selection of futuristic and sc-fi styled fonts collected from a handful of font resources. The best thing is that all of these fonts are absolutely free so you can use in your designs. Thanks to Da Font, Fontspace, and Font Parade for supplying the fonts below. Great places to find some excellent free fonts. Go check them out.

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Most Popular Design Links of the Week 24 – 30 January 2010

Jan 31st

Posted by Anjelica in Art

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Here at Web Design Mash we are huge fans of Twitter and on this weekly post you will find the 10 most popular links tweeted by our Design Blend Account on Twitter throughout the week.

If you wish to stay up to date with all the latest design news and links then follow us on Twitter and you can also click on our Twitter page for a real-time up date of our ‘Love Design‘ List featuring over 140 designers and design enthusiasts.

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Excellent Resources for Finding WordPress Themes

Jan 25th

Posted by Jamie in Themes

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With the evergrowing popularity of bloggers, designers and even corporations now using WordPress as a web and blogging platform there has been a rapid growth of sites offering premium and free themes for WordPress.

With so many sites out there offering so many themes you have to wander what the quality of some of these themes are like and admittingly a lot of  the free themes out there can be pretty lame, but all is not lost.

Below is a list of sites which offer quality themes for free and premium and hopefully you will find a great theme that’s right for you.

WordPress – Free Themes Directory

WordPress itself offers thousands of free themes and where else better to look than the site itself

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Stunning Free Mac Wallpapers

Jan 24th

Posted by Anjelica in Wallpapers

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No matter what machine you use after a while the desktop can look a bit stale and needs freshening up. I usually change my desktop wallpaper weekly so I go looking for some really bright and stylish wallpapers to customise my weapon of choice so why not freshen up your desktop with one of these stunning Mac wallpapers?

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