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30 Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

Thomson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:26:41 +0000

A logo is a graphic element along with a logotype makes a brand. When we talk about a brand the first think that comes to our mind is the logo of that business. A logo is the most important component of brand and also the hardest part to execute. A logo is a reflection of a business’s credibility. A logo is vital for creating a great brand identity and you should be careful when picking one for your business.

In today’s blog post I’m presenting some 30 Exceptional new logo designs for inspiration.

Why are these logos looks amazing? All of these logos use different creative ways to represent their brand through colors, shapes and typography. If you look at these logo design careful you will notice how creativity they are representing their business.

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1. John Logo

2. White Washers

3. Dance Academy

4. SewPerfect

5. Families

6. Fathom

7. Child Vision

8. Pendulum

9. Musikings

10. Norcomm

11. Coffee tree

12. Ecogive

13. Quote9

14. Coffeenerd

15. Play

16. Restless Napkin

17. HybridPedal

18. French Bakery

19. Pixeldemon

20. Buzzdog

21. Jazzcuzzi

22. Mistercutts

23. Ostreech

24. Beer Hive

25. Eattocure

26. Bend

27. Oil

28. Firestarter

29. Stringerss

30. Rooms

31 Creative use of Typography in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:40:57 +0000

Typography is very important in visual communication it is been used in Brochures, Ads, flyers and other marketing materials. Today there is a growing trend among designers to use typography on the web. One of the major reason for the rise of using typography in web design is the evolution of CSS and using of Sprites and browser side font rendering technologies.

A good typography is just as important on a web as it is on any other medium. It should be eye catchy and easy to read.

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Below are some of the 31 examples creative use of typography in web design.

1. Random Thought Pattern

2. Hdlive09

3. Merge Web

4. Project 365

5. Second and Park

6. Creative United

7. Dialogi

8. Tanq

9. Hungry for Change

10. Brooklyn Fare

11. Area 17

12. For A beautiful Web

13. Espira

14. MediaFlex

15. Matthamm

16. The DECK

17. Oliver Kavanagh

18. The Ideal Candidate

19. GIANT Creative

20. Grow Interactive

21. Pixel Thread

22. BIG Omaha

23. Jesse Dodds

24. Denise Chandler

25. Rodney Keeling

26. Trippling Words

27. Crafted Pixelz

28. Sto Solutions

29. Rodeopark Communication

30. Jan Eike Koormann

31. Kerplunc

21 Really Awesome Swirls for Inspiration

Thomson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:08:44 +0000

Swirls are beautiful and a nice way to enhance and give uniqueness to your design work. Here are 21 swirl design taken from different form like nature, food and art to inspire you and give more ideas on how to use them.

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4. 20 Fractal Art Wallpapers for Inspiration

1. What is Love

2. Artic Winds

3. Blade

4. Blue Swril

5. Cool Swirl Thing

6. Grapevine Swirl

7. Vanilla raspberry swirl cup cakes

8. Twirly Swirls

9. Rose Swirls

10. Swirls with a Daisy

11. Blue and White flower Swirled

12. Bench Swirl

13. Polymer clay swirl beads

14. Candycurl Swril

15. Swirling around and around

16. Colored Swirl

17. Experimentations

18. Typography

19. Hallucinogen

20. Raffles

21. Eddy Swirl

Weekly Design News Round Up – Oct 18 – Oct 24

Thomson — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:38:12 +0000

In this Week’s roundup of inspiration and creative goodies we have a collection of some good tutorials and showcase of some good inspirational photo manipulation, and also links to some great lists from the design community.

80 Funny and Realistic Photo Manipulations

35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

65+ Beautiful and Scary Halloween Wallpapers

20 Best WordPress Typography Plugins To Enhance Readability

27+ Beautiful Examples of Infographics

40 Amazing Photoshop Brush Directories and Collections

11 Fresh & Unconventional Niche WordPress Themes

How to Get that Anime Look in Photoshop Using a Flexible Workflow

You may also be interested in the previous weeks roundup

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31 Fresh Photo Manipulation from DeviantArt

Thomson — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:14:19 +0000

Photo manipulation is an art of editing images using different techniques to pictures in order to create a surreal or illusion effect using digital means. Photo manipulation is fun and very inspirational to designers. Here is a stunning 31 examples of newly created photo manipulation recently from DeviantArt.

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1. Matter of Time

2. The Darkest Hour

3. Mi vida en el bosque

4. Selma

5. Neo Queen Serenity-The Moon

6. A taste of liquid

7. Fox or Bird

8. Deep cuts

9. Bittersweet taste

10. Sammy the Spidat

11. El bosque magico

12. Say Your Prayers

13. Anatomy II

14. La danse macabre

15. Arlequin

16. Frozen

17. Last Stand

18. IN -3

19. UFO

20. Magical Mushroom

21. Tupai

22. Invaders

23. Aqua

24. Chocolate

25. Light and Shadow

26. Burst

27. Blue Snake

28. Incredible

29. Deceiver

30. Drangue

31. NaitLife

28 Excellent Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Design

Thomson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:48:04 +0000

Using Gradient effect in modern web design is a effective way to give a perfect look to a website and is a very popular technique among web designers. Adding a gradient effect is not a difficult task but if you get it right it can enhance your website look. One of the other reason why designers use gradients is because gradients soften areas that would otherwise be flat color/tone.

In this showcase we have 28 excellent examples of using gradient effect in web design.

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1. Harisvision

2. Markmeup

3. Parcheggi Auto

4. Ad Works

5. Rezoactif

6. Serk Kozlov

7. Charlie Gentle

8. Hold Fire

9. Lionite

10. Studio 7 designs

11. BeeHiveApp

12. CMS Your PSD

13. Launch Mind

14. Blue Dots Design

15. Go site Wave

16. One Hub

17. Envato

18. Little Oak

19. Ryan MCMaster

20. Australia FIFA World Cup Bid

21. Paula Solanoy Design

22. Trent River Cruises

23. iKreativ

24. Common Good Radio

25. Atebits

26. The Served

27. Foehn

28. Newism

What is your opinion aobut using gradient effect in website design? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Weekly Design News Round Up – Sept 28 – Oct-3

Thomson — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:23:38 +0000

This is a new weekly feature from us, a weekly collection of awesome web findings which are very useful resources to the design community.

In this week we have Tutorials, Freebies, Inspirational Showcases and much more..

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Inspirational Tips and Tools from a Designer

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Free Set of 25 Icons from TurboMilk

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33 Examples of Beautiful Hand-Drawn Typography

Thomson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:40:44 +0000

Hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways you can create a hand drawn typography, you can use photoshop to create it from scratch or you can scan the original hand drawn sketch. Hand drawn typography is an great source of inspiration for designers and all typography enthusiasts. In this post I have 33 awesome hand drawn type typography creations.

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21 New and Fabulous Retro Style Photoshop Tutorials

Thomson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:29:34 +0000

Retro is a old style design which totally attracted people’s attention. Retro style is new trend and very popular among designers. A design with Retro style effect is a amazing piece of work. I have sourced the web to find some of the best photoshop tutorials that can help to build some good retro design step by step.

Here are 21 New photoshop tutorials which are very useful and you can give style of retro to your designs using these awesome techniques.

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1. How to Create a Retro Boxing Poster in Photoshop

2. Creating a Space-Helmeted Future Retro Illustration

3. How to Create a Super Retro Style Game Controller

4. How to Create a Retro Hippy Van Poster in Photoshop

5. Blue Retro Grunge Text Effect and Icons

6. Design a Vintage WWII Poster: a Photoshop Tutorial

7. Creating an Awesome Retro Collage

8. How to make a Typographic, Retro, Space Face

9. How to Create A Retro Style Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop

10. How To Create a Retro Apple Wallpaper in Photoshop

11. Design a trendy blog header with a retro styling

12. Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves

13. Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster in Photoshop

14. Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector IllustrationCreate a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration

15. Design a Retro Futurism Space Scene

16. Design a Retro, Rock T-Shirt Design

17. Create a Mock-Retro Poster Concept

18. Design a Rocket-Powered Retrofuturistic Digital Illustration

19. Create a Retro Pop Art in Photoshop

20. How to Quickly Create a Stylish Retro Text Effect

21. Create a Cool Retro City

If I have missed any new retro photoshop tutorials, please feel free to comment about an addition that you would like added.

28 Beautiful Animal Inspired Logo Designs

Thomson — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Using an Animal in logos is a excellent way for branding and remember you logo. It is fun and attractive to include a animal concept in your logo design.

A few days ago we showed you some good example of Origami Style logos and Sequential Concept designs. Today we are showing 28 very good examples of animal logo design that should help you to come up with excellent logo design ideas.

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I would love to hear which one of these animal logos are your favorites, or if you have any animal logo works of your own or others that you feel deserve a mention please leave your comments.