Google announced the 40 regional finalists in its annual Doodle 4 Google competition, which challenges school children to create their own version of the Google logo The winning logo will run on Google’s home page for a day. Over 33,000 students in grades K-12 submitted entries, competing for a $15,000 college scholarship, a $25,000 technology grant for their schools, and other prizes.
“This is a guest post by Tiago Veloso from Visual Loop – a non-stop stream of Infographics, Maps, Charts and many other Visualization Goodies, with lots of new posts everyday. User submissions are always welcome, opened to artists and designers from all over the world..”
Thiago Lyra is a graphic designer and illustrator living in São Paulo. Since 2005 he has been developing infographics for the Saúde Magazine, and won a bronze medal in 17th Malofiej, as well as an indication to the Esso Journalism Award 2006. This is one of his infographics piece.
Using Flint Particle to create a sparkler effect when mouse over to movie clip, pretty cool effect and it doesn’t take a long time to create it. Most of the time people find that Flint is hard to play with (compare to other particle system like Pulse, Stardust and Emitter) because you have to deal with all the parameters, but once you get used to it, there’s more possibility within that system. I’ve been working on the DD Blog banner almost a year ago and follow the Flint online tutorial to create the snow particle on my blog, now I try to do more experiment with the tool. I think it’s not that difficult and I do agreed…it takes time to learn and get used to the system.
China is a country with five thousand years of civilization. It is a multi-national entity extending over a large area of East Asia. China’s cultural influence extends across the continent, with customs and writing systems adopted by neighboring countries including Japan, Korea and Vietnam. China has gone through numerous ups and downs and twists and turns, from wealthy and prosperous (as during the Tang Dynasty back in 618–907 AD) to powerless and colonized (as during the Qing Dynasty, just around 100 years ago). Now China is reopening its door to the world again, embracing the latest trends, concepts and technologies, the World Wide Web being one of them.
Logos represent the brand image, traditions and origins of a company. It is not just a visual badge on the car’s bonnet but represents what people think about the brand and the cars themselves. Somebody driving a Mercedes is perceived as prosperous, mature and of course rich. On the other hand, somebody with an Aston Martin is likely to be a more flamboyant personality.
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Reflection Maker is an online tool that create reflection for your photo & image, you can either upload an image or type in the source ( URL ) of the photo, it only takes a few seconds to generate the reflection then you can download the image. You can also resize your image, very handy online application!
It’s really fascinating to look back at the past and see the way that they designed things back then. This post is kind of like a blast from the past. You’ll get a chance to see some designs from the 1900’s all the way up until 2009.
“On January 13, 2010, the world was shocked to hear the news about the devastation that took place in Haiti. An earthquake with the magnitude of 7.0 hit the country hard. A few days later, we were informed of the hundreds of thousands of people that were killed due to this horrific event. When the people around the world heard of this tragedy, lots of them immediately took action. Millions of dollars have been raised thus far to help out the Haitians.”
Personally I’m not a super fan on Adobe Illustrator, I seldom post illustration on my blog, but I think it’s worth to post this tutorial by George Coghill on Go Media Zine. It will walk you through the steps from sketch to vector – scan drawing, apply action in Photoshop, create vector paths by using the pen tool and vector art tools, in creating an original cartoon-style character vector illustration.
Download an image with wrapping paper effect and have the pattern that you want is hard sometime, so why not create it on your own. Here’s a tutorial by Spyrestudios that show the technique on Displacement Map in Photoshop.
Darkeye is a website that you can search for website by colors. Though it may not showcase the coolest sites on earth, it can give you inspiration. Basically you pick several theme colors for your site or project, it will show you a list of website that contain the color you have chosen, pretty handy!
