Article on Hongkiat showcasing Flash websites…

GT3 Creative
Skoda Yeti 4×4
The Scuffs Game
Aerial Virtual Tour of New York City

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.

Freeband Communication and IIPIC share a vision of the future: a world in which information and communication technology render one’s surroundings into a thinking and caring environment. The results of the Freeband Communication research program should be visualized in a compelling film. I approached the material using infographics to explain the vast quantities of data. To create a relationship with the continuing technology the film starts with a minimalist introduction in a narrow color spectrum and gradually transitioned to an abundant, multicolored world.

Hard to believe people using Flash to create vector portrait but this tutorial on Flashtuts+ shows how it can be done in vector based application other than Illustrator. I think the author Jacqueline Thomas did pretty good job on this tutorial. She tried to prove that Flash isn’t only about mathematics and complicated action scripts.

Article on Web Designer Depot

“Infographics can be a great way to quickly reference information. Instead of pouring over figures and long reports to decipher data, an infographic can immediately make apparent exactly what a dataset actually means. Below are more than 25 infographics that can be useful to web designers. Some are incredibly practical, some provide information that might be of interest to designers and some just present data that might be interesting to those who design websites all day.”
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An infographic on Global Traffic Map 2008 @ Telegeography. The traffic flows between countries in TeleGeography’s updated and redesigned Global Traffic Map 2008. Information about the switched voice market drawn from their annual TeleGeography study of the international voice market.

Create parallax in Flash CS4 is much more easier than before, all you need to do is create different objects inside a movie clip, and then change the Z-index of those objects in the 3D Position, once you move the movie clip, it will give you the prospective of 3D space…cool!!! Without the Z position (in CS3), you have to apply different formulas to different objects on the stage so the objects kind of move in different speed.

Here’s an example I created for Sebastien’s Flash Development 1 class.

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“Snowboard design is a growing and popular trend among graphic designers. In fact, there’s a number of competitions around the world centered exclusively around snowboard design, such as the Salomon and Artec competitions.”

3D Typographic design is now more popular and notice a surge for 3D Type work on portfolio sites, Here we have collected 45 Beautiful 3D Typography Deisgns For Inspiration, I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired well last month we compiled 25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials, So you can Try this 3d effects in your next design Project.