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35 Excellent 3D Logo Design

WAD — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:55:43 +0000

Logo design emerged from a flat, one colored design to a new digital, impressive 3D look design. Yet again we have come up with amazing, creative 3D logo design for your inspiration. These eye catching, perfectly designed logos will definitely help you to get some inspiration to design one of your own.

3D logos are bit tricky for business card, brouchers or booklet printing but if your design and colors involve in it are used correctly it would be a plus point for your organisation.

1. Fictional head

2. Remember 2PAc logo

3. 8 Bit: A History Of Video Games

For a student piece we had to do about a fictitious museum gathering.

4. Starbucks 3D logo

5. Locarno on Ice – Red

6. My Logo

7. ZeroManaged INC Logo

8. Special color logo

9. Goodbye Radio

If TV killed the radio-star, the internet said “Goodbye” to the radio entirely.

10. 3D letters

11. Dimension design

12. ABA training center

13. 3D Model Space

14. Syntax Logo Design 3D

15. Iconfinder 3d logo

16. Logo 03 – 3d Symbol

17. PrankExpress

18. VE3D

19. Castrol GTX Sludge City

20. Chompwork

21. Creatiq

22. Quick sales 3d Logo

23. K and M 3d – Bazinga designs

24. Team CoolerMaster – Logo

25. ETP

26. Seventh Day

27. 3d Logo

28. Grey & Saurian

29. ASAP

30. Kids Dealz

31. Polsterplanet 3D

32. Luiggi Rock

33. Platonic Golf

34. Sidewinder

35. ZingSphere

UPrinting Review

WAD — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:29:05 +0000

About UPrinting
UPrinting is an online printing company that has established itself as a major player in the industry. It serves thousands of on-demand business printing and graphic printing orders online daily, using high-quality press printing and a robust yet simple and easy-to-use online ordering system, resulting in high-end printing services and reliable color printing at discount printing costs. With a wide range of products from business stationaries like business cards to large format prints like canvas prints, UPrinting is your one-stop online printer.

Few things we live about UPrinting are shipping time of three days is comparatively fast, 24 Hour customer email and phone support as well as live chat support to assist you for ordering business cards and other printing products. Besides business cards they also do booklets, bookmarks, brouchers, business card magnets, calendars, catalogs, club card flyers, greeting cards and many more.

UPrinting offers Free Services such as:

1) Free Project Review

Your files can get proofed and checked for errors without paying a cent.

2) Free Sample Kit

If you’re not sure what cardstock or paper stock to choose, you can order our sample kit absolutely for free.

3) Free Design Tool

Make use of our free online design tool in creating your prints from die cut business cards to trifold brochures. Save your designs online and print them whenever you’re ready.

4) 24 Hour Customer Support

If you need assistance or any inquiry about your custom online printing you can either get someone from our chat support or call us for free! Customer support is available 24 hours a day Monday-Friday and from 8am-5pm PST on Saturday and Sunday.

Why do you need your Facebook Fan Page a Customized One

Claudia — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:46:05 +0000

Facebook has more than 400 million active users; so a little bit of customization always helps to set you apart from the others. Facebook fan page is a unique endeavor used for promoting business on Facebook or FB, as it is more popularly known nowadays. But a simple fan page will hardly help your business, you need to customize it. We will share with a couple of customization tools that will spell magic for your business.

Clobby – Group Chat

This is very useful application that will allow you to add a live chat-room on the fan page. It is a free application and will allow the users to create chat rooms and even invite others to chat. Those who are regular users of this fan-page will be encouraged to communicate with each other and thereby increase the level of interactivity in the page.

Involver

Involver is a professional application for your Facebook page. It can be installed in a single click. It boasts of a large application gallery that includes YouTube Channel, Photo gallery and RSS Feeds. However, if you are having a free account then you can install only two applications.

Get a Unique Look for your Facebook Fan Page

It is very often seen that despite creating a Facebook fan page for your business, the number of fans never grows and the number of comments too remains static. The most obvious reason for this is the design of the page. You may like your fan page but it can be boring to the visitors. Since the Facebook fan page will be the brand face of your company, you must give it a distinct look and feel so that people can relate your company to the Facebook fan page that has been created.

Get more Social Love

A Facebook page is probably the best marketing move that a company can make. But just repeating what is written on the website is a sheer waste of time. The look of the Facebook fan page needs to be changed to make it look cooler so that there is a steady rise in the number of followers and people actually devote some time to go through the fan page. Believe it or not, people actually care to find out the number of ‘Likes’ on your Facebook fan page. The interface needs to be changed so that it has a distinct look and flavor. Only when your Facebook fan page is different, you can hope to see some improvement in the marketing mix.

Don’t Ignore the Success Stories

The success stories of many companies including coca cola are truly inspiring. The customization of the Facebook fan page has a big role to play in their success. This will be the same story with your marketing mix. The Facebook fan page needs to have a great design and superb punch lines to make the page unique and attractive. Coca Cola had an awesome fan page which also hosted contests from time to time. So the visitors became involved with the brand through these innovative features. Making your fan page interactive is just one of the many goals that your company must achieve.

Cool iPhone App from PicYou.com to Share Pics Instantly

WAD — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:45:04 +0000

Today we would like to introduce a photo sharing iPhone app, PicYou. It was released on Monday 9th of January. You can download free PicYou app from iTunes store. Using this app you can add cool frames to your photos, share on Facebook & twitter instantly, access via PicYou.com and many more.

Until a web version of Instagram is available the seamless integration between the web and iPhone is a unique selling point and we have worked hard to ensure the app quality is top notch (though of course expect more improvements soon). There are bunch of new filters and enhancements to the main site to help improve their service .

Full features of the app include:

Free PicYou filters (including Albion, Killowatt, Infatuation, Zeitgeist, Gammanation, Dreamy, Ralston, Cuttlefish and Hipster)
Cool PicYou frames
Unlimited uploads to the cloud
Share your photos instantly on Facebook and Twitter
Make new friends through giving and receiving likes & comments
Full camera capability, front and back
Access from the web at PicYou.com

Few examples of photos modified using PicYou iPhoneapp

A web designer’s guide for adhering to ideal web design process

Michael Evans — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:39:47 +0000

Irrespective of what kind of website you design and apps you use, it is imperative to adhere to a web design process for creating and modifying client websites. Without a well planned web design and development procedure, you cannot expect to give your sites that much required edge over rivals.

So, what exactly is a web design process? It denotes a well crafted method consisting of logical planning, design, development aided by a detailed documentation of the proceeding for making websites. By adhering to a meticulously devised web design process, a web design professional can churn out professional and feature rich websites in scheduled time. This enhances his or her professional image and contributes a lot to career growth. Even if you are a freelancer web development professional, it is absolutely essential to resort to a well crafted web design and development routine. To attain the objective, you can divide the entire process in some well defined steps.

First step: meticulous planning

You cannot proceed successfully in professional website design unless you do the planning carefully. Before delving into actual work, you need to perform a requirement analysis for developing a particular website. This may require a few interaction and brainstorming sessions with clients. An initial site map also needs to be set up during this part of work. As a web designer, you need to explain the expenses to the client apart from clarifying the design basics. This will help in avoiding conflicts and possibilities of misunderstanding later. Depending on type of site and target audience, a web design professional also needs to pick necessary software, frameworks and other resources.

Second step: implementing design part

In this phase, a web designer needs to start building the web pages and equip them with all necessary elements. Linking the pages and developing site structure also takes place during this time. You may need to use design apps like Photoshop to make mock ups at this phase. If the basics are approved by the client, it is time to complete necessary HTML and XML coding. As a matter of fact, this can be quite time consuming and cycles of editing and modification can take place, to ensure the end product is what the client desires.

Next: site development

Once the basic site design and HTML coding is done, it is time to move on to server side scripting and development. This is when web programming veterans have to do their bit. Like decorating a baked cake with frosting, developers equip the website with interactive elements and test them extensively before publishing can take place. If there are elements like forms in a website, validation needs to be tested thoroughly at this stage. Developers should not forget to monitor content loading in the website and ensure everything from alignment to rendering is in shape. At the end, the website needs to be reviewed to see each and every feature is working as desired. Apart from manual testing, evaluating the site with specific code validation apps and bug checking apps becomes necessary to iron out any hiccups.

Testing and publishing

Once site design and development reaches completion in a web design process, the website should be prepared for publishing. Needless to say, prior to publishing the site, re-checking of code, interactivity and linking becomes mandatory. If the website is linked to a database, that needs to be tested as well. Before the website gets published and it is moved to live server, developers need to perform a cross browser check. It is important to remember a lot of web users are still using outdated browsers in their computers.

After publishing

As a web design professional, be aware that after extensively checking and publishing a website, the web design process does not necessarily reach an end. When the client is happy with the completed and published website, you need to hand him over required source files and documentation. This can be necessary if the client has not opted for an AMC with you or your web design firm. The documentation will help the client if he needs to make modification to the site at a later stage and appoints some other web developer.

Process documentation: small details matter.

It is important that you document the entire web design process from start to end for your benefit and aiding future projects that will come your way. You can use simple word processing apps for this documentation. However, it is prudent that you use apps made specifically for this purpose, such as MS Visio. These apps let you use elements like diagrams and icons more extensively. Once you have completed web design process documentation in your possession, it will make developing subsequent websites much easier for you.

PSD To HTML By PSD2HTML : REVIEW

WAD — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:27:18 +0000

Company Name: PSD2HTML
Founded: 2005
Website: PSD2HTML.com

Thinking of converting your design into a high quality, cross-browser compatible, valid XHTML / CSS or HTML5 / CSS3 markup and you need it done within your time frame? Then here is the solution for you. PSD2HTML was one of the first companies to provide PSD to HTML conversion service. They have more than 50,000 happy clients and counting who are being served by over 300 dedicated employees.

PSD2HTML offers high quality services, fast turnaround and lots of discount opportunities! One of their latest updates is a holiday discount for their Australian friends! Check it out and get a 15% discount on all projects! Available from January 23, 2012 till January 31, 2012.

How to order

Ordering online has never been easier! Go to PSD2HTML.com hit order now and select a package you like. There are two packages available for each Web Page, Email and Mobile Templates, offering different sets of options. Upload your design files, enter your email address and notes if you have any special requirements. That’s all there is to it!

If you need more than XHML/CSS markup, PSD2HTML will help you with skins, popular CMS such as WordPress, Magento, Drupal, as well as javascript, email templates and much more!

Examples of their work

PSD2HTML worked with a huge number of clients. Click here to see examples of code they have created.

Here are some examples of code done by PSD2HTML.

RightBanners

Smashing newsletter

Pote de Mel

Conclusion:

PSD2HTML is very fast, efficient, inexpensive, reliable and responsive service. It easily meets customers needs and preferences, there is nothing else that one can ask for. We guarantee it is worth every dime you spend with them.

Useful 3D Animation and Modeling Tutorials of Blender

Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Blender is a 3D Animation and Graphics application which is using for modeling, UV unwrapping, rigging, texturing, skinning, water simulations, particle, rendering, editing, compositing and creating 2D interactive applications including games.

25 Mascot logo designs

WAD — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:19:20 +0000

Most of us like cartoon characters or Mascot isn’t it? Use of Mascot and characters can be seen in lot of logo designs. It lifts up appearance and company brand to a whole new level. This collection showcase 25 most creative and eye catching use of Mascot in logo design.

1. Mailchimp

2. J.U.G.S

3. Monster Pizza

4. Mariachi Restaurant

Mariachi Restaurant chicken mascot logo.

5. Animadness

6. Zujava

Logo for a content website for online freelance writers.

7. Boston Celtics logo

8. Its U – Personalised gifts & Caricatures

9. JOEY PEPPERONI PIZZA

10. Ruben’s Nuts

11. Chicago Bulls

12. Minnesota Timberwolves logo

13. Milwaukee Bucks logo

14. Buzzilla

15. Thundering Herd

Sports logo for Carlisle high school.

16. The Daddy Do

17. New Orleans Hornets logo

18. RastaCrab

19. Bar-B-Cutie

Foster Barker Creative Inc. Logo/mascot for 60-year-old barbecue franchise.

20. Angry Aztec

21. Lion God

22. BabyCrab

23. Googles

24. MyLittleFriens

My Little Friend a little mouse with a stitched pieces of cloth.

25. GIUSEPPE

Giuseppe Verdi came by his love of food honestly. He descended from two generations of restaurant owners and grocers in northern Italy, and took to farming as a hobby.

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Poster Design Tutorials In Photoshop (35 really awesome tutorials)

WAD — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:08:14 +0000

Photoshop is used to create cool posters designs of movies, events, dance parties and product display. It may seem to be hard to design one of your own amazing poster but wait a minute, from 35 brilliant poster design photoshop tutorials listed below will help to boost your confidence. These tutorials are not just for beginner designers but also for expert ones and vice versa.

In each of the tutorials you will definitely learn at least few new tricks and way of using different tools. Photo effects, blending options, text effects and using pen tool are few other creative stuff that you will learn from these tutorials. Feel free to suggest how this post and tutorials in this article helped you.

1. Create a Vibrant Space-themed Poster in Photoshop

2. Create a Dark & Grungy Digital Art Piece in Photoshop

3. Making a Superhero Movie Teaser Poster

4. Create a Mix Retro and Vector Poster in Photoshop and Illustrator

5. How to Create a Medieval Movie Poster in Photoshop

6. Create a Remarkable Poster with Decorative Elements

7. Create a Refreshing Beer Themed Poster Design in Photoshop

8. Creating a Spectrum Poster Design in Photoshop

9. How to Make a Funky Retro Music Poster in Photoshop

10. How To Create a Dramatic Action Scene in Photoshop

11. Make a Retro Space Themed Poster in Photoshop

12. Design a Retro Styled Poster

13. How To Create a Vintage Style Zombie Movie Poster

14. Brilliant & Creative Poster Designs You Can’t Miss

15. Create a Black Swan Inspired Movie Poster

16. Design a Professional Wildlife TV Show Poster

17. Create a Stylish Grunge Poster with 3D Typography in Photoshop

18. Design a Swiss Style Music Festival Poster in Photoshop

19. Design a Simple Textured Typographic Poster in Photoshop

20. Design a Retro Typography Poster in Photoshop

21. How to Design a Geometric Poster in Photoshop

22. How to Create a Vintage Circus Poster with the Photoshop Puppet Warp Tool

23. Create a Wild Western “Wanted” Poster in Photoshop

24. How to Make a High-Impact Fashion Poster in Photoshop

25. Inception Poster with Repousse in Photoshop CS5

26. Create a Professional Romantic Comedy Film Poster in Photoshop

27. How to Create Typography Poster Enigma Using Photoshop

28. AfterLife – Abstract Tutorial

29. Combine Stock Photography to Create an Abstract Poster Layout

30. Design the Pirates of the Caribbean Movie Poster

31. Create Blood and Milk Typography Poster in Photoshop

32. How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design

33. How To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art

34. Create Rockstar Poster in Photoshop

35. Create Avatar Movie Poster in Photoshop

30 Clean and Light Website Designs

WAD — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:44:58 +0000

“Simple living high thinking” works for everyone even for designers. Thinking simple and creating design with simplicity has always been admirable and popular but keeping thing simple and adorable is a challenging task. It is worth getting things simple which can be achieved by correct use of typography and the correct alignment. This mode of design lets you concentrate on certain things and especially you can make your visitors concentrate on the objects or content you want. So opting this kind of design will keep you in a safer side. This collection of clean and light web design have inspired us, hope this collection offers you the inspiration you are looking for.