Archive for November, 2012

40 Creative Uses of QR Code in Business Card

November 18th, 2012 in Insipiration | 20 Comments

QR code is the abbreviation of Quick Response Code, whereby it consists of many black, square dots arranged randomly in a little square box. Have you seen it before? Have you tried it yet? If the answer is no, I can tell you that it is going to surprise you.

It is also called bar code which is more likely a common name for you and me. However, compared to normal bar code, this type of matrix bar code provides users with faster readability and larger storage capacity. High speed is what our generation demands currently. And, it satisfies our demanding requirements. Following with the smart phone world, it has ventured into the mobile application. You can download the apps into your phone to assist you to read their data whenever and wherever the QR code exists.

Back to its initial invention, it is purposely designed for automotive industry. Do you know it is for Toyota, a Japanese car manufacturer to track their vehicles during the process? Till today, its popularity brings it beyond the industry border to convert the data embedded inside the dots into useful virtual information to people.

Here we reveal a pretty creative way of using QR code in our life. Later, you can take a look on those stunning and fantastic QR code business cards in the bottom of my words. It turns the traditional business cards into creative business cards. This two-dimensional QR code not only attracts people while giving out your business cards, but also allows them to scan and read the information immediately via their smart phones.

Now, they can forget your cards in somewhere. Yet, their phones have stored the necessary information once they scan a bunch of business cards. The information on those creative business cards can be decoded to text, vCard contact, open a URL or much more. By placing the QR code on your business cards, you already direct them to a Facebook page, contact details, exclusive promotion or whatever message you want to tell.

The gallery below hopefully can give you several ideas on how QR code can be incorporated into your creative business cards. It is a chance to design your business cards to be outstanding from others. This is a competitive marketing medium; therefore it prompts you to make it as creative as possible. Or, you may have any other ways of applying the QR code creatively in our online and offline line.

It is all about creativity! Enjoy their creative business cards!

HTML Business Cards

Minimalist cards are a thing of beauty.
HTML Business Cards

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50+ Beautiful Wildlife and Animal Wallpapers from National Geographic

November 6th, 2012 in Photography, Wallpaper | 16 Comments

Wildlife and animal are so important in being part of ecological system to maintain the cycle. In the technology era, it starts to cross the border and inspire almost every single industry. You can notice it in fashion style, product design, corporate image and, of course, graphic design. From the title, you know it is about their desktop wallpapers.

Wildlife is defined as animal which is not placed under the “Pet” category. Wildlife is so dangerous. It is the general knowledge everyone knows. Therefore, taking animal photography is so dangerous too. Yet, we need some nice photographs to become our wildlife wallpapers or animal wallpapers. It all depends on the professional skill and timing when the person presses the button. As a brief, a better photographer will take note of exposure, color, depth of field and focal point to produce a series of stunning photograph.

In this blog, we will feature 50+ beautiful wildlife and animal wallpapers, from wild, tamed to other animals. All of them are selected from National Geographic which is the ever well-known wildlife discovery channel. If you are a supporter of wildlife and nature, you should get those as your desktop wallpapers. Besides, downloading and changing to animal wallpapers can embrace yourself with an environment of tranquility by watching them on your desktop.

Again and again, desktop wallpapers are one of the best elements you can customize your personal desktop and influence your daily emotion. Looking at your adorable animal wallpapers, you will tend to feel more happy and energetic to kick your day off. It is a zero-cost method of seeking every little bit of happiness in your life. As mentioned above, wildlife photography is not an easy task. It shows that the wildlife wallpapers or animal wallpapers should be more appreciated by us as a reward to the group of photographers.

What animals are likely to be featured in the wildlife wallpapers? You can get it well by viewing the collection later in this post. Normally, it can be tiger, lion, kangaroo, fox, buffalo and so on. Or else, the animal size can be smaller until lady bug, frog, bird, and so on. As long as it is not common in or out from our homes, any animal living in the nature such as jungle can be an idea of taking photo and becoming part of the wildlife wallpapers.

Enjoy your view and choose your pick!

Shoebill

This shoebill scares you away but not the photographer who took it for you.

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30 Beautiful Photos of Water

October 29th, 2012 in Photography | 14 Comments

Nature is amazing. Merely three words in a short sentence is not sufficient to describe it until you see it. That is exactly when camera comes in. Besides, we should not left the nature scenery in our minds but share it out with people through the vivid photography.

Water photography is one of the examples of using an object to describe another object. We all knows the water substance. It is very essential because of the hydration function. Despite the biological knowledge, it is similar too in photography term. Water photography brings out the most fascinating characteristic of water itself. Its fluid motion or movement is definitely what a photographer wants to take it down in pictures of water nature. Therefore, it can be concluded as its motion is the most advantageous nature of water.

Water photos is the production of a liquid-based photography. Under this post, we are mostly sharing the slow speed water photography. You can also try the another high speed water photography. It is different and totally opposite. The only similar thing is you can be able to capture a moment in time that we as humans would otherwise be unable to see. They requires you to have technical skill set and thus match with your artistic sense to “draw” beautiful pictures of water.

Pictures of water are always attractive and attentive. From the huge sea to the tiny stream, it blanks your mind and makes people feel refreshing. Furthermore, pictures really worth thousand words. I guess, it is better than hiring the best copywriter. Thus, photographers always sharpen their photographic skills. For this post, water photography is a fun gateway. Let’s enjoy taking pictures of water!

Usually, nature is one of the best channel to look for new inspiration. It is the majesty of our nature. Water photos are amazingly powerful and beautiful. You can take pictures of water where the river peacefully meets the low hills or when the waves are dancing during a storm. It all depends on how you are going to shoot the particular moment. Each second, with the brilliant techniques and right gears, can be any remarkable moment. Of course, it is also truly applied to water photography. You will see how true the statement is when browsing through the breathtaking water photos sooner or later.

Sea Benghazi

Water is moving but still in a photo.
Sea Benghazi

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25 Unusual and Bizarre Surreal Paintings

October 15th, 2012 in Insipiration | 6 Comments

Surreal art is growing its popularity as the very familiar medium of art. Those objects inside surreal paintings are common and usual to be seen but they appears extraordinary with the surreal art technique. It gives our artists much more room to dream, think and convey his expressions and thoughts to his audiences. Undeniably, some might not accept the idea of surreal art. Yet, it is so fantastic for me.

If this is your first time to learn this word, “Surreal”, I should put you back on its history. Surrealism is a cultural movement which was roughly happening in the early 1920s. Now, you know that surreal is being termed as a culture. To be more exact, it is an art culture based on visualization such as paintings and writings.

Some famous artists has been involved in surrealism, like Andre Bretton, Salvador Dali, Miro and Magritte. Andre Bretton was the beginner. Usually, they feel that it is an expression of philosophical movement. Where did they get motivated and enthused to start their surreal paintings? It is due to the Dada activities during World War I. From the city of Paris, it has crossed the country borders and affected visual arts, literature, films, musics as well as political and social theories.

Of course, the cultural movement stopped for a long time. Yet, many artists prefer to refer back to their art works which are related to surreal paintings and drawings. Dali, who was one of the surrealist group, could be praised as genius. He could look at his surroundings in different perspectives and interpret those personal meanings to reach his artistic accomplishments. You will realize how skillful a person can be when you have seen his every piece of masterpiece.

Overall to say, surreal paintings are abstract paintings. They try to create unusual meanings out of the ordinary forms and objects to evoke psychological emotions from their viewers. Everyone will look at this kind of abstract paintings with various insights. Those adjectives that you can hear or read are likely from odd, weird and unusual to amazing, creative and fantastic. Of course, art is one thing which much more depends on our personal preference and taste. Similar goes to surreal art or other abstract paintings.

Hope you all will enjoy this post with a collection of 25 very momentous and incredible surreal paintings (or abstract paintings). If you have your own thought about this post, feel free to share in the comment box below.

the SURREAL room

Can you see how different it is with our rooms?
the SURREAL room

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30+ Impressive Blue Web Designs

October 3rd, 2012 in Web Design | 11 Comments

You can see blue in everywhere, every little thing surrounding you. The sky is blue. The ocean is blue. The Monday is not blue. Colors connote different psychological meanings. And, blue is very emotional. Yet, it is not stereotyping about sadness or depression. Instead, it can calm someone down, set your mind to relaxing mode and eventually draw a smile on someone’s face.

If you do not own any blue-colored thing, start this with changing your desktop wallpaper to a blue one. Each time opening your desktop, you can gradually observe the effect of blue desktop wallpaper towards your mood. Nonetheless, it is always a great choice in crafting a blue web design. For sure, you can easily search a bunch of fantastic and good-looking blue websites out there.

It has various gradients which can be combined together, as different elements, to put into your blue web designs. Therefore, you can touch up your blue website with stylish or probably elegant feeling. You should realize that color is very imperative in judging how your website looks like. I wonder whether what does blue websites meant to you or what is your opinion for blue websites. For me, the ocean blue can be sleek and fashionable while the sky blue can be feminine and soft.

Blue web designs play an important role because it is a theme that you choose for your messages to communicate to your web visitors. Blue has been a popular color for designers from all different industries. Despite the blue web designs here, you could find that the blue always appears in brochures, corporate logos and so on. A bit of touch-up can allow you to see the difference in the whole blue web designs, such as a mere icon or typography.

Emotional implication is not the main reason. It should be the harmony friendship with almost any color in the palette. Try to match it with different colors. You can notice that they are amazingly matching with each other. Blue is a brilliant color. Besides, a professional designer can break the cliché link that people always link blue with negative emotions.

Believe it! A mankind’s creative and innovative ideas can bring one single thing to a vast array of better and extraordinary outcomes. You agree with this, don’t you? Later, we will end this post with a cool gallery of blue web designs to share with you. If you do have blue websites, you can drop the link to inspire us too!

Bones

Blue is unquestionably the most suitable color for pirate-themed website.
Bones

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30 Websites To Download Free Vector Images

September 26th, 2012 in Resources | 11 Comments

While the current technology allows one to do wonders and the Internet is also another useful tool, allowing one to gain access to all sorts of information and materials for ones work. However, there are still times when searching for a particular information or material prove to be difficult when you do not get the result that you hope for.

Among the many different type of problems that a web or graphic designer face is the lack of free vector images, one just cannot get enough of a good source that supplies high quality vector images and for free as well. One of the reasons why designers prefer vector images or standard JPEG images was also due to the flexible nature of vector images. Vector images are images without fixed resolution; hence it allows its user to adjust it to any dimension without losing the quality of the original images. This is because while most graphic or web designer can draw quite well, there are also those who lack talent in the drawing field, and these free vector images can save us a lot of effort. Not only that, while it is always fantastic to produce an original graphic image, sometimes one just do not have the time for it and having access to a free flow of vector images can definitely help one save up a lot of time. However, it is not easy to come across websites that offers free vector images, paid images on the other hand are a common sight, while we do not investing a small fee in some of the fantastically produce images but this small fee adds up in the long run. Perhaps, one might suggest or come across other websites that provide free images or art, however most often than not the images offered on these sights were either of low quality or lack variation.

For all the reasons stated above, we took it upon to ourselves to look up for some websites that offer free vector images, and these sites do not only provide them for free but also offers vector images of high quality. Therefore, whether you are in need of a particular image for a print ad or looking for a specific icon to design a logo, take a look at some of the sites we provide here and you might just find what you are looking for!

Vecteezy

Vecteezy is a community of vector art that provides a place for artist to create and exchange their work for free!

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45+ Dual Monitors Desktop Wallpapers To Spice Up Your Desktop

September 17th, 2012 in Wallpaper | 2 Comments

When was the last time you changed desktop wallpaper? Desktop wallpaper is so cool to symbolize mood and feeling. Some often changes their desktop wallpaper, almost on a daily basis, while some will not change their desktop wallpaper. After introducing few rounds of wallpaper themes, this time we are going to bring you to dual screen wallpapers which will spice up your desktop.

Today, many people own their individual work spaces. Other than offices, dual monitors has been widely adopted in home. However, it is usually for web developers or designers. Dual monitors are really handy when you have to work on several projects or open a number of browsers. Furthermore, they let you to separate everything in more organized and efficient manner. That’s why those people opt for dual monitors instead of a single monitor screen.

You even can set up it until 3 or more monitors. One of the reasons is also the dropping price of LCD monitors. Therefore, go for a desktop monitor is an economical and effective way to achieve what you want. Of course, the popularity of graphic design and web development is increasing rapidly each year.

There are vast array of dual monitor wallpapers which can be searched and downloadable through net. It is not a problem if you want to change it too as the common wallpapers. Multi monitor wallpaper is mostly related to nature landscape, photography, or fantasy. It is pretty amazing and gorgeous. Cool-looking dual screen wallpapers are, in fact, how to make your personal desktop outstanding and different among others. You can capture someone’s mind when he or she is looking at your dual monitor wallpapers. Besides, multi monitor wallpaper can inspire and improve your creative ideas too if you are a designer from whatever sectors.

When using dual monitors, you might wonder how to make the most out of them. It is very easy. You can get yourself a few of dual monitor wallpapers which can allow you to change whenever you want to change your mood. It is not something cool when a normal wallpaper stretches across two monitor screens. Thus, pick up the dual monitor wallpapers of the right size is important.

End this post with a showcase of 45+ beautiful dual screen wallpapers. It will be something that really spice up your desktop sooner or later when you put the multi monitor wallpaper on your desktop. Feel free to save it when you see your favorite multi monitor wallpaper!

Futuristic city

Dual monitor wallpaper is similar as taking picture using wide lens.
Futuristic city

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20 Useful HTML5 Tutorials For You To Get Started

September 13th, 2012 in Tutorial | 10 Comments

For web designers and developers the term HTML or HyperText Markup Language is a common term that they come across very often in their work. However, for those who are new in this area they might be interested to know that the reason why HTML plays such a large and important in web design is because HTML is essentially a language for the Internet, it serves to structure and present the content that one see on the Internet. However, like most things the language itself develops and as it’s fifth generation it is known as HTML5.

The HTML5 is said to be the new black and the new best thing for web design and development. For this reason alone as well as the constantly developing trend on the internet web designers and developers should prepare themselves to better understand HTML5 seeing that this language will be widely use on the Internet.

On the other hand, because HTML5 is still rather new and not fully supported by all Internet browsers, it will take some time before one could fully understand its function as well as learn to apply on their work. For this reason, we have gathered a small list of HTML5 tutorials to help on get a head start on this particular topic. With the constantly changing and developing trend on the Internet, the HTML 5 serve as a tool to help support new and common features on the web such as video playback as well as the drag and drop function. Not only that HTML 5 also help to reduce third party plug-ins; not to mention that if used correctly HTML5 can also create fantastic work when paired up with CSS3 and jQuery.

However, while HTML5 sounds like an awesome feature to use, one might also be confused on where to start, for these reasons we have also collected some cheat sheets to help one better understand HTML5. The list we have gathered here consist a little of everything that we deem useful. From video and audio element, as well as some useful and detailed tutorials to help one incorporate HTML5 and other elements such as CSS3 or jQuery or both into your work.

While it might be an easy to understand HTML5 language, but with some of these tutorials and cheat sheet we have prepared here, perhaps you are then game enough to take on a challenge to experiment to come up with an ultimate web.

A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML5 & CSS3

A tutorial to help one better understand HTML5 and CSS3 functionality.
A Marriage Made in Heaven? HTML5 & CSS3

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35 Breathtaking Examples of Landscape Photography

September 11th, 2012 in Photography | 1 Comment

Every photographer has their own most like and least like. Some love to take portraiture while some love to take landscape photography. It is totally another challenge with the existence of the nature. When you appreciate the amazing beauty on the earth, you can use your camera to shot the perfect moment as what you can see through your eyes.

What is landscape photography?
Without a standard definition, it purposes to showcase different places in this world to all people. Most of the times, it presents the nature phenomenon rather than men-made constructions or historical architectures. However, the latter can be considered as part of it too. Whoever can practice landscape photography, no matter you are professional or amateur.

What is landscape photography?
Normally, photographer will try to limit the human activity in their photos to zero. Without human shadows, a particular photo shows only the weather, light, land and other nature elements. It is named as the pure, beautiful landscape photography. Albeit difficult, especially when you are in a touristy beach, it can be get done with patience and skills.

What is landscape photography?
Photography is never restrained in a frame. Similar goes to beautiful landscape photography. You can make it to be anything as long as it is your landscape. For example, urban landscape photography is being included. Besides, macro, nature or industrial term should not be excluded from the landscape photography too.

What is landscape photography?
Although the human beings should try not to appear inside the landscape photography, a beach full of sunbathers can be counted from another viewpoint. Just like various lenses, your eyes can also lead you to different landscapes in the same place. It is about how you judge what you see.

What is landscape photography?
Landscape photography tests your stillness. How long you can wait for the suitable moment determines what you can see, capture and proud of having it in your photography collection. For instance, it is especially true in urban landscape photography. When you scope out an area for the best point, you might not have the better light for that scene, or vice versa.

What is landscape photography?
You may need a tripod for long shutter speed to guarantee the camera is still and stable. For this, a cable or wireless shutter release could be useful as well. Take note of the depth of field and focal point in your landscape photography. The longer you can make people stare at your photo, the better your landscape photography. Where your focal point is does matter, which should remind you of the rule of thirds. About the depth of field, you should pay attention at things such as sky, lines or anything that could be your foreground. Every photographer has their golden hours, likely to be dawn or dusk. It means the light plays an important rule to make up the beautiful landscape photography.

Enjoy the photo gallery below!

Landscape Italy sunflowers

When you look at this scene, how can you left out your camera inside the bag?
Landscape Italy sunflowers

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39 Fantastic Post Apocalypse Wallpapers And Artworks

September 6th, 2012 in Insipiration, Wallpaper | 5 Comments

It is incredible! “It” refers to post apocalypse wallpaper. Some people might like to mention it as disaster wallpaper. It does not describe it as the worst wallpaper you have ever seen. Ironically, this kind of apocalypse wallpapers are so rare and unique. Before this post ends, you will want to save the below 30 wallpapers and artworks inside your computer because they are just the way they are.

The scene inside the post apocalypse wallpaper usually only appears on the digital animations, movies and video games. When we have never been in this situation (I believe that you would not want it too.), it seems so dramatic to everyone of us. Thus, those nice apocalypse wallpapers are very appealing and approachable to users, especially males.

Have you imagine, even one second, how the Earth looks like in its birth? It is impossible for us to know. And, that grows our curiosity and obsession. Religious stories or some myths have told us but they are still predictions. You never know how true those words and sentences you can claim. From one post apocalypse wallpaper or disaster wallpaper, the nice details tell its feelings in an indescribable environment.

The apocalyse wallpapers and artworks let you know that we cannot destroy our Earth through the man-made disasters. For example, the explosions, radioactive, or overgrown industrial pollution can kill our Earth gradually. Be thankful for living on this planet. Furthermore, the disaster wallpaper, as the collection below, can inspire you in your own creative sense.

To satisfy your knowledge, most of the post apocalypse wallpapers and artworks are produced using matte painting techniques. Lighting and visualization is very important to make the tension atmosphere and mood. In the meanwhile, composition is true to play its part too. Moreover, without the fixed or regular ideas, the designers can be so creative in making the post apocalypse wallpaper. Some enjoy the freedom in putting the elements inside to draw apocalypse wallpapers or so-called disaster wallpapers.

Post apocalypse wallpaper is so amazing and fantastic. Although it seems like impossible for us to be in that scene, they make it so near to the realistic dream as possible as they could. Therefore, we can feel it like it has just happened in our life. Let’s have the visual enjoyment of the apocalypse wallpapers and artworks! It will open your eyes and mind to different savors in web design.

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