designshard.com – inspiring tutorial blog

The purpose of design shard is to produce a valuable resource for designers ranging from design tips, inspiration and free resources such as photoshop brushes or textures to be downloaded.

Max owner of this blog, a web designer who specialised in css and xhtml, love to be inspired either by web designs or digital art and had a passion for illustration and typography. A few guest authors on the blog each writing articles about what they are intrested in, in the design world….so watch out & get inspired

Tags: design, designshard, inspiration, Photography, photoshop, Tutorials, webdesign

Minimal website & typography inspiration

I like minimal websites with strong typography…here come two links for some great examples of how to do it right. Less is more…reminds of the Album from Gelka i posted an article about recently…in some part they say: less is more…more or less…

- Minimal Sites - Cool Sites for Typography Inspiration

Tags: inspiration, Minimal Websites, Typography

Interview with Florian Schmitt from Hi-ReS! London

Again Digup Tv features a interesting Interview as we saw from Mate Steinforth about one month ago.
This time Florian Schmitt from Hi_ReS! London tells us some more about how his company grew and about how he finds inspiration and ideas. At the archive featured on their website there are some pretty cool projects to be seen.

Florian Schmitt | Hi-ReS! from digup•tv on Vimeo.

Tags: Florian Schmitt, Hi-ReS!, inspiration

Amores que matan

Tags: Illustration, inspiration

WHEREWEDOWHATWEDO – workspaces from the creative community

I found this really nice site where you can have a look on to other creatives workspaces…you can also upload and share your own space. I really like this one!

http://wherewedowhatwedo.com/

Check out the site and maybe you will find some Inspiration to improve your own creativity at home / work…

Tags: inspiration

Inspiration Series III – 3 Logotype Inspiration Sites you should know about!

So folks…back again after a little break! With so much work these days haven´t found much time to keep up with the blog but once again i will continue our Inspiration Series. This time i present to you 3 Top Sites that are very useful if u are designing a Logo or just getting Inspiration about different logotypes! There is a lot to this subject and as 3 Links are not enough in any way i will post some additional Links Tips. - www.logopond.com – huge Archive with a big Community, perhaps the best Resource on the web! - www.logosauce.com – 26762 Logos…a lot to see here but the Navigation of the Site is something you have to get used too…try the Search window and you will definetly find lots! - logooftheday.com – a high-profile logo design award scheme…daily! And if you are about to dive deeply into the whole logo design thing i recommend the following Links: - http://www.logodesignlove.com/best-logo-design-resources – 81 of the best logo design resources! This one contains a lot of Information…fonts, trends, awards, collections… In general the Irish designer David Airey has built up a respectable amout of Information about this subject to be found on his Site and Blog ( www.logodesignlove.com and www.davidairey.com ). - http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=540 – An Article about current Trends in Logo design..also quite useful. So i hope this turns out useful and if anyone hast Recommendations about other great Inspiration resources related to Logotypes, please just comment here. Enjoy

Tags: inspiration, Logo, Logotype

Inspiration Series II – 3 design blogs you should know about

Its time to continue with my Inspiration Series. Again in english to be able to reach more users with my articles… Actually it might be quite confusing for the readers of this blog to have it mixed up in english and german. We have to decide what it is going to be..

Nevermind, thats not the subject of this post.

Surfing the web you will discover that there are many blogs referencing resources, tutorials, freebies and much more. Here are 3 i consider a good option to gather information and resources for your Work.

- http://www.designobserver.com/ – Design Observer – all aspects of design

- http://www.smashingmagazine.com – Smashing Magazine  – more Web and Photoshop orientated

- http://ilovetypography.com/ – I love typography – all about typography

Any suggestions about other cool design blogs are welcome.

Tags: blogs, design, inspiration, resources

depthCORE :: Digital to the Core

featured artwork: Chris Haines – Rise 2008

depthCORE ist ein “International Digital Media and Modern Art Collective”. Der Titel sagt schon alles…hier findet man “cutting edge” Digital Artists mit hochwertigen Kunstwerken. Es ist eine Freude sich durchzuklicken. Visit depthCORE! Enjoy

Tags: Digital Art, inspiration

Inspiration Series I – 3 Digital Artists you should know about

For all those out there searching for Inspiration for their Digital Artwork i decided to start my “Inspiration Series”. I will be publishing different Sources for your Inspiration. This week i will start with presenting 3 Digital Artists that create up-to-date digital Art…very shiny and colorful. - Craig Shields – http://www.surpy.co.uk/ - Pawel Nolbert – http://hellocolor.com/ - Pete Harrison – http://www.aeiko.net/ Stay tuned for more…

Tags: Art, Digital Art, Ilustration, inspiration, Typographie

PSDTUTS – A very powerful Photoshop ressource!

Just to keep the trend to publish some articles in english as well i present a very useful site (this is if you´re not using it already), that can help a lot to polish up our Photoshop skills and provide some good Inspiration. The presented Tutorials, collections of tutorials, design contests, etc. are all really high quality work and easy to understand..as their title says…its literally “spoonfed”. Enjoy exploring the Site and the amazing ressources and boost up your creative skills! Visit here: http://psdtuts.com/

Tags: inspiration, photoshop, Tutorials