Posted by Naeem on July 24, 2010 ·
In case you’ve missed it, I recently released a free vector set of Social Media Icons at IconDock. It includes 50 icons of the most popular social media networks. The icons are available at 32px and 16px in EPS, PNG, and GIF format. Feel free to use it in your blogs or client’s projects. If you like it, don’t forget to spread the love by blogging or tweeting about it.
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Posted by Naeem on July 24, 2010 ·
As the monitor resolution and internet speed is advancing, it seems like more and more designers use over-sized photo or illustrated image as the website’s background. Large background image can create the stunning visual effect, especially for high resolution monitors. It can also add more life to your site design compared to the traditional tiled background graphic. Here is a collection of 80 websites that used large image as the site background (must-see, you won’t be disappointed). Photographic Styles AugustCar FreaksTwelve RestaurantFuture of Web DesignSummer – tnvacation.comMacAllan [...]
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Posted by Naeem on July 23, 2010 ·
One of the most debated issues about color is whether black is truly a color or not. To an artist (or a child) black is a color and white is not. But for a scientist, white is a color, black is not. The real meaning of the word black means the absence of colors. Try to mix all the colors in the rainbow, you’ll get black. Black has many associations. Black goes beyond a simple or mixed color; It can be seen as the color of solitude and misery, but it can also express a sense of creativity, power, elegance, strength, nobility, and beauty.In digital arts, black is usually the preferred [...]
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Posted by Naeem on July 23, 2010 ·
We’re all familiar with Google Doodles – the customized logos that appear on the search engine’s home page to commemorate special dates or events. For 12 years now Google has been creating these logos, honoring everything from global holidays like Earth Day to the birthdays of historically significant people (like Albert Einstein) and even to the birthdays of fictional characters like Paddington Bear.In the first ten years of Google Doodles (from 1998-2007), there were usually only a handful or maybe a dozen Doodles each year, usually for major events or holidays (like New Year’s [...]
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Posted by Naeem on July 23, 2010 ·
Landmarks are often structures such as cathedrals, museums, skyscrapers, hotels, homes, libraries, bridges and ruins. Natural phenomena in physical features such as mountains rock formations, rivers and waterfalls, can also be chosen as landmarks if they have special historical, architectural, or cultural significance. Historical landmarks are not just tourist attractions, they serves as a commemoration of a remarkably important national event. This allows us and for generations to come, to remember great cultures and events of the past that is worthy to record in its own history.To [...]
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Posted by Naeem on July 23, 2010 ·
Have you ever seen a word and read the same word upside down? This is one form of an ambigram. An ambigram (from Latin: ambi both + gram = letter) is a word or words that can be read in more than one direction, where the word reads the same when upside down or turn over to form an entirely new word. The term “ambigram” was first used to mean “ambiguous anagram” by Judith E. Bagai, a former editor of The Enigma, the official organ of The National Puzzlers’ League.There are many types of ambigrams such as rotational ambigrams, reflective types, 3-dimensional, etc. but the most basic [...]
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Posted by Naeem on July 23, 2010 ·
The color green holds positive connotations for most people and green logos are super popular at the moment. Green is a symbol for environmentalism and our love affair with green stretches back to ancient Egypt where the color was symbolic of resurrection and immortality (the god Osiris was supposedly green skinned). Today, environmentally friendly companies, web 2.0 companies, organic food shops, juice bars, salad bars and fruit companies all love a good green logo. Green logos are in vogue and these companies are driving the trend.Below are 30 examples of creative green logos. The [...]
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Posted by Naeem on April 14, 2010 ·
The next upcoming Windows operating system after Vista is Windows 7. So, here are some of the Windows 7 wallpapers which are created by different artists. You can download these Windows 7 wallpapers for Free! Gyppi Energy Flow Windows 7 Wallpaper This Windows 7 wallpaper is available for different screens and different resolutions. 2560×1600(16:10) 1920×1080 (16:9) 1600×1200 (4:3) 1280×1024 (4:5) DownloadWindowsNET Green Yellow A Windows 7 Wallpaper Resolution: 600 x 450 DownloadYouness Toulouse Windows Seven Resolution: 1140 x 900 DownloadV2 Youness Toulouse Resolution: 1140 [...]
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