By Michael Garmahis on September 26, 2008
Adobe Creative Suite 4 will be shipped by Adobe in a month to its customers. This time Adobe developers require to fine tune and polish as much as they can some of the applications of Creative Suite 4 packages, ranging in price from $999 to $2499. How close this major Adobe release is to meet user expectations? Which amazing features it contains which are worth to upgrade? Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on September 19, 2008
Branding agency Interbrand claims to create the world’s first dynamic logo. Using new, modern approach to visual brand identification they developed new logo for Russian Investment Company Troika dialog. Graphic part of the logo contains lines and triangles and exists only as dynamic logo. Everywhere where it’s possible the logo will be dynamic 3D object. For print there will be special versions to adjust for every particular case. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on September 16, 2008
If you don’t have time to browse through collection of more than 1000 stylish and awesome icon sets and need to find quickly a couple of folder or letters icons, for example, you can use icon search engines. The databases and quality of icon search engines varies from service to service but as a rule they provide you good enough search results. The functionality of the icon search engines varies from most simple without any advanced features to quite sophisticated which lets you choose icon size, background, file format (ico/png), tag search, most popular icons, etc. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on September 7, 2008
Free icon sets for different projects in Windows, Macintosh and Linux you will find in this list as well as references to further free icon libraries. More than 1000 free icon sets of high quality for Web Designers, Developers and Bloggers. Icons can be used in almost every project you are working on. Every icon set is free and easy for download. Nice icon sets are always pleasure to look at and useful to have at hand. Some of the sets can be used for free only for private projects, however most of them can also be used in commercial projects. In any case don’t forget to read the license detail before using any icon set below. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on July 29, 2008
What is the best way to illustrate speed effect in graphic design? Man knows visual effects of speed in real world perfectly. For example blowing wind incline the trees side to side, falling comet leaves trace in human imagination and speeding up animal is getting another shape to be fast. Anyhow all known way to illustrate speed in graphic design are relevant to physic of nature with some variation added for visual appeal. Continue Reading →
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By Michael Garmahis on July 1, 2008
What are the most popular design apps? It’s rather hard to estimate most popular design software relying on vendor selling information and there are no general stat as well. But there are some new online services which tracks apps usage by installing special software and it works like Alexa for websites. According to websites Wakoopa and Software Informer most popular design apps are:
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By Michael Garmahis on June 26, 2008
Will be JPEG 2000 vs. HD photo the next format war like it was with HD DVD and Blu-ray? It’s rather hard to answer this question right now. While currently most of digital images in the world are stored in JPEG format, rapid development of digital photo technology require new more effective technology at the back and JPEG format approved in 1994 is for sure outdated.
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