Giacom brand identity design

Giacom is a leading provider of Internet services to the private and public sector in the UK, Europe and beyond.

Giacom’s portfolio of services includes scalable Internet hosting and outsourced message filtering/archiving systems.

Discover the design benefits of using simple mind-maps by downloading a free chapter from my book – Logo Design Love: From Pencil to PDF (1MB download size).

{by DavidAirey}

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20 Amazing Digital Artists to Follow on Behance

Anyone with an interest in design, illustration or digital art knows the Behance Network is the place to go to find all kinds of amazing artworks.

This roundup pulls together a collection of the site’s most popular and a few of my personal favorite artists and designers, who each produce high quality and awe-inspiring work.

Having the latest projects from these artists appear in your news stream is sure to keep your creative fire burning.

{by SpoonGraphics}

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17 Fantastic Uses of Shadow to Enhance Photographic Composition

A strong shadow can add great effect to a photograph.

As a compositional element that is used to draw the eye, however, a shadow can be a defining feature of an entire image.

We think this collection of images demonstrates how a shadow can be used to great effect in drawing the eye.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments!

{by LightStalking}

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Best of the Vector Web – February 2011

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy.

This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on music cover creation, using Illustrator and InDesign to create affordable self promotional material, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to inspiring articles, resources, and useful freebies inside.

Dig into February’s illustration and design material for vector enthusiasts.

{by VectorTuts+}

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Vintage Badge in Illustrator and Photoshop

It's been more than two weeks since I've finally moved permanently to California, USA.

 

Before the big move I was playing with Illustrator and Photoshop to create a vintage look badge. After a few hours trying different typefaces I got a nice result and published it on myDribbble profile.

I have received quite a few emails since I published that asking me how I did the effect, so in this tutorial I will show you how to create a vintage look badge using Illustrator and Photoshop

{by Abduzeedo}

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40 Fascinating Examples of Smoke Art Photo Manipulation

Smoke art is a set of techniques to create artworks transforming the smoke in different ways.

If you're good to manage Photoshop photo manipulation techniques, you can turn the smoke to unimaginable objects. For example, create smoke rose, smoke wolves and many others.

You can also use hazy artworks in the advertisement creation, to impart mystical mood, and of course they can be very effectively used in anti smoking ads.

{by PSDeluxe}

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Fantastic Digital Arts by David Fuhrer

David Fuhrer is a self taught freelance artist born in 1985 in Bern, Switzerland. The 90's has a clear influence on this work especially because we grew up in that decade and started experiment with computer creating visual art.

With focus on Illustration his work is full of details with some sort of surrealism influence sometimes as we can see in the Red Apple piece. David is also member of the DEPTHCORE.

{by Abduzeedo}

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25 Examples of Watercolor Art in Web Design

Watercolor art is no longer exclusively for the canvas.

More and more sites are taking the brush to the screen and incorporating some beautiful hand-painted creations.

Intersecting mediums provides a fresh approach to a web design and the look achieved with water color for the web is fantastic.

Soft, flowing strokes and smooth pastel colors blend together to leave the appearance of a painted masterpiece.

{by VectorDump}

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Edmar Cisneros on the Behance Network

Basic Info:

      Location – Distrito Federal, Mexico

      URL – Http://zerj19.deviantart.com/

      Twitter - @zerj21

Creative Fields:

      Photo Manipulation

      Graphic Design

      Advertising

About:

      Edmar Cisneros is a Graphic Designer from Mexico City currently working as a freelancer.

{by Behance}

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Functionality of Adobe Fireworks in your Design Workflow

Many web designers work exclusively with the Adobe Creative Suite to get work done.

Adobe Photoshop is the most common tool for graphics creation and manipulation along with Illustrator for freehand drawings.

Fireworks doesn’t get as much of the attention, but this doesn’t mean the software is also useless.

In fact Fireworks can be used hand-in-hand with Photoshop to create seamless mockup designs, wireframes, interface icons and so much more.

We’ll be taking a look into how you can incorporate Adobe Fireworks seamlessly into your design workflow.

{by 1stWebDesigner}

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Make an emotional scene in Photoshop

In this manipulation tutorial I will show you how to make an emotional scene in Photoshoph.

Making this kind of artworks is not very difficult in my opinion, you just need to be creative.

Maybe the hardest part when you make this kind of manipulations is choosing the right stock images.

{by PsdBox}

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Karate Canada Identity — Creativity, simplicity and visibility in harmony

Check out the work of Louis Beaudoin for Karate Canada.

Notice how he builds on the Canadian flag and creates a symbol that serves both as a typographic logo and an icon of the karate belt.

{by CreativeBits}

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40 Miniature-Like Tilt Shift Photography

The use of tilt shift for selective focus has been popularized by some photographers as it is seen in some commercials on tv and on different websites. The tilt shift effect makes a life-sized location or scene looks like a miniature scale model.

This kind of effect can be achieved by the use of special tilt-lenses, other shooting techniques or can be done with the help of Photoshop.

The miniature-like photographs are taken from a high angle to give an illusion of looking down at a small model.

Be inspired by these 40 sampled photos of Miniature-Like Tilt Shift Photography. Check them below and try to create and your first ever tilt-shift if you haven’t made one.

Enjoy!!!

{by NaldzGraphics}

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VectorVault

How did this all come about?

Vectorvault was born out of spite. But it grew out of the love I have for art.

It all started back in 2006 when I left a 5 and a half year career as an Associate Creative Director with a dynamite advertising agency in Toronto. I helped to shape brands like Miller Genuine Draft, Molson and Rogers, and was involved in a mountain of promotional work from tent cards to International television spots.

Things turned a corner for me when the new CEO bullied his way into my world and tried to fix something that was not really broken to begin with. I watched him slowly destroy the atmosphere that I had come to love. I tolerated his rude behaviour and for some unknown reason continually tried to prove to him that I was a creative person who deserved his respect.

{by VectorVault}

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50 Clever and Cool Logos

Wow, another logo inspiration post. Enough already, right? I know, I know.

Here’s the deal: when Freelance Review first launched we had some really cool logo inspiration posts, none of which made the transfer to the new platform from the old platform. Sooo, I wanted to make sure we had at least one good logo inspiration post on the site.

I know these logo inspiration posts are way over done, but that’s my disclaimer. I don’t plan on doing any more of these in the future (but I’d like to keep my options open…).

Anyways, enjoy these clever and cool logos as this may be the last logo inspiration post we do.

Ever.

{by Freelancereview}

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Free Vector Graphics @ Vecteezy

Vecteezy is a community of vector art!

We provide a place for vector artists to create and exchange a variety of free vector graphics like Vector Icons, Vector Patterns, Vector Swirls, Flourishes and other cool stuff to enhance your designs and creativity.

We have recently redesigned the site, so let us know what you think!  

{by Vecteezy}

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Tiled Background Designer

Tiled Background Designer is an online software you can use for free to create awesome backgrounds for your website or anything else you would like.

There are different shapes in various themes you can use. You can change the images size, color, rotation and other things. You can even change the canvas color.

Whatever changes you make, appear immediately on the site’s background so you see, in a second, what your options look like an change them or not.

Once you are done, you can download the basic tile to apply anywhere you want. Isn’t that great?

I like very much to play with it and see what I come up with.

I bet you will get addicted to it too!

{by Bee-Trees}

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50 Creative Logo Design of 99designs

99designs is the #1 marketplace for crowd sourced graphic design.

99designs was started by designers for designers. It provides a friendly, professional, and secure environment for designers.

In This List, we present you 50 Creative Logo Design of 99designs.




{by Galaxark}

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The best of “Design Maker” – Faria Malik

Great designs!

But, lets let her (Faria Malik) talk about herself:

Devious Info:

Current Residence: IBD-PK

Interests: In the all fields of designing

Favourite movie: Transformers, Matrix, Ghajini, The lord of the ring & Kung Fu Panda

Favourite band or musician: Linkin Park & BSB

Favourite artist: Enrique Iglesias, Rihanna, Celion, Bryan Adams & Atif (Jal)

Favourite style of art: Digital & Abstract

Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate

MP3 player of choice: Jet Audio

Wallpaper of choice: Nature & Abstract

Favourite game: Unreal Tournament, Carbon, Tomb Raider, Bedminton & Basket Ball

Favourite gaming platform: PC

Favourite cartoon character: Tweety & Jerry

Personal Quote: Follow me on Twitter Profile (I will aslo follow U): http://twitter.com/idealhut

Tools of the Trade: Photoshop & Illustrator only

Website: http://www.idealhut.com/

Email: Find it Yourself :)

{by Deviantart}

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