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25+ Website Designs of Android Application

labeeqa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:49:59 +0000

There are many developer who already enter the android market with building cool application, and they have great on web design too, to promote their application. Here I found some great android application web site design, if you found another that I haven’t mention please inform me.

Filmscore

Retro Defense

Meebo

Recordoid

Astrid

Evernote

Colorix

Gigbox

Photoshop Mobile

Locale

ShopSavvy

Snaptic

Twidroid

Brightkite

USAToday

Amazon.com

Google Voice

PlinkArt

iStockManager

Babbler

Where

Aldiko

Opera Mobile

AIM

Remember The Milk

Sobees

Foursquare

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28 Creative Cartoon Character Tutorials

labeeqa — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:36:22 +0000

28 Cool Cartoon Characters, each is a Great tutorial which will guide you through the step by step process on how to create a cool cartoon character. These tutorials will also teach you the necessary skills required in order to create your own cool characters.

How to Create a Killer Chainsaw Bunny Character

Create another cartoon character

How to Illustrate a Cute Emo Kid

Monster Character Series Part 4

Drawing Vector-Looking Cat Illustration Using Photoshop

The Making of Abe, The Are My Sites Up Mascot

Drawing Kurosaki Ichigo In Photoshop – By Mello

Create a Vector Pirate Cartoon Character from a Hand Drawn Sketch

Create a Traditional Japanese Koi Carp Illustration

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Snail Tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Bug Tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorial with a Wacom Tablet

Create a Vector Style Illustration in Photoshop

Creating A True .EPS File Using Vector Masks

Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot

Drawing a Penguin Cartoon

Drawing a Cartoon Magician

Monster Character Series Part 2

Eric Cartman – Photoshop Tutorial

Monster Character Series Part 1

Drawing a Cool Cartoon Robot

Drawing a Cartoon Bunny

Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

Create a Super Happy Octopus Character

Create a Cute Vector Monster from a Pencil Sketch

Create a Blue Vector Character

Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

Creating Homer Simpson

How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

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150 Tutorials for Creating Excellent Icon Design

labeeqa — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:57:11 +0000

In a graphical user interface, a picture on the screen that represents a specific file, directory, window, or program. Clicking on an icon will start the associated program or open the associated file, directory, or window is called Icon. There are many resources online that can help and inspire you in your own icon designs and in this collection we share some of the best tutorials on the topic. Check out this collection of 150 of the best icon design tutorials from across the web, each covering the process of designing a highly detailed icon graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop.

How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon

How to Create a Van Icon in Photoshop

Make a 3D Shopping Basket Icon in Illustrator

How to Create an Alarm Clock Icon

How to Make a Calendar Icon

How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator

Translucent IM Style Icon Design Tutorial

Create an Envelope Icon with a Satin Feel

Create a Vector Home Cinema Design

Create a Design Float Icon in Illustrator

Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon

Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing a Pencil Icon

The Making of an Icon

How To Make An Icon

10 Mistakes in Icon Design

Icon Design: Bitmap vs Vector

Professional technique for creating icons

7 Principles of Effective Icon Design

10 Tips for Effective Icon Design

Icon Design Explained (Quickly)

How to Design Mini Icons

Make a Handy 3D Vector Calendar Icon

Vector Film Slate Icon

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

Detailed Camera with Photo Icon

How to Design a Set of Multicolored Buddy Icons

Adobe Bridge Icon

How to Create a Vector Safari Compass in Illustrator

Translucent IM Style Illustrator Icon Tutorial

Create a Vector RSS Icon with Illustrator

Juicy RSS Feed Icon

How to Make a Vector Military Cap Icon

Delicious Chinese Food Icon

Transparent Battery Icon

Vector Lock Icon Design

Custom Hard Drive Icon

Create a Speed Gauge and Watch Icon

Design a Detailed Compass Icon

Safety Icon Design

Design a Glossy Download Icon

Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon

Create a Jaguar Style Folder Icon

Computer Icon Tutorial

Adobe Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials

How to Create a Yellow Submarine Icon with Gradient Meshes

How To Create An Academy Icon From Simple Shapes

Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

How to Create a Magic Wand Icon

How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator

How to Bake a Cake in Illustrator

3D Yet Flat Looking Shopping Basket Icons

Translucent IM Style Icon

Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon

Design A Coffee Mug Icon

Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

Detailed Camera with Photo Icon

CD Icon Using Illustrator in 5 minutes

Vector Film Slate Icon

Shiny, Vector Dice

Vector Safari Compass

Multicolored Buddy Icons

Pie Charts in Illustrator

Delicious Chinese Food Icon

iTune Icon

Gearbox Settings Icon

Tropical Colored Compass

Hourglass Icon

Adobe Bridge Icon

Magic Hat Icon

Vector Audio Speaker Icon

Vector Smiley Icon

Magnify Zoom Icon

Vector Military Cap Icon

Transparent Battery Icon

3D Vector Film Roll Icon

Stylized GPS Icon

Stack of Poker Chips

Television Icon

Textured Journal Icon

Designing a Stumbleupon Icon

Alarm Clock Icon

Calendar Icon

Envelpe Icon with a Satin Feel

Drawing A Pencil Icon

Windows Vista Icon

Designing a Sleek Pencil Icon

Design Float Circle Icon

Icon “about company” in Illustrator

Flag Icon

Administrator Icon

3D Isometric Vector Icon

Animated 3D Poker Chip

Apple Leopard Folder

Shiney Folder

Create XP-style Icons

Illustrator Vector Folder Reflections

Windows XP Folder Icon

Folder Icon

Sebastien de With

Jonas Rask

Marcelo Marfil

Artua Design Studios

Stefan Dziallas

William Wilkinson – Little Pixels

Medard Konopík – IconBakery

Photoshop Laser Printer Icon Tutorial

Create a Custom Mac OSX Style Ring Binder Address Book Icon

Create an Adobe Box Icon in Photoshop

Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop

Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

Windows Vista Folder Icon Tutorial

Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

Professional Technique for Creating Icons

Create a Paint Roller Icon in Photoshop

Create a 3D Pyramid Icon Design in Photoshop

Create a Scissor Icon in Photoshop

Create an XP Style Woman User Icon

Create a Vista Error Icon in Photoshop

The Making of an Icon

Create a USB Speaker Icon in Photoshop

Design the iTunes Icon for the iPhone in Photoshop

Designing a Chest Icon in Illustrator

Create the iTunes Icon in Illustrator

How to Design Mini Icons

To to Create a 3D Isometric Vector Icon

Create a Cute Panda Bear Face Icon

How to Create a Transparent Battery Icon

Create an Aperture Style Camera Lens Icon

Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design in Photoshop

Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon

Vista Error Icon

Vista Folder Icon Tutorial

Design The iTunes Icon For The iPhone

XP Style Money Icon

Angry Emoticon

XP Style iPod Icon

LG LCD Monitor Icon

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Style Icons

Clock Icon

World Icon Tutorial

How to Make a Folder Icon

Glossy RSS icon

Recreate the Famous Yahoo! Smiley

Skype Buddy Icon

Create A Mockingly Smiley

iTune Icon

Fast Folder Icon Making

Stylish Search Icon

Creating a clock icon

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High-quality vector art, brushes and illustrations – Designious.com

labeeqa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:53:01 +0000

Designious is a very cool destination for stock graphic files. World class graphic artists create for you the best vector art possible, all with extended license included. You can choose from more than 6000 hand drawn stock graphic files so you can be sure that you will find what you need for your design projects.

Designious offers an impressive collection of Vector Packs, Photoshop Brushes, Fonts, T-shirt Designs, Illustrations, Mega Packs, and even Freebies.
Their products have the following features: quality designs, unbeatable price, extended license included and fresh stock graphic files every month!
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Floral Mega Pack 4

Crests vector pack

Skulls Brushes Pack 1

Medieval 2 Font

T-shirt design 288 – Dark Angel

Music illustration with grunge, silhouette and speaker 16076

Free Samples from Floral 77, Birds 5 and Christmas 10

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20 Apps that Help Freelance Designers Be More Productive

labeeqa — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:31:36 +0000

Enhance your productivity through the use of some great applications. Here are twenty essential applications that will make your output soar.

1. YouSendIt

Instead of huge files cluttering up your inbox, you receive a simple message from Yousendit. Send massive files to your clients quickly and easily.

2. Basecamp

Basecamp allows you to create milestones, track the progress of projects, and share your information with clients. Its popularity stems from the easy to use interface and user centered dashboard.

3. Zoho

The Zoho suite includes CRM, web based documentation, a calendar and much more.

4. Skype

Skype keeps you connected to the world through video chatting and instant messaging.

5. Avast!

This antivirus program keeps your computer free of malware.

6. Seesmic

Coordinate your Facebook, Foursquare and Twitter with Seesmic and keep everything in one place.

7. Adobe Reader

An essential productivity tool for any freelancer, Adobe Reader allows you to read PDF files with ease.

8. Toggl

An essential web based time tracking tool for freelancers who charge by the hour.

9. OpenOffice

OpenOffice allows you to create documents, spreadsheets, drawings and PDFs with just the touch of a button.

10. Carbonite

Carbonite secures your files online in case of computer crashes.

11. Freshbooks

This accounting program helps you create and send invoices.

12. Stock Xchng

This site has hundreds of thousands of free stock photos available for your use. The pictures are divided into easy to navigate categories.

13. Live365

Live365 is a free music site where you can listen to any genre.

14. LeechBlock

With LeechBlock, you set the window that you can view a site.

15. Remember The Milk

A task management application which sends email reminders.

16. iContact

This email marketing application will help you generate new business and keep the old.

17. Delicious

Delicious is a great research tool. Find out what others are bookmarking.

18. PayPal

Make it easy to get paid with PayPal.

19. TweetDeck

Keep track of tweets and learn what others are saying about you in Twitter.

20. Google Trends

Get ideas from the latest search trends.
With the right applications, your freelance productivity will go through the roof.

Gareth is an online marketer and full time blogger for Broadband Compare NI, Northern Ireland’s leading broadband comparison website, they aim to bring broadband Northern Ireland the best deals for their customers.

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40 Best Resources of Greeting Cards

labeeqa — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:03:55 +0000

Are you looking for design inspiration or looking for perfect American independence day ecard to send to someone? Or just for some design inspiration? Here we are sharing with you for the Top 40 Best Free Ecard sites on the Web – all of these offer thousands of free ecards, free birthday ecards, and lots more personalized ecards and lots of inspirations, hope you’ll like this beautiful collection.

123Greetings

2000Greetings

Greetingsnecards

Supergreetingcards

Bluemountain

Cards.lovingyou

Dgreetings

Bestfriendecards

Greetingspring

Kingecards

Nem5

Usagreetings

Thebestecards

Goldencards

Regards

Postcards

Sojourneys

Cyber-cards

Deepestfeelings

All4love

Silverteacup

Riversongs

Freegreetingcards

Dobhran

Free-ecards-online

Yesecards

Myfunecards

Sandboxgreeting

Quickegreets

Smilebox

Hallmark

Passionup

101bestwishes

Thecardchest

Gagirl

Getromanticecards

Lovealways

Spiritisup

Googlygreetings

Animatedfun

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10 Tips for Fresh, In-Depth Web Design

labeeqa — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:45:23 +0000

Want to create a compelling website that will catch the attention of your visitors and keep them coming back? Here are a few important things to keep in mind:

Make Navigation Easy

Nobody wants to have to slog through page after page looking for one specific topic. Having a clear, quick way for visitors to navigate your site is essential. A well-designed navigation bar can also add visual interest. Make sure that navigation links are prominently placed so they are easy to find.

Include Dynamic Content

The days of the static website are over. Visitors want fresh, new content that can’t be found anywhere else. Whether you include a blog, add a news widget, or embed your Twitter feed, it never hurts to include something that is updated on a regular basis. Things like blogs also give you the opportunity to add dynamic visual interest to your site with pictures, headlines, and fresh, pertinent content.

Present Content Clearly

Since you have content that is updated on a regular basis, you want to make sure that it’s easy for visitors to read and understand that content. Instead of bogging down your site with large blocks of text, use style elements like bulleted lists to get your points across. Bullets catch visitors’ attention and convey that your content is accessible without hassle.

Don’t Rely on Image-Heavy Content

Quantity is not the same as quality. Filling your site with unnecessary images slows load time and can be distracting to your visitors. Oversized images detract from layout and may discourage those with slower internet connections.

Have an Eye-Catching Layout

You only get one chance to make a first impression with your website, so make it count! Have a layout that is going to interest visitors and make them want to stick around. Strive for a fresh layout that catches the eye without being overbearing or distracting. Make sure to check how your site looks in different browsers and at various screen resolutions.

Pay Attention to Detail

Regardless of whether you build your own site from the ground up or get some help from a site-building tool, adding small bits of visual interest can transform your site from dull to attention-grabbing without a lot of effort. Highlight your content with a few bold keywords, utilize subject headings, or break up big chunks of text into bulleted lists.

Color Scheme

Visitors need to be able to navigate your site and read your content without having to strain. Make sure to use a comfortable color scheme that makes text easy to read.

Element Placement

Where you put your content can be just as important as the content itself. If you have a pertinent picture or compelling information, don’t bury it at the bottom of the page! Use HTML and CSS or web building tools to place headings, important text, and pictures relative to each other in ways that will provide your visitors with the quickest, most attractive access to your site’s key information.

Be Unique

While keeping all of this in mind, it’s also important to consider what makes your site yours. What about it is different from other sites with similar content? Why should visitors come to you rather than going to other sites for information or products? Using the techniques and elements discussed above to make your site unique will keep people coming back to you, rather than navigating elsewhere.

Find a Reliable Web Hosting Company

None of these tips will be of any use if your site is constantly down. Make sure you find a reliable web hosting company with enough storage room and bandwidth to suit your needs. That way, your content will always be live, and visitors won’t be subject to loading errors, dead links, or failed downloads.

Following these simple guidelines will help keep your site fresh and noticeable, and will keep visitors coming back again and again.

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20 Most Amazing Pictures of Outer Space

labeeqa — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:03:23 +0000

As humans have begun to explore the mysteries of outer space, both by sending unmanned probes and physically traveling beyond the Earth’s atmosphere, a vast number of amazing pictures have been collected. Often photographs of outer space are recorded for the purposes of science, but are also often breathtakingly beautiful images revealing the wonders of the universe. This post brings together 20 of the most astounding pictures of space ever created.

1. Planet Earth

This beautiful image was originally dubbed ‘The Blue Marble’ by the astronauts aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft who took it, since at the time, with the sun behind them and the whole of the visible planet illuminated, the Earth took on the appearance of a giant glass marble. The photograph captures Africa and Antarctica in the southern hemisphere, captured by a crewmember on December 7th, 1972.

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2. Orion Nebula

Ever since human beings turned their attention to the heavens they have been aware of the Orion Nebula, a celestial feature situated at the south of Orion’s Belt that is visible to the naked eye. The ancient Mayan culture of Central America had a folk tale that explained this smudgy star-filled part of the night sky. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this wonderful image of the nebula in 2006, offering humanity the most detailed glimpse of Orion yet.

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3. Saturn Eclipse

On September 15th 2006, NASA’s Cassini orbiter drifted into the shadow of Saturn, and spent 12 hours photographing the planet and its rings shielded from the sun. In total 165 photographs were combined into a mosaic to create this amazing image of Saturn eclipsing our solar system’s central star.

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4. Eskimo Nebula

British astronomer William Herschel discovered this nebula in 1787, and it was subsequently named the Eskimo Nebula since its unusual double-shell formation resembles a person’s face inside the padded hood of a winter jacket. The star at the centre is similar to our own Sun, and the strange orange streaks seen in the outer part of the formation stretch for a light-year in all directions.

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5. Valles Marineris, Mars

This image, a collaged mosaic of 102 photographs taken by the Viking 1 Orbiter in 1980, shows Mars and the vast Valles Marineris that cut a deep gash through the planet’s equator. The system of canyons is 4,000 kilometres in length, 200 kilometres wide, 8 kilometres deep at its lowest points, and as such is the biggest known canyon in the solar system.

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6. The Night Lights of Europe

This fascinating image shows the twinkling lights of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Western Asia. The density of light reflects the level of urbanisation, with the seaboards and industrial cities of Western Europe particularly brightly illuminated, while large tracts of Africa and the barren lands of northern Russia are shrouded in darkness.

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7. Milky Way

This fabulous image from NASA shows the stars that swirl at the centre of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Clouds of dust normally block the view from Earth to the galaxy’s centre, but by using an infra red camera the photographer was able to reveal parts of the spectrum that are usually invisible.

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8. Sombrero Galaxy

Galaxy M104 has the rather more attractive alternate name of the Sombrero Galaxy, due to its distinctive shape reminiscent of Mexican headwear. The galaxy’s bright nucleus, bulge of central light and dark ring of dust lend it this unusual shape. In the 1990s scientists discovered that a super massive black hole is located at the centre of this formation.

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9. Helix Nebula

The Helix Nebula is a large planetary formation in the constellation of Aquarius, and at about 700light-years away is one of the closest nebulae to the Earth. In the recent years the nebula has been given the nickname of ‘The Eye of God’, because of it’s characteristic optical shape.

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10. Nebula Ring

This is the glowing spherical shell and central star of the Ring Nebula, a prominent deep space object in the night sky, situated in the northern constellation of Lyra, 2,300 light-years from the Earth.

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11. Carina Nebula

These ethereal clouds of matter are found in the Carina Nebula, a bright formation that envelops several clusters of stars. Although it is one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, it is far less well known and observed than more famous formations such as Orion due to its position deep in the Southern Hemisphere. The Carina Nebula is located in part of our own galaxy, approximately 6,500 to 10,000 light-years from the Earth.

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12. Pillars of Creation

This image, entitled ‘The Pillars of Creation’ is one of the most famous photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope, and shows vast interstellar clouds. The picture captures a portion of the Eagle Nebula, and what we are seeing is actually the creation of new stars in this ‘young’ nebula.

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13. Kepler’s Supernova Remnant

This false colour image shows the remnant of Kelper’s Supernova, the structure remaining after the cataclysmic explosion of a star. The supernova is named after Johannes Kepler who observed the star’s explosion in October 1604, which at the time was brighter than any other star or planet in the sky.

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14. Butterfly Nebula

This mind-blowing photograph, taken from the Hubble Telescope, shows the death throes of a star, exploding with two gargantuan lobes of hot gas and debris. The dying star would have once have been fives times the size of our Sun, and the resulting explosion has created one of the hottest places in the galaxy at just under 20,000 degrees Celsius.

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15. Pale Blue Dot

On first impressions this image may look fairly indistinct, but in reality it is perhaps one of the most important photographs ever taken. The tiny blue-white dot, halfway down the brown streak on the right is actually our home planet, the Earth, floating in the dark depths of space, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990 from a record distance of 3.7 billion miles. Astronomer Carl Sagan requested that the picture be taken, and he subsequently reflected that ‘all of human history has happened on that tiny pixel, which is our only home.’

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16. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Before Voyager 1 left the inner solar system and photographed the Pale Blue Dot, the spacecraft’s primary mission was to photograph Saturn, Jupiter and the two planets’ moons. This image was taken on February 25th, 1979, and shows the swirling drama of an anticyclonic storm on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere, the planet’s famous Great Red Spot.

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17. Rings Of Saturn

Voyager 1 took this image of Saturn at a distance of 5.3 million kilometres from the planet. Of all the amazing sights in our solar system, the rings of Saturn are one of the most remarkable. Composed of from nothing more than chunks of ice and particles of dust, the rings extend from 7,000 kilometres to 80,000 kilometres from the planet’s equator. While they have a massive circumference of 3,034,689 kilometres, the rings are estimated to be merely 10 metres in thickness.

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18. Aurora Borealis

The aurora borealis is the polar lights that beautifully illuminate the skies in the Earth’s northern regions. Their southern counterparts are called the aurora australis. These lightshows are caused by the interaction of atmospheric molecules and solar wind at the planet’s magnetic poles.

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19. Hubble Deep Field South

In the autumn of 1998, scientists trained the Hubble Space Telescope on the furthest reaches of space in the southern hemisphere. Hundreds of photographs were taken and composed into this final image, an astonishing glimpse into the universe’s past. Since light takes many, many years to reach us from distant stars, the galaxies captured in the picture are at the very early stages of the universe’s evolution.

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20. Microwave Milky Way

This amazing false-colour, all-sky view shows the Milky Way from the Earth’s side-on perspective. The picture was constructed with data recorded by the Planck spacecraft over the period of one year, and represents the microwave activity of the galaxy. The bright central strip contains formations that are hundreds or thousands of light-years distant from the Earth. The darker patches are an awesome 13.7 billion light-years away, and contain the ‘echo’ of the Big Bang. This picture and all of the images in this list represent some of humanity’s greatest achievements, and have helped develop our understanding of the universe, and or place within it.

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James is a blogger and designer who works at an online print cartridge store where he reviews the latest hardware releases and posts on their design blog about advertising, art and tech.

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30 Great Digital Images of Gorgeous Cleopatra

labeeqa — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:24:30 +0000

Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of Egypt from the house of the Ptolemy, a family that had ruled Egypt for generations. She earned an unfavorable reputation during her age, but as the lover of the Roman emperors Julius Caesar (100–44 B.C.E. ) and, later, Mark Antony (c. 81–30 B.C.E. ), Cleopatra has become a romantic legend in modern times. Here is a stunning collection of digital art of her images. Hope you will enjoy with these.

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Typography in Movie Posters

labeeqa — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:58:17 +0000

Posters are an excellent source of design inspiration and specially posters of movies. In movie posters designers can get designing and typography inspirations. Here we will feature posters that have excellent use of typography and text effects.