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60 Beautiful Oriental Style Artworks

Paulo Miranda — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:45:14 +0000

The art of oriental countries has been inspiring people for hundreds of years. These artworks reached even higher heights of expression with the rise of Internet. Nowadays, thousands of artists can share their personal visions of the orient and other cultures too.

We recognize that there are many differences in art styles among the countries that are part of oriental world, but those differences empower even more the imagination of the artists that like this style.

Today, we present a nice collection with 60 beautiful oriental style artworks. Visit the artist’s portfolio by clicking in the their names, you won’t regret.

Luciole Loong

derbyblue

Phoenix Lu

Jorge Jacinto

aquq001

Stanley Lao

plue

William Chua

henryz

Yap Kun Rong

Tamas Gaspar

huachui

Daniel Conway

Marta Dahlig

junkbyjen

hiliuyun

Juan Calle

qianyu

impurfektion

Lorenz Ruwwe

Lincoln Renall

Levente Peterffy

Tae young Choi

Tiago da Silva

hakubaikou

Duc Truong Huyen

Geoffroy Thoorens

Mario Wibisono

lindalisa

Simona Ceci

katarina

Jason Chan

If you know any artist that you think could be in the list, feel free to share with our community. Which artwork did you like most?

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100 Wonderful Battle Art Illustrations

Paulo Miranda — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:40:31 +0000

People don’t like wars, but illustrations featuring battles are very popular, because concept artists create them for games and movies that people love to play or watch.

Let’s keep our battles in the art world, real ones have devastating effects, instead let’s declare a war against our excessive laziness. The laziness can be good too, it all depends how you manage it.

To help you in this mission, we are showcasing 100 wonderful battle art illustrations to inspire you to fight for your goals.

Pay attention to this very wise quote from The Art of War book:

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Feel free to suggest more illustrations and to tell me the ones you find more interesting. Follow our updates on @zeemp twitter.

What inspires you to fight and what keeps you motivated?

Stunning Real Urban Designs

Paulo Miranda — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:40:39 +0000

This is a collection of amazing urban designs. It is focused on large-scale city projects in Seul, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

As we observed in the early 40 Awesome Futuristic City Illustrations, designers usually portrayed dark city visions in their illustrations. However, many of you want to see a more positive vision of the future too. So I selected stunning real urban designs by great architects.

Dream Hub Yongsan IBD - Seoul, South Korea – Daniel Libeskind

Mohammed Bin Rashid Gardens – Dubai, UAE – Eric Kuhne

Saadiyat Island – Abu Dhabi, UAE

Al Raha Beach – Abu Dhabi, UAE

Click on this image to see the larger version of it. You will be able to see how huge this project is.

If you liked this post, you may enjoy The New World Trade Center in New York. To stay up to date with Zeemp Blog news, you may follow us at @zeemp.

The New World Trade Center in New York

Paulo Miranda — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:17:38 +0000

The New York City has been portrayed in many movies, books, paintings and games, so it has a special value in many hearts around the world. When I saw the collapse of the World Trade Center Complex eight years ago, it was really hard to believe. I dreamed to go there someday. As well as the towers, a lot of dreams collapsed that day.

Just as the brave firefighters who worked there, many amazing architects, engineers, workers have been working hard to make these dreams come back to life again. The new World Trade Center is already being built. So I collected astonishing illustrations of this new development.

For more information, please visit the official WTC site and the Memorial site.

Did you like the new WTC Complex? Feel free to leave your opinion. To connect with our updates, follow @zeemp.

40 Awesome Futuristic City Illustrations

Paulo Miranda — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:59:25 +0000

Cities have always been a place where people share ideas and knowledge. I think this one of the reasons why cities have been inspiring artists to create many futuristic cityscapes illustrations.

I collected here some of these awesome sci-fi city illustrations. It would be very cool if you could suggest more great illustrations and artists to our list.

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John Alvin – johnalvin.com

James Paick – scribblepadstudios.com

Robert Brown – robertdbrown.com

Rob Sullivan – robsdesign.co.uk

Hideyoshi Ruwwe – hideyoshi-ruwwe.net

Nikita Buyanov – Portfolio

Felicity Moore – Portfolio

Nguyen Manh Hung – Portfolio

Ioan Dumitrescu – Portfolio

Eduardo Peña – Portfolio

Peter Ang – Portfolio

Christian Hecker – tigaer-design.com

Tiberius Viris – suirebit.net

Alex Popescu – alexpopescu.net

Andree Wallin – andreewallin.com

Dylan Cole – dylancolestudio.com

Seung Jin Woo – Portfolio

Marek Okon – Portfolio

Dmitry Zaviyalov – Portfolio

Saul Espinosa – artofsaul.com

Won-jun Tae – taegaconcept.com

Robin Olausson – Portfolio

Yann Souetre – yann-souetre.com

Stefan Morrel – Portfolio

Ilya Nedyal – Portfolio

12 Useful Web Apps to Get Feedback

Paulo Miranda — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:40:27 +0000

When I was a child, I used to draw many things on paper. After that, I always wanted to hear my parents’ opinions. I’m sure I was not the first person in the world to do it because people usually want to get feedback from their actions. After all we act expecting a reaction to be triggered, this is a deep-rooted impulse. Human beings, among other things, look for shelters, food and for feedback too.

I am not writing about real state tips or recipes at this time. However, in this post, I have selected great sites to collect feedback for your projects.

Feel free to leave your opinions about these apps and also suggest another ones.

Concept Feedback

Concept Feedback provides a really simple and easy interface that lets you upload your concept and get feedback smoothly. The members who participate actively get reputation points. They have already got 500 users, this is a great start if we take into consideration that it seems they launched in June 2009 they launched at the end of May.

Uservoice

Uservoice is an awesome application to get feedback from your customers in a centralized location. People can suggest ideas, report bugs, etc., these ideas can be voted by other users and you set the status of the user suggestions to Open (none, planned, started or under review), Closed (completed or declined) or Deleted (duplicate, inappropriate, other or spam). They have got really useful features.

Get Satisfaction

Get Satisfaction is a cool web app to get feedback about your products and services. It enables your company to foster problem-solving, promote sharing, and build up relationships.

Basecamp

In Basecamp you can share files, meet deadlines, assign tasks and centralize feedback. As they say: “Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration”.

Pbworks

Pbworks offers many great features that help you to manage your project. Have you tried to send a document to a group of people for review? I have had and that is not a good idea because you can easily get confused when merging the final doc. This tool helps you to centralize the edition of documents.

Webproof

Webproof is a good online design collaboration tool recommended by Zvika, a friend on Linkedin.

Twitter

Great tool to connect with people and to share links you like. From a feedback perspective, Twitter helps you to hear what people are saying about your company. It is a great tool to foster communication with people that build your brand presence.

Backboard

I am not a big fan of flash apps, but Backboard is a really great tool to get feedback on your documents. It is very simple to use and really shows that flash can do amazing things.

Ididwork

Ididworks is, in their own words, “a work log that you can share with your team”.

Launchly

Launchly charges you a small fee for submissions. But once you pay, you start to receive feedback from the community.

Loop11

Loop11 is a web-based user-experience tool, allowing companies to conduct remote, unmoderated usability testing on any kind of digital interface.

Conceptshare

ConceptShare is a web-based design collaboration tool engineered for the unique needs of creative professionals whose final product is visual – design, application interface, graphics, advertisements, branding, video animation, etc.

10 Beautiful Websites for your Inspiration

Paulo Miranda — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:06:30 +0000

We have selected some inspiring web site designs. Explore and leave your opinions or suggestions.

Introducing Zeemp 1.2

Paulo Miranda — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:24:16 +0000

Our team never stops trying new ideas on Zeemp Website. So we thought it would be cool to showcase the best stuff of the Web on our interactive map.

We selected 40 pleasant websites for categories like Web Design, Online Marketing, Internet Services, Music, Games, Social Networking and more.

Please, don’t hesitate to suggest us cool websites, so we can build together the creative map of the Web monthly. You can submit your own website too for free on Zeemp page.

Introducing Zeemp 1.0

Paulo Miranda — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:52:54 +0000

Today we’re announcing that we removed the beta label from Zeemp website. We have been hard at work improving the navigation and performance of the site.

Zeemp.com is the creative web map, we collect websites that are useful and have a pleasant experience for each category of our web map. There are forty categories to choose in the front page (10 active, we will launch the rest soon). If you liked or not our old front page, now you’ll love it. Following your great improvements ideas, we designed a new page.

Before you had to use a drop down menu to find things, now you just have to click a business category that you like to find great services.

Take a look in the new design versus the old one.

Our beta version did not have a tagline in the front page to explain what Zeemp does, so we added it.

We added 5 new categories into a new city zone. We also added the great service Addthis to our front page, so you can tell your friends about us. And we boosted the performance of the site using great tools like Yslow and Dojotoolkit modular architecture and amazing build system. Zeemp page is 3 times faster now.

We believe that the city map metaphor works because it stimulates you to discover things by exploration, you can playfully find cool products and services in Zeemp virtual city map the same way you do when searching for a place, street or a restaurant in a real city map. Additionally, for each category available in the site, you have got the power to compare and choose the website that best fits your needs.

You can take a look in what people are saying about Zeemp here.

Unfortunately, Opera browser is not supported yet. But we are working hard to solve this. So feel free to contact us anytime, we love to hear comments or suggestions. Thanks!

Zeemp Public Beta Launch!

Paulo Miranda — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:45:03 +0000

We’re finally releasing our site to the public.

We hope that Zeemp helps people to find the best products and services of the Internet. Our interactive Advertising marketplace aims to be an engaging way to explore the Web.

Don’t hesitate to tell us how we can improve and what features you would like to see. Drop us an email at feedback at zeemp dot com info@zeemp.com.

Thanks!

Paulo Miranda