The following are some amazing creations of digital art. Starting this month JungleJar will feature monthly inspirations to help get you inspired to go out and create something amazing. Click on each image to find out more about who the talented individuals who created them.
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Okay so this is kind of old news since this competition was held in late 2008. However the designs that the winners came up with are quite compelling. The idea behind this competition was to create a flag that was free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global [...]
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After my constant bothersome attempts to contact them, the Design Give team finally cracked and made time to finish up our interview.
To give you a general idea of what Design Give.com is all about, and why this interview was so important to me, I’ll offer up to you this beautifully written statement by the team..
“As artists we were given a talent to create, it’s up to you to use those talents to try and make a difference in the world.”
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Do you ever find yourself sitting in front of Photoshop for hours trying to mock up a decent navigation menu, or searching the web for the most aesthetically pleasing color palettes for your users to click on that doesn’t remind them of McDonalds or a funeral parlor?
Face it, sometimes we all lose our mojo for a moment or two, and then we are forced to validate ourselves not just to the W3C, but also to our website visitors, design clients and portfolio piranhas.
And then we remember that through the general kindness of a group of web designers and/or developers, and through organizations such as The Creative Commons who work to guarantee that kind freedom, we don’t always have to be the Picaso of style sheets.
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This article features desktop wallpaper sets that are, without a doubt, the absolute cream of the crop, and the epitome of beautiful and flawless digital artwork sized down to cover your desktop perfectly.
While the wallpaper artist list might not be that extensive, I settled on the fact that it just wouldn’t be. With the few artists I’ve featured, the amount of quality high resolution wallpapers is almost overwhelming.
Read More...What news is better than Tim Burton releasing a new animated movie? Not much, but what nicely coincides with this fact is The Beasts of 9 Creature Contest where you can win sweet prizes for designing your own creature that you think belongs in the movie.
Better hurry too — You only have until September 18, 2009.
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We at JungleJar were fortunate enough to have Chicago-based illustrator and designer John Solimine of Spike Press (spikepress.com) do an interview for us.
This makes for another fantastic interview as John gets fundamentally honest with us and talks about freelancer hardships, Flatstock, and supporting your local library.
John not only has an impressive portfolio to take a look at aesthetically, but just as impressive are the names of some of John’s clients, but I try not to embarrass him too much.
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Textures are absolutely fantastic when working with a variety of mediums. For instance, if you need something to spruce up a photograph, logo, website elements or just about anything else graphic-based, chances are you can find a texture somewhere to help.
This article contains my favorite free high resolution textures that I think are absolutely interesting to look at and could also be very well useful for a designer.
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When developing Wordpress Templates, we sometimes overlook the small easy things we can do to make our theme much better. When you’re days into a project, any project, developing developers tunnel vision isn’t hard to do.
This article serves not as the ultimate go-to guide for Wordpress shortcodes, but instead it serves to remind us of a few small and easy things we can incorporate into our themes within seconds and they function with robust and flexible ease.
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I’ve always had a strong appreciation for both umbrellas and photography ..and the rain as well for that matter.
Anyway, I find umbrellas to be aesthetically interesting and with the right colors laid over them, a work of art in themselves.. And what better way to show off umbrella designs than with inspired photography?
This post has been a long time coming.
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