Bon Odori Fan Vector Download

22.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Japan, Resources, Tutorial with 8 Comments

Last week, I and my friends went to the Bon Odori at Shah Alam, and I wrote an entry about it too. It was an enjoyable event and definitely looking forward to go again next year. When arriving the stadium, everyone will get a plastic fan to get yourself cold down. When I take back [...]

More free fonts & web gallery

18.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Resources, Typography, Web Design with 0 Comments

What is so great about having a habit of surfing Del.icio.us’s Popular and Recent bookmarks is, you get to know the nice & inspiring websites that discovered by other people which is so convenient and useful! Thanks to this social networking site, I found another 2 sites that provide quality free fonts & web design [...]

How to create Transformers logo effect in Illustrator

17.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Tutorial with 8 Comments

Transformers perhaps is the highest box office and the most discussed blockbuster in this summer. It brought back a lot of childhood memories of many viewers but not me because I seldom watch cartoon back in kids day . Last week I bought a HK magazine call MILK and the supplemental is featuring the Transformers [...]

7 Delicious Web Design Galleries

16.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Web 2.0, Web Design with 7 Comments

Web design gallery is the great inspiration place for many designers and enthusiasts. It showcases the best sites that combines both usability and aesthetics of design. Getting listed in one of those could be a great honor to the firm and the designers. Here, I present some of the sites that showcases the great web [...]

Logo inspiration sites you should’t miss

08.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Resources, Web 2.0 with 2 Comments

Everything needs identity. For human, we have name as our basic identity. In medieval era, heraldry was used as identity, which now is still visible in modern world. For companies, brands, society etc, they need a logo as identification. Logo is important because it represents the company to the world. So logo has to be [...]

10 simple ways to make glossy button

07.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Resources, Tutorial, Web 2.0 with 7 Comments

Woot. My first tutorial! Glossy button is current in thing in web design, because it is eye-catchy, pretty and friendly. Not sure about how the trand started but I pretty sure is Apple button style! There are some ways to “glossify” a button, which I will teach you how to make below. Tutorial work file [...]

Crop Circles goes 3D?

07.07.07

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Recently I read the newspapers about a new crop circles appeared at Wiltshire, UK. Report said that this circles was unique because it has 3D elements in it. Because the pics at newspapers does not clearly shown how 3D it was, so I go to Internet to check and “wow”! It was really 3D! It [...]

Trash the Wedding Gown!

01.07.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration with 8 Comments

Let me ask you, what normally a brides do with her wedding gown after wedding ceremony? Keep it nicely in a box or as treasure that pass from generation to generation? Well let me tell you the latest trend: TRASH IT. This trend was started by a Las Vegas photographer John Michael Cooper, and then [...]

My favorite Art & Brand Collaborations

24.06.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Street Art with 2 Comments

Since the beginning of millennium, the word collaboration is very popular in the industry, particularly collaborations between artists and popular brands. Many big brands start to incorporating arts into their products, normally will come out very surprising outstanding outcomes. Actually these collaboration is a win-win situation, because artists can get more exposure while big brands [...]

15 Graffiti Style Logo

16.06.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Street Art with 3 Comments

I bought this book back in few years ago. The book is Street Brand Bible vol. 4 2004 version. Inside there listed out some street brands from Japan and International. It is a very sourceful books if you want to get to know those brands. I found out some really nice graffiti style logos that [...]