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Showcase: Lomography
Lomography is widely known as another branch of creative photography. The world of lomography is believed to follow the 10 golden rules. I believe everybody has their own subjective words to describe and differentiate lomography from other average photography branches. “Don’t think, just shoot”.
Here, I want to share with you some beautiful and eye-catching lomography photos, hand-picked from flickr and deviantART. Have fun!
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Using fonts as graphic elements
For Photoshop users, they have plenty of brushes that can be used in their design. Some brushes are just plain image/drawing/illustration - so they can use it without having to draw them separately. But for those who are not using Photoshop - like myself, a Fireworks user - we don’t have much options, except for vectors or by creating it ourselves.
Another alternative is to use fonts. Yes, font. Fonts are not just for text anymore since there are a lot of fonts consist of graphic illustrations or drawing or even scanned pictures. Fonts can be resized to be very huge or small - so it works much like vectors. Here are some useful and nice fonts that you can use as your graphic elements:
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Fixed footer design
Fixed footer design can be very attractive if a website designer could pull it off correctly - especially with the help of some well-designed PNG graphics. If you are not sure on how to code for a cross-browser fixed footer, you can try this method.
Examples
DivVoted. User can minimize/maximize this nicely designed ‘island’. -
5 street art PDF magazines
There are a lot of free and commercial PDF magazines on the internet, with various niche and topics. Here is a small selection of street art based magazines that are available for free download. These are good enough for you to flip through while looking for some inspirations.
Bloodwars Magazine
Very addictive, full with pictures. Issue #01 to #27. Download them all
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Showcase: Comment form design
Comment form is another element in creative web design, mostly in blogs. Here are some examples of inspiring comment form design from various websites.
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5 image bookmarking sites
The number of image bookmarking sites is increasing. With their simple services, users are able to bookmark any images/pictures that they found on the internet - which is similar to normal URL bookmarking service such as Delicious, Digg and much more.
These are 5 image bookmarking sites you can use.
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Showcase: Twitter status design
Twitter is awesome. A lot of people love it - and they put their twitter shout outs or twitter status on their blog, for micro blogging or as a small update or for whatever reasons. Here are some twitter status designs compiled from some great websites out there.
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