Just like Facebook Timeline covers, Google+ users are also allowed to tell their life story through the scrapbook images at the top of profile page. Many of them will tweak their scrapbook photo album for a more creative photographic display. However there’s a new way to play around with your Google+ profile – using animated images. Animated images also known as cinemagraphs, they are like a movie inside a photograph which can be eye-catching and memorable if you apply them on your Google+ profile page to impress your visitors.

Here’s a showcase of 10 awesome animated Google Plus profiles that are definitely worth your attention! Leave us a comment if you’ve seen any other good ones on Google+. Read more…

Logos are commonly used for websites, commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals with the intention of promoting public recognition. Generally, logos can be divided into 3 categories which are symbolic, wordmark and combined mark. Regardless which one you choose, there’s no easy answer to the question of what type of logo design is the most effective and impressionable.

To design a memorable logo, you need creativity to make it stands out of the crowd. However that doesn’t mean the logo has to be complex and colorful. Sometimes a simple logo is good enough to impress people and speak a thousand words. Nike’s logo is the best example for this statement. Read more…

Photo manipulation is one of the most popular applications of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. Among all the photo editing tools in the market, Adobe Photoshop is probably the most commonly used software for this kind of work. Photoshop is not too easy to use, but its comprehensive and sophisticated features allow users to blend real photos with vibrant colors and digital painting to emphasize some beautiful details, which makes the software the best choice when it comes to photo manipulating jobs.

Here’s the showcase of 45 extremely funny and creative photo manipulated images from professional Photoshop artists around the world. We believe these masterpieces absolutely worth your attention and they can be used as the source of inspiration for your next design projects. Enjoy! Read more…

Movie fonts are always unique, distinct and fascinating. They commonly work like a logo for the movie itself. Sometimes even without a movie trailer, just a brief glance to the title font is enough to understand what movie it refers to. Some blockbuster movie fonts like Harry Potter, Transformers and Jurassic Park have become widely recognizable. They have always been the great source of inspirations to many artists mimicking the peculiar styles in their artworks.

Here’s our collection of 40 best movie inspired fonts for you to use in your blog, web design and any type of artworks. Enjoy! Read more…

The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions. To help you better understand the interconnecting world of blogs, here’s a showcase of Top 18 infographics about blogging and blogosphere that every blogger should know. Through these masterpieces, you’ll not only enhance your knowledge about blog distribution, but also gain an insight into reader’s trends and blogging economy in a visually pleasing way.

We hope you’ll find these infographics useful and wish you have a successful blogging journey! Read more…

Contact form should not be restricted to the simple and blank html form. As a web designer and blogger, you should put more effort designing a nice contact form to impress your visitors. In addition to common fields like name, email and message, you can also enhance your contact page with some features such as social media information, appealing illustrations and map to improve your visitor’s overall experience.

Here’s a showcase of 42 very beautiful and creative contact-us form designs found from portfolio websites and design agencies around the web. If you think that there’s a need to redesign your contact form page, check out the collection to get some ideas and inspiration! Read more…

Hollywood has given us our share of apocalyptic movies in the past such as 2012, Armageddon, The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact and so on. Many of us may find these movies depressing especially 2012 which talks about Mayan prophecy that the world is going to reach the end of its run on December 21, 2012. In today’s roundup, we want to show you 40 astounding end of the world inspired artworks. These dark and gloomy masterpieces show you massive asteroid impacts, destroyed cities and deadly disasters which will make you worry about tomorrow.

With these doomsday-themed artworks, we hope you’ll live your life with an attitude of gratitude. Now, let us throw you a question: If the world will be ended tomorrow, what would you do today? Read more…

Body painting has been around for a long time. It’s a form of body art. Unlike tattoo and other forms of body art, body painting is temporary, painted onto the human skin, and lasts for only several hours, or at most a couple of weeks. That’s the reason why sometimes body painting is also referred to as temporary tattoo. In today’s post, we’ve gathered 40 amazingly beautiful bodypainting artworks that are extremely well done, and absolutely worth your attention! Most of these large scale or full-body painting works are created by Craig Tracy, the famous American artist. He paints stunning images on people’s bodies before photographing them in unique poses. The resulting collection of masterpieces could be regarded as some of the best body painting in the world.

So, lets take this opportunity to enjoy these inspiring artworks and share the post with your friends. Don’t forget to tell us which body painting impresses you the most? Read more…

Flash is considered as one of the best ways to create dynamic, animated and interactive websites. It enabled web designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and enjoyable visual experience. Generally, Flash websites can be divided into two groups: 2D and 3D. In the previous post, we’ve showcased 60 creative and interactive Flash websites which consist of both 2D and 3D design elements.

Today we would like to give 3D Flash websites a focus as we’ve found many such sites that worth your attention. Without further ado, here’s a showcase of 50 really stunning, beautiful and colorful 3D Flash websites that can blow your mind! These masterpieces really stood out from crowd and received tremendous attention. Some of them even awarded as “site of the day” on FWA (Favourite Website Awards). Enjoy! Read more…

Hand art is the application of make-up or paint to a hand to make it appear like an animal or other object. Some hand artists, like Guido Daniele, produce images that are trompe l’oeil representations of wild animals painted on people’s hands. Here’s a showcase of 40 incredibly amazing hand painting of animals you can’t afford to miss! These artworks are all painted by Guido Daniele, and some of them look exactly like the real animals. Seeing is believing, check out these great artworks now!

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In the past few years, infographic designs have grown as one of the most effective tools to deliver information and statistics in the form of art. They’re easy to understand, interesting and able to quickly engage their viewers on social media. Many infographic designers devote countless hours to coming up with new ways to make their infographics memorable.

In this collection, you’ll find 40 most creative and educational infographic designs we found across the web in all different industries. They are absolutely worth to be saved as the source of your inspiration and knowledge. Read more…

Li Wei is a contemporary artist from Beijing, China. His work often depicts him in apparently dangerous and gravity-defying situations. Wei started off his performance series, Mirroring, and later on took off attention with his “Falls” series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the sidewalks, cars, water, etc. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

Here’s a collection of Li Wei’s most impressive and unbelievable photos that are sure to make you look twice! Read more…

How does your workstation look like? Are you happy with it? Workstation is a place where we work, learn and spend most of our time at. It can also be the source of inspiration, so it’s important to ensure that our workstation always looks great. All the machines, devices, books and stationery must be placed where they are easily accessible in order to boost up our productivity.

If you have no idea how to set up your workstation and are curious to see how others look like, here’s the right place. Today we’ve crawled deep into the net and collected 55 most impressive and awesome computer workstations for your reference. In this showcase you can see what cool machines people use, how they’re positioned and how workstations become source of inspiration, creativity and motivation. Read more…

Have you designed your Facebook Timeline cover? Facebook Timeline, a new profile design that was recently introduced by Facebook, providing you a cool way of introducing yourself through graphic other than profile photo. If you’d like to do something awesome with your Timeline, but are lacking some ideas to get it started. Well you’ve come to the right place as we’ve collected 40 really creative Facebook Timeline designs to ignite your creativity!

For those of you who’ve created your own version of Timeline which you’re very proud of, share it with us in the comments below! Who knows that we might add it to this Facebook Timeline collection? Read more…

Latte art is a method of preparing a coffee created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface. It makes the latte looks more appealing, sexy and delicious. The most common latte art design is the Rosetta (or fern) which is done by free pouring. Etching technique on the other hand is accomplished by drawing the design on the latte using a coffee stirrer of some sort after the steamed milk has been poured.

How beautiful and delicious can your latte get? Today we’ve collected 50 very charming photographs of latte art for your inspiration. In this collection, not only you can find those popular art designs like Rosetta and heart, but also other creative art designs such as flowers, cartoons, animals and more. They are just too beautiful to drink! You can even feel the aroma floating from these photographs. Read more…