Check out my latest article on Six Revision, as we take a look at some really very inspiring web designs that use photos as their main focus.
Using photos as a design element and central piece in a web design is a great way to get a point across to the viewers or to just add more depth into the design. We are going to look at some examples of two popular ways of using photos in a web layout: using a large photo as your background and using a photo as the central focus in the header.(Link)

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Vintage posters are a great way to use new technology, along with some creative skills to create something that looks old. With programs like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, many talented artists are creating some really inspiring retro styled, colored and textured posters designs. Here is a list of some of those talented designers.

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One of my favorite parts of getting a new CD is looking through all the artwork. Now with iTunes and all the other places to digitally download albums and songs, it seems like album art is starting to die off (or at least in decline). This article is a list of some well designed album covers (although there are a lot more) which are split up into five categories; illustrations/paintings/design, minimal design, photo based design, photo manipulation, and covers where the title and band is within found objects.

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The Simpsons are the iconic American family with the Mother, Father and 2.5 kids. The creator Matt Groening has a style that can be easily recreated while at the same time has that stylized look of its own. With such a huge fan base it isn’t a wonder that people want to duplicate the family as well as all the other characters in the show. We have gathered a group of art that people have created by using the Simpsons style, as well as using their own style on the characters.

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In order to have a good, creative ad not only do you need to be/have a good ad designer to create a good layout, you also need a good company willing to pay the money for the clever advertisement, as well as someone to come up with the idea in the first place. This group of ads pulls those three elements to create memorable advertisements that makes you think, laugh, and most of all remember them.

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These days, a portfolio is a must. What we have here is a list of dark portfolio websites that are split up into common groups that most portfolios fall in. The last group will be for those experimental dark layouts, where the designer tries something different.

Check out my latest article from Nettuts+: Awesome Dark Portfolio Sites

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Concept car drawings are a great way of starting out and getting all the bugs out of your concept before spending all the time rendering it. Even if these drawing have no intention of becoming 3D renderings, they are amazing just as they are. These concept cars use a combination of Photoshop, some vector, as well as traditional hand drawn techniques.

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Be sure to head over to Six Revisions and check out my latest article about inspirational coming soon web pages.

Link to: 25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

On Friday February 12th the 2010 Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver. In case you haven’t been following it, or it hasn’t caught your attention yet, here are some Olympic inspired works from the past as well as this year to get you in the spirit. Go (insert your country here)!

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These websites aren’t just cool looking they also use cool colors to set a mood for their websites. Cooler colored websites usually gives the viewer a calm, relaxed feel. Calm colors, like blue can also give a corporate, professional feel to a website as well. Lets look at some examples of calming relaxed websites, as well as the corporate ones.

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