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Interview with Digital Artist Anthony Giacomino

In our own tutorials here on Design.CreativeFan, we’ve discussed the power of combining techniques in digital art, including illustration, 3D, photographic reference and digital painting to be able to create stunning results that are limitless.  However, it often helps to see some of the limitless possibilities in action. In this interview with digital artist, Slashthree and Intrinsic Nature member Anthony Giacomino, you’ll get an insight into his creative process and artistic mind, and be inspired by his breathtakingly detailed work. Enjoy the interview!

Splendid Vintage Chocolate Ads

Vintage ads are so beautiful. We can learn a lot from them – colors, typography, design. A few days ago, while I was looking for vintage images and ads on Flickr.com, I had found so many awesome vinatge chocolate ads! In this post I will share some of these splendid ads, so if you want to create Vintage design this ads can be good inspiration. Check them out and enjoy! Fry’s Cartetes – 1928 Queen Mary Chocolates Cacao Van Houten Cadbury’s Cocoa Whitman’s Chocolates – 1940s Caley Chocolates – 1941 Mackintosh’s – 1942 Milky Way – 1943 Whitman’s Chocolates – 1946

Inspiration: 130+ free scans of vintage French ephemera

Happy Thursday! Here are over 130 pieces of downloaded free vintage French ephemera (labels, bookplates, and other paper things). If you have hours to spend going through them you can find well over 20,000 more. The delightful folks at Agence Eureka have scanned them and they’re public domain, so enjoy!

Easy HTML5 Template

I’ll be the first to admit that when I see a default template like HTML5 Boilerplate, it brings about a swirl of emotions. On the one hand, I’m ridiculously intimidated by the incredible amount of knowledge and experience that’s been collected into one place for the benefit of front-end developers. So much so, that I wonder what I’m even doing in this industry, because it reminds me of how far behind I am. On the other hand, I’m inspired, because there’s so much more to learn, and it’s exciting to add new nuggets of knowledge to my toolkit, and I can’t wait to hit the books and grow my knowledge base. It also helps when others express the same feelings about lagging behind. But I’m getting sidetracked.

Going Green with 75 Amazing Nature Friendly Logos

Logo design showcases are quite popular these days, and it’s understandable as they come in all shapes and colors. Looking at how designers can take a complex message and turning it into a simple logo can be very inspiring to any designer. This time I’ve made a collection of green logos. Many have an eco-theme while others are just green because it’s a cool and fresh color. Now let’s have a look at some of the great work we’ve found for you this time. Enjoy!

Poster Design – Paul Tebbott

I wasn’t familiar with the poster design work of Paul Tebbott; however, now that I’ve seen it I kinda like it. It goes fittingly well with his band, Horizon Fire. It’s very…Boards of Canada-esque. You can see more of his stuff at his fantastically simple site right here and below the cut.

35+ Beautiful Examples of Creative Collage for Your Inspiration

With numerous graphic design software these days, creating aesthetic artworks is just a matter of artist’s or designer’s ideas, creativity, and concepts. The basic idea of design is to unite the concept and to visualize it in order to attract people’s attention and deliver the message and information. Collages are a perfect example for this. A collage may include pieces of related images, several different type of fonts, and a well-organized layout.  This design technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century. Below are samples of graphic and web design work using the collage technique with great concepts for your inspirations. 1. Bram Luyts Website 2. Care Label Website 3. Mmmmm 4. Nokia-5300 Website