I’d share something funny with you today, a collection of funny and creative toilet signs and warnings from the internet. Ahem, will you enter the wrong restroom?
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Understanding Tilt Shift Photography Plus Amazing Examples
Tilt-shift photography actually refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene (-wikipedia). Viewing this type of photos gives you a feeling you looking at a miniature of something like a scenery, for example,or an aerial view of a city.
There are two ways to achieve this effect. One is by producing it optically using tilt-shift lens. The other way to do this is by using post processing image software by simulating shallow depth of field. To produce tilt-shift photographs optically, there are two basic movements involved–first is the rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and second is the movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Photographers use the tilt movement to control the orientation of the plane of focus, making specific parts of an image to appear sharp. Shift, on the other hand, is used to adjust the position of the subject in the image area without moving the camera back, avoiding the convergence of parallel lines such as in photographing tall buildings.
To give you an idea of what we are talking about here, we decided to pool together 30 amazing examples of tilt-shift pictures produced either optically (using tilt-shift lens) or through digital processing. Links below each image is provided so you can check out the high-quality versions of this photographs. We also encourage to view similar creations from these photographers.
01-The Little Things
25 World Cup 2010 Wallpapers for Football Fans
World Cup 2010 is set to start in just a few hours! I am sure millions of football fans out there are overly excited and at the same time impatient for the event to start. The 2010 World Cup, which is being held in South Africa between 11 June and 11 July 2010 is is the 19th World Cup and it involves 32 teams competing for the title.
To celebrate this unfolding history, we decided to come up with a huge compilation of high-resolution desktop wallpapers commemorating the event. Some of these wallpapers have various versions featuring different country teams while some are featuring popular football star players. There are also wallpapers featuring FIFA 2010 Official mascot Zakumi, who is described as a jolly, self-confident, adventurous, spontaneous, and actually quite shrewd little fellow. So to all football fans out there, grab your World Cup 2010 wallpaper now and start displaying one to feel the fever of the 2010 Fifa World Cup! Remember, this happens once every four years only. To download each design, just click on the link found below each preview image and choose the right size of the wallpaper for your desktop. Have fun and enjoy!
#1-FIFA World Cup 2010 Mascot Wallpaper (Green)
26 Wine Packaging: Unusual and Creative Design Inspiration
Wine packaging design plays a major role in wine branding. Especially when a new wine is being introduced to the market, the label design can in fact, make or break the success of the brand. No matter how excellent the quality of the wine itself, the packaging design is the first thing that customers see and become the basis of most customers when deciding to buy the wine or not. Thus, the work of a graphic designer is very crucial to the success of a a wine brand. To make a brand stand out, many designers have come up with unique and creative wine packaging designs. In this roundup, we gather 26 unusual wine packaging designs where you can draw inspiration from. To know more about each design and view more and enlarged pictures, just click on the link found below each preview image.
Wine Packaging 01-Honeymoon by Lauren Golem
Honey Moon is a promotional wine bottle that would be sent out for the first day of summer. The concept is based on the the first full moon in June, which occurs near the first day of summer. It is seen as the most optimal time to harvest honey and thus, called the honey moon. The bottle would be sent to new clients, as we start our honeymoon for our sweet new business relationship. I also developed the typeface that was used for the logo.
25 Best Business Cards Released in July 2010
July 2010 is about to end. So let us look back and search for the best business cards designed or released during the month.Here are our top 20 business card designs released during the month. Our roundup for July 2010 includes business cards printed using different techniques and using conventional and nonconventional stock or material. In terms of size we also try to inlude business card designs that deviate from the usual rectangular business cards.
Make sure to click on the link found below each preview image to checkout other designs from each source. Information such as details on who designed them, who printed them, what kind of card stock was used or how much would a similar card would cost if you have them printed by a commercial offset printer, are also available for some of the designs (but not all!).
Make sure to click on the link found below each preview image to checkout other designs from each source. Information such as details on who designed them, who printed them, what kind of card stock was used or how much would a similar card would cost if you have them printed by a commercial offset printer, are also available for some of the designs (but not all!).
01- Fuelhaus business cards
Unique and capable of lighting you on fire.
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