Liquidated Art by Zevs

Another design that capture my attention (wink)

Art by Zevs, his 'liquidated logo' series featured in the exhibition are hand painted versions of the world's biggest brands, with paint dripping.

Squeezing Some Creative Juices

What's up with me today?

Honestly since we've moved on to our new office, I felt sick and it seems
that I'm always exhausted and though I tried to work hard it's like my mind is nowhere to be found. My creative skills is kinda lost, there are a lot of changes at the office and I think I just lost my motivation too.

There are so many negatives in my career as of the moment but I'm continuously sticking on the positives like learning new things and improving my skills and hopefully in the near future I could end up doing what really makes me interested and happy.

3d Modeling and Animation Softwares

Before anything else, are you familiar with 3d modeling and animation? 3D models are created by manipulating polygon meshes and molding them into objects,characters and scenes. Even if you don't have formal art training you still have the chance to do great work in 3d. Personally I'm one of those 3d enthusiast, but never had the chance to study it deeper.

I'm having a little research right now about what 3d softwares are popular and easy to use. For sure it would not be easy for beginner like me. The following is a selection of some of the most popular 3d design packages that you can choose from:

Blender - is an all-in-one 3D modeling and animation suite. It can be used to produce computer-generated images and movies. It is open source freeware, so it costs nothing to use. Blender was originally developed by Dutch company NeoGeo, then made available as a commercial product by subsidiary Not A Number. When NaN shut down, one of its founders set up the not-for-profit Blender Foundation and worked to raise funds to buy the rights to Blender. Consequently, Blender is now under the GNU General Public License which makes it open source and free for anyone to use. There are many other 3D modeling suites, but some of them cost thousands of dollars. Blender costs not a single penny.

Lightwave 3d - also is large 3D design software package as Maya and 3ds Max for modeling, animation, rendering, particle FX and dynamics. This graphic software package is available both for Windows and Mac platform. "LightWave 3D 8 Revealed" allows you to master concepts on both a technical and artistic level. Begin by examining the concept behind each task?the goal and the necessary features that are involved. Then go in depth with the objective of your task as you study examples and learn... More the steps necessary to complete it. Working your way through comprehensive, step-by-step lessons, you?ll develop the confidence you need to create amazing animation and graphics using LightWave 3D.

Cinema 4d - has been making a real name for itself in the world of 3D recently by offering an excellent value main application, which provides all the power that most users will ever need, along with the option of adding further dedicated modules if required (the Advanced Render and MOCCA character animation modules have been updated as part of the launch). Further extensibility comes from the program’s excellent integration with wider workflows through unique features such as multi-pass Photoshop PSD rendering and the ability to work hand-in-hand with After Effects and now Final Cut and Combustion. What really makes the program stand out though is its ease of use.

3d Studio Max - dominates the video game development industry, is a popular 3D programs with hobbyists, and some companies use Max in film and television production as well. Max provides a workable modeling, animation, and rendering solution out of the box, but most of the system's power comes from the huge market for plug-ins and add-ons that are available for it, for example, plug-ins are available to render self-shadowing volumetric smoke, or to simulate sophisticated fluid dynamics, and Max was the first program to get plug-ins to render 3D scenes directly into Flash animations. As an industry standard for multi-media content development, Max has been the first to get plug-ins for tasks such as rendering directly to Flash animations. There are even several add-on rendering systems that give Max more powerful raytracing and global illumination capabilities, although the cost of adding high-end rendering capabilities to Max can make it as expensive as a more powerful animation package such as Softimage|XSI.

Now I leave it up to you, which software are you comfortable to use. Different strokes for different folks though.

Graphic Designs in Business

Can you imagine life without graphic designs? Today's world is full of designs which you might have take for granted out of sheer volume. In every aspect of our lives from the moment we wake up till the time we go home, we see graphics everywhere. It has become a part of our lives and businesses too.

Businesses use Graphic Design in various ways for their marketing paraphernalias such as posters, newsletters, banners, flyers, logos, brochures, business cards, letterheads, websites and etc.

What is Graphic Design Anyway?

Graphic design is the use of graphic elements and text to communicate ideas or information to specific audiences. It refers to a number of artistic and professional disciplines which focuses on visual communication and presentation. Various methods are used to mainly combine symbols, images or words, in order to create a visual presentation. Moreover, graphic design is commonly-used to make marketing materials in businesses such as magazines, advertisements, logo, web design and more so.

Graphic designers or graphic artist, as sometimes called, are the ones responsible for creating unique and amazing graphic designs that we see in our daily lives. They mainly plan, analyze and create visual solutions to communicate an idea to both a general and targeted audience. In today's businesses, graphic artists are in demand since only they have the creative ingenuity of effectively getting a business' message across media platforms whether via print, electronic or film.

Graphic design when done successfully by graphic designers, attracts attention, enhances the message you are sending and adds credibility to your business believe it or not.

Characteristics of a Good Graphic Designer

• A good graphic designer can communicate a message through design.

• A good graphic designer build trust and confidence in companies and helps in brand development.

• A good graphic designer can enhance the image of advertising.

• A good graphic designer welds artistic concepts.
  A good graphic designer is legible.

• A good graphic designer creates appealing and attractive design.

• A good graphic designer is unique.

• A good Graphic designer considers cognitive, cultural, physical, and social factors in planning and executing designs for the target audience

• A good Graphic Designer gather relevant information by meeting with clients, creative or art directors, and by performing their own research.

Graphic Design is important, it simply creates balance between design and technology. Bear in mind that visual effects is far more effective than written communication, even the subtlest emotion are conveyed.

Article by: Lazymask: Clipping Path Provider

The Power of Colorful Advertisement

Many businesses and organizations both large and small have marketing departments usually or if not someone aided in making or producing marketing plans. Marketing is very important in businesses or organizations simply because this would give sales or growth, out rank your competitors, increase customers and more so. One of the most important marketing strategy is advertisement.

Advertisement would simply make or break your marketing plan, so in order to create a unique ad you must understand and recognize what are those things that attracts your customers/clients. This might not be an easy task since each and everyone of us has different taste.

Colorful Advertisement gives greater impact to us isn't it? Especially if your in the graphic industry where colors is one of the major importance. I bet life would be too boring with colors right? Research shows that colorful advertising can actually increase redemption rates by 30% to 60% and that is why computer-generated visualization of data, such as those with graphics that plays with colors are in high demand for a wide variety of usages for marketing ads because it is believed to attracts attention to the general public.

So if you don't have someone to create your advertisement, you might as well hire graphic designers or outsource your graphic design job to professionals.

What makes an excellent designs?

“Great design is intuitive. Great design eliminates confusion. But not for everyone, not all the time. The words and interactions you use often have a sophistication that will confuse some portion of your audience."

Not everyone can make an excellent designs and great graphic designers are hard to find this days. But what's the difference between good and excellent designs?

You probably think that creating those amazing designs are easy as if you're like sketching or drawing simple objects. It seems that most of us is trying too hard to be "cool" at the expense of the designs purpose or intent. But if your in the real world, you'll be able to discover how complicated it is actually. I've listed down my ideas of a great designs and what exactly is it about the design that gives you that impression?

A Great design is...

Great design is Unique ...
Great designs pays attention to details ...
Great design is timeless ...
Great design is clear ...
Great design is describable ...
Great design is memorable ...
Great design isn't perfect ...


So what for you is Great Design?

New Year @ Design Poke

New Year comes along a new year's resolution right? Well that's just for me, anyway for the past year I've realize that I'm not into writing as you can see most of my posts had a few words on it. So this year I would try my best to digg deeper on my thoughts and say so.(crossing my finger) You know sometimes I just cant help fight my lazy mode.(lol)

Other than that I hope I had other editing tool in our office aside from Gimp so I could show some of my works too. I really try to be-friend with Gimp okay hehehe.

And also if you like to exchange links with my blog just email me then.

Happy New Year!