Sep 11 2011

Amazing 3D Images

Etcher Fredo (real name: Wladimir Inostroza) accidentally found out that he could make his drawings jump out of the page using the right sketching and shading techniques.

Drawing 3D images using pencil, charcoal, brushes and other tools isn’t a new technique at all, but it’s still amazing to find 3D art – especially if it’s a result of someone’s talent and not so much of the tools he used.

Here are several amazing pictures created by Fredo:

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Lana

The Option

Elephant

Butterfly

Via ~FredoART on deviantART


Aug 31 2011

7 Creative Product Packaging

When you’re selling your product, it’s imperative that your packaging design represents exactly what’s inside – or in this case, the packaging should be creative and awesome enough to catch the buyer’s attention. The quality of your product is important as well, but with this kind of creative product packaging, you’re sure to elicit buyer interest.

Smirnoff Caipiroska

Japanese pastry packaging for black melon bread

Bowtie in Parkinson’s packaging exudes English personality

Guggle Bum skeletons

Light-bulbed shaped Gloji juice

Butter Better with lid as disposable butter knife

The Tulip (single serving plastic wine glasses with peal-off foil lid)

Via Bored Panda


Aug 3 2011

10 Most Creative Business Cards

Business cards made of plain rectangles are just boring. Sometimes they help get your name and business out there, but often, neither will really stick to your target market – unless you have very creative business cards. Creative doesn’t mean using colorful photo paper or using outrageous designs; getting creative means using items or designs that relate directly to your business or profession. Here are 10 of the most creative business cards:

Toy Chair Business Card
Proofreader
Pilates Studio
Bicycle Repair Business
Bakery
Yoga Center
Hairdresser
Cosmetic Surgeon
Divorce Lawyer
Laser Printing (using Google)
Via BoredPanda

Mar 26 2010

Geekgasm for the Graphic Artist at Heart: Photoshop CS5’s Content Aware Fill Tool

A few days ago, the geeks over at Adobe released a five-minute clip of what the next release of Photoshop has to offer. It’s called Content Aware Fill, which works like magic—literally. This tool makes it so much easier to enhance photos and remove unwanted kinks and details in a photograph. You can now actually remove a part of an image without using the clone stamp tool and not worry about photos looking like a result of child’s play. The Content Aware Fill tool makes it possible to delete anything in a photo in a few easy steps: select it, delete it and the CAF will automatically figure out what to fill in the space left by that item you deleted, leaving no odd marks on your photo.

Check out the video below and see the magic for yourself. One issue may arise out of this revolutionary feature, however—as this tool is so powerful, it may alter photos to remove watermarks from copyrighted material. Should photographers and graphic artists figure out a new way to protect their creative content?