Posts Tagged "cool"

Hu2 is a London-based company comprised of four crazy dudes (and one dudette!). They have some simply awesome ideas when it comes to creative uses of vinyl. Flicking through their online catalogue, I’m reminded of some of Banksy’s pieces, which I really dig!

Vinyl wall decals are often overlooked but they’re a really simple and creative solution to playing up a boring wall. Why not try trading in the paint and wallpaper and get your hand on some of these fun decals. They can be used on any smooth flat surface and are completely removable, leaving no mark or residue behind. Take a look at the collection we gathered for you here today and get inspired to do something fun with your walls!

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Creative Vinyl Decals by Hu2

Creative Vinyl Decals by Hu2

Creative Vinyl Decals by Hu2

Creative Vinyl Decals by Hu2

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Robert Carteris an award-winning illustrator. He combines a strong foundation in portraiture with a unique sense of visual and conceptual problem-solving to create striking, vibrant, and textured illustrations and portraits with subjects ranging from the realistic to the surreal.

For more of his great work, visit his portfolio. Cheers!

Cool Illustrations by Robert Carter

Cool Illustrations by Robert Carter

Cool Illustrations by Robert Carter

Cool Illustrations by Robert Carter

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I came across Basilio Silva’s portfolio the other day and was instantly drawn to his super edgy style. His fashion work is a sublime mixture of bright colors and sharp angles that really leaves me wanting more. I found virtually no information about him except that he’s based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sometimes I wonder if artists remain elusive on purpose just to create this mystery about them and their work. Perhaps elusive isn’t the best word…anonymous maybe? I think I really like not knowing anything about him and leaving the rest up to my imagination. Maybe it’s best to just let the work do the talking. I think that’s the true essence of being an artist–communicating and showing yourself through your work without this obscure necessity of words that we hold so much value on. Visual rather than verbal communication is what it’s all about.

Anyway, I’m being hypocritical right now by rambling on about this so I’m just gonna leave you with this collection of Basilio’s work instead. Check out the rest here and, actually, I’d really like to hear your opinion on this whole elusive-artist thing (for lack of better word). Consider the topic officially open for debate. Tweet your take on it to me – @amlight.

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Free Vectors — Social Networking Icons (10 Colors/2 Styles)

Included are 21 social networking icons, in 2 different styles, with 10 color variations total. So in short, it’s a lot of icons! One of the styles is more glossy/gradient-y, and one of the styles is flat. Also, the download includes both CS & CS3 files.

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Streaks of Light: 40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

Today, I am releasing one of my favorite sets of brushes to date; a set of 40 high resolution Photoshop brushes for creating streaks of light. It seems like each set of light effect brushes I make get better and better. This set is really amazing and I hope that you enjoy them!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Bokeh

A set of 5 bright and colorful high resolution bokeh textures.

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Abstract 3D Renders Pack – 33 Free Images

This abstract render pack comes filled with 33 images of 3D abstract renders. All the images are in PNG format with transparent backgrounds. For the adventurers out there, we have also included two of the 3ds Max files that this pack was created with!

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108 Mono Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons

There are 108 simple icons included in this set. The icons are avaliable in 32×32 px .png (transparent background) format.

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330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A collection of over a 100 letter pressed icons, in various letter pressed styles exclusive to Creative Nerds readers. The icons include three PSD files which are full of icons which you can drag and drop into your designs.

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5 Free Tape Brushes

Tape is often used to hold things together or fix broken items. That being said, I don’t think these brushes will fix a bad design, but they will surely add a nice touch to hand drawn styles and anything else you find them useful for. Each brush measures around 2500 pixels.

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HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)

This cheat sheet is essentially a simple visual grid that contains a list of all HTML tags and of their related attributes supported by HTML 5. The simple visual style I used to design this sheet allows you to find at a glance everything you are looking for.

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Design Cartons Free Icon Set For Designers

Here are 5 high quality icons of boxes/cartons that you can use to announce the launch of a new application or on your portfolio websites. There is plenty of space to add your own flavor to the graphics like your name, important dates, blog names, app names etc.

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Tipz — Free WordPress Theme

A free WordPress theme from Alex at Crazy Leaf Design featuring widget ready areas, 3 columns, 2 sidebars (right and left), featured post section with featured image custom field, integrated logo changer (text or image).

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Free Vector Icons: Panda Social Network Icons

A free package containing 12 sweet panda animals, 128×128 pixels each, that have social network marks on their stomach. You’ll get 12 .png files and 1 vector (.ai) file in case you need to rescale them (in Adobe Illustrator format).

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Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit

Sketching & Wireframing kit is a free set of elements for sketching and wireframing. It consist of form elements, icons, indicators, feedback messages, tooltips, navigation elements, image placeholders, embedded videos, sliders and common ad banners.

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18 Stained Brown Paper Textures

A large set of high resolution stained brown paper textures.

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11 Free Scaffolding Grunge Vectors & How-To

This set of 11 Free Scaffolding Grunge Vectors was specifically created with large print designs in mind, but they can be used in web projects too. It’s a common technique to slightly destroy large type in ads and other print campaigns.

WordPress awesomeness lies in its fact that it can be customized to power any type of site you like! But what happens when you combine the power of javascript with WordPress, the possibilities are infinite. This article will share 10 great practices, examples & Plugins for using the most popular Javascript frameworks out there to spice up your WordPress theme.

1. Implement a Nice & Clean jQuery Sliding Panel in WordPress 2.7+

Learn how to implement a Nice & CleanSliding Panel in WordPress 2.7+ using jQuery. If user didn’t log in or register yet, we will show the login and register forms in the sliding panel with a short Welcome Message:

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

2. jBreadCrumb

jBreadCrumb is a jQuery plugin for displaying breadcrumb navigations in a more flexible & smarter way. The length of a breadcrumb menu may be very long, jBreadCrumb is a great solution for this issue. It creates a collapsible interface that smartly decides the display method according to the amount and length of the elements.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

Learn how to create this navigation technique, and display it on our posts, pages and categories archives in your WordPress theme. You can also use this great plugin or this interesting one to automatically create breadcrumbs in your blog.

3. Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

The basic idea of the sliding box animations is very simple. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through. From this basic idea we can play around with animations of the sliding element to either show or cover up the viewing area, thus creating the sliding effect. I can see this script works great for a CSS gallery, really interesting.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

4. How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher

Add a nice style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

5. Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework

This tutorial demonstrates how to incorporate the power of jQuery UI CSS framework classes in a custom widget to create and style buttons and toolbars.

Creating a basic button is very simple with the jQuery UI CSS framework and styling it is really easy. All you need to do is add the default “clickable” state by assigning the class ui-state-default. We also want these to have rounded corners, so we added the optional ui-corner-all framework class which adds CSS3 corner-radius properties to all corners without the need for any images or extra markup.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

6. MooTools Link Nudging

This tutorial demonstrates how to incorporate the power of jQuery UI CSS framework classes in a custom widget to create and style buttons and toolbars.

Link nudging is the process of adjusting the padding on a link slightly to show a simple, tasteful “jump” when you place your mouse over a link. The effect is magnified when mousing on and off a link quickly.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

7. jQuery (mb)Menu 1.5

This is a powerful jQuery component to build easily a multilevel tree menu or a contextual menu (right click) in an intuitive way! You can add as many submenus as you want; if your submenu or menu is not declared in the page, the component’ll get it via ajax calling the template page with the id of the menu you need (the value of “menu” attribute) the ajax page should return a well formatted code as the example below for the menu voices code.

There are many tutorials out there for creating a WordPress drop down menues. You might want to check here and there.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

8. Fantastic News Ticker Newsvine-like using Mootools

This tutorial explains how to implement a News Ticker, with news vertical scrolling, using mootools. It’s very simple and quick to implement in your blog. I can see this very useful if you are having a news submission are on your website and want to display your user’s contributed links in a nice and fancy way in your sidebar.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

9. Snazzy Archives

Snazzy Archives is a visualization plugin for your WordPress site featuring an unique way to display all your posts. You can select different layouts and special effects. Main features of Snazzy Archives are: Unique visual presentation of blog posts, Will work out of the box with all features, Posts are scanned for images and youtube videos and shown together with number of comments, Different editable layouts (HTML and CSS), Special effects using jQuery and more.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

10. J Post Slider

Show your post in fancy jQuery box, rotating images, with show-up text box with post description. Mousover stop the animation, and user can click on post link anytime.

10 Impressive Techniques to Spice up your WordPress Theme

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