The holiday season is slowing down as Christmas time has ended, so now we’ve decided to celebrate the next event which is Happy New Year 2012 Wallpapers.
Here is a collection of more than 30 interesting New Year wallpapers, based around the year 2012. This time of year is associated with parties and having fun. Scots celebrate Hogamany this time of year too and Chinese will be celebrating their own New Year with the upcoming year of the dragon. Enjoy this collection, download it and share with your friends.
Vector patterns are artworks that include seamless design elements and are used in creating repeated artwork in backgrounds and fills for your website, print designs and more. The most important rule that designer should keep in mind while creating the pattern is to make sure that it looks continuous and flows well when the pattern is applied to the design.
The seamless pattern should have the right side completed with the left side. Also, the top side of the pattern is completed with the bottom side. The patterns can be vector based or bitmap based patterns. The vector patterns are created in Adobe Illustrator or any other vector program. In my personal opinion, the vector patterns are much more usable than the bitmap patterns because it can be scaled and edited easily without affecting its quality.
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People have a habit of holding Apple up as an example of business and technological excellence, and for good reason. Apple has gone from being the cult choice to being the No. 1 option for handheld devices, from smartphones to tablets. Now it has even re-emerged as a major contender for laptops, thanks to its PowerBook line.
But one element of Apple’s success that people tend to overlook is what it has done for graphic design. There has been a rather specific tone set and maintained consistently by the new and improved Apple of the last decade. Through this image, you can learn a great deal about effective presentation and marketing through design.
Whether it is the look of its main site, its iOS interface or the now-classic design of its iTunes store, here are seven lessons that we can learn and utilize in our own graphic design projects in the future. I guarantee they will be amazingly applicable for any commission.
Food photography is one of those fields of photography that are concerned mostly with taking photos of foods and drinks either for commercial or non-commercial purposes. Dishes and drinks vary by different nations and countries and each country has their own traditions and food styles. This makes food photography one of the most interesting types of photography, because it introduces us to the food culture of other nations in a creative and delicious way.
Food photography can take shots of special dishes, fruits, vegetables and drinks, and in our photography showcase today we would like to share some amazing food photography shots of coffee and coffee cups. Each of the shots below visualize coffee in a creative way both in color and black and white shots.
I hope you will enjoy our showcase Coffee Break: Delicious Examples of Food Photography and if you do, you can check out other photography showcases below:
Happy new year to all Graphic Mania readers! I would like to take the chance to thank you for following us in 2011 and hope to bring you content beyond your expectations in 2012. Let us start the new year with our new 2012 wallpaper collection.
In this post, I would like to present to you five exclusive 2012 wallpapers with different sizes for iPhone, iPad and desktop screens. Also, Graphic Mania members can download the Adobe Illustrator vector source for these 2012 wallpapers.
The secret behind why people love Macro photography is that it shows us a different, tiny world that we couldn’t see its beauty without macro photography equipment and most importantly the talent of the photographer who takes these amazing shots. One of these worlds that is hard for us to see its detail without macro photography is that of insects; a small world that is full of action, activities, colors and beauty.
In this collection we can see this world from a different perspective. I would like to share with you the creativity and the beauty behind these insects as predators and fighters to protect their life and property. The fighting tools for these insects vary based on the type of enemy and the nature around them.
Some animals depend on fighting the enemy whereas other animals depend on camouflage to mimic their surroundings. I’m sure that the following creative macro photos will change the way you view these tiny predators.
HTML5 marks the beginning of a new era in web development. The benefits of HTML5 are numerous, but one of its major highlights is its advanced multimedia support. With HTML5, video and audio files can be played in the highest quality, with faster load time and without any need for additional browser plugins, such as Flash, RealPlayer, Silverlight, etc. Plus, this web content will be viewed on any platform or device, as most of the widely used web browsers from all the top OS’s have support for HTML5.
If you are working on HTML5 based websites or just planning to upgrade your web-hosted multimedia to the latest standard, you may need a special tool to convert videos/animations into HTML5 supported formats – H.264, OGG Theora, WebM. With Freemake Video Converter, it is possible to create all those video variations in a bunch without having to follow any complex procedure. The main asset of this tool is that it generates the HTML5 code together with the resulted video and may show how this video will be streamed in different browsers. Follow the steps below to cope with the task of HTML5 video creation.
We learn during our school years to do the work the right way and create perfect results that show the skills we have acquired through our studies. But does this really matter in real life? Many young designers start their first design jobs with great expectations and are ambitious to use all their creative skills and power in their work. However, this is not the case in real life; they are shocked by what a real business needs.
While a small number of companies pay much attention to creativity compared to the time and cost of the design, many companies and clients keep pushing on the design to finish their work fast and for as cheap a price as possible, even if this may affect their comfort and creative mind in a bad way.
When a designer is working for a big firm with a large workflow, this dilemma becomes much easier because they only follow the rules and the steps to connect the chains of the work process, as if they were a small gear in a big production machine. The problem becomes harder for self-employed designers or designers who work for small firms where one person is in charge of many parts of a big project.
Fonts library is an essential part of any designers and developers’ gear and resources, because the font is what the designer or developer uses to deliver the message behind the design. Free fonts can provide to you great variety of choices to use in your either personal or commercial design based on each font licence.
Many typography experts and font designers upload and share free fonts in their websites, through the fonts site and design networks. As 2011 is fading out, we would like to share with you some of the amazing free fonts that are user-friendly and minimize your ability to deliver your message to your audience.
Although the collection we have today include best usable free fonts of 2011, each font usage licence vary based on the design agreement. Some free fonts allow you to use these fonts for personal use only and other fonts allow you to use it in commercial projects. I hope you find this free fonts useful for your workflow and if you have other usable free fonts that are created in 2011, please share it with us for maximum benefits. Also, do not forget to check other font collections in the links below:
2012 is at the gates and we would like to take this chance and wish a happy new year for all Graphic Mania friends. Today, we would like to introduce to you Graphic Mania’s exclusive 2012 vector calendars which we hope you enjoy.
The new vector 2012 calendars are provided in different resolutions to allow you to choose the one that fits with you mobile, iPad and desktop screens. You can click on the resolution link under each 2012 calendar to open it and save in your computer.
If you are a Graphic Mania premium member, you can click the download button at the end of the post to get these 2012 calendars in Adobe Illustrator vector format. Finally, I hope you enjoy this collection and share it with your friends and do not forget to comment which one do you like the most.
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The time is coming to the holiday season and the Christmas time. Along with you plan for the holiday, Graphic Mania provides you ideas to celebrate with you computer with new funny Christmas wallpapers collection.
Here are more than 50 funny Christmas wallpapers collection to let you celebrate with you computer with the holiday, just remember not to spend the holiday in work. Enjoy it and let you computer enjoy it with you. If you like this collection, download it and share with your friends. Also, you may like to see these other Christmas collections:
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