Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us

A selection of both rich and dynamic paintings and textile prints by multi-faceted actress, comedienne, and dancer turned abstract artist Elise Cavanna (Elise Cavanna Seeds Armitage Welton) (United States, 1905-1963).

You probably won't have a better chance to show off all your potential if it's not by designing a website for your own agency or web studio. It's time to push all those ideas and concepts forward. 95 inspiring Websites of Web Design Agencies. 

Fresh, innovative, creative, minimalist ... What's your style? You probably won't have a better chance to show off all your potential if it's not by designing a website for your own agency or web studio. It's time to push all those ideas and concepts forward, those a client would never understand or that would probably end up spoiling in the end. Now you have no excuses, it's time to surprise your clients, your competitors, and why not, the world.

Illustrating with basic linework not only results in some really cool artwork, it also makes the job a lot easier! Instead of painstakingly drawing every detail, simplifying the object into its basic form and using just a single stroke weight produces a stylised pictogram effect. In this tutorial I’ll take you through the process of using this basic linework technique to create a cool motorcycle illustration.

The motorcycle illustration we’ll be creating is actually based on the custom motorcycle project I’ve been working on in real life. To create the illustration, every feature of the reference photograph is simplified and drawn using the most basic of shapes and lines to produce the stylish pictogram effect.

Interior design lighting ideas - art lights by UK fibre artist Mary-Clare Buckle - 'Tokelau Storm'

A collection of graphic design inspiration resources that will give you a boost to your creative perspective. Everyday, while searching for graphic design inspiration, I get to find really interesting design projects that open my eyes to new perspectives. Too many times I would play with different color pallets because I was inspired by how the colors in a movie poster where giving value to the character.

L’artista spagnolo Lorenzo Duran si avvale delle foglie come tela per le sue incisioni. Dopo il lavaggio e l’essiccazione, rimuove con precisione chirurgica ed

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With Halloween right around the corner, don't stress over your lack of costume ideas. We've got you covered.

If there's one thing we know at Mashable, it's technology. Fortunately, we also know a little about costume design*.

Don't worry if you don't clearly understand the metro style design. A lot of people do the same. These metro style website templates will give you a better understanding about the new modern trend.

Some say that we have to stop following web design trends and should rather concentrate on controlling our own designs. Others disagree and insist that novelties rule the web design world. As with most things in life. the truth is somewhere in the middle. There is no right answer to stop the discussion. But without a doubt there are trends that significantly change web design. They take web design industry by storm and nothing remains the same after them. This has happened after Web 2.0 design trend for example. The same applies to the brand new and all awesome metro style web design trend too.

In this week's 'Photos of the Week' gallery I bring you a collection of surreal photography,

Paris-based photographer Thomas Subtil created photo-manipulation series called “Hakuna Matata” or “no worries” featuring wild African animals in funny and unusual situations. These mind-bending pictures show how one artist imagines the ways that some of Africa’s most iconic wildlife spend their time when no-one’s looking.

Designer: John Nouanesing. Click below for other images.

Street artist Ernest Zacharevic has just unveiled his latest piece that he created for Nuart, the annual international festival that brings the biggest heavyw…