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Letterpress is an amazing artform – it’s been around since the 15th century, first started by Johannes Gutenberg (famous printer of the Gutenberg Bible) to print books and other literary works, until sadly it was replaced by digital printing techniques. Now coming back into fashion, it’s more recently been used by artists and designers to create printworks; in particular, it’s increasignly used to create highly detailed greetings cards, invitations and business cards.

This showcase takes a look at some amazing examples of letterpressing. It’s amazing how many different styles you can create!

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Timelapse photography seems to have really taken off in the last few years, so I felt it was time to put together a showcase of some incredible timelapses from around the web. Some use a time-lapse dolly to create dramatic moves, but you can also do a lot in post as long as you have 1) and interesting subject and 2) great composition.

Anyway, the dedication that went into these following pieces is fantastic and I’m thrilled to share this round up with you all. Enjoy!

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I recently contacted 10 top designers and asked them to share their workspaces with the awesome The Inspiration Blog, to hopefully inspire this site’s great readers.

All 10 designers were delighted to let us see how and where they work and give us some insight to their setups and such, I would like to thank all the designers that took part, they all without exception where fantastic to chat with!

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HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography is a technique which allows much more dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas than standard photography.

Multiple photos of the subject are shot in varying exposures then placed into specialist software that combine the images and make a single image.

The effect when done right can be absolutely outstanding, to add some weight to my argument here are 20 examples that will literally take your breath away.

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Some animated music videos draw you in so deep and complement the song so well that they become works of art on their own. This piece certainly fits that bill. A perfect visual complement to the rendition of “Lilac Wine” by Cinematic Orchestra, Blind’s morphing animation carries us on a poetic journey both sad and beautiful.

It’s worth noting that the project was commissioned by Dr. Martens as part of their 50th anniversary celebration and features no direct advertising or product placement in the piece. It is refreshing to see companies spending their marketing dollars on creative projects. Enjoy.

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Minimalism in web design is a very popular trend at the moment and there is a great reason to why that is. It makes the usability of a site look superb, and in general the majority of people like the look of minimal and clean designs – you’d be surprised at how many sites suffer from user loss just because they’re not 100% happy with how it looks or works.

Part two of this showcase features a selection of impressive and rather beautiful examples of the minimalism trend in web design. What do you think of minimal designs?

Remember to check out part one!

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Minimalism in web design is a very popular trend at the moment and there is a great reason to why that is. It makes the usability of a site look superb, and in general the majority of people like the look of minimal and clean designs – you’d be surprised at how many sites suffer from user loss just because they’re not 100% happy with how it looks or works.

Part one of this showcase features a selection of impressive and rather beautiful examples of the minimalism trend in web design. What do you think of minimal designs?

Remember to check out part two!

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StupidFox is an ever-expanding franchise by DeviantART user SilentReaper. StupidFox is not only just a comic, but is now also available as a soft toy and lots of other goodies such as pin badges. With over 10,000 fans on Facebook StupidFox could be the next big thing!

This artist showcase features the great StupidFox comics by SilentReaper in all their glory, going through all of the comics from number one to number thirty-three! Enjoy!

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Most of us will probably have Google as our home page or have had it in the past – if you have you’ll be familar with how often Google plays with their logo to reflect a current event, celebrate festivals, anniversaries and a whole lot of other stuff.

In this post we have compiled a collection of fifty Google “Doodles” (as they like to call them) from last year (2009), celebrating a whole bunch of stuff including world wide events such as New Years, famous peoples birthdays, Mothers and Fathers day, and anniversaries from the Yokohama Port Opening (150 years ago) and Sesame Street.

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Food packaging is something we don’t generally take much notice of because it is something we see everyday, even though some food wrappers have an incredible design and great typography.

Over the years packaging has totally changed, although some brands have only gone through very minor changes and haven’t moved away from the original typeface and/or design they originally launched with many years ago.

This showcase presents the vintage and modern packaging of a small selection of some the worlds most known chocolate bars.

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