I came across this excellent grunge social media icon set and just had to share.

Designed by “stevejking” and available from Graphic River for just $6!

The grunge style is popular on the web and continues to be a refreshing departure from the glossy Web 2.0 trends of the past few years.

Do you know of any amazing examples of modern grunge web design out there? Let us know in the comments section below!

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In this round-up we look at inspirational loudspeaker design. Let’s start by saying there is a huge market for big, brash and boxy speaker designs for a very good reason – they provide accurate and powerful acoustics. Unfortunately they tend to detract from their surroundings.

Increasingly, people are turning towards speakers that are designed to be seen as well as heard. Use of interesting materials, colours and form can produce striking results. Below are 32 examples of incredible speaker designs that I hope you will enjoy.

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Supercars are incredibly expensive, and the chances are the majority of us reading this will never have the luxury of owning one ourselves. That doesn’t however mean we can’t enjoy the beautiful design aspects of these cars, and of course the inspirational photographs!

This post features the classic car brand Ferrari, featuring glistening old ones to the sporty new ones. These photos show the enormity of how big Ferrari have become over the past decade, by making great super cars.

This is the penultimate part of our supercar series, so check back soon for the last one in the series featuring a very special car brand.

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Supercars are incredibly expensive, and the chances are the majority of us reading this will never have the luxury of owning one ourselves. That doesn’t however mean we can’t enjoy the beautiful design aspects of these cars, and of course the inspirational photographs!

This post features a selection lovely, sleek and stylish Aston Martin photographs that serve as not only photography inspiration but design inspiration too.

This is part two of our new supercar series, so check back soon for various other parts featuring different car brands.

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A super car is incredibly expensive, and chances are the majority of us reading this will never have the luxury of owning one ourselves. That doesn’t however mean we can’t enjoy the beautiful super car design aspects, and of course some inspirational super car photography!

This post features Lamborghini super car photography. A selection of lovely, sleek and stylish Lamborghini super car photographs that serve as not only car photography inspiration but design inspiration too.

This is part one of our super car photography series.

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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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One style of business card that is especially popular these days is “vintage”, using modern techniques to produce vintage-looking designs.

Even though the printing techniques used today are much more advanced, many people still choose to the expensive option to get their business cards printed, making them look like cards from the XIX century. Maybe modern isn’t necessarily better? What do you think?

Vintage cards have been in and out of fashion, but they are most definitely trendy as we speak. Here are 50 examples of beautiful vintage business card designs.

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Vintage is a design genre that is being covered in all aspects of media in recent months, whether it is for the web or printed media you most likely have stumbled upon a piece of vintage design. Activities such as burlesque has had a huge revival and this has contributed to the surge in vintage design as it has attracted many people to the imagery of the 40′s and 50′s.

Here is a small collection of twenty interesting and inspiring pieces of art from people such as Peter Driben, who was responsible for the pin-up style covers on magazines such as Titter, Wink and Eyeful.

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Cake decorating and cake design isn’t just something bakers do. It’s a form of food art, and a very skilled one at that.

This post showcases a bunch of tasty cake decoration designs – although I don’t think I could bring myself to eat these works of art! They featuring some well-known characteristics of food art, cake decoration, and sugar-craft styles! Enjoy!

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Infographics is a combination of the two words “information” and “graphics”, and are visual representations of information and data.

As of late, many designers and illustrators have been creating their own infographics to improve their skills and build upon their portfolio, many have done the same for fun. Infographics are also used in publications, and therefore are a great source of income for those that are good at them.

This showcase (part two) presents 22 of some of the freshest and greatest data visualization infographics out there.

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