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Free Spring Photoshop Brushes - Grass, Leaves and Plants
We are so inspired by the sights of spring around the corner! Green leaves, lush grass, and gorgeous plants! Here's a collection of free photoshop brushes that will appeal to the senses, and will enhance any of your fresh, green, nature themed design projects.
Did we mention that they are free? They are.
Volkswagen's Redesigned 2012 Beetle
The 2012 VW Beetle was unveiled today at events held at the same times in New York City and Shanghai. The newest Beetle has a much lower, slicker design than it's cartoon-ish, bubbly predecessors. Six inches longer, three inches wider and an inch lower than the last model, this redesign will also come with the option of a panoramic sunroof which reaches all the way from the windshield to the back window.
RIP Google Video
As of April 29th, Google is shutting down Google Video for good. Fortunately for them, the search giant already owns YouTube, which is the number one online video site, with 144.1 million unique viewers per month.
Google Video was born in 2005, but quickly became irrelevant to Google when they cleverly purchased YouTube in 2006. Google stopped allowing new uploads a couple of years ago and is now asking that users move their content over to YouTube.
Dorothy's Stripped Down Logos Art Project
Dorothy, a Manchester ad agency, is showing a series of paintings that would appeal to any graphic design aficionado. The paintings show iconic corporate logos, but stripped of the type and lettering that usually accompany the image, leaving the minimalist shapes behind.
The project is called You Took My Nameand so far the designs created are being displayed on acrylic-on-canvas...
Friday's Collection of Colorful Free Fonts
Font Friday. Our weekly celebration of the beautiful and nerdy world of typeface. In the words of J.H. Mason "Type is like music in having its own beauty, and in being beautiful as an accompaniment and interpretation ; and typography can be used to express a state of the soul, like the other arts and crafts. But like them it is too often used mechanically, and so the full expressiveness of this medium is unrealized. If it is used according to a rule or recipe, it becomes dull and loses vividness. Type appears at first to be a rigid medium ; but like other rigid media, it is plastic to the living spirit of a craftsman."