“50 Photoshop Disasters that will make you say OMG!” from richworks.in is the winner in Graphic Design on this week. This is great post that will make you laugh for sure as same as we did.

Web Design category’s best story is 33 Excellent “OUT OF THE BOX” Ways for Creatives to find Inspiration from 1stwebdesigner.com.

We’ve decided to choose “Stylish and Creative Wall Clock Design” from desizntech.info in category Industrial design. This is really inspirational post highly recommended by Design Float.

“40+ Smart and Creative Print Advertisements for Inspiration”

from tutzone.net was best in Identity and Branding topic.

One of the best entry’s on this week was superb collection “46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings” from pelfusion.com in Digital Art category.

Another one awesome round-up of funny pics was “Apple iPad Funny Pictures” from smashingshare.com posted in Illustrations.

And the most charming post was submitted to Photography topic and we must admit that we were charmed by all those cute guys. Please welcome

“27 Photos: Animal Photography At its Finest”

from devsnippets.com.

There is no doubt that Italian design firms were and still are the trendsetters in the world of automotive design. Though Pininfarina, Italdesign and others were pioneers they do their job with excellence because all those elegant designs became an essential part of auto design history.

The cornerstone of Italian designers is putting creative elements in the exterior design, experimenting with the shapes, colors and new materials. You may have noticed that all these supercars have really aerodynamic body and this feature became a trademark of the Italian super cars. Another revolutionary thing was the original interior design that was very ascetic though still elegant and charismatic. We’ve got nothing to do except keep praising the Italian designers and show you our vision of really notable Italian supercar designs from that legendary epoch. Enjoy!

1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo

1972 Maserati Boomerang

1969  Alfa Romeo 33-2

1969  Alfa Romeo Iguana

1968  Bizzarrini Manta

1967 Ferrari Dino 206 Competizione

1969 Ferrari 512S

1970 Ferrari PF Modulo

1971 Lamborghini Countach

1970 Lancia Stratos Zero

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10+ Tools to Determine Your Website’s Rockstar Status

was posted in web design category

Top 10 Tutorials to Replace Flash With jQuery

was posted in interactive design category

30 Outstanding T Shirt Design Tutorials and Tips

was posted in industrialdesign category

80 creative examples of logos featuring animals

was posted in identity and branding category

Creative Mixed Media Digital Art and Designs

was posted in digital art category

20 Incredibly Cool Movie Posters

was posted in illustration art category

Beautiful HDR Waterscapes Photography

Just imagine that your house is situated in the woods and the overall house’s exterior groups splendidly in the landscape. Such building is a combination of architectural art, innovative thinking and natural aesthetics.  For those who want to be in sync with nature such isolated houses with the comfy interior are the ultimate solutions that provide with the comfort and bring close to nature at the same time.

In this post you will find innovative architectural ideas of houses that are placed in the middle of the woods. Most of them feature non-standard and original ideas.

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WWF: Elephant

Text on ad: Give a hand to wildlife.

Allianz Insurance: Elephant

Text on ad: Less funny, but just as heavy: 20 centimeters of snow on your roof.
Real estate insurance from Allianz. Covers against the consequences of snow loads.

Kayaking Jumbo Peanut: Choking

Olympus: Elephant

Text on ad: Ultra Zoom SP-570

Madrid Zoo: Elephant

Text on this: Elephants never abandon the elderly. Animals teach us how to be people.

Nissan: Elephant

Los Coches: Elephant

Text on ad: If it’s not an original spare part manufacturer, be very careful.

Nicolas Hulot Foundation: Elephant

Text on ad: There’s an easier way to get the environmental debate into City Hall. You’d better download the eco-voter’s guide and sign the Environmental Pact.

WWF India: Elephant

Text on ad: Plant more trees. Plant more lives.

Yamaha X-City: Elephant

Mundo Estranho Magazine: Elephant

Volkswagen Touran: Kidnapped

Text on ad: Volkswagen Touran. Space for your every need.

Honda spare parts: Elephant

Text on ad: Use original parts.

Reporters without borders: Elephant

Sony Microvault Tiny: Elephant

Text on ad: Fit the impossible.

Comcast High-Speed Internet: Elephant

Text on ad: We make big fast. Gigantic downloads dart through at speeds up to 16 megabits per second.
Introducing Blast! from Comcast High-Speed Internet. It’s Comcastic!

Global Warming

Optimedia: Mosquito

Text on ad: More mediapower. Optimedia.

AirExpress

C.A.L Cargo Air Lines: Sizes

Text on ad: Flixeble cargo sizes

Animal Planet: Elephants

Text on ad: Authentic wildlife documentaries.

DHL Express: Elephant

Text on ad: No size limits.

Hey people, if you make something in flash make sure it’s fast. It took me several weeks and hundreds of various flash websites to prepare the small collection of websites you can see below. They are simply perfect so be sure to check them and I also described in brief what’s so great about them.В  Don’t let your website visitor leave just because you think that all flash websites work slow, the experience is completely different with the websites below.

Eco Zoo

Website: www.ecodazoo.com
I was amazed how quickly the website loads and it never showed any type of the preloader or anything when playing around. It’s a great interactive thing, drag the “tree” with your mouse up and down to see different characters, you can also rotate it with the mouse. Choose a book from the small pop-up of the character and you’ll be taken to a separate small charming website! Don’t forget to use your mouse there as well, you can rotate every scene. This is a real piece of flash art and papervision!

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Troyt Coburn

Website: www.troytcoburn.com
This is a flash portfolio of a Troyt Coburn, photographer. Things that I like about it:
- it loads quickly
- it’s obvious where to click to get inside ( what I don’t like is that it opens in the new window)
- you can click anywhere on the page and the menu shows up- pretty convenient
- you can choose the full view or the thumbnail view
- click anywhere on the photo to get back to the main menu or move to the next previous images. I was kinda missing the arrows for the next and previous on the right and left of the image but, without them you simply pay more attention to the photo itself.

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Capsulecreative

Website: www.capsulecreative.com
Quick, bright and smart. You don’t have to click anywhere on the home page, just roll-over and the needed info will show up. To go to portfolio click on Part One or Part Two. I don’t like that portfolio opens in the new window but the photos load fantastically quick. I hate waiting while the images load and this portfolio is perfect in this sense. Perfect stuff! While you wait for a few seconds for the photo to show up they show you another photo so you are not getting bored.

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Tom Nagy

Website: www.tomnagy.com
First thing that I was surprised with- they offer you two version of the website- one with the large supercrisp pictures, the other one with the photos in portfolio presented in 1024*768. Isn’t this a nice ad on photographer’s portfolio website? I have chosen the usual photos and the next page that loaded was the first photo in the portfolio and the menu over it. If you want to see the pics and don’t need the menu, simply click anywhere on page and the menu will disappear. The icons on the right give you controls over portfolio and you can call the main menu back if needed.

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Artpartner

Website: www.artpartner.com
You know what I like about this one? It’s working exactly in a way as if it was an HTML website with some super effects. You’ll know what I mean once you check it.

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Tali Kimelman

Website: www.talikimelman.com
Another flash portfolio but with the special usability approach to viewing photos. Chose some category to browse. I could never imagine images can load so fast. Now, just scroll with your mouse anywhere on the image area. See what I mean? You don’t even have to click to see the next image. Take a note of this one.

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Pylinsky Eugeniy

Website: www.p-e.kiev.ua
Portfolio of a Ukrainian flash designer. Though it irritated me a bit to wait while it was loading, the content inside is definitely worth the waiting time. It’s funny, user-friendly and shows the skills of this developer.

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Normann-Copenhagen

Website: www.normann-copenhagen.com
A very user friendly website with nice navigation and great portfolio. Images load fast and it’s it’s pretty convenient to jump from page to page. Love this one, great example of usability.

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VaryWell

Website: www.varywell.com
This is the sudio of Ryan and Jason Hickner. When you enter the website simply use the wheel in your mouse to scroll through the projects. Roll over the colored sphere ( colored squares on the gray earth background look very attractive and you intuitively know this is something interesting to click on) to the the short project info and click on the square to get the pop-up with details. If you want to get back to the list of projects, just scroll a bit. And what’s most important for me, there’s no waiting time anything on the site! Great work!

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Burton design group

Website: www.burtondesigngroup.com
I don’t like the style or design of this website but I can’t help saying that this is a great example of a GOOD flash website. No special effects but menus, submenus, images and info areas helped this website not to loose a visitor in my face. I’m fine with images taking 1 second to load with the preloader showing, 1 or 2 seconds is the time that I can allow to wait.

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Publicis Macedonia

Website: www.publicis-mk.com
Damn, how beautiful this website is! Roll-0ver the arrow on the right to get the main menu, click bottom right to get the portfolio thumbnails. Choose services from the main menu and you’ll get 5 red shits to choose from, click on any to get the detailed info. Now roll-over the main menu again, the services pages will become almost transparent. Great feature, love it. They have video in portfolio but this doesn’t increase the loading time. One image on lots of websites will load longer than 15 videos from their portfolio! Chose some project to view. Simply click outside the pop-up area to get back to the list of projects.

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Women Secret

Website: www.womensecret.com
Shopping has never been easier. This website is at the very top of flash perfection and user friendliness.

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Xpolab

Website: www.xpolab.com
The site loads in just 2 seconds. Now roll over the commercials? Surprising, isn’t it? This is a website of a freelancer. I wonder is large companies can’t afford something that works quick not speaking about it being unique.

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Style Station

Website: www.stylestation.net
Want to make a portfolio that someone would like to check? Ask these guys how. Adorable website, adorably quick flash.

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Kitchen

Website: www.porcelanosakitchens.com
This website can’t leave you indifferent! Amazing intro, I have no words to describe how beautiful it is! Once you’ve had enough of wow roll over the kitchen word on the right of the screen and you’ll get the menu. Their gallery is fantastic – and I don’t mean the kitchens themselves only

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Moment for Coffee

Website: www.momentocoffee.com
Moment of coffee website and time for a break for me. Great website worth your attention.

Surprised? You can try to make your flash website on your own without any special skills needed. Try to use Flash CMS. If you are looking for something cool and attractive check out the following list of flash component collections which is easy to embed into your flash website:
- flash component reviews by Jack
- flash components blog written by Anny

New ad value impressive and refreshing features have been added all the time since Gmail launch. And today they made me stare at the screen with the only thought: WTF?! LOL! Today they’ve launched the Gmail Themes as I’ve just found out on their official blog here.

Great stuff guys! Keep up the good work!

Now, changing your theme is very easy (like all the other smart things from Google). Login to your Gmail account, choose setting and choose Themes. Here’s the pic you should see.

Gmail Themes

Most of the Gmail Themes allow you to change the colorscheme of the Gmail interface like the samples below.

Shiny theme

Gmail team have called it Shiny, but I would call it serious. Inspires for answering tons of emails.

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Sunset Theme

Makes me feel relaxed… reminds me of sand and some good cocktail… not sure why?

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New Blue Theme

I would call it the “working mood”, it’s serious enough but gives the feeling the boss is out of the office today LOL

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The order Gmail Themes are even more cool, fun and fantastic!

Beach Theme

I imagine the beach in golden yellow color but still a nice try.

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Candy Theme

Green candy could be the winner on the market… just joking

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Cherry Blossom Theme

This one is my favorite! I looooove cherries

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Desk Theme

Resembles me of a college, what a good days these were

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Graffiti Theme

Not for me but I’m sure there will be lots of fans of this one

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Mountains Theme

I wish I were there…

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Ninja Theme

Ahhhh! This one is adoring!

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Pebbles Theme

I’m missing the fish next to them, don’t really know why…

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Planets theme

I wouldn’t change this one, somehow the planet takes away the attentionВ  from the inbox

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Tea House Theme

Just like it

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Summer Ocean Theme

I don’t like the beige color, the blue is nice, the waves are charming

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Zoozimps Theme

Makes me smile

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Terminal Theme

This might be a joke, how can one work with this one?

Masterfoods Bounty Chocolate: Back

Text on ad: Two pieces of paradise.

Masterfoods Bounty Chocolate: Ball

Text on ad: Two pieces of paradise.

Lancia Phedra: Chocolate factory

Text on ad: One thing is certain: driving has never been sweeter.

Kwality Wall’s ice-cream: Dotted

Text on ad: Pleasure up! Dotted

Bonux Ace: Chocolate

Shaw’s Candies: Teeth

Text on ad: Truly irresistible chocolates.

Not the chocolate itself….just the chocolate effect )

Rush: Cinderella

Text on ad: Rush Ultimate Chocolate. Just a little naughty.

Nestle: Lion bar

Nestle Lion: Statue

Cadbury Wispa: Quiet

Toyota Hilux: Chocolate

Text on ad: Eat the road.

Kit-Kat: Wife

Confiserie Seidl: Squirrel, Rope

Text on ad: All the nuts in the world in finest chocolate. Seidl Confiserie.

Confiserie Seidl: Squirrel, Gun

Text on ad: All the nuts in the world in finest chocolate. Seidl Confiserie.

Lava Bar: Flower

Text on ad: Liquid chocolate, glue for broken hearts.

Lava Bar: Dog

Text on ad: Liquid chocolate, glue for broken hearts.

Trendy: Easter

Text on ad: Less talk. More candies.

Cadbury Thins: Lycra

Text on ad: Invented 1959. Because one size will never fit all.
Cadbury Thins. Invented 2005. Because every woman deserves 100% Cadbury chocolate with only 100 calories. Now that’s clever.

Mars Chilled: Tongue

Cadbury’s Ulta Perk: Monster

Text on ad: Cadbury’s reverse bar. Wafer outside, chocolate inside.

Cadbury’s Ulta Perk: Fly

Text on ad: Cadbury’s reverse bar. Wafer outside, chocolate inside.

Fit Light Dairy: Marilyn Monroe

Text on ad: Forget about it. Men’s preference will never change. Fit Light Yogurt.

Ahhh..not actually about chocolate…but couldn’t stop from posting it!