SloDive - Design Resources & Inspiration

Gary Locke is a master of caricature drawings and has had his work featured in publications from Sports Illustrated to Time Magazine. Despite the fact that Gary is an avid listener of Rush Limbaugh & Sean Hannity (still waiting on the water boarding Sean) we can set politics aside and focus on the drawings and Gary’s awesome natural abilities.

Marta uses Painter and Photoshop to create some amazing digital paintings. Her talent has led her to constant commercial work but as a result has made her online presence non-existent. Luckily she has a lot of paintings online that we can all sit back and admire.

We love all forms of art here at SloDive and we just had to do a post featuring some of the paintings of Ruben Belloso Adorna. These are hand painted and really inspire me put down the pen/tablet or mouse and work in a more traditional form. I am not very good but it’s nice to take a break from the uniformity and precision tools and do some free form work. Ruben’s ability to convey emotion through expression is why he is our pick for inspiration today.

Designing a web layout in Photoshop or Fireworks is only half of the process. Web-designers and developers need to be able to convert those PSD layouts into valid CSS and HTML. These 22 tutorials are a great starting point if you’re interested in learning how to do just that. I hope you enjoy this post, please take a minute to chime in and leave a comment!

Daniel Dociu was raised in Cluj, the capital of Transylvania in Romania and his dark, industrious designs seem to fit right in with how I imagine Transylvania to be. He moved to Seattle in 91 which is not as cool sounding but still kinda dark & dreary with all the rain, right? Anyway, he’s worked with Squaresoft, Electronic Arts and currently resides at ArenaNet. We love his paintings and we think you will too.

These Apple Tablet mock-ups were created by designer Patrycjusz Brzezinski who resides in Poland. He named it the MacView and it appears it was created for a school project sometime last year. I’ve seen a lot of mock-ups over the past few weeks but none have caught my attention like these. They are breathtaking to look at and they really get the gears turning in my head. Only a few more days and we will know how the actual Apple Tablet looks and functions but one can only hope it’s as cool as the concept below.