Neu Black, according to the web owners, is a website that provides free and instant access to who’s hot and what’s next in design, culture, and style. The website has a wide coverage in various design industries and I especially enjoy their collection on furniture/modern home designs.

Visit Neu Black now.

Azul De Corso is a blog named after its owner – a freelance artist and graphic designer who works for many infamous clients such as Pepsico, MTV, Nickelodeon,Vh1, Unilever, and Creamfields. The blog is a where the talented artist displays her work online.

For those who enjoy illustrations and web designs, a visit to Azul De Corso is always a pleasure.

Here’s a free web tool for bloggers and webmasters who do not wish to spend hundreds in image editing software: Pixlr.

Pixlr is a free online image editor where you can work on images in your browser. The web tool is built in Flash and you need to have a Flash plug in to get it to work. Basically, the web tool is built for non-professionals who need basic image editing functions. The system, from what I see, is merely a tool for editing web images to be posted on blogs, news-sites, as well as image sites like Flikr, Photobucket etc.

Visit Pixlr online, or start editing images here.

Logo Faves works pretty much the same with other logo gallery websites like Logo Of The Day and Logo Pond. What makes them different from the rest is the “Designer Cloud” which lists the names of all the designers that have submitted and links to a gallery of their work. Personally I think that’s a good way to credit the designers and are more user friendly in term of site navigation.

Visit Logo Faves.

Fellow web developers, I don’t think the blog “Woork” need further introduction. Number of eyeballs focus on this blog is growing exponentially (over 10,000 subscribers now!) and you should really have a look on Antonio’s great work!

Although the design is new, Woork’s quality content has never changed. Get inspired, visit Woork.

Textorizer is a nice piece of web application that allows you to create cool graphics using text of your choice. The tool takes jpeg, png, gif, or xpm file less than 128K in length and produces an SVG file which reconstructs the original image using parts of the text scattered around.

Here’s my creation out for the three web giant’s logo.

You too can have some fun! Visit Textorizer.

Don’t you wish you can categorize images based on its colours? You bet.

With Idee’s Multicolr Search Lab, you don’t have to skim thru another 3,581 images before reaching to your ideal choice. Multicolr Search Lab extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr and allow its users to navigate the collection by colour.

Here’s the Multicolr Search Lab in action – definitely a heavenly tool for lazy web designer like me.

Start searching with colours at Idee’s Multicolr Search Lab.

Blog.SpoonGraphics feels more like a digital playground of its founder (Graphic/Web Designer Chris Spooner) where he shares his art work, Photoshop/Illustrator tutorials, and design resources freely. I’m a big fans of Blog.SpoonGraphics and I’ve been learning from Chris for a long time.

Visit Blog.SpoonGraphics.

Interesting design tutorials, resources, tools, and blog post found else where on the Internet. In case you’re looking forward to learn something new this weekend, here’re the 10 places to go to.

• Get inspired by DesignMag’s top 10 sources of logo design references.
• Read PSHero’s Photoshop tutorial on dark grunge photo effects.
• Learn how you can enhance your art with negative space at Tutorial9.
• Check out how you can make a fast screen capture in Window Vista at About.com.
• Read HongKiat’s handy tips on Photoshop shortcut key.
• Also, get free Halloween vector icon set from Smashing Magazine.
• Vecturise your image using text strings.
• Learn how to make a fire-burning text with Photoshop.
• Read tutorial on chrome text and frame effects.
• And finally, get stunned by 50 Astonishing Argyle Pattern Swatches at ColorBurned.

Till then, have a nice weekend!

The website is a portfolio site showcasing Ukraine born artist Katarina Sokolova’s photography and graphics works. Her work was published (named INSOMNIA) by April 2008 Norma Editorial of Barcelona.

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