Nicolas de Crécy's Kyoto paintings & drawings.

CGHub portfolio of chinese game concept artist/illustrator Xi Zhang.

Personal blog of chinese game concept artist/illustrator Xi Zhang, who works for the online gaming powerhouse Tencent.

artwork blog of French comic artist Nicolas de Crécy.

Nice spreadsheet showing all the data of Dragon's Dogma character classes (vocations).

»Pieter Van Eenoge was born in 1976 in Bruges, Belgium, but did spent his childhood in Cologne, Germany. In 1999 he graduated from Sint-Lucas Ghent
and started as an independent illustrator a year later. Since then he has made illustrations for magazines, editors, theatre, posters and advertising and took part in numerous exhibitions. Pieter now lives in Bruges with his wife, two sons
and two cats.«

Pieter Van Eenoge's illustration blog.

»There are a bunch of techniques going around for dealing with responsive images lately. That is, solutions to help us serve the right image for the occasion (e.g. size of screen and bandwidth available). They all do things a bit differently. To keep track, Christopher Schmitt and I have created this spreadsheet of techniques.«

»Browsers can do terrible things to type. If text is styled as bold or italic and the typeface family does not include a bold or italic font, browsers will compensate by trying to create bold and italic styles themselves. The results are an awkward mimicry of real type design. In this article you’ll find ways to avoid putting the browser in this bind.«

The Fox is Black: »I randomly happened upon the work of Emmanuel Romeuf, a Paris based art director (who has a whippet named Fritz!) with a portfolio full of goodies. He has this really great, high-end aethetic to his work, everything feels really crisp and contemporary. One of the projects I like best from him is for the French clothing line La Piscine, with his bold visual graphics. There’s something that irreverent about the illustrations, combined with the branding, that makes everything feel so unique. I love the way the women’s legs and arms seem to appear/disappear from nowhere. It certainly caught my attention.«

The Black Harbor: »Jordan Speer is a young illustrator working in Kentucky. He’s absolutely killing it with these 3d illustrations. I love the almost clay quality of the pieces. Its almost as if these are stills from an epic stop motion film from some Romanian animator in the 70′s that somehow saw the year 2035 in a dream. […].«

»Sketch is a professional vector graphics app with a beautiful interface and powerful tools. We set out to build a better app for graphic designers. Not to copy, but rather to improve.«

»POSTPLAY is a project founded on the fundamental principle that a video game is only as relevant as the contemplations or debates it provokes may be equally worthy of note; that the most significant games are, by definition, those which are capable of stimulating an edifying discussion and different degrees of contemplation. […]«

»Perry Dixon Maple is an illustrator currently located in Pasadena, California. Perry attended the Art Center College of Design and is now working in the entertainment industry for DreamWorks Animation. (conceptartworld.com)«

»Use this file to prevent your computer from connecting to selected internet hosts. This is an easy and effective way to protect you from many types of spyware, reduces bandwidth use, blocks certain pop-up traps, prevents user tracking by way of "web bugs" embedded in spam, provides partial protection to IE from certain web-based exploits and blocks most advertising you would otherwise be subjected to on the internet.«

»Gas Mask is simple hosts file manager for Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Lion. It allows to edit hosts files and switch between them.«

»Just like your favorite graphics editor but in your browser. And it creates CSS.«

»Stealthy allows you to instantaneously get and setup a working proxy from a click of a button. Does your country/organization block you from facebook, youtube or others? Is the service you want unavailable in your country? Stealthy is the solution for you.«

»Hello! My name is Slava and I am a graphic designer from Almaty, Kazakhstan.«

»founded in 2002 is a small creative studio based in Vienna, Austria. Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss are operating in various fields such as graphic design, illustration, photography and art direction. In addition to their jobs for clients they also run several independent projects, always trying to develop and refine their work.«

»Bjørn Rune Lie is a Norwegian illustrator who now lives and works in Bristol, England.«

»Mariana Monteagudo is a thirty-something Miami based artist who has been working her series of doll sculptures over the last decade. Her latex, ceramic and mixed-media dolls are intriguing and fascinating. Her artwork shows her interest in pre-Columbian aesthetics, related to magic and taken as an important graphic expression of Latin American Culture. Her work also shows her attraction to Japanese manga and mass-market toys.«

»Graphic Artist. Illustrator. Creative director at Poolga.com Lead Visual Designer at Silkapp.com«

»All footage taken from the original Rear Window (1954) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The order of events is pretty much as seen in the movie.«

»A visual installation by Jeff Desom based on footage from Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" (1954). I dissected all of Hitchcock's Rear Window and stiched it back together in After Effects. I stabilized all the shots with camera movement in them. Since everything was filmed from pretty much the same angle I was able to match them into a single panoramic view of the entire backyard without any greater distortions. The order of events stays true to the movie's plot.«

Drawn Blog: »These updated and animated archival photos are made by Kevin Weir over at Flux Machine. They remind me of Terry Gilliam’s animations for Monty Python, with a bit of the bizarre spookiness of Travis Louie.«

»Icon Fonts... are awesome. They typically come with standard vectors as well if you prefer working with them that way, but these icon projects go the extra mile in offering an @font-face compatible font for web use.«

»Image sprites are wildly used for downloading lots of icons or UI elements all at once with just a single HTTP-Request. But they are somewhat cumbersome to use because you have to calculate the background-position offsets. […] How could it be solved? Well, by stacking them all on top of each other, turn off their visibility and only show the one you want.«

»Raised in Maryland, Nicholas moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College of Design. Since graduating Nicholas has worked for a number of commercial and editorial clients while also working on personal projects.«

»The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art — from cave artworks to the new talents of today.«

»With the rise of Retina displays people are looking for resolution independent alternatives to PNG icons. Some fell in love with font-icons, some are shouting “SVG”. But I’m sorry, if you’re looking for a silver bullet, I’m afraid it doesn’t exist. […]«

»This is a tumblr cataloguing online messages that evoke feelings of despair.«

»lessphp is a compiler for LESS written in PHP. The entire compiler comes in a single includable class, but an additional command line interface to the compiler is included.«

»[…] clarity is king, and in the future icon designers will have to hand-tweak even more icon sizes. And unless the future is a concept video where everybody is walking around with high-end devices that have seemingly unlimited battery life and connectivity, the feature gap between high-end and low-end devices will be even larger. […] So no, SVG is definitely not the answer. At least not today.«

»An evening with “Moebius” moderated by Animation Director John Musker was an exclusive special event held at the CTN animation eXpo Nov 20, 2010.«

»Extension that allows developers to include multiple CSS stylesheets on any visited website. It features 'CSS autorefresh' (for live editing with your favourite IDE) and 'Hot Code', which is visual selection.«

»The true ad blocking solution for Opera.«

»One of the more interesting questions raised by the new iPad and its retina display is whether or not web sites should deliver higher resolution images when there is no way to know the connection speed. AppleInsider found that Apple.com is being prepped to deliver high-res images and documented how you can test it in Safari on your desktop.«

»Während die einen noch ihre Achseln zucken, bin ich der Meinung, dass gerade für uns Webdesigner, Frontend-Entwickler und CMS-Konfigurierer spannende Zeiten anbrechen: Die Zeiten der doppelt hinterlegten Bilder.«

»[…] I’ve wanted to extend my FileVault to the secondary drive also. Apple does not make this an easy task, and the sources for how to do this are incomplete, and scattered around the net, so I decided to write this up, mostly for my own reference, and also for anyone else who ventures down this path.«

»the beautiful, full featured, Google Reader client for Mac OS X 10.6.6+, built from the ground up using the latest Mac OS X technologies and is now...«

»The way to get around this limitation of the iPad is to use a HTTP proxy server, such as Squid running on another machine where you can edit the hosts file.«

»dabblet is an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code. It uses -prefix-free, so that you won't have to add any prefixes in your CSS code. You can save your work in Github gists, embed it in other websites and share it with others.«

»We often worry about lying awake in the middle of the night - but it could be good for you. A growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that the eight-hour sleep may be unnatural.«

»Screens can connect to your computer through a SSH Tunnel so your session is encrypted and safe. Screens supports many new features that OS X 10.7 offers: Multi-Touch Gestures, Full-Screen, Resume, etc.«

Pretty awesome (and quite humbling) speed run of Dark Souls by a very skilled japanese guy.

»More cursing this morning as I tried to integrate Zend Framework’s GData within my project. After a bit of trial and error I came across this simple easy solution…«

Japanese Dark Souls wiki. The translations are not the best, but the maps are very handy.

»The official music video for Niki & The Dove's single "The Fox." Created by WINTR.«

»We Are Change Switzerland traf den bekannten politischen Kabarettisten Georg Schramm nach der Vorstellung an der Bar des Kleintheaters in Luzern. […] In einer sehr lockeren und offenen, entspannten Atmosphäre in seiner Garderobe gab eine kleine Nachhilfe in Schweizer Geschichte(n), sprach über den Finanz und Bildungskrieg, Drombowski's Zorn, erklärte uns weitere Massenschutzwaffen und Glaubenskriege.«

Great wiki on Dark Souls.

»Animation Backgrounds painted by Scott Wills.«

»choose, where will be the focus after closing a tab; choose default behaviour for a new tab; you can "pin" current tab, so it will not be used for "last selected" behavior.«

»Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly.«

»PleaseSleep is a utility software designed for Mac OS X that helps put your computer to sleep when you know some other app is preventing your Mac from going to sleep.«

»Candelair is an alternative driver for the built-in IR receiver as found in many Mac®s today. It's based on Remote Buddy's driver and comes packaged in a preference pane that presents all remote control options at a glance. Candelair is a free download.«

»Hey­days is an Oslo-based design stu­dio that cre­ates strong visual con­cepts that trig­ger curios­ity, cre­ate excite­ment and show ambi­tion. We lis­ten, research and chal­lenge. We remove noise to add value.«

»Anyway, I have a recommendation for your CSS going forward: -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; This gives you the box model you want. Applies it to all elements. Turns out many browsers already use border-box for a lot of form elements (which is why inputs and textareas look diff at width:100%;) But applying this to all elements is safe and wise.«

»The jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly stuff.«

»Collects all fields ending with '_url' and the field with name 'url'. Checks if their values start with 'http://', if not then prepend it with 'http://' string.«

»SpriteRight is a CSS spritesheet generator for the Mac that lets you import your existing images or stylesheets. Make your sites load faster, cut bandwidth costs and save time. SpriteRight even generates CSS code on the fly.«

»Coralie Bickford-Smith is a senior cover designer at Penguin Books, where she has created several series designs. She studied typography at Reading university and has recently been sharing her experience with students at London College of Communication encouraging a sense of play in the process of design.«

Converting the Javascript date/time picker to a simple YYYY-MM-DD text box.

A list of all available user contributed helper packages for Pods CMS.

»CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus, CoffeeScript & Haml files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It supports Compass. It even optimizes jpeg & png images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that's just the first paragraph.«

»If Eraserhead and Tetsuo are the films that made me become serious about film as a hobby, Oshii's Kokaku Kidotai is the film that actually introduced me to the world of cinema. […] Kokaku Kidotai is also the film I have watched the most. At least once every two years I sit down for another fix of this film's magic.«

»Now that hardware is changing and pixel densities are growing, pixels are struggling to find relevance as the stable unit they once were.«

Guide to finding all Riddler Trophies / solving all riddles in Batman: Arkham City.