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Christoph — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:44:04 +0000

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Video of the Week

Christoph — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:04:10 +0000

Have fun!

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Concurso Copa del Mundo: ¡El resultado!

Christoph — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:22:12 +0000

The Winning Team

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Queridos aficionados al fútbol,

¡Usted ha decidido! Equipo #48 (“Damals wie heute, wir verrückten Leute”) viajará a la Copa del Mundo en Sudáfrica! Estas dos personas estarám durante 5 días en un hotel de 5 estrellas, entre otros van a visitar Soweto, la más conocida población del país, van a ir a un emocionante safari en la reserva natural de Kwalata y para terminar verán la final de la Copa Mundial, ¡en vivo en el estadio! Si lo desean, su informe de viaje se publicará con prontitud en nuestro blog.

Los finalistas del 2º al 5º son los siguientes: #46 (WM-Safari 2010), #32 (FANtastic), #31 (Sérgio & Michelle) y #30 (WM 2010). Han ganado un genial y original balón del Mundial.

Para nuestro concurso de fotos de la Copa Mundial se pudieron presentar las fotografías hasta el 23 de abril 2010 y después – hasta el Lunes, 10 de mayo 2010 23:59 – se pudo votar por la fotografía favorita.

Queremos dar las gracias a todo el mundo, a todos los que enviaron sus fotos, muchas y tantas grandes ideas, ¡estábamos desbordados! También queremos dar las gracias a todos los votantes honestos por su colaboración.

Lamentablemente, a pesar de las medidas de seguridad ha habido intentos de fraude. Es por eso que hemos decidido volver a revisar cuidadosamente todos los votos una vez la votación concluyó. Los votos que no fueron expedidos de acuerdo con nuestro reglamento se eliminaron.

Por supuesto, cada voto emitido correctamente ha sido contado y un justo ganador ha sido determinado.

Aquí el ganador de la campaña-blog:

¡La tabla de la Copa del Mundo de fútbol va a Michael Gattinger, felicidades!

Los balones originales de la Copa del Mundo son para: Heike Gangwisch, Sandra Borchert, Alexander Mirschel, Dr. Herbert Birth, Ahmet Yildiz, Katja Esche, Christian Lobenstein, Jonathan Kschymyk y Bianca R. (purzel73).

Si usted tiene alguna pregunta acerca de la Copa del Mundo por favor póngase en contacto con nosotros a través de blog@print24.com.

¡Un cordial saludo a todos y enhorabuena a los ganadores!

Su equipo de print24.

Jeu Concours pour la Coupe du Monde : Les Résultats

Christoph — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:22:08 +0000

The Winning Team

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Chers fans de football,

Vous avez votés ! L’équipe #48 (“Damals wie heute, wir verrückten Leute”) partira pour la Coupe du Monde en Afrique du Sud ! Les deux participants séjourneront dans un hôtel 5 étoiles, ils visiteront le township de Soweto, effectueront un safari dans le parc naturel Kwalata et assisteront à la finale de la Coupe du Monde en direct dans le stade ! S’ils le souhaitent, ils vous raconteront leur séjour sur notre blog.

Les participants étant de la 2ème à la 5ème places : #46 (WM-Safari 2010), #32 (FANtastic), #31 (Sérgio & Michelle) et #30 (WM 2010) remportent un ballon officiel de la Coupe du Monde.

Pour participer à notre jeu concours pour la Coupe du Monde, les photos de fans de football devaient nous être envoyées entre le 23 Avril 2010 et le Lundi 10 mai 2010 – puis vous avez voté pour votre photo préférée.

Nous remercions tous les participants qui nous ont fait parvenir leur photo – tant de grandes idées, nous avons été tout simplement débordés! Nous tenons également à remercier tous les votants.

Malheureusement, en dépit de nos mesures de sécurité, il y a eu des tentatives de fraude. C’est pourquoi nous avons décidé de bien vérifier tous les votes après la conclure du jeu-concours. Les votes qui n’ont pas été effectués conformément à notre règlement ont été supprimés.

Bien entendu, chaque vote honnête a été comptabilisé et le gagnant a pu être désigné.

Voici le gagnant de notre concours blog :

Le baby foot a été remporté par Michael Gattinger, toutes nos félicitations!

Les ballons officiels de la Coupe du Monde seront remis à Heike Gangwisch, Sandra Borchert, Alexander Mirschel, Dr. Herbert Birth, Ahmet Yildiz, Katja Esche, Christian Lobenstein, Jonathan Kschymyk et Bianca R. (purzel73).

Si vous avez des questions concernant le jeu-concours Coupe du Monde veuillez nous contacter à l’adresse blog@print24.com.

Très bonne journée à tous et félicitations aux gagnants !

Votre équipe print24.

World Cup competition: The result!

Christoph — Wed, 12 May 2010 11:50:21 +0000

The Winning Team

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Dear soccer fans,

You decided! Team #48 (“Damals wie heute, wir verrückten Leute”) is travelling to the World Cup in South Africa! These two will stay for 5 days in a 5 star hotel, among others they will visit Soweto, the best known Township of the country, they will go on an exciting safari in Kwalata nature preserve and as crowning conclusion they will watch the World Cup final, live in the stadium! If they like to, their travel report will be published promptly on our blog.

Places 2nd – 5th go to the following teams: #46 (WM-Safari 2010), #32 (FANtastic), #31 (Sérgio & Michelle) and #30 (WM 2010). They have won a great, original World Cup ball.

For our World Cup competition football fan photos could be sent in until April 23, 2010 and afterwards – until Monday, May 10, 2010 23:59 – you could vote for the favourite picture.

We want to thank everyone, who sent their pictures – so many great ideas got together, we were simply overwhelmed! We also want to thank all honest voters for their vote.

Unfortunately, despite careful safety measures there have been fraud attempts. That’s why we decided to carefully recheck all votes after the voting was closed. Those votes which weren’t issued according to our regulation were deleted.

Of course, every correctly issued vote has been counted and a fair winner could be determined.

Here the winner of the blog campaign:

The World Cup football table goes to Michael Gattinger, congratulations!

One of the original World Cup balls goes to: Heike Gangwisch, Sandra Borchert, Alexander Mirschel, Dr. Herbert Birth, Ahmet Yildiz, Katja Esche, Christian Lobenstein, Jonathan Kschymyk and Bianca R. (purzel73).

If you have any questions concerning the World Cup competition please contact us via blog@print24.com.

Kind regards to all of you and congratulations to the winners!

Your print24 team.

Interview with Sarah Lüder

Christoph — Wed, 05 May 2010 14:06:34 +0000

Talking with the young woman from the Ruhr region, who is passionately devoted to ”photo art”

“Having a sunny heart and wearing my heart on my sleeve.” With this philosophy the freelance media and print designer Sarah Lüder (24) has been working in her great passion for six years: photo art! We spoke to the exceptional artist, whose work is tremendously versatile.

Copy right: Sarah Lüder

What are your criteria for choosing the models?
I think I don’t use the word “choosing” for it. I see! And what I see in people are the special things: inner beauty, charisma, a natural and fascinating personality. Those people who are comfortable and full of zest for life are fascinating to me and they also inspire me.

What are you doing to get „the best“, “that certain something” out of your model, which most people see only at a second sight?
It’s hard for me to find words for that. Seeing and feeling! Opening up yourself as well as the person and creating a feeling for the beauty of this world. Snap-shots. In tune with body and soul, the charisma will fit the moment.

Concerning the photos: is there a possibility for the models to make requests?
When working with a specific person, I do have a precise idea about what I want to achieve with this person in this photo. Until now, I always got positive feedback. However, I cannot determine the entire development of a photo shooting. I think it’s wrong to plan all the details and to strictly follow a predetermined idea. That’s why I’m very happy about other people’s requests and I like integrating them into the shooting as well – given that they will not end in an aesthetic disaster.

How do you express „magic” in your photos?
The magic of my photos immerses from the people and the small stories, which I stage with them on the set. It’s important to me, that the people I portrait are feeling comfortable and that they are able to engage with my light-hearted character. In combination with a cool location, good weather and small breaks with snacks and drinks, one thing leads to another. An additional point is the subsequent editing on the PC, during which I add atmosphere and expression to my work. I like working with elements of dreams, wishes, love, zest for life, security and all the other nice characters life has on offer.

How do you define “photo art“?
I’m a designer and I’m an artist. “Photo art” is the result of my way of photographing and the subsequent edition of the work of art. The synergy of record and change.

What is your exhibition “Zellenwahnsinn“ (cell madness) about?
Basically, it is about squeezing a funny kind of madness in a square meter of public space, which eventually has become useless in the age of mobile phones. The phone box as a place of self-dramatization; as a place, where all rules can be – but not have to be – put aside.

Many phone boxes are the objects of vandalism.
I integrate the omnipresent vandalism into the scene. As much as bored or frustrated nutters damage public property, as much do they influence the level of the “Zellenwahnsinn” running riot: every phone box is different, one having graffiti, the other having scratches on the pane. There’s one constant factor however: I only use the good old yellow phone boxes for the scene. They have that special something I need for my work, this special charm, stories!

You’re also taking part in a contest with this project.
That’s right: I’m taking part in a contest called “Unprojekt2010”, which is developing quite good. Every vote, which is issued on http://www.unprojekte2010.de/index.php?id=voting for the “Telefonzellenwahnsinn“ brings me a bit closer to a grand exhibition of the officially unofficial “Unprojekte” of the European Capital of Culture 2010. I would be very happy about that, so please vote!

Which partners have you worked with until now?
There are no partners as such. I’m working with and for smaller companies, private customers, fellow students, for me and for the unfolding of “everyday magic”. There are so many beautiful details, so many things to do, if you’re willing to go through life with your eyes wide open. Life is beautiful and we should not be blind to the small things, instead we should feel them and rejoice in them.

Visit Sarah Lüder’s website

30 brand-new Adobe Illustrator tutorials

trittsche — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:36:33 +0000

You can use the Adobe Illustrator for creating numerous output formats of vector graphics. It’s actually quite good to have good tutorials and workshops relating to the Adobe Illustrator, which is taking the same steep learning curve as Photoshop. That’s how you get acquainted with the rough techniques and the more specific tips and tricks.

The results are oftentimes comic characters, symbols and writings. Illustrator is perfectly suitable for working two-dimensionally, but also for creating “dirty” grunge effects. Your knowledge and creativity are basically the only limits. These two can be expanded and improved by the following tutorial.

Command shape in Illustrator

Create a colorful cocktail icon

Create a Cute Little Tiger in Illustrator

Create A Mouthwatering Chocolate Covered Strawberry

Create a Valentines Day Illustration for Your Sweetie

Create an old TDK cassette

Create Lady Birds Insect Tutorial Using Adobe Illustrator

Creating a Toaster-Popping Illustration

Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

Design a Vector Audio Speaker Icon In Illustrator

Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair

How to Create a Cute Vector Bear T-Shirt Design

How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background

How To Create A Slick IPod Icon Using Illustrator

How to Create an Electronic Piano in Illustrator

How To Create Your Own Vector Cartoon Character

How To Design An Abstract Wallpaper In Photoshop (and Illustrator)

How to Make Abstract Typography Art with Illustrator

How to Make Super-Sharp, Vector Swords

Vector Freebie & Micro Tutorial: Seamless Swirls

Illustrator Shapes Tutorial

Illustrator Make with Mesh

Modeling the Human Face in Illustrator

Akugyouza Tutorial Project

Typography text tutorial

Surprise Gift

Illustrator Shapes Tutorial

Tutorial-102 Adobe Illustrator

Illustrator for Loathers

Expressions Tutorial

World Cup competition: The voting!

trittsche — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:03:11 +0000

On April 23 the first level of our World Cup competition – sending the photos – drew to an end.
Now the big voting stage begins – those who have most of the votes on May 10, 2010, will win the 5-day trip to the football World Cup in South Africa incl. tickets for the final!

Vote now for your favourite photo!

Interview with Lukas Bischoff

Christoph — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:44:39 +0000

Another newcomer in the design sector

Lukas Bischoff studies communications design in Trier and he’s especially interested in typography and font design. Additionally he’s also open for illustrations and experiments with new media. We introduce the 24-year-old upcoming artist in an interview.

The different faces of Lukas Bischoff - Copyright: Lukas Bischoff

You’re dealing with the latest media. Which of the techniques and programs seem to be the best for you?
I think that digital techniques, programs and media still depend on the creative basis. For me, this goes together with a strong connection to analogue techniques. A pencil drawing, an ink drawing or a good water colour are often my basic material and my model for the following digital process.

What are you planning to specialise in?
As a student, the main focus is clearly on the best possible development of my skills. Up to my graduation I’m planning to create a broad basis for my future work by looking in as many directions as possible. One of my long-term goals is to bring across knowledge as a teacher.

Do you want to continue working with the artists mentioned on your blog ?
I will certainly continue working with Simon Prades in the future, as we have a very close and productive co-operation. A smoothly working professional relationship is very important to me; both sides ideally complete one another and they are also a source of mutual motivation. The co-operation with Stefan Motzigemba (typografische Facharbeit YA-HA!) and Sascha Timplan (fridge™ magazine) was also very interesting and positive.

Is there anybody you would like to work for?
I’m especially happy about projects during which the respect for my work becomes obvious. A job is made special by having a certain individual leeway and of course by having fun. I’m also very interested in working in coperative projects, which bring together many different people from many different branches. The social aspect, the various approaches and creative opinions are certainly advancing the work itself as well as the people involved.

Character Design: water colour + vector - Copyright: Lukas Bischoff

Anybody who’s having a look at your website can find a number of very special works. I’m thinking of sketches in the “Character Design“ category. Where do your ideas and inspirations come from?

It’s always hard to find an answer to questions relating to inspiration and creativity. My creative attitude influences me 24/7. So, it doesn’t matter whether I’m at home, in the city or whether I’m talking to my friends: there’s a constant process in my mind saving impressions and observations. The goal is basically to have a broad archive of inspirations, which is accessable at any given time. Connecting various events, situations and impressions with a social and ethical background, relating fundamentally to design, result in a very exciting general view.

When exactly did you become aware of your goal to become professional in this area?
Admittedly, I wasn’t very motivated when going to school. My learning behaviour strongly depends on my interest and will to get myself into an issue. Wanting to draw and to become acquainted with creative backgrounds resulted in the start of an apprenticeship as a digital media designer. During the apprenticeship I became aware of the fact that it’s relatively easy for me to create a graphic imagery, whereby I’m able to apply my creativity effectively as well as controlled. I continued this learning process by starting to study communications design at the Trier technical college. The future will certainly see me working hard advancing further in order to find a fulfilling job with a lot of leeway in the future.

"befreiphone" - Copyright: Lukas Bischoff

Fun is the most important thing! Only those who are having fun while at work, will be able to come up with the essential energy and curiosity, which in turn also brings about professional advancement. Working very hard every day and trying to advance a little with every effort – and rewarding yourself for this effort and success. Those who are working hard, can also party hard!

Which part of your work do you like the best and which is frustrating?
I keep procrastinating my office work and I don’t like fixed working hours, as I love working at night. This certainly has a lot to do with the fact that I’m not into getting up early – when I have to get up early though, it makes me feel really bad and I find it hard to get started. However, I love working with a lot of leeway relating to the time schedule as well as to creativity. Anyway you can’t force the best works in the creative business, you have to develop them and you have to release them at the right time.

As a conclusion: What are you doing in your time off, also a lot of computers and graphics or do you take an entirely different direction there?
To be exact: I’m always off, as I see my job as a wonderful part of my life. Aside from the permanent creative process, I like good music, meeting friends and partying, definitely!

Visit Lukas Bischoff’s website

50 high-quality textures

spunte — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:27:50 +0000

Surfaces for your projects

Textures help to create surfaces with a realistic “coat”. They bring a piece of the real world into digital image editing which is often way too “clean”. You can include structured areas and convert them with different shapes. In this way you can create high-quality compositions.

In general, I would recommend to get approval from the designer when using his or her textures especially when you want to use the results of your work commercially. So you can be sure to avoid unpleasant surprises. And the designer will be delighted to know how his or her textures are used (even if the general approval is already posted online).