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Bookshelf Designs Unusual And Desirable

Design is everywhere, all the buildings, cars, planes, clothes and even bookshelves are designed by the designers. Such different visual design is  good inspiration source for web and graphic designers because it’s totally different creative  field somehow related of course. This collection will help you to feed your imagination with fresh and creative ideas from furniture design range. Some of the listed examples are very creative and you’ll be surprised that bookshelf could look so impressive and be functional in the same time. 1. T.SHELF 2.  “Krea” bookcase 3.  Saba Italia 4. Twin Shelves 5. The Swollen Wall 6. WisdomTree 7. Cardboard Bookshelf 8. Digitally Fabricated Bookshelf 9. Toboga Bookcase 10. Domino Expo 11. The Laica Bookshelf 12. Bibliotheque Tree 13. MYDNA Twist Bookcase 14. Books on the wall 15. Curly bookshelf 16. Circle 17. Elfa desk 18. “M40″ wardrobe and bookcase 19. Yellow 20. Bookshelf 21. Ideas for the office 22. TOTO 23. MDAY bookcase

HTML5 Canvas + color cycling = 8-bit graphical win!

While the bulk of the buzz about HTML5 still seems to be focused on the video tag, there are plenty of other awesome developments cropping up. Things like drag-and-drop attachments in GMail and all those crazy Internet Explorer 9 Test Drive samples. Then there's the work of developer Joe Huckaby . Joe has taken images created by graphic artist Mark Ferrari to produce some incredibly cool, animated retro gaming images using HTML 5's canvas element to reproduce an effect called color cycling . While the demos themselves are impressive, equally as impressive is the fact that they work extremely well on darn near any HTML5-compatible browser -- including mobile Safari. Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: Next Generation Web Standards You can view Joe's demos on this page -- my favorite is the one above, Water City Gates.

MyPaint lets you draw beautiful freehand pictures

I love freehand painting. While I have absolutely no talent, I love the freedom of working with paint or even crayons. It just feels nice, even if the result is nothing to write home about (in my case, at least). If you're looking to replicate the same experience on a computer, there's always  Corel Painte r. But on the off chance that you don't have hundreds of dollars to spend just to doodle,  MyPaint  gives you a nice chunk of functionality for the even nicer price of...  free . The program comes with many brushes that are divided into several categories. The brushes seem to work quite well at default settings. In case you want to tweak something, though, hitting Ctrl+B shows the Brush Settings dialog, which has a mind-boggling array of parameters that you can change for the brush you've selected. The interface is multi-windowed but is not as horrible as GIMP's (sorry, GIMP lovers). The color picker is quite advanced and features color-matching harmonies (wh

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