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Earlier this year, the full force of post-it note art broke with some of the most amazing visualizations ranging from Super Mario and Kirby to Elvis Presley and Ray Charles. However, where do you start if you want to get involved yourself? If you’ve got a design package like Adobe Photoshop with a grid function, the whole process is actually quite straightforward to design, leaving you with a simple, but time consuming, job of just following your design when you start sticking post-it notes to the wall.

Whether you decide to work from home, as a freelancer or even as a part of some creative team, your achievement as a Logo Designer centers upon one thing and that is, your creativity. In order to maintain the ideas to be new, prompt and continuing, you must take care of your inspiration levels. When you feel the pressure of work, it can get very difficult to stay motivated, but with control, time and concentration towards your work, you can help avert your motivation from drying up.

Logically, each person has their personal way of working, and you must always make it a point to listen to yourself as far as finding out how to continue the flow of your creative juices. Here are a few opinions and suggestions that might help you on your way.

These icons are available in large formats: 512×512 px, 256×256 px and 128×128 px. You can dowload and use them for free if you give the creators credit. Solid work and a great concept. Not all Twitter feeds are equal, and now you can link to your account with something others will remember you by.

As the creators tell us, “these birds have names and characters and you should find one that reflects yours in some way. They are ugly but cute and your visitors will definitely love them. They are not just icons or illustrations, but real mascots for you Twitter!”

There are some incredible things happening with CSS these days, and I think I found my favorite.

Cool things are happening over at ECSSpert. So far they have reproduced pure CSS logos for Twitter, Adidas, Adobe, an awesome animated Atari, and well… just go look for yourselves. More after the jump.

Blue is a mysterious colour with a wide range of positive and negative connotations. In English, the word blue is synonymous with sadness while in German blue means drunk. On the other hand, blue skies are associated with happiness and good times, and people pay thousands of dollars each year in search of a bright, blue seas in which to frolic. Below, you’ll find 30 spectacular blue images capturing what you might expect, like the sky and the ocean, and what you might not, like eggs, sneakers and wildlife.

We’ve all seen the standard e-store layout: a wall of product mini-photos and brief descriptions. But recent research indicates that if shoppers are exposed to too many options they freeze, hesitate, and move on without purchasing. So maybe store designs need to open up a bit and present their products with bigger pictures and more description. The result would be fewer items on the page, but a lot more information visually and textually for the product itself.

This collection of websites demonstrates just how this might look. The designs have far fewer products, but the images are large and vibrant, plus the descriptions are often more detailed.

The iPad is an amazing device that’s changed the way many people read news, play games and send email – but it’s easy to get bored of the default iPad backgrounds. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of beautifully designed, interesting and creative iPad wallpapers out there that can help keep the tablet fresh and fun.

We’ve collected a showcase of some beautifully detailed iPad wallpapers to help keep you inspired.

A lot of people tend to underestimate the impact color can have in a photo. Since we see a lot of colors on a daily basis, we don’t always understand how different hues can impact the ways in which we think and feel. Some label this the “Dorothy” effect. As you may recall, Dorothy from the “Wizard of Oz” lives in a world of black and white. She doesn’t know what she’s missing until she arrives at Oz and is astonished by interplay of vibrant colors.

Continue reading to experience the Dorothy Effect for yourselves.

As one application programming, HTML5 is widely used in some platforms script based. One of the functions that can be optimized is the use of the HTML5 web design to application development. Some of the techniques that you can try are to do some modification of the script code from a web design. With HTML5 and application of existing techniques, you can make some changes, including doing a combination of techniques HTML5 with j-Query. If you are interested in trying some of the existing functionality, is currently a lot of tutorials that can be alternatives, including how to use the HTML5 technique that suits as your needs.

Today we bring you a roundup of 25 beautifully vibrant high-res wallpapers. Use these for your desktop or for inspiration for your next project. The use of color in these examples is impressive and wonderfully done.