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American architect Julia Morgan once said, “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.“.

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Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an accurate portrayal of the structure has now gradually evolved into a manipulation of different perspectives to bring out the interesting elements of a single structure. The art of photographing architecture takes on many forms. Whether it is photographing the exterior or interior, many awesome images can be resulted with the correct techniques and more importantly, the observant eye to spot the different points of view.

Like other types of photography, what lies ahead is always a series of challenges for photographers before an excellent shot is taken. However, there are two main challenges in architecture photography – Lighting and Image distortion. When photographing the exterior, natural lighting is all you have got and you have to capture the building at its most glamorous moment. Image distortion occurs when the building has lines running horizontally and vertically and they appear distorted. The right equipment and the right angles would prevent that pitfall.

Interior architecture with repeating patterns and geometric shapes is a bonus to photographers. Employing the use of different camera angles would reveal the beauty of these designs. Architecture with unique and unusual structures also tend to catch our attention. We can’t help but start to ponder how it was made (or maybe built) possible. Photography comes into play as it does justice to impressive architecture.

You probably haven’t seen all the architecture in the entire globe, so we shall bring you bits of the world. Here is a collection of architecture photography that will keep you bedazzled. If you are amazed at these images, your jaws will drop in awe when you get to see the real McCoy.

Golden ceiling of Budapest Parliament | jackfre2

Balcony Harmony | roevin

Void of silence | Mindcage

Caracole | Giulio Ercolani

Lost in lines | Semir

St. Peter’s Basilica | jborowski_photo

Swirling at an angle | wonder_lick

86 Down Below | NazZmedia-Photography

Vortex | stefano longhi

Taj Mahal | sensorfleck

SOH Sails | Susie Knudsen

Way Up | christian_wind

“Vers une architecture” Towards an architecture | * galaad *

Cloisters at Durham Cathedral | Coiled_Pasta

Escaleras Helicoidales Spiral staircase | SoWhat -

Esplanade Singapore | Jusup Sukatendel

Architecture in Rotterdam | Dennis Veldman

Soaring buildings | Sebastian Trandafir

Aussie Architecture | ‘ Toshio ‘

Cathedral of Stairs | shutterBRI

Ceiling of Budapest | kimbar

Octagonal Chapter House of York Minster | KCLam

City of the Arts and the Sciences of Valencia, Spain | mhdezhdez

Arrow Heads of Esplanade Singapore | Guang Ye

El trono episcopal | SoWhat -

Let’s dance | Myxi

Alien architecture | Austrittswunde

ljusterapi | Dezeen

Observer | Kamuro

Perforated Roof | roevin

Symmetrical watercube | toomanytribbles

Underground Starship | roevin

It’s a long way up | nicksflix

Hyatt Lobby, Atlanta | scilit

Space architecture | Carsten Velten

Musical Architecture | Mauro Mendula

Architectural Contrasts | Alexandra Baltog

About Author – Kelly Swee is a new media consultant from Singapore. She specialize in video media platform and has a keen interest in digital media design artworks.

  

I thought I could not be out-geeked. With a background in radio, and having dabbled in the demo scene on the Commodore 64 and hung out on BBSes and IRC for a long time and all the other things normal kids don't quite get, I thought I was safe in this area.

Then I went to my first WhereCamp, an unconference dealing with geographical issues and how they relate to the world of Web development. Even my A-Levels in Astronomy did not help me there. I was out-geeked by the people who drive and tweak the things that we now consider normal about geo-location on the Web.

Pulling out your phone, find your location and getting directions to the nearest bar is easy, but a lot of work has gone into making that possible. The good news is that because of that effort, mere geo-mortals like you and me can now create geographically aware products using a few lines of code. So, let's give the geo-community a big hand.

Typography plays an important role and is an integral part of any design; be it print or web. Sometimes, when there is no room for images, typeface is all you’ve got to give the audience an idea what the whole thing is all about.

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Image credit: Sven the ghost by Starfy

But one common thing in designing with typeface is – we usually use a particular font once for any design or campaign. It’s probably not worth buying, certainly not economically feasible from a business standpoint.

If you have recently receive assignment or job to create design for something gothic, spooky or old-fashioned we urge that you take a look at the following free fonts we’ve collected before adding premium fonts to your shopping cart. Here’s a list of 50+ free gothic and horror fonts you may want to bookmark.

Here are more font relative article we’ve previously published:

• 100 Greatest Abstract and Grunge Fonts
• 40 Free Unique Cartoon and Comic Fonts
• 40 Free High Quality Hand-drawn Fonts

Full list after jump.

Cold Night for Alligators

Feast of Flesh BB

Nightmare

Brutal Tooth

Creepsville

Friday 13

Survival Horror

Blood Crow

Mars Attacks

Horror

Holitter Spike

DBE-Beryllium

The haine au carre

Cannibal Corpse

Solstice Of Suffering

Zombified

Kreepshow Frigid

HoMicIDE EFfeCt

Bloodsuckers

Brain Damage

The Blob

Plasma Drip Font

Were Wolf Font

You Murderer Font

Creepygirl

Spookymagic

Hello ween font

Black Oak

Resident Evil

Wild Wood

Sin of the innoccent

Windswept MF

13th Ghostwrite

Splywaj

Almost Dead Bloody

GhostParty

Bosque Encantado

4 Dogs

BN Manson Nights

Amhole

Vtks espinhuda

Gantz

Last N Line

Carsi

Dzr Mental

Psychotic

Convalescence

Cocaine Sans

Knife Fight

Blasphemy

El&font Block

About author: Dainis is blogger from Latvia. He is webmaster of Psdeluxe.com (Photoshop deluxe) – Design community where you find photoshop tutorials and useful resources for web and graphic designers. Follow Dainis on Twitter

  

The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful, the joy of getting paid to pursue your passion can be tainted by the less joyous realities of the professional world. You see, no matter how skilled you are as a designer, unless you are equally prepared in professional matters, your prospects will be limited and your circumstances compromised. This is true whether you work freelance, for an agency or in-house with a company.

Every week I hear from designers who are struggling to come to terms with these realities. Unhappy with their current circumstances, they write to ask for advice on improving their lot. Usually, they either claim not to understand how things got so bad, or they lay the blame somewhere other than at their own feet. In every case, however, the sole cause is their poor choices and lack of professional acumen. It needn’t be so.

Photoshop is cool, and we mean really cool! With the right technique and some creativity you can totally turn any image into something extraordinary with a bigger impact. It’s fun to just take a photo, manipulate and see what output becomes.

Today we want to show you some amusing photo manipulation – the robotic animals. These images comes from our talented friends over at worth1000 who took Photoshop into the next level by manipulating photos of normal animal and turned them into robotic creative by injecting mechanical parts into their body. We hope this inspires you and help your creativity.

Quick article recommendations for animal lovers:

• 50 Amazing Wildlife & Animal Wallpapers
• 21 Excellent Examples of Animal Web Mascots
• Beautiful Black and White Photography of Animals

Enjoy!

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Robotic Mosquito | Catfish08

Leportron 6603 | Gavh

Mechano-Squirrel | AlterThis

Cyber W’horse 1K | MatSat

Slither | MarcSTLouis

Robo-Chicken | YearoftheDragon

Cybermantis | Trit

Monkey Bot 2.0 | Dechko

S-D Z632 | Thunderhorse

Battle Snail | Claven

Ferrari Dragonfly | Terrence

Robo-Turtle | Omerican

LadyCybug | Alliex

Armageddillo | Chris

RoboMantis | Jaylee1

Robo Lobster | solipsism

Wireless Doggle | Linglie

Driller Worm | vipez666

Baluga | Eumesmo

The Prototype | Svethead

Peamanmeatinator | Chris

Overkill | Pepey78

Robolizard | Garsaelon

FlaminGr0b0t | Chris

Mechtrout | solipsism

Cyber Cat | Mandrak

Note: No animals were hurt during these photo manipulations.

  

  

Although much valuable information for all sorts of web and print professionals can be found online, it is often difficult to weed through all the noise and find good quality content. I believe it's vital that professionals in different creative fields supplement their online learning and research through well-edited and high-quality print publications.

Print magazines, more often than not, are well-researched and are headed by top-notch editorial staff, usually containing information and resources on the cutting edge of their respective industries' trends and happenings. To that end, to help you fulfill part of your offline research needs, I've compiled a list of print magazines that are of interest to professionals in three different categories: Web Designers, Digital Artists, and Photographers. And be sure to comment so you can tell us your personal favourite print magazine, if you don't see it listed here.

  

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful software for illustrating that allows users to produce beautiful artwork, technical illustrations, and even graphics for both print and the web. Adobe Illustrator is a multipurpose vector illustration tool and its versatility makes it the most preferred choice among many professional artists and designers.

In the past, we've published a collection of Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World, and this is the latest post that will showcase the power of Adobe Illustrator. We present here hundreds of brilliant illustrations by artists from around the world that will surely mesmerize you and stir your imagination. Have a look, and feel the power of Illustrator!

We recognize that there are many more highly-talented illustrators that may not be mentioned here. We can't cover them all, but with your help we can try to showcase them in future posts. Please feel free to comment on this article and mention the name of your favorite artist.

Every now and then we find ways to reward our readers to show how much we appreciate the support they’ve given to us along the way. Sometimes we create giveaway contests; sometimes we give out freebies and hope that some will find them useful.

Today we would like to release yet another set of social network icons – The Social Truck Icons.

Social Truck Icon set consists of 10 social network icons; delivered as PNGs at the super-size of 512 pixels and these cute icons are designed by Andrea Austoni exclusively for Hongkiat.com readers only. Andrea is an Italian freelance designer currently living in Krakow, Poland. He specializes in icon design and illustration. He runs Cute Little Factory, his portfolio and blog, where he frequently publishes tutorials and freebies.

As usual, these icons are absolutely free and you are allowed to use them in personal or commercial project. Just don’t redistribute, re-sell or attempt to make profit out of it. If you like it, consider linking back to this entry or share it with your friends.

We hope these Social Truck icons will bring you more traffic or caused a traffic congestion on your website or blog :-)

Download Social Truck Icons now.

  

App Store is a competitive environment. Against more than 140,000 apps, all screaming for attention, how do you make sure your app gets its time in the spotlight? What does it take to get good media coverage? How do you get people to talk about your app—and, ideally, how do you get them to buy it and show it to their friends?

Following the simple rules laid out below, you will increase your chances in the battle for fame and glory. These tips might seem rudimentary or in-your-face obvious, but they are so often neglected in the heat of the moment.

Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too many disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed.

A creative resume is fairly important. Not only it resembles your personality, it also speaks your capability and creativity. Putting more effort and thoughts into creating an impressive resume is definitely worthwhile, as it is usually the first thing any employer sees before flipping through your entire portfolio.

Today we want to bring to your attention a collective of 45 creative and beautiful resumes that will definitely impress an employer. Let’s not take any chances to let your dream job slip away (again). Full list after jump.

Curriculum Vitae by Jonny-Rocket
A CV that probably laid the author the job and great at attracting attention among several hundred applicants.

Resume by Pau Morgan

Me, Myself Curriculum Vitae by Novisurjadi

Life Chart Resume
Author’s first take at visualizing general tasks he does daily between age 0-32. It also highlights significant events of the last 20 years.

Resume by Arianedenise

Resume on Fabric
Just a creative way to get a graphic design job, while expressing author’s parallel interest in fabric and sewing.

Curriculum Vitae by Mistis
A retro and vintage CV with pictures.

Curriculum Vitae by iTudor

Curriculum Vitae by Verine

Curriculum Vitae by bulooji

Curriculum Vitae by Fransanchez

Vinyl Record-Themed Resume
A relatively clean teaser of a graphic designer’s resume, black and white version. Made to match a vinyl record-themed portfolio design.

Michael Anderson Resume Infographic
A different perspective on the typical time-line theme resume. This is just concept art, as there are almost no real metrics represented except for time.

Resume by ChuckDLay
A copy of author’s resume included in each issue of DESGINERD toward the end where the novelty ads would normally be.

Resume by Adam Stephenson

Resume by Anna Yenina

Personal Resume Draft by Steven Duncan
An eye catching resume illustrating author’s education and work-place experience since high school.

Graphic Design Resume by SunnyBlack
A resume that designed for a typographic class.

Resume Advice by Gusbodr

2009 Resume SID Santos
Resume on a paper cup, tissue paper and a piece of receipt.

Resume Passport

Resume Confidential 2008 by Sercan Tunali

Resume by Kelly Haller
A newly designed resume for my business practices class.

Server Resume by Matthew Villalovos
A resume that designed for someone who was applying to be a waiter at a restaurant.

Resume and Card

2004 Resume SID Santos
Fold the resume to become a 3-D box.

Box Ad 2.1
A resume/self-promo box and big enough to print out and fold up.

Original Resume T-shirt
Resume T-shirt by BlackBirdTees.

Curriculum Vitae by Greg Dizzia
This is an appendage to a traditional resume, to be included as a forward page in portfolio.

Curriculum Vitate by Sofiane42

Curriculum Vitae by Uito2

Curriculum Vitae by AkiDesign

Curriculum Vitae by fede-moral

Curriculum Vitae by Michael Farrow
8 pages booklet type CV.

Curriculum Vitae by 802.11

Timeline Resume
A timelie resume and work history by Robert Berg.

Work Resume by Yingzhy Luqiu
A non-traditional resume.

Resume by David Bonggas
Resume in urban-art version and done with adobe photoshop CS3.

TLS Resume 2008

Character Resume by SeanMcNally

Resume by Rush.Me

A2 Poster CV by Hippiedesigner
CV interpreted into a A2 poster. A poster designed to be printed A2 size, put in a A4 envelope and mailed to prospective employers.

Visual Resume by Oona
A resume that more cuter and eye-catching than type-on-paper-crap.

Typographic Resume by Christa
A typographic resume by Christa.

Resume by Krista Gregg

  

Web design is a relatively young field. It's youthful, growing and made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds, many of whom lack formal design training. We have learned, and still are learning, as we go. I came into my first job as a Web designer for Boeing back in the mid-1990s, with no formal design training. I was lucky to get some training on the job, and I would guess that my experience there was similar to that of many who are reading this article.

I had the opportunity to work with some very talented and highly experienced designers who all had made the jump from other design fields to the Web. It was there, as part of that training, that I learned about critiquing, both giving and receiving, through regular design reviews.

Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too many disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/45_Creative_Resumes_to_Sieze_Attention'; A creative resume is [...]

  

There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it's not a surprise that text is treated with utmost care. In this article, we'll look at some useful techniques and clever effects that use the power of style sheets and some features of the upcoming CSS Text Level 3 specification, which should give Web designers finer control over text.

Keep in mind that these new properties and techniques are either new or still in the works, and some of the most popular browsers do not yet support them. But we feel it's important that you, as an informed and curious Web designer, know what's around the corner and be able to experiment in your projects.

  

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month. So if you need to look up some date, isn’t it better to show off a nice wallpaper with a nice calendar instead of launching some default time application?

This post features 50 free desktop wallpapers, created by designers across the globe. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can be downloaded for free.

Please notice:

• all images can be clicked and lead to the preview of the wallpaper;
• you can feature your work in our magazine by taking part in our desktop wallpaper calendar series. We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists to be featured on Smashing Magazine. Are you one of them?

So what wallpapers have we received for March 2010?

  

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch and then only updated with minor tweaks to suit the content.

It has become a recent trend for charities to look at their online identities and branding; spending money on creating user experiences which suit their user base, and over time getting people involved with their campaigns and messages.

Below we look at charity websites which have successfully developed their online brand using modern and creative ideas. We will also discuss how each charity website can be improved because, as we all know, not every website is perfect. There are always improvements to the design or usability that may have been overlooked by management, designers, or developers.

By: Christian Arno

The ‘look and feel‘ of a website is the cornerstone of any successful online venture. But the very nature of the internet means that the instant you upload your carefully constructed pages onto the World Wide Web, you’re global.

Image: via YukoTVXQ

Indeed, regardless of whether you intend to make buckets of cash from your website or simply build a strong international following online, there are numerous aspects of your site’s design you should consider from the start, to ensure it’s flexible and adaptable to international requirements. If you want to build a number of foreign-language equivalents of your main site, they need to be properly localized before you launch and the process can be made much less painful if you plan from the start.

1. Text

Image: via subgrafik

For those more inclined towards the front-end design aspect of websites than the ‘behind the scenes’ system-related aspects, consider this technical truism: computers deal with numbers, not letters.

Indeed, letters and other characters are displayed by having a number designated to each one through a system of encoding. Traditionally, there were lots of encoding systems covering different languages, but Unicode changed all that.

Unicode provides a unique number for every character, regardless of platform, program or language. It has been adopted by industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun and many others. Importantly, it is supported in most of the common operating systems and browsers. The development of Unicode is one of the most significant global software technology trends in recent years.

Most of the popular web design applications such as Dreamweaver and, for real beginners, Microsoft Front Page, facilitate the development of Unicode web pages.

Unicode can currently be used for over 90 scripts, and has a repertoire of over 100,000 characters. UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode that is familiar to most programmers. It is the best option when creating websites for international markets, as it allows you to use characters from many different languages. For example, German uses the ‘Eszett’ symbol (ß) in place of ’ss’, whilst three German vowels use the Umlaut (ä, ö and ü).

In short, you’re best using Unicode if you’re planning on adapting your website for other languages.

2. Color symbolism

Image: via djFargo

Color is an important facet of any website. Your choice of colors will depend on whatever product or service you’re selling. If you’re an environmental company from the west, you may have a lot of green on your site…if you run a water sports business, there may be a lot of blue.

However, your choice of colors should also reflect your target audience. For example, red can denote ‘danger’, ‘love’ or ‘passion’ in Western cultures; whilst it signifies ‘purity’ in India and ‘good luck‘ or ‘celebration’ in China.

Orange has religious connotations for Protestants in Northern Ireland, whilst it also represents ‘autumn’ (‘fall’), ‘Halloween’ or ‘creativity’ in many Westerns cultures too.

Green represents ’spring’, ‘nature’ and the environment in many cultures, but if you’re ever thinking of depicting a green hat on your site, it’s worth knowing that this signifies that a man’s wife is cheating on him in China. It can also represent an exorcism.

Other examples are Purple: ‘royalty’ (Western) or ‘mourning’ (Thailand). Interestingly, black denotes ‘funerals’ or ‘death’ in Western cultures, but in many Eastern cultures white is used to denote this.

To avoid having to overhaul your website when targeting a new market, carefully consider your color scheme from the start.

3. Content

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Nobody will visit your website for the design alone. The online marketing mantra ‘content is king‘ certainly rings true for most websites – you have to offer genuinely useful content for your domestic and international visitors.

Adapting your content for international markets requires a two-step process: localization and optimization.

Localization

The localization aspect simply requires a professionally qualified native-speaking translator for each of your target markets. If you’re serious about making money from your international websites, then you have to consider dialects too.

For example, many words mean different things in French (France), Canadian French and Swiss/Belgian French. ‘Lunch’ is déjeuner in France, but dîner in Switzerland and Belgium. And in France, dîner is the word for ‘evening meal’. Coche in Spain is the word for a ‘car’, whilst in many South American countries, it means a baby-stroller. Indeed, a baby-stroller will be unfamiliar to UK readers, who’ll be more likely to use a ‘pushchair’ or ‘buggy’.

So you get the point. If you’re serious about your global endeavors, you have to treat each of your target markets as separate entities.

The translation of your website is made a lot easier if you use minimal Flash content on your site, as it’s difficult to edit, copy and carry out word counts, processes that are crucial to the translation process. Moreover, words are the food of search engines, and given that the likes of Google can’t detect words embedded in Flash files, these kinds of sites aren’t very SEO friendly.

Optimization

In terms of optimizing your website for international markets, you shouldn’t translate your keywords and phrases directly from your English language website. People may use abbreviations, acronyms or synonyms to search for a product locally, so you have to research what terms consumers actually use to search for items in each of your markets.

These phrases should then be incorporated into your professionally translated website, preferably on a dedicated ‘in-country’ domain (see below).

4. Domains

Image: via Heberger Site

It may be cheaper and more convenient to have a single domain for all your target countries, but from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective, there’s an argument that says it’s best to have a dedicated top-level domain (TLD) for each of your target countries, (e.g. ‘co.uk’ for the UK or ‘.ch’ for Switzerland etc). Search engines use the top-level domain to help establish the ‘location‘ of the website (‘geo-targeting’), which will affect your position on country-specific search engines (Google.co.uk, Google.fr, etc)

Similarly, it’s best to check that each of your domains is hosted on a server in your target country too, as search engines use this information to determine your website’s location.

The website address of the domain you purchase is important too as Google reads the words in the URL. So if your company produces software, for example, you may want to have the word ’software’ in the URL, though this should be translated into the language of your target country.

Developing websites to support multiple languages is a challenging endeavor; if you choose to have one domain to host several multi-language versions of your site, ensure you create a different sub-domain for each language. So if, for example, your TLD is: http://www.mycompany.com, then the sub-domain for its German language version would be http://de.mycompany.com. Conversely, the in-country domain would be: http://www.mycompany.de.

5. Navigation

Image: via Little Miss. Sunshine

Navigation is a crucial aspect of the web design process. Consistency and ‘landmarking’ help web users find their way around your site and. Navigation should be intuitive.

If you have a vertical menu bar on the left of your English-language website, it’s worth considering switching this to the right for languages that read ‘right to left’ (RTL), such as Arabic. This isn’t essential, as you can have menus on the opposite side of the page, but it all depends how you want your website to appear to your visitors. Alternatively, use a horizontal menu bar to eliminate the need to make any amendments at all.

You might also want to consider creating an ‘entrance page‘ to your site, where users choose the navigation language of the site. Or, you can use English as the default language, and have clearly labeled options for switching to other languages.

Some businesses use IP2Country services that automatically detect the country of the visitor based on their IP address. Some simple, dynamic code on your web pages will enable this – however, this method isn’t always 100% reliable, so it’s perhaps best leaving the language selection process to the user.

And there you have it. These are just some of the basic issues to consider when building a multilingual friendly website. Good luck conquering the world!

About author: Christian Arno is the founder of Lingo24, a multi-million dollar international translation and localization company with more than a hundred employees in over 60 countries. Learn more about multilingual web design.

By: Christian Arno The ‘look and feel‘ of a website is the cornerstone of any successful online venture. But the very nature of the internet means that the instant you upload your carefully constructed pages onto the World Wide Web, you’re global. Image: via YukoTVXQ Indeed, regardless of whether you intend to make buckets of cash from [...]

  

Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach. The most obvious is that when taking inspiration from similar mediums, there's a fine line between "inspired by" and "copied". To some extent, looking at established website designs can also be somewhat limiting, especially if you're looking for a fresh solution to a problem.

There are so many things designers could be turning to for inspiration outside of design galleries. We've cataloged a dozen of those places below, along with where you can find inspiration for each of them. Share any other inspirational sources you might have in the comments.

Flash has been around for ages; from the days of Macromedia Flash to Adobe’s acquisition. It is a platform that opens up a whole new room of opportunities and possibilities how website can be presented.

Despite the fact that Flash has limitations like SEO-unfriendly, plug-in required, slow loading (sometimes), etc, it is still one of the best approaches to create interactive websites that will impress your visitors. In today’s post we’ve collected 60 really creative Flash websites created by expert Flash developers all over the world. Take a look, your inspiration could start from here.

More flash related articles we’ve previously published:

• Flash Photo Galleries and Tutorials
• 10 Killer Flash Tips For Beginners

Enjoy!

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The 3rd Generation Prius

Tag Galaxy

Tag Galaxy is a very good flash application that uses Papervision3D with beautiful transition effects to explore Flickr photos via virtual planetary systems. You enter a tag and related tags appear with beautiful planetary systems.

Mercedes-Benz | B-Class

The CLUE Virtual Mansion

Flash 3D game. Beautifully made.

If Your Milk Carton MoOOos, You Win!

Case-Mate: I Make My Case

You can design your custom iPhone case in this cool Flash application.

Plate Interactive

Creative idea with fantastic effects.

SposiAmo

Wedding planner site from Italy. Elegant design with romantic background music.

DG Estilistas

Cheese & Burger Society

GT3 Creative

Skoda Yeti – Catch and Win!

Lois Jeans | SPRING SUMMER ‘09

Harajuku

Christmas Tweets

IKEA Soft Toys AID

Infrared5

Pearl Jam Ten Game

Stefan Kovac – Portfolio

Flash presentation of Stefan Kovac’s selected web & interactive work.

The Scruffs game – unofficial site

Herbal Essences Spice

Beautiful graphic design, and nice animations. The website also has game.

TheOleg | Freelance designer

This is the site of Ukrainian freelance designer Oleg Kostyuk.

Daniel Kusaka

Interactive Design Portfolio of Daniel Kusaka from Brazil. Interesting design.

Wonderful Moment Project

Volkswagen Efficiency : Volkswagen UK

PIAGGIO MP3

Kasulo.ws

Portfolio of Ricardo Dias featuring web and print contents. Gorgeous design, and inspiring idea.

Lech.pl

LECH beer in 3D

Pritt – Knutselwereld

GOOD | How do we achieve harmony?

Verbatim Championship

Cool robots with cute animation.

McCafé / Make Your Own Cappuccino Art

You can make your own cappuccino art and save to gallery. McCafe from McDonalds.

HBO Imagine

TESTEMALE-PHOTOS.COM

Bernard Testemale’s professional photography portfolio site.

Levi’s® 501® 2007

THE PROFILER™

Use The Profiler to visualize what’s behind your profile picture, and discover what goes on in your friends’ heads. You can connect with your facebook.

Red Bull Soapbox Racer

Red Bull Soapbox Racer is a 3D racing game in Flash.

Toyota: Every 5 seconds

Featuring Toyota cars: Yaris, Auris, Corolla, Avensis, Camry, RAV4, Prado.

hiroshi seo / photographs TIME:LINE

hiroshi seo is a photographer from Japan.

Samsung Jet | Smarter than Smartphone

Bloody Rage 2

Bloody Rage 2 is a 3D Fighting game created in flash using Away3D engine.

Volvo FH16 700

Polo

2Advanced v5 – Attractor

2Advanced Studios

The Economist: Thinking Space

Virtual Sean | The Official Sean Kingston Site

Sean Kingston Sing Along with Lil Sean Karaoke

TWIGITAL

Twigital is an interactive 3D twitter visualisation in Flash.

thetoke™ interactive / broadcast

interactive, broadcast, art, motion, sound design, and flash development.

EnergyLab

Maria Filó – Verão 2010

FIFA Street 3

Coke Live Music Festival

The RailAway Express

The RailAway Express is an Away3D experiment looks like a roller coaster.

Aerial Virtual tour of New York City, USA

Amazing view of New York City 2009 virtual tour.

Relapse

Eminem’s new album website.

the951 – The legend is back.

DJ Hero

DJ Hero website for DJ lovers.

Morgan Stanley Matrix. Ideas into action

Honda Accord 2008

SAIZEN MEDIA STUDIOS

NIGHTWISH – Saizen Media Studios portfolio of selected works. Extremely beautiful graphic design and stunning animations.

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