A Blank Piece of Paper…

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

-Sidney Sheldon

How do you beat your creative/writer’s block?

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/19/09

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Nothing is Original - swissmiss
2. “Vision” - Joshua Budich - Design You Trust
3. What Should You Get From Your Logo Designer - The Design Cubicle
4. You Are Beautiful - winterdrawings
5. 45 Sites, Free Icons And PSD Resources For Web-Design - 1stwebdesigner
6. 50 Illustrator Tutorials Every Designer Should See - Spoon Graphics
7. Vintage Images From Japan - Drawn!
8. The Beauty Of Urban Decay - Smashing Magazine
9. How to Create Advanced Isometric Illustrations Using the SSR Method - vectortuts

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Just a Reminder of What to Focus On

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/08/09

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. The Efficiency of Efficiency - BrainFuel
2. The___Cards - the-breeding-ground.com
3. Murray Moss: Design Hates a Depression - Design Observer
4. The Hyperrealist Sculptures of Ron Mueck - Design You Trust
5. Tim Dinter
6. Freaky Production House
7. Hope Gangloff - booooooom
8. 45 Vintage ‘Space Age’ Illustrations - Well Medicated
9. 16 Outstanding free Dreamweaver extensions - Woork

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/07/09

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Daily Inspiration - abduzeedo
2. Dude-A-Day - AtomicToy
3. jQuery plugin - Easy Image or Content Slider - CSS Globe
4. All the Logo Design Resources You Will Ever Need - The Design Cubicle
5. James Jean
6. How to Draw a Portrait in Photoshop - PSDTUTS
7. 30 Awesome CSS Galleries - Spoonfed Design
8. Business Card Design Project Walkthrough - Spoon Graphics

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 01/02/09

Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s 2009, but here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Photoshopped Ads - abduzeedo
2. Portraits by Mel Stringer - Drawn!
3. Jeff Kulak
4. HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy - Mashable
5. 5 Techniques to Acquaint You With CSS 3 - nettuts
6. 30 Super-Juicy Photoshop Illustration Tutorials - psdtuts
7. 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without - Smashing Magazine
8. 9 Design Blogs to Follow in 2009 - Tutorial 9
9. 50 Inspiring Vintage Advertisements - Well Medicated

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 12/30/08

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Astonishing Children Photography - abduzeedo
2. 50 Brilliant Design Articles of 2008 in 23 Categories + 40 Reader Submitted Posts - The Design Cubicle
3. The Anatomy of a Commercial Art Gig by S.britt - Drawn!
4. The Ultimate Guide to Building a Wordpress Plugin - nettuts
5. Make a Cut and Paste Rock Club Flyer - psdtuts
6. Seagulls Fly
7. The Celebration Of Cartoons and Comic Strip Art - Smashing Magazine
8. Looking Back On 2008 With Top Web Designers - Smashing Magazine
9. 25 Modest Websites With a Muted Colour Scheme - Spoon Graphics Blog
10. William Laskin
11. All WordPress Unusual Uses - Wordpress Feed

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 12/27/08

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. 40 Promotional Sites Where To Submit Your Design Related Links - 1stwebdesigner
2. Retro-Futuristic Art Inspiration: Part 2 - abduzeedo
3. Taking WordPress Widgets To The Next Level - Blogging Tips
4. Design Observer
5. My favourite Typefaces of 2008 - I Love Typography
6. The 2009 Eustace Tilley Contest - Lines and Color
7. The World From Above: The Beauty Of Aerial Photography - Smashing Magazine

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better: 12/26/08

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Daily Inspiration - abduzeedo
2. Academy Student Photoshop Works - 1stwebdesigner
3. Art of Wong
4. Best of CSS Design 2008 - Web Designer Wall
5. Danny Blackman
6. The EqualHeights jQuery Plugin - CSS Newbie
7. 15 Minimalist Designs - Spyre Studios
8. Weekly Faves - Spoon Graphics

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Today’s Links That Just Make Me Want to Be Better

Here is a list of links found today that just make me want to be a better illustrator/designer/creative-type person:

1. Thinking About Design Trends - Design Mind
2. Designer Neologisms - Design Mind
3. Barney Bubbles: Optics and Semantics - Design Observer
4. 8 Inspiring Type Specimens - Designer Daily
5. From Pascal - Drawn and Quarterly
6. 100 Cereal Box Covers - from the aeron
7. A - Z of Web Design - iampaddy
8. Doug Chiang - Lines and Colors
9. Mediocore - Mediocore

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