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Crestock recently is having their wallpaper contest opens to all readers, with a total of 3 Rounds, the challenge is for designers to come up with a wallpaper design for the famous Hip Hop icon, Snoop Dogg. There will be three different themes for each rounds and source file for contestant to download and use it as part of the wallpaper design.

Here are the Round 1 top ten winners..

1st place, Traz - Stéphane Meye

2nd place, Jamesacklin

3rd place, Arielr

4th - Anandjpurohit

5th - Tincha

6th - IDesign

7th - Toddpolish

8th - Raduard

9th - Pain219

10th - Kevio

Personally I kinda like the 10th, 8th and the 4th wallpaper design, all three wallpaper has the hip hop mood. Which one is your favorite?

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Did you know ‘KWANON’ is the origin logo name first used in 1933 for the first trial camera production made from Japan which is now call CANON.

In June 1934, Yoshida and his brother in law Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda, a former subordinate of Uchida, released their first trial camera call the ‘Kwanon’, named after the Buddhist goddess of mercy, which include the wording and an image of Kwanon with 1,000 Arms and flames. Since Kwanon and Canon had similar pronunciations, the transition went smoothly until nowadays people still call it Kwanon in Japan.

Canon had gain its own high profile in the consumer market after the company begin full-scale marketing starting in 1935. During the same year, Kwanon has come up with a new logo and the name was changed to Canon to reflect a more modern concept identity.

1934 - The engraved Kwanon logo was used on cameras trial-manufactured by the Company (but not actually released in the market).

1935 - The Canon logo is registered as a trademark. Prominent features were already inherent in the refinement process.

1953 - Unification of the logo. The image was further refined to achieve an overall balance.

1956 - The current logo was the culmination of painstaking and meticulous design efforts.

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Have you ever forgotten the World Cup already? since it’s only organized every four years, many of us might forgotten how your favorite team had gone through every match and how your favorite players score a beautiful goal until your team declare the champion among the champions.

Here is to fresh your memories, the World Cup 2010 is coming and what I’m so excited about is how the poster design look like. The official 2010 FIFA World Cup™ poster was designed by the South African creative agency Switch, who also created the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ emblem. What I can say about the design is, it was so vibrant and the colors are inspired by the South African flag that comes in a shape of an African’s human head and it also symbolized the African continent itself. The strong yellow background shows that African has rich passion of a football game and that’s what make the poster design beat other three rivals in a public vote held throughout South Africa from 11 September to 30 September last year.

p/s : What’s your favorite team! Mine is Argentina!!

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Inspirations! ..is something for me + you need to have as a designer, a good inspirations comes with something that you can deliver creatively in your works of art in result to display good + great impact. There are lots of web design galleries on the net has been showcased you with thousands of good web design look, but here I share with you guys what I’ve been inspired of 15 most valuable web design gallery that showcased only the best + clean + superb web design around the globe. Since esharkdesign.com has been featured on webcreme.com, I’ve been motivated and inspired to create + design + experimental a best web design CSS based so far as now I’m still learning.

Let’s start, but first take a deep breath first….

cssbeauty.com - Its purpose is to showcase designers’ work and to act as a small portal to the CSS design community. If you are “in need of inspiration”, you have come to the right place.

cssbloom.com - CSS Gallery gathering the best CSS blogs and online portfolios.

cssdrive.com - Not just the site has a clean categories of web design to easily choose from, cssdrive is providing a forums + tutorial examples on how to built up your skills on css coding. I love this site too.

csselite.com - CSS gallery and web sites development resources.

cssheaven.com - CSS Heaven is all about Fresh and innovative CSS / XHTML web designs from around the world and is a central resource to view a wide range of eye catching and innovative web designs plus inspire you to create new and exciting web designs.

cssmania.com - A total of 10029 web sites showcased today since March 2004 makes cssmania as the one that have wide range of web sites gallery so far.

cssremix.com - With over 15,000 readers daily, cssremix definetily among the favourite web sites gallery showcasing all the best + fresh 2.0 sites around the globe.

css-website.com - It may be not as popular as other css gallery, but css-website do has showcased some good rare + unique websites that you probably have not yet seen.

csscandy.com - Showcased the best WordPress blogs + portfolios sites, eventhough CSScandy still fresh on the net, it has been showcased many best WordPress blogs + portfolios sites.

csscreme.com - csscreme only showcased all the beautiful original + quality best web sites around the globe which makes it as one of my favourite web design resources.

cssflavor.com - Showcased designer’s work of well designed CSS based & standard compliant websites around the world.

cssbased.com - CSS Based is a project providing web designers a gallery of well designed CSS-based websites from all around the world.

cssstar.com - Claims to be the most updated CSS web design gallery, not sure about that but this site has highlighted only the BEST sites, ideas + designs made respecting quality standards.

cssvault.com - One of my favourite web design gallery for inspiration, cssvault showcased good concept of wed designs and it’s sure useful for you not just as a designer, it can also for the web developer, programmer or just a CSS advocate.

cssimpress.com - Just launched last year and it’s already showcased many kinds of best web designs ranging from portfolios, freelance, sports, movies, shopping, technology, travel and lots more.

That’s what I have it so far guys, hope you all get some good inspirations out of it and remember get inspired! NOT copy. You are free to add on some more of your favourites web design galleries if any and let’s see where your inspirations came from..

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Hooray!! EsharkDesign logo has been listed among the top 20 logos nominated in the Logo Design Love Award on Designs and Photography Blog Designs categories. A self-employed graphic designer from Edinburgh, Scotland, David Airey was the one behind this creative website of Logo Design Love Award, and he refers Logo Design Love is a website devoted to logo. There are total of 10 blog categories battling up to be the winner.

If you like my Logo design you are free to vote by leaving your comment here and write EsharkDesign as your prefered Logo design since there’s also Reader Appreciation Award. However, if you don’t really like my logo design, that’s okay no hearts feeling from me, you can also vote for the other logo design which also been nominated, because all the logo design are good quality design judged by distinguished panel of judges who will decide upon the overall winner.

I didn’t bet any hope, I’m just honored and excited to be part of Logo Design Love Award. Thanks everyone who votes!

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Do you use FireFox as your favourite Internet browser?

If yes.. then, do you have the skills + creativity to show off your favourite FireFox as your favourite browser on a T-Shirt? You are free to join the FireFox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest to get all the answer, it’s okay if you don’t have the creativity at all, the requirement does not state any creative idea is a must, lets join the fun and show your loved with FireFox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest.

Here’s briefly how the contest work, Firstly.. once you’ve create your design you need to upload to the contest-specific Flickr group FF3 T-Shirt Design Contest for review. Then there will be 5 top designs on the first round will be selected and later will be posted online at the Mozilla Store for public voting, means you will determined who’s the winner! The winning design will be featured as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt and will be stored online at Mozilla Store as an exclusive item! Plus.. you’ll receive a worldwide recognition (probably the biggest achievement of your work ever).

Let’s we have fun with FireFox!!

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What is Graphic Design? I can differ Graphic Design as a huge range of creative ideas in many kind of elements + colors that has no boundaries. The moment you open up your eyes everyday when you woke up from bed, the first thing you see is Graphic Design.

at Veerle’s blog design, a very talented graphic/web designer from Belgium, you can find the meaning of What is Graphic Design to be more accurate. It happens where Veerle’s blog is just finished having a great competition for all her readers, and it’s a competition you need to know all about Graphic Design.

I’ve sum up the best of 10 winners and here are those lucky winners :

1st place, Juanma-Gabriele. Winner of Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design Premium or CS3 Web Premium or CS3 Production Premium (winner’s choice) + Adobe Kuler t-shirt.

2nd place, Gravitivy Machine. Winner of iPod Nano Red donated by EllisLab + 1 annual online training account for 1 year from the Kelby Media Group + Adobe CS3 t-shirt.

3rd Place, My Way Home. Winner of ExpressionEngine Commercial License + Tag Module license + 6 month - Shared Hosting S-3 plans ($40/month plan) by EngineHosting + Adobe Kuler t-shirt

4th place, Ksteed. Winner of One hour web conference with the Illustrator team + any Adobe “Classroom in a Book” + Annual online training account from Kelby Media Group for 1 year + Adobe CS3 t-shirt.

5th place, Presentday. Winner of 1 training DVD Adobe Photoshop CS3 “Power Session” + an Apress book or eBook (winner’s choice) + Adobe Kuler t-shirt + Complete Vector Set or Texture Set of the winner’s choice by Go Media Arsenal.

6th place, Two Fish Illustration & Design. Winner of 1 training DVD Adobe Photoshop CS3 “Channels” + an Apress book or eBook (winner’s choice) + Adobe CS3 t-shirt.

7th place, Rwarne. Winner of an Apress book or eBook (winner’s choice) + 6 month-Shared Hosting S-3 plans ($40/month plan) by EngineHosting.

8th place, Ale?!. Winner of 6 month - Shared Hosting S-3 plans ($40/month plan) by EngineHosting + Adobe Kuler t-shirt.

9th place, Glenrcraig. Winner of iStockphoto t-shirt and mousepad + FontShop agenda.

10th place, Cage Batubara. Winner of iStockphoto t-shirt and mousepad + FontShop agenda.

To view more of those creative poster design submision that didn’t manage to go to the finals, click here!. Pity I’ve missed another great competition…

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A quiet amazing calendar design made for Truck Center by one design firm in Russia, “Knock Knock”. Don’t bother to visit the site if you cannot speak Russian.

Look through on every truck window passing around the world and keep your eyes on small details inside the truck..

January, Russia.

February, Alaska.

March, France.

April, Japan.

May, India.

Jun, Mexico.

July, Afghanistan.

August, Africa.

September, USA.

October, Germany.

November, England.

December, Italy.

Amazing isn’t it? Which month would be your favourite calendar of the year 2008..

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A great + unique Olympics promotion ever..

and this one was my favourite..

created by an advertising agency from Italy, 1861 UNITED and photographed by Lorenzo Vitturi.

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After a successful graphic design award competition last year before, David Airey, a self-employed graphic designer in Edinburgh, Scotland is now back with another award to offer, Logo Design Love Award are now open for submission. Logo Design love is a fresh blog design he wrote all about logo design enthusiastic. Dateline for the entry will be until 5th March 2008. The winning logo designs will be chosen by a distinguished panel of judges, who between them, have a wealth of industry experience.

The focus is entirely on blog logos. Is your blog a fit? Do you know of a blog logo you’d like to submit on behalf of the designer? It’s a fun way to gain international exposure, and only takes a minute to join in. Enter now for free, opens for blog categories from Business to Design and photography blogs, Entertainment, Environmental, Health and self-development blogs, Marketing and PR blogs, Personal, Political, or Technology blogs, or even miscellaneous for everything else.

Judging panel
- Megan Patrick, Senior Editor at HOW magazine
- Armin Vit of UnderConsideration LLC
- Cat Morley of Creatlive Latitude, NO!SPEC and Business of Design Online
- Adrian Hanft of Be A Design Group
- David Pache of dache
- Steve Delahoyde, Co-Editor of UnBeige
- Alissa Walker, previously of UnBeige, and now Gelatobaby
- Jeff Andrews of Design Inspiration and Sugar Frosted Goodness
- John Martz of Drawn!

How to enter
To enter the competition is preety simple.. just leave a comment with the name and web address of the blog, and the category into which you think it belongs, also not forget to put a link to the Logo design itself.

I’m in.. It’s a worth of try, why wait!

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