The best way someone ever described Flickr to me was Edward Khoo:

You find the good, the bad and the downright ugly on Flickr. Also, regular Flickr contributors upload the latest pictures of the latest activities in their geography. So, if I’m looking for quasi realtime shots taken by real people, Flickr is my top photo sharing site (post).

Yes, Flickr is art and creativity by real people and that’s the real beauty of it.

This post is dedicated to searching Flickr for black and white photography and illustration: get inspired by black and white creativity!

Multicolr

Multicolr is an awesome Flickr-based tool that allows to search Flickr by color as well as limiting your choice to only black and white photos. Just choose between white, grey and black colors in the last row.

Here are a few examples:

Strictly black and white photos:

Black and white photos with shades of grey:

Black and white photos with only one color:

Retrievr

Retrievr is a Flickr-based search engine that searches images by the sketch you create. To find only black-and-white photos, all you need is a black and white sketch:

Flickr Groups

General:

Image by by Carl Chapman

• B&W: one of the most popular black-and-white photography groups on Flickr. here you will be able to find images on any topic, creative photography as well as active forums. Example of interesting forum discussions: Self Portrait in B&W
• Black and White Photo Award: very high-quality selection of black and white photography.
• Black and White: another very popular Black&White photography group with lots of great images in any category.
• Best of Black & White: another active black and white photography group.
• Black & White Passion: an active group awarding its most creative members.

Topical:

• New Black and White: a moderated group that is aimed at showcasing new trends in black and white photography.
• Fine Art Classic Black and White Landscape: a group focusing on B&W landscape photos.
• Animals in Black & White: beautiful black-and-white photography featuring animals;
• Black and White CHILDREN’s Portraiture: B&W photos featuring cute children and babies;
• Black & white portraits: the name says it all, this is a collection of black and white portraits.
• Scotland Black and White: no other country better suits black-and-white photography than cloudy and windy Scotland.
• Black and White Artwork: a creative collection of black-and-white illustrations and drawings (non-photography).
• Macro In Black & White: the group dedicated to black and white macro-photography.
• Nature in Black and White: the group featuring nature and landscape shots in black and white.
• Sports in Black and White: features sports photography.
• Black&White in the Night : black and white photos featuring night landscapes and scenes.
• the Flora in Black and White: what can be more colorful than flowers and what can look more beautiful in black and white?

The post is by Jessy Troy who loves and blogs on   social media.

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Alberto Beloni

Lisa Moseley

Sean Geng

Marko Prljic

Michela Chiucini

LP – Creative Designer

Peter Pearson

Colourpixel

Matt Dempsey

Jay Hafling

Miles Dowsett

Noel Design

Jae Salavarrieta

ilove2design

Alexey Abramov

Pampaneo

Love the Septapus & He Shall Love Unto You

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arqandgraph

Jason Santa Maria

Jon White Studio

COMA

Daniele Volpin

Joe Longstreet

Davy Van Den Bremt

Hugs For Monsters

Andrew Brandwood

Catalin Bridinel

Nathan Sanders

Matt Mullenweg

Stuart Hobday

Form + Function

Triplux

Julian Andrade

Jeffdoe

Jason Julien

Kitfolio

Magnivate

Mike Rundle

Michael Paul Young

Pngised

Jeff Finley

Pavel Macek

Cerity

Giancarlo Fajardo

DREAMER LINES

Flush

Callum Rimmer

Svetainiu Kurimas

Jackson & Kent

Krishna Chaitanya

Sit back, relax. Watch and learn from the pros of graphic design, as they show you in awesome  Photoshop video tutorials advanced techniques, taking the simplest elements and creating something beautiful as well as tutorials on advanced drawing and illustration techniques. Buy Photoshop CS4 Extended – Student Edition/advanced edition

Ice Age Disaster PS Tutorial

Video URL : Ice Age Disaster Photoshop Tutorial.

Source : Ren Zhang.

Description : This great tutorial shows you a great method to add Ice or Snow to your photos or turn an ordinary scene into an ice age disaster.

Basic DVD Cover PS Tutorial

Video URL : Basic DVD Cover.

Source : ThrowgnCpr.

Description : Basic DVD cover art tutorial using Adobe Photoshop.

Filmstrip Frame PS Tutorial

Video URL : Filmstrip Frame.

Source : rmcisnerosjr.

Description : How to create a frame with a piece of film within Photoshop.

Cool Dark Night Effect PS Tutorial

Video URL : Cool Dark Night Effect in Photoshop..

Source : Gajaparan.

Motion PS Tutorial

Video URL : Motion Tutorial: Motion and Photoshop.

Source : Mark Spencer.

Description : In this video tutorial, you will learn how to spread the layers of a Photoshop file apart in 3D space in Motion and animate a camera through them.

Sin City Style PS Tutorial

Video URL : Sin City Style.

Source : Galey.

Description : Give your images some style with this Sin City Art Photoshop tutorial.

Grunge Style Illustration PS Tutorial

Video URL : Sin City Style.

Source : Gavin Steele.

Description : In this tutorial, you’ll grab a picture, apply several filters to it and obtain a monochromatic stain, which combined with stain brushes and a texture will transform into an eye-catching grunge result.

Digital Smoke PS Tutorial

Video URL : Digital Smoke in Photoshop.

Source : godonholiday.

Description : In this tutorial you are going to be shown how to easily create digital abstract smoke using both Illustrator and Photoshop.

Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography PS Tutorial

Video URL : Super Cool Frilly Bits Typography.

Source : godonholiday.

Graffiti PS Tutorial

Video URL : Graffiti.

Source : walagers.

Description : In this tut you’ll be shown how to had a cool wallpaper behind some existing graffiti.

Satin Cloth PS Tutorial

Video URL : Photoshop Satin Cloth Tutorial.

Source : Navdeep.

Description : In this photoshop tutorial you will see how to create a crumbled stain cloth look .from scratch. This is a very simple and easy concept.

Apple Background Design PS Tutorial

Video URL : Apple TV Background Design.

Source : Howard Pinsky.

Description : In this video tut, you will create an awesome background effect inspired by Apple.

Burnt Treasure Map PS Tutorial

Video URL : Burnt Treasure Map.

Source : luv2help.

Description : In this tut you will learn how to create a old burnt treasure map effect using Adobe Photoshop.

iPhone PS Tutorial

Video URL : Create an iPhone in Photoshop.

Source : Howard Pinsky.

Description : Creating an iPhone in Photoshop.

Tutorial Animacion PS Tutorial

Video URL : Tutorial Animacion en Photoshop.

Source : Inerxia.

Touching Story Scene PS Tutorial

Video URL : Touching Story Scene.

Source : Gavin Steele.

Description : In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments.

Line Art PS Tutorial

Video URL : Line Art.

Source : luv2help.

Description : This is a time lapse of converting a standard photo to a line art image.

Lava Planets PS Tutorial

Video URL : Lava Planets.

Description : This tutorial will show you how to create your very own hot lava planets using Adobe Photoshop.

iPod Nano PS Tutorial

Video URL : iPod Nano.

Source : IceflowStudios.

iMac PS Tutorial

Video URL : iMac.

Source : IceflowStudios.

Fairy Dust PS Tutorial

Video URL : Fairy dust tutorial.

Source : Aaron Nace.

Photoshop is indeed a great tool for coming up with images the way that you want. Below are some scary yet creative photoshopped portraits you may look at.

Now, it is interesting to know that these Lego pieces can and are also be incorporated with popular movie posters. Below are some of the samples which Lego and movie lovers will love.

1. The Bourne Ultimatum - lego movie poster

2. Reservoir Dogs - lego movie poster

3. Rocky Balboa - lego movie poster

4. Live Free or Die Hard - lego movie poster

5. Forest Gump - lego movie poster

6. X-men origins- lego movie poster

7. Inglorious Bastards - lego movie poster

8. The last Samurai - lego movie poster

9. Harry Potter  - lego movie poster

10. Scarface - lego movie poster

11. 007 - lego movie poster (PWN!)

Do not hide anymore behind the “no time” excuseThere are a lot of goals we want to attain in life like start our own company, become great at something and even write awesome blogs. Problem is, with all these great aspirations, many of us do not have time for anything. We are too busy with our daily lives to focus on dreams that seem superficial to us. There is always time for our dreams; in fact there is time for everything. We just have to learn to organize and prioritize on things. In addition, the lack of time for our goals may be because of improper use of our time.

Are you tired of hearing “I have no time for these kinds of things” or “these things are impossible because I am too busy” from other people? Now reflect on yourself, find a reason why you cannot be great or attain your life-long dreams. Finding a time to start working on these goals is not hard, the hard part is the attitude towards attaining it. You see, the reason may not be because you have no time, you just do not want it bad enough. You are just using the “no time” excuse to protect your ego.

A good example for this is a student. If you ask a regular student what are his lifelong dreams, you might encounter one that will say “I want to be great at music” or “I want my own company”. Now ask the child if what he or she is doing to achieve it. The answer you will likely hear is “I have many classes”, “I have a lot of home works to finish before I can do that” or “I do not have the time to learn it, since I am busy in school”. Once, someone said learning is not just limited in school. This does not necessarily mean that you have to quit school and focus on being great at something. It means that we have to find time for everything and that learning is not just limited in the four corners of a classroom.

There is a time we can a lot in reading our own curriculum, running our own business and starting our own projects. However, the time that we could have spent for these things is used in playing video games and other things that are of little help in our future. Even during the early years of high school, we could achieve a lot. We just have to make a sacrifice on few things. Instead of just playing around, we could allot our time in to slowly achieving our aspirations.

If you really want to achieve something, you will make a time for it, regardless of your age or obligations. Do not anymore hide behind the “no time” excuse. Learn to prioritize the things in your life and grow up. It is our responsibility to make our dreams come true hence; we must take actions and stop making excuses. Start now and before you know it you have achieve what you first thought was impossible.

]]> http://delimitdesign.com/news/dreams-as-goals-no-time-is-no-excuse/feed/ http://delimitdesign.com/news/free-truetype-fonts/ http://delimitdesign.com/news/free-truetype-fonts/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:24:32 +0000 Mashjoe http://delimitdesign.com/?p=481 2008’s Best Free Fonts for Professional Designs Free truetype fonts are a great way of upping the esthetics of your design. Typography is a very important element when it comes to the overall look of the design. Proper use of truetype fonts throughout the whole design would have a great impact to the elegance and sharpness the designer wants to present. In addition to the appropriate free truetype fonts, precision, accuracy and balance of the geometric formations of the letters would bring a comprehensive look on the body of the design. Moreover, elegant fonts increase the readability of the document and can greatly help relay messages efficiently. As a matter of fact, there are so many customized professional free truetype fonts available to be used on enhancing the visual features of your design. On the other hand, there is a wide variety of low-quality fonts that are not advisable to be used in creating professional designs.

In selecting which font types to use on your professional design, quality of the chosen fonts is highly essential. To obtain such high quality fonts, you may be required to pay at least $50 on every typeface. Nevertheless, these bulletproof fonts are often used only once thus it may be costly for you to purchase fonts on every unique design you will make. In order to be cost efficient when it comes to creating unique professional designs, you may want to consider using some of the free alternative professional fonts.

There are several typo-designers that develop high-quality fonts over the past years. Some of these excellent types of fonts are even available for free on download sites on the Internet. These fonts are also free to be used for personal designs and even commercial designing projects. This article would give you an overview of some of these free fonts that you may find appropriate for your professional designing needs.

2008’s Best Free Fonts for Professional Designs

In creating professional designs, the type of font to be used is one of the most important factors to consider. The following are some of the most anticipated professional types of fonts which are highly recommended to be used for creating designs.

Gentium

This typeface family is mainly designed to allow several ethnic groups from different locations around the globe to create high-quality and readable manuscripts and publications. The wide range of Latin-based letters supported by this type of font includes glyphs corresponding to different Latin ranges within the standard Unicode.

District Thin

The District Thin font has the thinnest weight among the Garage Font’s District font family. This was developed by Kienan and Dylan Smith. It presents a very calm yet serious and impressive sans-serif font. The font is available as a free download in several font download sites on the Internet. Different types such as Mac Postscript, OpenType, PC Truetype, Mac TrueType and PC Postscript are available for this font.

MG Open Moderna

Mg Open Moderna is one of the four types of the MgOpen greek free truetype fontscollection. This font is a typeface sans-serif based on original design in creating the Helvetica font.

Pigiarniq Inuktitut Font

The Pigiarniq Inuktitut Font originated from the small region in Canada known as Munavut. This place is inhabited by Eskimos and is included on the least populated areas all over the world. This type of font was created by its local government in order to provide a typeface to be used uniformly by its 28,000 inhabitants for the region’s four languages – Innuinaqtun, English, French and Inuktitut. The resulting font is a beautifully developed professional looking sans-serif font. This free font family is available on bold, italic, heavy, regular and light font weights.

Delicious

Its homogenic appearance has made this font suitable for professional designs. The uniqueness of the character spacing for the Delicious font can be effectively used for text with small point sizes. The italic of this font is not a slanted Roman but rather a true italic. This Serif font is available for Mac and PC.

Appropriate Pixel Fonts for your Professional Design

Pixel fonts are rarely used for professional designs yet some specialized designs which use this type of fonts are also essential in giving a distinct look for your design. Pixel fonts are often used in designs related to games, applications and websites. These fonts are also appropriate when it comes to integration to Flash. These fonts do not suffer the blurring effect of transferring fonts for editing purposes. There are several types of pixel fonts you may choose from in order to be included on your professional design.

Style-Force Semplice Pixel Fonts

These tiny pixel fonts are usually used for compatibility issues with Flash.

Unibody

The Unibody pixel font is especially used for optimized screen for several editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Micromedia Flash MX. This font is designed for the 8 pt size only.

Silkscreen

Silkscreen is mainly used in designs with very small graphical displays are required. The proper use of the silkscreen is on the navigational items such as navigation bars, menus and others. The Silkscreen font is also good for large point sizes for the chunky old-computer look which is much popular for children today. This font was developed by Jason Kottke available in Mac and PC versions. This free font for personal and commercial use is available in TrueType, Windows, Mac and even in Linux.

Web design cost or designers in general, has always ben a vague  thing to assess, peoples on several web design Freelance site are daily asking same question, What is the right web design cost  or price to charge the customer. You do not want to price too much because other freelancers might take your customer, And you don’t want to charge to little in design costs because you want to have more quality customers. It must be the right price so that you will make great profits and at the same time don’t scare the customers away, Yes, if you had not caught up with the flow, a low price does indeed scare customers away!.

Eyes Wide Shut: even designers who should have a keen eye still do...

So here, we are giving you the indications that probably will make you think twice or even  thrice to reconsider  your web design charge and charges you make to your potential customers. And thus, the question that goes inside your head will be “is the price that I charged for my customer right? Was the price I billed too high?” But will you ever think that your pricing is way too low.

And now without any more to Ado, here are the indications that you are charging your customer way too low.

Number Ten – You billed your customer with your daily rate for web design cost, that is why you are wondering why your customer paid too much for your work. What you missed in  you so awesome perception, is that your customer thought that you billed them with your hourly rate.

Number Nine – You are happy because every design job that you want to have was given to you.  And you Still always think that you will have more income because clients keep flowing, but regrettable time is not on your side as it still takes you the same amount of time for  less money.

Working 80 hours a week but still in the basement...

Number Eight – You are working hard, you (web)design for 80 hours a week. But why is it that your income is only enough for your welfare expenses? Did you ever even conside to raise your pricing? Are you actually worth  more to yourself?

Number Seven – Have you ever wondered, that every time you charge your new design customers, they always ask what “the catch” is? “What’s the catch? Are you joking with me?”

Number Six – Why is it that your customers always pay you with cash from their wallet? Do they know what your bank account is used for?

Number Five – Your inbox is always full with hate mails of other  design freelancers. You only thought that they were spam e-mails so you only delete them.

Number Four – You always think that your customers are so rich. This is because they always give you a lot of work, and they don’t even bother knowing what the price of their web design cost is.

Number Three – Though there are many clients that give you work. But even though your work never ends, you can only afford instant  noodles and baked beans to survive.

Number Two – You only have enough cash for burgers, but your brother who is twelve years old have more cash to spend than you. You asked yourself: “where the hell is that kid getting the  money from?”

And the indication that is placed on the top, the number one indication that your prices are too low – There are a lot of clients from India that want to contract out their works to you. You say to yourself “yes! more income”. But what you (still) don’t know is that your pricing is way too little.

Business card Designs are very important to convey the right message and impression to your (potential) customers. We have compiled a list of the best business card designs for your  persusal and ejoyment. Business cards are the perfect way of representing a business firm that has the business person’s name as well as his or her business association and such business cards also usually can contain telephone number, address and even the official logo of the company. Business cards can be really successful in enhancing your business provided the card in question is really unconventional and has a really witty message engraved upon them. A creative idea as manifested through the card can actually make a business rock! The business cards are really powerful objects that can enhance an existing business or kick start a maiden business venture as well.

By: Mathijs Vissers

# 1 The card showcases a particular burger company and the graphics are simply amazing. The card has a black base and the graphics are in bright and dark green that has lots of oozy stuff again in green and the company’s name is also in various hues of green. One of the cards also has face of a monster and the contact number of the company.

By: Malota Projects

# 2 These cards are really sweet and are shaped like little Chinese kids with a lot of Oriental decorations. The other side of the card has the title of the company as well as the contact address and other details. The visual appeals of the cards are undeniable and even though the cards are primarily in black and white they look real cute.

By: Humanot

# 3 These cards are different from the word go. They have two sides the back side of the card is transparent and has the company’s logo. The main contents of the company including the representative’s name as well as the other details are engraved on the insides of a reddish brown card.

By: Sorin Bechira and Adrian Labos

# 4 The cards look wonderful and simply bear the name of the creative director as well as the logo of the company. The color combo of these cards is what sets them apart from the rest and the beautiful white graphics look really pretty on a chocolate brown base.

By: Design Ranch

#5 The card has a rear as well as a back side. The front side bears nothing but a cute picture of a ‘burger-monster’ and at the back of the card the company logo, name and other details are given along with a full address and the website address. The card combines fine detailing as well as a good picture of what the company makes.

By: SeedVibe Design

# 6 This is a fine looking business card that has magnificent shades of bright green hues mixed with black. This card is simple yet effective and bears the name of the company, the company’s graphic designer and the proposed logo of the company. The backside of the card has the company’s motto.

By: REACTOR

#7 These are pop-up cards that feature some of the company’s most prominent figures and are truly unique and are really unconventional and score top marks in the ‘not-typical’ graph. The color combination of these cards also demands a special mention.

By: Blue Bird Design

#8 The cards look elegant and very artistic. This brilliance is shown through the blue designs on the top of the card and the fine design looks simple yet pretty. The bird’s image bears the name of the company and the back of the card consists of the details of the company like address, contact person and even the contact number.

By: Sliced Orange

# 9 This is a cute card and the ‘Sliced Orange’ name of the company looks even more cute with the image of a happy orange with a knife slicing through it! The card’s back has the name of the company’s director along with his mobile number, email id and is complete with the official website of the company.

By: Kathleen Losche

# 10 The cards are simple and are in white and blue with the name of the designer and is based on a simple design that is not only sweet to look at but also at the same time is effective completely. This shows that at times simple designs are all that you need to have a winning position or impressing the clients or make potential clients out of people.

By: Edustries

#11 Good color combinations on these visiting cards and the pale green and white combinations seem to work wonders. The name of the company is written in white inside a black rectangular box. Overall has a visual appeal and looks pretty sweet.

By: Kristina Miletieva

#12 The peculiar shape of the cards and the interesting color combinations give these cards an edge over others of its kind. The brown/orange combination seems pretty much right for the cards and the cards bear the name of the company along with address and other contact details of the concerned company.

By: The Mandate Press

#13 Classy to say the least the Mandate Press cards not only score top marks in the visually appealing department but also manage to look pretty elegant. The company’s logo us a red star that has a few laurel crowns as well as some drapes look nice and in place. The name of the company is written in the center of the red star and the contact detail as well as the name of the person from the company is also given.

By: JS3 Design

#14 Fantastic is a word that can aptly be used to describe this card. This is a card that has an excellent color combo that look quite artistic and the trio of the bottles that vary from each other in color also look pretty. The strongpoint of the card is its well chosen combination of colors and also its artistic imagery.

By: emrah serdaroglu

#15 The card has a futuristic appeal and the fine red lines that are drawn across the pure black base look amazing to say the least. The company’s name is engraved in the middle of the card along with the name of the company’s official graphic designer.

By: Light PLague

#16 These cards look pretty much gothic and the skull as well as the couple of hands signify a design that is not only a bit shocking but at the same time is also gorgeous. The company’s details are also contained in the card.

By: Michael Strauss

#17 Simple yet effective, they have an unconventional shape with an arrow facing the downward direction and engraved upon them are the names, details as well as the contact numbers as well as the mail ids of the company.

By: Matthew James

# 18 The cards showcase an ‘un-typical’ shape and a great color combo that looks absolutely beautiful. Both the shape as well as the color combo is responsible for making it look amazing and provide the onlooker with a visual delight.

By: Laurie Demartino

# 19 Business cards look like army dog-tags and have a very much metallic luster. The company’s logo that of a running dog as well as the name of the company is given on one side while the other side of the card shows the details of the company.

By: Design Ranch

# 20 The card has a good design and a well though logo. The team of a good design and the logo look awesome to say the least. The good designs as well as the logo not only make it look outstanding but at the same time make it stands apart from the incessant amount of business cards.

By: Nothing Something

#21 Might just look like a ticket and look pretty much interesting. The card has a lot of numbers and the name of the proprietor is given in the middle so that no one can miss them out. This apparent ‘ticket-look’ is what that differentiates it from other business cards. This is a fresh change in the world full of dull and boring cards. Cards like these simply showcase the fact that a business venture can also have dollops of style.

By: Jason Woan

#22 Excellent colors on these cards and the juxtaposition of many bright colors over the white base look nice and is indeed visually appealing to say the least. The colors have their own appeal and look nice to say the least.

By: Depux

#23 Very interesting shape and very well chosen colors elevate this particular card to a different level. The cute heart also adds another dimension of attraction to this particular visiting card.

By: Interrobang Design

# 24 These cards are almost rectangular/elliptical in shape and the very interesting colors look awesome on them. The unconventional approach as regards the shape of the card is pretty amazing and surely can impress anyone.

By: Studio On Fire

# 25 The cards with an all white base looks nice with the graffiti done in red. The combos of red and black flowery designs also look quite graceful and the company’s name is borne on one side while the company’s motto is written on another side.

By: Justin Ninneman

# 26 Slim visiting cards with the name and the purpose of the company look simple yet nice. The only colors used on these cards are light green, grey and white and there is a picture of a house on these cards too.

By: Fuelhaus

# 27 This business card is quite nice and the unique feature of this card is the ‘finger-hole’ through which you can put your pinkie and hold the card nicely. The colors used on the card are simple yet superb.

By: Filament Creative

# 28 Simple cards that come in a couple of cards namely deep green and white. The logo of the card is bold and has a pretty much dominating stance.

By: Matthew Inman

# 29 At first glance, these might not look like business cards as they are pretty colorful and cute. The graphics used on these cards lend a touch of innocence to the corporate sector and marks a welcome change in the world full of dull as well as boring business cards.

By: Kelli Anderson

# 30 This card comes with options or multiple choice questions and is undoubtedly one of the most interesting as well as appealing business cards ever.

By: Muku Studios

# 31 Includes some sort of tribal war god design. The color combination of white and black looks beautiful and there is also a cartoon of a monster attacking a tribesman on the back of the card. Interestingly, the name of the company lies right inside the mouth of the monster.

By: Diesel Design

# 32 They look very corporate and very elegant. A formal approach to the world of business cards has been tried out before but this particular combination of neat colors as well as the side-stitch not only look great but also visually appeal to anyone who sees it.

By: Ethan Martin

# 33 The business card has two parts. The back white part has a splash of wild colors namely red and blue and looks quite nice. The front portion of the card has a brown base and this is where the company’s name as well as every detail is given. The card looks nice and falls strictly in the unconventional category.

By: Graphic Fusion Design

#34 The card has a fine shape and showcases a good sense of colors and simply looks elegant as well as appealing. This is one of those business cards that showcase the fact that simplicity at times is the best policy that you can find and utilize.

By: Richard Cardona

# 35 The card is deep blue in color and is pretty much rectangular in shape and shows a girl getting a ‘spark’ which perhaps justifies the company’s name that is Creative Spark. The interesting part about the card is the fact that its creators perhaps intended to take the whole ‘creative spark’ vibe w little too literally as the graphic image on the card shows.

By: John Leschinski

# 36 The green bubbles on the card look amazing and the name of the company is written in white while another type is white in color and has the name of the company in green.

By: studio RVOLA

# 37 The Infinity Booking card is formal yet appealing and bears a blue and a black ring locking into each other. The name of the company runs right through this combination and looks nice to say the least.

By: Thomas Champion

# 38 Very bright colors that don’t look mismatched and completely look in place. The company’s name is on top of the card while the back of it has the details as well as the contacts of the company.

By: LiFT Studios

# 39 The card has two sides and one is black and the other one is white. The white side bears the name of the company’s director as well as the several necessary details that are deemed to be necessary for a company. The four colors that is red, blue, green and black look nice on a white base. The black base simply has the name of the company and the red, blue and the green colors.

By: David Patrick Crawford

# 40 In case there is a school of though that thinks that business cards look extremely formal and well at times ‘boring’, well its about time to rethink, since the cards issued by SyncSmart are anything but boring and there is a fabulous combo of colors over an off-white background. The name as well as the aim of the company is written in white while the back of the card has every contact details regarding the company that would attract a potential customer.

By: Baris Celebi

# 41 The black and yellow combination looks very bright and appealing to anyone. The all black card has a cartoon figure that is fluffy and is bright yellow in color and the front side also bears the name of the company and the back side of this card also shows the rear view of the aforementioned cartoon character with the website and the contact number of the company.

By: Alex ElChehimi

# 42 The card has a black base with the figure of a big brightly colored picture of a red chilly and this simple combo looks amazing to say the least. The back side of the card has the name of the owner of the company and the bright red chilly perhaps perfectly represents the Spicy title of the company. The back side of the card also has several other details about the company.

By: deskfolio.com

# 43 This card is sure to make you scream ‘cute!’ and even if you are not very much in favor of the color pink, you are simply going to be blown away by the interesting pink and white combination of this card with a pink and white butterfly on the top.

By: Ahmed Murtaza

# 44 This card is simply a riot of colors over a permanently black base and looks extremely fascinating.

By: [gb] Studio

# 45 These unique shaped cards are all brown in color and there’s a blue U-shaped side that looks absolutely stunning

By: Davier Interactive

# 46 A predominantly white card can also look very interesting with a few strokes of green color and this is what the Realty Company wanted to put forward.

By: Cihan

# 47 A white card with yellow-black strips and an intentional yellow smudge look amazing and the company details along with the card owner’s name is also given due importance.

By: Philippe Santavenere

# 48 A black card with tinges of bright blue and a white card with splashes of blue look simple yet fantastic.

By: Romi Dumitrescu

# 49 Let’s face it, everything looks nice on a white base and some companies understand this more than anyone else. A few well thought of strokes of color on a white base look interesting and delightful, both at the same time.

By: Versátil

# 50 This card might bring back the memories of the vintage swinging sixties when everything had a class and a charm. The all black card has a combination of bright purple that bears the name of the company boldly and the details/contacts of the company are given in white.

By: Jungle it!

# 51 The black base front face of the card has the name of the company as well as other details and also has a cute face of a monkey and the back of the card simply has the face of the same monkey that looks sweet.

By: Inetys Communication

# 52 The cards issued by the Conseilen Communication are available in two colors of black and white and both of them have the design of a tendril bearing a flower along with the details of the company.

By: Four Players

# 53 The Four Players business cards look fine and showcase a good combo of colors with the company’s logo being right in the middle.

By: SolarisMedia.net

# 54 The ocean blue color of the Solaris cards are fantastic and are simple yet perfect for people who bother about the business more than fancy stuff.

By: Lukáš Strnadel

# 55 These cards showcase what seem to be a maple leaf and look elegant. The ones with a bright green base have a white maple leaf while the ones that have a green base have a white maple leaf as the company’s logo.

By: Miguel Reyes

# 56 One side of the card shows the figure of a man apparently in a diver’s costume and the background is crimson while the company details are all written in white on a black base on the other side of the card. The business card looks fantastic and the graphics as well as the color combo elevate it to another level altogether.

By: Creative Suitcase

# 57 The cards showcase a fascinating engraving of a faceless man and a woman over a predominantly ash-colored base. There are a few symbols as well as numbers on the cards and both the cards have a certain ‘back-side’ that can be seen as the base plates over which the ash-colored cards seem to be placed.

By: Ben Falk

# 58 A white colored card with a red square over it that also showcase some sort of a bird in white. The detailing of the company is in white font and is over a red colored base. Red and white look well together and gel with fantastic chemistry and collectively succeed in presenting the onlooker with a great experience.

By: Davier Interactive

# 59 This business card wears elegance completely and has a color combination of orange and brown and the company’s logo is given a proud position in the extreme right hand side corner of the card. The investor’s name is given at the bottom along with telephone as well fax numbers and website of the company. The postal address of the company is also properly given.

1. Management has renamed its Waterfall process to Agile Waterfall
2. You start hiring consultants so they can take the blame
3. The Continuous Integration server has returned the error message “Fuck it, I give up”
4. You have implemented your own Ruby framework that uses XML configuration files
5. Your eldest team member references Martin Fowler as a ’snot-nosed punk’
6. Your source code control system is a series of folders on a shared drive
7. Allocated QA time is for Q and A why your crap is broken
8. All of your requirements are written on a used cocktail napkin
9. You start considering a new job so you don’t have to maintain the application you are building
10. The lead web developer thinks the X in XHTML means ‘extreme’
11. Ever iteration meeting starts with “Do you want the good news or the bad news…”
12. Your team still gives a crap about its CMM Level
13. Progress is now measured by the number of fixed bugs and not completed features
14. Continuous Integration is getting new employees to read the employee handbook
15. You are friends with the janitor
16. The SCRUM master doesn’t really care what you did yesterday or what you will do today
17. Every milestone ends in a dead sprint
18. Your best developer only has his A+ Certification
19. You do not understand the acronyms DRY, YAGNI, or KISS; but you do understand WTF, PHB, and FUBAR
20. Your manager could be replaced by an email redirection batch file
21. The only certification your software process has is ISO 9001/2000
22. Your manager thinks ‘Metrics’ is a type of protein drink
23. Every bug is prioritized as Critical
24. Every feature is prioritized as Trivial
25. Project estimates magically match the budget
26. Developers use the excuse of ’self documenting code’ for no comments
27. Your favorite software pattern is God Object
28. You still believe compiling is a form of testing
29. Developers still use Notepad as an IDE
30. Your manager wastes 7 hours a week asking for progress reports (true story)
31. You do not have your own machine and you are not doing pair programming
32. Team Rule - No meetings until 10 AM since we were all here until 2 AM
33. Your team believes ORM is a ‘fad’
34. Your team believes the transition from VB6 to VB.NET will be ’seamless’
35. Your manager thinks MS Project is the best management tool the market offers
36. Your spouse only gets to see you on a webcam
37. None of your unit tests have asserts in them
38. FrontPage is your web page editor of choice
39. You get into flame wars if { should be on new line, but you are impartial to patterns such as MVC
40. The company motto is ‘Do more with less’
41. The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day
42. The last conference your .NET team attended was Apple WWDC 2000
43. Your manager insists that you track all activity but never uses the information to make decisions
44. All debugging occurs on the live server
45. Your manager does not know how to check email
46. Your manager thinks being SOX compliant means not working on baseball nights
47. The company hires Senetor Ted Stevens to give your project kick-off inspiration speech
48. The last book you read - Visual InterDev 6 Bible
49. The overall budget is mistaken for your weekly Mountain Dew bill
50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
51. Your lead web developer defines AJAX as a cleaning product
52. Your boss expects you to spend the next 2 days creating a purchase request for a $50 component
53. The sales team decreased your estimates because they believe you can work faster
54. Requirement - Rank #1 on Google
55. Everyday you work until Midnight, everyday your boss leaves at 4:30
56. Your manager loves to say “Why do the developers care? They get paid by the hour.”
57. The night shift at Starbucks knows you by name
58. Management can not understand why anyone needs more than a single monitor
59. Your development team only uses source control as a power failure backup system
60. Developers are not responsible for any testing
61. The team does not use SVN because they believe the merge algorithms are black voodoo magic
62. Your white boards are mostly white (VersionOne)
63. The client continually mistakes your burn-down chart for a burn-up chart
64. The project code name is renamed to ‘The Death March’
65. Now it physically pains you to say the word - Yes
66. Your teammates don’t refactor, they refuctor
67. To reward you for all of your overtime your boss purchases a new coffee maker
68. Your project budget is entered in the company ledger as ‘Corporate Overhead’
69. You secretly outsource pieces of the project so you can blog at work
70. A Change Control Board is created and your product isn’t even its first alpha version
71. Daily you consider breaking your fingers for the short term disability check
72. The deadline has been renamed a ‘milestone’…just like the last ‘milestone’
73. Your project managers ‘open door’ policy only applies between 5:01 PM - 7:59 AM
74. Your boss argues “Why buy it when we can built it!”
75. You bring beer to the office during your 2nd shift
76. The project manager is spotted consulting a Ouija board
77. You give misinformation to your teammates so you look better on your personal review
78. All code reviews are scheduled a week before product launch
79. Budget for testing exists as “if we have time”
80. The client will only talk about the requirements after they receive a fixed estimation
81. The boss does not find the humor in Dilbert
82. You start noticing your boss’s poker tells during planning poker
83. You start wondering if working 2 shifts at Pizza Hut is a better career alternative
84. All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines
85. The project has been demoted to being released as a permanent ‘Beta’ version
86. Your car is towed from the office parking lot as it was thought to be abandoned
87. The project manager likes to doodle during requirements gathering meetings
88. You are using MOSS 2007
89. Your SCRUM team consists of 1
90. Your timesheet looks like a Powerball ticket
91. The web developer thinks being 508 means looking good in her Levi Red Tabs
92. You think you need Multiple Personality Disorder medication because you are Mort, Elvis, and Einstein
93. Your manager substitutes professional consultant advice for a Magic 8 Ball
94. You know exactly how many compile warnings cause an ‘Out of Memory’ exception in your IDE
95. I have used IDE twice in this list and you still don’t know what it stands for
96. You have cut and pasted code from The Daily WTF
97. Broken unit tests are deleted because they are obviously out of date
98. You are sent to a conference to learn, but you skip sessions to go hunting for swag
99. QA has nicknamed you Chief Off-By-One
100. You have been 90% complete 90% of the time
101. “Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too… thanks”