Mind-Blowing Typography in 3D | Part 1

BlogPoster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:39 +0000

Typography is one of the true art forms that I find the most appealing when looking through magazines or surfing the web. The amount of detail sometimes implemented is just mind blowing and you can really see that the artist has taken his or her time to put the typography piece together. After floating around on the Internet in search for the most eye catching 3D typography artwork I came up with nothing short of a truly amazing list. I am sure there are many more inspiring pieces of 3D typography artwork out there so if you find any that you think I might have missed please don’t hesitate to mention a location to them in the comment area.

What should be mentioned here is that most of these are done in a 3D client like Maya, 3D Max or Lightwave. Using Photoshop or Illustrator to create these would take infinitely longer than any of these software’s so don’t even try. The way these 3D typography designs come out is pure skills in lighting, texturing and creating all the objects that are present in the design. Designers usually also use Photoshop to sort of “top off” their design by including real elements such as leaves, small items and effects. So a whole bundle of software’s are probably used to create most of these.

Typography Artwork by Tony Ariawan

Artwork by Artek92

Artwork by Hoe Yi

Artwork by KidsWithTools

Artwork by iunewind

Artwork by shydog1978

Artwork by Kyle Bean

Artwork by Serial Cut

Artwork by dkomov

Artwork by Jeff Finley

Artwork by Kim Holtermand

Artwork by luuqas

Artwork by Fanzi

Artwork by Stephanie DeArmond

Artwork by Jeff Osborne

Artwork by Wojciech Pijecki

Artwork by João Marques

Artwork by Tanin-André Hohmann

Artwork by Grafi-Ray

Artwork by Craig Ward

Artwork by Niels van Doorn

Artwork by Eskimo Square

Artwork by Curtis Baigent

Artwork by Chaz Madani

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65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September

BlogPoster — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:27:25 +0000

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of September which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter as well.

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