Tuwi design – all forms of design

Task: The theme for this competition is open so that any design or style can win.

Deadline: 10th July 2009

Prizes: First Prize, 1100 £

The SwishSwosh community will choose the winner, based on how original and cutting edge the T-shirt looks. Let’s be clear, we are looking for the best T-shirt design ever! We’re not talking about submitting a design for your favourite football team or movie. We want the most eye catching, jaw dropping design that you can create, so take some time to come up with it.
We recommend using a program such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to produce your entry.

Download the submission kit and follow the instructions on how to upload your designs. The kit will help you to maximise creativity and fit the size specification. Once that’s complete you’re ready to submit. It’s as simple as that!

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Here’s the best flash sites made by the best web designers.
This week we’ve been very impressed by the Lands’ end website. This site is very well done and the graphics very well kept. The interesting thing is the concept, namely the desire to create a relaxed approach to shopping for swimwear for women, as if you were on a private island.
As always our main source of research is the FWA that we invite you to visit for more inspiration for your creative works.

Enjoy the gallery!
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Here is a new collection of the latest photoshop tutorials made in the second half of June 2009.
As always, we have tested each of these tutorials and we have also chosen them according to different fields of application.
We thank all the talented designers who have created these tutorials for photoshop. Clicking on the image you’ll be directed to the page where the tutorial is shown step by step!
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Today we offer a collection of the best fragrances packaging. Develop the design of a precious fragrance bottle is a really interesting process. The bottle must represent in its design the perfume that contains. Its lines, geometric or soft, must recall the aroma of perfume. The approach of the designer will be obviously different if the scent is addressed to a woman or a man. In this gallery we collected only the women’s fragrances. soon we will see the difference with the scents targeted to men.

To be a good designer you must sometimes have a good nose:)
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Here is a new collection of logos for your inspiration. We chose the category of calligraphic logos or handwritten.
Create a logo with these characteristics can often convey elegance. The logo in this case is represented by a sort of signature as to transmit confidence, and establish a personal relationship between the brand and the customer.
In the creation of a logo of this type the designer faces two types of choices.
The first is to use a font. in this case, it must be stressed that, when one or more letters are repeated in the logo, the letters are reproduced in the same way.
This choice may be good for certain brands, but can threaten to take away depth and “soul” for others.
Then the second choice is to change the font in the original vector in order to make different the letters that are repeated, or if you are a good drawer and you have a good handwriting, you can create a draft of the logo and then develop it into vector .
Both are good choices but the thing is, as always, decide what your logo should communicate!
An excellent source of inspiration for other logos is logopond.com…

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Here is a collection of 20 designers websites made through an excellent use of graphics and CSS.
This gallery is certainly a good inspiration for your works and the making of a great website. As you can observe, the use of CSS can achieve very interesting works.
We remind you that you can analyze the code present in each site through the useful Firebug; this plugin will let you know the structure of a css website.
Enjoy this gallery on Tuwidesign!
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Task: Submit logos designed, printed, published or visible online between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009.

Deadline: 30th June 2009

Built on the success of Eulda, the European Logo Design Annual (which has replaced), Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. Wolda ’09 is now open for entries! Designers, agencies, studios and students from all over the world are invited to enter with logos designed, printed, published or visible online between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. Entry fee includes a copy of the ’09 printed annual, delivery costs inclusive for each participant; hard-bound volume of exceptional quality printed by FONTEGRAFICA on SAPPI acclaimed papers. Winners will be selected by our innovative three-tier jury consisting of 10 top designers, 10 top marketing managers and finally 10 people judges, nominated respectively by ICOGRADA, AQUENT and CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL. This judging mechanism reflects the actual process that turns any logo idea into a successful logo: – the designers decide what to present to the clients – the clients decide what to present to the public – but in the end it is always the public that decides if a brand is successful.

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In this collection you can find the latest photoshop tutorials realized in June 2009.
As always we tried to choose the best tutorials found online and we have also selected several areas in order to satisfy all the designers who follow us; from web design to photo retouching to get the most from your artworks.
As always we remind you that these tutorials have been tested by the TuwiDesign staff, in order to give an opinion on the degree of difficulty of each tutorial and the clarity of the exposure. If you have some doubts about some passages in the tutorials do not hesitate to ask us questions.
We do our compliments to the designer who created these tutorials and wish you good job!
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Today we have prepared a gallery of digital artwork based on photo manipulation.
We restricted our search to those artworks whose subject is the pictures of men and women.
It is very interesting to note the importance of starting with a photo of excellent quality to develop a good working. In fact if the subject is portrayed in an image of high quality and produced with a professional camera, half the work is already done!
Working with a good photographer is, for a professional designer, a real need.
When it is established a good synergy between the two figures, the artworks have a quality that distinguish them from the average.
The ability of the designer is to give another form and another life to the images, and enter them in another context. When the photographer is aware of the ultimate goals of the designer, then you create a perfect team work!
As always expect your suggestions to expand our gallery
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Here are the new best flash sites of the week!
As always our main source of research is the FWA that we invite you to visit for more inspiration for your creative works.
Among the sites of this week we recommend you to visit the Coke Zero website.
A very well done flash site with two beautiful girls that will guide you to discover the headquarters of Coka Cola. You will discover if you can be part of Coca Cola Zero Team! The site is very smooth and intuitive, two features that are not always found at sites in flash. Many are made to affect and impress with graphic effects, and less thinking to the ease of use.
Enjoy the gallery!
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