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Announcing the launch of IndoFolio

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Good News! I’ve quit my day job to get to do the things I enjoy doing very much on the internet! Yes, that means I’ll be spending more time on ProductiveDreams and taking up freelance projects at the same time. As a first step, I am launching my portfolio – Indofolio.com

In this post I would like to give you a brief overview on IndoFolio and its design.

Indofolio - Portfolio of Gopal Raju

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Trend Review: Paper Planes

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Paper Planes
are normally used to represent speed or a medium to send message. Here goes a list of sites that use Paper Planes.

Paper Planes in websites

spoongraphics paper plane trend (more…)

Trend Review: Coffee Stains in Web Design

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Hi, hope you had a great week end! I know it’s been a while since I posted something, so here it goes…

In one of my previous trend reviews, I had mentioned about the cofeecup trend. What if you drop the cofee on your table or paper? yes, it becomes another trend ;)

Do you think adding some coffee stains to your design would make it look better? Here goes a list of hand-picked designs that proves it! I’ve included links to tutorials on how to create such stains in photoshop as well.

Stains in websites

Coffeenatic

Coffeenatic coffee stains

iSpoil

ispoilnet cofee stain

teh C peng

tehcpengnet stained background

The Greg Brady Project

Greg Brady - stain on paper

The Piss Biscuit

thepissbiscuit-paper

Mike Desjardins

Mike Desjardins

What would you need to create these cool hot stains?

Its simple…
Photoshop brushes

coffee photoshop brushes

divinity-bliss-photoshop-brush
morning coffee
brusheezy
digea-getbrushes

Now, how to create these brushes?

Its not that hard. Here goes a nice tutorial by web design library But make sure not to spill your entire coffee after reading this :)

Coffee stain social networking iconset

Social Networking Coffee Stain Icons

Wallpaper

A coffee stainfree wallpaper
wallpaper
for to keep you inspired.

And finally, a twitter theme

twitter background theme

I hope you enjoyed this post. Stay tuned!

Trend Review: Coffee Cups in webdesign

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Use of Coffee Cups is another interesting trend I noticed recently. Some of them are relevant to the websites’ services while others are not. However, coffee cups are visually appealing and are weaving path to another interesting design trend :)

1. Wild Zeitung

wildzeitung

2. Art Flavours

artflavours

3. BrandStorm

brandstorm

4. Cofee In Town

coffeeintown

5. Design54

design54

6. Ficod 2008

ficod2008

7. Haus Hoyer

haushoyer

8. Icon Icon

iconicon

9. Jimmyoh

jimmyoh

10. Kinoz

kinoz

11. Lee Munroe

leemunroe

12. Rodney Edwards

rodneyedwards

13. teh C peng

tehcpeng

14. The Piss Biscuit

thepissbiscuit

15. Jwhanif

jwhanif