If you are a designer or artist who rely on your creative work to provide for a living for your family, then you might not settle for just one source of income. Many of us who is a full time employee of a design firm or a large corporation at some point have tried or at least thought of working for freelance, either quitting your daily job and go full time or continue working by day and [...]

As creative people, there are those days that our brain seems dead. No ideas coming in, run out of creative fuel while thinking of the deadliest deadlines of projects on going. Commonly known as creative block, many are faced with this kind of situation either caused by personal problems, mental block, emotional barrier, communication breakdown, etc. All people in the creative industry is experiencing it. A writer, designer, painter, sculptor or even an art director is once [...]

Conceptual photography is an art of getting your ‘concept’ across the mind of the viewer using just the contents of a photograph. It is a genre of photography where a photographer puts various things in the scenery so that his idea or concept becomes clear to perceive. Most of the times,computers are used for blending various objects into a photograph, but many photographers just use what is available to them. Some photographers just make sure that everything they [...]

Besides all the magical moments it is a great opportunity for companies to wish everybody a Merry Christmas or relate those magical moments to their brand. Creative Criminals whishes all of you a Merry Christmas!1. Publicis Singapore 2. Tide 3. Pepsi 4. Heineken 5. Mazda 6.Wonderbra 7. Unkown 8. Pedigree 9. Veet 10. Amnesty International 11. Childhope asia Philippines 12. Volkswagen 13. Volkswagen 14. Adidas 15. Levis 16. Jeep 17. Nespresso 18. Mercedes 19. British [...]

Using texture is a great way of adding personality and depth to a webdesign. It doesn’t matter if you choose to use texture only in the navigation menu, the header or if you go with a totally textured background, as long as you pick the right texture and don’t over use it, the result, most of time, will be elegant and beautiful, as the examples we’re showing you in this post. Alxandr Grain & Mortar [...]

As the name implies, negative space is a technique in artwork that focuses on using the empty spaces around the subject of an image. The concept of negative space is prevalently used in all forms of artwork including photography, logo designing and general art design. The idea revolves around the notion that negative or unused space can be employed to create an appealing or artistically significant shape. In this way, an artist can form two [...]

We believe that showing your personality in your design is very important. And there’s no better place to do this than on the about page. You can go for a clean and simple look, an illustrated and super colorful one, or even a typography based page. Whatever approach you take, it’s important that it represents who you are or what your business is all about. From services and studios, to even restaurants, we gathered some [...]

Asile is a photo retouching and 3D/CGI studio based in Paris, France founded by Photoshop Artist, Christophe Huet. Their CGI and creative photo retouching work is some of the best that you will ever see. In this article, we will feature some of our favorite pieces from their portfolio. Let’s take a look!  

Photoshop CS6 is now available for download in Beta. For the last several months, we have been speculating about what features we can expect to see in Photoshop CS6. This speculation was fueled by the Photoshop team’s release of several sneak peek videos that revealed some exciting new features. Now that the speculation is over and Photoshop CS6 Beta is available for us to download and try, we have been able to make a careful examination [...]

From print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role in defining the heirarcy of the content. With this in mind, we gathered a collection of inspiring typography usage in web design. From small type to huge and colorful ones we will show you that [...]