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Ian Moss: Retoucher & Designer Here lies a random collection of work, ideas, inspiration, teachings, questions, answers and thoughts.

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Retoucher's Tool Box

Custom panel for Photoshop CS6 / CC

A collection of tools, categorised together for quick access to help speed up your retouching workflow.

Working with a set of custom actions makes complicated repetitive tasks such as splitting an image into it's high and low frequency versions or setting up lighten and darken layers to dodge and burn an image are just a click away.

Download includes both CS6 and Creative Cloud versions.

Introductory offer - Half Price (£5) for first 200 downloads.

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Optical Ripple

Optical Ripple is the latest print from artist and designer Simon C. Page who often explores complex geometric patterns as well as the interplay of colour. This latest piece involves a kaleidoscopic array of colours and concentric circles that borders on the edge of a blurry optical illusion.

Found via thisiscolossal.com

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Field Cycles

Handmade in Sheffield

Field Cycles is a collaboration between a group of friends from various craft, design and engineering disciplines. The unique skillsets of the contributors - a maker, a painter, a graphic designer and an engineer - have come together in a shared passion that treats the fabrication of a bicycle as an exploration of craft, aesthetics and function.

The partnership was developed out of a common pursuit for a hand built bicycle  frame with a return to artisan craftsmanship, and a shared obsession with the bespoke production process as an antidote to mass-produced manufacturing.

At its heart, a shared ethos of beauty manifests itself in the care and attention we pay to even the smallest of details within the process.

See more: fieldcycles.com

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Every side of the sound

LG Surround sound ads

Y&R in Brazil visualizes the effect of LG's 3-D surround-sound technology with some nifty 3-D versions of the posters for Kill Bill, Pretty Woman and Forrest Gump. The images here are spot-on reimaginings of the original artwork, and nicely demonstrate the "Every side of the sound" tagline.

See more: adsoftheworld.com

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Black Hole

Paintings by Fabian Oefner

"Black Hole" is a series of images, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force. The setup is very simple: Various shades of acrylic paint are dripped onto a metallic rod, which is connected to a drill. When switched on, the paint starts to move away from the rod, creating these amazing looking structures.

See these and more brilliant works fabianoefner.com

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The Porsche Process

From a clay model to the world premiere at the 2012 Paris Motor Show: Accompany designers Michael Mauer and Mitja Borkert to our R&D center in Weissach and watch exclusive footage of the development process of the Panamera Sport Turismo in this video.

View high def on Youtube

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Metrodeck

Discarded tickets become playing cards

Printed on found and repurposed New York City subway fare cards, metrodeck attempts to visually capture the common thread between commuters, public transportation, and chance.

Every card has been gathered at random, after having been purchased, used, and discarded by either a visitor or resident of New York City. Some have been signed or otherwise marked, making each card unique with its own narrative potential.

Appropriating the language of playing cards, the work asks us to consider our intimate connection with the subway and the city. The face cards are inspired by landmarks across the five Boroughs, referencing the tremendous reach of the subway system.

Whether it’s a delay because of a sick passenger, train traffic ahead, or the ever-popular police activity, a “lucky hand” can make the difference between a brisk fifteen minute commute or a grueling, hour-long one.

See more and buy - metro-deck.com

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Vrrb Colourful identity

By Jan Vranovský

Vrrb Interactive is California based web-developing studio. The founder asked us to design colorful identity with custom logotype. We came up with several concepts from which he chose the one based on logotype which is trying to emphasize the "rrrr" sound in the word by ending the first letter the same way as 'r's are. This also adds some extra rythm to the wordmark. Color system is based on existing set of color papers (Pop'Set) since printing white on pre-colored papers allows for much wider color variety of applications for low price than printing each and every spot color.

See more: Jan Vranovský on behance

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Robot Sculptures

Made from old electronics parts

See more at: antobjects

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The look of the games

Branding The London 2012 Olympics

A great article by designboom.com showing the intricate details that go into branding such a massive event.

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Vehicle Paintings

by Kevin Cyr

Statement: In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I have always been interested in painting vehicles and scenes that have defined the evolution of the American landscape.

View more: kevincyr.net

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X-Ray Pixels

Posters by Viola Moroni

Pretty cool idea and Inspiration from illustrator Viola Moroni replaced three most important organs Brain, Eye, Heart with a Pixels. Viola Moroni Wants to say us that we are stuck so deep to our computers, cell phones, facebook all this tech world and our brain, eyes and heart become a pixels already. After this post I feel to rm -rf my wp-content dir…:/ Very clever girl anyway!

Via: 8bitdecals.com

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Editing an Image in 1990

Quantel Paintbox vs Adobe Photoshop

The following youtube videos show how 2 very different solutions existed...

The mighty Quantel Paintbox with it's custom hardware and 10 years of know how behind it, verses version 1 of Adobe Photoshop, running on a Macintosh Classic for a 10th of the cost.

Quantel Paintbox Demo

Photoshop V1

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The CS6 Desktop Brand System

It takes well over a year to design, execute, deliver, and ensure the proper implementation of the roughly 5,000 or so assets it takes to get a CS release out the door (we’re already thinking about CS7). Along the away, there are innumerable institutional, technological, and political hurdles to overcome. It can be daunting, but we do everything we can to get it made with as few design compromises as possible.

See the details: Adobe Blog

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Before and After, 50's style

The Photographs Behind Gil Elvgren’s Pin-Up Girl Art

The pin-up paintings (and photographs, of course) were created by Gil Elvgren, one of America’s most notable pin-up artists. What you may not realize (we didn’t at first), is that the photographs all show the same model — Elvgren’s wife — though she appears with different haircuts, and obviously wearing every outfit under the sun.

Set one  

Set two

Found: flavorwire.com

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Wear Your Data Proudly

Bulavkus USB flash drive

Bulavkus—a USB flash drive disguised as a classic safety pin—keeps your data safely pinned.

More at artlebedev.com

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The Finishing Touch

Precision etched plates for your iPhone

Luxe Plates are stainless steel covers that stick onto your device with a special removable adhesive. We use a photochemical process to etch out the art on the Plate. Luxe Plates embrace the form-factor of your device and add lasting style at the same time. Pick from one of our many featured artists or upload your own custom artwork.

Buy from the range of artist's designs or create your own at: luxeplates.com