This article contain an inspirational showcase of some logos what use a seahorse idea. The mystical seahorse has always been a source of immense attraction. Today, in identity, is used for a large professional area, from art and design to restaurants, food, aquariums etc. See few strong reasons what make this sea creature so wanted in corporate identities.

This article contain an inspirational showcase of some logos what use the snail like principal element or icon. Despite of its reputation of slowness, the snail shape / element is used in corporate identity for few good reasons.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make a logo with a badge, fence and barbed wire, using simple shapes, a custom brush and few simple Illustrator tools.

Read this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to learn how you can use layers, transparency and feather style to achieve quite same effects rendered by a gradient mesh tool.

This is the last part of vector mesh series, what have the purpose to prove what a fantastic tool is the Adobe Illustrator gradient mesh. It worth to spend time and invest patient to learn how to work with it. Even the results may be not like in those artworks, you can save the day on your vectors projects.

Creattica launched today an inspiration gallery and, along with the updated design and new features for finding and contacting creatives for hire, they also added some new categories. To can get the new sections off the ground, they launched an interesting contest.

Known on CG forums as “dominus”, Alexandru is a romanian conceptual artist with great skills for character concepts, storyboards, environments, illustrations and even comics.

You may know him after a humorous series called “Pencil vs. Camera”, but this article will present some portraits done with a new technique what mix the Pointillism with Pop Art: Circlism.

Are you ready for next part of gradient mesh showcase series? Here are over 30 of vectors artworks using gradient mesh tool. Some of the following images show some killing details and are proper for a photorealistic category. Enjoy!

The gradient mesh tool from Adobe Illustrator is in my opinion most tough one, and not because is involve a too deep knowledge of Illustrator, but it request something what sometimes cannot be replaced by hours of work and tutorials: pure talent. Check this first part of showcase of over 25 great quality gradient mesh works to understand why i am talking about talent.

With a great balance and taste of colors, Vlad is known for its wallpaper and e-cards website. Over the years, the simplicity (in a good way) and the joy from his works created a style what is easily recognized.