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Posts Tagged ‘design’

Inmagine the Difference

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Inmagine is the world’s largest royalty-free stock photography site with over 3.5 million images from over 100 best-selling collections. With images organized into galleries and categories, they are easy to search even without using Inmagines innovative search tools including Insight keyword search and Universal Search, a mechanism using geography and language detection to locate images. In addition, Inmagine offers a number of services including image enlargement and retouching.

Image Bookmarking

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Imgfave is a bookmarking service that lets you “share your visual inspiration” from around the web.

Architecture Podcasts on Gestalten.tv

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Clip from “Strike a Pose: Eccentric Architecture and Spectacular Space

The design and publishing firm, Gestalten, creates a wide range of video pod-casts (documentaries, interviews, features) which cover architecture, art, design, typography and visual culture. View cutting edge content on Gestalten.tv

AIGA Design Archives

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The AIGA Design Archives includes photographs of high quality graphic design, experience design, typography, and environmental design from its annual competition.

Image Bookmarking

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Image Spark is a free web service that creates customized image libraries.  Not solely for collecting and describing the visual and digital, Image Spark allows you to personalize your display and share it with other users.

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FFFFOUND! is a web service that allows you to bookmark images, and  showcase and create a compelling visual archive. The home page also dynamically recommends new and interesting sites, posted by other users.

Cr103: The Creative Element

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The Cr103 library contains more than 6GB of free still and moving images of abstract backgrounds, textures and design ideas that you can download and use in your own work. The downloads can be inserted directly in your designs as layer textures or simply used as ideas for further development. In addition, you can share and promote your own work by uploading it for use by others.

Cr103 materials are free to download and use, but must be credited if used in any commercial application or product.

Design, Manufacturing, Futurism, and Charles and Ray Eames at the Prelinger Moving Image Archives

Still image from “American Look,” a “populuxe” film on 50s design

The Prelinger Archives is a collection of ephemeral films. Over 60,000 reels were donated to the Library of Congress. The remainder of the collection is maintained by Rick Prelinger and 2,000 titles are available on the Internet Archive. Highlights include A Communications Primer by Ray and Charles Eames. A wide selection of films made in the 1950s and 1960s  deal with industrial design and technological advances in the home.