Time for a little bit of design inspiration from other artists. Today in the spotlight, Javier Velasco from Spain.

Javier Velasco was born in Madrid in 1974.He studied design at "Infographic Studies Centre" in Madrid before training in painting at the "Arco Verde" Artistic Centre in Madrid. He now works as Art Director for a company dealing in new technologies.

Many people own a widescreen monitor. This is mainly because most laptops are widescreen and more laptops than normal PC's are sold. Another thing that people love these days is working with dual screens (two or more screens). I'm working dual too: 15,4" on my laptop, together with a 21" widescreen. It really improves my workflow as a programmer / designer.

One of the problems with these wide screen resolutions, is that many backgrounds (wallpapers) will not fit since most of them are made for a normal screen. This is the reason I collected 33 of the most breathtaking dual- and widescreen wallpapers.

If you don't own a wide- / dualscreen monitor, don't hold back to check out this article. Most backgrounds are a great design inspiration too.

I just came back from my awesome vacation and wanted to give my readers a better day. Here's another imagedump, with a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from July 2008.

Hope this will make a smile on your face. If not, you could also try checking out part one of this month. Enjoy!

This tutorial is inspired by one of the creations I placed in the beauty of 3d typography article. By combining the powers of Illustrator and Photoshop, you can recreate this awesome technique.

Typography is a really hot topic at this moment in the design sphere and neon light is and has always been an effective way to attract users. Combine these two to make some beautiful artwork.

Most of this tutorial is done in Photoshop, the 3D characters are created in Illustrator. If you don't have Illustrator, you can also try making 3D letters in Photoshop.

Get ready to make some amazing typography artwork. You can download my final result as PSD from the download section.

As a web developer or programmer, you want to make your software as dynamic as possible. This means that you can easily change the code or contents, without digging in and rebuilding your original source.

(Flash) Image rotators are a pretty effective and attractive way to show your images. Most of the times, these Flash image rotators are not dynamic and need to rebuild every time you want to change the images. Here's a solution for this problem, because I'll explain how to create a Flash image viewer by reading directory contents.

Just place all images you want to rotate in the same directory as the Flash file and this script does all the work for you. If you want to add an image, just place it online and the Flash viewer will show it.

Check out the demo of the Flash image viewer, or download the flash image viewer by reading directory contents from the download section.