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When I'm not browsing DA for inspiration, I'm looking around the net for new techniques, methods and skills. Some good sites I found this week: http://www.attik.com/ // ATTIK.com http://www.shinybinary.com/ Shinybinary v2.1 - Art and designs of Nik Ainley http://the-structure-of-man.blogspot.com/ The Structure of Man (VERY GOOD 200+ videos on anatomy) Some bigger sites you probably know of: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/ Computer Arts http://www.conceptart.org/ ConceptArt.org http://layersmagazine.com/ Layers Magazine http://www.planetphotoshop.com/ Planet Photoshop http://www.illustratortechniques.com/ Illustrator Technique

Open Source programs are the way of the future! If you want programs with worldwide support in online communities and features that rival commercial program.. WHICH ARE FREE... COMPLETELY. You can change the code, make additions, modify it in any way to fit your own needs and wants... then you want.. OPEN SOURCE! Blender www.blender.org Amazing 3D program. It's pretty much the standard for hobby 3D artist nowadays. OpenOffice.Org www.openoffice.org Sick of updating Micro$oft office every year. This program looks and feels like micro$oft but it ISNT. Wonderful! Try it out. Ubuntu - Linux Distribution www.ubuntu.com Its linux... but fo

I recently wrote a few thoughts on creativity for University, and it is an issue that has plagued my entire design life. "Creativity was a topic that I had studied in Design Process in semester 1 of the course, so I found this speech fairly easy to write, as we had done a fair bit of work on it. It was interesting trying to come up with my own ideas of creativity as I quickly discovered it is a part of thinking that cannot be turned into an instruction manual on how to be better at it. Creativity has always been a part of myself as a designer i struggle with. From drawing to websites I always found it hard to come up with ideas which i thou