It’s not always easy to find a nice layout for a videostore, beside the too-much-used cliche of a movie reel, film strip and more.
And it’s not always easy to do that in so less time with a new incoming project.
Bytheway, the old website will be soon replaced; instead of a big image with map links I’ll have the pleasure to develop a CSS/XHTML website following my own inspiration.
Customer requests are mainly for the colors to be used (something like royal blue, white, black and pantone yellow with also a drop …

This view of the Floating World is centered on Yoshiwara, the licensed red-light district of Edo (modern Tokyo). The area’s brothels, teahouses and kabuki theaters were frequented by Japan’s growing middle class. This particular Floating World culture also arose in other cities such as Osaka and Kyoto.

Erotica is a clear red theme, has lust in it.. keep it for the black days!
Too many times I saw screens of beauties, and thought I could draw one and share with all of you.
Some specs:

main image graphic format: jpg
matching splashscreen available
general font type: Verdana
not suitable for QT4 KVIrc version (ye olde fashioned style)

Erotica is a woman, is every woman, is a girlfriend, is lust, is sex, is love.
And your KVIrc client will love it!
Adjust the transparency to show or hide the words on the right pane; keep them always …

Five years ago, exactly on April 2, I was posting a deviation on my deviantART account; it was my very first post up there and I thought a so easy idea wouldn’t be much shared.
The concept is easy, shapes I kove, colors I love and a meaning that, nowadays, is too actual.
That draw has a special place in my heart, and I cut out my current avatar from that.
I’d like to show you, as a form of self celebration: 5 years of my first public art.

True love
This is some kind …

Ukiyo-e, literally “the pictures from the Floating Wolrd”, is an expression of Japanese Art representing that famous and so mysterious world made of hedonistic lifestyles; the art of Ukiyo-e is first seen in the Edo Period (that goes from 1600 to 1868 under the rule of Emperor Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu), considered one of the most important era beside the Meiji Period (straight from 1868 to 1912 when Japan rose to a world potence with the biggest modernization under the rule of Emperor Meiji the Great – Meiji means Enlightened Rule).
Those …

Cannot hide my passion for Nintendo DS, since the times of GameBoy and WonderBoy game. But most of all I like their packaging, stylish and preppy for every event.
Those special bundles came out in fancy packaging for every taste, just like the The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass gold DS bundle:

Classy, like the game: the gold/bronze cover reminds of the game ambiances and I bet if there were smells on it they’d have been cinammon!
Mario Bros, pioneer of the one-man game saga got his red bundle with Mario Red …

Pure 1.0.1 is a clear theme, suitable for the sunny days.

It shows one of my fave shapes, reminding to a draw made tons of days ago (it is “True love is to die for”, you can find it on my deviantART page).

And it was the first neat and white theme ever made.

Words are Perversion is a dark theme, for speechless people.

It has been developed under a suggestion of a friend, Noldor (also a developer of KVIrc), who once told me that too many words can be a perversion for those who have no ears to listen at you.

This theme shows how words are unuseful.

Time Makes no Sense 3.3.2 theme was first released on march 2006; it is based on the ‘XCrystall-black’ theme developed by Alexey.
It’s a dark theme with my Virg0 character on a nice face closeup; modeled in Poser 4 and postworked with Photoshop.

I’m used to listen to music while working, I’m quite eclectic so every kind of music could suite.
When composing a render in Poser I generally listen to jazz: Charlie Parker and Miles Davis and Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock over all (you can see my last.fm profile), to adjust senses and relax while choosing the right geometries.
Drawing and retouching in Photoshop requires a more brilliant music, so my inspirations in colors goes with Slipknot, Stone Sour or Umkulu or some classic pop or hard rock song.
Astor Piazzolla is one of …

Design is a passion, and sometimes you have to spend time and time doing the same things in the same ways. Have you ever heard of the cheat sheets?
Of course you have!
Here I’d like to present some helpful sheet cards for Photoshop in order to simplify your daily works, something useful that maybe not all of you people know.
Those quick sheet are only for Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Photoshop CS4, but you can find easily, on the web, sheets for other CS versions (2,1) and older Photoshop versions …

Already know DaWanda?
Then you can skip this post.
If not, take a moment to read why I find this service more efficient and human than others!
I’m a fan of handmade crafts of every kind: wallets, bags, belts, hair stuff and so on.. and I found many interesting services which sells handmade items of all kind.
Earrings and necklace at a good price.. too bad for the postal shipping costs! Overseas, in the US, shipping costs are a bit expensive and most of the time some smaller firms do not ship in Switzerland …

Apple from Infinite Loop has just counted theri first billion download of iPhone applications.. good deal and my wishes for a more gold fortune!
Here I’d like to present some extract of the Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines on creating custom icon and images (here’s the .pdf document, freely viewable online too).
The user interfaces of iPhone applications are characterized by beautiful images and lush color. As an application designer, you want to fit into this environment by providing an aesthetically pleasing user interface. Although iPhone OS provides a wide range of elegant …

We’ve been hardly busy these days into putting pieces together for the next iPhone application; my job was rather tricky while designing a background matching the right style.
Anyway we’re almost ready, DR will reverse your souls!
Want to know more?
… well, let’s say it has something to concern about music or words and fun and.. I cannot tell more =)

 
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Simple images can represent infinte worlds, tweak your imagination and fool your mind. This is my own conception of illustrations, with a single pencil line you can bring fantasy alive and turn your dreams into something real.
I feel lucky I had the opportunity to put some illustrations into some known papers and draw some paper campaigns for different purposes.
There were some nice projects I got involved with, both paper and web; really a challenge for my skills.
Put aside my renders and focused into 2 dimensions style; mainly the use of …

Got a strange kind of fascination for Japan and its culture, its fine arts, its colors, its perfumes and scients. When happens to me to surf into a Japan-whatever site, those who offers your name wrote in Kanji or Hiragana or Katakana, I’m quite interested; learnt a bit of Kanji calligraphy on my own just because I felt there are not enough things to be written.
I mean: have you ever wanted your name in Kanji and tried out thousands of website which were offering you that service at a high …

The Japan Serie Project: illustrations of 3D rendered women in the Japan contest.

I was working as a systemist, fullfilled my brain with logs of Cisco machines while people were asking impossible things. My chief was ambitious and had the idea to build up an interactive shopping mall; the leading woman was a 3D render brunette named Hanna.
My job was to build the infrastructure with wrappers and includes so to let the designer all the needed space to insert the girl.. I was a bit tired of all that but the man in front of my desk was everyday happy: he was creating …