…and I don’t even remember what it looked like. It impressed me enough for me to add it to my Design and Inspiration links list, but the site has disappeared. The images are gone from their server, so there’s no way to jog my memory visually.
They started with such enthusiasm and good intentions:
Hi! This is our official launching post! Wer’e very excited , because it is always exciting when a new blog and a new journey begins. WELCOME to StylishLabs! From now on we will be researching and developing creativity and bringing to you new stuff and interesting information.
We want to build a community where designers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, developers, bloggers and al kind of creatives can share their ideas and knowledge. This is the birth of a new blog! But above all of a new family! We really hope you enjoy this space, because it’s built for you. We want you to be part of our family and to share everything about creativity, design, innovation, style… with us!
Each day and each week our blog will grow, new usefull stuff will come. So if you really want to be part of the exclusive circle of members of the new Age , The Age of Creativity, join us!
For posterity, here are a couple of pages with useful information, from Google’s cache:
5 Great Resources To Publish Your Portfolio!
A few years ago no one thought we would be worrying about how to show our work to the worldwide market or to foreign potential customers. Back in those days freelancers and established companies were only focused on their local or national markets. But then came globalization and the expansion of the Internet, and with that, the expansion of markets and opportunities. That’s why our need to have a showcase for our work available for everyone has grown.
Each time we surf the web we found a lot of really good (others not so good) portfolios and showcases, some of them are presented with a lot of quality. However there are some sites that lack of creativity and style, those sites will lose customers very easily. But with all these options available for global customers we need to find a way to display our work with high quality and exposure.
Well lucky for everyone, there are now lots and lots of applications, services and sites offering solutions for those who want to display their work to reach new potential customers and most of them are free. Well, now let’s go to the main part of the post, here they are, 5 great resources to publish your online portfolios:
Behance – Is a community that organizes creative artwork from creative artists, as they say, “The Behance Network is a platform for creative portfolios, projects, and collaborations.”
Carbonmade – Is a great application/site that helps you manage your work so you can easily display it, in a very simple way.
Creative Binge - Receive millions of views each month in this great community for designers, where you can easily manage your own portfolio, you can add/remove items in less than 1 minute.
Coroflot - This is a community site for creative professionals, this site covers cross-discipline design, with industrial design, interaction design and graphic design the three most popular categories.
Muse - Is a space where you can submit your creative artwork and tell everyone what inspired you, I think that’s a really good concept to share the ideas, and to learn where some creative ideas come from.
Ok, one more! Design:Related This is a site that gathers creative people from different disciplines of the design world.
Well, those are the ones we think are most relevant, creative and authentic, but there are other good resources you may want to consider if you’re planning to start your own online portfolio.
(Thanks to Andrew)
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10+ Great Simple Tips To Boost Your Creativity!
As we said before, and as you know, mankind is about to begin a new age, the age of information is finishing, and the new one is as Tom Peters says “An age of creativity and creation” where the most important element is that, creativity. Well since that’s one of the main topics in this blog we’ve compiled 10 simple but great advices from experts and gurus around the world on how to boost your creativity.
- Love what you do and do it with passion, creativity will flow.
- Simplicity is beautiful.
- Always improve yourself, never stop learning.
- Get inspiration from nature and from details, learn to focus.
- Focus on the needs, sometimes the best ideas are behind the most obvious needs.
- Develope your own style and stick to it.
- Funky ideas are awesome!
- Look at the problem from a new perspective
- Think ambiguously
- Write down all your ideas, always carry a small notebook.
But wait a second, this post is called “10+ great simple tips to boost your creativity” So what does the plus sign means? Well this means that you’ll have the chance to submit your own simple tip about this, in one sentence or less share with us your best advice, We will be updating this post with each tip submitted and we will include the name and a nice backlink for that person. So share it with us! Everything counts!
Update
Jurgen Wolff - “Use the few minutes between being asleep and being fully awake to brainstorm any challenges you have, it’s a time when ideas surface from your subconscious mind.”
Addy “Read a lot and a read a good variety. Reading really helps to stimulate new ideas, as well as refine ideas that you already have.”
Adri Munier “Twitter your actions and thoughts”
Tamilmani “Do not make more fear on your work that whether you will finish it correctly or not. Be Confidence!!!
When you feel sorrow in your life, just read nice thoughts/Quotes and follow too.
Nothing is impossible, if your heart is willing.”Luciano Passuello “Clearly define your problem and constraints. Focusing your thinking in a specific problem is much more efficient than “opening wide” as the usual advice goes.”
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The New 360 Experience
There are thousands of interesting projects and applications rising everyday, some of them become really revolutionary and others just don’t. But those rojects that focuse on the customer and on creating a true experience are the ones that succeed, that’s the case of 360desktop . This amazing app can change the entire atmosphere of current desktop screens, creating a great space for productivity and interaction. But what’s 360desktop all about?
360desktop extends your Windows® desktop as a user generated, photo-panoramic space and delivers a personalized web, free of the browser, into a virtually unlimited desktop.
You can easily add icons, widgets, documents and all your favorite apps and stick them to your new 360 destop. You don’t have to worry anymore about limited space in a crowded screen, simple, but very creative, you can check the Demo video here. Currently the only way you can have access to this wonderful tool is trough their beta prgram. Good work 360d!
Found in Jon’s great blog
The earliest pages I can find are dated in Sept. 2007. Google doesn’t have any posts cached after Oct. 18, 2007, although I found links to posts in November.
So I guess their lifespan was about two months?