Annie Leibovitz is a celebrity photographer born in Waterbury, Connecticut. There isn’t just one photograph that made Annie such a popular photographer. She started her career working as a staff photographer for the Rolling Stones (magazine). She was soon on tour with The Rolling Stones as their band photographer. Before long she was photographing celebrities and band members all over the world, and has been ever since.
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Tony Montana’s Got A Gig For You – Scarface Kingpins of Design Contest
Listen cock-a-roach, my life story is coming to Blu-ray™ on September 6th, 2011. To celebrate the Scarface Blu-ray™debut, my fans will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design their own Scarface-inspired artwork. My ‘associates’ at Universal will select the Top 25 submissions based on creativity, originality, quality of composition/design and utilization of the Scarface theme.I’m giving the power back to the people and my fans will vote for their favorite design which will then be featured as exclusive art cards in the Scarface Limited Edition Blu-ray™. One grand prize winner will win a trip for 2 with the opportunity to view their art on a billboard. For more information on rules and how to enter the Scarface: Kingpins of Design contest and to be among the first to hear future exciting, exclusive announcements about Scarface on Blu-ray™, join over 3.6 million fans on Facebook! The contest is open only to residents of US & Canada and entries are accepted till April 26th.
Photoshop Styles Mega Pack Collection – only $29 (reg. $59)
The Photoshop Styles Mega Pack Collection from Design Panoply is a fantastic compilation of 120 premium Photoshop styles. Each style is tediously handcrafted and optimized for multiple text sizes to give you the most professional look possible without the hassle of creating a style from scratch. Save time and instantly enhance your designs the easy way. Simply load the styles into Photoshop and apply any one of the seemingly endless effects with a single click. This magnificent array is a dream come true for all designers and is available for a very limited time for just $29 – that’s over 50% off the regular price of $59.
A more affordable Adobe CS 5.5
Adobe products have been the standard in web and print design for a number of years, particularly after they bought out Macromedia (and took over Dreamweaver and Fireworks). But Adobe products are also very, very expensive. So expensive that many new (and even experienced) designers have little choice but to use pirated copies, or turn to less-polished, less-powerful open source alternatives. Neither one is an ideal solution.
Lessons from mobile web design
Mobile development is all the rage, and the interactive industry is in great turmoil as countless tablets and smartphones come to market. Mobile app development gets most of the attention, while the mobile web somewhat quietly creeps along. But the mobile web is making progress every day as more and more developers launch mobile-optimized interfaces. The great thing about the mobile web is that it is fundamentally built with all of the same tools used in traditional web design and development.