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30 Warm Summer Photographs

Summertime is drawing to a close in the Northern Hemisphere and will soon be approaching the Southern Hemisphere. Summer is a favorite time of year for many people, as the weather gets warmer, days get longer, and activities like school are sometimes put on vacation.

Summer is also a great time for photographers, as the life, bright sun and colors are all at play and show through more than in seasons such as winter.

With the change in seasons approaching, it’s fitting to look back at some warm summer photographs:

Floral sunset By Daniele Macis

summertime By Sabine Beyer

summer scent By Magda Berny

To Drink By Sandy Powers

summer relax By wolf-minori

Summer By Cuba Gallery

Summer Landscape By Cuba Gallery

So Long for This Moment By Marc Adamus

Towards the Sun By Alexey Sizov

Summer memories By Iván Maigua

Summer days By Alexandre Buisse

SEA By kuzeyemir

Sun-bay watch By Ben Goossens

Star Called Sun By Dmitry Laudin

criticul meu (my critic) By Vlad Dumitrescu

Last Day of Summer By Thai Hoa Pham

Kalahari Road By Mark Dumbleton

AgriColor By Lorenzo ROSIGNOLI

Summertime By Jorge Lume

A memory of summer By FF93

Wall of Sleep By Konstantin Gribov

IRenkowo By Piotr Krol

Summertime By Antonio longobardi

Happy summer days By Hai Thinh

Summer By stevenfields

Glow of the Gods By Peter Coskun

the climber By Les Forrester

Blunder By Claudio Zoncheddu

Summer Breeze By David Richter

Summer is a small life! By Npnha Pemnrb

Free Texture Friday ? Color Stained Paper

This weeks set of textures include some beautiful handmade vintage paint stained paper sheets. The sheets have been stained with colored ink to create an abstract and vintage feel to the paper.

You can download all textures as ZIP file at the bottom of the post, enjoy!

Download all textures as ZIP from copy.com (14.8Mb)

Did you like these textures?
Let us know by leaving a comment, and you can even post a link if you used them in your artwork.

Innovative and Unique Product Designs

Product design is a type of functional design that is particularly challenging. Although some would argue that all design must be functional, product design takes that a step further by adding numerous function and performance requirements where usability, productivity and usefulness becomes paramount.

Coming up with a new product is hard enough, but a unique product design can make a product memorable and help it gain a hold in a competitive marketplace. There are tons of emerging technologies where new products can be created, and even old markets still see new products as well. The key is for a useful product to be developed and to create an innovative product design to show the world the potential of the product.

From 3D printers to a new take on a toaster, more functional lamps, and an innovative software UI, here’s some innovative and unique designs for products you’d love to have.

Firrin Toaster