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Manga is the Japanese word for comics. It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels that were originally published in Japan. However, Manga is often considered an artistic and storytelling style that can also encompass non-Japanese works. This is a post in which we are listing down 21 Adorable Pieces Of Manga Art. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

SOURCE: http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/10/24/21-adorable-pieces-of-manga-art.html

               

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T.G.I.F., indeed! The weekend is just a day away and we here at FYC (not to be mistaken for FYCo, for Fuel Your Coding, which is the acronym for their site around the FUEL offices ;)) wanted to send you into the weekend with a little inspiration to carry you through til Monday. We have been contacted recently by some very talented folks, and while we cannot feature everyone in a single post, we did want to start shining our spotlight on a few of them here and there. So we gathered a few stylistically similar artists together that we have been blown away by their works to showcase. And by ‘stylistically similar’ we mean, their styles all kick ass! So here we go:

MORE AT SOURCE: http://www.fuelyourcreativity.com/a-showcase-of-vibrant-graphic-artists/

                     

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Vanila Barcelona or Vanila BCN is the design studio of two very talented graphic designers from Spain, Carlos Jimenez and Roger Gual. They met when they were studying graphic design at Elisava Design School and they have been working together since them. From his clients we can tell that it's been working pretty well so far, especially for the type of work with beautiful typographies with that hand drawing feel.

MORE AT SOURCE: http://abduzeedo.com/beautiful-work-vanila-bcn

           

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Hand drawn style is one of the hottest design trends. There are several ways you can create a hand drawn typography, you can use photoshop to create it from scratch or you can scan the original hand drawn sketch. Hand drawn typography is an great source of inspiration for designers and all typography enthusiasts. In this post I have 33 awesome hand drawn type typography creations.

MORE AT SOURCE: http://thedesignmag.com/33-examples-of-beautiful-hand-drawn-typography.html

               

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Although we appreciate all kinds of graphic design here at Union Room, as displayed in our Beautiful Packaging blog post, we certainly are partial to a nice gig poster.  Having never designed a gig poster myself, I can only imagine the design challenges that face a creative when undertaking this kind of work.

Below are the 101 best gig posters we could find, most of them are from http://www.gigposters.com so make sure you head on over there to take a look at some of the other posters they have on offer.

READ MORE AT SOURCE: http://www.unionroom.com/blog/101-face-melting-gig-posters/

                                 

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