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Product Illustration in Hyperrealism

Hyperrealism is a cool independent art movement and art style, a genre of painting and sculpturing developed since the 2000’s in USA and Europe.  Hyperreal artist aim to create an illusions of reality by resembling the look of a high-resolution photograph, without being an exact interpretation.

Hyperreal painting creates a sense of a solid physical presence through subtle lighting and shading effects. Shapes, forms and areas closest to the forefront of the image visually appear beyond the frontal plane of the canvas.

Many hyperreal paintings are achieved by using various mediums such as airbrush, acrylics, oils or combinations. Digital images created in hyperrealism appear to be actual paintings taken from photographs, yet they are fully created on computers.

Google Snatches Facebook Drone Deal

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Just a month after word came that Facebook was working on buying the Titan Aerospace the 20-person drone maker, Google snatches it up for an undisclosed sum. Facebook wanted to purchase Titan Aerospace drone making company and had been in talks to acquire the Titan Aerospace earlier this year for a reported $60 million. But Google has suddenly beat them to it and paid more to keep Titan Aerospace away from Facebook.

It sounds like Titan will work on a variety of projects for Google. Facebook recently purchased Ascenta, a UK-based startup that also make drones — for $20 million. Now, drone maker Titan Aerospace has a posting on Titan’s barebones Web site: “We’re thrilled to announce that Titan Aerospace is joining Google.”

The drone company says it expects “initial commercial operations” to start in 2015. The aircraft, which will fly as high as 12 miles in the sky, are expected to have a long-term aerial lifespan of five years.

Google says, the drones’ primary function will be to help send Internet to places without a current connection at speeds as high as 1 gigabit per second, which — matching the speeds of fiber-delivered Internet — outranks many developed countries. The US averages only 7.2 megabits per second as of 2014

For Facebook, the plan is to ultimately create more users of its social network. For Google, it’s a more visible cycle of creating new users of its products and services and search engine. From here on out, the battle between tech giants is no longer just over your smartphone and its OS, your search engine of choice, or the destination of your online social life’s most valuable, ad-targeted assets. The fight has gone to space, and it’s not likely to remain so uncrowded as more and more large corporations start snatching up companies like Titan Aerospace and Ascenta in the future.

Heartbleed Bug Affected over 60% of Websites Today

The Heartbleed Bug is currently attacking over 60% of online websites today.

A contact of ours who works as a senior system administrator, in charge of computer network security at the University of Arizona, has just informed us that a bug on the internet named Heartbleed has just been identified, the bug creates a security hole, allowing hackers to potentially go on a world wide web hacking spree. The Heartbleed Bug has likely affected over 60% of websites, allowing the possibly for your usernames and passwords to be stolen.

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The Heartbleed Bug allows for stealing information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).

The Heartbleed Bug allows hackers on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.

You are likely to be affected either directly or indirectly. OpenSSL is the most popular open source cryptographic library and TLS (transport layer security) implementation used to encrypt traffic on the Internet. Your popular social site, your company’s site, commerce site, hobby site, cloud storage sites, sites you install software from or even sites run by your government might be using vulnerable OpenSSL. As a precaution you should change pretty much all your users names and passwords. Though you will still be vulnerable until any websites you are using put in place their own updated security patch.

As long as the vulnerable version of OpenSSL is in use it can be abused. Fixed OpenSSL has been released and now it has to be deployed. Operating system vendors and distribution, appliance vendors, independent software vendors have to adopt the fix and notify their users. Service providers and users have to install the fix as it becomes available for the operating systems, networked appliances and software they use.

As a precaution you may want to contact any website you have a user name and password with like Facebook and other social sites, email accounts, ebay, online stores, government sites, e-commerce service providers, banks etc. via phone or chat and ask if they have secured their websites from the Heartbleed Bug.

We’ve been able to contact Host Gator and Blue Host so far and both have confirmed the Heartbleed bug exist. Both said they’ve already patched in their own security. Both as well suggested it’s a good idea for users to now change their passwords with them as added protection.

The news about the discovery of the Heatbleed bug hit the LA Times and other press about 18 hours ago. Keep in mind that reports say the Heartbleed Bug has been out there unidentified for about two years now, creating holes for hackers to gather your personal information.

Solutions: Confirm Heartbleed security patch has been put in place with your service providers and start changing your passwords.

Free Tools:  Website Vulnerability Checker and Another Heatbleed Test

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A Graphic Designer Kind of Monday

Mondays are what you make them; at The Deeper Graphic & Web Design we started this Monday with organic eggs, sausage and cookies for breakfast. Then moved on to various clients jobs including a Logo Design, Label Design, Music Album Art Cover, and Website Maintenance update, all completed on schedule, including clearing the cookie dish.

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A Graphic Designer’s Kind of Monday

 

Do you like Yahoo’s new logo?

Yahoo! launched its new logo this month. Designed by Yahoo!’s President/CEO Marissa Mayer herself at Yahoo!  While Marissa announced the new Yahoo logo to be a success, early reactions suggest she’s in the minority. What do you think?

Do you like it? Can you recognize any improvements? How do you think it will affect their overall branding?  There are negative comments all over the Internet taking stabs at almost every aspect of the logo; like the height, kerning, color and the exclamation mark. There are even jokes online about how Yahoo’s new logo take a step back into the 90s.

As passionate graphic designers, we admit it’s awkward seeing large companies not incorporate basic design principles better. So Yahoo, if you’re reading this, please feel free to contact us for 30% off on a new logo design. In fact, the same goes for the entire planet earth. Anyone reading this post can get a new logo designed until the end of the month at 30% off by just clicking like on this post and our Facebook profile page, then simply contact us and let us know.

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Web Design Tips: Increase Sales & Click Through Emails Results, with Call To Action.

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Having good Call To Action in your website design is vital for creating effective email newsletters and sales. Your Call To Action Statement informs your readers what you would like for them to do, such as Call Now, Sign Up, Book A Ticket, Buy Now and so on. When creating your Call To Action remember to:

• Create a Call To Action (CTA) that resonates with your specific recipients.

• Keep it short and as concise as possible.

• Be persuasive – use command verbs like “sign up” and “join”.

• Keep marketing email letters coherent, try not too overdo CTAs, too many can distract your readers.

• Design CTAs images using contrasting colors, so your Action Statement stands out.

• Use hyperlinks for your CTAs, can be images or text.

If you’re creating or managing your own Email Campaigns, the tips above can help your website design drive sales. If you are interested in speaking with us about helping to improve website traffic and sales for your business, Contact us at: 702.900.2787 or design@TheDeeper.com

 

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A professional graphic and web design studio. Creating online and ground based marketing material such as: websites, product package designs, brochures, product videos, business cards, magazine ads and more. Contact us for a free consultation today and learn how our talented design skills and marketing strategies can help you or your business.
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