Sweet! Here’s a set of Adobe icon pillows, featuring the most popular Adobe programs out there. You get a $10 discount if you the whole set, but these are kinda outdated really. These icons feature the Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) icons, which most people still use today. But I’m sure that those who have updated to CS4 like myself, want the CS4 icons! You’ll be sure to have sweet design dreams, just beware cos I heard that the Flash pillow gives weird Actionscript nightmares…

You can get ‘em from here

Conrad Ostwald’s Motion Graphics Showreel is currently my favourite Showreel of all time. It isn’t just the animation and design that makes this so awesome, because the showreel itself is a beatiful piece of motion design, the transistions are absolutely wicked. Did I mention that the audio track is cool too? Click the image to have a look. Do you have a showreel that you want posted here? Contact me.

If you’re into Multimedia design, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, Compositing etc, check out Andrew Kramer’s great After Effects video tutorials. Create insane effects in 15-25 minutes. Create a realistic effect of being hit by a car, transform a face into a zombie, learn how they create that healing effect from Heroes, make the heads up display from Iron Man, just to name a few. If you intend downloading the tutorials as opposed to watching them online, I recommend you grab a copy of Video Download Helper for Firefox.

Video Copilot

Video Download Helper

Adobe is the company that makes all the major design programs for the world, its used and trusted by just about all designers. Each program is used for a specific job or industry. Here is some info about their programs and where to download them with a free 30-day trial. Just be sure to make a quick and easy account here to download.

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard image manipluation software for Graphic Professionals. It is the market leader in its category. Where you’ve seen it used: Just about every print ad, Magazines, Websites, Digital Illustrations, CD and DVD covers, packaging and millions more. Download | Learn More

Adobe Illustrator is a vector drawing application, a vector image is simply a drawing that can be scaled without losing quality, such as a comic  charatcer, a company logo, or text, as opposed to a raster image. Thats what photoshop is for. Where you’ve seen it: Cartoons, Packaging, Logos, Web Buttons, Soda Cans, much more Download | Learn More

Adobe Flash is a program that can be used to animate things you create in the program itself, photoshop or illustrator. The powerpuff girls for example, were animated using Adobe Flash. Its also used in many websites, and can be used to create a website from scratch. Flash also has a built-in scrtipting language called Actionscript, which is used to program interaction into elements, such as a button in a website, and even create games. Where you’ve seen it: Websites, Mini Games, Animation, Animated ads on websites, much more. Download | Learn More

Adobe After Effects is a motion graphics and compositing program. Where you’ve seen it used: In TV ads, Special Effects in movies, Heroes, Smallville, Music Videos, MTV is famous showing content created with it. Download | Learn More.

Adobe Dreamweaver is a web development program, used for designing and coding information into websites. Download | Learn More