Linux for Designers

A new issue of the Blender Art Magazine is available. This time it includes a lot of "Making of":
* Using Blender to Animate Your Family Photos
* Editing a Music Video in Blender
* Product Visualization
* Mystery of The BLEND
* Making of:
- Game Art for Project Aftershock
- Cricket and Friends See a Comet!
- Modeling and Rigging a Mechanical Model
- Making of the Sun
- Building Online Generators with Blender

A new issue of the BlenderArt Magazine is available:
* Articles/Tutorials on Baking normal maps from a high poly model
* Big Bobby Car (Organic Surface Modeling)
* Normal Mapping in Blender
* Lighting and Film Making Tricks: Conveying
* MAKING OF: 'A Cassette Tape'
* MAKING OF: 'Dusting Off A Surprise'
* Bookreview - INTERVIEW: David Hickson - Blenducation
This time the website of the BlenderArt Magazine has a brand new look too!

Ars Technica published a great review about GIMP 2.6 - quite interesting for those that didn't know much about GIMP. Thanks to mmiicc for the hint

Today i discovered Blanket, they described themeself as "a free PDF online magazine that is aimed at uncovering art, design and photography from the talented people who create it". Interesting stuff at all.

For those that loving funny sketches and art: Beautiful Examples of Moleskine Art. Another goody of the Smashing Magazine.

Again a new issue of the Blender Art Mag is available. It's described as "Every project needs an environment to exist in, some projects are all about the surroundings themselves. But it is often an area that gets short changed or overlooked. So this issue we take a look at various ways to create environments and backgrounds for your projects. We have collected a nice variety for your enjoyment.":
* Baking AO Maps for Terrain Using Blender 3D
* Game Physics and Paths
* CNC Machining with Blender
* Create Scenes with a Seamless Background
* MAKING OF: A Big City For A Game
* MAKING OF: A Fantasy Landscape
* MAKING OF: The Scene Of A Dream
and much more

If you do illustrations with Inkscape or Gimp and looking for inspirations you should check out Cool Showcase

The Smashing Magazine collected "50 Beautiful Feminine Illustrations and Artworks" - indeed another interesting collection.

The Smashing Magazine published a new article about retouching photos with Photoshop. I'm sure you can do that with Gimp too

Alex droped me a link at area42 about a cool collection of digital art - and yes it's great! It renember me about a creative sparks collection of the Smashing Magazine.