Crestock Stock Photos Design and Photography Blog

These Are the People in Your Agency

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

If you work in an ad agency or design house, chances are you’re surrounded by strange and mysterious people with confusing job titles and strange habits of speech and dress. This guide will help you understand the people that you meet each day.

Launching Freebie Images WordPress Plugin

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Spice up your blog with professional, high quality, free stock photos & images! With an amazingly simple Drag and Drop interface, blogging has never been this easy!

6 Photographic Guilty Pleasures, from FAIL to War Photography

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:28:39 GMT

Great photography can change the world. But who cares? These photographic guilty pleasures will make you laugh, make you gag and even turn you on. And let's just admit it; we all look, and then hate ourselves in the morning.

6 Colors That Changed The World

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:15:22 GMT

From humankind's first Picasso and a teen's failure that launches a new industry, to unlocking the origin of the universe, we take a look at the history of color. Read on to learn why there are bugs in your yogurt and how this changed the world...

Propaganda Parodies Part 2: Join the Proctological Corps!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:48:56 GMT

This week's selection of propaganda parodies is a real hodgepodge, mixing German Luftwaffels, French defeatism, homo-erotic sailors and a whole lot of general shenanigans.

7 Common Design Mistakes That Clients Love (and how to fight back)

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:15:41 GMT

From flash intros, to logo theft, to information overload, clients often ask a design team to do a lot of stuff that’s just plain wrong. Here are 7 of the most common mistakes clients might ask you to make -- and how to talk some sense into them.

20 Cheesiest Pick-up Lines to Use on Graphic Designers

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:10:00 GMT

If you’re looking to romance a graphic designer, we can help. Here are some ice-breakers cheesier than Cheez Whiz guaranteed to help you find someone to love, to hold and to go halfers on a new copy of Photoshop CS4 with you.

Propaganda Parodies Part 1: Burger King Babies & Kim Jong-Il in Pink

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:55:16 GMT

It's all about sticking it to The Man this week, as we have a look at how professional and amateur artists alike use propaganda elements in their attacks on the powers that be. Not exciting enough? How does Kim Jong-Il in an Adidas track suit or Richard Nixon bowling sound then?

10 Famous Works of Art (with client feedback)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

If you’re a designer, you’ve probably had to deal with lots of annoying client feedback throughout your career. Let’s face it, a lot of clients have no idea what good work looks like. In fact, I reckon that if the average client was presented with classics of Western art, they’d probably still try to offer up some constructive criticism. And it might look something like this...

Yuri Arcurs on Studio Essentials

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:08:38 GMT

Second part of the guided tour in Yuri Arcurs' studio at Aarhus in Denmark deals with studio essentials - tools and things you absolutely need to have in your studio.

Introducing Crestock Ver 4.0: Design, Usability & Speed

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:57:38 GMT

Not even 2 years after we launched our last major site revamp, Crestock 3.0, we're back with some huge changes on the site. Read on to find out what's new in Crestock 4.0!

Vibrant Chinese Propaganda Art - Part 3: The Middle Kingdom returns to center stage

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:26:20 GMT

In this final part of the series, we see how the "traditional" Chinese propaganda styles from the time of the revolution are still in vogue, though also supplemented by modern styles, not always successfully. Thematically, the period from 1976 to the present is possibly the most diverse, a mishmash of snowed-in oil fields, fat babies, styrofoam and cola cans.

Are you the next blogger at Crestock?

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:12:20 GMT

Do you have what it takes to become the next big blogger at the Crestock blog?

Vibrant Chinese Propaganda Art - Part 2: Seven Intense Years

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

From the seven years between 1969-76, we are left with a vast heritage of marvelous propaganda material. In the second part of this series, we take a look at 50 carefully selected posters from that period.

A Guided Tour in Yuri Arcurs' Photo Studio

Mon, 18 May 2009 13:25:11 GMT

A guided tour in Yuri Arcurs' studio at Aarhus in Denmark - see how he works and organizes his sets and get a unique look behind the scenes at one of the most successful and productive stock photography studios in the world!

Vibrant Chinese Propaganda Art - Part 1: Revolution, Revolution, Revolution

Wed, 06 May 2009 09:46:04 GMT

Chinese propaganda is like a fabulously bold and colourful history lesson, the kind of history lesson anyone with decent colour vision can appreciate. Look inside and feast your eyes on this first part of a series!

Offensive & Politically Incorrect Advertising & Propaganda

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Glaring racism, violence, murder, misogynism and a lot of smoke - In this post, we have a look at various forms of "politically incorrect" advertising and propaganda from the late 1800's up until the present. The material of our present days might not be as overt as it used to, but it's still about in droves, and sometimes with an even fouler smell to it.

Album Cover Design Tutorial: Business before Pleasure - Part 1

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Design your own, authentic Reggae album cover in this fantastic Photoshop Tutorial. And who better to guide you in the process than a designer who is Jamaican born and bred, and who also happens to be one of the winners from the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008? Enjoy!

Reggae Album Cover Design Tutorial - Part 2

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:44:17 GMT

Design your own, authentic Reggae album cover in this fantastic Photoshop Tutorial. Continued from Part 1.

Photoshop Tutorial: Modern Eve

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Crestock sent five stock images to Peter Nowacki (aka. Velendil) and challenged him to Photoshop it into something weird or wonderful. Check out the end result, complete with an illustrated tutorial of how it was created.