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There’s nothing more exciting and interesting than personal branding. Designers are usually pretty high demanding when it comes to their personal branding. But with the right amount of attention it can result in something really beautiful. This is also the case for Michael Spitz. He is an American designer, currently operating via Rijeka, Croatia who is specialized in branding, illustrations and information design. Michael created this beautiful logo for himself using the first letter of his forename. I really love the colours and the attention to detail.

Markku Lahdesmaki is a photographer from Finland. His love for photography started when his uncle gave him a simple camera with a black and white film. He moved from taking snapshots of his family and shooting objects in a museum to having a small studio in his home town. After that he left to study and work abroad. For the past fifteen years, Markku has been living in Los Angeles with his wife and two boys.

After a week of hard work and stress, it’s time to relax. There’s no better way to relax than the beauty of a great logo. This beauty was created by Anthony Lane, a 25 year old designer out of Minneapolis, MN. He created this logo for web designer called Aldo Zarza. Aldo is web-designer who wants a minimalistic presence and wants to be perceived as a minimalist, edgy, modern web designer. I think he’ll be very happy with the result.

Social bookmarking is probably one of the most important aspects of your marketing plan. Social bookmarking allows your visitors to share your articles with friends, families and colleagues. They help to share your posts with thousands of people. It has never been easier to integrate these options into your Wordpress site. There are dozens of plugins that generate social bookmarking buttons. In this article you’ll find my 10 favourite social bookmarking plugins for Wordpress. Installing these will only take you about 5 minutes.

Some of the best advice in the world is spread via quotes. For example: when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. There’s a lot of wisdom in this simple sentence. A lot of designers use these kind of quotes as a source of inspiration. These quotes become even better when you illustrate them in the form of typography. Here are 20 inspirational typographic quotes for your inspiration!

The week’s logo of the week is available for purchase on Brandstack. It was designed by Bojan Stefanovic, a 35 year old graphic designer from Serbia. If that name doesn’t ring a bell, you might know him as ‘Logoholik’. He has over ten years of experience in graphic design and print industry. Bojan created this beautiful logo as a combination of wunderkid and aikido.

Self promotion is one of the most important daily tasks of creatives. If no-one knows about your existence, how can they hire you? A lot of people think that online self promotion is time-consuming and complicated. But Alex Mathers shows us that this isn’t the case. He explains the 10 steps to powerful online self promotion for creatives in his ebook that will be released on March 10th.

Underwater-photography comes with its own challenges compared to classical photography. It’s a completely different environment with certain limitations that the photographer has to keep in mind. But when the photographer can get everything right he can create beautiful photos. This time I’ve collected some amazing coral photographs. These photos really show the diversity in forms, colors and textures of coral reefs.