Singapore – known as the Lion city may be just a tiny small dot on the geographical world map, but it has braved several adversities and hardships since its independence on August 9th 1965.

The republic is located on an island off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, 137 kilometres north of the equator, in the Southeast Asian region of the Asian continent. It is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north, and from Indonesia’s Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south. A city-state, Singapore is the world’s fourth leading financial centre and a cosmopolitan world city.

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Belgian  Architect Vincent Callebaut recently unveiled a project called Hydrogenase, a blue-sky plan for a high-flying fleet of self-sufficient aircraft that are one part zeppelin cities and one part hydrogen-generating floating farms. The algae-producing airborne cities are 100% emission-free and are capable of generating hydrogen gas without consuming land needed for crops or forests.

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Photoshop needs no introduction; everyone knows it — even those who do not have any design background. Knowing your tools inside out really counts. If you really know Photoshop, you can do almost everything with it — be it photo retouching, photo manipulation, creating fantasy scenes or creating wild and wicked text effects. And in this post we have collected some fresh Photoshop tutorials that will help you learning it inside out. Browse through this collection and polish your Photoshop skills!

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Sehsucht director Ole Peters breathes life into 10- to 1,000-Swiss-Franc bank notes, animating origami-style creatures to illustrate campaign claims like “we’re all part of nature – invest in our ecological funds”. GiantMilkCan from Hamburg/Germany created the 3D-Characters.

Advertising Agency: Ruf Lanz Werbeagentur, Zurich, Switzerland

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So in this tutorial I will show you how to create the effect of one of the Inception posters, the one with the word Inception made of buildings on an aerial photo of a city. To create this effect we will use the new 3D tool in Photoshop CS 5 called Repousse and an aerial photo from Pixelcase.

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Sixty40 is Sydney based design and animation company powered by a team of dedicated Ninjas. We’ve been producing unique and wonderful pieces for a huge range of clients and purposes for 10 years now. Every job we do hones our skills in 2D, 3D and Stopmotion animation, shooting live action, making puppets, designing characters, producing motion graphics and compositing it all together.