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Is there a better way to discover new foods than through a clean interface with full-paged pictures? No? Meet Gojee. Gojee recommends top quality, hand curated recipes by using basic fundamentals. Part of Gojee’s appeal is it’s beautiful visual experience which entices the user into their beautifully presented dishes. Gojee doesn’t stop there… To make sure that their recipes are the cream of the crop they hunt down the webs best food bloggers,  and get’s to know them intimately. Apparently, even “pillow-talk O-M-GEE, no way, I like long walks on the beach” intimate.

Then all that tasty information is crushed into the Gojee tasting lab. Where, all of these easy dishes are tested by real humans to make sure that these are indeed the best. Basically, Gojee makes sure that they bring you the best of the best so your aural experience will be nothing short of mind-blowing. And if you’re a NYC resident and shop at D’Agostino, Gojee automagically links to your rewards card and tells you the ingredients that you already have.

In-case you weren’t sold, the interface of the site is clean, crisp and on-point. There’s only the needed functionality that helps you, the short order cook, get your cook on. Gojee is fantastically fun and easy to use. By allowing users to like/dislike foods and add foods based on categories you have or want to cook with, you’re able to find something anyone is able to eat.

Need more Gojee?

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Behance ProSite: Fully Customized Portfolio Websites, No Coding Required, Massive Exposure

Behance launched ProSite.com, a new service that allows creative people and teams to create fully customized portfolio websites through a revolutionary drag-and-drop interface.

How will ProSite revolutionize the online portfolio space in the creative industry?

Endless Customization, No Coding Required

In contrast to other portfolio site providers, ProSite does not require any programming knowledge to access a full range of customization options. You can design a website using sliders, color pickers, and an intuitive drag-and-drop interface in a matter of minutes. Check out a few example ProSites.

A “Connected” Portfolio, In-Sync With Behance, LinkedIn, & More

ProSite syncs your online portfolio with the Behance Network and other portfolio display applications on LinkedIn, AIGA, AdWeek, plus more networks and galleries around the web. You can create a customized website on your own domain name, and then manage your entire online creative presence from one central place.

Powered By Behance’s Growing Platform

ProSite is built upon the Behance Network, the leading platform for creative professionals. Hundreds of thousands of creative professionals use Behance.net to display their work on Behance as well as LinkedIn and other exclusive curated galleries around the web, including the award winning collection of Served sites.

Millions of creative enthusiasts visit Behance sites every month to watch and follow the latest and greatest work by creative professionals across industries. Top creative companies around the world use Behance to find incredible talent. In the past 30 days, Behance’s sites collectively received over 50 million pageviews and growth is in the double-digits.

ProSite launches this week and is free to sign up at ProSite.com.

Premium service includes unlimited media, personal domain mapping, hosting and support for just $11/month (or $99/year).

WATCH THE VIDEO:

Check out the 90-Second Launch Video For Behance ProSite: http://prosite.com

5 Examples of ProSite Customization & Connection With Behance

Official Classic

ProSite: http://officialclassiceps.prosite.com/
Behance Profile: http://be.net/officialclassiceps

Felix Ng

ProSite: http://work.felixng.co
Behance Profile: http://be.net/silnt

Jonas Nyström

ProSite: http://jonasfilm.com/
Behance Profile: http://be.net/jnystrom

Jack Radcliffe

ProSite: http://jackradcliffe.prosite.com
Behance Profile: http://www.behance.net/JackRadcliffe

Anthony Neil Dart

ProSite: http://anthonyneildart.tv
Behance Profile: http://www.behance.net/DARTA

Mauro Hernandez

ProSite: http://mahebo.com/
AdWeek: http://talent.adweek.com/mahebo
Behance Profile: http://be.net/Mahebo

More Examples: http://prosite.com/home/examples
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About Behance

Behance is a NYC-based company with a mission to organize and empower the careers of creative professionals. Behance oversees Behance.net, the leading online platform for creative professionals; The 99%, Behance’s think tank and annual conference devoted to execution in the creative world; and Action Method, a popular online/mobile productivity application and line of organizational paper products for creative people and teams.
http://behance.com

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Part geekery, part circus, Kick Awesome.tv is wicked weekly web show (say that three times fast) that is dedicated to design, the web and general nerdery. The men behind the show are Nate Croft & Jon Longnecker who are also behind the wondrous works of 47Media. Currently, they’re 12 episodes strong – ranging in topics from photography lightboxes, first person shooters, music, iPod Nano watches, photoshop trickery, dribbble, their personal lives and anything in-between. If you’re tired of all the other boring ways to learn and hear about the industry you should definitely check them out. If you love their content as much as we do they also have some awesome sponsorship options. If that’s not enough awesome for you KickAwesome.tv is on twitter as well as facebook so, you should definitely fan their page and give them a follow.

Get More KickAwesome.tv

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Ever feel like the online world is not full with enough good instructional design content? Over at Area 51, stack exchange’s awesome new staging zone there is a new site in the making. Can Berk Güder proposed the site idea. His basic concept:

Proposed Q&A site for professional graphic designers and non-designers trying to do their own graphic design (e.g. programmers creating icons/logos for their applications)

It’s had a good amount of proposed questions like: What is kerning?, Does this design look good?, Is it still important to use so called web safe colors anymore? etc. This would be a very good added resource to the design community. It’s also a place where knowledge and helpful instruction and learning could come from. Fuel Brand Network has become an official supporter in the cause for better more relevant content throughout the design world. If you are interested in this site hop over to Area 51 and sign up, commit to the project and help the design world have another great resource.

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Brandstack, the creative marketplace for logos has an unveiled another way to market logo designs to the masses. Upstack. Upstack is a unique route for a person needing a logo, website, web design, advertisement or other creative service. Unlike the predecessor Brandstack, Upstack lets anyone build a team of hand-picked designers that are ready to burn the midnight oil to work on your project. Upstack manages all the processes by taking the client from the brief to the final design. This wastes no design time and spares no quality. They also do this without spec work which makes it something that isn’t frowned upon in the design world.

Brandstack is different from other crowd sourcing sites because the logos they market are from designs that didn’t sell in their agency ventures. Meaning, ideally a designer would make a client three logos and the two the client didn’t pick; he or she would fine tune and put on Brandstack to sell.

Wes Wilson, Brandstacks CEO says that the beauty of Upstack is that their designers are all at the top of their game in the respected industries: web design, print, advertisement, illustration & logo design. He also goes on to mention the best part about Upstack is: “Joining Upstack is joining the right against spec. Working on Upstack prokects, you will be paid upfront for your time & effort. Happy designers and happy clients. Happy happy joy joy.”

Some well known competitors, Crowdspring and 99 Designs also offer logos & identities at similar price. Their pay structure is different, paying the designer based on the work that is chosen. A client can ask for a logo and receive 50 or so logos that have been executed. The client then picks the winner and that determines who gets paid.

Brandstack

Company: Brandstack

Twitter: @Brandstack

Founded: April 2008

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Another fantastic FUEL site has been added to the Network today with the official launch of Fuel Your Motionography.

About the Site

Mographics move us. There are some things that can only be communicated in motion. Cue Fuel Your Motionography, a site dedicated to everything mographics. We know that motionography goes beyond animation and flipbooks. We’re here to give you the tips and tools to nail that title sequence and to take your show reels to the next level. Looking for ways to add a new spin to post effects or VFX? You’ve rolled into the right place. FYM features articles on the latest trends and the hottest programs to check out to make you the motion master you’re meant to be. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

Michael John, Co-Editor

When not making music under the moniker Masmöd, Michael John, a.k.a. The Sage That Drips the Flava, is hard at work bringing you the creative content you are looking for in order to be on top of your motionography game. As the Co-founder, Creative Director, Developer and Photographer at Colorcubic, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Portland, OR, Michael eagerly brings his years of experience in creative arts to the position of Co-Editor of Fuel Your Motionography. He’s one of the creative geniuses bringing you relevant articles, tips and tricks, reviews of the hottest tools and apps as well as interviews with the top creatives in your craft, picking their brains to give you insight into what makes them the motion masters that they are.

Follow on Twitter: @mjohn_motion | @fuelyourmotion

Christy Lai, Co-Editor

It’s almost easier to list the creative things that Christy Lai doesn’t have experience in… Okay, we’re done. This classically trained artist boasts a mile-long list of artistic endeavors that include drawing, oil, acrylic, watercolor painting, sculpture, typeface design, violin, piano and breakfast. When not partaking in one of those genres, Christy can be found creating eye-catching designs for clients in many industries through her job as Co-founder and Creative Director at the multidisciplinary design studio Colorcubic, which she founded with Fuel Your Motionography Co-Editor Michael John. As Co-Editor of FYM, Christy is charged with posting the mograph content you want to see: reviews of the latest and greatest apps, articles on what’s hot in the field as well as interviews of the geniuses who create those hot things.

Follow on Twitter: @clai_motion | @fuelyourmotion

A Round up of New Articles to Check Out

• Curated: Typography In Motion – part 1
• An Untapped Market
• 3D Movies: The Good, The Bad, The Future?
• The Little Station That Could
• The Most Expensive Music Videos Ever Made
• Curated: Top Motion Reels for October
• Using the Canon T1i for Asset Gathering
• There’s a Credit Crunch, Not a Creative Crunch

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Another fantastic FUEL site has been added to the Network today with the official launch of Fuel Your Blogging.

About the Site

Your loyal readers hang on your every word. You have a bunch of subscribers who think you’re great and can’t wait to get your next post in their inbox. Heck, WE think you’re great. Fuel Your Blogging is here to make you even better. We know, we know, you’re already a kick-butt blogger who knows your stuff. We’re here to make any new blogging stuff even easier to come by. The latest news and trends, the advice on how to increase your already impressive readership. Both of them. Chats with fellow bloggers who have made it big. Done. We bet we’re going to be BBFFs (Blogging Best Friends Forever) in no time.

Tim Smith, Editor

The beauty about the world of blogging is that you can do it from anywhere and it can be about anything. Just ask Tim Smith, Editor of Fuel Your Blogging, who provides you with relevant, up-to-date and must-have content for every blogger. He’s got tons of stuff up his sleeve, including the hottest tips to improve your content and readership, write-ups on the best apps and platforms and interviews with blog royalty. Starting with an extensive background in graphic design, Tim has made a name for himself through his freelance design business and his own blogs such as “The Creative Lab.” Tim plays basketball and watches movies during the day, but at night becomes his alter ego: a dancing machine.

Follow on Twitter: @timothybsmith | @fuelblogging

A Round up of New Articles to Check Out

• Fuel Yourself Wallpaper
• Quit. Or be great.
• Create Content That Your Readers Will Care About
• Twitter Rolodex: 15 Blogger Tweeps & Tweets
• Balancing Blogging and the Rest of Your Life; a Student’s Perspective
• To Blog or Not To Blog
• Non-UX Designers Can Pay Attention to User Experience Too!
• What Is Fuel Your Blogging?

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About the Site

You’re masters at visualization. Magicians, if you will. Illustration is an art form unlike any others and we recognize that. Fuel Your Illustration is here to pay homage to those folks who take this genre  to the next level. You want the latest news and interviews with the hottest talent. We’ve got that covered. You want inspiration. Consider it our gift to you. How about the coolest apps and other tools to help you bring your illustrations to life? Here they are. Now go and work your magic.

Alex Eben Meyer, Editor

We’d give you a laundry list of the huge clients that Alex Eben Meyer has in his brag bag, but we think you’d be pretty darn jealous. Let’s just say he knows his stuff when it comes to illustration. As Editor of Fuel Your Illustration, Alex utilizes his BFA in Graphic Communications, extensive drawing experience, curly hair and left-handedness to bring you the latest news from the illustration world. Expect the who’s who and the what’s what. Be prepared to get glimpses into the minds and art of the world’s top illustrators and maybe even some who aren’t at the top but will be in no time at all.

Follow on Twitter: Alex Eben Meyer | Fuel Your Illustration

A roundup of new articles to check out:

• Top 12 Inspirational Pieces [8.21.09]
• Fuel Your Illustration Flickr Group Showcase (1)
• Porkchop
• Tachikawa Dip Pen
• Rhonda 3d Software
• Library of Congress
• Quick Tutorial: Radial Repeat

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You interface designers have your work cut out for you. Bigger and better and uber creative websites are cropping up everywhere these days. It always seems as if one form is niftier than the rest, or the typography on one site puts others to shame. How can you even begin to keep up? Why, Fuel Your Interface, of course! It’s here that we bring you the inspiration for those bigger and better and uber creative sites in the form of articles, interviews and galleries. And those other sites that you drool over? Five bucks says they come here too.

Jonathan Cutrell, Editor

Jonathan Cutrell is more than a triple threat, he’s an anomaly, folks. With extensive experience in web, motion and print graphic design as well as branding and copy editing, Jonathan excels at it all…all the while finding time to play anything from folk rock to jazz on his guitar. As Editor of Fuel Your Interface, he’s tackling one his most challenging projects to date: keeping you up to date on the who’s who, the what’s what and everything else that goes into creating uber creative and eye-catching interfaces for your clients and business. Expect things such as interviews with experts and gurus, reviews of today’s hottest apps and galleries from impressive designers like yourself.

Follow on Twitter: Fuel Your Interface | Jonathan Cutrell

A Roundup of Amazing New Articles

• Interview with Zach Klein, Designer of Vimeo.com
• The Importance of Audio Environment to Visual Design
• Interface 101 – Part One: Basic Interfaces
• Pen and Paper – The Forgotten Web Design Tools
• Book Review – Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles Using Grids
• Minimalist Theory and Techniques
• How to Use the F-Pattern Correctly
• Have you gotten your tickets for “An Event Apart”?
• 10 Interface Rockstars You Should Know About

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The freelance world got a little more exciting yesterday, with the much anticipated launch of the new client and proposal organization, management, and automation application SixCentral. Not that this awesome new app is strictly for the Freelance crowd, but since that is largely where my hat hangs, that is where I got excited! (and since the freelance design community was whom the developers had in mind when creating this handy tool, I stand by statement.) This easy to use proposal management and more app is a stirring edition to the online design community and we here at FYC are delighted to share in announcing its arrival!

With SixCentral, you will have the ability to have a single place to organize all of your current and prospective clients. From there, you can create new project proposals and send them to any client in your database. Your clients will have the ability to accept, deny, postpone or comment on your proposal. Everything will be stored at SixCentral — instead of your inbox.

Recognizing the need for an automated management system for freelance businesses, and striking out to develop and design an application to satisfy that need is no easy task. For a little more on how this triumphant trio managed to make this happen, check out the interview on Fuel Your Apps yesterday, Behind the App: Six Central. It really is an interesting look behind the scenes of this app development, providing great insight into the project and the desires that drove it into reality.

For more from the creative minds behind Six Central, be sure to follow the creators on Twitter. @ryanscherf, @wattzilla, @SoftArtisan.

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Fuel Your Creativity Announces New Co-Editors to join the Team + Fuel Your Branding Launches Today!

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Fuel Your Creativity

Lots of exciting things going on today and I personally wanted to take a few minutes to let the creative community know what we’ve been up to lately. We’ve been searching for the perfect fit for Editors on Fuel Your Creativity for some time now. Now that doesn’t mean I’m going anywhere (you can’t get rid of me that easy!) but what it DOES mean is that your going to get twice as much amazing content from the talented Angie & Rob Bowen from Arbenting.

So from everyone at Fuel, welcome!

Rob Bowen, Co-Editor

You may already know him as Rob Bowen-Arbenting guru/writer/designer/stage performer/poet/hiker/husband extraordinaire. Okay, so maybe not so much the firsthand knowledge of the husband one…we’ll take Angie’s word on that. What we can attest to is Rob’s talent as a writer and designer and his dedication to bringing FYC readers all of the latest news from the design arena. Count on interviews with the world’s top creatives, reviews of the hottest programs and gadgets and articles on things that make those light bulbs turn on over the heads of our creative comrades.

Follow Rob on Twitter: Fuel Your Creativity | Rob Bowen

Angie Bowen, Co-Editor

As one of the genius minds behind the Arbenting sites, freelance web designer Angie Bowen knows a thing or two about creative inspiration. In her position as Co-Editor of FYC with her husband Rob, Angie will share her many years of design experience in exploring creativity with readers in the form of informative posts, in-depth interviews with fellow creative minds and more. If we’re lucky, maybe she’ll treat us to stories about and some pictures of her four furry catkids. After all, we’re one big happy family here at Fuel!

Follow Angie on Twitter: Fuel Your Creativity | Angie Bowen

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Fuel Your Branding Launches Today!

About the site

You know you’re great. We know you’re great, now we have to show THEM you’re great. How, you ask? Branding. No, we’re not talking cattle prods and hot irons. This branding is how your clients and potential clients find out how wonderful and unique your company and products or services are. Fuel Your Branding will give you the tools and advice you need to be successful at giving your company the brand that will differentiate you and make you memorable. We have things like articles written by branding pros as well as things like tips on how to make your brand THE brand. Some marketers say the key is to hit the customer with things at least three times to make them remember. We say why limit yourself to just three?

Beth LaPierre, Editor

Do you know how there are some companies that you would recognize anywhere? We at Fuel Your Branding want people to know your brand. As Editor of FYB, Beth LaPierre brings you the who’s who and the what’s what in branding. Expect articles on the hottest trends, as well as interviews with people who are known for making things known. With over eight years of experience in developing brand strategies for some of today’s hottest products and organizations, Beth will provide you with the tools to help you build your brand all while spray painting inanimate objects and drinking enough espresso to single-handedly support the coffee trade.

Follow on Twitter: Fuel Your Branding | Beth LaPierre

The Lineup

Beth has some amazing content lined up for you Branding gurus…but here is some new launch articles to check out!

1. Design Parameters Good For Creative
2. Why do we feel better about some products than we do about others?
3. Get Loaded
4. Microsites. Better than Ever.
5. Project An Outcome
6. Be The Expert, Say No
7. Waiting on a Website
8. Old Is the New New…Again
9. Augmented Reality For Real
10. Cisco’s New Ex
11. Dog Days

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The guys over at Obox Design, David Perel & Marc Perel need no introduction. I’m sure your quite familer with their From the Couch series and today the are launching the new ‘Obox Signature Series Themes’.

Here is a sneak preview of the themes that you can win! Details for entry are below. Good luck!

The Signature Theme: Left Handed

The Signature Theme: Arcade

Theme Options

How to Enter

• Follow @oboxthemes on twitter
• Comment below which theme you would like to win (Arcade or Left Handed)

The Details

• There will be 4 competition winners
• 2 will win Arcade (single user licenses)
• 2 will win Left Handed (single user licenses)
• Contest will end this Friday at 11:59p EST.
• Winners will be announced on or before Monday

Winners Announced:

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About the Site

Ah, so you know your way around a dark room, eh? Maybe you’ve graduated from the old point and shoot to a camera that makes REAL magic. Nice to meet ya! We like people like you, after all, seeing the world through your lenses reminds us what a crazy world it really is. It’s because we like you that we’ve dedicated a website-Fuel Your Photography- to inspiring you. There are articles, tools and interviews with your fellow lens lovers to get your creative juices flowing and to arm you with the knowledge you need to be able to answer important questions like “does the camera add 10 pounds?” On second thought, you’re on your own for that one.

About the Team

Stacy Christian, Editor

Give Fuel Your Photography Editor Stacy Christian some fresh fruit, chocolate and permission to sleep late and she’ll be set for life. OK, so you may want to throw in her current location in Kaneohe, HI as well. Yes, the rest of us are jealous too. But FYP is lucky to have this talented photographer as part of our team as she boasts many years of experience as a professional photographer who has lived and taken pictures all over the country including in Georgia, Utah and Virginia. As co-Editor of FYP with Thayne Shumway, Stacy is dedicated to bringing all photography creatives the latest information in the photography world including the hottest gadgets to check out and interviews with the coolest cats.

Follow on Twitter: Fuel Your Photography |  Stacy Christian

Thayne Shumway, Editor

As Editor of Fuel Your Photography, Thayne Shumway puts his field expertise, experience, creative vision and his unique perspective on the world to good use. When we found out he has a knack for winning free fast food and charity photography contests…that just sealed the deal! Thayne will be dedicating his time to keeping photography aficionados everywhere informed on the who’s who, the what’s what and everything else in the photography world.  And no, he won’t share any fries. We’ve already asked.

Follow on Twitter: Fuel Your Photography |  Thayne Shumway

A Roundup of New Articles

1. Interview with Casey Templeton
2. The ALICE Experiment
3. Approaching People As A Photographer
4. 5 Steps For First Time DSLR Owners
5. Power Station
6. Blue Helmets and Kevlar Vests
7. Creative Books
8. New Orleans Post Katrina

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Today the Fuel Brand Network launched Fuel Network TV, along with it’s first channel – Drift TV. We welcome the drifters Martin & Gavin to the Fuel family, I highly suggest you check out their show…these two are very talented guys! I promise we aren’t biased & it will Fuel Your Creativity.

Check it out for yourself.

1. Welcome to Drift TV
2. Episode 1: Infuz
3. Episode 2: Atomic Dust
4. Episode 3: Goodtwin Design

More episodes to come in the next week. Don’t forget to follow @driftcreate for the latest on their trip cross country and see what they had to say about the launch!

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About the Site

We <heart> apps. That’s why we threw together Fuel Your Apps one rainy afternoon. Ok, so it wasn’t necessarily just ONE rainy afternoon… after all, we bring everyone all of the coolest news on the hottest apps. Not to mention how-tos on how to create them, reviews of the latest crazes, and a look inside the minds of the people who do them the best. We bet everyone will be back for more inspiration no matter what the weather. 

Chad Engle
Editor, Fuel Your Apps

When he’s not out tasting wine in the fresh air of his home state of West Virginia, Chad Engle can be found hard at work as the Editor at Fuel Your Apps. That hard work entails bringing you everything you want to know apps and maybe even some stuff you didn’t know you wanted to know but now you really know you wanted to know it. Did you get all that? If not, here it is again. Chad brings you information on which apps are hot, interviews with the creators behind them and where to go when you need some help. Nevermind the years of experience in graphic and web design and his obsession with all things advertising and application related. The bottom line is that Chad is just a cool guy and we know you’ll love him as much as we do.

Follow on Twitter: @fuelyourapps    |   @chadengle

A Roundup of New Articles

1. Giveaway: How to Build a Web App Workshop
2. 6 Apps with a Good Web Presence
3. Behind the App – Mike Rundle
4. 1 Billion Downloads: What This Means For Devs
5. 4 Services to Connect with App Dev’s on Twitter
6. 2 Apps You Need In Your App Arsenal
7. Juglir
8. 8 Interesting iPhone Icons
9. Tweetie – For iPhone
10. Tweetie – For Mac Review