For Blog Action Day 08, Arbenting did a post to promote awareness for this year’s cause, Poverty. The article was ’Starving Artists’ Unite To Fight True Poverty, and in it, we vowed to keep the fight going for a whole year. Doing what we could to continue waking people up from their apathetic slumber, which has actually contributed to this problem. So we dedicated a year, one post a month!
Coverage
We highlighted a couple of other designer’s efforts in this fight. One of which has had an amazing response. Jacob Cass …

The team at Arbenting is back with another installment of the Wednesday Weekly Spotlight to inject a bit of inspiration into your mid-week humdrum.

So about two months ago the internet buzz was roaring and more importantly raving about the launch of Google’s new web browser, Chrome. The online dialed in masses were rushing to download the ultra lightweight, turbo browser that was promising to revolutionize web surfing as we all knew it. We braced ourselves for the comprehensive tide of change to sweep through cyberspace, waiting for it’s wake to alter the world wide web. And we are still waiting, months later.
In the beginning
There was loads of promise pervading the framework that Google …

Download Stone Textures Pack 1
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So our freebie day is here once again, and we have gathered a set of 16 high resolution (2080×1544) stone textures for download. We journeyed around town once more to capture this pack for the public and we hope that you may find a use for them. As always with an Arbenting freebie, these textures are free for both personal and commercial use. …

Upcoming at Arbenting
One more for the vaults wraps up as we move towards tomorrow’s horizon and the week that waits with it. Here at Arbenting we have a full week planned, and we are as excited about all the goodness that is coming as we are about all the new subscribers that we have! For our Monday Freebie this week, we have a new Arbenting Texture Pack for download, and on Tuesday look for a sort of follow-up article on Google Chrome. Our Inspiration in Color series goes purple this …

Inpsiration comes in all sorts of forms and from any number of varying sources. It can move us to masterpieces, or simply stir us to smile. But can the source of inspiration, depending on it’s color, control how it inspires? Meaning, if the source of inspiration was primarily of a certain color, then would it inspire towards concepts or elements that are generally associated with that color? Can this kind of associative inspiration even be possible? Colors are chosen very carefully in design, due to the attachment of emotion and …