Giackop Design / Giacomo Coppola

Web and Graphic Design

Welcome to my blog

undefinedHi I'm Giacomo Coppola (known in the web as giackop).. I'm an Italian web and graphic designer..

Contact me at info@giackop.com if you want to hire me for a project or for whatever You may need.

paypal donation buttonI was wondering how useful can they be but what I like about them is the graphic and the idea that is behind them.

I will show here some of the button that I found surfing on the net.

Also check this tutorial in NetTuts to build these buttons with paypal.

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randomnessI was always wondering how in the other sites’ contests they could choose a random comment number.

The solution is this site: random.org where you can choose any number of random picks between 1 and 1 billion. Cool isn’t it?

In a while I’ll use it to give a gift to some lucky readers but for the moment I’m not telling more…

YOC: The Year of CreativityI just found a new job!!

Check this funny website: Year of Creativity.

“Be the change you want to see in the world”, this is the idea behind YOC_BOX, the first in a series of initiatives launched by AdmCom.

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columnsAbduzeedo complete his serie of amazing tutorial with this one (Mix Cool Retro Curves Into Your Photographs) that helps us to create an effect similar, but not even close, to his majesty James White.

Here is my version.. I played with a photo of my town Senigallia.

swirl tutorialNew amazing tutorial from the great Abduzeedo.

Mixing vector and bitmap is getting better and better with this kind of tutorials.

Thanx Fabio.

design spotterDesign Spotter is a great blog about design and they just relaunched the blog with a new redesign.

I love this blog because it full of very interesting products, events, reports, etc.

fefè projectEhy guys.. You should check this amazing italian magazine Fefè Project.

It’s written in english and italian and every issue has a main theme.

The magazine is composed by the graphic that designers send from all over the world.

The next Call for Entry theme is “What you own will finally own you”.

I will send my work for sure this time.. What about you?

flickrCome on guys!! Everybody loves Flickr!!

So thanx to the guys at Mentalaxis for the huge list of more than 100 free tools for Flickr.

Guess my username in Flickr??? Giackop.. So add me if you are there as well..

smokeI was inspired for this piece by a tutorial of Nik Ainley in Digital Art Magazine and You can find there the source image.

My piece is quite different because it’s about smoke and not water but take a look at the tutorial because the results is very cool.

I also managed to make my signature with the smoke.

resourcesFrom this month I will start to write a monthly post about resources that you can find on the Net.

What do you think about this idea? Could it be useful for you guys? You can find also other resources under the freebies category.