Andreas Rocha is a Portuguese digital artist. His work can be divided into two different categories. A first one, purely artistic and a second one that seems a great way to pay the bills.

The best way to get to know everything about Andreas is to pay a visit to his personal website, is professional/commercial 3D artwork and, why not, his e-store on Imagekind.

Direct linking:
- Author’s gallery
- Tutorials

Pluginmeter is a website with a dubious utility but still (considering human love and attraction for tops, lists and statistics) worth the reference.

The service crawls the web looking for Wordpress installations indexing a list of the most used plugins in the planet. Nation specific tops are also available.

Last time I visited the site, this was the Top10 for Worpress plugins:

1. Akismet (89,3%)
2. Hello (79,7%)
3. WP Database Backup (54,8%)
4. WP-Cache (21,1%)
5. Widgets (19,5%)
6. PodPress (17,6%)
7. WP-ContactForm (14,7%)
8. Sitemap (14,1%)
9. Markdown (13,7%)
10. Ultimate Tag Warrior (13,4%)

No big suprises right?

Additional Information:
Ranking Alexa: 530.283
Índice Del.icio.us: 84

Maps of War placed an interesting flash presentation online where you can observe the geographical evolution of Democracy during the last 4000 years. From Arwad until today, 40 centuries in 90 seconds.

Here for a fullscreen presentation and here for an on-site exhibition.

Additional Information:
- Arwad on Wikipedia
- “Freedom in the World 2008″ Report
- Alexa ranking: 144.027
- Del.icio.us index: 8

Visual communication is the communication of ideas through the visual display of information. Primarily associated with two dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, photography, typography, drawing fundamentals, colour and electronic resources. Recent research in the field has focused on web design and graphically oriented usability. It is part of what a graphic designer does to communicate visually with the audience.

Almost as great as Human history itself is the History of the visual communication between each human being. From the caves to the Digital Era, from ideograms to modern typography,  The History of Visual Communication tells it all.

Happy communication.

Publish your documents online with a precious help from Issuu. Magazines, brochures, catalogs, you’ll find in Issuu an excellent solution for online publishing. Published PDF documents can be placed on any site/blog or social network profile page. Some examples can be found here, here and here.

Happy publishing.

So here we go again: another (this time Russian), with a playlist system, fast and relevant results deployment, MP3 search engine. Russian, English and German interface are available. The name? MP3 SHKI.RU. Legal and morality issues are of course arguable, but the usefulness, is I’m sure, unquestionable.
Happy tunes.

Additional Information:
- Alexa ranking: 421.296
- Del.icio.us index: 79

96 artists from 8 countries, 118 works of art for 118 elements, from Hydrogen [H] to Ununoctium [Uuo]. A unique way of presenting the Periodic Table of Elements and promote the Arts.

Find more about the project, the artists, the feedback and the Flickr group.

10×10 is an amazing way to see what makes the world today. 100 news, 100 images in a ten by ten interface.
The website is updated every 60 minutes and you can also browse the archive as back as November 2004.

Additional information:
- News sources: Reuters World News / BBC World Edition / NY Times International Edition
- More from the author

TypeNeu is a social platform and an inspirational source for all the tipophiles, graphical artists, designers,etc. Tutorials, news, examples, and a whole lot more, all with a great taste and simplicity. Created Emil Olsson with Wordpress as platform.

Inspire yourself.

Additional information:
- Alexa ranking: 619.104
- Del.icio.us index: 726
- Alternative address: www.welovetype.com

Wonderlost is a Raymond Sepulveda project based on is own interpretation (on a very noir kind of way) of Lewis Carroll characters. The most interesting aspect is achieved by the contrast between the white porcelain on the characters faces, the blood and the extreme black elements.

Also very interesting is the fact that the artist didn’t use any 3D software. All the artwork’s done with a mix of Illustrator and Photoshop and, of course, Raymond Sepulveda’s mastery of the airbrushing technique.