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Annie Leibovitz and the Disney Dream Portraits

Annie Leibovitz and the Disney Dream Portraits

Annie Leibovitz began her career working as a staff photographer for the newly launched Rolling Stone magazine during the 70′s. She toured with the Rolling Stones band in ’75 and covered their concert “Tour of the Americas”. continue reading

Inspiration: Fish House by Guz Architects, Singapore

Inspiration: Fish House by Guz Architects, Singapore

Whenever design meets functionality the result can always be a mixture of jaw dropping sensation with a mind boggling experience, strictly in that order. I saw this posted on Abduzeedo about a month ago and I just couldn’t keep my eyes off of it. The geniuses behind this structural phenomenon are the team from Guz Architects of Singapore. continue reading

Harnessing your creativity – the Eminem hypothesis

Harnessing your creativity – the Eminem hypothesis

I think we can learn a few pointers from Mr. Mathers about creativity, after all he’s been hacking it up in one of the toughest creative business environment for awhile and he seems to be doing pretty well. This makes him a brilliant wire-frame of what you could do to come up with killer design concepts or articles when the juices aren’t flowing. continue reading

Party balloon tutorial @photoshopmag.net

How to Make Party Balloons in Photoshop Tutorial

Latest Update:

It was just another ordinary day at Prodigal Concepts but with an itsy, bitsy, teeny weeny little update. One of my articles just got published in www.photoshopmag.net continue reading

How to make money on the internet

How to make money on the internet

If the internet is a mall then we all agree that it’s a very humongous mall. As of the latest survey for July 26, 2010 around 9:46 am, wiki answers gives us approximately 1,474,822,045 of the world’s population goes online every day. Wow, that’s a lot isn’t it? That’s how big your potential market is. continue reading

Jim Faustino’s wonderful toy sculptures

Jim Faustino’s wonderful toy sculptures

Aside from his day job Jim Faustino is also a part of an eclectic team of artists at www.glasshousegraphics.com which is a professional service firm who collaborates and brings together individuals from different areas of expertise. continue reading

Johann Bodin’s magic cards and illustrations

Johann Bodin’s magic cards and illustrations

Anyone familiar with “Magic Cards” knows that a lot of talent goes into the design of a single card. And I’m not talking about those David Blaine or Criss Angel types of magic cards that disappear in front of your face. What we have is commonly known as Magic: The Gathering or just Magic and sometimes simply MTG cards, it’s a complex card game similar or inspired by role playing predecessor card games such as “Dungeons and Dragons”. And this game is very popular that it’s estimated to be played by some six million players in over seventy countries.continue reading

ElectroLychee Studio | Manila

ElectroLychee | Manila

As full-time visual artists they frequent alternative galleries of Manila to showcase most of their pop-inspired artworks. Whenever things slow down they will keep themselves out of trouble with painting and participating in design conferences. But no matter how crazy things sometimes get you can still count on them to find the time to collaborate with local and foreign artists to come up with a brand new material.continue reading

Serial Cut | Image Makers since ’99

Serial Cut | image makers since '99

Since the conception of prodigalconcepts.com I have been regularly casting out my proverbial net far and wide for inspirational materials and resources to share with the community. We are so lucky to be in an industry where talent seems to be infinite; as a result inspiration is endless. You just have to know where to look. Today we have an entire agency to look up to. They brand themselves as “image makers” and have been around since the late 90’s which gives them the experience most of us can only dream of, an agency studio called Serial Cut. continue reading

Elpinoy Chester Ocampo’s Awesome Illustrations

Elpinoy Chester Ocampo’s Awesome Illustrations

Graphic illustrations are manifestations of all the youthful imaginations we have as kids. Having them realized in print and digital form just makes it all enjoyable. Like magic coming to life it’s exciting. And with all the great artists out there it’s hard to describe the feeling of pride to find a homegrown talent among the multitudes of graphic illustrators we have today, it’s simply awesome. continue reading