Usually shutter of a camera opens only for a fraction of a second just to let enough light fall on the photographic film or an image sensor in case of a digital camera, thus ensuring proper reproduction of the color shades and details of real objects on the photographic image. However, photography is not only [...]

Grotesque glamour, exaggerated fashion, supernatural abilities, combination of art and animals world – all this and much more can be found in our today inspirational set. It seems, contemporary artists do not support the statement, probably made by the pessimists of this world, that everything in the art field has already been said and done [...]

Looking at the images of our today showcase gallery, the next thing, after we literary recover from the famous WOW factor, is the question what comes first: our cleverness and artistic vision, which enable us to notice and find the ways of using the boundless opportunities mother nature offers us, or is it actually the [...]

Let’s be honest – most of the advertising we see on TV is really boring and annoying. However, do not treat all advertising equally. We have picked up some really interesting samples of visual advertising which can be anything but boring. Mobile phone, tomato sauce, and a medicine – common products to be advertised, but [...]

There has never been a limit in regard of human imagination and artists’ creativity. This statement seems especially true today, when tons of new tools, techniques, and opportunities have become available for all the creative persons. By the way, in order to become an artist or a designer, you do not need any certificate or [...]

Cruzine magazine has already gained the reputation of a reliable online source of inspiration for designers. However, inspiration belongs to the immaterial world, and we would also like to offer our readers something physical too, at least to the extent allowed by web transfer protocols. What about some free Photoshop patterns, which you could use [...]

At the very dawn of book printing or book writing to be more exact, those people, who created/wrote/copied books treated their job very seriously. Though it took pretty much time to create a book, every item was created like a true fine art masterpiece – not only it contained the information and knowledge, it was [...]

If the Holy Grail as an inexhaustible source of inspiration, enthusiasm and ideas exist in art, then it is Nature itself, for it is the Nature that inspired artists since the times immemorial and it is the Nature that continues to supply artists of all kinds with the fresh resources and inspiration for their work. [...]

Life is a universal phenomenon on planet Earth. Every living being, whether it is a tiny bug, a huge elephant, or a human, has the same life cycle. We all born, grow-up, mate, get old, and eventually pass away. To see more evidences of such universality of the life let us think about the early [...]

Whether you belong to the people, like Cole Porter, whose sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director, or, maybe, you are one of those artists, who as Ralph Emerson noted, seek inspiration at any cost, by virtue and by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine, – Cruzine will [...]

During all the times art has suffered from certain restrictions, for example, lack of quality paper and other media to carry art works, inability of paints to survive through the years without losing the brightness of colors, or social and even political rejections of certain forms of art, etc. Today most if not all of [...]

“La situazione politica non è buona; la situazione economica non è buona…” these words from the song of Adriano Celentano, obviously, reflect the current state of affairs in many countries of the world today. However, there is always at least one sphere of life, which is still flourishing and is not threatened by any default [...]

Again, we are here to share some fresh inspiration with our readers. Today we have some awesome nature and human photographs, created by John Fulton, Rudi Sebastian, Nicoline Patricia Malina, Natalie Shau, and other talented photographers. Interesting lamp designs for modern interiors are also included in the below showcase of inspiring designs. Among all other [...]

The future of telecommunication industry is determined by the current development of mobile phones, smart phones, or it is already time to say mobile multifunctional devices, such as iPhone. Flexibility of the device and its easy customization and personalization through ability of a user to install necessary applications have already made iPhone a leader among [...]

The photographs by Lennette Newell, Jim Huges, Ale Burset and others vividly show us just how inspired these artists are and with how much passion they create their works! No wonder their images have great positive influence at the viewers; no wonder many of us start to feel ready for creating our own works, not [...]