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Volume 4: Minimalism
Welcome to Skinzine, the deviantART Skins & Themes Weekly Magazine.
Thanks a lot to PascalPixel for helping me on the selection/review of these themes.
This time I'm gonna feature some great minimalist themes/skins for your PC. I'm sorry again to dont cover up the Macintosh scene yet, but the gallery revamp I'm planing to start will take place on the next days hopefully, and then all the mac users will be happy as ever trust me.
Let's start with a basic definition of what the minimalism is.
Why minimalism?
The minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features.
The term minimalism is also used to describe a trend in design and architecture where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements. Minimalist design has been highly influenced by Japanese traditional design and architecture. In addition, the work De Stijl artists is a big source of reference this kind of work. De Stijl expanded the ideas that could be expressed by using basic elements such as lines and planes organized in very particular manners.
Read more about Minimalism on wikipedia
Visual styles: The top-7 selection
Definitely, one of the most loved cateogries on the skins galleries is the Visual Styles gallery.
Here are some minimalistic themes to fire up your desktop:
by heylove
My rate:
Is one of the most beautiful VS I've seen on DA. Perfectly suitable for any kind of setup.
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by arcticTransfuse
My rate:
Is a great theme, a beautiful tribute to the German band. It includes several skins for many apps, and some wallpapers too
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by Maximhuz
My rate:
This deviant always amazed me with his amazing setups, this VS of him is one of the most eye-candy skins around. Be sure to check it out!
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by novoo
My rate:
An amazing port of one of the most complete suites around. Check out the GAIA suite and give it a try. You wont be dissapointed of the results!
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by UnitedCustomizers
My rate:
An open-source project which served as a base for loads of themes around. Go give them some love and faves, this work deserves each one!
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by schluepfer
My rate:
A VS I just saw, a great design that matches many kind of setups, specially dark ones.
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by lassekongo83
My rate:
An amazing VS to tune up your desktop. Its pretty hard not to use it for long time due to its softness on the screen. Go give it a look!
WindowBlinds alternatives:
Even if is not free as the VS option, there are a lot of WindowBlinds users and there is a huge amount of skins at the WindowBlinds Gallery.
Here is a small selection of minimalist themes:
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Other great minimalist skins:
Even if these couldnt be listed as the VS, this selection really deserves a try. Check out the next thumbs, there are skins for many apps in here:
:thumb61975003::thumb61920912: :thumb61133300::thumb61001855::thumb60867858::thumb60849629::thumb60819404:
Inspirational deviants:
I took a long time to select these great deskmodders. It might be hard to check out everyone, but take your time to lurk some of their galleries. You will drop your jaw
:dev-kol: 00Velvet00Dreams00 AlexanderWF bl00m boss019 chiwou cYPoHirogen denbas drudragon dunnodt GuiTuX kidrocky7 Kobhen kowoolo kzzu michihan mrrste MrToNeR novoo parvezz Pinky-von-Pout pridef rwk SeanFletcher tahiti-bob alexshellzhou xizor227 Zartheit ZootX zygat3r
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The End
If you want to suggest some topics, reviews or skin features for the next issues, please send me a note or contact me via email.
Previews issues:
I hope you liked this selection. See you the next week!
Mauricio Alexis Estrella aka mauricioestrella
Well, hello there.
It's been forever since I updated you guys on what's happening, but I guess most of my friends and followers here have already forgotten me. If that's the case, it's pretty sad to see it happening, but if I'm wrong and it turns out you're all out there, well, HUG ME.
I'm slowly coming back to the internetz... :#1:
Btw, if you're not a creeper, add me on FB here: https://www.facebook.com/mauricioestrella
Hugs from Shanghai, China.
Btw, I got divorced. THE HORRORZ.
Moving to Shanghai.
Hello everyone!
I hope you're doing great! It's been a while since I updated my journal. My time is really limited and I barely have the chance to make freebies like I used to make before. Hang in there! :D I have a big christmas gift for you all though.
Anyway... This is just a quick update to let you know that I'm gonna move to Shanghai in 2 weeks and spend some kick-ass time over there working for a huge worldwide company doing mostly Art Direction and some UI/UX Design.
I'm really proud of myself and this upcoming experience is gonna be a huge challenge for me, since I haven't live all by myself in several years, due to the complete fa
I'm alive. Miss me?
Hello there!
You might be wondering where the hell I've been.
You also might be wondering who the hell I am. If that's the case, stop reading now. :D
Most of my free time is now spent on a personal project I have, which means I'm not too active lately. I haven't posted anything new or sparkly in ages here, but I'll manage to find some spare time to share a few unreleased material.
So, WASUP. Tell me something new about you guys. I've been an ass for being AFK for such a long time. I kno, I kno.
Love,
-M
PS.
ZOMG wheres the "COMMENTS" link?
Hack me and find it :P
The risks of being a rally photographer
My friend etheris (https://www.deviantart.com/etheris) is a well known photographer of WRS events. He recently was close to die (for 56th time) while shoting this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-DgK1E1cVA (he is behind the camera that shot that video :fear:)
:#1: Damn awesome haha. GO HUMP HIM for me. :hump:
Wanna see more photos of that event? Here: http://www.worldrallysport.com/content/ojibwe-forests-rally-2009
I wanted to share that awesome vid! :woohoo:
-M
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minimalism owns your ass. great read by the way.