Posts Tagged "Design"

60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web January 5, 2010 Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December. You’ll find everything from a Minimalistic Poster Designed in Photoshop, to creating a Clean 3D Notepad. So what are you waiting for…why not try one out? via 60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web | designrfix.com.

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A Collection of Free Design Resources Designers can never get enough resources. Fonts, tutorials, source files, plugins, stock images, icons… you name it we love them. Especially when they are free! Thankfully within the design community there are no shortage of designers willing to offer free stuff, it just about finding them. That is where we can help. In today’s news round-up we have collected exactly what you want, some fresh and free design resources. via A Collection of Free Design Resources | Design Reviver.

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Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design * By Daniel Eckler It’s always nice to go to a bookstore, grab a book of logo designs, sit down, inhale that new-book smell and absorb the goodness. But knowing where all of these designs, fonts and creative elements have come from is also good. In this article, we look at modern art movements and a series of diverse logos inspired by those movements. You may be surprised by how easily these colors, shapes and strokes can be adapted to logo design. Have a look, see how logo design works and maybe even draw inspiration for your own creativity. via Modern Art Movements To Inspire Your Logo Design - Smashing Magazine.

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Daily Inspiration #404 January 12, 2010 This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. via Daily Inspiration #404 | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials.

200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup

Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful. via 200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup | Design Reviver.

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Smashing Highlights 2009 * By Smashing Editorial * December 29th, 2009 2009 was a very successful year for Smashing Magazine. It was a year of ambitious goals and an intense time schedule, which brought many changes over the past year. In 2009 we published more posts than ever (on average, 8 posts per week). We broadened our areas of interest: for instance, we explored freelancing and the business side of web development, but also tackled user interface design and mobile web design. We also discovered new formats, such as the “Global Web Design” series and Q&A-Sessions — unfortunately, the latter (the Ask SM series with Chris Coyier) lasted only a couple of months. Smashing-128 in Smashing Highlights 2009 None of this would have been possible without the tremendous support of our authors, contributors, and editorial staff. We express sincere gratitude to them for all the ideas and hard work they’ve put into articles published here on Smashing Magazine. We also want to thank you, the readers, for your attention, criticism, ideas, suggestions, emails, tweets, and links over the past year. Smashing Magazine is driven by your support which is why we are always listening to you and we truly appreciate every message we receive. We have tried our best to improve the quality of our articles so as to increase their value for designers and developers. In this post, we’ll review what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the past year: smashing highlights, setbacks, and small sensations of 2009 — which we present in a month by month timeline. You can compare the highlights of 2009 with those of 2008 or 2007 (which, by the way, include links to some really useful articles). via Smashing Highlights 2009 - Smashing Magazine.

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50 Amazing and Useful Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials arshad | Dec 23, 2009 In this post i’ve collected amazing tutorials  created by Photoshop.You can see how Photoshop is powerful and if you can imagine,you all can do these kind of photo manipulations.These 50 amazing tutorials are a little bit for advanced users but i’m sure if you start working you cannot believe what you can do with Photoshop. via 50 Amazing and Useful Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials | DesignBeep.

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Creating a Vintage Ski Poster Design with Illustrator® CS4 – Vector Plus Tutorial Dec 23rd in News, Plus by Neal McCullough We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create retro illustrative designs, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This one will have you adding those subtle touches that will take your work to the next level! Author: Neal McCullough Hi there Vector Enthusiasts! I just started out this year as a Freelance Illustrator under the name of Hand Drawn Creative. I’ve worked for over a decade as a Graphic Designer/Illustrator throughout the UK and over the years have gained a lot of experience in creating eye-catching vector illustrations for the advertising industry. This Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques I'd describe this as an intermediate level tutorial and throughout the process I'll show how you how to add a little Art Deco glamour to your illustrations by making subtle use of the Gradient and Transparency palettes in Illustrator CS4, as well as introducing an aged paper feel with clever use of texture resource files. Tutorial Details * Program: Illustrator CS4 * Difficulty: Intermediate * Estimated Completion Time: 4 hours via Creating a Vintage Ski Poster Design with Illustrator® CS4 – Vector Plus Tutorial | Vectortuts+.

How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs November 16th, 2009 by Tyler Denis Retro colors are a great way to give your website an older/vintage feel; it can give your design a little something different from the regular fully saturated colors that you see often in modern-themed designs. This article is both a showcase of retro-colored themes in existing web designs, as well as a tutorial on how to achieve retro colors using Adobe Photoshop (you’ll learn about five different techniques). via How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs.

25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design March 26, 2009 Photoshop, Tutorial All of these tutorials cover the process of designing a modern and highend web page within Adobe Photoshop, as with any great web design it is initially designed with a graphic editor, beginning with a blank canvas building up towards the complete page. Below you will find 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design. Download or Buy Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended » via 25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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