Posts Tagged "Design"

50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes — Smashing Magazine

20.12.2009

POSTED IN Blog, Freebies, Pics and Pixels | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Adobe Photoshop, Design, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Graphics, Image editing, Photoshop, Photoshop Brushes, Smashing Magazine

50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes * By Daved Brosche * November 10th, 2008 * Graphics by Daved Brosche Having a good collection of Photoshop brushes is essential for any designer. There is certainly no shortage of Photoshop brushes on the Web these days. The problem with Photoshop brushes isn’t in finding brushes, but in finding quality brushes. Below you’ll find a collection of quality brushes that every designer should find handy. These 50 Photoshop brush sets are ones I find myself using over and over in a variety of projects. This collection is the result of years’ worth of downloads, trials and experiments. I hope this list helps you find some new Photoshop brushes that improve your collection. via 50 Must-Have Photoshop Brushes - Smashing Magazine.

A post for Designers and Webbies (415vince.com)
See how Photoshop & Adobe apps helped make Avatar (blogs.adobe.com)

6 Reasons Why You Should Do Personal Design Projects

19.12.2009

POSTED IN Uncategorized | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Art, Arts, Creativity, Design, Graphic design, Philosophy, Psychology, Web design

25-01_personal_design_projects_leadimage 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Personal Design Projects

December 18th, 2009 by Isaac Gube There’s a misconception that creativity is always on: that either you have it or you don’t, or that if you produce great work once, you’ll always be able to produce great work. Now if only that were true, right? The truth – and I think most creatives will agree – is that the creative juices that lubricate and facilitate the flow of unique and effective ideas sometimes dries up and you need, from time to time, to refill and ferment those juices before it’s once again ready for public consumption. via 6 Reasons Why You Should Do Personal Design Projects.

Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World (smashingmagazine.com)
Offline Inspiration: How To Find It and Get The Most Out Of It (smashingmagazine.com)
The Best Books for Freelance Graphic Designers (freelanceswitch.com)
Why we should leave design thinking to designers (awardforbestalien.blogspot.com)

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine

18.12.2009

POSTED IN Blog, Pics and Pixels, Tutorials | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Adobe Photoshop, Design, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Graphic design, Graphics, Photoshop, Typography

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 December 18, 2009 Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design. via The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Your Key To Mastering Photoshop - PhotoshopStar.com (killerstartups.com)
40 Adobe Illustrator Text Effect Tutorials (noupe.com)
Leaf'd: 10 Free High-Res Photoshop Leaf Brushes (sixrevisions.com)
How to Create Remarkable 3D Text in Photoshop (sixrevisions.com)
The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials (smashingmagazine.com)

Industrial Design: 80+ Awesome Product Designs | designrfix.com

12.12.2009

POSTED IN Blog, Cool Tech, Pics and Pixels, Showcase | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Design, Industrial, Industrial Design, Industrial Designers

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="126" caption="Image via Wikipedia"]

[/caption]

Industrial Design: 80+ Awesome Product Designs December 11, 2009 – by Tony One thing that amazes me most about industrial designers is how they can take an idea like a telephone or a watch and enhance it with all kinds of creative elements and bring them to the next level. These designers can make these product designs look like they are straight out of a James Bond movie. If you need some inspiration for your own designs, checking out this article will be well worth your time. Hope these designs will help you. Enjoy! via Industrial Design: 80+ Awesome Product Designs | designrfix.com.

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets — Smashing Magazine

12.12.2009

POSTED IN Uncategorized | NO COMMENTS TAGS : Adobe Illustrator, Design, Free, Graphic design, Graphics, Icon, Smashing Magazine, Web design

Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets * By Paul Andrew * September 16th, 2009 The most important aspect of designing an individual icon is that it has to be instantly recognizable, you have to know its function, and you need to know exactly what it is. If you are designing a set, the actual design becomes a lot harder, the designer has to face two initial challenges: each icon they design has to be individual and distinctive from the other, and, they also have to have similar features to show that they are related, completing the set. Not an easy task. Perhaps that is why we love those small indispensible graphical images so much, it’s an appreciation of the hard work, creativity and talent of the designer. And to think, all those hours spent in front of a laptop crafting these little marvels, and then, allowing everyone else to download them for free. To all icon designers we say: “thank you”. In this post we present a round-up of fresh high-quality icons that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use. Please make sure to read license agreements before using icons in your designs – they can change from time to time. You may be interested in the following related posts: * 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design * 50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets via Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets - Smashing Magazine.