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2010

31

AUG

10 Great Tips to Design a Usable Shopping Cart

Online shopping can be considered as the biggest milestone amongst the innumerable advantages that the Internet has offered. Online shopping is instrumental in saving a lot of time and effort, which would generally be spent in traveling to the physical stores and then, buying it.

design, graphic

266

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The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Pop Art

Today’s post is about one of the most “popular” art movements of the Modern Era: Pop Art. Pop Art is thought to be an art style that returned to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture (this is where the “pop” term comes from) which derives from most of the visual pleasures of people – like television, magazines or comics.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

169

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Interview with typography artist Moshik Nadav

Today we have for you an interview with typography artist Moshik Nadav from Jerusalim, Israel. He seems to have a special passion for typography, graphic design and branding. He creates some awesome and unique typography and brand designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

109

0 comments

10 Useful Mac Apps For Freelance Web Designers

In today’s post, we will offer freelance web designers 15 useful Mac Apps that would enable them to get their website or application styled in a fraction of the time it took them before. Also, these applications would help manage their project effectively and efficiently.

design, graphic

251

0 comments

100+ Fresh Vector Illustrations from Vectorious.net

100+ Fresh Vector Illustrations from Vectorious.net The artists from Vectorious.net have been really busy lately to create some new and unique vector art for you to use in your design projects. You can find these fresh vector illustrations in the following categories: abstract, backgrounds, buildings, vintage, seasonal and people.

design, graphic, misc

152

0 comments

2010

30

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #66

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

355

0 comments

51 Tutorials for Creating 3D Animations and Artworks

We’ve gathered up 51 tutorials for creating 3D animations and artworks, for a variety of software including Blender, 3D Studio Max, After Effects, Cinema4D and Maya, so whichever program you use, you’ll find some tutorials to get you started, from beginner to expert.

design, graphic, tips

133

0 comments

5 Free Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio

Whether you’re an artist, designer, or a photographer, your work speaks for you. And, a web portfolio is an important way of presenting your creative. If you’re one of those who is looking for an alternative to hand-coding or DreamWeaving your gallery, here are these five tools would help you create your portfolio in style. Read More......

design, graphic, photoshop

331

0 comments

2010

28

AUG

How to create an portfolio layout with seamless textures

Learn how to design an web layout with seamless textures

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

416

0 comments

2010

27

AUG

20 Brilliant And Free PSD Website Templates

Finding free PSD website template also not very difficult but it’s very hard to find the template which reflects fusion between creativity and design trends. Below are 20 Brilliant And Free PSD Website Templates to help you through the learning curve or generate some new ideas.

613

1 comment

Logo Design Inspiration for Everything

That’s a post with really rich logo design content! The links below can show you a variety of logos and logo galleries. It’s a big inspirational post and I’m sure that it’ll help you!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo, usability

528

0 comments

2010

26

AUG

6 Handy and Useful E-Commerce Plugins for WordPress

E-Commerce business is growing at a very fast pace. There are so many E-Commerce platforms available in the marketplace. The success of an E-Commerce store depends on the E-Commerce website design and development.

design, graphic

274

1 comment

Designer Showcase – Rogie King

A showcase of the work from the multi-talented Rogie King. His skills include illustration, UI design, Front-end code and many more!

design, graphic, inspiration

216

0 comments

This Summer’s Best Logo Designs – 40 Logos

Normally, summer is a time for vacation but somebody still has to work and that’s an opinion that some designers share with me. The proof for that lies in this article with 40 great logos, probably the best that appeared in these last months.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

484

0 comments

70 Design News Websites To Submit Your Content At

Collection of 70 Web and Graphic Design News Websites To Submit Your Content At and promote your Blog For Free

design, freebies, graphic, misc

304

0 comments

Website Maintenance – Developer’s Liability For Ever

Unless you are a beginner and you were on a deserted island for the 6 years, you must be unaware of this fact. A clean, semantic and cross browser compatibility form an important key for the front-end-developers.

design, graphic

235

0 comments

2010

25

AUG

How to create an Fairytale Photo Manipulation

Learn how to create an awesome fairytale photo manipulation

graphic, photography, photoshop, tutorial

171

0 comments

A Showcase of Creative Advertisements You Will Love To See

Creativity is the best talent of all. It can be applied to any profession and work to give it a stream of freshness. It can be in paintings, writing, researching, cooking or even advertisements.

design, graphic

191

0 comments

35 Incredible Futuristic Cities – 3D Desktop Wallpapers and Illustrations

In this showcase, you’ll find 35 incredible futuristic and sci-fi based cities, as 3d wallpapers, illustrations and matte painting.

design, graphic, photoshop, wallpaper

151

0 comments

2010

24

AUG

Web Design Trends – The Ribbon

A showcase of web designs featuring the current design trend of using ribbons

design, graphic, inspiration

185

0 comments

Interview with 3D Artist Teodoru Badiu

Teodoru Badiu is a freelance artist and creative media designer based in Vienna, Austria who was born in the city of Sibiu, Romania. Teodoru is a fantastic illustrator, character designer and 3d artist with an unique graphic style.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

45

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The Top 40 Places to Get the Best Graphic Design Inspiration

Today, I’ve gathered up the top 40 places to get the best graphic design inspiration on the web, which I frequently use to stay inspired myself.

design, graphic, inspiration

182

0 comments

2010

23

AUG

A Roundup of 25 Jaw-Dropping Infographics

There are literally thousands of incredible infographics available online and you’ll find a small selection of the most jaw-dropping below. Each of the infographics selected for this article have two things in common: they’re all visually stunning and they’re all easy to understand.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

250

0 comments

2010

22

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #65

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

382

0 comments

2010

20

AUG

Fruity Designs – Showcase of Cool Fruit Logos

Fruits are most often used in logos because they have pretty and warm colors and they are easy to remember (when you want to establish a better position of the company’s name or products in the consumer’s mind). In today’s article I made a collection of logos with fruity designs.

design, graphic, logo, misc

186

0 comments

2010

19

AUG

Designer Showcase – Matt Hamm

This week's designer showcase displays the work of the very talented Matt Hamm. He's a brilliant illustrator, who also works on logos and web design

design, graphic, inspiration

283

0 comments

54 Impressive and Well-Designed Resume Examples For Inspiration

Creativity is everywhere.If you want to stand out from the crowd,you have to be different from the others and you can do it by the creativity in your mind.A resume is a document that contains a summary of relevant job experience

graphic, inspiration, misc

466

0 comments

Creative and Helpful Logo Design Tutorials

To help you become a better logo designer, we’ve collected up some logo tutorials that can help teach you some of the important techniques and also get your creative juices flowing.

design, graphic, logo, photoshop

368

0 comments

2010

18

AUG

Logo Design: 80+ Beautiful Examples

It has been almost four months since my last post on logo design. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh new creative logos for you to be inspired by. I am confident that these new logo designs will get your creative juices flowing. So with no further ado here is your latest dosage of beautifully designed logos. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

490

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Truly Sensational Worlds of Fantasy & Zodiac Signs

Fascinated by the possibility of creating every idea Kolb realized that he was able to increase the resolution and size of his images to a high degree,

graphic, inspiration

271

0 comments

Interview with Artist Michael Myers

Michael Myers is a fantastic illustrator and designer from Waterloo, IA. Michael’s work is very versatile and full of imagination and it comprises vintage prints, cool animations, t-shirt designs, freaky design works and disturbingly awesome drawings.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

184

0 comments

External Tip - 13 Fascinating Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 13 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

276

0 comments

2010

17

AUG

37 Hot And Detailed Photoshop Tutorials

Hey there you hungry for tutorials you. I’ve got for you some neat Photoshop tutorials. It appears that some very hard working guys got busy and wrote some interesting tutorials to satisfy your appetite.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

281

0 comments

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites #3

A showcase of some beautiful web designs that heavily use illustrations

design, graphic, inspiration

243

0 comments

Decur: Argentine Graphic Humor

Hi guys, this time we return to the Argentine Graphic Humor topic, taking as the star of this post to a great artist who in recent years and with a very particular style of drawing is making much noise in the world of Argentine vignettes, this man is called Decur.

design, graphic, misc

225

0 comments

Showcase of elegant and minimalist designs

Minimalistic or simple designs look quite grand which may sound ironical, but presentes here are some of the designs which look very simple and minimal yet look pleasing and convey the right meaning.

design, graphic

310

0 comments

Beautiful Custom Banner Ads - 20% OFF for ALL Queness Readers

Elegant Banners are doing a unique discount for all Queness readers, they're giving 20% off on ALL orders (not just your first) on their services. So what is Elegant Banners exactly? Well, let me explain.

design, freebies, graphic

1524

1 comment

The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Cubism

If in the previous posts I wroteÂ about the influence of art history on modern design and I posted about the Gothic Style – Medieval Period, the Baroque Style – Western Art and the Art Nouveau Style – Modern Art, today’s article is about one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century’s modern art: Cubism.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

153

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My Guardian Angel – Beautiful Angel Vectors

Angels are a beautiful and precious element which you can use in your art work. You can create magnificent posters, vintage illustrations, wedding invitations, Christmas illustrations, t-shirt designs and much more. I have put together a collection of angel vectors and illustrations to inspire you in your art work.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

163

0 comments

2010

15

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #64

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

420

1 comment

2010

12

AUG

Best Printing and Prepress Articles

Hi guys, this time I have compiled some print articles that I have enjoyed reading and had helped me a lot. I always try to research the web for some quality stuff, and it`s very difficult to find good printing articles cose most of the time we tend to write for the web and forget about printing.

design, graphic

161

0 comments

Designer Showcase – Alan van Roemburg

A showcase of the fantastic work of the designer Alan van Roemburg

design, graphic, inspiration

164

0 comments

2010

10

AUG

A Showcase Of ‘Handmade’ Websites #3

A showcase of websites that effectively use the current trend of making your websites look handmade

design, graphic, inspiration

295

0 comments

iPad Wallpaper: 70+ Collection Of Diverse Designs

iPad as we already know, have so many different applications. One of my favorite uses of my iPad is browsing the internet while lying on the couch. It might sound lazy, but It definitely beats sitting behind my desk all day. In this article I have compiled an amazing collection of diverse iPad wallpaper designs. I hope that you will find one to choose from to refresh your iPad desktop. Enjoy!

graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

259

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Most Splendid & Innovative Business Card Designs

Business cards we are going to show you are simple but the look is feel is really stunning and beautiful. Some of the business cards are very innovative and totally different. The shape cutting and the text merged with the paper is worth to watch and really awesome.

graphic, inspiration, trend

237

0 comments

15 Creative and Well-Designed Brochures

Brochure can be used for marketing, during a special occasion, or to inform, educate, and let future clients/customers know about your services or products. In this post, I have found 15 creative and beautiful brochures for your inspirations. Enjoy :)

design, graphic, inspiration

3929

1 comment

2010

9

AUG

Ultimate Resources for Android Developers (Android GUI kits, Icons and fonts)

Android is the operating system for mobile phones based on Linux. Android provides an open platform for developers to create applications for their own use by a variety of mobile devices. To help android application developers on design application and development, on today post we are sharing comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, .psds and tools.

design, graphic, icon

474

0 comments

6 Free or Cheap Altnerative Image Editing Tools to Adobe Photoshop

Whether you are a casual snapshot photographer or someone looking to go pro, you should be able to find editing software that saves you money yet still gives you the control and options you need.

graphic, photoshop, tips

347

0 comments

50 Fresh Portfolio and Blog Design Interfaces for Inspiration

A showcase of 50 totally fresh web design interfaces hand-picked from Deviantart. This list focus on Portfolio and Blog Designs. Be inspired!

design, graphic, inspiration

293

0 comments

Yellow Logo Roundup

Colors add life to designs. Every color has its own symbolism and conveys a particular meaning. To create a successful brand identity it is very important that the logo of the business uses the right color to represent itself.

design, graphic

228

0 comments

2010

8

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #63

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

230

0 comments

Wonderful Examples Of Ornamental Typography

Today , we present a collection of wonderful examples of ornamental typography to show you how manipulation of fonts types, sizes and keywords can form a great artwork with inner meaning.

185

0 comments

2010

7

AUG

60+ Super Realistic CG Portraits

They have done it once again! You might be asking yourself, “who has done it once again?” The talented CG artists that create these amazing CG Portraits. Flawlessly rendered works giving the impression that these subjects are actually human…Brilliant!

graphic, inspiration

383

0 comments

2010

6

AUG

23 Beautiful Game Flash Websites

Flash provide for developers and designers rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. In the showcase below we present 23 colorful, creative, interactive and beautiful Flash-based web-sites built for game. Hopefully they will serve you as an inspiration for your future works or just entertain you.

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0 comments

2010

3

AUG

25+ Marvellous CG Portraits of Girls

Computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most realistic and incredible effects which was once claimed utterly impossible. The extent to which CG can replicate human characteristics is simply breathtaking. With the power of CG art, one could easily mistake images for real life portraits. In this post, i have gathered some beautiful and stunning CG portraits of girls.

graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

537

0 comments

Tribute to Kagaya: A Showcase Of His Most Famous and Colorful Works of Art

Kagaya is a fine digital artist who focuses on the creation of colorful computer graphics paintings, digital prints and illustrations for magazines and posters.

graphic, inspiration

345

0 comments

2010

1

AUG

30 Fantastic Examples Of Marvel Artworks

In this article, We’ve compiled 30 fantastic marvel super heroes, and don’t forget to look at the authors other work by clicking on their relevant images.

403

0 comments

2010

30

JUL

50 Sentimental Examples of Dramatic Photography

Dramatic means emotions, strong feelings, creating moods and bringing one’s spirit to life. And that is what we will be doing with this compilation.

graphic, photography

244

0 comments

Logos Friday #4: Beautiful Animals inspired logo

Logos Friday is an every week tradition here are The MegaMag where we collect cool and beautiful logos from around the web . This week our collection is an animal inspired logos for your inspiration .

graphic, inspiration, misc, trend

328

0 comments

2010

29

JUL

22 Awarded Logos Made By Asian And American Designers

If last week we were talking about awarded logos from European designers, this week I’m presenting you great logos done by designers from Asia and the Americas. There are here 22 superb logos in different styles and colors that surely deserve the attention.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

306

0 comments

2010

27

JUL

Awesome & Brilliant Illustrations By Mark Fredrickson

We are going to present the brilliant and funny illustrations by Mark Fredrickson. Mark Fredrickson is one of the finest and talented Artists from Tucson, Arizona.

graphic, inspiration

147

0 comments

2010

26

JUL

45 Great Examples of V-card Designs

Electronic business cards, know as V-cards were started by Tim Van Damme( first website in the roundup). The main goal of the V-card, is to display your information, portfolio, and social networks.

css-html, design, graphic, trend

571

0 comments

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Stormy Harry Potter Environment Effect

This Photoshop tutorial will show us how to create a similar effect we see in the Introduction clip of Harry Potter Series: a Stormy Environment Effect.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial, wallpaper

361

0 comments

2010

23

JUL

Top 50 Photos From The Pxleyes Photography Contests - June 2010

The 50 highest scoring entries from the Pxleyes photography contests in June.

graphic, photography

412

0 comments

40 Website Design Layout Tutorials that Yield Professional Results

We’ve collected up 40 website design layout tutorials (for Photoshop) that yield professional results and will teach you a variety of valuable techniques.

css-html, design, graphic, tips

583

2 comments

2010

22

JUL

15 Awesome Footer Inspirations

Amazing Collection of 15 Footer Examples and Ideas for your Design Inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

423

0 comments

40 Stylish Typographical Wallpapers for Helvetica Lovers

Helvetica is one the most popular type-face since 1957.Yes it’s been more than 50 years and developed by a Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann.Where ever you look,you can definetely see a helvetica type-face and i’m sure the popularity will never end

font, graphic, wallpaper

474

0 comments

2010

20

JUL

Flash Design Showcase #11

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

37

0 comments

Photoshop Tutorial: Make A Glossy Flash Drive Icon From Scratch

In this tutorial we are going to create a Flash Drive image which can be used as an icon or added to your design project.

design, graphic, tutorial

399

1 comment

Ads Tuesday#2 :Full Inspiration

A new collection of cool , smart and creative ads this week .. enjoy .

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

239

0 comments

Seriously Creative & Inspirational Map Designs

May be you can’t find the treasure through these maps but you can find bundle of creative and inspiration treasure through these beautifully and magically created maps.

design, graphic, inspiration

362

0 comments

2010

19

JUL

20 Smashing jQuery WebApps

A look at the creative use of jQuery to bring out attractively useful web applications. This is a handpicked collection of the best jQuery web applications that I have come across. Add a style statement and great functionality combo with these amazing jQuery web apps.

css-html, graphic, javascript, tutorial

1184

0 comments

The Ultimate Collection of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Beginner to Advanced

40 of the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials (a mix of written and video tutorials), from beginner to advanced levels.

design, graphic, tutorial

415

0 comments

2010

18

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #62

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

382

1 comment

2010

17

JUL

3 cool text effects Gold , Metal & plastic in photoshop

Learn how to create 3 cool , easy and attractive text effects . Gold shiny text , Clear plastic text and metallic text .

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

364

0 comments

2010

16

JUL

30+ Informative & Creative Infographics

Lets look at some of the infographics with superb technical representation and excellent use of graphics and colors.

design, graphic

294

0 comments

Logos Friday#2 inspiration

A new beautiful collection of logos for your inspiration this week .

design, graphic, logo, trend

252

0 comments

2010

15

JUL

50 Amazing 3D Images and Graphics

Beautiful Collection of 50 Amazing 3D Graphics, Images, and Pictures.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

253

0 comments

2010

14

JUL

67 Creative Twitter Background Designs

By designing a creative twitter background you can attract new customers. I can guarantee you that any visitor will click on your website link in the description box, if you have an eye catching wallpaper.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

434

0 comments

2010

13

JUL

40 Creative Examples of Coffee Art

Creating coffee art usually consists of pouring the steamed milk into a shot of espresso, thus creating a design. This process takes skill and creativity. There are even world wide latte art competitions.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

2301

1 comment

Ads Tuesday #1: 43 cool ads

Another new tradition The Mega Mag a new collection of cool , creative and clever ads every Tuesday.

design, graphic, inspiration

217

0 comments

Weird Nature Photography: Transparent Animals

Nature is fascinating and often weird, it surprises us when we expect less. Some creatures use the camouflage techniques as a hunting and defense mechanism, others show everything they have, literally.

design, graphic, photography

241

0 comments

120+ Beautiful Examples of Advertisements #8

In this post we put up some beautiful and inspirational examples of Advertisements. You will see many funny and creative ads. I hope these ads will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

2373

0 comments

2010

12

JUL

35+ Best JavaScript Image Gallery Plugins and Scripts

Here is a complete diary of all the best JavaScript image galleries, sliders, scrollers and Carousels. Look no more to find your kinda Image Gallery in JavaScript. Includes all the best image exhibition scripts, which lets you showcase your colorful images with much more elegance and class.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

916

0 comments

130 Wonderful Website Designs categorised by color (1#)

After the success of 150 Wonderful Logo Designs categorised by color, I decided to bring to you a similar post about Website Designs. It’s too big so I will publish it in 2 parts. The first part includes the colors: Blue , Green & Red and it’s here to inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, template, trend

500

0 comments

Artist of the Week – David Waters

David Waters is a talented 23 year old artist from Moscow, where he is currently attending the University of Idaho for Graphic Design. David is a freelance designer with amazing creations in graphic art work, digital illustrations and prints.

design, graphic

291

1 comment

2010

11

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #61

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

357

0 comments

2010

9

JUL

30 Amazing Examples of Infographics

Here i have gathered few examples of infographics for you to understand it better. I hope you do like them.

graphic, inspiration

503

0 comments

Recognizing and Leveraging Your Strengths as an Artist

These days, the possible routes an artist can take are many and they keep increasing in number. This newfound freedom, however, has an unfortunate side effect.

design, graphic

339

0 comments

2010

8

JUL

25 Most Downloaded Free WordPress Image Gallery Plugins

Photo Gallery, picture gallery, or slideshow are the best way to showcase your images/photos to your readers. There are a lot of different methods to create them, and the alternative you're most likely to be using Flash or JavaScript

flash, freebies, graphic, wordpress

561

0 comments

Create a Vector Object in Illustrator Using Layers and the Pen Tool

An easy way to draw objects in Illustrator is to use an image, layers, and the pen tool. This way, you can create original illustrations for logos, brochure printing, web pages, or whatever project you are creating.

381

0 comments

30 Inspirational Double Sided Flyer Designs

Lets look at some creative and inspirational double sided flyer designs.

design, graphic, inspiration

430

0 comments

A Showcase Of Amazing Prints Ads

A showcase of some very creative thinking, within the field of print advertising

design, graphic, inspiration

401

0 comments

2010

7

JUL

How to create a sleek web 2.0 wordpress layout

Learn how to create a sleek web 2.0 wordpress layout. Download FREE PSD layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

418

0 comments

2010

6

JUL

A showcase of iPad App Sites

A showcase of websites advertising their iPad apps

design, graphic, inspiration

477

0 comments

Illustrator tutorials roundup: June 2010

Last month has brought us lots of new stuff to learn, fresh tutorials filled with new and creative techniques for us to enjoy and apply to our future artworks. Here are the most relevant ones.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

318

1 comment

2010

5

JUL

WordPress Tutorial: 5 Ways to Shorten Your Post Titles

I am under the personal belief that post titles should be short, sweet and precise enough to get the point across without sounding like an awkward newspaper headline. Sadly not all titles follow the same belief and as a result the layout of the website suffers. As noted on bavotasan.com "you can throw in as many keywords as you want in hopes that ...

design, graphic, php, tutorial, wordpress

292

0 comments

Freebies Released: Yammy Social Media Icons Set

Today we are thrilled to release another set of icons on Onextrapixel. There will be a series of icon sets and others freebies that will be released regularly on OXP. This release is a set of candy themed social media icons designed exclusively for Onextrapixel by Helen Gizi, a talented self-taught graphic designer.

design, freebies, graphic, misc

411

0 comments

Nature’s Wonders: 30+ Breathtaking Landscape Photography

Landscapes include the visible features of an area of land and the physical elements of landforms, such as plains, quarries, hills and mountains, bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and the sea.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

339

0 comments

Artist of the Week – DrFranken

DrFranken is a complex artist, both a a digital illustrator and graphic designer from Madrid (Spain). Here is some of his work!

design, graphic

666

3 comments

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Draw Cartoonish Cavemen

In this tutorial I'm going to explain the making of the 'first chopper'.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

415

0 comments

2010

4

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #60

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

427

0 comments

2010

3

JUL

50 Professional Photo Realistic Animal Drawings

Here's a collection of 50 photorealistic animals drawings that might get you inspired and hopefully you'll grab a pencil and a sheet of paper and try it yourself.

297

0 comments

2010

2

JUL

How to create a web 2.0 layout in Photoshop

Learn how to create a gorgeous web 2.0 web layout

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

498

1 comment

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Surreal Turtle Image

This tutorial shows the creation of one of my images. It shows how I adjust lighting and colours in my images to create this surrealistic turtle.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

195

0 comments

2010

1

JUL

iPhone App Sites #2

A showcase of websites advertising iPhone apps

design, graphic, inspiration

367

0 comments

50 Magical Fantasy Scenes to Make You Dream Away

Our post for today illustrates just 50 of the most beautiful fantasy images, created by talented artists. They include fairies, dragons, castles, magical landscapes, mythical heroes and mermaids.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

264

0 comments

Create a cute monster girl in Illustrator

Today I will explain how to create a cute little monster girl and in the same time, you will learn to handle multiple layers and maximize their efficiency.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

245

0 comments

35 Outstanding Nature Themed Typographic Artworks

We’ve gathered up 35 outstanding nature-themed typographic artworks that encompass the wide variety of natural environments that can be used.

design, graphic, photoshop, trend

298

0 comments

2010

30

JUN

May’s Fresh Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

This roundup includes 18 Photoshop tutorials which deal with creating web layouts, fresh and inspirational resources from design community (May 2010).

design, graphic, photoshop

119

0 comments

Awesome Free RSS Icons

Amazing Free Collections of RSS Icons, Images, Graphics, and Buttons for your Websites, Blogs, Social Networks, and Applications :)

freebies, graphic, inspiration, tools

311

0 comments

Design a website layout in photoshop - PORTFOLIA

In this photoshop tutorial we will learn to design a clean website layout. 960 grid system is what we are going to use in this tutorial and lots of photoshop techniques will be dealt as we go through.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

webanddesigners

311

0 comments

2010

29

JUN

High-Speed Photography: 30 Fascinating Photographs

High-speed photography involves taking a photograph with a camera on a fast shutter speed. The camera must be able to shoot at a speed of at least 128 frames per second (fps) in order to get the perfect shot.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

240

0 comments

Create a dynamic nature poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will create a nature poster using stock images, vectors and brushes. Tools: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Difficulty: Intermediate – Advanced

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

223

0 comments

2010

28

JUN

40 Striking Music Wallpapers For Music Lovers

We love desktop wallpapers and a desktop without colorful wallpaper stinks. Therefore today i have collected 40 striking music wallpapers for music lovers. Well there is not much of amazing collection on internet but i tried to collect best out of them.

freebies, graphic, wallpaper

391

0 comments

2010

27

JUN

How to create a software manufacturer layout to promote your products

Learn how to create a prime quality layout with a nice design to represent your company

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

373

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #59

Today we're showcasing the wonderful web portfolio from Matthew Smith AKA Squared Eye

design, graphic, inspiration

317

0 comments

2010

26

JUN

Create a dating agency layout

Learn how to create a nice looking layout for a dating agency

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

310

0 comments

2010

25

JUN

A Tribute to Nicolas Evariste: His Best Photography + Exclusive Interview

Nicolas Evariste, a.k.a. Nicoweb is a young French photographer who specialized in black and white photography and who manages to capture life in astonishing ways.

graphic, misc, photography

189

0 comments

Inspirational websites of the week II

As promised we are back again with inspirational websites of the week II.

graphic, inspiration, template

webanddesigners

254

0 comments

2010

24

JUN

Designer Showcase – Squared Eye

Today we're showcasing the wonderful web portfolio from Matthew Smith AKA Squared Eye

design, graphic, inspiration

374

0 comments

Mays Best Resources for CSS3

Here’s a collection of 33 fully customizable templates which contain the graphic source files in .PSD format, fresh and creative resources from design community (May 2010).

design, graphic, photoshop, template

388

0 comments

A Design Trend That Might Cost You Your Job

If you’re involved in the world of design, whether it is by trade or business necessity, then you are probably familiar with the term spec design, also known as crowdsourcing. The basic principal behind crowdsourcing is working for little or no compensation. There are entire companies devoted to spec design. For example. . .

design, graphic, misc, tips, trend

398

0 comments

Graffiti artworks for inspiration

Graffiti is stated as the dictionary of ART, The term “graffiti” derives from the Greek graphein (“to write”). Graffiti (s. graffito), meaning a drawing or scribbling on a flat surface, originally referred to those marks found on ancient Roman architecture.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

205

0 comments

20 Inspiring Free and Premium Music Vectors

In the summer time a lot of musical events are going on! To help you promote them, I made a quick selection with some of the finest music vectors for you.

design, freebies, graphic

214

0 comments

Modern and Original Art Gallery Solutions

The essential component for an online artist’s portfolio or exhibition is gallery. That is why Flash is a highly popular technology that uses for artists’ online portfolios: the opportunities for a modern art gallery are infinite. With Flash the result is always amazing, impressive, unusual…

design, flash, graphic, template

262

0 comments

2010

23

JUN

50+ Great Examples of Creative Print Advertisement Design

There are very little advertisement designs which are really well made. In this article, I will showcase some of them.

design, graphic

313

0 comments

Learn how to create a website layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a website layout using Photoshop

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

432

0 comments

Create a Cool 3D Graffiti Text Effect using Line Art in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to take a line art sketch of text and turn it into a 3D graffiti style text effect using some simple techniques and stock images.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

294

0 comments

2010

22

JUN

Create a Photo-Realistic Candle with Basic Photoshop Tools

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to design a realistic looking candle from scratch, using only Photoshop's basic tools.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

299

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #7

The seventh showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

273

0 comments

40 High Quality Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials

Vector characters are a major advantage of a website because it can get the attention of the visitors. Also, vector characters are funny, beautiful and popular.So, if you want to create your own vector characters, first check our post with 40 High Quality Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials!

design, graphic, inspiration

283

0 comments

2010

21

JUN

Artist of the Week – Chatchanok Wongvachara

This weeks artist is Chatchanok Wongvachara from Bangkok, Thailand. She is a freelance painter, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer.

design, graphic, inspiration

289

0 comments

The Simple Photoshop CS5 Cheat Sheet

Here's a Photoshop cheat sheet that focuses on important, useful functions, stuff that advanced users need to get their work done.

design, graphic, photoshop

403

0 comments

25 Incredible and Lifelike CG Animals

We’ve rounded up 25 awesome CG animals in this showcase, so you can see some of the cool and incredible animals that artists have managed to create.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

267

1 comment

2010

20

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #58

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

354

0 comments

2010

19

JUN

Photoshop Tutorial: Make a Realistic Football from Scratch

This tutorial will show you how to create a realistic football in Photoshop.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

273

0 comments

2010

18

JUN

30 Useful and Innovative Icon Sets from deviantART

This post has rounded up 30 useful and innovative icon sets from artists on deviantART.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

585

1 comment

Fresh illustrations for your art: 170 Seasonal, 21 Business

We’ve been really busy in the last month, creating new vectors for you to download and enjoy. 170 Seasonal and 21 Business illustrations categories have been added to our large collection.

design, graphic, misc

318

0 comments

Camouflage Photography in the Animal World: 50 Astonishing Photos

This post will exemplify the camouflage technique, even in the underwater world. Prepare to train your eyes for spotting the animals and their amazing disguises!

graphic, misc, photography

258

0 comments

2010

17

JUN

70 Perfect Dribbble Works to Inspire you

I spend lots of time browsing dribbble works. There are quality, happy and colorful designs there that can inspire you. I collected some perfect works (logos, websites, icons etc.) to show and inspire you.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration, logo

441

0 comments

Designer Showcase - DKNG Studios

A showcase of the beautiful poster designs by the guys at DKNG Studios

design, graphic, inspiration

266

0 comments

2010

16

JUN

Interpreting Perspective

Often, the truth of a situation is all in how you look at it. For example, from a train platform, does it not appear the parallel lines of a railroad track converge at a point near the horizon? But anyone reading this understands that the tracks are not actually converging. What appears to be the truth is actually false: the convergence is a visual illusion . . .

design, graphic, misc, tips, usability

383

0 comments

Create a nice portfolio/showcase web layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a portfolio/showcase website in Photoshop

graphic, template, tutorial

429

0 comments

2010

15

JUN

Triangle Poster Design Inspiration: 35 Mind-Blowing Examples

In this post I’ve put together 35 beautiful examples of triangle poster designs. Some of these designs include lovely typography, other geometric shapes, and photographs.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, trend

512

0 comments

One Page Websites #2

A showcase of the latest and greatest in one page website design

design, graphic, inspiration

542

0 comments

CSS Color Values and Shades

CSS colors are defined using a hexadecimal (hex) notation for the combination of Red, Green and Blue color values (RGB).

css-html, design, graphic, tips, tools

383

0 comments

60 Wallpapers from 17 Capital Cities of Europe

Let’s travel around some capital cities of Europe with this showcase post. There are lots of sights and places to see and visit. Every country has a special atmosphere and culture. Take a look!

design, graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

345

0 comments

20 Logos with Hidden Meanings

A compilation of 20 famous logos designs and an explanation to find the hidden meaning.

512

0 comments

Illustrator Portrait (female) - Tutorial for Professionals

Vectorize a portrait with Adobe Illustrator. This Illustrator-Tutorial will explain the development process of a female photo portrait.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

261

0 comments

2010

14

JUN

15 Excellent Particle Flow Animations

A showcase of amazing particle flow animations from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

355

0 comments

Artist of the Week – Irina Vinnik

This week, inspiration comes from Saint Petersburg, Russia – Irina Vinnik, artist, designer and illustrator. Traditional inkings illustrating stunning nature elements combined with typography and …

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

199

0 comments

80 Dazzling Examples of Illustration Websites

Illustration can add a fun/innovative vibe to your websites theme. The goal of the illustration should be used to grab the readers attention and showcase your talent. Lately there has been an increased amount of illustrated websites.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

309

0 comments

2010

13

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #57

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

253

0 comments

58 Incredible Logo Designs #4

Here’s the fourth roundup of amazing logo designs. This is a series that we do frequently, so make sure to check out the past logo articles. For this collection we found some really creative logos, they’re all unique and eye catching.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

327

0 comments

2010

12

JUN

50 Amazing Black and White Photography examples

Black and White photos have a “classic” photography look. You have to imagine the colors inside them to solve the puzzle of them. A big collection of Black and White Photography examples is listed here.

graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

468

0 comments

2010

11

JUN

How to create a clean business layout for Drupal

This tutorial will teach you how to create in just a few steps a clean business layout suitable for a Drupal theme.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

393

0 comments

70 Attractive Examples Of Big Typography In Web Design

Last week i published a post ”50 Inspirational ”Live” Typography Examples From New York ” and as a fan of huge typography examples,this time i will showcase the websites using big typography.This kind of oversized typography

font, graphic, inspiration

541

0 comments

Spectacular Use of Black Color in Business Card Design

The dark side of these cards looks so creative and shiny that we find these business cards worth to share with you people. The use of black with other colors give your business card quite a different and inspiring look.

design, graphic

302

0 comments

2010

10

JUN

150 Wonderful Logo Designs categorised by color

Logos, logos, logos. I love logo design and I decided to collect lots of logos here for you. You will find 30 Blue, 40 Red, 30 Green, 20 Yellow and 30 Black & White Logo Designs. They’re beautiful, minimalistic, colorful and they’re here to inspire you! Enjoy.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

297

0 comments

Everything a Web Designer Should Know About Google Fonts API

Typography is the most valuable asset of your blog. It doesn't matter if you have a colorful design blog, an awesome web magazine or a plain simple blog.

css-html, graphic, tutorial

webanddesigners

615

0 comments

2010

9

JUN

Stunning Illustration Art by David Lanham

David Lenham has a heck of an imagination, and loves traditional and digital arts. David studied drawing and design at the University of Central Florida, graduating in 2004. He is currently working for the Iconfactory, while keeping up with his personal work in the off time. He worked with clients like MacPractice, Sybase and Microsoft Xbox 360.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

126

0 comments

2010

8

JUN

200+ Free Grunge, Vintage, Hand Drawn Sketched Social Media Icons

unique feel social media icons for your blog readers to share or bookmark your content on popular social media sites. these icons will look wonderful on websites that use texture and have an organic approach to their design.

design, freebies, graphic

blogwebdesigner

552

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #10

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

345

0 comments

Make Seamless Fabric Texture In Photoshop In Just Three Steps

Learn how to make a seamless realistic fabric texture in Photoshop. It will take just 3 steps to create this texture – its that easy ! It will come handy in case of large files as it’ll repeat on its own. You won’t have to worry about tiling the texture.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

185

0 comments

6 Ways to use a seamless pattern in Photshop and Illustrator

We want you to get the most out of our vector patterns so to make your job easier, we've made a list of methods you can use to apply patterns to your artwork, for both Illustrator and Photoshop. Difficulty: Beginner Completion time: 5-10 minutes

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

317

0 comments

2010

7

JUN

30 Product Package Designs Showcasing Amazing High Quality Package Graphics

Graphic design has many different strands and disciplines; they each help showcase the best in our own individual design talents. You can enhance creativity with; type, functionality of the package design or the illustrative talents of an artist.

graphic, inspiration

216

0 comments

Learn how to create a sleek portfolio layout

This tutorial will teach you how to create in just a few steps a sleek portfolio layout with a gritty look.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

485

0 comments

Create a real estate web layout in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a real estate web layout using Photoshop

design, graphic, photoshop, template, tutorial

320

0 comments

Color Trends Lead the Way to a Better Outlook

Why is it that, in those last dreary days of winter, people are almost choking with the longing for spring? Sure sunshine and warmth play a part, and the desire to shed all those cumbersome layers of clothing that seemed so cozy last September, but I think a huge part of this ache is the fundamental longing for color . . .

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, trend

403

0 comments

10 Detailed free and premium vector skulls

We made a selection of probably the finest free and premium vector skulls on the internet and we want to share it with you. Here it is

design, freebies, graphic, misc

321

0 comments

The Mind-Bending 3D Street Art Paintings of Edgar Mueller

As a tribute to Edgar Mueller, here are some of his best 3D artworks and time-lapse videos.

design, graphic, misc

282

0 comments

95 Beautiful Business Card Designs

Business Card are commonly used these days to network with all sort of different people. Anybody who owns their own business should definitely have their own business cards.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

506

0 comments

Artist of the week – Joel Dayao

This week’s artist is from Philippines. Joel Dayao, aka j-d-yao is a very skilled and talented artist, specialized in photo manipulations with stunning concepts and lighting effects.

design, graphic, misc, photography

174

0 comments

60 Stunning Super Heroes Wallpapers

For all fans of Super heroes we give mega list of cool wallpapers of Most popular Super heroes. In this list we included Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Wolverine and Iron Man Wallpapers. Totally in this list you can find 60 free stunning Super heroes wallpapers for your Desktop.

design, freebies, graphic, wallpaper

345

0 comments

2010

6

JUN

jQuery: Animate to an Unknown, Variable Height or Width

Imagine an animated, sliding box displaying a daily news feed. When the page loads the box displays an excerpt of news then expands to display the full content. Now make sure the article is selected at random so we never know it’s full length. Sounds like fun already. The unknown variable for height in this scenario can cause a few headaches using the .animate() method . . .

design, graphic, javascript, tutorial

578

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #56

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

322

0 comments

2010

5

JUN

Creative Spherical Social Bookmarking Icon Set

In this icons pack you will find professional and creative Spherical icons set. In this set are included 5 popular Social media website icons that you can use on your blog to share posts. Of course all icons you can download for free and use them on your blog.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

246

0 comments

2010

3

JUN

Creative and unique website design layout

Every designer wants his/her design to be solitary in type or characteristics. Exclusivity is always rewarded with appreciation for thinking out of the box.

design, graphic, template, trend

webanddesigners

211

0 comments

External Design Inspiration - Fantastic Graphic Design by Keid

Time for another inspiration. Here I want to introduce the really great works by Keid from Poland. He creates amazing designs and illustrations which are very harmonical and full of interesting details. His special choose of colours and his eye for details is one of the reasons why he should not miss in this inspiration category.

design, graphic, inspiration

110

0 comments

25 Websites for Typography Inspiration

Typography is a beautiful thing, and plays a huge role in designing. Most of the time its hard to get inspired when you’re working on a project. Not every font fits in perfectly with every project. Why not take a little time off, and check out these typography resources for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration, tools

92

0 comments

52 Inspiring Website Elements You Must See [pics]

A list of websites that contain inspirational elements that will help you get inspired and ready to design beautiful websites!

design, graphic, inspiration

80

0 comments

2010

2

JUN

How to create a damask seamless pattern in Illustrator

In this tutorial we will learn to create a damask seamless pattern based on a few vector flowers. Difficulty: Intermediate Completion time: 1-2 hours

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

201

0 comments

2010

1

JUN

A Showcase Of ‘Handmade’ Websites #2

A showcase of websites that effectively use the current trend of making your websites look handmade

design, graphic, inspiration

425

0 comments

Beautiful Google Doodles (1998 – 2010)

We’re all familiar with Google Doodles the customized logos that appear on the search engine’s home page to commemorate special dates or events.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

414

0 comments

Pxleyes Top 50 Photoshop Contest Pictures Of April 2010

The 50 highest scoring entries from the Pxleyes photoshop contests that were active during the month April 2010.

graphic, photoshop

271

0 comments

How to create a sport web layout

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the process of creating a sport web layout.

design, graphic, photoshop

354

0 comments

2010

31

MAY

D-Lists 1st Birthday Celebration!!

D-Lists is 365 days old and it's time to celebrate by saying thank you to everyone who has supported us.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

249

0 comments

Showcase of inspiring computer workstation

Style of working is directly inclined towards the way you work and the workstation you are embedded with. Be it PC or Mac workstation defines the style of working. Workstation plays a vital role in whatever you do.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

338

0 comments

Artist of the week – Tim Bower

Tim Bower’s illustrations are simply suggestive. When you look at one of his paintings, you will see the literal meaning of an expression or quote. They are full of substance and nostalgia.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

197

0 comments

2010

30

MAY

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #55

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

51 Inspirational Orange Based Websites

What color is vibrant, and makes you feel warm? Orange! In my opinion orange is an eye catching color that grabs your attention. We have gathered some beautiful orange based websites to get your mind juices flowing. All the websites were hand picked and chosen by the quality orange design element.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

391

0 comments

2010

28

MAY

Quick Tip: Photo enhancement in 10 seconds – Photoshop

In this quick tip I will explain how to easily enhance a photo using a very neat trick.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

419

1 comment

2010

27

MAY

10 Superb Free and Premium Floral Backgrounds

A nice background is difficult to find. To help you save time, we’ve made a selection of 10 awesome backgrounds for you to download and enjoy. Check them out!

design, freebies, graphic, misc

348

0 comments

15 High Quality Free PSD Wordpress Theme

In this article below, you’ll find 15 Free High Quality PSD Wordpress Themes template by which you can also learn, modify to meet your requirements or just for inspiration. Some of free PSD bellow are converted to wordpress themes and available on themeforest.

design, graphic, photoshop, template, wordpress

542

0 comments

40 inspirational architects websites

Here follows a collection of the best architects sites that we’ve found from around the web. Some are particularly impressive visual masterpieces, others have particularly interesting UI designs, and some are simply easy to use.

design, flash, graphic

361

0 comments

Designer Showcase – Fontfabric

A showcase of some beautiful fonts from the guys at Fontfabric

design, font, graphic, inspiration

313

0 comments

2010

26

MAY

150+ Free and Premium vector animals

To spare you the effort of hours of searching, I’ve made a selection of some nice free vector animals for you download and enjoy. Here they are.

design, freebies, graphic, misc

448

0 comments

Inspirational Watercolor Typography

Handmade Watercolor Typography Examples | Typography And Design Art | Design Alphabet

design, font, graphic, inspiration

71

0 comments

Drawing vector portraits Part 4: The Lips

In the previous posts, I’ve explained how to draw the face, eye and nose. In this tutorial I will explain how to properly draw the lips, obtaining depth and volume.

design, graphic, misc, tutorial

299

0 comments

2010

25

MAY

20 Stunning Black and White Logos

A logo is something that when done well, it does not take much time or thought to see how amazing one really is. As I have written previously in a few posts about logos, logos are what represent your company, product, business, or even yourself.

graphic, inspiration, logo, trend

598

0 comments

45+ Inspirational Typography showcase

The principle behind topography is based on the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters. Typography to define is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

340

0 comments

50 Inspirational ”Live” Typography Examples From New York

Typography is everywhere.You definetely can see inspirational,creative and interesting typography examples where ever you look,where ever you go.Just turn your head and get inspired.Today i want to showcase of ”live” typography examples from New York.

font, graphic, inspiration, photography

541

0 comments

Innovative Product Design #2

A showcase of some amazingly innovative product design

design, gadget, graphic, inspiration

346

0 comments

Artist of the week – Elena Savitskaya

Elena Savitskaya is a designer from London, UK who specializes the Photoshop lighting effects. Her style is amazing: grayscale images combined with explosions of light...

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

563

0 comments

2010

24

MAY

35 Candy Packaging That Will Tickle Your Sweet Tooth

When it comes to candy, we just can’t get enough. So with Ernestine Ulmer’s saying in mind, I had to go and do a little digging about the best candy packaging I could find.

design, graphic, inspiration

386

0 comments

25 Must Read Photoshop eBooks

Become a photoshop expert by reading some of the most important Photoshop ebooks of all time. Improve your knowledge and creativity.

design, graphic

255

0 comments

Top 25 online t-shirt stores

T-shirt is the best in adding zest to beauty. Now as all that we are talking about is Zest and creativity when it comes to online store, online t-shirt stores comes first as it is high in creativity and there are plenty of designs that can’t be kept hidden.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

346

1 comment

Stunning Black Wallpapers For You Desktop

Black goes beyond a simple or mixed color; It can be seen as the color of solitude and misery, but it can also express a sense of creativity, power, elegance, strength, nobility, and beauty.

design, graphic, wallpaper

399

0 comments

2010

23

MAY

12 Creative Wooden Social Networking Icons

Today we start our icons series with wooden social networking icons. You will be able to download and use icons of your websites for free, but of course using icons in commercial use is strictly prohibited, for example selling.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

421

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #54

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

274

0 comments

60 Temptingly Designed Alcoholic Beverages

If you ever find yourself lost designing an alcoholic beverage, this post is for your inspiration. The bottle design says alot about the beverage. It shows you how its viewed by the company’s itself, and how they want others to see it.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

398

0 comments

2010

22

MAY

How to create an awesome hosting layout

Learn how to create a sleek hosting layout with a 3D navigation bar and a gritty background

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

340

0 comments

2010

21

MAY

Designer Showcase - Pablo Alfieri

Showcasing the tremendous graphic design skills of Pablo Alfieri

design, graphic, inspiration

426

0 comments

2010

20

MAY

Infographic Cool Tutorials and Examples

Infographics are very informative and beautiful. After reading lots of them, you can learn important information about everything. They are simple, colorful (not always) and funny. I collect some tutorials to make your own but also some examples to take some ideas!

design, graphic, tutorial, usability

566

0 comments

2010

19

MAY

404 Error: 60+ Creative And Well Designed Pages

When doing my research for 404 error pages, I was surprised to see that three quarters of the websites I visited did not have custom 404 error pages. These pages are designed to tell the end user that he or she is lost or has come across a page that no longer exists and thus guides them back to the homepage of the website that they were viewing.

design, graphic, inspiration

433

0 comments

Design a professional wordpress layout

In this step by step tutorial you will learn how to design a professional Wordpress template

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

443

0 comments

Amazing Vector Landscape Illustration Websites

Vector landscapes are very popular trend in web design these days, and in my opinion, when done well, the use of vector graphics and landscapes can create amazing artist images and designs

design, graphic, photoshop, trend

376

0 comments

2010

18

MAY

free vector flourishes

Download this amazing set of flourishes! Combine them with more of our vectors and obtain brilliant nature themes!

design, freebies, graphic, misc

557

0 comments

Red Website Showcase #2

A showcase of sites using a red colour scheme effectively

design, graphic, inspiration

507

0 comments

35 Creative call to action buttons for inspiration

Web designers always focus from the user perspective. Call to action is that expression in web deign that seek an action from the user. The most demonstrated form of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of click able buttons that when clicked, perform an action.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

890

0 comments

2010

17

MAY

22 Best jQuery Twitter Plugins

Twitter integration into web design is now fun and easy, thanks to the amazing jQuery Twitter plugins. Get tickers, Quoters, Real time tweets and much more with this collection of amazing jQuery twitter plugins.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

725

1 comment

30 free social media icon sets

Social media bookmarking is an easy and effective way to boost popularity and improve your page ranking. So if you are in a hedge to get popular and improve your web ranking you should set yourself seriously into enhancing a few icons to your favorite social media bookmaking sites.

design, freebies, graphic

webanddesigners

428

1 comment

10 Informative Posters that you should read

Everyday I see lots of informative posters on buildings, streets or internet. They’re good and usually helpful for everyone, so I decided to find some of them for you. Check them and don’t forget to read them!

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

339

0 comments

Nike Inspired Graphic Designs

About a month ago I wrote a post that showcased some really talented artists’ designs and their tribute to the Adidas brand. In today’s post I am featuring some really cool Nike designs. Although Adidas is my preferred brand, I still think that it is important to showcase these beautifully inspired Nike designs which are equally as impressive.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

316

0 comments

Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Magic Glowing and Sparkly Wood Scenery

This is a photoshop tutorial which will help you to create a lovely, magic looking wood full of glowing flowers, golden insects and nice birdie covered in glossy feathers.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

327

0 comments

2010

16

MAY

33 colorful website design for inspiration

Color adds charm enthusiasm and art to anything that one applies. Selection of colors can be a vital decision for designing website. Color matches person's personality. It talks about expression, color makes a horizon high and gives a platform to add on smile and life.

design, graphic, trend

webanddesigners

405

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #53

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

284

0 comments

2010

14

MAY

The Fantastic Art of Alongkorn Sanguansook

Alongkorn Sanguansook is a character designer/animator who loves to create the characters with gradient and shading technique. He was born in Chiangmai. After graduated from Faculty Of Fine Art Chiangmai University, he went to Bangkok.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

377

0 comments

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: The Joker

In my last post of comic book inspired artwork Batman was the focal point . In this article it is only fitting that I follow it up with Batman’s archenemy, the Joker. The Joker has been Batman’s nemesis since the 1940’s, and has been responsible for many bad fortunes in Batman’s life.

design, graphic, inspiration

411

0 comments

15 Well Designed E-Commerce Stores

When designing an e-commerce store, you should be focussing on one thing and one thing only: sales conversions. You want to try and minimize the time between when the user first lands on your site to where they make their first purchase.

css-html, graphic, inspiration, usability

608

0 comments

2010

13

MAY

Designer Showcase – Simon C Page

A showcase of the geometric graphic designs of Simon C Page

design, graphic, inspiration

363

0 comments

10 Free Marvelous Seamless patterns

We enjoy amazing artwork complemented by a great background, so we’ve made a selection of free marvelous seamless patterns for you to make use of. Enjoy!

design, freebies, graphic, template

376

0 comments

55+ Photo manipulations of sexy girls

How about adding sexiness in your art? I’ve made a selection of more than fifty photo manipulations of sexy girls that I want to share with you. Here they are.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

480

0 comments

35 Wine Logo Design For Inspiration

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, typically made of fermented grape juice. So today we have collected 35 wine based logo design for inspiration which help the logo designer in their next project. Enjoy.

graphic, inspiration

409

0 comments

30 creative and beautiful twitter icons

Icons play a vital role in any design and when it comes to twitter icon, it is hard for you to find a funky icon that shall make your web page glow. It is really a risk factor in designing to adapt something that is soulless and boring.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

webanddesigners

434

0 comments

55 Captivating Examples of Illustration Art

Some people say that, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This is so true and we want to show you why. We have gathered some awesome art illustrations, that will totally inspire you. This collection contains many different art works, that are all beautiful. Please let us know what you think, by commenting below.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

354

0 comments

2010

12

MAY

Free vector floral grunges background

Here’s another top notch vector from vectorious.net! Use it in abstract themes, posters, prints, greeting cards, covers and more.

design, freebies, graphic, misc

445

0 comments

Drawing vector portraits Part 3: The Nose

In the previous post, I’ve explained how to properly draw the eye. Further, I will explain how to draw the nose easily from scratch and with not too much strain.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

402

0 comments

75 Scary Examples of Monster Artworks

A showcase of ugly, scary and dangerous monster artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

400

0 comments

50 most beautiful navigation menus

Creativity of website is only proven when the visitors can make efficient use of it. A website should be user-friendly, where user can easily understand the navigation and can in a proper way interact with a webpage. Then we can say that the goal and objective of a webpage is proven.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

1107

0 comments

28 Free Fantastic Retro Styled Fonts

We have gathered an awesome collection of free fonts. These are retro styled fonts that must be added to your collection. To download the font just click on it and it will take you to the download page. These fonts are completely free for commercial and personal use, and will look great on any type of print media. We would like your feedback, so please comment below.

design, font, freebies, graphic

442

1 comment

12 smashing examples of illustrations and sketches from skineart.com

design, graphic, misc

353

0 comments

2010

11

MAY

A Different Type of Vintage: 40s Movie Inspired Retro

One of the most popular styles of late is the vintage look. So, in today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to pull off a specific kind of vintage, inspired by the awesome art of 1940s cinema.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

277

0 comments

45+ Free vector buildings for your artwork

At some point, you’ve probably looked for a nice vector of building or a Photoshop brush and you didn’t find a proper one. To come to your aid, we’ve made a collection of over 45 free vectors for you to download and enjoy.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

439

0 comments

60 Inspiring Footer Designs

A footer is usually used to display the copyright information, and other links contributing to the website. In my opinion that sounds pretty boring. Why not spice things up a little and make an awesome footer design. With footers the possibilities are endless.

css-html, design, graphic

584

0 comments

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites #2

A showcase of the most beautiful illustrative sites around the web at the moment

design, graphic, inspiration

305

0 comments

2010

10

MAY

Artist of the week – Adam Potter

3D modeling is no child’s pencil play and Adam Potter from Adelaide, Australia shows us that this statement is true. It requires extended knowledge of anatomy, a keen...

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

224

0 comments

30+ Best And Impressive Single Page Website Design for Inspiration

Here is a compilation of 30+ Best and Impressive Single Page Website Design for Inspiration. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

50 Remarkable Examples of Typography Design

Typography is the art of print. Typography is everywhere, including greeting cards, books, posters, newspapers, magazines, and any other print media. The goals of Typography are simple, it must clearly communicate the message and do so in a visually effective way.

design, font, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

25 Login page design for inspiration

We design web page to attract user and make them relate to the site now and then. This can only be done when user find our site friendly and worth visiting. No one in their busy schedule will like to waste their time hanging on to the site and understanding its complexity.

design, graphic, trend

webanddesigners

881

1 comment

40 Free Apple iPad Wallpaper

Since the new Apple iPad is one of Apple’s latest products, many designers and developers are scrambling to create products to sell to the iPad consumer. Rest assured, i am not selling anything here today!. What you will find in this post is a great collection of free iPad wallpapers to pimp out your new iPad.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

512

0 comments

Case Study: Call to Action in Web Design Usability

Numerous reasons why it’s essential to distil your calls to action down to only the core outcomes you want from your audience

design, graphic, usability

310

0 comments

2010

9

MAY

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #52

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

396

0 comments

Photoshop Tutorial: How to Paint a Realistic Proportioned Female Face

In this tutorial I will show you how to paint a proportioned female face from scratch... There are plenty of advanced ways to achieve this, but this tutorial will start with the absolute basics and move on to more advanced techniques, so even beginners can follow.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

257

0 comments

E-Commerce Website Design: 50 Well Designed Apparel Sites

In the last six months I have written eleven posts on web design covering various types and styles of websites. In this post I am going to focus on e-commerce website design. I have scoured the internet for some of the best designed apparel e-commerce websites.

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

2010

7

MAY

100+Free Bad-ass Tribal vectors

Finding good quality tribal vectors is not an easy task. So we’ve made a collection of free bad-ass tribal sets to help you make your designs more aggressive.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

2010

6

MAY

Designer Showcase – Ginger Monkey

A showcase of the beautiful designs from Ginger Monkey

design, graphic, inspiration

331

0 comments

30 Stunning Upcoming Movie Posters

For designers, one of the most interesting elements of the movies are posters. To draw the attention of fans, the movie industry designers must create stunning, surprising posters. In the movie posters you can find solutions for some of the design works, therefore today I want to show you the best upcoming movie posters.

design, graphic, inspiration

395

0 comments

Tutorial: How to create a burning flower

In this tutorial I will explain how to create a burning flower using Adobe Photoshop CS3.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

423

0 comments

40 Free Fantastic Sans Serif Fonts

Boy oh boy do we have a collection for you! We have found some really amazing sans serif fonts that you should definitely add to your collection. These fonts are completely free for commercial and personal use. We hope you like them and find them useful. We would love to hear you thoughts, so please comment below.

design, font, freebies, graphic

567

0 comments

2010

5

MAY

40 eye catching dark website designs

Color adds attraction interest and keenness to any design. Dark is also a color that with great combination can inspire and brighten your thought.

design, graphic, trend

webanddesigners

538

0 comments

45 Delightful Wood Textured Websites

As a growing trend in web design, wood textures really give a natural and organic feel to a website. If you’re planning to create your very own wood textured website, these examples will inspire you. All the websites below use wood as one of their elements. If you know of other awesome websites we missed, feel free to comment below.

design, graphic, trend, wordpress

420

0 comments

33 Imaginative Photoshop Drawing and Painting Tutorials

Today,i’ve compiled some tutorials which will help you to learn and improve yourselves in drawing and painting.Especially some brush tecniques are really interesting.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

382

0 comments

2010

4

MAY

60 Free High Quality Stock Photography Sites

Pictures are worth a thousand words. However, for good quality, engaging photographs, they normally come at a very expensive price. While stock sites are making photography more affordable, they are occasionally more expensive for regular use.

design, freebies, graphic

501

0 comments

60 Visionary Examples of Creative Photography

Creativity is in the air and you’re about to catch it. As you might know inspiration sometimes comes from almost anything. We have a great roundup of hand-picked creative photography that are sure to inspire you. Some of the photos are obviously photoshopped, but they still look real. We would love to know what you think, so please comment below.

graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

426

1 comment

Orange Website Showcase #2

A showcase of the very best websites using an orange colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

343

0 comments

50 Spectacular Out of Bounds Photoshop Manipulations

In this post we'll show you the 50 most outstanding and creative OOB creations, for your delight and inspiration.

graphic, photoshop

344

0 comments

2010

3

MAY

Drawing vector portraits Part 2: The eyes

In this article I will explain how to properly draw the human eye based on anatomy. We will discuss all details based on this pencil sketches I made.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

375

0 comments

Free vector spring illustration | Vectorious.net

Use this free vector in any of your nature themes spring artwork and watch your designs flourish!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

329

0 comments

35 cool and unique business card design

Business cards are the most prevailing promotional tool to market your company and yourself. Business card speaks about the business you are in and organization that you belong to.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

521

0 comments

2010

2

MAY

101 Weird and Creative Examples of Surreal Artworks

A showcase of the most creative and weird surreal artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

496

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #51

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

493

0 comments

2010

1

MAY

Best of the Web: April 2010

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the month of April, 2010. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

506

0 comments

2010

30

APR

33 Creative and Smart Print Ads You’ll Love

Although there are tons of new print ads being created everyday, we managed to pick out the best 33 print ads, that in our opinion are the most creative and delivers the great portion of inspiration.

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

509

1 comment

6 Places to Turn Yourself into an Adobe Fireworks Professional

A handy guide and resource to turn you into a true fireworks champ!

design, graphic, photoshop

305

0 comments

CopperLicht JavaScript/WebGL 3D engine 1.1 released, now supports Character Animation

The JavaScript 3D engine CopperLicht has been released today in version 1.1.0. This release now adds support for character animation: The 3D engine is able to import and play back skeletal animated meshes.

ajax, graphic, javascript

546

0 comments

50 Astonishing Abstract iPhone Wallpapers

This is a collection of some outstanding abstract wallpapers. If you’re looking to spice up your iPhone or iPod touch, then this is the post for you. Below we have listed some of the most impressive, beautiful, and outstanding wallpapers. We would love to hear your thoughts, so please comment below. Enough talking, lets get to it.

design, freebies, graphic, wallpaper

362

0 comments

2010

29

APR

30 Fresh and Exceptional Flash Portfolio Websites

There is no any single “right” way of creating portfolios, as it’s something personal that expresses your personality. This showcase of fresh inspiring Flash based portfolios will definitely help you end up with a successful idea for your own portfolio.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

57 Exquisite Examples of Angel Artworks

A showcase of exquisite angel artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

300

0 comments

2010

28

APR

In-Depth Tips For Creating Original Designs

Whether designing for a client or simply just for artistic purposes, it is always important to maintain originality in your design. Why? Because originality means that you as an artist stand out as an individual. This means you are offering a distinct service that others are not providing, therefore putting you a step ahead of the competition in the eyes of potential clients.

design, graphic, misc

392

0 comments

5 Principles for Effective Web Design

A website forms the face of a company, product or service. Therefore, it is of great importance to make the website communicate clearly with its users. Web designers always need to keep in mind about the needs of the users. This leads one to the kind of web design required for the subject.

design, graphic, tips, trend

625

1 comment

Tutorial: Retro vector illustration in 15 Steps

In this tutorial I will show you how to create a retro vector illustration using stock vectors and simple distortion techniques.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

409

0 comments

Sweet Designs of Birthday Cake

When you are creative you have to show your skills in every field. Designing a birthday cake is not much different just medium is different.

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

2010

27

APR

35 creative and funny print advertisement for your refreshment

Advertisement isn't a science, neither its history that can be mugged up, its an Art of persuading people. Its about making them realizing that there are missing on some WOW product or services that they should grab at any cost .

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

311

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #9

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

275

0 comments

170+ Great Photoshop Brushes for Light Effects

Do you like the light effects on several photos? Do you want to add some light effects on your photos too, just with some clicks? Below, you will see a collection of sets with 170+ Great Photoshop Brushes for light Effects. Enjoy!

design, graphic, photoshop

337

0 comments

35+ Fruits Photo-Manipulations

I was recently browsing for fruits pictures to play around with in Photoshop and I’ve stumbled upon some really creative photo manipulations. Here they are.

design, graphic, inspiration

304

0 comments

Batman Inspired Artwork

As you probably already know from the last couple of comic book inspired artwork posts, Batman is one of my favorite superheroes. One of my childhood memories was coming home after school and patiently waiting until Batman staring Adam West aired on TV.

design, graphic, inspiration

242

0 comments

Cross-Browser Rounded Buttons with CSS3 and jQuery

Tired of generating rounded buttons in Photoshop? This HTML/CSS/JS solution is simple, clean, and works in all modern browsers.

css-html, graphic, javascript, tutorial

618

0 comments

2010

26

APR

30+ Brilliant Typography Inspirations Featuring The Word 'Summer'

30+ brilliant typography designs showcasing the word 'Summer'. Some are posters for Summer programs, some paper cutouts but the major part consists of really cool digital artworks. Hope you too will enjoy this 'Summer Collection' and feel a bit chilled out from the scorching heat!!

design, graphic, inspiration

374

0 comments

Artist of the week – Grant Hood

Grant Hood is an artist who likes to paint any motorcycle tanks, fenders and fairings, leather garments, crash helmets and anything else that has wheels and engine. If you have a dull bike..

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

285

0 comments

61 Incredible Logo Designs #3

Here’s yet another roundup of amazing logo designs. This is a series that we do frequently, so make sure to check out the past logo articles. For this collection we found some really creative logos, they’re all unique and eye catching.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

435

0 comments

Everything Adidas!

If you are anything like me, you really love your Adidas apparel. I have found that over the last few years the Adidas brand has really taken off with their three divisions of clothing; Performance, Original and Style. Although my favorite is the Original line, I found that everything Adidas makes is great.

design, graphic, inspiration

271

0 comments

2010

25

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #50

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

Create Blood and Milk Typography Poster in Photoshop

With this technique you can create interesting flayer for dace club or you can use in advertisements. To create this typography poster we will use some paint splashes, custom fonts and few stocks from Desiantart and of course your knowledge.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

379

0 comments

2010

22

APR

Designer Showcase – Martijn van Dam

A showcase of the wonderful work by the graphic designer Martijn van Dam

design, graphic, inspiration

440

0 comments

How to Create a Funky Vintage Badges

This tutorial, will show you how to create a stylish vintage badges using Photoshop.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

473

0 comments

Drawing vector portraits Part 1: The facial structure

In this tutorial I will explain the basics for portrait drawing. These guidelines are a must to know and will help you a lot in your future portrait drawings.

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

416

1 comment

100 Wonderfully Designed iPhone App Websites

The App Store is growing daily, that means if you’re a developer your competition is heavily increasing. Your app needs to be greatly designed, have a website, and should be heavily promoted. Take for example TapTapTap, they have a webpage for each of their apps, and they promote apps by giving away prizes.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

501

0 comments

Using Negative Space Effectively In Logos

Negative space is the space around and between the solid colored graphics (subject) of any image. Also known as whitespace, negative space is often used in logo design to form interesting or relevant shapes/letters reflective of the nature of business.

design, graphic, logo

480

0 comments

2010

21

APR

Play More With jQuery Games

The well know jQuery is not restricted to just animated user interfaces and amazing widgets. There is more to the “write less do more jquery”! See the cutest side of jQuery with this digest of eye catching and attractive jQuery games. Play more with this 20+ collection of jQuery games.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

723

0 comments

Interview with digital artist Jurryt Visser

Jurryt Visser is a 21 years old artist from Netherlands who values originality and individuality. He has found a way to harmoniously blend vectors with pictures, obtaining unique...

design, graphic, inspiration

234

0 comments

Design Research: Breathing Life into Your Projects

Prior to embarking on any design project, whether the end product is a website, a graphic or visual artwork, a lifestyle item or gadget, the most important and first step any designer should take is to do ample research.

design, graphic, tools, usability

289

0 comments

50+ Impressive and Detailed Photo Manipulation Tutorials

The most detailed and creative photo manipulation tutorials. Try your Photoshop skills in creating a flooded city, floating island or some other type of fantasy Landscape.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop, tutorial

391

0 comments

35 icon design tutorials in Photoshop and Illustrator

Icon is a work of art that adds beauty to a website. We all know the importance of artistic design in a web page. Icon is another essential aspect of any design as icon plays an important role in making the website user-friendly and striking.

design, graphic, icon, tutorial

webanddesigners

499

0 comments

2010

20

APR

Professional Opinions – Gavin Strange

I asked Gavin Strange (aka Jam Factory) what his favourite web designs were and I thought I'd showcase them for you

design, graphic, inspiration

229

0 comments

70+ Inspirational Logo Designs

I find viewing other artists and designers logos is a great way to get inspired for you next project. If you want to get those creative juices flowing, you should check out this post. I have assembled a beautiful collection of fresh logo designs that will definitely help stimulate your creative juices for your next design. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

509

0 comments

9 Must See Character Design Tutorials

Character Designs is one of the most effective ways for promoting your projects and also for inspiration. Creating character designs is really very interesting to do it beside design logos and layouts. In this post, we’ll showcase some interesting Character Design Tutorials.

design, graphic, tutorial

394

0 comments

40 Beautiful Rainbow Based Website Designs

Rainbow websites have been very popular lately. For this reason I have gathered some nifty rainbow based websites. The title says they’re rainbow based, what I mean by this is that they contain the rainbow as a common element. This element, will give the website a colorful eye appealing look.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

474

0 comments

30+ Amazing And Mindblowing 3D Portrait Art Works

In this article, we will showcase an amazing list of 3D portraits that we have collected for you the most popular CG artists Community from around the globe

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

299

0 comments

Create a light effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial I will show you how to combine some textures, vectors and Photoshop techniques to create a colorful wallpaper

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial, wallpaper

359

0 comments

15+ Signature Tutorials from deviantArt

Signatures are used everywhere in the web. You can find lots of them on forums or blogs, but not everyone has the skills to make one alone. Below, there’s a collection of 15 and more signature tutorials from deviantArt to make your favourite signature as you want, alone!

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

608

0 comments

Pxleyes Top 50 Photoshop Contest Entries Of March 2010

We've collected the 50 highest scoring entries from the Pxleyes photoshop contests that were active during the month March 2010...

graphic, misc, photoshop

155

0 comments

2010

19

APR

Bubbly jQuery Plugins

Bubbles are one of the most interactive user interface elements. Create animated pop up bubbles, dialogs and bubble tips in jQuery with these wonderful collection of jQuery Bubble plugins. Leave a bubbly impression on users with these set of bubbly jQuery plugins.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

698

0 comments

After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects

In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial

531

1 comment

51 Exciting Email Newsletter Designs

Newsletters are very important to your brand or business. A newsletter informs your reader about whats going on. It is extremely important to have an appealing design, on top of that you should have news that will interest the customer. As you might know newsletters are a great marketing strategy to keep your subscribers coming back.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

475

1 comment

Interview: Web Developer Dan Cannon from Nicasio Design

In our article, We are Calling all Web Designers and Developers: We Want to Know the REAL You, I requested designers and developers to nominate colleagues in the field for an informal interview conducted by myself.

design, graphic, misc

223

0 comments

2010

18

APR

Portfolio websites using illustration

Portfolio is a platform where sites showcases designers skill, innovation and creativity the skills of the designer.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

358

0 comments

40 Ravishing Scenery iPad Wallpapers

The iPad is finally here, so far Apple has sold over 500,000 iPads. I would like to help out the iPad owners, by providing beautiful scenery wallpapers. Here is a massive collection of beautiful wallpapers, to brighten up your iPad.

freebies, graphic, photography, wallpaper

587

1 comment

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #49

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

325

0 comments

2010

16

APR

40 Breathtaking Waterfall wallpapers

The view of a waterfall is spectacular. I love them and I hope that you love them too, so I collected 40 breathtaking waterfall wallpapers to download.

graphic, photography, wallpaper

545

0 comments

40 Illustrator Tutorials created in 2010

We have posted variety of List tutorials on various category like Icon Tutorials, Photo Retouching, Retro, Grunge etc. Since last two months there are plenty of well written Illustrator tutorials has been posted on various blogs so we selected some of our personal favourite tutorials. Check out this awesome Illustrator tutorials that has been created in 2010.

design, graphic, tutorial

632

1 comment

Freebies: 20 Awesome FREE vector backgrounds

I’m sure you’re always in need of a cool vector background for your illustrations and sometimes it can become a little tricky to find the right one. So I’ve made a list of

596

0 comments

40+ Beautiful Arabic Typography And Calligraphy

Today, I want to share with you a different styles of inspiring Arabic calligraphy and Arabic Typography that I hope you like and hear your comments about it.

design, graphic, inspiration

343

0 comments

40 of the best Poser tutorials. Categorized into beginner, intermediate and advanced.

40 of the best Poser tutorials. Categorized into beginner, intermediate and advanced.

graphic, misc, tutorial

514

0 comments

30 Useful Photo Editing Softwares

Today, for your assessment, I give you a list of 30 in my opinion the best photo editing softwares. This list will allow you to compare all programs parameters: softwares features as well as price and choose the most appropriate program for your work or hobby.

design, graphic

482

1 comment

2010

15

APR

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Wonder Women

With the Wonder Women movie coming in 2011, there has been much speculation over who will play the part of the attractive superhero. Lots of people are saying it could potentially be Megan Fox while Lucy Lawless has expressed interest in the role as well.

design, graphic, inspiration

439

1 comment

Designer Showcase - Bram Vanhaeren

A showcase of the wonderful work by the mixed-media digital artist Bram Vanhaeren

design, graphic, inspiration

330

1 comment

Top 10 Photoshop Brushes 2010

Hundreds of thousands of Photoshop brushes can be found all over the web. There are websites that are built just to feature some of these brushes. Luckily for you, we have compiled a list of our Top 10 favorite brushes to save you the time and energy of finding them on your own.

freebies, graphic, photoshop, tools

789

1 comment

15 examples of big fonts used in web design

A design loses its meaning if it is not properly typo graphed. Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design and modifying type glyphs.

design, font, graphic

webanddesigners

522

1 comment

Free PSD : Checkbox Replacement

From the previous post, I was explained how to stylize our own checkboxes by replacing the default checkbox with image. The technique is very simple, we just need to prepare the image for replace the checkbox, set the CSS and let jQuery replace them, if you missed that one you can read the tutorial here.

design, freebies, graphic

749

1 comment

41 Creative Examples of Twitter Based Logos

There is a huge rise in Twitter based startups these days. Why do entrepreneurs want to target Twitter? Simple, Twitter will only keep growing in the future. Why not take advantage of the low failure rate, and start a Twitter based business.

design, graphic, logo, trend

510

1 comment

New vectors: Torn paper scrolls, Vintage Mega Pack 9 and 11 Plus Tees Designs

Today we launched cool new vectors on Designious: 2 Packs of torn paper scrolls, the Vintage Mega Pack 9 and new unique 11 Plus Tees Designs. Check them out!

557

1 comment

2010

14

APR

60+ Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

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 March.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

482

0 comments

2010

13

APR

Yellow Website Showcase #2

A showcase of the very best websites using a yellow colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

421

0 comments

20 Tutorials to effectively blend HTML with jQuery

HTML is an amazing scripting language. Blending HTML with jQuery lets one make the most out of HTML. Extend the limitations of HTML by blending it with jQuery. So here is a collection of amazing tutorials and plugins to blend HTML and jQuery.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

779

0 comments

Tutorial: Illusion of transparency – Vector rays

In this tutorial we will create cool rays with gradients without using ANY transparency settings, ideal for .eps files, which do not have a support for gradient-on-gradient transparency.

design, graphic, tutorial

337

0 comments

Adobe CS5 Launched: An Extensive Overview of New and Nifty Features

Along with thousands of others worldwide, I joined the global CS5 launch and watched the brief 62-minute presentation on all the amazing leaps Adobe has made in the new suite.

design, graphic, photoshop

388

0 comments

2010

12

APR

The Most Fascinating Flash Websites You’ve ever Seen

10 most fascinating unusual and outstanding examples of Flash based websites you’ve ever seen!

design, flash, graphic

487

0 comments

Adobe CS 5 released – Are you upgrading?

Today, April 12th, Adobe launches the new Creative Suite! The product revamps PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, DreamWeaver and Flashand it comes with a new feature: Omniture, a tool to track the

design, flash, graphic, photoshop

384

0 comments

17 websites using beautiful big backgrounds

When images are big they create an impression of being live and aloud, which add an extra effect to design giving it a stunning feel adding value to design compared to customary tiled background graphic.

design, graphic, template

webanddesigners

488

0 comments

Artist of the week – Adrianna Zurek

Aggressive, sensual, dynamic, freedom, urban. These are the words that emphasize her art. She really is a living example that art also requires heart, soul and dedication, not just computer effects.

design, graphic

303

0 comments

2010

11

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #48

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

435

0 comments

Broken Glass Photoshop Photo Effect

This is a tutorial that will help you achieve a dynamic glass shatter effect. In this tutorial we will use some broken glass brushes and also on of my own glass texture. With this photoshop photo effect, you can make your photo look like it was ripped or broken into pieces.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

710

0 comments

50 Unique Examples of Single Page Portfolios

Portfolios often show off your personality, skill abilities, and the work you have done. To impress the customer you need to have an awesome portfolio and show off your creativity. We made a roundup of ideal portfolio websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

573

0 comments

2010

10

APR

60 Free Twitter backgrounds to Download and Customize

If you dislike the default twitter backgrounds and you want something different, this post is for you! Search, download, customize and use every twitter background you like from this post. They’re 60 and free!

design, freebies, graphic, wallpaper

682

1 comment

2010

9

APR

35 Human Face Inspired Logo Designs

Like I always say, your source of inspiration plays a critical role in any successful design project. The following list is concentrated on the Human Face shape and style. Few designs are really great logos, other suffer on typo or are more close to illustration / mascot design.

design, graphic, logo

883

2 comments

Fan Art: Awesome cartoon villains

Who doesn’t like cartoons? Who doesn’t love those superheroes with super-powers that blast away the evil with their superpowers? I say screw that! I want darkness, I want drama, I want...

356

0 comments

40 Great Examples of Facebook Fan Page Designs

Facebook is the second most visited site in the world. Just from that sentence alone you should be hopping on and creating a Fanpage for your business. But before you do that, you need to get some good old inspiration. Now whatever your business is, Facebook Fanpages are not all the same. Unlike Twitter, Facebook has more usable features than just status updates.

design, graphic, tips, trend

1008

0 comments

2010

8

APR

35 Humongous Resources to Find Free Icons

Any good designer knows that before you start a project, you should have some great tools, and resources to save you time. The main tools in this article, are icons. They can play a huge role in web designing, so why not have a handy collection ready to be used.

freebies, graphic, icon, tools

480

0 comments

Designer Showcase – The Beast Is Back

A showcase of work from the illustrator The Beast Is Back

design, graphic, inspiration

290

0 comments

Quick Tip: Cool asymmetric rays in Illustrator

I’ve put together a quick tip of how to create cool rays that have an aspect of randomness, but still maintaining that clean look. For this, you don’t really need a graphic tablet...

design, graphic

410

0 comments

20 eye cachy eye wallpapers watching you

As we all know wallpaper is an image used as a background on a computer screen, usually for the desktop of a graphical user interface.

454

0 comments

Graffiti tribute – 21 Outstanding wall paintings

We, artists, always find unusual ways to express ourselves through stunning graphics, turning mostly everything we see into canvases that reflect our imagination. Here are a few “canvases” that

259

0 comments

Amazing Websites Designed for Kids for your Inspiration

Most websites, and their content (design, font, images, color, style, etc) are focused at a particular type of person, and these persons are collectively called your target audience. The target audience is made up of the people you want to visit your site, and who the intend the content to be directed to.

design, graphic, photoshop, trend

579

2 comments

2010

7

APR

Vector freebies and premium: floral, wings and t-shirts

Our team has just released a few new vector goodies we hope you will enjoy. The brand new packs we’ve created are the ...

325

0 comments

30+ Wonderful Twitter Birds

The bird of twitter is very popular and used as alternate way to represent twitter. In this collection you will find some wonderful twitter birds. Enjoy!

design, freebies, graphic, icon

334

0 comments

2010

6

APR

One Page Websites

A showcase of the latest and greatest in one page website design

design, graphic, inspiration

566

0 comments

2010

5

APR

40+ Beautiful Cleaver Typographic Logos

There are two types of logos: logomarks are symbol-based logos, and logotypes of logos that are made up of artist typography. The latter has become increasing more popular with the explosion of the functional, clever, and simple graphic design.

design, font, graphic, inspiration, logo

552

0 comments

Extraordinary Digital Artworks of Kagaya + Wallpapers

I always like Kagaya's works because of his unique style of art. I used to use some of his works as my desktop wallpaper. I always wonder if I can make digital arts like him.

design, graphic, wallpaper

332

0 comments

20 Wonderful PSD’s from 365psd.com

On 365psd.com there are hundreds of .psd’s ready to be downloaded. Please, have a look around and see if there is any design that you can give a second chance; a new purpose. Believe me, it feels great!

design, freebies, graphic, icon, photoshop

436

0 comments

Huge Collection of High Quality Social Media Icons

Social media is every where and is rapidly growing. You gotta stay alert and keep up with the latest trends. These beautiful social media icons should help. Keep in mind these are only high quality, we know there are tons of others out there, but we hand picked the only ones that met our criteria. If we missed any please let us know.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

422

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #39

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

288

0 comments

7 Things You Need to Learn About Particles In Computer Graphics

Particle systems are ubiquitous in computer graphics. They're used for modeling snow, explosions, sparks, rain, grass, and all sorts of other things that are too hard to model and animate by hand.

323

0 comments

10 Fresh And Impressive Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For Beginners

In this edition, we’ll be featuring the best 10 Adobe Illustrator tutorials and we hope it would expand your creativity and imagination to be expert user.

design, graphic, tutorial

438

0 comments

2010

4

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #47

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

411

0 comments

11 Fresh Portfolio Design Tutorials

Creating your own portfolio website will showcase the work and services in best manner.When you start working, your great graphic design portfolio is going to help you land that great job. Your portfolio represents your skill and artistry, so put it together carefully because your artwork is going to speak for you.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

495

0 comments

70 Incredible Logo Designs #2

Here a fresh new set of cool logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Don’t be shy, let us know what you think by commenting below.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

516

0 comments

Bicker with Light Effects in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how easily using Adobe Photoshop you can create such a biker light effect.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

382

0 comments

Ultimate Collection Of jQuery Tabs

Tabs help create amazing amazing user interfaces. Web space can be used efficiently and effectively with tabs. So here is an ultimate collection of over 25 jQuery tabbing plugins to help designers create excellent user interfaces.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1096

0 comments

20 Impressive jQuery Button Plugins

Buttons are no longer rectangular and limited to grey and black. Thanks to jQuery, now you can paint your UI with colorful, glowing and animated buttons. Style the good old buttons to bring out impressive effects with these wonderful jQuery button design plugins.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

829

0 comments

2010

3

APR

15 Beautiful & Minimalistic Tumblr Themes

Thumblr is an easy and simple blogging platform. In his collection, you can find some wonderful themes. 15 of them are included in this post!

design, graphic, template, usability

1413

0 comments

2010

2

APR

Best of the Web: March 2010

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the month of March, 2010. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

398

0 comments

Learn How to Enhance Your Backgrounds with jQuery!

As jQuery becomes a new trend, we thought you’ll find it useful to follow the top jQuery tutorials. Note: most of these tutorials are aimed to make your backgrounds even more impressive.

design, graphic, javascript

391

0 comments

2010

1

APR

Interview with Alex Tass, Graphic Designer form Bucharest

Today we’ve got a very interesting interview with a great Graphic Designer from Bucharest, Alex Tass. So Alex thanks so much for taking your Time and responding to my Questions! :) So lets start!

design, graphic, inspiration

433

0 comments

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Iron Man

With Iron Man 2 opening on May 7 2010, I have decide to write a second installement on comic book inspired artwork. Iron Man has quickly become one of my favorite super heroes in the last couple of years.

design, graphic, inspiration

466

0 comments

Post to Twitter30 creative and conceptual logos in 3D

A conversation about different ways to create logos with Thiago Vilarinho were discussing the use of 3D. See the best creative 3d Logos

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

161

0 comments

Free Web UI Element Pack

It take us some time to create our web UI element, so the UI pack will be very useful. Today I release an User Interface Element Pack in PSD format, it contains 19 elements including Loading Bar, Button in normal and clicked state, Button toggle, close, next, previous and paging icon and slider.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, template

677

0 comments

2010

31

MAR

8 Tutorials To Make You Fully Understand 3D Lighting In CG

Here's a collection of eight high-quality tutorials that will acquaint you with the basics of 3D lighting and perhaps give you some ideas for your next project.

graphic, misc, tutorial

396

0 comments

2010

30

MAR

40 Amazing Free Paper Textures

In this post, you will find examples of varieties of amazing paper textures. Of course, making your own paper texture is pretty easy, but why bother with so many fantastic, free textures to choose from!

design, freebies, graphic

16994

6 comments

Purple Website Showcase #2

A showcase of my favourite websites with a purple colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

336

0 comments

60+ Amazing and Unique Illustrations By Bob Canada

Bob Canada a graphic designer from USA. He has nice style of drawing funny cartoon. visit its Flickr gallery to see another inspirational illustrations and artworks.

design, graphic, inspiration

385

0 comments

Inspiration: Compilation Of Business Card Designs

I have to say that writing posts on business card design is one of the most satisfying for me. I feel that my readers get the most inspiration out of this type of post, seeing that they are so incredibly popular. So with no further ado here is your monthly dosage of beautifully designed business cards. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

10 Fantastic blogs for Freebies

Freebies are a great way of getting several useful stuffs without any cost. There are several Design blogs on the internet offering freebies to their visitors such as free icons, free textures ,free brushes and free PSD files , etc.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

2010

29

MAR

Content Aware Fill In Photoshop CS5 Can Do More Than You Think

In this video we posted a few more practical examples of how to use the CS5 content aware fill feature, and we think that you’ll find them both very useful and very awesome.

graphic, photoshop

561

0 comments

Ten Tips to Improve your Freelance Portfolio

A great freelance portfolio should highlight your talents and give potential clients a meaningful way to choose you amongst your competitors. Here is 10 tips to improve your freelance portfolio.

design, graphic, tips, wordpress

476

0 comments

30 Jaw Dropping Wallpapers

This collection will give you many different moods and feelings you can’t explain. Many say that a picture can be worth 1000 words, well these angelic wallpapers say much more than that. I know that sound like an intense description, but these are really gorgeous wallpapers.

freebies, graphic, photography, trend, wallpaper

578

0 comments

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Spider-Man

One thing that I used to love doing while I was in school was to draw my favorite comic book heroes and villains in my homework books. My favorites at the time being Spider-man and Batman. If you are into comic books, you will really get a treat out of this post. In this article you will see some Spider-Man inspired artwork from some really talented artists.

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

46 Amazing 3D Animation Short Films

Short Films are always smart and beautiful! In this collection you will find 46 Amazing 3D Animation Short Films to watch for hours. Enjoy!

design, graphic, video

606

0 comments

45 Clever & creative advertisements for your inspiration

This is a very interesting field in the design industry . Ads suppose to catch your attention and deliver the message quickly and clearly . Ads should have the wow factor . This a list of 45 ads that has it.

graphic, inspiration

334

0 comments

Everything You Need to Know About HDR Photo Effect

This article provides you with a useful collection of HDR tutorials, tips and some inspiration.

graphic, photography, tips, tutorial

288

0 comments

Photoshop CS5 – Sneak Peek Videos

Photoshop CS5 Sneak Peak Videos - We will quickly go through the sneak peek videos and see what new features will be available in the upcoming Photoshop CS5

graphic, photoshop, tools

501

0 comments

2010

28

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #46

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

441

0 comments

30+ High Quality Examples of 3D Digital Artworks

Create 3D objects you can with some of special programs, such as 3D studio max, Cinema 4D, and others. Today for designers and all our readers, we would like to show the best more than 30 high quality examples of 3D digital abstract artworks.

design, graphic, inspiration

400

0 comments

2010

27

MAR

51 Examples of Funny & Creative Advertisement

Advertisement has evolved dramatically in the past decade. Marketing is a huge business and will only keep growing. Print advertsing is a difficult task and takes creativity. Most of the ads below get the message across, while making you laugh.

graphic, inspiration, photography, tips

632

0 comments

25 Flash Website Galleries for Inspiration

For now lets see some flash galleries to get inspired for your next jQuery project.

design, graphic, inspiration

506

0 comments

2010

26

MAR

Every bloggers must read this! 15 Important Factors on high quality graphic design blog

In this article, i will summarize about 15 important factors to consider to make high quality graphic design blog based on several famous graphic design blogs around the blogging world

design, graphic

598

0 comments

Quick Tip: Free-hand drawing brushes setup for Illustrator

I bet that when you start drawing in Illustrator you only have a few default brushes that are not really of much use unless you customize them to your drawing style.

graphic, tips, tutorial

460

0 comments

50+ Beautiful Patterns & Useful Tools

High quality free seamless vector and pixel patterns that you may need for your web projects, prints or any other design related works.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, template

632

0 comments

2010

25

MAR

Create Rockstar poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will use plenty of various photoshop techniques. Tutorial is pretty complex, so you will need to carefully follow each step of this tutorial. As you can see from final image preview, we will create awesome effect using usual photo and your photoshop knowledge.

design, graphic, photoshop

497

0 comments

50 Examples of Beautiful HDR Photography

Photographers spend a long time making the picture just right and it definitely shows. HDR photos look amazing and a lot better than regular photos. They have so much contrast and lighting effects, that often makes them look unreal. Here are a few examples of stunning HDR photography. These were all hand-picked, we hope you will get inspired by them.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

680

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Mr. Kone

A showcase of the work of the graphic designer Mr. Kone

design, graphic, inspiration

467

0 comments

2010

24

MAR

Photoshop Tutorial: How To Create A Fantasy Flower Creature

In this fantasy tutorial, we are going to create a cool flower creature. We will be using Photoshop CS3 to create this image.

graphic, photoshop

451

0 comments

Logo Evolution Of 7 Tech Giants

I was observing the logo evolution of Tech giants like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Intel etc and it was reasonably interesting. There is one clear trend, more the company becomes mature and prominent, logo becomes more simpler.

design, graphic, logo

449

0 comments

Speeding into the World of Automobile Websites: The Good, Bad and Ugly

One of the most popular industries in the world is the automobile or motor car industry. Women love their jewels and fashion, while men love their cars. Although that may be a cliché, there is some element of truth in it.

design, graphic, trend, usability

385

0 comments

Digital Art: 40+ Most Beautiful CG Girls On The Web (Part 2)

I have said it in the past and I will say it again, the talented artists and their outstanding works that I showcase on designrfix.com never cease to amaze me. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of beautiful CG girls in 3d, most of these great works are created in 3d Studio Max and Maya. This article is the second part of a two part series on digital art. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

751

0 comments

2010

23

MAR

Inspiration: Beautifully Rendered 3d Vehicles

There are many sources of inspiration that an artist or designer can draw from. In this post you will see some amazing renderings of 3d vehicles from some very talented artists from around the globe. So whatever type of project you are working on, I hope these designs will motivate you achieve your greatest of works. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

291

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #6

The sixth showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

445

0 comments

27 Wonderful Font from deviantArt

A collection of wonderful fonts from deviantArt including all the kinds of fonts. DeviantArt is a pretty nice place to search for fonts. You can find a variety of fonts there.

design, font, freebies, graphic

609

0 comments

2010

22

MAR

I Have Just Moved From Psd Tutorial! Read & Get Some Useful Informations!

On this first post, I will share some of guest articles that I have made for some other popular blogger & feature some of my best post from my former blog Psd Tutorial.

design, graphic

296

0 comments

35 Stunningly Elegant Web Designs

What separate good design, from great design is the amount of attention to detail. The sites featured in this roundup have executed this task very nicely. All the websites are hand-picked and represent high quality. Hopefully this will help to inspire you for your next project.

css-html, design, graphic, trend

674

0 comments

30 Amazing Typographic Movie Poster Designs

You must have seen many articles on typographic posters but during my search i wasn’t able to find any post on typographic movie posters. So i thought why not compile a list of typographic movie poster designs for your inspiration.

design, graphic

391

0 comments

Make a Realistic LCD HDTV from Scratch with Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to create a photorealistic widescreen LCD HDTV from scratch.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

331

0 comments

2010

21

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #45

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

472

0 comments

40+ Beautiful Tutorials to Design your Portfolio

A nice and beautiful portfolio is very important for a Web Designer. It should present your experiences on Web Design / Develop etc. If you don’t have a portfolio or if you want to upgrade it, this post is for you!

design, graphic, photoshop, template, tutorial

579

0 comments

2010

20

MAR

8 Free Web Based Image Editors

By now, you probably have heard of Photoshop. Photoshop is a professional image editing software. If you’re always on the go, and don’t have access to Photoshop then this roundup is for you. You can also use photoshop.com if you wish, but here are some alternative online image editors.They should definitely help you complete intermediate tasks on the go.

design, graphic, tools, usability

568

0 comments

Win 15,000 design templates!

A competition to win over 15,000 design templates

design, freebies, graphic

438

0 comments

Simple Flip Puzzle Effect with jQuery

Yesterday I saw an ad of a telecommunication provider and I was inspired by its ending which shows the company’s logo using a puzzle paper effect. I think that’s fabulous and we can implement it using CSS plus jQuery without Flash. Ok, let’s go get it!

css-html, graphic, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

1063

0 comments

2010

19

MAR

Apple iPad Funny Pictures

Apple iPad, the device which looks like a larger version of Apple’s iPod Touch will be available in April 2010. Before its availability, we would like to share some funny pictures for iPad. A lot of people disappointed after iPad introduced and created some funny pictures and illustrations about it.

design, gadget, graphic, inspiration, trend

918

1 comment

Learn how to design a dark business layout

In this tutorial you will learn how to design a sleek black business layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

442

0 comments

2010

18

MAR

6 Best Free Online Drawing Tools

A number of useful drawing tools are made available.Drawing tools are useful in page layout and graph windows for highlighting material with boxes, circles and arrows and can also be used to create diagrams.

design, graphic, tools

588

0 comments

Web Designer Interview - Design Vetica

An interview with the young entrepreneurs who started Design Vetica

design, graphic, inspiration

390

0 comments

5 Creative Photoshop Compression Techniques To Use In Webdesign

There are creative ways to use simple compression techniques in Photoshop. That is what we're going to discuss in this post.

design, graphic, photoshop

664

0 comments

2010

17

MAR

25 Beautiful Free Twitter Icon Resources

I though i would write this article to help bloggers, developers, and many others. Web icons are a huge element when it comes to web designing. Most people want a free, fast, and easy resource they can use to get what they are looking for.

design, graphic, logo, trend

441

0 comments

200 Common People Vectorpack

We list only the best Freebies Free vector silhouettes of common people. You are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

522

0 comments

2010

16

MAR

8 Common CSS Mistakes and How to Fix Them

CSS has the distinction of being one of a handful of web technologies that newcomers tend to learn by doing.

css-html, design, graphic

519

0 comments

101 Tips and Resources for Designers, Entrepreneurs and Marketers

A roundup of tips and resources for designers, entrepreneurs and marketers that 99designs.com recently shared via twitter @99designs.

design, graphic, usability

326

0 comments

The most stylish Websites of February 2010

Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in FEBRUARY. We congratulate the winners - they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

424

0 comments

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part2)

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 February.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

535

1 comment

How to Make a Beautiful Spring Butterfly Scenery

In this tutorial I will show you the steps I have used for making the Butterfly in the spring image.

graphic, photoshop

312

0 comments

The Best Worst Web Designs!

A showcase of the very best awful web designs

design, graphic, inspiration

504

0 comments

2010

15

MAR

Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

The beauty of using vectors for header design and showcase of 38 websites with awesome vectorized or Illustrated headers.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

511

0 comments

Mindblowing collection of 50 3D models impersonated in monsters, trolls, warriors and demons.

Mindblowing collection of 50 3D models impersonated in monsters, trolls, warriors and demons.

design, graphic

332

0 comments

46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings

To digitally paint your sketches or illustrations lots of different tools are used. Photoshop and tablets are most important tools to make digital paintings.

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

2010

14

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #44

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

479

0 comments

2010

13

MAR

11 Must See Fire Effect Tutorials In Photoshop

One of the most popular and attractive effects that you can add to your photograph using Photoshop is the fire effect In this article, we’ll look at 11 Must See Fire Effect Tutorials In Photoshop.Hope you will learn something new and share your opinion in comments.

design, graphic, photoshop

432

0 comments

70 of the Best Headers used by Popular Blogs

The header is one of the most important parts for a blog/site. It’s the first part, it’s the part that the visitor will see visiting your page. Here is a header’s collection from 70 popular blogs.

design, graphic, template, usability

770

0 comments

2010

12

MAR

Amazing Super Street Fighter 4 Artwork for Inspiration

Designers surf the web daily and visit popular design galleries for inspiration. Sometimes we don’t see the inspiration source while enjoying what we are doing. Games are one of them. We love to play games, specially me, and Street Fighter is my favorite game with Ryu a favorite fighter.

design, graphic, inspiration

604

0 comments

14 Important Writing Tips For Graphic Design Related Bloggers

There are some important things that i learned from being a graphic design blogger since months ago. I hope that this article will help every graphic design bloggers to grow their blog rapidly.

design, graphic

577

0 comments

20+ Stunning Free Apple Files & Icons

This is a roundup of hand picked psd, png, and other format files. All the files you see here are professionally designed. I would like to thank all the amazing designers we have on the web, that provide us with great free content like this. If you have any thoughts or comments please share them with us below.

design, freebies, graphic, logo

476

0 comments

Aqueous Sun Texture Pack | Version 1 – 50 Free Images

This amazing texture pack is the first of multiple packs being released on Media Militia exclusively from Aqueous Sun. In this pack there are a total of 50 images, all with high detail and resolution. We are really excited to have these useful textures available on Media Militia. They look great as backgrounds or as an overlay in your design. Now go download them and create something.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

493

0 comments

2010

11

MAR

PC Pixel Icon Pack

Each of the 100 icons is created in two sizes so that you can choose the most preferable 16X16 or 32X32. Just try our PC Pixel Icon Pack for your applications , websites or anything and find out the benefits of our idea . PC Pixel Icon Pack is a set of 100 icons for any purposes .

design, freebies, graphic

652

0 comments

20 Top Free Fonts

A showcase of the most downloaded fonts from Fonts 2 U

design, graphic, inspiration

532

0 comments

45 Web Design Inspiration for iPhone

Web Design is a beautiful (for the viewers) and creativity (for the designers) part of a website. Nowadays, lots of people have an iPhone so if a website wants to gain more visitors, it have to attract them. A web design inspiration for iPhone is a big advantage for a website. Here you will see some beautiful inspiration!

browser, design, graphic, inspiration, usability

536

0 comments

2010

10

MAR

85 Fresh and New Logo Design for Inspiration

A unique logo formed a trademark from any brand or company. Design of a logo depends upon the kind of work done by the organization and creativity of designer. So here we have collected some of the fresh and new logo design for design inspiration.

design, graphic

688

1 comment

100+ Grunge Splash Backgrounds – Free EPS

Check out these fantastic 101 example of Grunge Splash Backgrounds, You can download the EPS files. They beautiful and inspirational files. Hope you find them useful.

freebies, graphic

723

0 comments

Thought and Speech Bubbles Pack – 104 Free Vectors and Images

This gigantic pack of 104 different styles of thought and speech bubbles is a fun addition to your collection. The styles include comic book, 3D, hand drawn, modern, and more. It is available for download as vector (EPS) and images (PNG w/ transparent background). The images are 4000px at 300 ppi.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

675

0 comments

Most Effective Method to Reduce and Optimize PNG Images

A friend of mine showed me this simple but effective technique to reduce PNG image file size without compromising too much of the image quality. I was pretty amazed and I want to share it with you all and I hope this will help you.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

9559

16 comments

2010

9

MAR

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part1)

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 February.

design, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

395

0 comments

50 Incredible Logo Designs

Logo’s are a unique key to a sucessful brand. Here is a roundup of amazing, beautiful, and creative logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below, and let us know what you think!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

523

0 comments

300+ Amazing Social Network Bookmark Icons

Promote your blog/site with the best Social Network Bookmark Icons. Search inside a collection with more than 300 icons and find what you want!

design, freebies, graphic, icon

655

1 comment

5 Things You Need to Know About Raytracing

Ray tracing is a widespread technique in computer graphics. You've probably seen stills and movies that involved ray tracing, whether in the graphics community or in movie theaters or on TV.

graphic, misc, tips

356

0 comments

31 Great Examples of Vintage Photography

It’s not so easy to turn usual photographs into unique vintage pictures. Take a look at 31 inspiring vintage pictures.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

359

0 comments

Great Uses Of White Space #2

A showcase of web sites that use white space brilliantly

design, graphic, inspiration

382

0 comments

2010

8

MAR

How to create a web hosting layout

Learn how to create a nice looking web hosting layout with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

384

0 comments

2010

7

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #43

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

418

0 comments

2010

6

MAR

Create a clean and light business layout

Learn how to create an awesome clean business layout with this step by step tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

619

0 comments

Best of Web #20

Continueing a fresh weekly portion of the best graphic resources, inspiration and tutorials from around the web.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

362

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #35

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

349

0 comments

280+ Best Fonts for your Headlines

Sometimes you have imagine what you want to draw/create but you can’t find the suitable fonts to make it better. This is a collaction of 280+ best fonts for your Headlines. Take a look!

design, font, freebies, graphic, logo

504

0 comments

2010

5

MAR

40+ Fresh And Great Portfolio Design Interfaces for Inspiration

A collection of more than 40 fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. Maybe it's helpful for you while you are stuck with the next portfolio design.

design, graphic, inspiration

427

0 comments

Web Design: 40 Fantastic Examples

In many of my previous posts on website design I have always categorized the style of websites that I was showcasing. In this post, I have decided to compile some of the most visually appealing websites from all sorts of different design styles that are out there today.

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

2010

4

MAR

35 Street Speed Lights Wallpapers

In this post there is a collection of 35 spectacular wallpapers from street speed lights! I hope that you will use one of them!

design, freebies, graphic, photography, wallpaper

428

0 comments

4 Ways to Get Rounded Corners Using CSS

Rounded corners are a common CSS effect these days. There are several ways to accomplish this effect, and how you go about implementing rounded corners will depend largely on what purpose they will serve in your design.

css-html, design, graphic

890

2 comments

2010

3

MAR

Top 10 Fonts 2010

We have complied a list of our TOP 10 fonts for 2010. All but 2 of the fonts are FREE can be downloaded using the link we provided.

design, font, graphic, inspiration

3315

2 comments

Decorative Elements Pack – 33 Free Vectors, Brushes, and Images

This design pack comes with 33 unique decorative elements such as flourishes, swirls, motifs, and more! They look great as text dividers or as a border surrounding your design. They are available for free as either vector, brushes, and images. The images are PNG files with a transparent background. They are all high quality and handmade.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

695

0 comments

Rotated Background with Slide Up Menu

Let's think of a box with rotating images inside. along with the images, we have a navigation menu that slides up / down while the images rotate. Pretty cool huh? well lets show you how I made this happen.

css-html, graphic, javascript, tutorial

844

0 comments

Photo Manipulation Techniques to Enhance Portrait Photography

Even the best photographers need to 'touch up' their photographs – no magazine portrait photography is straight from the camera. Small adjustments can make a big difference to an image, and this tutorial will show you how to execute a few changes to make a big impact on the final result.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tools

459

0 comments

2010

2

MAR

50 Shockingly Disturbing Photo Manipulations

50 fantastic photo manipulations - some disturbing, some gore and horror and some close to dark humor.

graphic, photoshop

472

0 comments

Weekly Inspiration: jackcheng.com/roulette

Why it’s inspirational: Well written copy Interactive Beautifully functional timeline in the header Simple use of single page posts Effective use of whitespace.

design, graphic, inspiration

458

0 comments

Green Website Showcase #2

A showcase of web sites that feature a beautiful green colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

471

1 comment

You Have To Look At These 50 Creative & Meaningful Logos!

If you want to search for inspirations for making logo, this article will help you a lot. I found this website very helpful, especially for those who wants to design creative & meaningful logo.

design, graphic

336

0 comments

2010

1

MAR

Post of March: 5 Well Designed Sites

5 Well Designed Sites for March! 1. Tapmates 2. Riot Industries 3. Atebits 4. Culinary Culture 5. Meta Lab

design, graphic, inspiration, template

453

0 comments

25 Awesome 3D Glass Wallpapers

3D Glass Wallpapers | High Resolution | Desktop Wallpapers | Free Download

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, wallpaper

774

0 comments

20 Inspiring Illustrations by Murat SÜNGER

In this post we will see a vector artist from Turkey, Murat Sunger has nice inspirational Illustrations. You can contact with him on the web via Deviantart or see his website.

design, graphic, inspiration

408

0 comments

2010

28

FEB

15 Blogger themes adapted from Wordpress

The theme of a blog is really important so some coders decided to adapt some Wordpress themes for Blogger. Below you will see a list with 15 beautiful blogger themes adapted from Wordpress!

design, graphic, template, wordpress

730

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #42

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

449

0 comments

2010

27

FEB

Digital Art: Most Beautiful CG girls On The Web (Part 1)

I have said it in the past and I will say it again, the talented artists and their outstanding works that I showcase on designrfix.com never cease to amaze me. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of beautiful CG girls in 2d, most of these great works are created in Photoshop and Painter. This article is a two part series on digital art. Enjoy and stay tuned for part 2.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

1052

0 comments

2010

26

FEB

30 Free Online Photo editors for fun and work

I have gathered 30 the best online photo editors. With these editors you'll be able to use both for work purposes: quickly adjust your images as well as the joy of creating fun photo manipulation.

421

0 comments

Free Social Network Icons from IconShock

IconShock has designed Social Network icon-set exclusively for Smashing Share readers. The IconShock – icon sets are awesome and free to use for both your personal and commercial projects. Included Icons are for following services. Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter and Delicious.

design, graphic, icon

387

0 comments

Design Envy : Make it Work For You!

It’s natural, it happens to the best of us. And it is certainly nothing to be ashamed of. We see a design that not only makes us stop in our tracks, but it makes us feel the creeping reach of that green eyed monster, envy.

design, graphic

603

0 comments

Learn how to create a clean busines layout

Learn how to create a clean business layout with this step by step tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

419

0 comments

2010

25

FEB

Innovative Product Design

A showcase of innovative product designs, ranging from the clever to the ridiculous

design, graphic, inspiration

282

0 comments

60+ Walls and Soils Textures

These are 62 images for Walls and Soils Textures, Hope you find them useful.

freebies, graphic

220

0 comments

2010

24

FEB

Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries

There are many sources of inspiration that designers utilize when trying to get their creative juices flowing. If you are working on a logo design for a client or just for fun, this is a must see article. In this post I have assembled a great list of logo design galleries that will definitely inspire you to bring your logo design to the next level. Enjoy and happy surfing!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

619

0 comments

1000+ Free Photoshop Custom Shapes In 40 Sets

One of the essential and important part of the photoshop is the the custom shapes.Most of the time we use brushes but also custom shapes are really useful which they save so much time.

design, graphic, photoshop

773

0 comments

Best Open Source Video Editing Tools

There are a whole lot of commercial and expensive Video editors in the market. Still there are several Open Source counterparts that are equally good in features and perfromance to the commercial ones. So here is a round up of the best Open Source Video Editing Software.

graphic, tools, video

476

0 comments

50 Useful Cartoon Character Design Tutorials

Learning how to create cartoon character is not a tough job. With these cartoon character design tutorials, you can easily get started and arm yourself with intermediate skills for character designs.

design, graphic, photoshop

627

0 comments

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations by amazing Digital Artists

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

370

0 comments

250+ Of The Best Seamless Patterns, Resources and Tutorials For Web Design

Lets take a look at this collection of more than 250 of the best free seamless patterns, resources and tutorials, ranging from grunge to metallic to floral patterns that can be used to enhance your designs immediately.

design, graphic, tools, tutorial, wallpaper

designtutorials4u

467

0 comments

Taking Type to the Next Level with Alternate Characters

Are you sick of your type looking plain and boring? Many OpenType fonts have alternate characters built into them that can transform your type into a beautiful piece of art. By using these alternate characters you can add things like flourishes and flair to your type with ease.

design, graphic, tutorial

363

0 comments

2010

23

FEB

Blue Website Showcase #2

A showcase of beautifully designed blue websites

design, graphic, inspiration

532

0 comments

1,000 Standard Business Cards Giveaway From NextDayFlyers

The team over at Next Day Flyers, one of the best offset printing companies you’ll find these days, is giving a chance for one lucky PelFusion reader to win 1000 Standard Business Cards.

freebies, graphic

374

0 comments

Tutorial on How to Create an Explosive Text Effect in Photoshop

Tutorial on How to Create an Explosive Text Effect in Photoshop in easy ten steps

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, tutorial

502

0 comments

2010

22

FEB

Free CG Software That Actually Works

A comprehensive overview of free CG tools that you can actually use and not just look at.

graphic, misc, tools

226

0 comments

45 Awesome Colorful Logo Designs and Tutorials For Your Inspiration

Where do we start? What colors work best? When developing a full color logo and we don’t know where to begin, we should look to be inspired by the best in order to keep the creativity flowing. In this article, you’ll find 45 awesome colorful logos and tutorials to inspire you the next time you are going to design for yourself or a client

design, graphic, logo, trend, tutorial

designtutorials4u

237

0 comments

30 Creative Shoe Advertisement

Today we thought of posting for shoe Advertisement, which are creative and unique. Many shoe companies presents various posters designed in a creative way.So i have sorted some of the unique and creative posters representing shoes. please check out…..

design, graphic, inspiration

431

0 comments

32 wonderful twitter backgrounds

They are beautiful, they are designed, they are 32 wonderful twitter backgrounds. Explore the beauty that a twitter profile can obtain with only a background. You will, definitely, love some of them!

design, graphic, logo, photoshop, wallpaper

334

0 comments

2010

21

FEB

30 Glamorous Windows 7 wallpapers for your PC

If you use the Windows 7 operating system, you will find here useful wallpaper for your PC. Overall, I've compiled the best 30 Windows 7 wallpapers from deviantART community. I hope in this post you will find most perfect for your PC.

design, graphic, wallpaper

668

0 comments

100 beautiful Floral Ornament backgrounds – Free EPS Files

These are 100 beautiful and colorful vectors for design and inspiration. Free EPS Files for Floral Ornament backgrounds. I hope you find them useful and cool.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

1199

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #41

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

451

0 comments

Tutorial on how to create a software layout

If you are a software manufacturer and you need a great design to represent your company and your products then you need to design an eye catching web layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

431

0 comments

35 Stunning Fantasy Castle Artworks

A showcase of most outstanding and spectacular castle artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

515

0 comments

2010

20

FEB

46 Beautiful logos inspired by nature

Nature is a rich source for inspiration .Elements from nature like trees and animals are found in many logos . In this collection those are fresh logos that use elements from nature in their design . enjoy :)

714

0 comments

Google Olympic Logos from Past To Present

Google has for many years doodled on their homepage. These doodles are decorative changes that Google makes to their cooperate logo to celebrate certain holidays and other world events. In keeping with the decade long tradition, Google has doodled Olympic events on their website to commemorate this special global event.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

378

0 comments

2010

19

FEB

60 Web Design Galleries for Design Inspiration

Web design galleries are the best way be keep in touch with latest trends in website designing and also for design inspiration. Web Design galleries also helps bloggers like me to create a list of inspirational websites or list of beautiful websites. So here we have collected some galleries for web design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

622

1 comment

20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications

Here are the list of some popular and Professional Image Editors And Drawing Applications that work online.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips, tools

386

0 comments

2010

18

FEB

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #5

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

306

0 comments

How Those Famous Websites Have Evolved Throughout the Years

I went to wayback machine and searched for those famous websites and take a screenshot of it in few years ago and also their current website. Pretty impressive changes and very encouraging as they all are moving forward with all sort of new technologies. I hope you will enjoy this post :)

design, graphic, inspiration

7128

12 comments

Eating into Restaurant & Recipe Web Design: 50+ Mouth Watering Websites

The food industry is one of the largest categories of business in the world. While taste is generally the main focus, design & appearance are just as important when it comes to showcasing products, restaurants and recipe websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

425

0 comments

2010

17

FEB

40+ Websites with Awesome Backdrops

Again, now it is time for some more inspiration. Inspiration is the mother of beautiful creation. Backgrounds do play an important role in giving attractive look to the website.

design, graphic, inspiration

685

0 comments

10 Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials

Adobe After Effects is usually used for creating motion graphics and visual effects. It allows users to animate, alter, and composite media in 2d and 3d space with various built in tools and third party plugins. This is really amazing and powerful. It Is even more interesting if you have some tutorials to learn. In this post, you will find best Adobe After Effects tutorials and feature.

1146

0 comments

22 Beautiful Textures On Black Backgrounds - High Res - 4000 x 5000 pixels at 300 PPI.

Everything looks better on black! This texture pack has 22 artistic slapdash styled images on black backgrounds. The amazing thing about this pack is that they are extremely high resolution. Most of the images are around 4000 x 5000 pixels at 300 PPI. With this high of a resolution you can get different looks depending on where you zoom into. We hope you enjoy this release!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1117

0 comments

20 Creative Warning for Global Warming

Checkout this amazing advertisement posters about the effect of global warming.

design, graphic

486

0 comments

Raging Dawn Photoshop Brushes

We list only the best Freebies The last photoshop brush set in Series 4. Inspired by a bunch of nuclear explosions.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

466

0 comments

User testing and thirteen ways of selling a book

By conducting simple user tests, you can improve the effectiveness of your online banners. Find out how Smashing Magazine is selling their book.

design, graphic, tips, usability

359

0 comments

Create a portfolio layout from jeans texture

In this tutorial you will learn how to create an unique portfolio layout using jeans texture.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

555

0 comments

40 Single Page Mini Templates

Simple, modern, well documentated mini templates for online resumes, business cards and under construction pages.

css-html, design, freebies, graphic, template

936

0 comments

2010

16

FEB

Flash Design Showcase #8

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

401

0 comments

28 beautiful Drupal websites

It’s not usual to read articles with Drupal websites (at least for me). I tried to collect the best of them here. You will see 28 of the most beautiful websites powered by Drupal. Let’s start!

cms, design, graphic

1352

2 comments

25 Most Stylish jQuery Plugins

Stylize your designs with the best in class widgets, utilities, slide shows, forms and much more with this collection of most stylish jQuery plugins. Style is all that matters for a best in class design. Stylish designs and user interfaces are now a cakewalk with these jQuery plugins.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1516

0 comments

Design an eye catching dark web layout

In this tutorial we will be creating a sleek, dark layout using Adobe Photoshop.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

425

0 comments

Create your own social network icons

There are thousands of icons for social network that you can use for your project but why you don’t try to create your own? Here, you will learn how to make your own social network icons, simple and fast! Just follow the guide!

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

592

0 comments

34 places to find what you want!

One of the best ways to find what you want is the search engines (Google, Bing) but also you can take a look on some sites with related content. I made a list with some sites that you will find Design / Web / Wordpress elements. Enjoy!

design, graphic, photoshop, tools, tutorial

367

0 comments

95+ Amazing and Colorful Floral Designs- Free EPS Files

Here, we’re presenting some of Vibrant and Colorful of Floral Designs - Free EPS Files. Hope you find them useful.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

466

0 comments

2010

15

FEB

70 Awesome Rust Texture Packs From DeviantArt

Last two post regarding texture list 70 Awesome Wooden Texture Packs from DeviantArt and 70 Awesome Paper Texture Packs from DeviantArt was a huge hit so this time we decided to collect some Rust Texture for our designer friends. Check out this 70 Awesome Rust Texture packs from Devaint Art.

design, graphic

231

0 comments

2010

14

FEB

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #40

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

535

0 comments

Use of Effective Typography in Logo Design

To have a nice looking and creative logo is so much important for any brand. Logo represent your brand, here we are presenting you some uniquely designed typographic logo for design inspiration.

design, graphic

603

0 comments

Best of Web #18

Continueing a fresh weekly portion of the best graphic resources, inspiration and tutorials from around the web.

design, freebies, graphic, tutorial

571

0 comments

2010

13

FEB

The Best Web Design Links From The Week #3

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

568

1 comment

2010

12

FEB

50 Amazing Example of Yellow Inspiration

These are 50 Yellow Creative and inspiration designs , Sites, Cards & Brochures, Typography and Photography.. I hope you enjoy and inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

251

0 comments

Create a valentine’s day post card

Learn how to create a romantic valentine's day post card with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

222

0 comments

Quick and Clean iPad PSD to Download

It is only how many weeks now when the iPad was announced, there are already a lot of blog post, reviews and critics that came out in the Internet. Whether this iPad will bring glory to the design field or any techy field in this world, I don’t give a @*&% care.

design, graphic

458

0 comments

2010

11

FEB

Valentine’s Day Gifts For Geeks

Valentine's day gift ideas for techno geeks. HTTPanties to 8-bit ties, they all are awesome.

gadget, graphic, misc, wallpaper

246

0 comments

50+ Brilliant examples of HDR photography

These images are so magical and change our dark, gray world in to colorful shiny paradise. Below you will find more than 50 newest, mystery, colorful examples of High dynamic range (HDR) Photography.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

506

0 comments

50 Pictures, Dedicated to Love

50 pictures, telling 50 different love stories for Valentine’s day of 2010

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

363

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Steven Bonner

A showcase of the beautiful work of Steven Bonner

design, graphic, inspiration

286

0 comments

2010

10

FEB

How CMS is beneficial for your business?

Most of the CMS available are open source and hence available to you at absolutely no cost. Only few are paid ones and that too are available at fairly low cost. These open source software can easily be migrated from one server to another and are compatible with most databases.

design, graphic

601

0 comments

7 Questions for Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass is a world-renowned web, graphic and logo designer residing in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder of ‘Just Creative Design‘.

design, graphic, inspiration

570

0 comments

70+ Business Card Designs

It has been almost two months since our last post on business cards. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh and creative business cards. I am confident that these new business card designs will stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful designs. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

788

0 comments

44 Outstanding Business Card Designs For Inspiration

Unusual and outstanding business card designs

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

2010

9

FEB

28 Beautifully T-Shirt Illustrations #3

These are 28 Nice T-Shirt Illustrations from Flying Mouse 365.com. I hope you find them creative and feed your inspiration. I like their vibrant colors indeed.

design, graphic, inspiration

435

0 comments

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites

A showcase of websites that feature an illustrative theme

design, graphic, inspiration

432

0 comments

The most influential web designs today and why they work!

This is a list of the most inspirational and influential designs today. Each one is explained and evaluated.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

475

0 comments

Daily Design Inspiration #11

In this post we will show you some inspiration artworks, Logo, Illustrations and Advertising etc of creative designers, André de Aquino, Antonio Sampaio, Walee

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

412

0 comments

12 most exotic wall arts designs : Vibrant and Colorful

Can you imagine intricate artwork on the walls filled with vivacious colors and vivid characters. Here is the list of extraordinary wall arts which might inspire you for a magical color play.

design, graphic, inspiration

455

0 comments

Household Items Vector Pack

Many household items for your vector illustrations. This pack includes a fan, wind chime, trophy, margarita, globe, bread basket and more. Royalty free vector. Free to use in your personal and commercial designs.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

563

0 comments

2010

8

FEB

20 Fonts Ideal For The iPhone And Other Mobile Screens

Fancy fonts which look awesome on large screens are often barely readable at smaller resolutions. Here is a collection of 20 free fonts which will surely work on any resolution required.

design, font, graphic

414

0 comments

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

In this postwe are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this post I`ll try to explain or help in the construction by giving information about original components.

design, graphic, tips

261

0 comments

Freelancers :: Increase Your Productivity

Your Freelance work can be one of the easiest and hardest things you’ll ever have to do – depending on what day it is, how much energy you have, what kind of mood you’re in, etc. Anyone who has ever made a living as a freelance completely understands how hectic things can get. Sometimes it may seem as if the smallest thing has completely thrown you off schedule.

design, graphic

freelance4money

250

0 comments

25 Unique 3D Light Graphics Wallpapers

What I'm gonna show you is 3D version of light painting wallpapers, which called light graphics. At first, I'm a little bit confused & had no idea what they are called.

design, graphic, wallpaper

537

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #32

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

406

0 comments

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect Logo Designs

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect and 3D Logo Designs

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

837

0 comments

2010

7

FEB

Web Hosting Layout Tutorial in Adobe Photoshop

This tutorial will teach you how to create a PSD layout for a hosting business, internet service provider, or any other internet related business.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

566

0 comments

55 Free Ornamental Heart Vector Files For Valentine's Day

Collection of some beautiful FREE ornate or ornamental vector hearts with download links. These hearts are rich in ornamental design or have swirls and curls associated with them. Most of them are in .eps or .ai (Adobe Illustrator) format, few in .cdr (CorelDraw) format.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

614

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #39

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

485

0 comments

60+ Amazing Abstract Backgrounds – Free EPS Files

These are 60 Amazing Abstract Backgrounds - Free EPS Files, The backgrounds have vibrant colors, Each one has its own beauty. I hope you like.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

674

0 comments

2010

6

FEB

40 Historical Pepsi Cola Ads Which Will Make You Smile

You can easily find inspirational Coca Cola ads all over the internet and especially in these kind of blogs.I’m sure you have seen most of them but today i thought that we are not interested in Pepsi ads.

design, graphic, inspiration

513

1 comment

20+ Stunning jQuery Animations

A little bit of animation can spruce up a dull user interface. This collection of jQuery Animations pull up a whole new style of interactivity through stunning animations and effects.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1142

0 comments

Goddess cadeira photo effect in Photshop

This photo effect is primarily devised for womens, but I thing mans also can get cool result. In this photoshop tutorial we will use some layers styles, photoshop basic tools and we will works with lights, a lot. This effect isn't hard to make, but as you can see it is effective.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

592

0 comments

2010

5

FEB

42 Striking Examples Of Snowboard Designs

Since its Winter season, i decided to make a corresponding post. Today i bring you a showcase of snowboard designs. Snowboard design has become very popular.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

844

0 comments

2010

4

FEB

Create a rustic layout for hotels or restaurants

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a site related to hotel industry: restaurants, bed and breakfast, motels, etc...

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

602

0 comments

50 Beautifully Blue Designs

I collect some nice example of blue designs, websites, logo, icons, brochures, typography and photography. I hope you enjoy and inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo, photography

743

0 comments

75 Fresh Business Cards for Design Inspiration

For marketing point of view to any kind of business, its very important to have a good looking business card. Business card reflects the seriousness of you involved in your own business. Therefore we have collected some nicely designed Business cards for design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

539

0 comments

2010

3

FEB

Lighting Effects Pack – 50 Free Photoshop Brushes and Images

This graphic design pack is filled with 50 different types of glowing light streaks. Available in two different formats, Photoshop Brushes and JPEG images. The images have full color intact as well as larger dimensions making them more versatile. The great thing about the brushes is they have a transparent background. You choose your format or download both of them.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

586

0 comments

Focus on Icon Designs: Tips and Examples

Icons are a source of Identification. We are familiar with so many icons around us like twitter, metros, traffic signals, mails etc. The icons are a great way to provide the user focus and enhance the visibility of web page. Not only this, well-designed icons can help the user thereby to move more efficiently through the site

design, graphic

463

0 comments

Movie Inspired Wallpaper For Your iPhone

One of the great pleasures in life is to sit back, relax and enjoy a good movie. In the last couple of years many great movies have been coming out of Hollywood and abroad. One of my favorites being, V for Vendetta.

freebies, graphic, wallpaper

455

0 comments

30 Nice Valentine's Day Wallpapers + Other Resources

Now, I'm going to share some of nice Valentine's Day wallpapers which can be downloaded for free! You may use it to design your own artwork in your Valentine's Day Card.

design, graphic, wallpaper

535

0 comments

2010

2

FEB

A Showcase Of 'Handmade' Websites

A showcase of websites that look as if they have been made by hand

design, graphic, inspiration

491

0 comments

30 Websites To Download Free Stock Photos

Designer like to use stock photos. With these websites, you can get access to unlimited free high quality stock photos and save the cost of hiring photographer.

569

0 comments

2010

1

FEB

Create a glossy high tech 3D speaker icon

Learn how to design an awesome hight tech glossy icon with a 3D look in Photoshop.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

458

0 comments

15 Ways to Improve Freelance Creativity

We’re all creative, there’s no doubt about that. Nobody is born without creative tendencies and abilities; it’s just that some people are better at putting their ideas on paper and relaying them to other people. A lot of it is to do with confidence. If you’re confident that your ideas are great, other people will think so too!

design, graphic

436

0 comments

15 Valentine's Day Photoshop Tutorials

Here is a roundup of 15 Photoshop tutorials to draw inspiration from, when designing your own pretty greeting card or wallpaper for your loved one.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

741

2 comments

60+ Brilliant Examples of Logotype and Typography #2

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

486

0 comments

Common elements on magazine websites

This post covers some of the most common elements you see on many magazine websites.

graphic, template, trend

374

0 comments

We have gathered 40 Stunning Outer Space Scenes

We have gathered 40 Stunning Outer Space Scenes, which put the rich and creative imagination of some of the best CG designers into real mind blowing images. Let’s take a trip above the limits!

graphic, photoshop

521

0 comments

2010

31

JAN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #38

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

495

0 comments

100+ Amazing Paintings + Sculpture + Graphics Drawings by [Boris Indrikov]

Boris Indrikov was born in Leningrad in 1967 and lives and works in Moscow . From 1991 – 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine “Chemistry and Life”.

design, graphic, inspiration

392

0 comments

30+ Very Useful Color Tools For Designers

Choosing the right colors and color combination for your web or print design is crucial when trying to invoke a certain feel, reaction or emotion from your viewers. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of color selectors / color combination tools to make the selection process a little easier when trying to figure out what colors to use in your next design.

design, freebies, graphic, tools

508

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #31

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration.

graphic, inspiration, photography

447

0 comments

2010

29

JAN

80 Free Download Illustration Ai Files - For Kids

80 Ai Files - Illustration For Kids

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

836

1 comment

35 Examples Of Creative And Meaningful Typography Art

Typography is one of the most creative art which blends silhouettes,shapes,3D and illustrations with words and letters.This is not only the technical creation but

graphic, inspiration, misc

479

0 comments

50+ Brilliant Example of Fantasy Drawings

This post is part of an ongoing Daily Design Inspiration series that showcases to our readers the best designs to inspire and feed your creativity.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

512

0 comments

40 Popular Lists of Photoshop Tutorials

Today, psd-tutorial.com are going to give you roundups of so many adobe photoshop tutorials. I've seen so many blogs posting about photoshop tutorial lists. Today, I'm gonna give you list of adobe photoshop roundup that is written by several top graphic design bloggers around the blogosphere.

design, graphic, photoshop

457

0 comments

Give Your Resume a Creative Boost

No matter what your situation is, it is always prudent to have a well crafted resume to call upon when needed. It is your ticket to new job opportunities and clients.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

459

0 comments

2010

28

JAN

Top 60 Outstanding Photoshop Tutorials

Again it’s time for photoshop tutorials. The tutorials are good as an inspiration for creative ideas. You have to learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork.

design, graphic, photography, photoshop

571

0 comments

Interview With A Pro Rod Hunt

An interview with the wonderful illustrator Rod Hunt

design, graphic, inspiration

405

0 comments

2010

27

JAN

How to Create Perfect Radial Shapes in Illustrator

In this tutorial, I will walk you through the creation process on how to effectively recreate some perfect radial shapes. Once you have completed this tutorial. I am sure you will be creating some amazing radial shapes to include in your designs.

design, graphic, tutorial

474

0 comments

100 Cool poster design for your inspiration

A poster is a visual presentation of information.It should be simple , understandable and catch the attention of target audience . This is not an easy task .In this post I’ve collected 100 posters for your inspiration .I’ve tried to collect variety of design styles …enjoy :)

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1193

0 comments

How to Find the Right Web Hosting Company for your Online Business?

There are a number of web hosting companies operating in the market. However, you wish to choose the best one of all that gives you affordable services without compromising on the indispensable element of quality.

design, graphic

331

0 comments

2010

26

JAN

Great Uses Of White Space

A showcase featuring web sites that effectively use whitespace

design, graphic, inspiration

570

0 comments

60+ Stunning Examples of Abstract Designs.

Many designers, painters like abstract art because it expresses the interior feelings and their ambitions etc. The paintings contain symbols and shapes that have no meaning virtual. I hope that when you look at these designs you will feel inspired like me.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

538

0 comments

8 Essential Tools for Website Redesign Efficiency

Redesigning a website takes time and energy. Having the right tools at hand can help speed up your redesign and get you back to your real work. Here are 8 tools to maximize website redesign efficiency.

css-html, graphic, tools

603

0 comments

50 Landscapes and scenery photo manipulation

Check out some great landscape and scenery photomanipulation and play with your raw photos which you have taken on your previous trip.

design, graphic, inspiration

433

0 comments

Working with Flash: Tips & Tricks to Create a Detailed Image

“God is in the details”. This is a phrase I’ve heard many times before. Perhaps this is why I love taking a closer look at all the small details that make up a whole. It is my search for every bit of perfection working together to create a whole beautiful picture.

design, flash, graphic, usability

397

0 comments

25 fresh and creative logodesigns

Need inspiration for logodesign? Have a look at this showcase including 25 great examples for creative logo design.

design, font, graphic, inspiration, misc

502

0 comments

70+ New Example of Brochures #2

Brochures and Business cards are used by companies or individuals to provide brief information during formal introductions. They include information such as name, address, e-mail, telephone number and offer services etc . These 70+ New and Creative Example of Brochures. You can learn from them and get nice ideas for your designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

630

0 comments

2010

25

JAN

Create Avatar movie poster in Photoshop

This tutorial elaborates how you can create a Navi image of any usual photo as you add impressive text and backgrounds to make an Avatar movie poster. Let us begin to see how you can get this amazing Navi photo effect in just 8 easy steps.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

603

0 comments

30 Nice CG Posters From SeventhStreet

SeventhStreet is a graphic design company who employ some of the most talented graphic designers & digital artists to make high quality CG - computer graphics.

design, graphic

463

1 comment

50+ Creative Examples of Minimalist Web Design.

Minimalist design has been described as design removing the unnecessary elements and focus on simplicity, Typography, simple and creative layouts. You can find the content of the site easy and simple. where it doesn’t have fancy colors or effects. In this article 50 examples showcase some of the best minimal site designs out there on the web. I hope you love them as much as I do.

design, graphic

910

0 comments

Domain Name Theft & Safety Measures

Cases of Internet domain name theft has swept the World Wide Web. This upsurge in domain theft news has proven that your domain name is not as safe as you expected it to be. There are a number of common mistakes that we do and as a result domain theft takes place. However, there are some safety measures, which if followed prudently, can help you keep your domain name safe and secure.

design, graphic

379

0 comments

2010

24

JAN

36 Magnific Tutorials for 3D Effects

I put together a list of 36 tutorials that will teach you how to create some amazing 3D effects with Photoshop and Illustrator.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

543

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #30

This Post belongs to our “Monday Morning Inspiration” Series. Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

501

0 comments

How to Choose a SEO friendly Domain Name?

Technological revolution has transformed the face of modern society at an amazing pace. A strong online presence is a must for everyone, from individuals to entrepreneurs to big corporate houses.

design, graphic, seo

575

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #37

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

504

1 comment

70+ Brilliant Examples of Logotype and Typography Inspiration.

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

design, graphic, logo, photoshop

1106

0 comments

12 Awesome, Fresh And Free Web Social Icons Sets

Enjoy 12 Awesome, Fresh And Free Web Social Icons Sets around the web. They are free for download and use without any restriction.

design, graphic, icon

645

0 comments

Vibrant Colorful Logos - Part 1

This is the 1st part of my collection of some vibrant, colorful logos from around the web. The logos showcased here have almost all the seven spectrum colors & many more. Enjoy the splash of colors.....

graphic, inspiration, logo, trend

700

0 comments

50+ Beautiful Happy New Year 2010 Wallpapers & Calenders

I was searching the web for a creative 2010 wallpaper to enhance my desktop & found some really cool stuffs. Just thought of sharing my collection with you all. So here's 50+ beautiful creative wallpapers and desktop calenders featuring this year, 2010.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

592

0 comments

2010

23

JAN

The Best Web Design Links From The Week #2

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

Great list with digital painting tutorials

If you want to create digital paintings like a pro then you need to follow these 10 tutorials.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

462

0 comments

2010

22

JAN

PSD Files (Books, Notebooks, Magazines)

This week’s PSD files are all of books, notebooks and magazines.

design, graphic

579

0 comments

20+ Amazing Twitter Icons

This week we will be presenting you some cool twitter icons. including some new ones you may not have seen before.

design, graphic

441

0 comments

Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Blue and the Cool Look

The ability to mix and blend colors creates new possibilities in today’s already colorful world. Today we discuss the color Blue and take a look at how it has benefited us.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

524

0 comments

2010

21

JAN

30 Stunning Strength Images

Enjoy with these crazy strength cliparts, they have nice colors and you can use these initial materials on your design.You will see funny images with super Strength, I think strong men or annoying kids will like this stuff.

design, graphic

496

0 comments

10 Amazing Avatar movie Photoshop Tutorials

Here is a compilation of some great Photoshop tutorials which will help you to create your own Na’vi Avatar from a picture of yourself.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

1352

1 comment

Tag Your Friends in Facebook With This Picture!

I made these small photos/wallpapers for all of you who wants to tag your friend of best friends in your Facebook. Choose your favorite color that you like.

design, graphic, photoshop

1225

1 comment

Chinese Ink Illustrator Brush Set

Here you find plenty of Freebies for Designers collected by Designers needing them on their daily business... The site is updated every day, so be sure to check back often.

design, freebies, graphic

863

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Firmorama

A showcase of the beautiful design and illustration work from the guys at Firmorama

design, graphic, inspiration

427

1 comment

2010

20

JAN

10 Amazing Web Design Tutorials

Web design is about the pleasures and habits. With a tutorial that will be explained later, we’re sure you will have the ability to design and develop the site with the design and layout is interesting. This tutorial is very easy to follow and fun to do! . Here are 10 Amazing Web Design Tutorials to help you get started.

design, font, graphic, tutorial

701

0 comments

Best of the Web for the Week of January 10, 2010

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of January 10, 2010. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration

437

0 comments

60 Free Download 4 Season Calendar AI files

Here are 60 free download 4 Season Calendar AI files , You can use them to get amazing Calendar for your months, You can see example below they have vibrant colors. They Suitable for children, girls and family designs.

design, graphic

1102

1 comment

50+ Amazing $$Dollars$$ Images

Here are 50+ Amazing Dollars Images from shutterstock, You can use them to get amazing designs. Bell Gates said If you born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake. Enjoy with these money.

design, graphic

418

0 comments

Daily Creative Advertising #4

Here 60+ Creative Advertising, have inspiration ideas. You will see funny ads, food and tools adwork etc. This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring Advertising. If you want to share your own work or that of other designers you come across with Desigg readers, just drop us an Email with the URL. Enjoy and Share!

design, graphic

382

0 comments

Common Mistakes in Choosing a Web Host

A good percentage of people risk the success of their websites even before starting it by choosing a wrong web host.

design, graphic

371

0 comments

2010

19

JAN

A Showcase Of Sites For iPhone Apps

A showcase of the very best websites for iPhone apps

design, graphic, inspiration

453

0 comments

20 Amazing Creature Illustrations

20 Amazing Creature Illustrations by Imaginism from Deviant Art and Imganisim studios

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

535

0 comments

2010

18

JAN

Mind Blowing Illustrations & Branding By Fully Illustrated

While browsing internet i came across a media company named ‘Fully Illustrated’ which offers creative services, from design and branding to illustration and 3D motion graphics.

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

40 best photoshop tutorials for web layouts

Learn how to create website layouts with one of the best layotu tutorials around.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

682

1 comment

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations by awesome manipulators from DA

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

677

0 comments

50 Free Download Abstract Backgrounds EPS Files

Here are 50 free download Abstract Backgrounds files from shutterstock, You can use them to get amazing designs, Don’t forget to use your own and unique ideas for designs to be creative, don’t depend on these files only. You should have artistic touches to be talent designer.

design, graphic

1513

0 comments

2010

17

JAN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #36

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

444

0 comments

Create a layout for architecture or real estate website

Learn how to create a clean layout for a real estate with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

589

0 comments

22 Free High-Quality Icon Sets For Your iPhone

iPhone is getting popular day by day and those who are using it have fallen in love with it. If you love iPhone too and want to give it a personal touch, you can do it via a new icon set.

design, freebies, graphic

486

0 comments

2010

16

JAN

Wow Typography Art

Combination of alphabets makes a whole sentence if its a combination in particular manner. But alphabets are not just use for only making sentences, sometimes it can be used as art. Now just check this images below, aplhabets are used to create art.

design, graphic

551

0 comments

The Best Web Design Links From The Week

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

524

0 comments

2010

15

JAN

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

A good newsletter campaign can be a great way to inform your subscribers of all your company’s latest news, products and specials. In this post you will see some great examples of newsletter designs from various online companies. If your in need of some design inspiration, this post just might do the job. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

1527

0 comments

2010

14

JAN

Blue Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a blue colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

584

0 comments

Amazing Grunge Artworks by Alex

Amazing Grunge Artworks and Illustrations by Alex Cherry From DA

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

591

0 comments

50 Incredible Asian Vector Portraits

A vector portrait is basically a computer-generated work of art made up of lines. The coordinates of these lines, which contain blocks of colour between them, are plotted with the aid of computer software. Vector images can easily be differentiated from bitmap (raster) images, which are arranged as arrays of individual pixels.

design, graphic, inspiration

576

0 comments

2010

13

JAN

Comic Book Inspired Vector Artwork

Ever since I was a child I have been a fan of comic books. In October of 2009, I wrote a post titled: CG Artwork: Superheroes and Villains. In that post I assembled some amazing examples of superheros and villains created in CG.

design, graphic, inspiration

496

0 comments

8 FREE Fonts For Your Upcoming Desings

Best thing in Live are Free. Well Yes particularly the Web is full of great Stuff for Free! On thing i Learned last year, when i started designing Websites and take action in the Creative Scene, is that you can already fail by choosing the wrong Font in your Design.

freebies, graphic, trend

622

0 comments

16+ Amazing Brown Websites For Your Inspiration

Perhaps you remember the 21 Websites that are Yellow Post i published some Weeks ago. Now i went on a “find wonderful Brown Websites” search and here’s what came out. Do you now a brown website I forgot to add to the collection, write a comment.

design, graphic, trend

654

0 comments

Radial Pack – 50 Free Elements (Vectors & Photoshop Brushes)

Radial based shapes are a great addition to any design. Included in this pack is a wide assortment of different radial styles that are sure to make your designs pop! This pack comes with 50 elements in two formats, Photoshop Brushes (ABR) and Vectors (EPS).

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

694

0 comments

50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch

There is an old adage that taught us: “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” but in a world where there are thousands of competitors for any one specific product, this does not hold true.

design, graphic

416

0 comments

40 3D wallpapers to spice your desktop

As you all know its Avatar time going on hope you guys having fun watching avatar. So after watching avatar in 3d i thought why not to collect some 3d wallpapers for my desktop and share with you guys.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

525

0 comments

2010

12

JAN

Guerrilla Advertising - Creative Attention Seeking #4

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

27 Bold and Beautiful Brochure Designs

A roundup of bold and beautiful brochure designs for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

1094

0 comments

2010

11

JAN

Design a plane crashing one a mountain in Photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a great photo manipulation with a plane crashing against a mountain.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

577

0 comments

Cool Computer Animated Videos

The thing that interests me most in the design world is computer animation. It is so interesting to see how these talented artists create stunning designs and put them into motion so they can tell a story. These videos are used in such mediums as advertising, movies and cartoons just to name a few.

design, graphic, inspiration, video

508

0 comments

33 Beautiful Social Media Icon Sets For Designers And Bloggers

Integrating social media icons to your blog can help you to boost your popularity among various social media sites. This article share 33 social media icons sets where you can use in your blogs.

1014

1 comment

2010

10

JAN

Video Painting with Photoshop and Cinema4D

This article will leverage your prior knowledge of Photoshop to apply to a domain you likely haven’t explored yet: video painting.

graphic, photoshop

458

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #35

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

502

0 comments

21 Wonderful Yellow Websites - For Your Inspiration

Well you don't see Yellow in Webdesign every Day. With a wavelength of 570–580... I went on a Big "Find Yellow Websites" Journey.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

967

0 comments

10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers

This series is supported by Times Reader 2.0. Learn more about The New York Times’ latest innovation in newspaper delivery here.

cms, design, gadget, graphic, inspiration

626

1 comment

Creative Digital Arts Alert The Global Warming

The showcase of 45+ photography, photo manipulation, illustration... alert us about global warming.

design, graphic, photography

481

0 comments

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks and Illustrations

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

844

1 comment

What An Office Should Look Like

In the creative Industry it’s very Important to work in a Office who gives you Inspiration and let’s you think somehow different.. Most Designers don’t see work as a medium to only make Money. They love their Work.

design, graphic, trend

1054

0 comments

2010

9

JAN

Avatar movie tutorials and inspirational designs

Very inspiring collection of arts and design created around the internet and the world which are inspired by Avatar movie plus some tutorials to help achieve the effect yourself.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

892

0 comments

2010

8

JAN

7 of the Best Free Vector Image Resources

A compilation of some of the best places to find free vector images and artwork for your next design. Bookmark for your design resource folder.

design, freebies, graphic

658

0 comments

15 Tutorials That Helped Me Grow As a Designer

As a Trainee in a Advertising Agency, I’m learning every Day awesome new things. As i started designing, I followed these Tutorials. They showed me the “Way’s” in Photoshop and co.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

854

0 comments

55 Beautiful Modern Websites

This collection is for those people who want to design a new Website, and need some new Ideas, new Inspiration.

css-html, design, graphic

1755

0 comments

SnackTools Makes Creating Rich Media Content Easy

Since SnackTools is web-based, there’s no need to install anything, and you can access your work any time and anywhere (with an internet connection). Currently, the suite has BannerSnack, which lets you create rich interactive Flash banners, and PhotoSnack, which lets you create stunning photo galleries (perfect for portfolios).

design, flash, graphic, seo, tools

598

0 comments

2010

7

JAN

Designer Showcase - Bogielicious

A showcase of brilliant work by the illustrator Bogielicious

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

Add Cooliris to your Website or Blog and Enhance your Graphical Experience

Cooliris is simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop for free.

design, graphic

1441

1 comment

2010

6

JAN

60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

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.

design, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

521

0 comments

Photoshop tutorials - Best of 2009

I create, Top best photoshop tutorials of 2009. I added the best photoshop drawing tutorials, text effects tutorials, photo effects tutorials, photo manipulations tutorials, web layouts tutorials and design tutorials. Totally in this chart I added more than 150 the best photoshop tutorials of 2009.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

598

0 comments

Interview with Design Master Demen1

You have definitely seen Demen1’s designs scattered across design blogs, t-shirts and posters. There is no missing his unique design style and highly detailed typography. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with my long time friend Steve Goodin to interview him on life, design, and what sets him apart.

design, graphic, inspiration

442

0 comments

40 Beautiful Fairy Illustrations and Manipulations

40 Beautiful Fairy Illustrations and Manipulations gathered from Deviant Art

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

543

0 comments

2010

5

JAN

44 Must Follow Job Boards For Designers And Programmers

You know there are thousands of people who work as a professional designer or work as an amateur designer to get extra income.In the past years as the internet technology and design world grows,many companies,bloggers etc.

design, freebies, graphic

604

0 comments

20 Absolutely Stylish Web Form Design Showcase

A web form is one of the methods for users to interact with the website. We use it to collect user feedback, sign up for a service, comments and as well as entering data. It's crucial to make a clean and usable form layout to ensure it's easy to use and understand. In this showcase, you will be able to get inspired by the creativity from other web designers.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

14000

5 comments

2010

4

JAN

Flash Design Showcase #7

A showcase of the really beautiful flash web design

design, graphic, inspiration

609

0 comments

How to design an attractive web page

We have listed some of the efficient tips for creating a good web page. So just have a look at it.

design, graphic, tips, tools, tutorial

1059

0 comments

23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials

Photoshop able to add, reduce or transform parts of your face. This article shares several Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials which you can learn and master the skill of Photoshop Retouching.

design, graphic, photoshop

564

0 comments

20 Free Office Stuff Icon Sets For Your Design

We hand-picked from around the web 20 most popular and beautiful office style icon sets that are good for your design. Hopefully, some of them you have not known before.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

618

0 comments

2009

31

DEC

The Very Best Web Designs Of 2009

A round up of my favourite web designs from 2009, taken from the Weekly web design series

design, graphic, inspiration

847

0 comments

2009

30

DEC

An In-Depth Look Into Background Removal Techniques

Removing a background from an image is a common task that every designer needs to do on an almost regular basis. There are so many ways that you can extract a subject from its background to end up with a transparent background.

design, graphic, photography, photoshop

789

0 comments

Web Designing and W3C Standards.

It is a common misunderstanding that W3C standards cause hindrance in designing exciting website template designs. These standards increase the quality and reliability of the HTML or Flash Template designed. They also help in the Search Engine Optimization of the website.

cms, design, flash, graphic

1045

0 comments

2009

29

DEC

Collection of latest logos for inspiration

In our previous post this month we have collected logo design tutorials for our readers to learn designing logos. So today we have collected some nice looking logos, guys check this beautiful logos to get inspire for your next logo design project.

design, graphic, logo

796

0 comments

What Portfolio Designs Would We Continue to See in 2010?

Small preview that works on the new, fresh, and never-seen-before portfolios some web designers prepare for their portfolio in 2010.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

749

0 comments

Beautiful Digital Paintings by Cypherx

Beautiful Digital Paintings and airbrushing illustrations by Cypherx

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

703

0 comments

2009

28

DEC

14 Creative 3D Game Characters (Girls) For Inspiration

In this post I'm sharing computer 3D game characters for Inspiration. These all are girl characters and very creative in term of designing. I am sure you'll like all of them.

graphic, photoshop

767

0 comments

Design a dark portfolio layout or a css design gallery for wordpress

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a dark portfolio layout or a css design gallery for wordpress.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

630

0 comments

Inspirational Apple iPhone Artwork

About a month ago, I created a post titled: Inspirational Artwork: Hugo Boss Fragrance. This post featured the famous Hugo Boss fragrance bottle infused with some great artwork. In today’s article we are featuring the ever popular Apple iPhone and the great artwork associated with the marketing behind it.

design, graphic, inspiration

515

0 comments

2009

25

DEC

17 Brilliant Examples of Matte Painting

17 Brilliant Examples of Matte Painting and Illustrations gathered from Deviant ARt

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

789

0 comments

2009

24

DEC

6 Free Christmas Social Networking & RSS Icon Sets

Christmas is almost here and your social networking icons need to be changed according to occasion. Yes i know you don’t have enough time to design Christmas social networking icons but why you have to design them when you can find them free.

design, graphic

525

0 comments

2009

23

DEC

30 Free cute Christmas desktop wallpapers

For you we collect 30 free cute Christmas desktop Wallpapers. Here you will find some interesting wallpapers that will elevate your mood. I am sure you will love those cute puppies, kitties and others funny Christmas wallpapers.

design, graphic, wallpaper

520

0 comments

Abstract 3D Renders Pack – 33 Free Images

This abstract render pack comes with 33 images of 3D abstract renders. All the images are in PNG format with transparent backgrounds. Also includes two 3ds Max files!

design, freebies, graphic

761

0 comments

Free Illustration Featuring Christmas Characters

Don’t miss your chance to download a free illustration featuring Christmas Сharacters! It may come in handy when you decorate your site for the holidays.

freebies, graphic

493

0 comments

2009

22

DEC

Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics

If you are in search for particular vector graphics for your next project, look no further! In this article you will find a great selection of websites that offer free vector graphics for you to use. I am confident that you will find what you are looking for. So why not take advantage of these great resources. Happy surfing!

design, freebies, graphic

390

0 comments

20 jQuery Utilities For A Smashing Website

Webdesigners create and design a whole lot of widgets and utilities to make a website more appealing. Here, I have collected the best jQuery Utilities that will help every web designer and web master to build a beautiful yet fully loaded smashing website.

css-html, design, graphic

1552

0 comments

Get more exposure from CSS Galleries

Web design and CSS galleries are a great source of inspiration for freelance designers. They can also be an excellent way for you to get thousands of links to your portfolio site and of course, exposure for your work.

css-html, design, graphic

freelance4money

363

0 comments

Christmas Themed Websites

A showcase of websites displaying the festive spirit with a Christmas theme

design, graphic, inspiration

687

0 comments

2009

21

DEC

Write to Santa Claus – Free CSS Template

Christmas is almost here. And so is Santa. Children want gifts and most of them write to Santa. We come up with a new nice template for you to let your kids send you their whishlist. Please take a look at this template and write your opinion about it.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, template

742

0 comments

Brilliant collection of websites powered by Flash Moto CMS

This is an amazing showcase of flash websites powered by the innovating feature-rich Flash CMS - FlashMoto. Enjoy the powerful flash animation.

cms, design, flash, graphic, inspiration

1274

1 comment

40 Incredible Vintage Websites

Here, you’ll find 40 of the most incredibly well designed vintage web sites. In reality, of course, they’re only vintage at the most superficial of levels. Peel back the vintage veneer and you’ll find cutting edge web development and design processes have been employed.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

14536

4 comments

2009

20

DEC

Create a wreath illustration for Christmas postcards

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Christmas wreath vector illustration with Adobe illustrator.

design, graphic, tutorial

613

0 comments

50 Digital Painting for Design Inspiration

Painting has been done with pencils, water color, canvas, brushes etc. But now digital painters use photoshop, illustrator, mouse and tablet to make paintings, graphic designer use tools of illustrator as brushes to paint the layout.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

731

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #33

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

603

0 comments

40 Free photoshop brushes for Christmas design

Here are 40 free photoshop brushes specially for Christmas. With Christmas brushes you can add some holiday decors to your artwork and create unique Christmas card for your lovers.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

616

0 comments

2009

19

DEC

35 Fresh and Cool Web Design Interfaces for Inspiration

Enjoy the featured list of 35 fresh and cool web design interfaces from DeviantArt that was hand-picked by me and in my opinion!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

971

1 comment

56 Beautiful and Colorful Dual-Screen Wallpapers

In the last few years some professional web developers and and especially some graphic designers use dual screens to separate and organize their work.It is really good to work efficiently by using dual screens.

design, graphic, wallpaper

1037

0 comments

2009

18

DEC

25 Amazing and Dark Photo Manipulations by Morbidia

25 Amazing and Dark Photo Manipulations by Morbidia Morthel From Deviant Art

graphic, inspiration, misc, photography, photoshop

654

0 comments

Drips and Spray Paint Pack – FREE - 40 Brushes + 40 Textures

This pack is filled with awesome paint splatters, drips, sprays, and more! You have two high resolution options to download them as: 2500px Photoshop Brushes or 3000px PNG images with transparent backgrounds. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

freebies, graphic, photoshop

821

0 comments

7 Questions, 7 Designers – Day 1

This is the first in a seven part interview series in which I put a number of design related questions to seven awesome designers including: Chris Spooner, Sneh Roy, Mike Smith, Jeff Finley, Brad Colbow, Grace Smith and Nick La. Come join the discussion!

design, graphic, misc

550

0 comments

2009

17

DEC

Best JavaScript Christmas Effects

Christmas is a season to showcase your creativity and best designing skills. This collection of JavaScript Christmas effects tutorials cover addition of Christmas lights, colorful santaclause, generation of Christmas trees for websites and much more. Decorate your website with a Christmas theme using these colorful JavaScript effects.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1223

1 comment

Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs

One of the great things about writing posts on business cards is that there is no shortage of great business card designs. Talented graphic artists are coming up with new brilliant designs every day. In this post you will see business card designs ranging from really creative to very simple and slick.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

585

0 comments

70 Awesome Paper Texture Packs from DeviantArt

While working on your graphic design project sometimes you need paper textures, and most of the graphic designer knows devaintart would be the great source for texture download they have lots of free paper textures to download. Therefore we have collected some great paper texture from devaint art in one single post. Check out!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

894

0 comments

Retro Style illustration in Photoshop

In this photoshop tutorial we will show you how to create retro style illustration effect in Photoshop. Mainly we will work with lights and colors.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips

603

0 comments

Orange Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a orange colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

846

0 comments

Merry Christmas, everyone! – TextMate giveaway

As a huge thank you to everyone who has supported D-Lists through the year, I have arranged for one lucky reader to win themselves a free copy of TextMate

design, graphic, inspiration

535

0 comments

35 Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For 3D Artwork

Adobe Illustrator is a best vector illustration application. Using illustrator you can create cutting edge graphics and give your artworks 3d effect too.

design, graphic

634

0 comments

2009

16

DEC

Bling Effects Pack – 50 Free Photoshop Brushes

This pack will make a great addition to your collection. You can bling anything…from type to an image of your car. These brushes are large and look great on almost anything. Try experimenting with the Brush panel settings like scattering and dynamics to get a different effect. As with all of our resources, personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1281

0 comments

2009

15

DEC

60+ Amazing Snowboard Designs

With the ski and snowboard season already upon us, we are all anticipating the new designs in ski and snowboard designs. Who can wait to hit the slopes to get a few runs in and show-off their new equipment? In this post I have assembled a great collection of snowboard designs that will catch the eye of everyone on the mountain. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

1696

1 comment

40 + iPhone Apps for Designers and Developers

The iPhone is more than just a phone. It combines three devices in one: a revolutionary phone, a wide screen iPod and a groundbreaking Internet device.

css-html, design, graphic, tools

600

0 comments

Magic macro photography of snowflakes

Macro photography is close-up photography. Macro photography opens up the doors of a new world. It captures minute details of the subjects – such details are not at all visible in the naked eye, for example snow flakes.

design, graphic, photography

694

1 comment

Designer Showcase - Rockfield

An inspirational showcase of the beautiful design from Rockfield

design, graphic, inspiration

502

0 comments

2009

14

DEC

29 Most Wanted Texture Packs

29 Most Wanted Texture Packs for designers and Manipulators

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, wallpaper

942

0 comments

2009

13

DEC

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #32

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

720

0 comments

Design a Clean Portfolio Website Layout in Photoshop

Today I’ll take you through the creative process of designing a beautiful and clean portfolio website layout in Photoshop. The layout will have incorporated a beautiful slider to show your work,an original Twitter integration,displaying your latest tweet and a social area where will be displayed your links to your social network pages.

design, graphic, tutorial

856

0 comments

Design an awesome christmas tree illustration

In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn some easy steps and techniques to design an awesome illustration for Christmas.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

575

0 comments

2009

11

DEC

Rust Textures Pack – 21 Free Images

Download these 21 rust textures for free and use them in your next design. They are dirty, scratched up, smeared, and cracked. All the images are high quality around 3800 pixels wide.

design, freebies, graphic

617

1 comment

3 Amazing and Fresh Photoshop Brush Collections-DesignReviver

Photoshop brushes are an integral part of any any designers toolbox. Sadly Photoshop doesn’t come packaged with an abundance of high quality brushes, you do need to search and scour the web for quality brushes.

freebies, graphic

580

0 comments

Color Theories In Advertising Design #2 Green Color

Today we are going to talk about the green color and how it reflects on consumers, what are the feelings and moods that green color produces, and how can we use that in design. What are the main groups of products that mostly utilize green color packaging, what are the trends, and what are the expectations. Think positive, think green. In a good way.

design, graphic, misc, tips

763

1 comment

2009

10

DEC

Purple Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a purple colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

735

0 comments

Web Application Interface Design Guide

A guide covering the basics of Interface Design. From the initial planning stages to the final touches.

design, graphic, misc, tips, usability

1047

0 comments

iPhone GUI 3.0 and Palm Pre PSD

Teehan+Lax has put together iPhone GUI PSD and Palm Pre GUI PSD to help designers pitch and develop polished concepts using a tool their pretty familiar with, Photoshop. The elements are built with vectors for easy editing and scaling.

freebies, graphic, photoshop

718

0 comments

42 Really Funny And Creative Print Ads

Designing a print ad is very difficult, you have to convey your message using few words and single image. If your ad can make others smile they will not forget their smile and so the ad.

design, graphic

665

0 comments

Fading navigation on the Google homepage

As you may well be aware of, testing and optimizing your webpages is incredibly important to ensure a good usability and performance. Google certainly is not an exception and is testing some new features, trying to improve the interface to a more efficient, simpler and intuitive search experience. Wonder how they did it?

design, graphic, trend, usability

644

0 comments

10 Hot logo resources, 550+ free logos

A well designed logo, should give your business an impression of proffesionalism, it portrays the company’s aims and objectives and separates you from the competition. On this site you will find listed some interesting brand ideas, which come in many different formats, all are fully editable.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, logo

1292

1 comment

Inspiration: 50 Fabulous Photo Illlustration

Photo illustartion is all about Illustrators that use Photoshop to digitally create collage and montage style illustration.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

674

1 comment

2009

9

DEC

All About Generative Art

Generative art is any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a set of natural language rules, which is then set to motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a complete work of art.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

745

0 comments

30+ Amazing Examples of Famous Caricatures

One of the great things about Montreal (the city I am from) is all the activities that go on here all year long. If you have ever visited Montreal in the summertime and have gone down by the river to the part of the city called Old Montreal you would have seen that there are lots of artists lined up in the streets waiting to do caricature illustrations of you.

design, graphic, inspiration

656

1 comment

2009

8

DEC

6 Mistakes Freelancers Make When They Blog

I have been telling you freelancers that if you want to be successful and attract loads more clients like a magnet you need marketing tools in your belt. I was going to say tool belt, but enough with the analogies.

design, graphic

freelance4money

771

0 comments

Christmas Vector Pack Vol. 2

We list only the best Freebies 14 free Christmas colorful vectors in EPS & AI format

design, freebies, graphic

938

1 comment

60 Humorous Print Advertisements to Tickle Your Bones

The use of humor has become a common practice in advertising. Humor is by no means a guarantee of better ads but its effect can be enhanced with careful consideration of their objectives as well as the audience, situation, and type.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

764

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Mike Campau

A showcase of brilliant designs from the extremely talented, Mike Campau

design, graphic, inspiration

712

1 comment

2009

6

DEC

40+ Examples of Character Illustration

We all like cartoon characters because it makes us happy. Digital artist and painters always create character illustrator to show there imagination. So we have collected some amazing examples of character illustration from behance and devaintart. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

898

1 comment

Create a clean and elegant wordpress theme in Photoshop

Create a simple and clean elegant wordpress theme design using adobe photoshop

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

726

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #31

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

738

1 comment

2009

4

DEC

20 Amazing Digital Artists You Should Know

Most graphic and web designers have a fairly good knowledge of Photoshop or other image creation tools. However, some people take their expertise and talent by spending countless hours working on it, the result being some stunning digital artworks. The following collection introduces you to twenty amazing digital artists and one of their creations.

design, graphic, inspiration

593

0 comments

Christmas Vector Pack

We list only the best Freebies Great Christmas vector pack. Lots of good stuff in this pack

design, freebies, graphic

900

0 comments

2009

3

DEC

Vector Typeface : RPVS

We list only the best Freebies Vector Font Created by mmolai

design, freebies, graphic

715

1 comment

40 best illustrator tutorials plus websites for illustrator tutorials

Web and graphic designing can’t be mastered without an inspirational art and passion .Illustrator is a standard way to bring your vision into existence and flow your creativity in the canvas of the software.

design, graphic, tutorial

webanddesigners

1014

1 comment

Yellow Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a yellow colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

672

1 comment

2009

2

DEC

100 Kickass Photo Manipulation Art Examples

Following 100 Kickass Photo Manipulation Art Examples are a great source for inspiration. “Photo Manipulation” is an art, a combination of photography and graphic design. This art has been used for improved story-telling and self-expression. Blending and mixing a bunch of different photos and creating one kickass photo from it is not an easy task. This require some great skills.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

1009

1 comment

65 Light Graffiti For Inspiration

Light Graffiti is a photography technique in which light exposures are made usally at dark room or at night. There are many photographers who take this kind of photographs so we have collected some cool light graffiti effect for inspiration.

design, graphic, photography

817

0 comments

2009

1

DEC

Interactive jQuery Plugins

The key to a successful design is interactivity. Interactivity makes a design usable and friendly. These interactive jQuery plugins showcase the simple yet inspiring ways in which interactivity can be added to designs.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1026

1 comment

30 Most Popular Wordpress Plugins

Every blog working with Wordpress has at least some plugins installed. If you want to know more about the most popular plugins, here is the list with the 30 most popular.

design, graphic, usability, wordpress

833

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #6

A showcase of the very best flash websites for your inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

659

0 comments

50+ Awesome Photoshop Poster Design Tutorials

Photoshop is a powerful application to create and design poster. These 50+ awesome Photoshop tutorials will help you master the skills of poster design.

design, graphic, photoshop

1069

0 comments

2009

30

NOV

Create a wordpress theme in Photoshop - Theme available for download

Create a blog theme design for one of the most popular blogging platform - Wordpress - Theme available for download

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

818

0 comments

2009

29

NOV

Green sites showcase

A showcase of websites that use a lot of green in their design, bundled with information about light and green color.

design, graphic, trend

565

2 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #30

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

2009

28

NOV

Free Textures : List of Resources

Today we have collected some usefull resources to download texture for your next web design project or graphics design projects.

design, freebies, graphic

600

0 comments

2009

27

NOV

jQuery Plugins For A Better User Interface

A well designed user interface is the prima-facie medium for user attraction. A good user interface can impress users and improve the reputation of a website. This collection of jQuery Plugins For A Better User Interface help you design attractive and intuitive user interface to communicate well with users.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1159

0 comments

2009

26

NOV

Quick And Cute Christmas Greeting Card Featuring Santa

Since today is Thanksgiving Day, and we are very grateful to all our guests here on PrintRadar, and since Christmas is very very near, we made this quick but cute Christmas greeting card ahead of time, so you can prepare yourself for the upcoming holidays.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

791

0 comments

40 Ravishing Street Art

Street art is all about the art developed in street(Public space). Designer shows there talent on the street designing some cool looking art on the walls of house or commercial buildings. So here we have collected some ravishing street art for inspiration in your next graphic design.

design, graphic

579

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Mike Mitchell

A showcase of stunning illustration from the extremely talented, Mike Mitchell

design, graphic, inspiration

643

1 comment

2009

25

NOV

40 Free Music Themed iPhone Wallpapers

iPhones as we already know, have so many different applications. One of my favorite uses of my iPhone is as a mp3 player. I just love listening to various styles of music while i am working. In this article I have compiled an amazing collection of iphone wallpaper that is music inspired.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

1389

1 comment

20 Photoshop photo effect tutorials

Effective attribute to a image adds value to what a person perceive. Photoshop is one medium that adds beauty to the picture through its various effects.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

webanddesigners

858

0 comments

Free Line Art Pack | Volume 2 – 104 Brushes & 104 Vectors

This pack is gigantic! We have included 104 elements in two formats, Photoshop Brushes (ABR) and Vectors (EPS). Line art elements are always a great thing to have in your design toolbox.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1058

1 comment

2009

24

NOV

T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples

If you’re like me, you love your tees. It’s all about the comfort and casual style when it comes to the hip t-shirt designs that are out there today. Everyone wants to walk down the street and have peoples’ heads turn and envy their newest tee.

design, graphic, inspiration

1233

1 comment

31 Mascots And How They Help The Brand

Mascots are a type of marketing that allows you to immediately become unique in even the most saturated of niches. That is why, we’ve decided to give tribute to some of the best mascots we believe are in the business.

design, graphic

548

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #3

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

655

0 comments

41 Apple Inspired Wallpapers

You all want a good looking desktop wallpaper right.. And now you are bored with your old wallpaper.. so here we have collected some apple inspired wallpaper to spice up your desktop with colors.

design, graphic, wallpaper

1107

0 comments

2009

23

NOV

Photoshop Tutorial: Let's Design a Awesome Login Page

Today in this tutorial you'll learn how to design a awesome login page by using Photoshop. After completing this tutorial you can use this login page in your project as well.

design, graphic, photoshop

1822

1 comment

Top 20 Business Cards

In this article we give you our top 20 business card designs in hopes that you will get inspired by them to create your own masterpiece.

design, graphic, inspiration, seo, tips

833

0 comments

2009

22

NOV

Create a gritty website layout in Photoshop

Learn how to design a grunge website layout, or create a grunge wordpress theme with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

990

0 comments

20 Best JavaScript Charting and Plotting Libraries

Won't it be nice if all your theoretical data were presented as charts? Charts add style and spice up the graphical interface. Style your content and layout with my handpicked collection of best JavaScript Charting plugins.

design, graphic, javascript, tutorial

705

0 comments

7 Stripe Generators That You Can Use Online

We all know that there are virtually dozens of online generators for almost every possible task you can think of. Amongst those tools, we also have stripe generators which are often easy to use and give quick results. If you need a background image with stripes, and you need it quickly, there is probably no better and faster way to make it than to use one of those generators.

design, graphic, tools

579

0 comments

20 Amazing Artworks for Inspiration

In this collection you will find 20 Stunning Examples of Artworks. All creations collected from Flickr.

graphic, photoshop

573

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #29

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

604

0 comments

2009

21

NOV

Inspirational Photo Manipulation Techniques In Photoshop

Photo manipulation techniques let us work wonders with Photos. The better idea you have, the better Photo Manipulation you can create. This collection of Inspiring Photo Manipulation techniques unleash the power of Photoshop, inspiring you to do more with your Photos.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1282

1 comment

Checking in Hotel Web Design: 50 Cosy Hotel Websites and Trends

Hotels often take great extend in trying to provide the perfect ambiance and atmosphere for their customer. However, most of the hotels overlook the importance of providing a great website which will eventually be the gateway for their business.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1059

0 comments

2009

19

NOV

Inspirational Artwork: Hugo Boss Fragrance

I have always been very interested in fashion and keeping up with the latest trends or what the latest hot fragrance is. Hugo, by Hugo Boss is a fragrance that was very popular in the late 90s and early 2000s among young adults and all though it was introduced almost 15 years ago it has stood the test of time.

design, graphic, inspiration

565

0 comments

30 best photoshop text effect tutorials

Photoshop is a graphic editing software and has been described as an industry standard for graphics professional. Photoshop provides functionality for designers to convert their concept into a self explained graphic.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

webanddesigners

794

0 comments

Interview with Interactive Media and Web Application Developer Derek Entringer

Derek Entringer is a talented Interactive Media/Web Application Developer whose talents include a mixture of multimedia and application development that allows him to create dynamic and engaging projects.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

558

0 comments

Green Website Showcase

An inspirational showcase of green websites

design, graphic, inspiration

693

1 comment

Free Portfolio PSD Template from OurTuts

This week OurTuts is offering another Freebie:A free portfolio PSD template for every designer who want to have a website for showing his work. The template has a beautiful orange-gray color scheme and is created using the 960 Grid System.The PSD file has been created in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and is fully editable,layers being organized in relevant groups.

design, graphic, photoshop

1146

0 comments

2009

18

NOV

50 logo design inspiration

A logo is a uniquely set and arranged typeface that form a trademark or commercial brand. It is a graphical element that gives immediate recognition of an organization.

design, graphic, logo

webanddesigners

818

0 comments

Distressed Grunge Design Pack (Free Download)

This pack includes 26 high resolution distressed grunge elements in two amazing flavors – Photoshop Brushes (ABR) and Vectors (EPS). You can lay these elements onto any design and get instant results! Spruce them up by adding a gradient color overlay or bust out your eraser tool and make your designs look dirty and abused.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1208

0 comments

69 Awesome Abstract Photoshop Brushes

Yet another set of killer brush sets to play along with, created by great brush artists.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, tools

786

0 comments

2009

17

NOV

Amazing Website Footers

The newest trend in great website design is the implementation of the site footer. The footer is slowly becoming as important to the layout of the website as the header is. Back in the day this was just blank space with links or some general content, but now there is images and it is visually appealing. In this article we showcase some of the greatest footer designs from around the internet.

design, graphic, inspiration, template, wordpress

1095

1 comment

Mind Blowing Illustrations And Photo Manipulations By Zach Bush

You can not learn and create more without getting inspired. Inspirational work gives you motivation and energy to step forward and create amazing stuff. So here i have collected amazing work done by Zach Bush for your inspiration.

design, graphic

440

0 comments

60+ Photoshop Tutorials For Icon Design

Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. We had collected 60+ useful Photoshop tutorials for icon design, which suitable for readers ranging from beginner to expert.

graphic, icon, photoshop

609

0 comments

14 Stunning And Surreal Cityscapes Made With 3D And Painting Software

Yes they are surreal and imagined, but they also can represent futuristic visions at the same time, so we simply can not avoid the following question. As materials, technology, and humans in general, evolve even more in the future, will we ever live in cities that somewhat look like those you are about to see?

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

736

0 comments

21 Prototyping, Mockup, and Wireframing Tools for iPhone App Development

There are many different types of tools available to developers, from low-tech stencil kits to high-tech collaborative software. So I've rounded up a few of the more popular ones people are using specifically for iPhone development. It's far from being the definitive list, but it's definitely a good place to start.

design, freebies, graphic

1068

1 comment

2009

16

NOV

7 Design Elements and Techniques that will make your Website stand OUT!

Introducing some of the most used and well known design elements that make websites stand out and look better.

design, graphic, misc, template, tips

984

0 comments

7 Great Stories From The Past Week You Should Check Out

As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories from our colleagues that you probably shouldn’t miss from the past week.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

551

0 comments

Best of the Web for the Week of November 8, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of November 8, 2009. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, icon, logo, tutorial

581

0 comments

2009

15

NOV

30 Single page portfolio design for design inspiration

Single page portfolio are being used by many designers to present their project or work.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

1006

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #28

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

602

0 comments

2009

14

NOV

16 tutorials using photoshop to build a website

Designing a website has been much more easier from the resources provided on web itself. There are loads of tutorials which helps to build a elegant website templates, wordpress themes and so on.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

webanddesigners

950

1 comment

35 Randomly Selected Beautiful Vector Illustrations

35 Randomly Selected Beautiful Vector Illustrations gathered from deviant art . a must see post

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

629

0 comments

21 Awesome Piece of Digital CMYK Art

For those who don’t know what CMYK represents here is a short explanation. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key or Black Well with those basics covered, we can proceed further and see what artists can produce while using those primary colors as their inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

702

0 comments

40 Beautiful Retro Art for Inspiration

Many graphic designers adopt a particular technique for there digital art like Grunge,vintage,retro etc etc.. So for the beginners we have collected some beautiful retro art for inspiration.

design, graphic, photoshop

661

0 comments

2009

13

NOV

Showcase of beautiful UK medical designs

A showcase exposing interesting medical designs of clinics, medics, hospitals in the United Kingdom.

design, graphic, template

915

0 comments

How To Create Amazing 3D Type

If you love typography like I do, you are always looking for a new way to funk out your type. You will learn some amazing and creative ways to make your type look absolutely beautiful!

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

819

0 comments

Design a cool and original jeans style Business Card in Photoshop

This tutorial will guide you through the process of designing a professional jeans style business card. The tutorial features some great techniques, effects and layer styles in which you can use over and over for future projects.

design, graphic, tutorial

650

0 comments

2009

12

NOV

Photo Retouching: Background Extraction and Color Manipulation

This tutorial aims to educate the reader about the Background Eraser Tool, as well as how to manipulate colors and lighting in Photoshop.

design, graphic

884

1 comment

Flash Design Showcase #5

A showcase of the very best flash websites for your inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

575

0 comments

35 best twitter backgounds theme

Although TWITTER is restricted to personal themes, which is confined to only color and background changes. Designers have been showing off their creativity by designing innovative and creative background adding up with color combination to show their skills or designing knowledge.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

webanddesigners

696

0 comments

2009

11

NOV

Vibrant Bokeh Effects Design Pack - 42 Free Images!

Light is one of the key elements in creating some beautiful designs. However, finding that perfect light image for your design can be time consuming and exhausting. This bokeh pack has a wide range of different styles, colors and clusters. They were all photographed – no fake digital bokehs here! The pack includes 42 images, all weighing in around 3500 pixels wide at 300 dpi.

design, freebies, graphic, photography, photoshop

1197

0 comments

The Characteristics of a Less Conventional Website with Examples

The evolution of web design has changed significantly over the past 50 years. Back then, a Geocity webpage could be as simple as a brochure, using a multi colored background and gaudy text effects.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

649

0 comments

35 Most Creative Web Design Interfaces

35 Most Creative Web Design Interfaces gathered from deviant art for inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

770

0 comments

2009

10

NOV

Inspirational Business Cards: 100+ Various Examples

When we first launched designrfix.com, my initial design post was titled: 40+ simple and elegant business card designs. Since then, we have released two other posts about business cards. All three articles have been very useful in inspiring the design community.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

857

0 comments

Designer Showcase - SHORT

A showcase of wonderful illustrations from SHORT

design, graphic, inspiration

515

0 comments

2009

9

NOV

Design an advanced clan layout or a game layout

If you are thinking about launching a website for your clan team with plenty of eye catching features in the design, or if you want to create an advanced game layout then you need to follow this tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

917

0 comments

Dissection of Holy Websites: Modern Church Web Design Trends & 88 Inspiration

Churches website have evolved immensely over recent years with the introduction of social media and advancement of web technologies and standards. Most churches has realized that in order to reach out to the world, they could not neglect the importance of the Internet

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

990

1 comment

How to Design Delicious Bookmarking Icon in photoshop

How to Design Delicious Bookmarking Icon in photoshop a simple tutorial includes downloadable psd

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

716

0 comments

35 Single page portfolio design

Single page portfolio are being used by many designers to present their project or work. Avoiding sophisticated design and maximum use of text is overcome by these single page portfolio design, even more these are much simpler to navigate for the viewers.

css-html, design, graphic

webanddesigners

1194

0 comments

30 Icon Design Tutorials in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Have you ever thought how those beautiful icons which all of us make use of them in our web designing projects are made? Here are 30 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials about “how to design most beautiful and fully detailed icons in Photoshop and Illustrator”.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration, photoshop

946

0 comments

2009

8

NOV

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #27

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

766

0 comments

2009

7

NOV

Fantastic JavaScript 3D Libraries

Ever imagined if the tiny JavaScript code could render amazing out of the box 3D? Then be ready to enjoy wonderful 3D effects in simple JavaScript code. These JavaScript 3D Libraries let you render smooth yet attractive 3D effects with great ease.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

995

0 comments

2009

6

NOV

Particles Pack – 25 Free Images (PNG - With Transparent Backgrounds)

Particles are a great way to add that final touch to your design. They make designs feel more alive and moving. This resource pack includes 25 PNG images with transparent backgrounds of dirt, debris, and broken particles. All the PNG’s are around 3000 pixels wide at 300 dpi. Personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1517

2 comments

111 free mini pixel icons

I don’t know about you, but I had enough of those fancy “web 2.0″ web icons. Sure, they get the attention of the visitors because of the stylish looks (bright colours, reflections and shadows), but do you really need these crying-for-attention icons?

design, freebies, graphic, icon, photoshop

1280

0 comments

25 inspirational blogs for content and graphics

You have no idea what you want to talk about in the next post, nor have the inspiration to start designing a new project? Just have a look in here. A small collection of websites that gets me inspired.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

703

0 comments

2009

5

NOV

30 Unique and Artistic Website Designs

Being a web designer i am always after inspirational and unique web sites. Now a days there are lots of web site designing trends going on, the most effective is using cool graphics and illustrations or anything else that can make design unique.

design, graphic, inspiration

1087

1 comment

Showcase of beautiful horizontal scrolling websites

25 gorgeous original websites that use horizontal scrolling instead of the usual vertical one.

design, graphic, trend

1255

0 comments

Vector Artwork: 50+ Inspirational Creations

Vector artwork has always intrigued me. When executed correctly, these creations can be simply stunning. In this post, I have assembled an amazing collection of vector artwork design which will truly inspire you. Each artist showcased has their own unique vector style. Hopefully one of these creations will inspire you to create your own amazing design. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

652

1 comment

Interview with a pro – Whyisbox

An interview with illustrator and creator of NewSugar Magazine, Whyisbox

design, graphic, inspiration

511

0 comments

Vintage, HDR, Blur & Co. - Photoshop - Tutorials

Create your own Vintage-, HDR- or Blur-Effects with Photoshop and watch the Screencast "Natural Beauty Retouching with Photoshop".

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

834

1 comment

Photoshop-Actions The easy way to a perfect picture

Awesome collection of Photoshop-Actions + Screencast "How to create a "Photoshop-Action"!

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

649

0 comments

2009

4

NOV

Creative 3D Lines Pack – 27 Free Images

This design pack includes 27 images of creative yet chaotic 3D lines. The best part about them is they are in PNG format with a transparent background. You can lay these things over any color or design and they will look awesome. All the PNG’s are around 3000 pixels wide at 300 dpi. Personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, template

595

0 comments

19 Creative Photomanipulation By Michael Oswald

There are a vast number of talented illustrators around the world but skill in art is only one side of the spectrum needed to be a professional artist. It also takes strong organizational skills

design, graphic

618

0 comments

2009

3

NOV

Design an Intense Particle Illustration using Photoshop

In this tutorial, I thought I would show you a simple process of manipulating a image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes too. This tutorial will bid you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

705

0 comments

Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design

In the 90s, many areas of design- including fashion, home interiors, garden, and furniture, have evidenced a paring down to simple workable solutions. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in graphic design.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

918

0 comments

Freebies: Apple Inspired iPhone Wallpapers

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how the Apple iPhone is one of the most popular tech gadgets out there and the extent to which users have the ability to customize the phone to their personal taste. That post was titled: Free iPhone Wallpaper: 70+ Creative 3d Designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

763

0 comments

Let's slice a clean .psd layout in 12 easy steps

Today a special article for the beginners: I will show you how to slice a clean .psd layout in 12 easy steps. This tutorial has many pictures, hence it's a piece of cake to follow it!

css-html, design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

989

0 comments

Red Website Showcase

An inspirational showcase of red websites

design, graphic, inspiration

826

1 comment

2009

2

NOV

10 Free Online Image Resizing Tools For Designers

A bunch of free Online Image Resizing Tools that help to resize images in a jiffy. A must read for designers and web weavers. Make use of these hand tools to save time resizing images.

design, graphic, tools, usability

853

0 comments

Ultimate Resource list of Patterns and Backgrounds

Have you been in search of that perfect pattern or background to enhance your latest design? Well look no further! In this post I have compiled a great list of websites that offer an amazing selection of unique patterns and backgrounds for you to use in your designs.

design, freebies, graphic

598

0 comments

40+ Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks

Most people have the impression that graffiti was started by young vandals trying to “make a statement”, however graffiti has been known to go as far back as 30 000BC. The Ancient Romans and Ancient Greeks, used to scribble on their walls, descriptions of their current day events.

design, graphic, inspiration

566

0 comments

Simple Jelly Text Effect Photoshop Tutorial

Simple Jelly Text Effect Photoshop Tutorial

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

891

0 comments

2009

1

NOV

Design a clean website layout in Photoshop

Clean style web templates are those that are not overloaded with graphic elements. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a clean layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

723

0 comments

Gorgeous jQuery Tab View Plugins – Part-1

Tabs optimize the Navigation of web sites. Take Tab Navigations to the next level with my handpicked collection of Gorgeous, colorful and attractive jQuery Tabbed Navigation Plugins and Tutorials.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1638

0 comments

50 Open Source Tools For Web Designers

A collection of 50 Open Source Tools dedicated to web designers. This set consisits of Editors, Graphic Manipulation Programs, FTP Applications, Coding Tools and much more that ever Web Designer longs for. Try out these Open source Versions and make a difference.

design, graphic, misc, tools

780

0 comments

Most Useful Collection of Premium 3d models

3d models can be a great way to spice up a project that you are working on. I have assembled a collection of amazing premium 3d models for you. These models are some of the best designs available at a very low cost. You will find a selection of different models here such as racing cars, boats, spaceships, deluxe interiors, motorcycles, trains and electronics.

design, graphic

545

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #26

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

577

0 comments

2009

31

OCT

40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos

Your source of inspiration plays a very important part of successfully designing you next project. Here at Designrfix.com, we are always in search of ideas to fuel our creativity. In this article you will find a collection of 40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

775

0 comments

2009

30

OCT

Spray Paint Textures Pack – 25 Free Images

You can never have enough spray paint textures. Almost every design I work with has some type of spray paint texture in it. Just drop them in your designs and add a hue/saturation adjustment layer to change the colors. Easy as that. This stunning pack includes 25 images that are all around 3000 pixels at 300 dpi. Personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

design, freebies, graphic, misc

697

0 comments

2009

29

OCT

8 Tips and Tricks on Developing Usable Websites

Tips and tricks on creating websites with higher usability.

design, graphic, misc, seo, usability

805

0 comments

45 Stunning Wood Textured Websites

Adding a touch of wood textures would make any websites stand out. Here's a huge list of stunning wood textured websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

780

0 comments

Slice Your Designs with One of Our Sponsors: PixelCrayons

The Design process alone is so time consuming that you are not left with much time and energy, if you are a designer, to even code it.

css-html, design, graphic, tips

561

0 comments

Create a clean hosting layout with Photoshop

This tutorial is the best solution for those who want to create a web page for representing web hosting company of any kind.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

593

0 comments

2009

28

OCT

30 Amazing jQuery Plugins To Play With Tables

Play with tables and present table data as you wish with these Table Enhancement jQuery Plugins.

css-html, design, graphic

1092

0 comments

The Commercial Art of Mid-Century America

Being the passionate I am, I decided to collect work of stylish beauty, preserving advertising and illustration art of mid-century America.

design, graphic

556

0 comments

26 Captivating Wodpress Comment Form

Need inspiration for your form? Check out these 26 well-designed and beautiful comment forms, I'm sure it will bring you inspiration in form design.

design, graphic, inspiration, wordpress

5987

12 comments

2009

27

OCT

Designer Showcase - Fernando Volken Togni

Have a look at the amazing graphic design work of Fernando Volken Togni

design, graphic, inspiration

649

0 comments

2009

26

OCT

50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 2)

Last week I created a post about how important icons are to contemporary website, applications and user interface design. That post was a two part series. Today I would like to present to you the second half of Icon design tutorials.

design, graphic, icon, photoshop, tutorial

839

0 comments

Showcase of 40+ Woody Textured Websites with Texture Resources

One of the latest trends in web design is combining the use of textures, images, graphics and type. As there are a wide range of texture resources available, catering to any look and feel is not a problem.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

743

0 comments

2009

25

OCT

Designer Showcase: Gorgeous Works by Cristiano Siqueira

Cristiano Siqueira is a digital illustrator from Brazil. He is also known as CrisVector. With very little formal training, being mostly self-taught, he has risen to become a truly talented designer. His stunning creations blends 3d characters, vector graphics and amazing uses of vivid colors.

design, graphic, inspiration

735

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #25

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

617

0 comments

Design a colorful theme for wordpress in photoshop

In this easy to follow photoshop tutorial you will learn how to design a colorful wordpress theme.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

726

0 comments

2009

24

OCT

60 Breathtaking Smoke Art

Use of smoke in digital art or in graphics design will increase the overall looks of any art. Here we have collected some smoke art photos and creation for design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

671

1 comment

2009

23

OCT

Mixed Media Pack – 29 Free Textures

With this pack you get a spectacular combination of media styles in each texture! Images were created with spray paint, acrylics, markers, pencils, crayons, and finger-paint! With over 25 high resolution images, you’re sure to find something that will fit perfectly into your designs. Commercial and personal use is okay.

design, freebies, graphic, misc

628

0 comments

Watercolors Pack | Volume 2 – 30 Free Textures

This is our second collection of high quality watercolor images that are sure to make a great addition to your designs. Try switching the colors by adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer or a gradient layer and changing the layer style to overlay. Personal and commercial use is welcomed and encouraged!

design, graphic, misc

626

0 comments

24 Captivating Digital Painting Tutorials

All designers know the power of photoshop and the fantastic stuff they can create using it. There is always more to learn in photoshop, if you want your sketches to get painted photoshop is best tool.

design, graphic, tutorial

659

0 comments

2009

22

OCT

Skies The Limit - Websites With A Sky In The Theme

A showcase of web designs featuring the sky in their theme

design, graphic, inspiration

658

0 comments

Freebies: Twitter Icons for your Blog

If you are looking to get more people to follow you on Twitter, placing one of these beautifully designed icons on your blog or website will certainly help. I have assembled an amazing collection of free Twitter icons from which to choose from. I am confident that one of these cute little birds will fit your design needs. So go ahead and use one of these twitter icons in your next project. Enjoy!

design, freebies, graphic, icon

643

0 comments

2009

21

OCT

Website Design: 50+ Photographer Portfolios

I have always found that photography websites have been of a different breed of web design. With their use of Flash technology, unique navigational menus, and clean minimalistic design, these website let the photographer’s pictures do the talking.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

827

0 comments

65 Typography Examples for Inspiration

Typography is an art of collecting and arranging text and characters in three or two dimension view. So here we have collected some stunning examples of typography for design inspiration.

graphic, inspiration

935

0 comments

App Protoyping Made Easy with iPhone Stencil and Sketchpad

Many creative types like pen and paper versus design software when designing the UI for that new killer app. The folks at Design Commission understand this and have come up with an excellent set of tools to add to your box.

design, graphic

747

0 comments

2009

20

OCT

Best of the Web for the Week of October 11, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of October 11, 2009.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

665

0 comments

Design and Test Custom iPhone Themes Before Installing with CSS/jQuery/HTML

If you like designing custom iPhone icons and themes, you’ll find this little package extremely handy. Giovanni Corti developed the iPhone Theme Creation Tool using HTML, CSS and jQuery.

css-html, design, graphic, tools

862

0 comments

40 Stunning Photo Retouching Tutorials

Collection of 40 Stunning Photo Retouch photoshop tutorials.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1051

3 comments

Designer Showcase - Alex Beltechi

A showcase of the stunning design work from Alex Beltechi

design, graphic, inspiration

574

1 comment

2009

19

OCT

50+ High Quality Icon Design Tutorials (Part 1)

Icons play such a key part of any contemporary website, application or user interface design. I find that strategically placed icons can do one of two things. The first is that it visually enhances your design.

design, graphic, icon, photoshop, tutorial

715

0 comments

Research of Lingerie Industry Web Design: Trends and 33 Sexy Examples

Most people are visually inclined to beautiful and sexy images. This concept is especially important if you are selling something sexy. What’s better place to start with than the lingerie wear industry?

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1267

0 comments

Create a nature inspired layout in photoshop

Learn how to create a website layout inspired by nature with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

801

0 comments

2009

18

OCT

Compilation of Amazing CG Portraits

Since my last post on CG portraits, I have been collecting other realistic portraits for you to view. These portraits never seize to amaze me. All of these works of art are rendered to perfection, giving the illusion that you are actually looking at a real person.

graphic, inspiration

611

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #24

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

2009

17

OCT

Collection of Beautiful Packages – Design Inspiration

Designing a nice looking package plays a vital role in marketing of any product. So to design a nice looking package is very much important for any product based company, a nice design can increse the overall selling of product. Thats why we have collected some beautiful packages for design inspiration.

design, graphic, photography

664

0 comments

Best Halloween Design Gimp Tutorials and Brushes

Its Halloween Season, so why not create your own custom E cards, Posters and Wallpapers with Gimp? This collection of Best Gimp Halloween Design Tutorials and Halloween Gimp Brushes help you to create attractive Halloween designs on your own.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

737

0 comments

2009

16

OCT

Better home link buttons (4)

Fourth article in a series showcasing best practices and tips to improve usability for logo's on websites.

design, graphic, tips, usability

787

0 comments

Free iPhone Wallpaper: 70+ Creative 3d Designs

The iPhone has to be the most popular tech gadget that has been released in the past few years. As a telephone, a messaging tool or a multimedia device, the iPhone serves a purpose for everyone. One of the biggest reasons this device has gained so much popularity is because of its ability to be customized to it’s user’s personal taste.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

776

0 comments

10 Blunders to Avoid on Business Websites

Websites are the most preferred way for promoting a business online. For that reason, you must focus on blunders that are responsible to hurt the website performance.

design, graphic, misc, tutorial, usability

744

0 comments

52 Beautiful Vector Illustrations and Designs

52 Beautiful Vector Illustrations and Designs

design, graphic, inspiration

704

0 comments

30+ Freelance Work Websites and Resources You Should Know

Have you ever thought what happen if you lose your job tomorrow? Or your company closes due to some reason? The situation could be anything. Many have faced this problem in last few months. What should be your option to handle this situation? Do you know about Freelance Work Websites and Resources where you could survive in this situation

design, graphic, photoshop

738

0 comments

2009

15

OCT

Logo Design: 40+ Must Have Tutorials

Logos a very important part of building your brand’s identity. “Branding” yourself, is the best way to represent who you are and what you are all about. If designed properly, logos can have an enormous impact on your company’s success.

graphic, logo, photoshop

681

0 comments

2009

14

OCT

jQuery Games! Write Less, Play More!

These are my handpicked collection of colorful and enjoyable games developed using jQuery. You can use the techniques implemented in these games as an inspiration to bring out yet more intuitive games.

design, graphic, javascript

1449

1 comment

Design a website layout inspired by Apple

Learn how to design a clean website layout inspired by apple.com

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1051

0 comments

CG Artwork: Superheroes and Villains

With the anticipation of movies Iron Man 2 and Spider-Man 4 being released in the near future, I have decided to bring to you some amazing Superhero and villain inspired CG artwork such as Iron Man, Spider-man, Batman and The Joker just to name a few.

design, graphic, inspiration

657

0 comments

2009

13

OCT

How to Layout a Comic Book Cover

Learn how to lay out a comic book cover, as well as create a hybrid photograph and comic book inspired image.

design, graphic, photoshop

817

0 comments

Web Layout Designs: 60 Must Have Tutorials

Once or twice a week I like to come up with articles that really expose my viewers to the various types of tutorials that they need to get their latest designs off the ground.

design, graphic, photoshop

734

0 comments

10 Best Javascript Drawing and Canvas Libraries

Develop Rich interactive internet applications with these javascript drawing and canvas libraries.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript

1267

0 comments

Thinking of Starting a Career in Web Design? 5 Tips Before You Go…

The Web is officially coming of age. The design industry is starting to take web design seriously, and it’s no longer being confined to enthusiasts. Web design is now a lucrative and exciting career path to follow, with lots of opportunity and high potential earning power.

css-html, design, graphic

671

0 comments

Stunning Art Of Digital Artist Kerem Beyit

Kerem Beyit is from Turkey and currently working as a freelancer. He has been in digital area for four years and has been awarded on many CG related sites.

design, graphic, inspiration

568

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #4

A showcase of the very best flash websites for your inspiration

design, flash, graphic

507

0 comments

2009

12

OCT

Best of the Web for the Week of October 4, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of October 4, 2009. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

651

0 comments

2009

11

OCT

Design a clean car dealer website layout in Photoshop

Design a clean car dealer website layout in Photoshop by following this simple tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1051

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #23

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

672

0 comments

Designer Showcase: The Unmistakable Creations of Alberto Seveso

Alberto Seveso is both an illustrator and graphic designer from Italy. His creations are simply mind blowing. To achieve his works of art he maximizes the use of Illustrator and Photoshop.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

746

0 comments

50 Wonderful Poster and Advertisment Photoshop Tutorials

Many posters, particularly early posters, were used for advertising products. Posters continue to be used for this purpose, with posters advertising films, music, comic books, consumer products and travel destinations being particularly notable examples. So here we have collected 50 photoshop tutorials on designing poster and advertisement.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1084

0 comments

2009

9

OCT

70+ Apple Inspired Desktop Wallpapers

It’s that time of month again! Time to change your wallpaper to something new and exciting. I have always found that by updating my wallpaper on a monthly (and sometimes weekly) basis, it gives me a sense of being in a new work space thereby motivating me to get my day to day tasks done easier.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, logo

927

0 comments

40+ simple and elegant business card designs

The business card is the first thing that is exchanged when meeting a new potential client or business contact. Even in new world of digital media, the business card is still an important piece of initial exchange in the world of commerce. Lately, I have noticed that many business cards today are being designed with a creative edge.

design, graphic, inspiration

1299

0 comments

2009

8

OCT

Designer showcase - We Love

A showcase of some stunning designs from the guys at We Love

design, graphic

583

0 comments

2009

6

OCT

Diving into Flash Design

Notes from a Web nerd on moving from designing Web sites to Flash games.

666

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #2

A list of some of the most creative solutions to a number of advertising problems.

design, graphic

616

0 comments

20 Best PSD to Wordpress Service Providers

A quick website setup is what everybody loves these days. The level of competition has been raised so much that no webmaster can afford to let their prospects wait for his website to stand and run.

css-html, design, graphic, wordpress

1385

3 comments

2009

5

OCT

Creative Uses of Illustration in Website Design

One thing I love to see in web design is how artists and designers take a certain style of design and incorporate it into their websites.

design, graphic, inspiration

742

0 comments

Create a photorealistic wordpress layout in Photoshop

Create a photorealistic wordpress layout in Photoshop by following this simple tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

766

0 comments

20+ High Quality Color Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers

You can’t imagine life without colors. Different colors give you different energy but when they come all together in form of spectrum they give you freshness and happiness. So for your happiness and to give your desktop a full-of-life look.

graphic, wallpaper

1167

0 comments

2009

4

OCT

Typography Showcase: 70+ Amazing Examples

Typography is everywhere! The use of Illustration of text is on every web page and every modern designer's artwork out there. Typography allows every graphic artist to provoke feelings and mood in their designs.

design, graphic, inspiration

1000

0 comments

Gimp Textures For Designers

Excellent Gimp Textures. Create attractive, eye catching designs with this collection of free Gimp Textures.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

806

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #22

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

707

0 comments

2009

2

OCT

35 Gifted Photographers With Exceptional Web Profiles That Will Convinced You

They say that anyone could pick up a camera and start taking beautiful photographs, as long as the camera that they used is an utmost quality type.

graphic, photography, photoshop, video

715

0 comments

Creative Photoshop Human Body Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is the coolest things to do with Photoshop and its get crazy if designers do experiments on human body.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

1310

0 comments

2009

1

OCT

30 Must See Character Illustration Tutorials

One of the things that brings me back to my childhood memories is when I see Character Illustrations in some of the websites and artwork that are being designed today.

design, graphic, tutorial

643

0 comments

How to design a simple and sleek web Portfolio

Learn how to create a simple and sleek web portfolio with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

870

0 comments

Interview with a pro – Philip Beel

An interview with the very talented freelance web designer, Philip Beel

design, graphic

686

0 comments

2009

30

SEP

50+ Brilliantly Rendered Designs of Concept Cars

When I was younger, one of my passions was drawing many different types of cars. I was always intrigued by automotive vehicles, especially the elegant and sporty ones.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

613

0 comments

2009

29

SEP

A Discovery Into 30 Beautiful And Inspirational Korean Websites Design

Korean Internet Industry has been growing in recent years and more than 80 percent of their households in South Korea are connected with broadband access.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

768

0 comments

40+ Creative Business Card Designs that will Inspire You

Are you at a point where you are having difficulty coming up with your next business card design? Sometimes all you need is a little boost of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing.

graphic, inspiration

946

1 comment

Web Design Case Study – BeTheMiddleMan

A case study of how the new property website BeTheMiddleMan was developed

design, graphic

637

0 comments

Best of the Web for the Week of September 20, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of September 20, 2009. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper, wordpress

657

0 comments

2009

28

SEP

27 Excellent Digital Photography Tutorials

To improve and modify digital photographs is very interesting and a fun part. Lots of digital photography techniques and tutorials are available on internet, you can create same digital effect in different ways.

design, graphic

614

0 comments

Inspiration: Collection of Some Amazing 3d Robots

One of our first post’s was titled: Computer Graphics – 50+ stunning creations of 3d robots. We had some great feedback from our viewers considering it was one of our first articles. Today I have put together another brilliant collection of 3d robots from some talented CG artists that will truly inspire you to create your own. I hope you guys like these ones as much as the others. Enjoy!

graphic, inspiration

626

0 comments

2009

27

SEP

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #21

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

738

1 comment

2009

24

SEP

Create a wordpress interface in Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to design a wordpress interface with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

721

0 comments

Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #47

Interesting techniques used in these 20 tutorials, interesting and useful. With a logo tutorial there would have been a complete collection, but hey… they don’t appear like mushrooms after rain.

design, graphic, photoshop

656

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Touch

A designer showcase of the very talented graphic designer, Touch

design, graphic

605

1 comment

2009

22

SEP

Really Awesome And Creative Work By Various Artists

While browsing CG Society i came across really amazing and creative work done by various artists. It included photoshop work, 3d graphics, matte paintings, CG portraits and concept art.

design, graphic

700

0 comments

Up For Grabs - A Free Copy Of Billings 3, LittleSnapper And A 6 Month Subscription To Tuts+

A competition giving away a copy of Billings 3, LittleSnapper and a 6 month subscription to tuts+.

design, freebies, graphic

666

0 comments

2009

21

SEP

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #19

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

871

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – Meka

A lovely little showcase of a great illustrator I managed to find while browsing Behance, Meka

design, graphic

825

0 comments

Graceful flash degradation, reloaded!

Second article of a series containing pointers to improve flash websites, accessibility and usability of websites that contain flash elements.

graphic, tips, tutorial, usability

919

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #20

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

920

0 comments

UX Designer Interview - Paul Seys

An interview with the very talented UX designer Paul Seys

design, graphic, usability

907

0 comments

2009

17

SEP

Design an amazing 3d hosting layout in Photoshop

Learn how to create an advanced hosting layout in Photoshop with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1000

2 comments

2009

15

SEP

35 Realistic Photo Manipulations

Everybody likes to see the creative works of excellent photo manipulation, whatever, he or she is a designer or not. Some extremely talented artists can really give a look like a realistic image from an unrealistic concept.

953

0 comments

Create a grunge personal portfolio layout

Learn how to design an grunge portfolio layout in Adobe Photoshop with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1218

0 comments

2009

14

SEP

35 Social Media Love Icons

In social media we can show our love for websites and articles in many different ways, we Digg things, Sphinn them, Float them, and even Bump them. The social media sites all have different ways of showing this love, I’ve collected some of the iconography here.

812

0 comments

2009

13

SEP

Create an original african poster illustration

Learn how to create an original poster illustration with african influences.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

793

0 comments

2009

11

SEP

Creating motion blur without special software

A short tutorial describing a nice trick on how to create blur effects without relying on graphic editing software.

graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

1577

0 comments

2009

10

SEP

Learn How to Create a Unique Wordpress Theme

Create your own wordpress theme design following this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

880

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – 123Klan

A designer showcase of the very talented creative studio working out of France, 123Klan

design, graphic, inspiration

885

0 comments

2009

9

SEP

40+ Amazing Bus Graphics Wraps

Business graphics bus wraps are amazingly popular to vehicle owners and enthusiasts. The design made for buses is often an expression of ‘sky is the limit’ theme.

design, graphic

957

0 comments

2009

8

SEP

Design a Furniture layout in Adobe Photoshop

Whether you sell modern furniture or antique furniture you’ll surely find this layout very useful if you want to create your own PSD layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1787

0 comments

29 Free Stunning Web Icons Sets To Enhance Your Web Design

An icon is a small picture used on a screen to represent some action or content. Icons can be used alone or with words.

design, freebies, graphic, icon

1147

0 comments

Amazing Flash Design Showcase #3

A showcase of the very best flash web designs featuring great design and functionality

design, flash, graphic

833

0 comments

2009

6

SEP

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #18

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

621

0 comments

2009

4

SEP

PixelCrayons Now for Small Businesses

Pixelcrayons announces the launch of Smallbusiness.pixelcrayons.com – A service centric offering which will help small and medium size businesses (SMBs). It will not only help them to register their online presence but also enable them to leverage the power of web and grow their business opportunities.

css-html, design, graphic, php

683

0 comments

2009

3

SEP

Design a creative design studio layout in Adobe Photoshop

Learn how to create a creative layout with an excellent structure and easy navigation with this easy to follow tutorial.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

881

0 comments

2009

2

SEP

40+ Creative Print Media Advertisements

To create eye catching ads and get the first attention is not easy task. If your ad doesn’t convey the message what it is for, then it’s useless. To really stand out among others, the idea should be unique and out of box.

design, graphic

741

0 comments

Timely and Quality PSD to XHTML Conversion Services

For every busy web designer and developer, there comes a moment when they want to kick the clock so hard that it stops time in its tracks.You might be struggling with yourself to know why CSS is good for Google.

css-html, design, graphic

772

1 comment

Interview with a pro - Fhoke

An in-depth interview with the guys from Fhoke, an emerging design agency from Hampshire, UK.

design, graphic

570

0 comments

2009

31

AUG

10 Easy To Implement Flash Based Mp3 Players For Your Website

Flash mp3 players let you add a list of songs easily to your websites and customize the look of the players.

design, graphic, wordpress

1092

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #17

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

682

0 comments

Design a Sleek and Modern Portfolio layout in Photoshop

This Layout is designed to assist photographers, designers, artists, models, craftsmen and anyone willing to showcase their works and skills.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

958

0 comments

2009

30

AUG

Best Gimp Button Design Tutorials Collection

The best collection of button design tutorials in Gimp.

design, graphic, logo, tutorial

1349

0 comments

25 Best Collection Of Online Photo Editing Tools

Have you ever longed for a Photoshop or Gimp like tool to open up in our browser? Then this list of the best online Photo Editing tools is for you. The online Photo editing tools help you to retouch and edit your photos from within our browser.

design, freebies, graphic, tools

1303

0 comments

2009

29

AUG

9 Best JavaFX Photo Gallery Applications Collection

JavaFX gives you the freedom and flexibility to design wonderful Rich Internet Applications. This collection of best JavaFX Photo Applications will showcase the best Photo Gallery applications in JavaFX.

design, flash, graphic, tools

2645

4 comments

2009

28

AUG

20+ Best Psd to XHTML/CSS Tutorials

Many web designers find it difficult to convert their Photoshop designs into valid HTML/XHTML markups, either due to work load or in-efficiency in quality conversion.

design, graphic

869

0 comments

2009

27

AUG

Image splitting effect with CSS and JQuery

In this tutorial we are going to make an image splitting effect using ONE image. What’s that? It’s simillar to a sliding door effect where the image slides to left or right side and reveals the text behind it, but the thing that makes this different is that the effect looks like the image is splitted into half and one goes left and the other one goes right.

css-html, graphic, javascript, usability

1368

2 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Rod Hunt

A showcase of the amazing illustration talents of Rod Hunt

design, graphic, inspiration

677

0 comments

Design an impressive web hosting layout in Photoshop

If you want to start a web hosting business then you need to read this easy to follow tutorial to learn how to create a web hosting layout.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

853

0 comments

2009

26

AUG

9 Best jQuery 3D Effect Plugins

Ever imagined if you could create awesome 3D Effect with the write less do more code? Then these wonderful collection of jQuery 3D Effect Tutorials and examples will show off the power of jQuery in generating awesome 3D Effects.

css-html, design, graphic, javascript, tutorial

9537

0 comments

2009

25

AUG

Design a creative cosmetics layout with Photoshop

This tutorial will learn you how to create an website related to healthcare, medicine or health issues

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

879

0 comments

Inspiring Digital Artists – Elsevilla

What makes him superb among other artist is his skill on minute details as he draw on canvas, for me his art is influenced and somehow similar to well-known master artists like Hyung Yae Kim and Miwa Shirow, but looking at his artwork, he has done nevertheless quite his own unique style, and that it is more inclined to anime-ish plus superb details.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

849

0 comments

2009

24

AUG

20 Best PSD to HTML Service Providers

Converting design files (PSD, PNG, AI etc) to high quality, cross-browser compatible valid top-notch XHTML/ CSS semantic markup manually has never been easy, as it takes lot of time and precision.

css-html, design, graphic

825

1 comment

2009

23

AUG

Best Silverlight Photo Gallery Applications

Silverlight can be used to create wonders on the web. Here I provide my handpicked collection of best Silverlight Photo Gallery Applications that can be used to create wonderful photo galleries.

design, freebies, graphic, tools

3385

0 comments

Best Gimp Video Tutorials

The best collection of Gimp Video Tutorials on the web that will let you learn designing and photo manipulation using Gimp.

design, graphic, tutorial, video

839

0 comments

270+ Sets Free And Beautiful Watercolor Textures

Grungy and watercolor effects are really cool and hot in web design industrial. This article shares 270+ sets watercolor textures that may be helpful to all designers.

design, freebies, graphic

796

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #16

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

591

0 comments

2009

20

AUG

Best Gimp Fractal And Design Tutorials

A wonderful collection of Gimp Designing and Fractal Tutorials. A must visit for every designer.

design, graphic, tools, tutorial

1230

0 comments

Amazing Flash Design Showcase

A showcase of the very best flash web designs featuring great design and functionality

design, flash, graphic

694

0 comments

2009

19

AUG

Top 6 Search Engines For Designers To Find Icons

For a stunning graphical user interface designers always need sharp and crisp icons. But sometimes there is not much time for designers to create them from scratch, then where to find them?.

design, graphic, tools

821

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Stefan Lucut

A showcase of the Romanian graphic and web designer, Stefan Lucut

design, graphic

674

0 comments

2009

18

AUG

Create an awesome consulting layout in Photoshop

With this layout you will be able to easily build a web site dedicated to teaching and learning, or a business layout, as well as management or marketing layouts.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

874

0 comments

2009

17

AUG

The Remedies For A Great Designers’ Online Portfolio With 25 Impressive Showcases

Nowadays, it seems like almost every designer has a personal website to showcase their work. The importance of creating an online portfolio is essential in their success.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

650

0 comments

Design an awesome corporate wordpress layout

Learn how to design a clean corporate wordpress layout with this easy to follow tutorial

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

943

0 comments

A bouquet of freebies for web designer and developers

In this post I am sharing some useful and interesting freebies for web designer and developers like Free Wordpress themes, Drupal themes, Flash gallery, Vector icon sets, Grunge fonts, Cool Twitter Graphics...

design, freebies, graphic, tools

870

0 comments

2009

16

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #15

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

680

0 comments

2009

13

AUG

Creation And Manipulation Of Digital Images By Fiero Animals

Fiero Animals, Moscow, Russia. It is specialized in the creation and manipulation of digital images, blending of photo compositing, 3D and illustration. Fiero Animals gives service to the advertising sector, magazines and movies.

design, graphic, photography

723

0 comments

2009

11

AUG

Awesome Designer Showcase - Joao Oliveira

A showcase of the hugely talented designer, Joao Oliveira

design, graphic

758

0 comments

2009

10

AUG

XHTML.PixelCrayons.com – Service Review

Quality has been always kept right above the quantity and why not? A client doesn’t care how many projects you got to deliver, he is only bothered about his own project, as he is paying for it. So whenever one does get overloaded with the work, outsourcing is the only best option to get your assignments deliver on time.

css-html, design, graphic

1018

0 comments

50+ Awesome Photos You Have Never Seen From Bogota - Colombia

Colombian capital's city Bogotá has become known as "The Athens of South America", here you can see 50+ inspirational photos from this beautiful city.

graphic, photography

904

0 comments

2009

9

AUG

45 Funny Graphical Presentation of 404 Error Page

Today the error message is not bounded within a simple message, now this message comes with various visual presentations. Here you can see some great examples of this "404 error page" done by great designers.

graphic, inspiration

1070

0 comments

Design web 2.0 wordpress themes in Photoshop

Create a clean web 2.0 wordpress layout in Photoshop with this step by step tutorial

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1121

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #14

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

774

0 comments

2009

8

AUG

Create a grunge wordpress theme in Photoshop

Learn how to design a grunge wordpress theme layout in Photoshop.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

909

0 comments

14 Best Firefox Photo Plugins

Don't you love viewing Photographs and images on web pages, your Picassa albums, Flickr albums or from your mail account? Then these Best Firefox Photo Plugins will enhance your photo viewing experiences.

freebies, graphic, tools, usability

1236

0 comments

2009

6

AUG

A showcase of sites displaying twitter feeds

A showcase of websites with well designed twitter areas

design, graphic

760

0 comments

2009

5

AUG

20+ Amazing Portfolio Websites

When you are trying to show the world your capability in the area of web design, your website design portfolio is your portal to the world. The portfolio is the most essential website a web designer will ever create in his or her career, because its sole purpose is to show their knowledge, scope, talent, and skill.

design, graphic, inspiration

1418

0 comments

Seven Tips to Use Colors in your Site

In this post, I will continue my discussion of the meaning and the use of colors in web design. As I have previously mentioned, color is one of the web designer’s most indispensable tools, because it is one of the main building blocks of a superior website. Below you will find my list of simple tips to improve the use of color in your site...

design, graphic, tips

1006

0 comments

12 Tips on Pricing your Web Work

In this post, I will discuss how to establish an appropriate price for a website, when you do freelance. So, you have started doing freelance, but cannot decide what to charge? I know the feeling. When I first started doing freelance, deciding the price gave me a great deal of difficulty. ....

design, graphic, misc, tips

985

0 comments

Tips for Starting your Own Web Development Business

Are you ready to start your own business, but are not sure where to start or how to accomplish your goal? I worked as a developer for a large company for almost six years, and I grew tired of receiving only a fraction of the payment and no credit for a website, when I did all of the work....

design, graphic, tips

1201

0 comments

Web Design Rules to Follow

Web design is the combination of graphic design, layout, content, color, and effects which culminate to give a great user experience. As I have previously stated, I think good design involves the use of excellent graphics, fonts, color, layout, web accessibility, and design, which together give a feel of uniqueness, style, personality, and individuality......

design, graphic, tips, tutorial

1057

1 comment

2009

4

AUG

An Introduction To JavaFX

Rich, Content enriched applications are the need of the hour. Rich internet applications add style and class to your website. There are a lot of tools available to create Rich Internet Applications. Today we will have a sneak peak into JavaFx which is yet another tool to generate rich internet applications.

design, flash, graphic, tools

906

0 comments

Announcement: Pixelcrayons PSD to XHTML Contest Winner

Time to announce the lucky tweet! BestPSDtoHTML had started a contest “PSD to HTML Contest by Pixelcrayons: Tweet & Win” sponsored by Pixelcrayons on 8th July 2009.

css-html, design, graphic, photoshop

761

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Non-Format

A showcase of some stunning design from one of the worlds most famous design team, Non-Format

design, graphic

799

0 comments

2009

3

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #13

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

830

0 comments

2009

1

AUG

Create a sleek wordpress layout with Photoshop

Design a wordpress PSD layout with this easy to follow Photoshop tutorial

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1026

0 comments

2009

31

JUL

40 Really Useful Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

This article shares the most useful Photoshop text effect tutorials which will attract readers' attention and delivers a better message.

design, graphic, photoshop

974

0 comments

43 Amazing Abstract Photoshop Brushes

with so many of them available, I have gathered in this post the best of abstract brushes that would come in handy when designers/developers like us needed to spice up our designs.

design, freebies, graphic, photoshop

1138

0 comments

2009

30

JUL

30 Excellent Logo Design Galleries For Your Inspiration

Every designer need to know where to find inspiration, and here you have an excellent list of 30 of these such sites that showcases great logo design. If you need inspiration you should visit them.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1119

0 comments

2009

29

JUL

15 Best Fantasy Art Design Photoshop Tutorials

"Fantasy" is imagination unrestricted by reality. Creativity is at its best when imagination strikes the best level. So for all the creative minds out there, here I provide the best collection of Photoshop Fantasy Art Tutorials.

design, graphic, photoshop, tools

2747

1 comment

2009

28

JUL

Call To Action, Best Practice

A guide to the best practices to use when designing your web sites call to action

design, graphic, inspiration

783

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – Simon Oxley

A showcase of some stunning design from Simon Oxley

design, graphic

699

0 comments

2009

26

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #12

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

868

0 comments

2009

24

JUL

Design a creative wordpress theme in Photoshop

Learn how to create a layout with photoshop for the most powerful blogging platform - Wordpress

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

868

0 comments

2009

23

JUL

Create a nice looking travel layout with Photoshop

In this easy to follow tutorial you will learn how to create a nice looking Travel Layout

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1058

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - ForceFeed:Swede

A showcase of some stunning design from ForceFeed:Swede

design, graphic

690

1 comment

2009

22

JUL

65 Absolutely Cool And Creative Twitter Backgrounds

A well designed and creative Twitter background is able to attract visitor's attention. This article share 65 cool Twitter backgrounds.

design, graphic, inspiration

1179

2 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - J3

A showcase of some stunning design from J3

design, graphic

764

4 comments

2009

21

JUL

30 Awesome Handpicked Design T-shirts From The 10k Design By Humans Contest

Design by Humans is one of the best places for designer T-shirts so from their 2nd year contest I have hand picked 30 awesome designer t-shirts for your pleasure.

design, graphic, inspiration

1192

1 comment

Awesome Designer Showcase - Tado

A showcase of some stunning design from Tado

design, graphic

798

0 comments

Red sites showcase

An article showcasing good and bad usage of red to emphasize key elements on different websites, plus a beautiful sites showcase.

design, graphic, tips, usability

835

0 comments

2009

20

JUL

25 Best Starter Kits For Web Designers

Starter kits are great time savers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. So here, I provide you the 25 Best Starter Kits, to kick start your designs!

design, graphic

1098

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - McFaul

A showcase of some stunning design from the guys at McFaul

design, graphic

741

0 comments

2009

19

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #11

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

672

0 comments

2009

15

JUL

7 Things You Don't Learn In Design School

When finishing design school you will learn so many thing your teachers never told you. Here you have some of those things.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

961

0 comments

25 Best Coming Soon Pages

A Great collection of 25 of the best coming soon pages you can find on internet. A source of inspiration for your ideas when creating expectation on a new website or for the redesign of a site.

design, graphic, inspiration

2745

1 comment

50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages

Have you seen a web site where you have to select your language before actually seeing the site, here is a collection of 50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages you could find on Internet that could inspired you in your next project.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

1295

0 comments

Tilt Shift Effect - How To Make Your Own Effect With Tiltshiftmaker

Here you can learn how to transform you normal pictures in tilt shift photos or miniature images, with an Internet tool for free, plus some examples.

design, graphic, photography

1274

0 comments

35+ Free Comic and Cartoon Fonts For A Funny Design

In a previous post, 20+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Retro and Vintage Design, we collected some useful fonts for your graphic and web works. Again we take a look around for good stuff that could help your design process and here we have selected other free and high quality fonts.

design, font, freebies, graphic

1161

1 comment

2009

14

JUL

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 14/07/09

A round up of the best web design content from the day

design, graphic

700

0 comments

Amazing Flash Design Showcase

A showcase of some of the most stunning flash design created within the last few weeks

design, flash, graphic

779

0 comments

2009

13

JUL

105 Fantastic & Beautiful HDR Photography

High dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. 105 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures developed out of usual photos, & not an illustration.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

956

0 comments

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 13/07/09

A round up of the best web design content from the day

design, graphic

706

0 comments

2009

12

JUL

The Best Web Design Links Of The Weekend

A round up of the best web design content from the weekend

design, graphic, php

980

1 comment

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #10

The very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic

833

0 comments

2009

11

JUL

Post Pic 26 incredible single page web designs

Some of us love the classic site design, with N number of pages, with links to other site page, right? If they are well designed too… whoa!, a beauty. But what if you change your mind and want to go for a new kind of design? The single page one. If you like to have [...]

browser, design, graphic, photoshop, template

1057

0 comments

2009

10

JUL

PSD to HTML Contest by Pixelcrayons: Tweet & Win

For all those who love to design but hate to write those life-long codes, Pixelcrayons has stood up to your relief.

design, graphic, photoshop

776

1 comment

45+ Unusual Layout Website Designs

List of websites that are unusual, coll and quite different. Websites that are unique, unusual design, structure, navigation, flow. All this is so different from regular websites that we see everyday.

css-html, design, graphic, usability

2564

1 comment

Vector illustration: create a cute bird

In this tutorial i’ll show you how to build the cute bird that you can see on my site. First will have a look at the final image. The tutorial will start with the paper sketch, then we will continue by tracing it in illustrator and finally add the details. So Let’s get started!

design, graphic, tutorial

1248

0 comments

Top 15 Logo Design Inspiration Galleries

For companies getting their logos designed in a proper and standout way is very important and on other hand for designers it is not that easy task as they have to show everything that company represents in a small image.

1067

2 comments

2009

9

JUL

Awesome Designer Showcase – Adhemas Batista

A showcase of the stunning work from the mixed media artist, Adhemas Batista

design, graphic, inspiration

1177

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – Catalina Estrada

A showcase of inspirational work from the Barcelona based illustrator, Catalina Estrada

design, graphic, inspiration

809

0 comments

2009

8

JUL

Where to use red color, information & advice

The first article from a series of article about colors. Also contains an interview with renowned color expert Igor Asselbergs.

design, graphic, logo, tips, usability

981

0 comments

10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical

If content is the heart of every website publication, navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

954

0 comments

2009

7

JUL

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 07/07/09

A round up of the best web design content from the day

design, graphic, inspiration

837

1 comment

What’s the right price for PSD to HTML conversion?

There are many aspects, which determine the overall price of the code. Some of them are: Design complexity, etc.....

css-html, design, graphic, tips, tutorial

947

0 comments

2009

6

JUL

22 Beautiful Icon Packs for Web Design and Development

Icons are very important to web design and development. I have collected a list of beautifully crafted icons for your next project!

design, freebies, graphic, icon

16055

17 comments

20+ High-Quality Free Fonts for Retro and Vintage Design

As you know typography is one of the most important key aspects of any web design project. An appropriate choice of typography can convert your graphic into wonderful artwork. In a previous post I’ve collected 25 Amazing Retro Web Sites for Your Inspiration.

font, freebies, graphic

1126

1 comment

2009

27

JUN

15 Best Photoshop Button Design Tutorials

Buttons are an important aspect of every design. Buttons are indispensable in any user interface. So here am going to provide you with the best collection of button design tutorials available on the web.

design, graphic, photoshop

3825

2 comments

2009

24

JUN

Beautiful & Stunning Mini World Websites

Have you ever played simcity? Create your own world on a piece of land. I have found these beautiful and stunning websites created based on that concept. They blew me away!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

18760

9 comments

2009

18

JUN

Tips to Choose Right PSD to XHTML Firm

There have been posts about top PSD to HTML providers. One of this kind of post you could find in our blog too, lol. So, today we thought of providing something more useful, more exact and more valuable to our readers.

css-html, design, graphic, photoshop

1264

6 comments

2009

17

JUN

38 Marvellous Graffiti Art And Street Art That Will Blow You Away

To the untrained eye, graffiti is the defacement of public property, the end product of street-yahoos making their names known to anybody who walks by.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

931

0 comments

2009

11

JUN

60 Awesome Sites for Free Fonts

Looking for more free fonts for your design, but don't know where to start off. Have a look at the here for a compiled list of 60 sites for getting free fonts

design, font, graphic

1228

0 comments

2009

9

JUN

60+ Awesome Grunge Font That Every Designer Should Collect

Grunge and Dirty designs are become more and more popular recently. If you are a web 2.0 designer, i suggest you to seriously look into the grunge style design.

design, font, freebies, graphic

1211

0 comments

2009

8

JUN

35 Best Photoshop Tutorials Collection

Here is a list of the 35 best Photoshop Tutorials available on the web to make it easy for one to learn up Photoshop.

design, graphic, tutorial

1287

1 comment

2009

4

JUN

Why do firms Order PSD to XHTML Conversion Online

LPG (Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization) comes with its share of benefits for doing business globally. Internet however, recognized its LPG benefits way back, with its increasing (and still emerging) scope and trend.

css-html, design, graphic

963

0 comments

2009

2

JUN

Interview with Chris Spooner of Spoon Graphics

Many thanks to Chris Spooner for taking the time to answer some of PV.M Garage questions. Chris is the guy he guy behind Blog.SpoonGraphics. This site acts as my digital playground, where I present Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials, articles around the subject of design and a bunch of free vector and resource giveaways.

979

0 comments

2009

30

MAY

Excellent Gimp Web Design Tutorials

Learn how to design cool web graphics and web layouts using Gimp.

design, graphic

3601

5 comments

2009

27

MAY

110+ CSS Gallery To Submit Your Web Design, Part 1

CSS Gallery is definitely the best place to showcase our design. But it can be used to get inspiration for our project too. So, i am going to share 110+ CSS Galleries that i had collected for WDB's readers.

css-html, design, graphic, tools

1657

3 comments

2009

24

MAY

Wonderful Photoshop 3D Text Tutorials

Who does not love 3d? Almost everyone loves 3D and its related effects. So here I am going to provide you with a list of excellent Photoshop 3D Text Tutorials that will let you work wonders with text.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

1511

1 comment

2009

23

MAY

Wonderful Gimp Brushes Downlaod Collection

A collection of wonderful Gimp brushes, ready for download.

design, graphic, tools

1727

6 comments

2009

13

MAY

120 Beautiful iPhone UI Icons

The icons are suitable for use in the Tab Bar and Tool Bar, but would also integrate nicely into any iPhoneized website.

design, graphic, icon

4662

1 comment

2009

10

MAY

Excellent Gimp Tutorials

An Excellent website with a huge collection of Gimp Tutorials.

design, graphic, tutorial

1755

0 comments

2009

7

MAY

10 Best Gimp Brush Collections

Ten best websites offering a collection of GIMP brushes that you will find useful for various purposes.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

3725

0 comments

2009

6

MAY

Fifteen Best Dreamweaver Tutorials

The web's best Dreamweaver tutorials that will help you become a pro in Dreamweaver.

design, graphic, tutorial

3162

1 comment

2009

4

MAY

30 Fresh Excellent Icon Sets

Icons are really useful for web design, application interface and more. Everyone loves good looking icons. In this post you will find 30 fresh new icon packs that you can use for your project. You can also spice up your mac or windows desktop with some if these icons.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration

2415

0 comments

2009

3

MAY

Must Have Gimp Tutorials Collection.

A must have collection of Gimp Tutorials for every designer.

design, graphic, logo, tutorial

2642

1 comment

2009

2

MAY

Art universities. Beautifully designed websites showcase

Some really interesting art universities with wonderful websites.

graphic, inspiration, template

2245

0 comments

2009

28

APR

Extremely Useful Geography Vectors: Maps and Globes

You’ve also probably had a difficult time trying to find a quality map. The following list should solve this problem. There are over 20 free vector maps and globes here.

freebies, graphic

2229

0 comments

2009

18

APR

The Best Original Freebies by Web/Graphic Designers and Illustrators

There are so many web designer, graphic designer, digital artist, illustrator and more creative professionals/non- professionals, who has a good grip of what design, beauty and creativity is. They come up with some original works,Yet they give these out for free. In this post I am presenting some of the known designers and the underdogs as well.

design, freebies, graphic, icon, inspiration

2792

0 comments

2009

15

APR

Create a Retro Photo and Background | Denis Designs

In this tutorial we are going to take a regular, boring photo and liven it up using with some effects to give it more of a retro feel to it.

design, graphic, photoshop

3542

0 comments

2009

12

APR

15 Photoshop tutorial websites en route for learning

When it comes to graphic design or image editing, mostly Adobe Photoshop comes first option to consider. Below you can find various range of Adobe Photoshop tutorial websites.

design, graphic, photography, photoshop, tutorial

webanddesigners

2291

0 comments

2009

10

APR

20 sites for free stock images

Back again with websites that will help designers and other people find free stock photography,this will definitely save your time and money. Photos contained in these sites are sorted in a handful of categories and subcategories which will make your life easier.

design, graphic, photography

webanddesigners

2041

0 comments

2009

9

APR

15 Free PSD and photoshop resources websites

Top 15 free PSD websites and other Photoshop resource provider websites. Most effective for those who are totally new or trying to learn in Photoshop field.

design, graphic, photography, photoshop

webanddesigners

2467

1 comment

2009

1

APR

40 Free Concrete Textures

In this post we’ll feature 40 different concrete textures from a variety of sources.

freebies, graphic

1727

1 comment

2009

31

MAR

Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

The background holds the theme of the website, and there are a vast amount of possibilities when designing a website background. This article goes over the best practices and popular trends of backgrounds in the current stage of innovative Web design.

design, graphic, inspiration

1913

0 comments

44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop

Here is a collection of 44 Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop to teach you create your own layout for your website. Check them out, learn and enjoy the tutorials.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

2745

0 comments

70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos

Out of bounds (OOB) photos are post processed photos where the contents are taken outside the boundaries, presented in creative 3-dimensional perspective. Here we present - 70 Outstanding Out of Bounds Photos, all hand-picked. Full list after jump.

design, graphic, photography, photoshop

2016

0 comments

2009

30

MAR

25 Crack Brushes Volume 2

Yes its Monday again and that means another free brush giveaway! This Monday’s giveaway is a free set of crack brushes, which are perfect for grunge designs and old style designs. Hope you enjoy these free brushes, if you have any suggestions for a type of brush pack you would like to see please let us know, thanks!

freebies, graphic, photoshop

3085

1 comment

21 Advanced Photoshop Tips, Tricks and Tutorials Roundup

In this article, you’ll find several simple but effective photo enchancing techniques on topics such as how to choose the best image format for web or how to create croplet for repeatedly image editing process. You can never stop improving your web and graphic design skills, you can always find something new and handy as you’ll see in the following collection.

design, graphic, photoshop, tutorial

2715

0 comments

2009

29

MAR

115 Insanely Useful Photoshop tips & tutorials

With a wealth of tips, tricks and tutorials on using Photoshop scattered around the web, we found some of the best resources throughout the day. It’s time to get started checking out these amazing links.

design, graphic, photoshop, tips, tutorial

1773

0 comments

2009

27

MAR

200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena

Siena is a brand new set of 200 free icons, developed exclusively for Webdesigner Depot. You can use them for your designs such as logos, websites and much more. They come in 6 different raster sizes and we have also included vector files for all the icons, so you can resize them as needed.

freebies, graphic, icon

2643

0 comments

2009

24

MAR

Free Texture Tuesday: Liquid

I created them by mixing drops of various food colorings with a little water, and voila! Enjoy!

freebies, graphic

1696

0 comments

2009

23

MAR

Beautiful Pictures For Spring Inspiration

we present a showcase of 35 outstanding pictures related to spring. Hopefully, these will give you a new perspective and maybe provide some ideas for your next design.

graphic, inspiration, photography

1865

0 comments

70 Excellent Photoshop Resources

In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial

2117

2 comments

30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings

Here is a list of 30+ Amazing Digital Paintings to get inspired. Showcasing a mind blowing artworks made by some of the professional Digital Artists in the Industry.

graphic, photoshop

1799

1 comment

2009

21

MAR

32 Nicely Use Of Paper Texture in Web Design

Paper Texture today popluar among web designer and as well as graphic designer. There is a lot of paper texture that can be use, and most of them are free. Here some web design that optimize the look by using the paper texture, either major or minor part.

freebies, graphic

2633

1 comment

2009

19

MAR

13 Photoshop CS4 Video Tutorials for Learning New Features

If you’re like me, sometimes you are so busy with projects that you fail to take time to familiarize yourself with the new features of upgraded software. Since Photoshop is the design tool of choice for many web designers, and since CS4 hasn’t been out very long, I’ve decided to round up some useful video tutorials that demonstrate some of it’s new features.

graphic, photoshop, tutorial, video

2976

1 comment

20+ Jeans Textures

You can see this blog also using a jeans texture so I thought I should share some great jeans textures with my readers :)

freebies, graphic

2622

3 comments

2009

14

MAR

60+ Extremely Useful Free Concrete Texture Backgrounds

You may notice the last few days I made some list of free texture resources. And as a continuation of gathering some High Quality Textures on the internet, Here is another textures which I can say very useful when it comes in creating a grunge concept of design. So here is a list of 60+ Hand-Picked Extremely Useful Free Concrete Texture Backgrounds.

freebies, graphic

2173

0 comments

2009

12

MAR

Free Vectors - 28 Halftone Vectors (Clean & Grunge Versions)

Hello all, hope your week is going well! Today I’m bringing you some always useful halftone vectors. The set includes 28 total, with both a clean and grunge version. I elected to make them vector over photoshop brushes so that yall can get a bit more use out of them.

design, freebies, graphic

2395

0 comments

Beautiful Watercolor Effects in Web Design

Web design trends come and go. You should be very wary not to jump on the latest ones that have no real staying power. An over abundance of glossy-iconed 2.0 sites are sure to look really outdated, real soon. I’d argue they already do. However some trends, can look awesome long after the trend has peaked. I think watercolor designs, when done right, are one of those trends.

design, graphic, inspiration

1769

0 comments

2009

11

MAR

40+ Most Amazing Wallpaper Tutorials in Photoshop and Resources

wallpapers is one of the nice thing to do in photoshop. All you need is to experiment and explore everything and let your creativity jump into the next level. For more ideas and learnings here I made a list of 40+ Most Amazing Photoshop Wallpaper Tutorials. These are some of the coolest tutorials in creating wallpapers all around the web.

design, graphic, tutorial, wallpaper

5223

1 comment

250+ Stains Brushes for Photoshop

Most graphic designers are always interested in finding quality brushes to use in their work. In this post we’ll feature 20 different brush packs for creating stains. As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to read the terms of use set by the own/creator.

freebies, graphic

1619

1 comment

2009

10

MAR

20 Web Design With Artistic Background

Vector, painting and doodle often been used in web design or blog as it can turn the plain white design into something unique with less effort. It often useb by illustartion designer, graphic designer and also art based blog. There is a lot out there but here I compile 20 that I think you should look and amaze.

design, graphic, inspiration

1743

0 comments

Creating a Typographic Wallpaper

After writing my previous tutorial here about Creating a Zune in Photoshop, several viewers asked if I’d share how I created the wallpaper graphic. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make something similar, and it’s quite easy!

design, graphic, tutorial, wallpaper

2060

1 comment

2009

9

MAR

12 Twitterrific Twitter Background Designs

Twitter is quickly becoming a hot spot for people and business of all kinds, including designers. Many designers now have twitter accounts so they can network with other designers on twitter and promote their work to a new audience. What I found interesting is, because of twitter a whole new niche of design has been created and that is Twitter backgrounds.

design, graphic, inspiration

2019

1 comment

2009

28

FEB

15 Rediculously Good Graphic Design Portfolios (Plus 1 Bonus)

A collection of 15 amazing graphic design portfolios for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

2229

1 comment

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