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Helvetica is my Hero - A creative illustration series of super heroes from A-Z with helvetica type face. Designed by René Mambembe, a french graphic student and illustrator. Following the trend of latest hollywood blockbuster - The Avengers, we have found this creative illustration which uses the popular type face - Helvetica to draw superhero according to their first alphabet of their name.

Today, we are happy to team up with Webmaster-Deals.com and are eager to give away a free Graphstock.com membership with commercial license ( a $99 value ) to all users who subscribe to their Newsletter.

As the guys at Vectorpack.net have launched a new Mega Design Bundle which contains over 900 design elements, which, for the following 15 days, are to be available for only $37 instead of $550, they have also decided to host this incredible contest which will give you the opportunity of winning the Abstract Backgrounds Bundle!

Everyone loves freebies, especially high quality, premium freebies for designers. Introducing ZeroBundle from Web Designer Depot and MightyDeals.com, ZeroBundle is the great place to grab absolutely free goodies. 

Infographics seem to be a real trend today, with new ones popping up daily on all sorts of subjects. From mortgages to ice cream, estimating software to infographics about infographics, there is very little now that hasn't been 'visualised' in some form. Many people don't realise that the term information graphic, or 'infographic' was first coined over 100 years ago, with the Coxcomb chart by Florence Nightingale in 1857 being one of earliest recognised examples. They have existed in many forms since then, but only in the past few years have infographics developed into the art form we know today.

News designers and web developers know that a good informational graphic is more than just flashy images or statistics slapped on a three dimensional bar graph. The best infographics should attract an audience’s attention with simple, relevant images, and hold their attention with a compelling story told in visual shorthand. Strong infographics have concise, accurate headlines that let readers know the significance of the story at a glance. At the core of a truly captivating infographic is the grain of truth it conveys. For this reason, designers in particular should enjoy and learn something about their craft from these 10 clever design-focused infographics.

Hey guys, this is our 3rd series of web design elements post. If you missed our previous post, you can check it out later:

I have been hunting around for free web design elements recently for my new project and I realised that there out way too many high quality freebies out there! Also, don't miss my previous post about UI Kit - 42 Outstanding FREE UI Kits for Web Designers. This time, I found 35 Gorgeous Free Web Buttons in PSD format. They are well organised and easy to customize to match your design.

Internet is full of freebies for web designers and developers. Today, we will be covering 42 free UI Kits and templates. All of them are editable in PSD format and mostly covering all of the basic UI elements such as textfield, checkboxes, radio buttons, buttons, drop down menu and some other cover extensive list of elements.

We are proud to announce our new website - favbulous! favbulous collects latest freebies, promo & giveaway in one place for graphic designers, web designers, web developers and all web enthusiasts. Wide array of categories from icons, buttons, themes to books, mobile app, games and gadgets! In the other han, you can register submit your goodies to us! We will help you to promote it to everyone!

Pixmac is here to be the fastest, most usable and reliable microstock agency out there...anywhere in the image marketplace. So if you're looking for best picture or just trying to sell your best shot, Pixmac is your perfect tool, with accurate search results and lots of help for you at every step.

Websites need icons, at least that's what I think. If you use it wisely, icons can be used to replace long and boring text. In this post, I have collected 11 icon sets that I'm pretty sure you will need them. Enjoy!

We partnered with Sticker Mule to give 2 readers $100 worth of free custom stickers. Sticker Mule makes ordering custom stickers as simple as possible. Just upload your artwork, pick your size and shape, and they'll send you a free online proof. They even provide free shipping within the US!

I stumbled upon this beautiful website - Simple Desktops, I must say, I love it so much and I ended up spending some times looking on each of the pages. The owner of the website - Tom Watson is right, sometimes, our desktop wallpaper is simply too distracting, it's time to change to something minimal and clean :)

I like creatively designed business cards, despite of the design, just like printing a flyers, the way we print a business card is quite important as well. Here I have chosen 28 business cards that look really cool with letterpress effect. Enjoy.

Typography is the art of arranging type and modifying type glyphs. The main goal of this effective technique is to convey the message to the reader in a handier manner and in a really effective way. In this showcase we've gathered examples which show how attractive can be a simple artwork with a good typography. Look through this cool roundup of stunning typography cases and make sure that this technique plays an important role in successful design projects.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Most of the time, I found that a complex idea can be conveyed easily with a single still image. Infographic is a good example. Infographic is a graphic representation of data, information and or knowledge. Take the movie - Inception as an example, (it's a really good movie by the way, you gotta watch it =) ) its concept is so radical and original, therefore, it's not easy to understand. Few days after that, I found an infographic about this movie and that pretty much explain everything (it's in this post)! Isn't it amazing?

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Brochure is important to promote an identity of your company, it works just like a business cards. A brochure can serve many purposes. It can be used for marketing, during a special occasion, or to inform, educate, and let future clients/customers know about your services or products. Because of this, it is crucial to focus on the quality of the brochure design and also its quality of printing.

If you think paper's boring - think again! Paper textures are more popular than ever before, gracing the backgrounds of many of the most well crafted and stylish websites around. Paper is a truly versatile medium and there are so many types of paper to consider- parchment, handmade, wrapping, news, wall, recycled, cartridge, graph, lined, squared, rice, tissue- the list goes on and on and on.

Just recently, I was assigned to in charge of an iPhone game website. Due to the design, it needs heaps of png files so that I can use CSS to layer them together. It's quite a sophisticated website when it also come with a jQuery scrolling effect. I hope I can show it here, but it haven't released yet. :)

It's always good to see how technologies have changed the web. Javascript framework, flash animation, new HTML and CSS standards and powerful web browsers have been completely changed the way we use the website. Nowadays, most of the websites encourage user interaction, and due to the advance technologies that has made a lot of impossibilities possible, most of the websites provide greater user friendliness and usability.

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.

It's ironic, given the astounding rate at which web design and development methods are progressing, that increasing numbers of web designers are looking to the past rather than the future for inspiration when creating new web sites. Despite being hugely popular in other forms of graphic design for many years now, most people have avoided using a vintage aesthetic on the web, thinking it wouldn't fit with this thoroughly modern medium. Not any more, however. Vintage and retro stylistic elements are popping up all over the place online, becoming a major web design craze.