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I recently came across a library of US WW2 Posters and pulled out a selection of examples for as a showcase of inspiration. They each rely on the basics of design; composition, typography and colour (be it a limited palette of mostly black and red i
Collection of 65 Adobe Illustration tutorials for vector graphics drawing.
I’m passionate about branding. At my previous company, Apples To Oranges, we were fortunate to be able to do a lot of branding and identity projectsâ€â€either creating new brands, or evolving existing ones. As designers, our work never sits in a vacuum
In honor of some of our favorite summer blockbusters (Harry Potter and Transformers), we bring you our 10 11 most-favorite movie-effect tutorials. From Scarface to Sin City to Pirates of the Carribean to 300, we’ve got 11 great ways to go Hollywood.
design:relatedâ„¢ is a social-based website that brings together creative people from different disciplines (and parts) of the design world.
Since launching Design Float, I have received several requests for a Design Float gallery. Users have suggested that Design Float is already a great place to get all their design related news and that they wish there was a way to promote their...
In the last edition of Designer Portfolios I encouraged people to try something "crazy." Believe it or not I got a bit of negative feedback from this. I feel compeled to clarify my point. I don't think portfolios...
This is the archive of brushes from May 2006 to May 2007. Everything I have ever made is here, except the Retro Set ( as that is the first of my second year’s Photoshop Brushes work - 36 brush sets - I would love to have the time to count how many..
Even if you don't know the name Carl Crossgrove, it's likely you are familiar with his work, which includes Reliq, Origami, and my underrated favorite Mundo Sans. He was also part of the team...
Since the latest post of showcase last week, it is time to start a new website showcase. Here i select 20 weblogs that are designed by the fine arts, graphs or illustrations. The artwork of these weblogs is really attractive and beautiful. Everyday
After 6 years as a professional designer, there’s one reason why I still don’t have an online portfolio: it’s a pain in the ass to create and maintain. Online portfolios just involve labor-intensive design, coding, updating, and promoting.
A great blog that takes you inside the offices of your favorite web companies. The list is long and includes companies like: Craigslist, Joost, Meebo, Mozilla, Netvibes and many more. Lots of fun to look through!
List of some of the best open source and freeware alternatives to the applications no design can live without.
Konstantin Grcic has designed a beautiful new series of glassware for Swedish liquor brand ABSOLUT.
From Smashing Magazine: In our recent posts we’ve promised to publish the .pdf-versions of the articles you’ve considered useful and important. We’ve received many e-mails in which you supported us and asked us for print-friendly versions of five of
A new magazine-style layout that uses Wordpress more as a CMS than a blog.
Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
It seems that web 2.0 is popular and successful at this moment and have become a trend on the web. Here is the list of online generator particularly for web 2.0 design.
Continually having problems with clients? Problems with the things they say, do or expect? Join the club.
I invite you all to submit any (serious) questions relating to client liaison or management. I’ll get some of my acquaintances to ai
Today i select the second list of most awesome website showcases, if you are interesting, don’t miss out the part one at here. And i will find more CSS resources in the near future, therefore please subscribe my blog feeds to get updates. Thank you
An exhaustive compilation of print, tv, radio, online and ambient advertising. It also has a forum section to upload any pieces for critiquing.
A few weeks ago we published a list of 34 places to get design inspiration online and off and it proved to be one of our most popular articles to date. So today we journey back out to the world of design inspiration to bring you many, many more plac
After 20 Popular CSS Online Tools and Generators, this is a new full list of CSS based navigation menus collection, it includes 30 various styles of navigation menus, vertical menus, Javascript powered menus and tab menus. Navigation menus is one of
This is a great article with some valuable insight into promoting and gaining exposure for a young blog. Comes from the fantastic NxE which should be bookmarked by every blogger out there.
Aw the days of grunge; Kurt Cobain, torn jeans, and flannel jackets. How could a fad like that ever fade away?rnrnThe grunge style is a great way to create some visualy stunning designs and websites. Grunge styles let you break away from the
