Whether you are a freelancer or you work for a design agency, getting your name spread in the design community should be a top priority. A lot of doors can be opened with a just a little networking when using the right strategy to contact the top de
This tutorial will show you how to create Photoshop actions and more specifically how to create an action to create a folder structure for your web design layouts
A mixed collection of talented illustration artists some using 3D programs, oil paints, Illustrator and Photoshop to produce there creations, I have place a piece of text about each illustrator where possible as well as slightly explaining what they
Getting your work out there and seen is probably one of the hardest thing’s to do as a freelance designer, so I thought I would start a series which combines two thing’s featuring some designer’s who are showcasing and also some of the many differen
Who doesnt like a little Tees action? Personally, original t-shirt designs catch my eye more than most graphic art that I see. Mainly because I can wear it Functional art, oh baby!
Color terminology, you may have seen some of these terms used in some of your graphic applications so now you can learn alittle bit more about what they mean
Using and editing a simple plugin you can highlight your current category even when on the single post page. also learn how to highlight your pages and add a home link to your navigation.
Print design isn ’t talked about enough in the web design community and id like to learn more about it as I’m from an intense web based background and hopefully others do too, this should be a nice start to a series of posts about print design in th
A collection of illustration artists and example work, also a resource for interesting reading material on illustration as well as tutorials to brush up you skills.
The aim of this post is to gain design inspiration and ideas from what others have already done, some times its best not to reinvent the wheel and see what others are doing to make there designs work. This post explores colours involving brown
Im a big fan of grunge and creating grunge designs is one of the most interesting things to do in my opinion whether it be a web design or a piece of grunge art. This post covers where you can find grunge resources such as brushes, textures, tutoria
More typography and design inspiration from music magazine adverts, this post follows on from the first part Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts.
I was browsing some old NME music magazines and i realised some of the advertisments for festivals and bands truly are works of art, they can provide some good ideas for any designer be it for web or print, lots of textures and colours to get some c
An excellent resource for repeating background patterns / images, patterns such as these can be used for a host of things such as a web page background, or adding extra detail to containing blocks, adjust the visibility and youve got a great new loo
While looking for some nice resources i found some really cool online art and design magazines that provide some very interesting reading while i wasnt working, they contain alot of inspirational work and provide a good source of knowledge.
With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviantart and a texture from the texture pack.
flickr is a great tool but there are so many ways to view the images located on Flickr with these exciting mashup sitesrnrn[reposted due to no haveing link]
Here is a free Hi-Res texture pack that i have made over the weeks for you all to download, the pack contains over 300 grunge, worn, torn and weathered textures that i have taken in and around my house with my camera.