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Typography Design in InDesign

2009-12-14T15:50:00.001-08:00

Typography is an art and skill which is enjoying a renaissance in interest within the design community. Along with use of space and use of colour, typography is one of the most important facets of good design, and the expert use of tools to manipulate typographical elements cannot be emphasized enough. In this in-depth post, we will be going through some of the tools, at both beginner and advanced levels, available to use when working with type within that unappreciated program, Adobe InDesign.

The Character Palette

At first glance, the Character palette is pretty straightforward. You can select a typeface, its style, the leading (the space between lines), tracking (the overall spacing between characters) and kerning (the space between an individual set of characters) as well as some text distortion options. While simple in function and layout, control over a wide variety of typographical options exist within this palette, particularly with regards to tracking, kerning and leading.

The hidden side of the Character palette can be discovered through the drop-down context menu. In this menu, a wealth of other options is available: overall OpenType settings for contextual replacements and other OpenType features; type styles, whether all caps, small caps, strike-through, etc; as well as further options for both underline and strike-through. The OpenType settings allow you great control over selecting which OpenType features you want to enable for this paragraph. The side benefit to both the strike-through and underline options that is you can use these to highlight live text within the text box itself, as opposed to having to create a separate rectangular object to draw attention to a particular word or phrase. When digging a little deeper, we discover that the Character palette has much more to offer than just simply allowing us to choose a typeface and size.

The Paragraph Palette

The Paragraph palette, meanwhile, allows for over-arching control suited to creating the shape of the paragraph itself. Justification, alignment & hyphenation options abound, and these allow for a wide degree of control over the typographical color of a paragraph or page, providing macro-level adjustments which affect entire bodies of text.

Where the fun begins, much like with the Character Palette, is with the drop-down context menu. The first two options are for Single-Line or Paragraph Composers. Single-Line optimizes the hyphenation and justification options for each individual line, whereas Paragraph optimizes lines based on the needs of the entire paragraph. For example, Paragraph will adjust the spacing and hyphenation of an earlier line to make room if a later line in the paragraph contains a troublesome word, whereas Single-Line would simply adjust the paragraph on a line by line basis.

Some other options within the context menu for the Paragraph palette include links to the menus for Hyphenation and Justification (more on that shortly), an option to balance the ragged lines of a non-justified paragraph, options for bullets & numbering for lists and other larger-scale options. Once again, the depth of InDesign’s typographical control really shines through within the context menu of a particular palette.

The Glyph Palette

We’re only going to take a quick look at the Glyph palette, as it’s not as deep as the other two, but it is still quite useful. Basically, the Glyph palette contains every character for the font you’re working with. The principle use for the Glyph palette is for the manual substitution of a selected character or set of characters within your document for ones you choose from the palette itself. Some uses for this could include subbing in old style numerals to replace lining, or manually inserting ligatures. The other main use for the Glyph palette is the creation of Glyph sets.

A Glyph set is a collection of glyphs which you might use on a regular basis, regardless of which typeface or style it is. Let’s say you’re a fan of a particular set of old-style figures and use it across multiple documents, regardless of any other design factors. Creating a glyph set containing those old-style figures allows you to quickly and easily find them and insert them into a document without having to go digging through each font for the right options.

Hyphenation

The control we have over hyphenation with InDesign is unreal and, particularly when combined with the justification controls, can result in some really slick paragraphs which let the text breathe and helps captivate the reader’s interest. We can reach the hyphenation controls through the context menu in the Paragraph palette, which gives us a pop-up dialogue box containing the hyphenation controls. While what each option does is self-explanatory, there are a couple of guidelines which can help your text sing.

Proper hyphenation requires some care and supervision, but can be generally controlled through the hyphenation options. In general, we should leave at least two characters on the start line, and have at least three on the finishing line; with InDesign, we’d set that as hyphenating after the first 2 letters but before the last 3. We should also avoid more than three consecutive hyphenated lines, to prevent a distracting rag. Any word shorter than 5 is too short to require hyphenation (though you can set this as low as 3), and in general, the last word should not be hyphenated in order to prevent any widows. InDesign can take care of all these more automatic hyphenating tasks, leaving the subjective ones (such as avoiding hyphenation where It awkwardly int-terupts a word, etc) to us to remedy.

Justification

Like hyphenation, we reach the justification panel through Paragraph palette’s context menu. The options for justification are self-explanatory, but the real benefits don’t kick in until we begin to explore a bit. Word spacing will adjust the spacing of words, and generally a range of 80%-100%-120% will give us a decently spaced paragraph without too much distraction. Letter spacing, meanwhile, can afford some flexibility as well; in general, a range of -5%-0-5% is ideal. Glyph scaling affords another means to “tweak” the words to make a paragraph optimally justified, and generally around 95%-100%-105% will allow the glyphs enough room to adjust without being noticeably larger or smaller.

There’s also options to adjust the auto leading percentage as well as single-word justify; 120% is InDesign’s default for leading, and typically single words should be aligned left. Through all these different adjustments, ensure that the drop-down menu for Composer is set to Paragraph in order to set the engine to adjust for the paragraph as a whole, not each individual line.

These are general guidelines which I’ve found make a decent, workable range. Each paragraph might call for different settings, but like all things design, smaller changes are preferable to sweeping ones. When combining the features of hyphenation with justification, some really beautiful paragraphs are possible which stretch from margin to margin, without rivers, orphans and widows or any other distractions.

That’s a Wrap

InDesign is a powerful program which, unfortunately, doesn’t enjoy the same widespread appeal in the tutorial & blogging world as Photoshop or other programs in the Creative Suite. However, the wide range of options and tools available to you makes it the ideal program for working with typography. I hope you found this post useful, as it barely scratches the surface for what InDesign is capable of with type.

Best-Of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Brushes, .EPSs and Resources

2009-11-23T06:05:00.001-08:00

For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative Adobe Illustrator tutorials and Resources, so you can now rest assured that you will have the necessary tools to get the job done.

Due to this phenomenally vast amount of vector packs, brushes, patterns available, you can now add dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artwork and to give it any look you want.

So in today’s post, you’ll find an assortment of top-notch tutorials, brushes, patterns, vector packs, tips & tricks and .EPS downloadable files that others have freely contributed to the design community.

To make your job a little bit easier, we have categorized this post into 6 section, the links below will get you to your desired section.

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

- Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

In this tutorial, we will learn how to construct a group of cool vector ninja characters using just the basic shapes and a variety of simple tools, making it a good start for Illustrator beginners.

- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough

Follow this step by step documentation of the whole process of the logo design from conception to completion.

- Logo Design Project Step by Step Walkthrough

- How to Draw Your Own Vector Wings

This tutorial is all about how to make those really cool hyper detailed wings that all those bro-dawg brands are rocking.

- Master Painting in Illustrator

Transform your sketches into stunning textured artworks.

- Woman and Cats How-To Advanced

- Experimental text effects

Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips.

- Create A Wood Grain Texture

Twist your words out of recognition to create cool and unusual illustrations, with these great tips.

- How to make retro/futuristic curves in 10 Steps

Achieve the space like scenery with the glowing lines using Illustrator and Photoshop. You’ll learn how to add subtle effects using textures and different blending modes.

- Twitterlove Bird, from sketch to vector in Photoshop and Illustrator

- Create an envelpe icon with a satin feel

In this tutorial you will learn how using the basic tools of illustrator , ie gradient , rectangle , pathfinder and line can create a simple looking envelope.

- 3D Text Tutorial

5 Steps tutorial describing the process of 3D Typography creation without any 3D software. You’ll need only Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

- Create the First Page of a Fairy Tale Story Book, with a Hint of Kitsch

A tutorial which told of magical and enchanting ways to create Fairy Tale pages in Adobe Illustrator.

- How to Create a Cute Bunny Vector Character

In this Illustrator tutorial, you will learn how to create a cute bunny character. This tutorial uses simple shapes and gradients that are easy to apply to other character illustrations. The great thing about his tutorial is you don’t have to be an amazing artist to create it!

- 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator

thirty Illustrator tutorials that will teach you the nuances and subtleties of Illustrator.

- Use Adobe Illustrator to Create a Clean Website Layout

This tutorial is perfect for the beginning to intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist. Learn how to create a layout of a website and prepare it for use on the web.

- Easily Make Shiny Realistic Vector Hair

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to easily make realistic-looking shiny vector hair. You will learn how to create S shapes and using them to construct natural looking hair.

- Vectoring Hair

- Creating A new Typeface in illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a nice typeface using Illustrator CS4 and its new, and very useful, features for editing anchor points.

- Super cool abstract vectors illustrator and photoshop

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a abstract sort of flower using the Blend Tool in Illustrator then playing with it in Photoshop to produce a very colorful wallpaper.

- Crazy cool vectors illustrator and photoshop

In this tutorial you will create a very nice image inspired by the amazing work of Andy Gilmore.

- Creating vector characters in Illustrator

- Character Illustration

- 20 Exceptional Websites for Learning Adobe Illustrator

In this collection, you’ll find 20 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality tutorials and information on vector illustration and Adobe Illustrator.

- 50 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials

50 excellent Adobe Illustrator video tutorials.

Creating Adobe Illustrator Patterns

- Create a Themed Repeating Pattern in Illustrator

Follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial to create a range of simple vector objects based around the theme of a designer’s lifestyle, then tile them together into a cool looking repeating pattern.

- Memory Lock

- Design your own pattern swatches

Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using Illustrator & Photoshop.

- 3 ways to apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator

3 different technique on how you can apply a line pattern effect on text in Illustrator.

- Creating-Pattern

Create your own cool repeating patterns from combinations of vector elements, using Illustrator & Photoshop.

- Creating geometric patterns in Illustrator

How to create a geometric pattern shape and fill a background with it.

- Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps

- Pattern Maniac

- How to Create a Seamless pattern in 10 steps

- Patterns and Shapes in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial is based on an advertisement that uses patterns and shapes to create a unique design effect.

- 450+ Abobe Illustrator Patterns

Adobe Illustrator Brushes

- 30 Illustrator Pattern Brushes for Making Flowers and Circular Designs

A set of 30 Pattern brushes for a fast way to get perfectly spaced, intricate circular designs.

- 105 More Delicious Water Color Illustrator Brushes

105 amazingly realistic-looking water color Illustrator brushes.

- Floral n Veins Brushes

- 81 Amazing Argyle Illustrator Brushes

- 50 Killer Retro Starburst Brushes

- Hair and line art brush for AI

- Swirly Curls – Sick Brush Kit

- Thorny vine brushes

- 10 custom vector-based Art Brushes

- 16 “Sketchy” Illustrator Brushes

- Ink/Watercolor

Adobe Illustrator Tool Tips & Tricks

- Illustrator’s Blend Tool: A Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive guide can help you unlock your creative potential and teaches the features, shortcuts, and in depth methods that the Blend Tool has to offer.

- How to Use Effects to Create a Cool Design

Effects are similar to filters, but the key difference is that they are non-destructive, meaning you can remove or modify them later on (through the appearance palette). Here is a review of a few quick Illustrator tips.

- 10 Illustrator Resolutions for 2009

10 features most people don’t use in Illustrator, but should.

- Transform Again in Illustrator

You can achieve surprisingly cool results using the Transform Again feature in Illustrator starting from a simple shape. As you all know simplicity is my motto. Here is a step-by-step tutorial using this simple feature.

- Illustrator Pen tool exercises

- Using the Blend tool and Distort Zig Zag Effect

- Recolor artwork using Illustrator’s LiveColor

How you can recolor your artwork in Illustrator CS3 using the LiveColor feature.

- Colorful Waves

This is a common trick to produce abstract colorful waves in illustrator.

- Realistic Curtain

Create a realistic curtain using the gradient mesh.

- Simultaneously Expand When Creating Compund Shapes

- Illustrator’s Pen Tool: The Comprehensive Guide

This comprehensive guide aims to introduce or remind you of features, shortcuts, and methods for working with what is arguably Adobe’s most essential tool.

- Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts

- Huge List of Adobe Illustrator Plugins & Filters & Tools

Free Vector Packs & Resources

- Safari and Zoo Animals

A free collection of vector animal silhouettes, featuring a range of land based mammals alongside some aquatic life.

- Free Vector Icon Set 1 – 25 Icons

- Free character pack

- The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs

60 of the best and most useful free vector packs.

- Transportation Silhouettes

- Vector Elements

- Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup

- 60 Free Vector Icon Packs for Design Professionals

- Seamless Swirls

- Free Floral Vector Ornament

- Illustrator pattern swatches and textures

- 64 Vector Arrow Icons

- Free Vector Social Icons

- 125 free Japanese Patterns

- 10 Vector Sets of Flowers

- 17 Exclusive Web Icons

- Flourish Vector Ornaments

Vector Sources

- Free Vectors

An online gallery of free to use vector graphics.

- QVectors

- Cool Vectors

- Vector4free

- AllSilhouettes

- 123FreeVectors

- Vecteezy

- VectorVault

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Awesome Free Textures and Texture Sets collection

2009-08-29T04:44:00.001-07:00

In this article ResourcesMix.info selected 40+ great textures on Flickr, all with Creative Commons license. I have also included a stunning list of texture resources that you can’t afford to miss.

Find out more Texture sets on ResourcesMix.info

Download FREE amazing Textures stock

2009-06-05T10:48:00.001-07:00

Today i’m bringing you a very nice textures collection from SXC.hu, you can get great results and save considerable amounts of time by taking advantage of textures that are freely available.

One excellent resources of textures (and other types of stock images) is Stock.xchng.

Below you’ll find more than 60 textures from their site.

Each image links to the page on sxc.hu where the image can be downloaded.

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Wood Textures

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Most Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets

2009-04-17T18:18:00.001-07:00

Here are 14 incredibly useful Web Design Cheat Sheets, let’s make life easier and things done faster…!

JavaScript Frameworks

Prototype 1.6.0.2 Cheat Sheet

mootools 1.2 cheat sheet

jQuery 1.3 Cheat Sheet

CSS

Mac OS X CSS Cheat Sheet

CSS Cheat Sheet (V2)

CSS CHEAT SHEET

XHTML

HTML/XHTML in one page

(X)HTML Elements and Attributes

Flash

Adobe Flash CS4 OS X Keyboard Shortcuts

Flash CS3 Cheat Sheet

Photoshop

Photoshop Lasso Tool Cheatsheet

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Keyboard Shortcuts

Adobe Pen Tool Cheatsheet

Related Resources:

The Best 5 Sets of Emoticons Free Download

2009-02-19T14:45:00.001-08:00

In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Examples of widely known emoticons are the smiley face : ) and the frowny face : (.

We have selected the best 5 sets of emoticons we have found on the internet. You can use them on your blog, forums and even web applications for free. Please feel free to suggest your favorite ones we did not mention.

2S-Space Emotions V2

The Blacy Emoticons

Yolks 2 Emoticons

Say Emoticons

Buttery Emoticons

Photoshop Brushes Pack | Dream Design

2009-02-08T15:36:00.001-08:00

All brushes in the picture are included in the pack

Contains 20 high resolution brushes usefull for wallpapers.
Created with Photoshop CS3 and the resolutions are above 1000px to 2400.
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Download Arabic Islamic Vectors

2009-01-27T12:54:00.001-08:00

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Wallpaper: 60 iPhone Wallpapers

2009-01-18T15:43:00.001-08:00

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2009-01-18T15:34:00.001-08:00

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15 Stock Photos for ( Gaza Under Fire ) | Stock Photos Download

2009-01-12T11:33:00.000-08:00

15 Stock Photos for ( Gaza Under Fire )

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Vectors: Glossy Business Icons | Free Download Vector Art

2009-01-12T00:08:00.000-08:00

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2009-01-11T15:47:00.001-08:00

A resourceful collection of vector symbols from YSR1. Ideal for logo design brainstorming or decoration. Download

Download Free Vector Skater Silhouettes

2009-01-11T15:43:00.001-08:00

A collection of vector skater silhouettes from geesucks. The pack pack is in EPS file format compatable with most major vector editors. Download Note: To use, decompress the *.rar archive with WinRar or StuffIt (Mac OS).

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2009-01-11T12:47:00.000-08:00

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50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 :: Free Icon Sets

2009-01-09T07:03:00.001-08:00

50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008

Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.

Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!

Free Icon Sets

1. OldSchool Icon Set

2. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

3. Milky icon set

4. Archigraphs Porcelain Icons

5. I-KID ICONS FOR IPHONE

6. Socialize Icons

This free icons set contains all the most popular social icons, placed inside a sticker, making them easy to use in all kinds of projects. Although initially intended to be used by bloggers, these icons go beyond that and can be used in almost any website. This free icon set contains 12 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

7. Distortion Icons

Unique, good looking and useful grungy sticker icon set with background in brick red color and white.

8. Merry Christmas Icons

These snowing free icons contain the most recognizable Christmas items. Bring that unique feeling that only snow brings to your websites and blogs. The “Merry Christmas” free icons set contains 12 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

9. Coquette Icons

This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

10. Turqua 3d Isometric Vector Icon Pack

A full set of 30 3d isometric vector icons. The icons are in both editable Illustrator 8 EPS and SVG formats.

11. Fugue Icons/a>

1000 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel).

12. Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers

There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format.

13. Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers

128 glossy Icons available in 48×48px. Some of the main Social Media Icons are included such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter & Many more…

14. Finance and Applications Icon Set

This set contains 59 raster and vector icons, designed by Icon Eden. The set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.

15. Liquidicity

16. Free Vector Icon Set 1

The first part of the set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons.

17. Web browsers icon set

18. Asp.net Icons

Here is a site offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for free.

19.Cult-foo icon set

Set of 50 icons at .PNG format for public usage.

20. Validation Icon Set

Free Validation “w3c” Icons to download and use.

21. Web 2.0rigami

15 origami icons in a variety of sizes in transparent pngs, and the PSD and EPS files.

22. Circular Icons

Circular is a themed collection of 100+ 16×16 icons. The icons are available as a zip download of alpha transparent png’s.

23. Phuzion

This pack contains 150 icons in total which look best in their original size (256×256px).

24. Free web development icons

Icojoy team’s new 24×24 free icon set in web 2.0 style

25. Simplicio

The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting.

26. Web 2 Icons

23 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks and Networks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares.

27. DSLR lens Icon

28. Pirates Theme icon collection

29. Feed Me Animals

A Free RSS Feed Vector Icon Set.

30. Ecommerce Icons

32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.

31. Practika

A free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons.

32. Website Icons

33. Glossy Member Icons

34. Aeon

35. RSS feed

36. Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges

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38. Drop Box Icon

39. Green and blue

Desktop & Dock Icons

40. Onibari Leopard Made

41. Carbon Gloss

A set of over 90 original dock icons in .png format. Compatible with your Mac or PC, and virtually all dock applications that use .png files.

42. De Freu. -Icon Pack

41 PNG and ICO Fileformat Icons + Matching Wallpaper.

43. iMod for Dock

149 icons for your dock

44. KIDAUBIS CHINESE WIND ICON

45. iLeopard Icon Pack SE

46. Qure for Adobe Creative Suite

47. Colorabo

48. ZeroOne

49. Made Of Wood

50. Paper Clip

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Business Card Designs :: 40 Creative Business Card Designs

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Unique and creative business card designs from all over the world.

01 - Emerson Taymor Business Card

02 - Pomegranit Business Card

03 - Stephanie Towell Business Card

04 - Murillo Design Business Card

05 - Ken Speckle Gifts Business Card

06 - rfrecords Business Card

07 - Rubber Band Business Card

08 - Piano Repair Business Card

09 - elkha Business Card

10 - Viewzi Business Card

11 - Bright Corner Business Card

12 - Yuka Suzuki Business Card

13 - Flow Yoga Business Card

14 - Thomas Wood Products Business Card

15 - Greek Restaurant Business Card

16 - Debt Recovery Agent Business Card

17 - il progetto Business Card

18 - Elevator Business Card

19 - Justin Anonuevo Business Card

20 - Sean M. Kinney Business Card

21 - Joe Duffy Business Card

22 - Wunderburg Design Business Card

23 - Junge Schachtel Business Card

24 - Paul Nielsen Personal Trainer Business Card

25 - Celia Keyworth’s Food Business Card

26 - Richard E. Smith Business Card

27 - JWB Business Card

28 - Dave Blank Business Card

29 - Be Positive Design Business Card

30 - Dreamten Studios Business Card

31 - xplicit Business Card

32 - Victoria Vaughan Business Card

33 - Howl Fire Business Card

34 - Manicurist Business Card

35 - Ramesh Sharma Post Marriage Counseling Business Card

36 - Steven Belkowitz Business Card

37 - Cehovin Eduard Business Card

38 - 350mldesign Business Card

39 - Visual Dialogue Business Card

40 - Chris Fisher Business Card

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Great Designer resource list | Free Brushes Download: 45 Sites to Download Photoshop Brushes

2008-11-25T15:48:00.001-08:00

The world of Photoshop brushes, something that always comes handy while creating some new designs. you can get the classy grungy effect or cool retro effect in couple of seconds, there are Hundreds of thousands of incredible Photoshop brush sets are all over the web, here we have listed 45 Best Photoshop Brush Resources Every designer should have in their Bookmarks

1. Blend Fu

2. Brush King

3. Celestial Star

4. Brusheezy

5. My Photoshop Brushes

10. Shizoo

12. Brush Fed

13. Bio Rust

14. Valhalla

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17. Aethereality

18. Art Flower

19. Paper Lilies

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Delightful Graphic Design Books

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I have probed the web for the mosthighly recommended and best-selling graphic design related books thatcan inspire and help you as a graphic designer. These books cover manyareas of design, including typography, color theory, layout, designtheory, web design, business and even search engine optimization andmarketing for designers.

These delightful graphic design books will make a great addition to any graphic designer’s library!

1. Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
This is a book you should not do without. It touches on every topic youneed to know about how to be successful as a graphic artist. If youwant experienced and practical advice on anything from setting pricesfor your work on the Internet to how to best manage your clientrelations â€“ this is the book for you.

2. Sagmeister: Made You Look
Daring designer, Stefan Sagmeister, chronicles almost 40 years ofworking in this business in this book. Sagmeister conveys his wit andhumor into these pages, as he tells you his personal adventures.

3. Make It Bigger
This book caters to designers who work with businesses. Read this to beinspired and benefit from the wisdom of years of experience working inthe field of graphic design.

4. About Face: Reviving The Rules Of Typography
Talking about the large topic of typography, About Face, helps younavigate through the world with ease. Many wonderful and successfulexamples of typography are provided in this book.

5. Typographic Design: Form and Communication
This is the fourth edition of a best-selling book. If you want just onebook to help you learn about how to properly typography, itâ€™s thisone. Whether youâ€™re interested in the history of this art, or how itcan be effectively used in this modern-era, this book is chock full ofvaluable information for graphic designers.

6. The Elements of Typographic Style
Author, Robert Bringhurst, has written this book, which uses beautifullanguage to tell the story of how to apply your own artisticsensibility to typography. One treat in this book is the examples offonts in different languages such as Russian and Greek.

7. The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type
This bookâ€™s author, Alexander W. White, is a strong advocate of whitespace â€“ what you can also call negative space. Many designers feelthe need to clutter things up, but less can be more. Learn how tomaster that idea with this great book.

8. Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop
This book focuses on layout. With it, you can comprehensively learn theelements of layout so that you can better use them in your work.

9. Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Designing With Type)
A book thatâ€™s been around since 1971, this is something that willintroduce you to typography. It offers pointers on how to take intoaccount such things as the feeling of a text, as well as howeffectively it is conveyed in different formats.

10. Meggs’ History of Graphic Design
This offers a wonderful writing up of the history of graphic design. Itmay be of interest to both current graphic designers, and generalartistic-minded people.

11. Graphic Design: A New History
Own this book and learn about graphic design history in a new light.The book talks in-depth of the different times of history incorrelation to what graphic designâ€™s were used.

12. Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
Author Ellen Lupton has written this wonderful book. The book has threemain sections: letter, text, and grid. Learn the history of each, howtechnology can help you, and then see examples in practice.

13. The Designer’s Toolkit: 500 Grids and Style Sheets: 500 Grids and Style Sheets
As you may have already guessed, this book challenges designers tore-think their idea of how to work within a grid. There are 500 gridand style sheets ready for you to produce your work on and see what youlike.

14. Looking Closer 5: Critical Writings on Graphic Design
This is the fifth and final installment in a series of wonderful books.Within these pages you will find writing on controversial topics thatwill encourage you to think outside of the page, or the screen.

15. How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer
Learn what you have in common with other graphic designers who haveachieved success. What has helped them overcome obstacles may very wellhelp you as well. This book is full of interviews you will findinvaluable.
16. Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design
The title of the book tells you what youâ€™re getting, right off thebat. Michael Bierut writes with whimsy and a critical eye in this bookthat you are sure to enjoy and be educated from.
17. How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
The work of a graphic designer is not easy, and you probably alreadyknow that. Within these160 pages you will discover writing on topicssuch as how to generate ideas when your mind is void of them. Youdonâ€™t want to become a slave to mundane tasks and lose your spark, ifyou feel yourself drifting â€“ reach for this book.

18. LogoLounge 3: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers (LogoLounge)
If youâ€™re crazy for logos then this is the book for you. In thisthird installment, you will find a myriad of different logos â€“ 2,000to be exact. Get inspired with this book, and then get designing.

19. Logo Design (Midi Series)
This is a handy reference book on logo design. Students and professionals alike will enjoy this book.

20. Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
Fifty typographers are featured in this book, and what they all have incommon is that they reject technology, and design their fonts by hand.While the title at first can seem shocking to anyone, it will stayshocking to a designer. Whenâ€™s the last time you reached for a penand paper for your final draft? Maybe next time you will, after readingthis book.

21. UniversalPrinciples of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, InfluencePerception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and TeachThrough Design
Well-written, this book is what it claims to be â€“ 100 ways toenhance, influence, increase, teach â€“ you get the idea. It is easy tounderstand and follow, and gives you well-researched briefs on avariety of topics that normally youâ€™d have to read about in severaldifferent books.

22. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
Experts that make up the Adobe Creative Team have put together thisbook for you to easily expand your knowledge of the Adobe Photoshopprogram. Learn how to do things better and faster, all from readingthis book.

23. The Adobe Photoshop CS3 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
To have Adobe Photoshop is one thing; to be able to use it is onething, but to be able to use it well is another. And that is especiallytrue when it comes to digital photography. If you want the best tipsand tricks, this book wonâ€™t lead you astray.

24. Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book
Master the programs in Adobe Illustrator by using this book as astep-by-stop guide. The Adobe Creative Team will guide you where youneed to go.

25. The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book (WOW!)
If you want to be the best with using Adobeâ€™s Illustrator, you needthis book. There are tons of lessons in this book to help you learn newtools. Ever wonder how to take a desaturated image and make it appearto be a color photo? Read and learn.

26. Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
This is a good book for beginners. Make sure to get the second printing, as the first as some typos!

27. HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
You should know HTML, and probably XHTML and CSS as well. So learn ithere, with this wonderful book! This is not for advanced students.

28. CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions
Authors Andy Budd, Simon Collison, and Cameron Moll have written theultimate guide to CSS! Learn everything you wanted to know, and moreâ€“ in this book.

29. Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)
When you build a Web site, you want it to work. This book will help youlearn how to get out all of the kinks and bugs from your site so thatthe widest possible audience can access it without flaws.

30. SEO Book
When you have a Web site, you want traffic. You get that through searchengine optimization (SEO). This is the only book you will ever need tomaster search engine optimization and you can download it!

Top 7 Most Overused Techniques & Elements Used In 2008 Graphic Design

2008-11-24T15:05:00.001-08:00

Is all design looking the same to you? Are you following graphic design trends subconsciously?

Top 7 Most Overused Techniques & Elements Used in Graphic Design

Whenever you look for inspiration, you are bound to come across at least one of these techniques / effects / elements. These effects are neither “good or bad” however they are the most common elements found in today’s designs.

Stock images have been used to portray each element. On that note of stock, there was a great discussion about the use of stock art over at GoMediaZine.

1. Sunrays / Rays of Light / Rising Sun

By far the most overused technique used in design today is theinfamous rays of light usually found tucked away in the background of adesign or at the very forefront of the design such as in the pictureabove.

2. Black (or Coloured) Silhouettes

Vectorised silhouettes of people and other objects is definitelysecond on the list. Made famous by the iPod campaign this technique cannow be seen everywhere. Notice the combination of the sun rays andblack silhouettes?

3. Ink Splatter

Closely contending with number 4, ink splatters are everywhere. InkSplatters do add a cool / trendy look to a design and they do blendwell with grunge style designs however ink splatters should be used inmoderation.

4. Swirls / Flourishes / Ornaments

Swirls seem to be all the rage at the moment as they are quiteappealing and generally just nice to look at. Flourishes &ornaments go well together to create organic, fresh designs which isquite ‘in’ at the moment.

5. Flowing Lines

Flowing lines generally add motion and fluidity to a design whichgives it a certain emotion when combined with other elements (ie. funkycircles as seen above) which is generally why they come up so often.

6. Funky Circles

The funky circle colour combo is evident in numerous designs acrossthe web and like the name suggests it does give a design a quite funkylook however they are being used everywhere!

7. Smoke Textures

These smoky effects are not as blatantly obvious as the other onesas they are always in the background of a design however if you look abit closer, these smoky effects are everywhere.

Beautiful Girl Skin with Photoshop Tutorial

2008-11-19T23:31:00.000-08:00

Best of CSS Design idea and Inspiration

2008-11-11T08:02:00.000-08:00

For those who don’t know, I’m also the guy behind Best Web Gallery and N.Design Studio. In 2006, I started Best Web Gallery as a gallery site where I feature the best CSS and Flash sites. I’m glad that I started the project because it gives me the opportunity to keep my design sense up-t0-the-trend. In the past year, I’ve seen a lot of sites from the submissions (some are great, some are horrible). As 2007 is wrapping up, I would like to share the best design sites with you. Here is a list of 50 websites hand-picked from Best Web Gallery — Best of CSS Design 2007.

Capture the Valley

Beautifully designed single page site.

Squawk Design

Impressive design by a graphic arts student, Dominik Lenk.

Holiday To Go

Love the red color applied on the tinted background.

Team Green

The torn paper and grunge effects are nicely put together. If you like my previous artistic design collection, you will like this site.

Radiant Plumbing

How can a plumbing website be so artistic (check out the header artwork)? If the contrast on the text area is higher, it would be a perfect design.

Alex Buga

Love the semi-transparent effects applied on the wood texture.

Burnett Dairy

Very cooperative, yet friendly.

Variable

Another artsy site.

Pixelmator

A Mac application site with nice icons and layout structure.

Jon Tan

Good use of web typography and grid layout.

Scrapblog

A beautiful web-app frontpage.

Marius Roosendaal

Single page portfolio site of Marius Roosendaal. Don’t forget to check out both "Day" and "Night" theme.

Trale

I particularly like the details spent on the typography of Trale.

Sarah Hyland

Very well-done on the header design.

Eye Candy

Mmm yummy… both the design and chocolate bars. Another good design site powered by WordPress.

RealaSponse

Nice 2-column homepage.

Flame Digital

Very unique layout structure and nice background images throughout the site.

Tickerville

I like the design a lot, but I’m not sure if this design/style work for a financial related site.

Webstock

New Zealand’s web conference website.

Cabedge

Simple, clean, and comfortable layout.

I Love Typography

A blog by John dedicated to typography.

Shylands

Simple, large bold font, great color contrast…

Superawesome

Very unique illustration style and color theme.

Happy Cog

A classic beautiful site.

Free People

One of my favorite ecommerce sites. The amount of details spent on this site is incredible.

Wish Tree

The wish/tag cloud in the background is simply creative!

Biola Undergrad

Another artsy design.

Viget Labs

Nice use of Javascript and CSS (I mean the scrolling effects).

Svenigson

Very clean and boxy layout.

Stuff and Nonsense

Site of Andy Clarke.

J R Velasco

Designed by Miguel Ripoll (one of my favorite designers). He has great sense of web typography. The layout looks very chaotic, yet the content is organized.

Explore Cascadia

One word, beautiful.

Yellow Stone Park

A very nice design within the box.

Elliot Jay Stocks

A design blog by Elliot Jay Stocks. He is a very talented designer with great personality (based on my personal conversations with him).

Freelance Switch

Good design and great content (freelance related).

Knoxville

Retro style in collage form.

Electric Pulp

I’m loving the watercolor effects.

Vivabit

I’m not a big fan of liquid design, but this is a good one.

Surfgarden

Nice and clean 2-column blog design.

Tanya Merone

Another great example of single-page site.

Matt Brett

A nice design blog by Matt Brett, he is a ~~designer~~ gamer.

Larissa Meek

A beautiful blog design by Larissa Meek, formerly a model, now she is an art director at AgencyNet.

Noodle Box

Nice use of color contrast.

Kineda

A blog by Terry and Tami Ng (celebrity and entertainment news).

Pod3.tv

Another nice design blog.

Kev Adamson

Another sketchy design.

Eleven3

Another retro/collage approach.

Turbo Milk

Nice icon.

Veerle’s Blog

Another classic beautiful blog.

31three

Blog and design portfolio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain.

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Brushes For Photoshop - C4D Render

2008-11-04T01:42:00.000-08:00

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Foliage Brush Set

2008-11-03T03:17:00.000-08:00

Details: What do you say after looking at the picture? Wow! isn't it? This great photoshop Foliage brush set is made by Mr M (!!!) from Italy. He is an excellent artist which you can see by visiting his website.

Personally I'm very thankful to all of artist who are making these great resources like photoshop brushes and giving away for free.

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Amazing AD Banners of SS

2008-10-30T19:11:00.000-07:00

Title : Amazing AD Banners of SS
Files : 2 EPS | 3.62 MB

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Free Music Anime DJ php-fusion Theme Template

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Free Red Web2.0 php-fusion Theme Template

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Free Books Movies Shop Website Template

2008-10-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

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Free Babys Kids Health HTML Template

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Free Shells Sea ocean Simple CSS Template

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Free Maths School Grey and Orange Template

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Free Simple Clouds Bleu and Grey Template

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Free Clean Simple White and green CSS Template

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Free Daerk Black Forum Other Template

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Free Black and White Ocean HTML Template

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Free Clean White and Bleu HTML Template

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Free Grey and Orange Portal Template

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Free Art Egyptian Brown HTML Template

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Free 3 Columns Blog Red CSS Template

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Free Mountaines Grey Forest Business Template

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Fre Bleu zoo Monkey Website HTML Template

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Free Castle Health Hospital Template

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Free USA Bleu Portal Hightech Template

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Free Flowers Shop website Template

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Free Dark Grey and Black Quotes Template

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Free Dark Black grey and pink Template

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Free Hightech dreams Plume Template

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Free Network Hosting Blog Blogger Template

2008-10-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

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Free Night City Black Travel Blogger Template

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Free Computers Blog Blogger Template

2008-10-28T06:01:00.001-07:00

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Free Dark Black and Bleu Blogger Template

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Free 3 Columns Dark Red Blogger Template

2008-10-28T06:00:00.001-07:00

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Free Simple 2 Columns Blogger Template

2008-10-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

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Free Clean and Clear Blogger Template

2008-10-28T05:59:00.000-07:00

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Free Red and White 3 Columns Blogger Templates

2008-10-28T05:58:00.000-07:00

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Free Purpple 3 Columns Travel Template

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Free Ads 3 Columns Themes Blogger Template

2008-10-28T05:56:00.000-07:00

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Free Black and White Simple Blogger Template

2008-10-28T05:55:00.000-07:00

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Free Dark Purpple and Black Blogger Template

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Free Dark Red Black Brain Blogger Template

2008-10-28T05:53:00.001-07:00

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Free Pink Heart White Blogger Template

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Vector Grunge

2008-10-27T12:56:00.000-07:00

A free vector stock from mykolan. Download Note: To use open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator

Free Sahara Desert Style HTML Template

2008-10-26T07:12:00.001-07:00

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Free Worldwide Company Business Template

2008-10-26T07:12:00.000-07:00

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Free Integral White soft Green HTML Template

2008-10-26T07:11:00.000-07:00

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Free Amazing Cool Bleu CSS Template

2008-10-26T07:10:00.000-07:00

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Free Green Garden Flowers Template

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Free Dark Black Red Menu HTML Template

2008-10-26T07:08:00.000-07:00

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Free Clean Tutorials Website HTML Template

2008-10-26T07:07:00.001-07:00

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Free CSS Multi Nationnal Blog Template

2008-10-26T07:07:00.000-07:00

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Free Pink Flower HTML Website Template

2008-10-26T07:05:00.000-07:00

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Free Green White Blog CSS Template

2008-10-26T07:04:00.000-07:00

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Free Art Snow Love Blog CSS Template

2008-10-26T07:03:00.000-07:00

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Free Collective Company CSS Template

2008-10-26T07:02:00.000-07:00

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Background Vectors

2008-10-25T14:32:00.000-07:00

A set of 6 vector compositions that can be used as backgrounds. Download Note: To use, extract the files with Winrar (Win 32) or StuffIt (Mac OS) Thanks to Dj Shokry

Ink Splatter brush set

2008-10-25T10:49:00.001-07:00

Details: This ink splatter photoshop brush set is deleted from the original site. The ink splatter brush set which you are going to download is similar to the image but not the same. It is made by another artist LeeDeeYa. She has made several great brush set. So download this Ink Splatter brush set and make your art standout.

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Ink Splatter brush set

2008-10-25T10:49:00.000-07:00

Details: This ink splatter photoshop brush set is newest in list. It is made by Ana fagarazzi ( Female, Croatia.) Look at her marvelous gallery. If you use this photoshop brush please give credit to her.

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Recycling Symbols

2008-10-24T15:40:00.000-07:00

A free set of social awareness six symbols in vector (EPS) format from DJShokry. Download

Voodoo Brushes

2008-10-24T03:39:00.000-07:00

Description: This great voodoo brush set is made by Sultan. Sultan is a graphic designer from Saudi Arabia. Beside the voodoo brushes he made other great photoshop brushes as well. Which you can find at his web log. Black seems to be his personal theme. His site and the brushes made me feel this. About this voodoo brush set, he says:

Voodoo Brushes , the tittle isn't really a voodoo things but they give you the same feeling you know, I created them to use them in couple of designs, I used the non-Posted Group "Sacrificial Pillars" and one design " Dark Ritual , you may check the result in the gallery before you try them.

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Important: From last few posts I'm trying to give you direct download from my own space and not from the original author's space. It is just because several original author's links are dead. This is Not meant to be a rip. Please Understand.

d.giant vector icon 30 Free Download

2008-10-23T23:01:00.000-07:00

Title : d.giant vector icon 30
File : AI | 1.83 MB

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Draw characters from photos. Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

2008-10-21T16:01:00.000-07:00

An old character design tutorial from Computer Arts magazine that is worth your attention if you are looking forward to learn universal vector character illustration techniques."Over the next few pages we take you through the process of creating a ‘real life’ character using Illustrator CS2. The main character in this illustration is John C McGinley, from the TV show Scrubs. He was originally drawn for a feature in a magazine in which readers submit their real-life questions to a different celebrity each month. To save money on photoshoots, publishers often commission designers to illustrate celebrities. What follows is a step-by-step guide showing you how to do just that." Full tutorial and files

Masking object with Adobe Illustrator CS4 Tutorial

2008-10-16T00:22:00.000-07:00

49 Future Icons

2008-10-11T18:10:00.000-07:00

Title : 49 Future Icons
File : PNG Format

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50 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

2008-10-10T22:36:00.000-07:00

A great (probably the best one around the web) collection of Adobe Illustrator tutorials for pros and beginners. Some of the tutorials are focused on explaining the concept of drawing vectors, others are emphasizing on using specific tools like :Paintbrush Tool, Brush Panel, Mesh Tool, Patterns, 3D Extrude, Bevel Tool, Live Tracing ... etc. Enjoy ! Link

element icon illustrator 2

2008-10-09T21:04:00.000-07:00

Title : element icon illustrator 2
File : AI | 934KB

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24 Hour Comic Day 2008

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October 18 2008

"About the Cartoonist Conspiracy: The San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy is one of the oldest
cartooning groups still running in the city. The group meets twice a month at the Church ST Cafe and work on collaborative comics and exercises. The group has drawn over 30 jam comic books and has published many in print and online. The SFCC is open to any artists to come and jam."

More about the event here.

Background Mix Vector

2008-10-08T19:34:00.000-07:00

Title : Background.Mix.Vector
File : AI |4.05MB

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Halftone Decoration

2008-10-08T00:16:00.000-07:00

A free vector stock from sergeypoluse . The set contains random halftone decorative shapes. Download Note: To use open the PDF file with Adobe Illustrator.Related posts: Halftone Background in Adobe Illustrator Tutorial, Vector Halftone Patterns

Random Vectors

2008-10-07T11:51:00.000-07:00

A set of random vector illustrations from Rickashay. The stock includes shapes of William Shakespeare, Fidel Castro + other unrelated but handy signs and symbols. Download (EPS)

Vector Soldier : Knock 'Em Out The Box

2008-10-07T00:03:00.000-07:00

Vector Illustration of a soldier by JohnnyDoomsday . The file includes 6 different pattern swatches, so you can easily change the main color of the uniform. Download (EPS)

Creative Online Magazines

2008-10-05T22:40:00.000-07:00

Another great collection of inspirational links, that I just found @ smashingapps.com. Have a look at 20 Creative and inspirational free design magazines here. Enjoy, I know the content is too exciting, but get some sleep from time to time, please ;) .

R’lyeh City Brushes

2008-10-05T16:32:00.000-07:00

Two sets of vector brushes for Adobe Illustrator from r2010. Main inspiration from H.R. Giger Antoni Gaudí and R’lyeh City. Prefect for drawing gothic swirls, dragon wings, etc. Download links: Pack 01; Pack 02;