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Freelancer’s Blur: Coffee and TV
Rarely do we wonder at the effects of these things on our work-life. Find out how caffeine and TV effect our work.
18 Useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins
Here, we share 18 useful WordPress Contact Form Plugins where you can build you contact form easy without programming skill. Also consider using some WordPress slider plugins for your next project.
A Good Business Card Design for Effective Branding
Effective branding is when people are compelled to do business with you by just looking at your business card.
Creative Flyers for Guerrilla Promotion
In this age of cut-throat competition and short attention spans, it’s a must to grab your target audience by the neck on first contact.
Custom Wall Stickers for Children
No doubt, using custom wall stickers is one of the coolest ways to spice up your kids’ room. Aside from being relatively cheaper than
10 Amazing And Free Design Ebooks
Below are 10 amazing ebooks that you can download for free! Some require you to leave some of your info but are free and definitely worth it!
100+ great free tumblr themes for your tumblr space
The Smashing Book has been well praised from within the web design and development community. Smashing Magazine typically releases high quality content but does the book live up to the hype?
Convert PowerPoint 2007 to DVD with Online PowerPoint Converters
Convert PowerPoint 2007 to DVD with online PowerPoint converters like authorstream.com, zamzar.com and you can use PowerPoint 2007 to DVD converter for better conversion from PPT 2007 to DVD.
A WordPress Magazine Theme is great for presenting a lot of information online
10 Sites to Make Business Cards Online
Make business cards online easily without the need for a graphic design software or design experience with the easy-to-follow online business card makers.
Good idea is also to know is some good new WordPress themes has been released!
50+ Logos Created With Brilliant Logic
Logo is not a mark. Its an aspect of a company’s commercial brand.We have managed to showcase 50+ logos that will surely inspire you to build your company’s identity.
How to Get Inspired Without Using a Computer
What’s the first thing you do when you are looking for some ideas to get your creative juices flowing? Type in “_________ inspiration” into Google?
An interview with the wonderful illustrator Rod Hunt
49 Free HD Widescreen Wallpapers
Here is a diverse collection of 49 high-resolution HD widescreen wallpapers. Below the samples is where you will find the free download for all 49 full-sized, original images.
15 Places To Download Free Twitter Icon Sets
If you are looking for free icons collection in the web for your next project, blog design or any other creative works I think every web designer should bookmark these 15 sites.
A Collection Of MooTools Navigation Solutions
What we are going to cover today is navigation as your project’s navigation is always an important design element and can greatly determine your sites usability…
If you use a free theme I recommend you boost its functionality with a few good wordpress widget plugins.
Simple Black Square Icons – Culture
This simple black square icons culture set is one of our largest sets and includes a wide assortment of popular (based upon web search data) cultural symbols and icons from around the world.
TypeTalk: Setting Phone Numbers
Show off your typographic know-how by setting phone numbers perfectly. Small details can make a difference!
News of Apple’s iPad is everywhere. Here’s what it means to CreativePro.com readers.
Fresh Examples of Web 2.0 Design and Interfaces
Fresh Examples of Web 2.0 Design and Interfaces gathered from DA
Every kind of work implies the use of tools to make it more productive and professional.
Some really nice Opencart templates can make your shop viral!
Great artworks as iPhone wallpapers to customize your iPhone’s look.
180 Awesome WordPress Tutorials for Developers
List of 180+ Awesome WordPress Tutorials. A Must check out for WordPress Developers and Fans!
Free Funky Seamless Orange Patterns
Today’s web treat is a free combo pack of large seamless Free Funky Orange textures in .jpg format as well as a corresponding Photoshop tileable pattern (.pat) set.
30 Designer toys, apparel, and accessories Online stores
There is a lot of Creative designers with the skills and the talent to sale they’re work for others to enjoy. So here is a selection of 30 online stores that sell designer made stuff.
16 Creative product packaging designs
This is a selection of product packaging designs that we found Searching the internet. It go’s to show that packaging designs doesn’t need to be boring or without style, get a little Creative.
Best Of The Web/Design In January 2010
Our first monthly edition of our monthly roundup in 2010 when we collect all the best design tutorials,article and design resources.
10 Agencies Ready to Buy Your Photos Right Here and Right Now
A wide variety of micro stock photography agencies allows photographers to make some extra money from their images easier than ever.
Email marketing is a great way to promote your business. If you’re not already doing it, here’s why you should.
StumbleUpon and its incredible power
This article will teach you how to easily get massive traffic to your blog using StumbleUpon. And also give you a brief summary of how StumbleUpon works and a lot of really nice social network icons.
Create A Beautiful 3D Text Composition
In this tutorial, you’ll learn step by step how to render beautiful and visually sharp 3d text and then combine it with additional visual elements to create a 3D text composition using Photoshop.
Inspiration – The Work of Illustrator Mike Watt
An inspirational post showcasing the brilliant work of Sydney based Illustrator Mike Watt.
More and more people are starting to have a blog. But I have a question, what is the main cause which determines them to make a blog? Here’s a few answers!
How to create light and lighting
Creating simple lighting effects is not only easy, but fun and rewarding for as much minimal effort it takes in Photoshop
Tips to Celebrate Wonderful Groundhog Day
How to spend Groundhog Day? There are some suggestions on what you can do for a wonderful groundhog day.
24 Free Church Marketing Photoshop Files
Here is a list of 24 amazing Photoshop files, free to download and use in you work. The files are geared towards usage in churches, but they are perfect for any project that you may have.
40 Latest Trend Vintage and Retro Business Cards
Every company need an identity for advertise his brand and business cards also part of any company identity which will play major role in brand or company marketing and when we follow some latest..
Blogging on WordPress: A Delightful Experience
Blogging is an art of writing your thoughts in a convincing way to establish a thread of trust between you and your target audiences. It can be a simple write-up or a personal video message.
9 Interesting Mootools Examples and Tutorials ready for use
MooTools is a compact, modular, Object-Oriented JavaScript framework designed for the intermediate to advanced JavaScript developer. It allows you to write powerful, flexible,
10 Web Analytic Tools to Track Traffic Trends
There are plenty of web analytics applications including some big guns like Google Analytics, Statcounter and remote-site services such as Alexa, Compete and Quantcast.
Create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon in Photoshop
In this Photoshop tutorial, we will learn how to create an Old and Stained Newspaper Icon from scratch.
HTML5 explained by Flickr-Images – Header, Dialog, Section, Video, …
“HTML5 explained by Flickr images”, deals with more and more into the focus of hitching on HTML5 and the expected new HTML tags, such as header, dialog, section, video, …
How to Find the Right Web Hosting Company for your Online Business?
There are a number of web hosting companies operating in the market.
4 Most Useful Resources of CSS and HTML for Web Designers
This post presents some of the latest resources centered on CSS and HTML for web designers.
Excellent Magazine Style WordPress Themes for Effective Redesign
Magazine style themes are popular in design blogging niche. I decided to share with you my favorite Magazine style WordPress themes. Hope that you’ll find this collection useful.
How To Design a Clean and Professional Resume / CV Website
Learn how to create a clean and minimal resume and CV web template in this tutorial. Follow the steps outlined and you’ll have a professional template designed in no time at all.
Graphic Design | Adriano Estokero
Designer Freelancer Portfolio (Brasil)
Creative Advertising Photography And Photo Manipulation By Fred Perrot
For your inspiration doze i have selected a talented artist named Fred Perrot.
Design Tools – Where Did They Come From?
It’s important to know a bit of the background behind many of the tools we as designers use each day including when they were created and the inventors behind the genius.
5 External Portfolio Sites Compared
If you are looking for the best site to host your portfolio, you are probably wondering which one is really the best for me?
Thoughts on multilingual web design
Three considerations you must make when designing your website – aspects that will make your site far easier to adapt for other languages in the future.
Design an Awesome Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, I will show you the steps I took to create this really cool-looking, Splashing Ocean Text Effect with Lightning Background in Photoshop. Have a try 
Designing Your Header With the Best Practices and Examples
The header of your web site helps the visitors connect and understand the information that you are trying to provide. If your websites header was not designed to optimize the flow of all information..
25 Inspiring Vector Wallpapers
A short round-up of 25 new beautifully design and inspiring vector wallpapers. Featuring only wallpapers designed in January 2010.
10 Must-See Flash Photo Galleries Powered by FlashMoto Flash CMS
Everybody will agree that one of the indisputable advantages of Flash technology is the ability to create splendid slideshows and Flash photo galleries.
Making eBooks from InDesign, Part 2
In Part 2 of this 2-part series, you’ll learn how to unlock the full potential of EPUB files by opening and editing them after exporting them from InDesign.
Facebook is not Twitter. You shouldn’t have too many friends there.
For a long time I was thinking why Facebook is such a great tool for promoting our projects?
WaveSecure: An App Every Android User Must Know and Use
There are all different types of mobile apps out there. WaveSecure for Android is an app that includes all your security needs.
117 Funniest Creative Job and Recruitment Ads
The most creative and funny job ads that recruiters are using to get your attention.
Avatar Movie Wallpapers And Navi Recreating Tutorials
This is most fun post – everybody will enjoy those beautiful Avatar wallpapers and maybe even get so excited to recreate Navi effects and turn his own photo into Navi one!
Photoshop Variables: How to Import External PSD Smartly
When working on large projects, with many mock-ups and style-sheets, even the smallest change on a re-occurring component can take quite some time.
A Designer Guide: How to Build and Promote an App to be Proud of
This Appifesto’s intention is to help inspire some of the design focused newbies to the world of app development and I hope it sets a precedent. It really is the only way.
Save Money and Get It for Free! Luxurious Interior Website Template.
Prepare yourself for exciting news, because today you are lucky to get Free Interior Website Template from Templates.com.
Unbelievable Lego Art From Nathan Sawaya
Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things.Yes he is a lego artist,brick artist or whatever you think
30 Awesome Orange Websites For Your Inspiration
For your inspiration, dont miss the 30 best websites using orange as a central color.
Sweet AJAX Tabs With jQuery 1.4 & CSS3
In this tutorial we are making sweet AJAX-powered tabs with CSS3 and the newly released version 1.4 of jQuery.
Showcase of 50 Outstanding Abstract Vector Designs
This week I have compiled a list sharing fifty outstanding vector works of art that I found within their pages.
Free Motion Graphics Background of Zach Fonville
Zach is a Graphic Designer working in Little Rock, Arkansas. His favorite things include music, movies
10+ WordPress Frameworks for Theme Development and Customization
WordPress is the most frequently used Content Management System (CMS). The beauty of WordPress is that it allows maximum customization to everyone either freely hosted by WordPress.com…
Beautiful 500 server error pages
500 server error page design showcase
Impressive Website Usability Resources
Here are a few interesting tools which check various aspects of your site and provides you with information and gives you some idea how to rectify any issues it encounters.
A really cute set of four Luma icons for personal and commercial use.
5 Alternative And Tiny CSS Grid Systems
CSS Grid Systems can save us a lot of development time. Despite the most popular CSS Frameworks that we covered before, there are still some tiny CSS Grid Systems that worth a look.
The most inspirational images found throughout the web. Feel free to send your “Daily Picks” and I will make sure to post your picks as well as credits
70+ New Example of Brochures #2
These 70+ New and Creative Example of Brochures. You can learn from them and get nice ideas for your designs.
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.
A Broader Understanding of Value
In this article we’re going to take a broad look at the concept of value as it relates to freelancing and design, and examine some of the benefits that can be derived from this broader understanding.
15 Glossy UV Coated Business Cards Examples
You can achieve high-glossy ultra-shiny business cards by having UV coated business cards. Here are some business cards examples of UV coated business cards.
6 Free High-Res Grungy Paper Textures
Arbenting presents 6 high-resolution grungy paper textures free for commercial and personal use with no attribution necessary.
Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #55
It’s here, it’s now and it’s full of Photoshop tutorials. Yeah, you guessed what we are talking about. It’s the not-so-weekly-anymore Photoshop tutorials article
10 Deadly Sins of Website Design Executed Daily
Website design is quite a debated topic over the last decade with tremendous amount of discussion on what’s right and what’s wrong, what should be done and what not.
A showcase featuring web sites that effectively use whitespace
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nice post, this is what i need, thank for sharing, greeting
Abstract art? Wow spectacular list you’ve got.. Book marked!
i always make my own business card through adobe photoshop and ms word, they are satisfactorily made though~’*
Great list of articles. Thanks for sharing all these!
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