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Icon Library >> How to use icons to enhance your designs
A great article that shows you great uses for Icons
Design Cookbook offers useful online resources for creating great design. Your one-stop solution for finding design links.
Showcase of Creative and Inspiring Text Art
Enjoy this Showcase of Creative and Inspiring Text Art. These may serve as inspirations to those who plan on venturing to a different design technique.
A font that looks just like you
Mary Huang created a software that turns your face into a font.
A Freebie gift for my readers. A FREE social media icons set! which comes with 10 most common social media icons.
Most Beautiful Rss Icons On The Web
Today almost every blog has RSS, but does it attract users to click it? Here is a nice resource of beautiful RSS icons that will get users attention.
30+ Abstract Photo Manipulation Artwork for Inspiration
Photo manipulation art is very interesting and continues to improve; examples of great photo manipulation artworks from around the world to help give you fresh inspiration.
A Collection of 30+ Useful Maya Tutorials
Here in this post, we bring you A Collection of 30+ Useful Maya Tutorials to give you more knowledge in the appropriate usage of the software. Enjoy reading and have fun learning!
Comparison of popular social bookmarking widgets
Reviews and performance comparison of the most popular social bookmarking widgets: AddThis, ShareThis, AddToAny and Tell-a-Friend.
40 Extremely Cool and Inspiring Typography Designs
This list of 40 Extremely Cool and Inspiring Typography Designs showcases a collection of truly stunning typography designs. Check out this amazing roundup and let us know what inspires you!!!
20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and Tutorials for Your Website
20 very useful jQuery plugins, techniques and tutorials that will give you the advantage while developing your next website
20 Amazing jQuery Plugins and Tutorials for Your Website
20 very useful jQuery plugins, techniques and tutorials that will give you the advantage while developing your next website
Brilliant Matte Dispersion Effects in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn the creation of some custom brushes, and application of them to a stock image to create a matte dispersion effect.
Masugid is a 5-in-1 professional free WordPress theme. Packed with a better framework and an admin options panel, this special WordPress theme has a fancy featured content slider.
6 Best Free Online Drawing Tools
A number of useful drawing tools are made available.Drawing tools are useful in page layout and graph windows for highlighting material with boxes, circles
50 Extraordinary Creative Free Fonts for Designers
Fonts always are one of the essential part of Graphic and web designs, when working on design projects weather your designing for the web or for print its always essential to have a good..
51 Great New Photoshop Tutorials
In this article you will find 51 of the most interesting Photoshop tutorials that appeared in the last month.
Top 50 Free Applications for Mac Users (Part 1)
In this article I have showcased first version of Free Applications for Mac Users. Today Mac Users are growing all over the world.
25+ Wonderful Photography Techniques and Tutorials
Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
Deep in Space Portfolio Layout Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create an outer space website layout that could be used for a portfolio design.
List Of Essential PHP Quick References And CheatSheets
In this post you will find a list of PHP Cheat Sheets & Quick Reference Guides for PHP Specialist, Web Programmers, Coders & for Web developers for Quick coding with PHP.
Premium WordPress Themes – Are They Worth The Money?
Premium WordPress themes have been incredibly popular for a couple of years now – but what is that makes them premium? Why are they “better” than free themes? This article addresses these questions.
I’ve handpicked cool birthday card designs to inspire your creativity. You can either build your design around these samples or mix them with your original concept.
10 things you didn’t know Adobe InDesign could do
Tricks, tools and features you might know in Adobe InDesign
Engage 2 CSS Positions : Relative & Absolute
As a web developer or designer we must be frequently facing a task to create a webpage layout. In creating that, positioning a stacked-random element usually put through a nightmare for us.
10 things you didn’t know Adobe InDesign could do
Tricks, tools and features you might know in Adobe InDesign
Huge and Extensive Roundup of 45 Miscellaneous Icon Packs
We have sorted different type of icon packs in this roundup like animal icons, creature icons, emoticons, Food icons and a lot more.
Web Designer Interview – Design Vetica
An interview with the young entrepreneurs who started Design Vetica
List of 25 Beautiful Websites That Use jQuery
Showcase of beautiful websites built with jQuery
How To Color Old Black and White Photos
Have you ever found old black and white photographs and wondered what they would look like in colour? Here is a simple short tutorial to show you how you can add colour to any photograph.
The 5 Golden Rules for Increasing productivity as a Designer
These are five very useful tips which I use and follow as designer in order to increase productivity while working on a design project.
PerfectPixel Business and Portfolio WP Theme 10 in 1 Released
This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or freelancer portfolio website as well. For the most part you can just follow the provided Help file which is very extensive.
100 Amazing Typographic Portraits
We want to show you some incredible typographic portraits, the literal meaning for typefaces on this article. Enjoy
A Collection of Free T Shirt Templates
A Collection of Free T Shirt Templates is compiled here for design usage. You may find a lot of uses for this short list that we have came up with.
Client Tactics: How to Spot a Deadbeat Client
A deadbeat client is any client who gives the freelancer extra problems during the span of the project, outside the normal specifications of the project.
Web Color Trends for Spring 2010
Do color trends really occur in the web world? I’m not sure, but I love this series because it gives me color inspiration. See what colors are “in” for Spring 2010!
35+ Attractive Portfolio Web Designs
Earlier, Portfolios used to be in print designs. But now designers are making full advantage of these portfolios to show off their talent on Internet.
Free St. Patrick’s Day Illustration
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Please take your chance to download a free illustration of a cute leprechaun.
15 Extremely Creative Advertising Ideas
Here are a few ideas of clever advertising that will surely make an impact on you. Simple, creative, brilliant and with a strong message.
25 Amazing Natural Brushes and Textures for Photoshop
25 Amazing free Natural Brushes and Textures for Photoshop
Free “Under Construction” WordPress Theme from DeliciousThemes
This template is a simple one page “Under Construction” WordPress theme.It has a nice interface and a great admin panel.
How to Customize fonts in WordPress blog with CSS3
Before start, Would like to tell you a very important thing that Font designers work very hard to create fonts, their work is copyrighted and licensed.
Evolution of Graphic Design in Fifa World Cup
Fifa World Cup 2010, the biggest and the most awaited event of the year, is just 84 days away. While the individual talents of the players and managers inspire many of the youths around the earth
Top 15 Must See Photoshop Tips & Tricks (2010)
Time to learn a few tips & tricks that will help save you a lot of time and make your design work flow much more efficient.
The Rise of Unemployment: Where to Now?
With unemployment on the rise, where do those finding it hard to find work go? Is freelancing a possibility?
5 Creative Image Compression Technique To Use In Webdesign
There are creative ways to use simple compression techniques in Photoshop. That is what we’re going to discuss in this post.
SpeakTECH enters Rackspace Partner Network
The combination of speakTECH’s passion for WEB 2.0 solutions and Rackspace’s distinctive brand of customer service will now be available together
Free icon sets: 55 user icons designed pixel by pixel
Carefully design set of 55 user icons created pixel by pixel to look optimized in smaller sizes.
Ultimate Bokeh Set: 30+ High-Resolution Bokeh Backgrounds
This set contains 7 different bokeh styles, each with a variety of colors, for a grand total of over 30 high-res backgrounds.
A short blog post on how design and branding differentiates your product when your only content is just water.
Create a simple lcd monitor icon in Illustrator
Hi there. In this tutorial you’ll learn to create a simple lcd monitor icon.
How To Design A Minimalistic WordPress Blog
This tutorial describes how to build a clean and minimal WordPress design in Photoshop.
11 WordPress Plugins To Manage Your Ads Banners
These 11 WordPress plugins help you effectively manage your banners so that you monetize your blog better.
What’s In Your Design Toolbox? Part 4: Jeff Finley
In part 4 of the “Design Toolbox Series” I ask Jeff Finley of GoMedia what tools he uses to create his awesome designs.
Review of Rework by 37 Signals
A review of Rework; the latest book by the 37 Signals camp. (Creators of Ruby on Rails, Basecamp, Highrise, and more web 2.0 software.)
Create a Colourful Web Button with CSS
In this tutorial, we will take a look at a technique for creating your own multi-state web buttons using HTML, CSS and image sprites.
Simple Black Square Icons Alphanumeric
This simple black square icons alphanumeric set includes almost everything found on a computer keyboard (numbers 0 thru 10, letters A thru Z, !, @, #, $, %, & … Etc)
MySpace New Platform for Gamers and Developers
MySpace is now looking into Gaming and application platform. The company announced at Game Developers Conference in San Fransisco about the launch of new platforms
50 High Quality Beautiful Nature Wallpapers for Your Desktop
Everybody is going green. And its our responsibility is to take care of our green nature. So I have also started my mission to make this earth more green.
18 Industrial Brochure Design Examples
We’ve gathered 18 professional industrial brochure design examples to inspire your next client project.
40 Powerful CSS Tools And Generators To Automate Your Workflow
Showcase of 40 useful and powerful CSS tools and generators. These tools can really relieve developers work in many ways – coding, optimizing and automatizing!
How To Create A Sparkle Trend Advertisement – Photoshop Tutorial
In this tutorial I explore how to create a stunning ad in the sparkle/glow trend. I am pulling inspiration from one of the coolest ad designers around, Chuck Anderson.
Filmspiration – The Only Successful Videogame Movie Ever
Even though I’m a filmmaker by profession, it’s my firm belief that videogames will be the dominant artform of the 21st century.
8 Tileable fabric texture patterns
Today’s web treat is a free release of our 8 tileable fabric texture patterns previously available only on Graphic River. Includes Leather, Denim, Argyle, Soft Cotton, and more..
40 Free Minimalist And High Quality Fonts
In this collection you will find 40 simple and professional minimalist fonts for your projects on creating web, graphic and print design.
110 Excellent Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design – Part I
In this post we present a 110 Excellent and Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design or Project of Part I that are available for free download and (sometimes only for personal) use.
30+ great examples of graffiti
Today we would like to present 30+ great examples of street art. Collection of graffiti at its best.
33 Excellent “OUT OF THE BOX” Ways for Creatives to find Inspiration
In this article I’ll give you my best tips for how to get back to the creative corner. Some tips may seem funny but seriously give them a try and you will love them.
Create Portfolio Website With CSS/jQuery
Amazing tutorial which uses only pure CSS and jQuery to design a whole portfolio website, no photoshop or any other design software required.
30 Excellent Graphic Email Newsletter Designs for Your Inspiration
Much like web design, a beautifully designed email newsletter can make the user more interested in your product or service. Today, lets take a look at 30 Excellent Graphic Email Newsletter Designs
ManageME7: A Recommended Financial Tool for Designers & Developers
Dealing with your website design business finances when a lot of website design projects are waiting to be delivered, is a crucial task.
42 FREE Best Vector Resources Websites
As a starting designer, or just as a designer who wants to play around with some vectors, you’d need some free vector elements, so you don’t dump any money into something…
51 Amazing Apple iPad Backgrounds
As promised, here is the follow-up post for more amazing backgrounds that can be added to the new Apple iPad…
Apple Trend in Web Design: Inspiration, Resources and Tutorials
In this post, I will show you some of best websites using this trend, some tutorials to realize the “Apple” effects on Photoshop and Jquery and some free resources.
We list only the best Freebies
Free vector silhouettes of common people.
You are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes.
Colorful Sliders With jQuery & CSS3
In this tutorial we are using jQuery and the new transformation features brought by CSS3 to create a three dimensional dynamic slider effect.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of this holiday that is so closely linked with beer, we’ve pulled together the top 60 malt liquor advertisements.
Created by DiveandGo, this Scuba Diving Icon Set include ten wonderful icons, with: anchor, coral, clown fish, mask, pearl, seahorse, sea star, treasure, and turtle. Each icon in set looks smashing.
Showcase of Edgy Myspace Page Designs
This is a showcase of custom myspace pages designed by freelancers
15 Amazing Digital Illustrations by Vincent Fraser
Vince Fraser is a freelance digital illustrator / designer based in London who has worked for various clients.
How To Build Your Reputation And Authority As A Designer
Whether you are just starting out in the design business, or you have been around awhile but few people have ever heard of you.
25 Beautiful Free Twitter Icon Resources
I though i would write this article to help bloggers, developers, and many others. Web icons are a huge element when it comes to web designing.
Minimalist Approach to Creating Flash Websites
Sometimes wisely used extreme simplicity speaks even more, that is less is more or maybe even less but better. Yeah, what is at issue is the minimalist approach in Flash website creation.
Amazing T-Shirt Graphic Designs Collection
Many of the graphic designers around the world would have surely tried to come up with something new design for the t-shirts that they wear. In this post our try is to inspire these people
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Nice collection. I’ll definitely check these out, lots of helpful stuff here. Thank very much for compiling.
This is a really useful idea and well pulled off.
nice collection the only think i wish you had doen is showed a privie i will defenelty book mart this and use the tutorials.
wow what a nice post thanks for sharing this information
amazing guide thanks
Great list – bit of information overflow but quite useful. thanks for sharing
This is great. bookmarked!
Great website and thanks for the information. It seems to be pretty hard to locate the world cup shirts in the US. Most stores don’t have them. The internet seem to be a fantastic spot to be a buy world cup shirt.
This is a great mix of info. I have spent hours reading and learning. Thanks for sharing the info with us.
This is great. bookmarked!Thanks for sharing the info with us.
Ololo! Yes, fantastically good collection. I am reading it with pleasure, this is interesting and useful information!
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