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Good Logos are not easy to design at all but they are essential for any successful business. This article is a logo designers toolbox to get you started creating logos. First of all logo design requires knowledge of the business and how to use this information in the logo design process. Logos should be relevant, timeless and aligned with the strategy and the products and or services offered. Once you have the concept in place and a solid idea you need to be able to create the image in tools like Illustrator. This article provides links to a lot of tutorials that will help you pick up the needed skills. Please share with us you ideas, favourite tools, comments and online resources we should add.

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Wall decoration is an interesting subject and there are many possibilities. Lately wall stickers have invaded walls in private homes and in official buildings and they really help creating unique rooms and Individual impressions. I want to share some really great walls from the DGI City in Copenhagen some time ago. Decorated with paint and wall stickers, that shows scenes from the city of Copenhagen. I also have found other great wall decorations from the archives that may interest you.

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There are many design related blogs at the moment and every day new players show up. The main strategy for the vast majority of design related blogs is to publish many articles with great content to attract readers, quantity seams more important than quality. Some of them have a creative and unique design but it is static and remain the same on the many posts and pages put online. Don’t get me wrong – I think this is OK but we could all learn a lot from a few design blogs that have chosen a completely different strategy. These few blogs provide a unique design on each post with excellent use of typography, backgrounds and colors to support the theme of the individual post. This is raw inspiration that you simply need to pick up!

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If you’re a web designer you know how important it is to pick up fresh inspiration and new ideas. This post showcase 25 hand picked Beautiful Websites with excellent visual artistry, integrated sound, ease of use, and pure uniqueness. Enjoy, be inspires and please leave a comment to share links to your own favorite web site designs.

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This Article provides a collection of high-quality Photoshop smoke effect tutorials and brushes. Smoke effects can be useful in different types of design and artwork. Please drop a comment if you know a tutorial or brush set I have not listed.

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Using textures in web design have become quite popular. Textures are great for giving the design a more realistic look and feel but should be used with caution. Adding too much texture risk making the design too messy and it easily becomes a bit grunge’ish. I personally like simple textures or simply noise that break the colours a bit and gives depth and brings the design to life when used right. This post brings 25 sites with different use of textures for your inspiration. Drop a comment and share if you like some of them or if you know others I should add.

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Abobe Air may not get a lot of attention but maybe it should. The amount of good free applications available is rather surprising. Generally the applications are light weight, are easy to use and have good and intuitive user interfaces. This article list a very broad selection of useful tools based in Abobe Air. You will find anything from image editors, mind mappers, html editors, sql admin, snippet management, snapshot creaters etc. Please comment if you know a good Air tool that is not on the list!

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Typography is defined as the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyph. With Photoshop and the right skills and techniques at your disposal you can push the limits of Typography to the edge. This article is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified today. Don’t forget to bookmark, share and come back because I assure you this “elephant post” must be cut up and consumed in smaller slices! I you do so I bet your Photoshop skills will soon be hard to compete with…

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Lighting effects are often used in modern web design to give a site an interesting and different look and feel. There is something about strong lights and colours – used right the combination will catch our attention and affect our emotions in certain ways. Skilled designers know this and use it. Light effects are typically used on dark designs as they may the effects stronger – just like we are saving the best fireworks until darkness falls.

This article is a showcase of more than 40 sites using creative and inspiring lighting effects. Hope you like it and feel inspired and tempted to use some of the ideas for your own designs. Please drop a comment if you know any websites that you think should have made it on the list. If you’re ready to try out some light effects but not sure how to get started you should take a look at this post. 130+ Awesome Photoshop Tutorials – Light Effects, Drawing, Manipulation, Correction etc.

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The features, maturity,  and huge active community making Wordpress so popular for bloggers actually makes Wordpress a serious candidate for a quite large segment of traditional business websites. If you’re not already aware of it I can tell you that Wordpress is silently serving a lot of websites that I would not categorize as blogs. Of cause there are types of websites having loads of special and complex requirements Wordpress will never be supporting well but if you don’t have these needs Wordpress is worth considering… it’s free, the most popular open source platform to date, easy to use, fast to set up, there are thousands of good looking themes available… This post show you more than 20 websites using Wordpress for Non-Blogging purposes – hope this will inspire you!

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