Design

25 High Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design

July 18, 2009 Typography

Regardless of industry and product top quality usually comes at high prize. When it comes to Fonts the same fundamental rule applies. The prize of good Fonts usually reflects their quality and start at around $50 going up to thousands of dollars. This may not fit into the budget of most minor design jobs and [...]

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JavaScript Menus made Really Easy, Free License giveaway

July 17, 2009 News

Menus are very important for web site usability and a key element of navigation. Menus also support the overall design of a website if they look good and fit into the other design elements. Even though there are many options available it has never been easy to create complex and dynamic menus unless you’re a [...]

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20+ Highest Quality Photoshop Typography Effect Tutorials

July 16, 2009 Photoshop

With Photoshop you can turn plain text into awesome typographic art. As usual with Photoshop it not easy to do it on your own but with the step by step tutorials you find in this article you’re half done. This article presents the best typographic art tutorials I have seen to date and I hope [...]

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Collection of Really Nice Gadgets for Developers

July 16, 2009 News

Everyone, or at least most adult men that really never “grew up completely” just loves gadgets. Gadgets are small technological items that in terms of design and function is believed to be way ahead of their time. Something we just need even though we may have good and working alternatives already. A true gadget that [...]

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PSD to HTML Contest by Pixelcrayons, Tweet & Win

July 15, 2009 News

I know that designers and front end developers sometimes have long working hours to meet their customers needs delivering high quality on time. I really appreciate that a lot of you still find time to visit tripwire magazine now and then to find advice or inspiration, thanks! When you’re really busy and it is hard [...]

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Essential Web Designers Guide on PSD to HTML/CSS

July 14, 2009 Web Design

If you’re a Web Designer you should be spending most of your time creating unique and creative designs for your customers. Web designers need to know some aspects of web development to understand what is possible and where the technical limitations are but should code the web pages themselves too?. Unless you’re a designer/developer multi [...]

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85 Resources providing Tons of Awesome Photoshop Brushes

July 9, 2009 Photoshop

In this article you will get access to a massive collection of Photoshop brushes in the categories; Splatter, Retro, Symbols, Grunge, Abstract, Fractal, Light, Hand Drawn, Plants and Animals. Most of the images in this Brush showcase links to large collections of free brushes ready for your download and for being applied in your designs.

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Design Your Own Icons – 25 Tutorials and Articles Designers MUST Have

July 8, 2009 Icons

With icons, web designers and graphic artists have a good opportunity to showcase their skills, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A well created, good looking icon set is a great way for designers to showcase their work and it may be a way to build up some reputation in the online sommunity. Creating [...]

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30+ CSS and Web Site Design Showcase Sites any Designer MUST Know.

July 5, 2009 Design

A really great source of inspiration is CSS Gallery and Web site design Repository sites. Looking at the successful work others created is one of the best ways to get ideas and kick start the creative process. This article provides a large compilation of web sites that specialize in collecting great web designs and making [...]

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30+ Inspirational Portfolio Designs for Web Designers

July 5, 2009 Web Design

It’s getting more and more usual for designers to showcase their artwork online and the result is tons of portfolio websites competing for awareness. This means that you need to be special to stand out. Having access to collections of great web designs that really stand out may speed up your design process significantly and [...]

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