Design

Hand Picked Photoshop Web Design Tutorials to Sharpen Your Skills

January 6, 2010 Photoshop

Tutorials on how to create Web designs in tools like Photoshop have increased rapidly in numbers recently and as always there are some that are better than other. I have previously created quantitative lists trying to list any tutorials available that is worth following fx. 185+ Web Design Tutorials using Photoshop, CSS, HTML etc. In [...]

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40+ Stunning and Inspiring Website and Blog Footers

January 3, 2010 Web Design

Most websites and blogs follow same overall structure in their design. At the top there’s a header section with a logo and in some case a few ads and some kind af navigation. At the bottom there’s some kind of footer. Between the header and footer there are one or more column with content. Traditionally [...]

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190+ Stunning Typography Showcases

December 13, 2009 Typography

There are indeed many ways in which designers can use typography to deliver a message and even though humans use many years in school learning to read and write images are still making larger and more instant impact on us and affect our emotions easier than plain text. As you know “A picture is worth [...]

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30 Very Useful iPhone Apps For Designers

December 12, 2009 iPhone

As a designer you are probably it is likely that you have got yourself  an iPhone by now. If not I’m quite sure this post may make you reconsider if it is time to invest. This post provides a list of 30 iPhone Apps that will be particularly useful for Designers. Remember that a broken [...]

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65+ Currently Some of the Best Free Fonts Available!

December 5, 2009 Typography

As a designer you are probably hungering for good quality Fonts that are not going to destroy your budget but that at the same time are giving what you need to be at the front foot as a professional. Fonts are used everywhere and I bet you agree that adding more to your tool box [...]

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How to model a Steampunk Spacecraft with Blender 3D

November 26, 2009 3d

This article has been extracted from this book: http://www.packtpub.com/blender-3d-2-49-incredible-machines/book“. It is a guest post by Pact Publishing covering concepts of Steampunkt and provide basics steps for modelling af Steampunkt spacecraft with the 3D modelling Tool Blender 3D. If you didn’t know it already Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for [...]

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Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 3

November 3, 2009 Tutorials

This post pick up on the previous two parts of a very detailed tutorial for “Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1 + 2“. This is part3 and it will be covering last steps required to finish the design by adding the Side Bar and Footer Sections. We pick up just [...]

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Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 2

November 3, 2009 Tutorials

This post pick up on the previous and first part of a very detailed tutorial for Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1. This is part 2 and it will be covering steps required in Photoshop to create the Blog Front Page Post Section.

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Creating a Clean and Elegant Blog Design with Photoshop, Part 1

November 1, 2009 Tutorials

Creating a great looking blog design isn’t as hard as you may think but it is a long process and quite a few different techniques will be required along the way. I think it is worth the effort trying it out yourself as knowing your blog theme well and basic web design and programming is [...]

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25+ Tools, Cheat Sheets and Inspiration for Designers working with Color Themes

October 24, 2009 Design

When designing a website, a poster, a logo etc., one of the firsts (and most important) steps of the process is to choose a color scheme that support the overall idea and direction. Colors play a vital role in how people react to images and knowing how to make the right impression is important. It [...]

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