Adobe Illustrator CS6 Sneak Peek: Pattern Creation

Adobe Illustrator CS6 will include an exciting new way to create seamless, repeating vector patterns in Illustrator CS6. Check out the video to learn more.

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Adobe Illustrator CS6 Sneak Peek: Gradients on Strokes

Join Illustrator product manager Brenda Sutherland, as she shows how the new gradients on strokes feature in Illustrator CS6 lets you create artwork that looks complex but is easy to edit.

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5 Questions for IDEO’s Duane Bray

In just three weeks, Duane Bray, partner and head of IDEO’s global digital business, will take the stage at Mashable’s Connect conference in Orlando, FL to investigate how our present-day digital behaviors will affect us down the road, both as individuals and as a species.

IDEO is a firm that solves… read more

Makers of ‘Deus Ex’ Present Dark Assassin Game, ‘Dishonored’ [VIDEO]

Bethesda released the first trailer for Dishonored Tuesday, a game being developed by minds behind Deus Ex and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.

The trailer shows the first glimpses into a world that features both industrial-age factories, giant walking robots, insatiable hordes of rats and magical elements. Think of… read more

Character

Character design. Personal project. Photoshop.

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Weekly Poll: Do you Prefer Short Articles or Longform Pieces on the Web?

Do you prefer reading short article or longform pieces on the web?

For the longest time, it has seemed that online writing was doomed to being confined to just short articles. Readers in browsers get bored, and there’s always something in another tab calling for our attention. Wait: what was… read more

Creattica Redesign: Introducing UI Elements

It’s a month of new beginnings over at our design and inspiration gallery Creattica. April has seen the site undergo a complete redesign with a whole new streamlined grid-style layout for its over 50 different categories. On top of that, Creattica now has better navigation, a new UI Elements section… read more

6 Tips for Creating a Better Blog Post

Writing effective blog posts isn’t as easy as you might think. There are a ton of things to take into consideration, including creating a catchy headline, the length of your piece, even the words that you choose.

I’ve spent some time scanning the Internet to find some useful tips on… read more

Preparing For A Client Photoshoot

By Annie Tao
For those starting out in the photography business, you may wonder how to best prepare for your client photoshoot.  Once your subjects start paying you for photography, there are expectations to deliver a certain level of quality and even quantity of “good shots”.  So preparing for your… read more

7 iPad Apps For Productivity And Project Management

With the plethora of iPad apps available in the market, it has become quite easy to manage your work and improve your productivity. Although people working in the web design and development field spend most of their time on their PCs and laptops and they would hardly get time to… read more

8 Fresh Twitter Apps for 2012

Perhaps no other app category changes as fast and as much as the Twitter client one. They seem to merge, disappear, lose support and come up with new ones more than in any other app category. If you are into Twitter as much as we are, you probably already know… read more

Use New Features in Photoshop CS6 to Create an Administrator Dashboard Interface

Photoshop CS6 is packed with new features that will help you create better interface designs. In this tutorial we will utilize Photoshop’s new vector editing and stroke capabilities to create an administrator dashboard interface. We will also take advantage of Photoshop’s new snap to pixel grid feature to help create… read more

10 Reasons to Go to the Google+ Photographers Conference

I’ll be teaching at the Google+ Photographers Conference next Month in San Francisco. It’s definitely going to be an event that’s the first of it’s kind and I hope you’ll be able to join me (along with lots of other great instructors) there. In case you’re not sure what it’s… read more

20 Beautiful Nature Inspired Tutorials from Vectortuts+

There’s nothing like the seasons and nature to inspire great works of art. Today we have have bundled together a collection of beautiful and inspiring tutorials from the Vectortuts+ archives. Covering a variety of subjects from landscapes to water drops there’s plenty of projects to help you imagine and create… read more

30 Best Resources for Beginning Freelance Writers

Thinking of pursuing a career as a freelance writer? Congratulations. It’s a great lifestyle, where you control your own schedule, set your own rates, and work for a variety of clients.

That is, if you can figure out how to earn enough money from your writing to keep from starving.

Many… read more

Pinterest: The Social Network You Didn’t Know You Needed

You’ve likely already listed your favorite movies, music, and more on Facebook. You tweet and like new sites you come across online, and if anyone kept up with your online ramblings at all, surely they’d know your preferences in everything from software to soap.

Then comes Pinterest, the latest social network… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Abstract Blue Textures

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Pixa: Organizing Image Clutter the Smart Way

There are many tools available for organizing bits of information on your Mac, but if your goal is to get a grip on those many images and screenshots you assembled, there’s a new player on the horizon you should check out.

Pixa is a companion app for all designers and graphic… read more

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

I recently had the pleasure of organizing this year’s Beercamp website. If you’re unfamiliar, Beercamp is a party for designers and developers. It’s also a playground for front-end experimentation. Each year we abandon browser support and throw a “Pshaw” in the face of semantics so that we can play with… read more

55 Latest Free Fonts for Professional Designers

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design… read more

Finally, Background Save and Auto Recovery in Photoshop CS6

Be honest, how many times have you lost hours of work because you forgot to save your files? Photoshop users have been asking for a background save and auto recovery feature for a long time. In Photoshop CS6, Adobe delivered! In this episode of our Introduction to Photoshop CS6 series… read more

Making of a Warrior Character in Illustrator – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, you’ll learn how to take exciting character drawings, and shape by shape turn them into vector illustrations. You’ll learn to color a character and control the highlights and shading to add drama and interest. If you are looking to take your skills to the next… read more

Street Photography: Taking Inspiration from Strangers

When I started photography 4 years ago, I had a basic point-and-shoot camera that I brought everywhere. I took photos of trees, interesting cloud formations, even cats that are lounging on small patches of sunshine. I was also fascinated with buildings that have intricately-patterned arches, carved doors, and high ceilings…. read more

Extending the Web: Useful Google Chrome Extensions

At the end of 2011 Chrome surpassed Firefox as the second most popular browser in the world. One of the reasons it has grown in popularity could be because of its expansive Chrome Web Store. The store has thousands of applications that help extend the functionality of Chrome and make… read more

Announcing the Winner of Our Newsletter Launch’s Wireless Wacom Tablet Giveaway!

Thank you to everyone who signed up for our very first newsletter! We will be launching the first issue around the end of this month. We got well over the 1k subscribers mark, though there are still some people who haven’t confirmed their subscription yet. Don’t worry though, we included… read more

Showcase: 40 Appetizing Restaurant Logos

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Restaurant logo design is tricky business. Logo design is a balance between what are often conflicting interests: representing the values of your brand, and standing out from other brands. When it comes to the topic of food, designers need to be especially careful — consumers are picky… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.128)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Painting with Lips by Natalie Irish

Painting with Lips by Natalie Irish

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Free Yet Awesome Online Tools For Web Design And Development

Free Yet Awesome Online Tools For Web Design And Development

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Free Download PSD Buttons & BuyNow PSD Button

Free Download PSD Buttons & BuyNow PSD Button

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Pretty Your Pinterest With This New Photo Hack

Following Pinterest’s new design, we’ve discovered an exciting new way to “hack” your boards.

Inspired by our previous Pinterest board hack, Eugene Chen of Vitamin Creativity made an incredibly easy tool, designed specifically to splice up images for the new Pinterest design.

SEE ALSO: 10 Awesome Animated Google+ Profiles [VIDEOS]

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Stats meter PSD

Stats meter PSD

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Microsoft Reveals Its Plan to Sell Windows 8

Microsoft just told the world what it’s going to call the next version of Windows, and — shocker — the official name will be “Windows 8.” It also revealed how many versions of Windows 8 there will be, and what the company will call them.

There are three main editions. At… read more

City Skyline Vector

City Skyline Vector

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Ridiculously Photogenic Guy Answers Questions on Reddit

Zeddie Little knew how Reddit worked, and liked memes.

He just never thought he would become one.

Little, more commonly known of late as Ridiculously Photogenic Guy, found out four hours after he became a viral sensation that everyone suddenly knew his face.

In response to Redditors who asked for a Q-and-A… read more

50 Free PSD social web icon pack

50 Free PSD social web icon pack

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Freebie PSD Mac app UI kit

Freebie PSD Mac app UI kit

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Note Paper (PSD)

Note Paper (PSD)

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Attractive and Eye-catching Designs of High-quality Wallpapers

Attractive and Eye-catching Designs of High-quality Wallpapers

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How to Use Facebook Timeline Without Reworking Your Brand Strategy

Joe Chernov is the vice president of content marketing for Eloqua. He is responsible for creating, distributing, and measuring content that increases awareness and drives demand.

Within days of Facebook’s official launch of Timeline for brands, social strategists and brand marketers turned their Facebook strategies upside down and came up… read more

Pulitzer Prizes Highlight Social Media’s Penetration Into the Newsroom

The 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners reflect the rising role of social media and the Internet in today’s news coverage.

Online news sites The Huffington Post and Politico were recognized for their editorial content. Traditional news outlets integrated social media into their reporting of breaking news in real time.

“Social media appeared… read more

Capturing Motion Blur in Camera Explained

Part of being a great photographer is learning how to accomplish all those effects we tend to rely on Photoshop for, in-camera. Take motion blur for example – it’s fairly easy to apply this effect in Photoshop, but takes a lot of practice to get right in-camera. But, don’t let… read more

Millennial Consumers: Engaged, Optimistic, Charitable [STUDY]

A study comparing Millennials with non-Millennials sheds light on some of the key behaviors and attitudes of the generation.

Currently numbered at 79 million — and growing in influence — Millennials are expected to outnumber the Baby Boomer population 78 million to 56 million by 2030.

The Boston Consulting Group recently… read more

Damn Good Web Design #2 (website showcase)

Damn Good Web Design #2 (website showcase)

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11 Expensive iOS Apps Worth Your Hard-Earned Cash

1. MLB.com At Bat

It’s no secret that Major League Baseball leads professional sports leagues in its ability… read more

40+ Fresh & Creative Minimal Art & Film Poster Designs Inspiration

40+ Fresh & Creative Minimal Art & Film Poster Designs Inspiration

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Hilarious ESPN Ad Shows Why it Sucks to be Michael Jordan [VIDEO]

Seriously, how much would it suck to be Michael Jordan? No, not that Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time. We’re talking about the balding, bespectacled, middle-aged white guy Michael Jordan, the one who’s met with crestfallen looks from the delivery men, receptionists and limo drivers matching face… read more

Crowdsourcing Makes Designers the 99%

Crowdsourcing Makes Designers the 99%

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Holographic Storage: Coming Soon to a Cloud Service Near You? [VIDEO]

Holographic storage, once a pipe dream, may be headed to the market soon. A company called HVault has plans to turn the high-tech concept into reality this year.

In most cases, holographic storage is a write once, read many times data archival technique. Unlike other types of storage, holographic storage… read more

Industry Events: 6 Ways to Make a Big Impact On a Small Budget

Ted Iannuzzi is the CEO of DIDMO. He is the co-creator of the company’s flagship product, the mobile content creation platform Magmito.

Conferences, large and small, remain great opportunities to meet prospective clients and partners. In fact, according to one study, more than half of business travelers say that between 5%… read more

Designing Websites On A Tight Budget: 5 Tips to Cut Your Expenses

Designing Websites On A Tight Budget: 5 Tips to Cut Your Expenses

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Daily Inspiration #1110

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

What the Mobile Web Means for Web Apps

I’m a web developer; that’s my jam. I enjoy making websites, and I really enjoy trying new technologies, techniques, and hacks for websites. In 2012, that means making websites responsive. While the ‘Responsive Web Design’ movement started a few years ago, it’s really starting to pick up steam with better… read more

25 Amazing Ear Tattoo Designs

25 Amazing Ear Tattoo Designs

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20 Examples of Wooden Themed Web Designs

20 Examples of Wooden Themed Web Designs

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Are Memes Art? [VIDEO]

Are memes art?

To Mike Rugnetta at PBS Idea Channel, memes are people “creating images and sharing them with strangers for the purpose of communicating their experiences.”

Which, he says, “Is art. Plain and simple.”

In quoting famous philosophers, writers and thinkers such as Tolstoy, he may have actually convinced us.

Are you… read more

31 [+10] Cool Photography Tutorials, Tips, Videos, Hacks and How To’s from Around the Web

This morning I spent some time trawling through some of my favourite photography blogs to see what they’ve been posting – the array of great tutorials, videos, hacks and advice I found was amazing! What a great time we live in where we have so many great resources to draw… read more

20 Examples of Responsive Web Design

20 Examples of Responsive Web Design

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Make Your Gloves Touchscreen-Friendly With TapCaps [VIDEO]

A new Kickstarter project aims to bring touchscreen-friendly control to your favorite gloves.

If you’ve ever tried to use the touchscreen of your phone or tablet wearing gloves, chances are you had a little trouble. Designed to respond to your fingers not your clothing, touchscreen devices can’t tell you’re touching… read more

The Perfect Office #135

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Huffington Post Wins Its First Pulitzer Prize

The Huffington Post won its first Pulitzer Prize Monday — becoming the first online-only daily news website to do so.

The prize, in the national reporting category, was awarded to veteran reporter David Wood. His 10-part series, “Beyond the Battlefield,” explored the lives of several veterans who were severely injured… read more

20 Websites To download Free Fonts

20 Websites To download Free Fonts

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Last Chance to Get Your Tickets to Mashable Connect

This week is your last chance to get a pass to Mashable’s biggest conference of the year, Mashable Connect.

This three-day conference is a must-attend event for leaders of the Connected Generation. There, industry experts will discuss the ideas and trends that will impact the space in the coming years…. read more

Musk: Tesla Is a Success, on Some Levels [VIDEO]

By its own measure, Telsa Motors has sold around 2,100 of its electric motor Telsa Roadsters. At $100,000 a pop, that’s probably a pretty decent haul.

But is Tesla an automotive success? As cofounder and current CEO Elon Musk sees it, the answer is yes — on some levels.

Musk,… read more

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

The Essentials of AMD and RequireJS: New on Tuts+ Premium

In this Tuts+ Premium screencast, we’ll review RequireJS, an asynchronous module loader and dependency manager, and AMD, which defines the mechanism and guidelines for declaring and importing modules. Become a Premium member to view this screencast, as well as hundreds of other advanced tutorials and screencasts from the Tuts+ network…. read more

50 Fresh And High Quality Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Adobe Photoshop is an excellent tool that has been used in the graphics and designing field. It is such widely used even by the novices that it needs no introduction at all. Though everyone knows it and even uses it, the software needs some guidance to let you use it… read more

Karl Kwasny: Artist Of The Day

Karl Kwasny is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists and… read more

Do You Wear a Camera?

Perhaps the biggest challenge I hear many of our readers talking about when it comes to their photography is that they struggle to find time to practice their photography.

The real problem though is that so many of us don’t have our camera with us when the photographic opportunities present. Instead… read more

Little Icons Big Inspiration

I’ve always veen really inspired by the tinniest icon designs, and the amount of work that goes into designing every little detail is simply amazing. Today I selected some really cool icons to inspire you, so take a look and enjoy!

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Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: iDraw

Our featured sponsor this week is iDraw, a fantastic vector illustration application.

What Pixelmator is to Photoshop, iDraw is to Illustrator. This amazing app will blow you away in its ability to provide professional level vector editing capabilities at a price that you simply won’t believe.

iDraw for Mac… read more

Quick Tip: How to Illustrate a 3D Drawing Pin

Do you want to illustrate a drawing pin? If yes then let’s get started this Quick Tip for beginner users of Adobe Illustrator, and you will learn the simple techniques of vector graphic design that will improve your skills and creativity!

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Take the Ellipse Tool (L), change the Fill color… read more

Create a Snowy Landscape From Desert Photography in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Photoshop is a great tool because it allows us to be creative and produce imagery that would be impossible to create otherwise. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Tony Aubé will create a snowy landscape from desert photography and photos of sand. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium… read more

Good Cooks and Good Writers Use Good Recipes

It must be a wonderful thing to be one of those chefs in the TV cooking competitions, able to take a stack of surprise ingredients and instantly whip up beautiful, tasty dishes from them.

For most of us, if that’s what we had to do every day, it would just… read more

Hello Bar: Promote Anything on Your Site, Stylishly

If you manage websites, you know how important it is to keep your content fresh and up-to-date. It’s also crucial to guide your users towards your new content, without marring the site design and experience you’ve spent a lot of time and effort creating. Pop-ups and banners are distracting and… read more

Create A Robotic Pony in Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your hands around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of applications like Photoshop. The differences between layer use and the creation of objects and shapes can be really strange at first hand.

In the following steps you will learn how to… read more

Create a Mobile Phone Music Player Interface

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a mobile phone music player interface. We’ll build the interface using pixel perfect alignment, quality vector shape building techniques, as well as gradient and lighting control.

Step 1

Hit Command + N to create a new document. Enter 640 in the width… read more

An introduction to Modernizr for designers

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20 New and Free Minimal WordPress Themes

All of the minimal themes we have for you below are free and will work perfectly well straight-out-of-the-box (albeit with a few option panel tweaks), also the vast majority of them being responsive. But, putting the minimal styling aside, the real beauty of these themes, for designers and… read more

The Painted Egg: Decorative and Imaginative Easter Eggs

With Easter having just passed, we thought we’d look to one of the holiday’s most common motifs, the painted egg! There are many different ways to decorate and make something special from your standard, boring egg. You can use either natural dyes or liquid food colors to make them almost… read more

The Psychology of Fairness and How It Affects Freelance Businesses

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People love a freebie, right? Sort of. A recent study released by the National Academy of Sciences found that most people reject the offer of free money if they think the arrangement is unfair.

This theory was tested by making participants play ‘The Ultimatum Game.’ The game involved… read more

Minimal Poster Designs: Need to Want Less Design

Minimal Poster Designs: Need to Want Less Design

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21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages

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About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where,… read more

Brands on Pinterest: To $ or Not to $? [STUDY]

Brands should be wary of attaching price tags to the products they pin on Pinterest, a new study from analytics startup Pinreach and Joshua Yang, a MBA candidate at Harvard Business School, indicates.

The two parties discovered that pins with price tags are just as likely to be shared as pins… read more

Latest & Awesome Free PSDs From Dribbble 2012

Latest & Awesome Free PSDs From Dribbble 2012

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Land your first BIG design client

Land your first BIG design client

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Free & Premium Design Elements For Creating Infographics

Infographics Free Elements Set

Free Vector Infographic Kit by WeGraphics

Infographic Vector Kit by Pixeden

Free Infographics Template by Free Web Elements

Vector Infographic Kit by Medialoot

Business Data Elements Vector by Zezu

Infographics Premium Elements Set

Set Elements of Infographics – World Map – $4

Infographic Elements – $5

Election Infographic Elements -… read more

60 Logos Made with Space and Stars

60 Logos Made with Space and Stars

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Task List Web App PSD

Task List Web App PSD

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Daily Inspiration #1109

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Free Vector Man and Woman Silhouettes

Free Vector Man and Woman Silhouettes

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Graphic Design Resume – 20 Creative Sample Resumes

Graphic Design Resume – 20 Creative Sample Resumes

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Photoshop CS6 Beta: A Quick Look

As with other recent incarnations of Photoshop, Adobe have released a beta version of their latest image editing software. You can grab yourself a copy from Adobe here http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/photoshopcs6.html If you don’t have one, you will need to register an Adobe account as once installed the software will connect with… read more

Free Vector & Transparent Web Icon Set

Free Vector & Transparent Web Icon Set

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10 Indie Games Worth the Cash

1. Wizorb

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Creating a Design Project Outline

Creating a Design Project Outline

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5 User-Friendly Tools for Building Your Online Portfolio

Heather R. Huhman is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. You can connect with Heather and Come Recommended on Twitter and Facebook.

In today’s digital world, your job search has to be as… read more

14 Tech-Forward Concepts Reshaping Our Future

For the Global Innovation Series, presented by BMW, we’re focused on one simple question: In what ways is technology drastically changing our lives for the better? In a lot of ways, living in a city is challenging — urban citizens are constantly thinking about mobility, energy, shelter, safety and efficiency… read more

Freebie: Download Buttons PSD

Freebie: Download Buttons PSD

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Cruises Then and Now: The Tech Behind Titanic [VIDEO]

The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank 100 years ago today, ending up in a watery grave 12,600 feet below the surface of the sea. But that was 100 years ago. Could that happen today?

Let’s take a look at the tech behind the Titanic, explore the innovations made since… read more