Friday Fresh Free Fonts #145

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#145 and make sure to comeback… read more

27 Black and White Landscape Images

Last week we posted an image collection containing some beautiful black and white portrait photography. This week a friend suggested a collection of black and white landscapes.

At first I was a little hesitant – when I think of landscapes I have to admit lots of colour comes to mind –… read more

Your Social Media Persona

I got a call yesterday from a publishing house in New York City. One of my former interns had given them my contact information to use as a reference for the job she was applying for. I was pleasantly surprised to get the call.

A lot of the former interns… read more

Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins

If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smashing Magazine Twitter stream, Facebook stream, and other social-media streams around the Web.

These awesome resources have now been… read more

Freebie Friday: 6 Crisp Tree Branch Brushes

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Ask Clients the Right Questions With Osmosis

While working as an account executive in my previous jobs, I quickly learned that clear communication from the very first meeting is crucial to understanding a client’s needs – and now, working as a freelancer has reaffirmed that many times over. It’s not easy though – between multiple meetings, scores… read more

Let’s Reminisce with Some Childhood Games Illustrations

Let’s Reminisce with Some Childhood Games Illustrations

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What Your Dog Knows About Freelancing

Most freelancers are eager for tips and information, turning to forums, classes, and networking for ways to learn and improve. But did you ever consider looking to your canine for some wisdom? Here are a few things your dog knows that just may improve your freelancing life.

Walk it Off

If you… read more

Vectortuts+ Workshop #10

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

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Print Ready Business Card Design with Custom Lettering

Print Ready Business Card Design with Custom Lettering

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Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers: Good and Bad

As bloggers, we face a wide variety of tasks each day related to managing and building our blogs. Productivity and efficiency are vital, especially for part-time bloggers. A number of extremely addictive and time-consuming habits stand in the way, though.

I’m sure all bloggers wonder, “How did others make it to… read more

Free download: Retro Business Card PSD

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35 Free and Cute Comic Fonts

35 Free and Cute Comic Fonts

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Guidelines to Follow when Building for the App Store (iOS & Android)

There are a lot of factors to consider before building and submitting a mobile application. Developers have plenty of resources on the web for consulting official documentation. But there are some traits you should consider about the overall process.

Whether you are building for Apple or Android-powered devices will… read more

Matthew Hawkins: Toying Around With Paper Engineering Creativity

When I was with a former employer there were rumors of upcoming layoffs (obviously the rumors ended up being true or I wouldn’t be referring to it as a FORMER employer). The company denied the rumors, which sent employees a message to be nervous. Sure enough, layoffs started. First it… read more

Vector glossy and metallic ninja stars in Illustrator

Vector glossy and metallic ninja stars in Illustrator

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8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

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Create Stellar Prototypes with Antetype

There are so many among us with a ton of ideas for the next Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. But, ideas are practically worthless unless you have at least a prototype in place. If you think it would be a good idea to entrust someone to make your vision for the… read more

Beautiful and Inspiring Logos

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Browsing beautiful logos is always inspiring. Logos are actually a very good way to check out how designers put together colors, typography, textures and several other design elements. Today we gathered a few beautiful and inspiring logos to show you. From colorful, bold and textured logos… read more

Creative Fuel #2: Letter-cutting, Presidential Logos, Responsive Design & Chat UI PSD

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Letters & Stone

I Love Typography has an absolutely fascinating feature on Fergus Wessel. Fergus is… read more

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

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A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

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Kids Build ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Viper Simulator in Garage [VIDEO]

Here is a list of some of the geekiest things in the world: Flight sims. Kickstarter projects. Maker Faire projects. Battlestar Galactica fans who know the 1970s series as well as the 2000s version. And high school students who engineer projects in their spare time, in their garage.

Put… read more

Angry Birds Theme Parks Coming to Europe

Angry Birds might be coming for the little green pigs near you. Rovio Mobile, makers of the worldwide mobile game phenomenon, are in talks to open a theme park in the U.K. and additional parks in the U.S. and China at a later date, further expanding the Angry Birds empire… read more

Denis Gonchar: Artist Of The Day

Denis Gonchar 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… read more

The $175 Speaker That Lets You Direct Sound Like a Laser Beam

You can already buy a special kind of loudspeaker that directs sound with the precision a flashlight beam. These gadgets can send messages to people on the street without disturbing neighbors or create audio explanations for multiple museum exhibits in one room without worrying about a clash of sound. Or… read more

Vector Flower Icons Packs

Vector Flower Icons Packs

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How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom

Ben Jackson is a writer and app developer living in Brooklyn, NY. He likes clean typography, dirty language, strong coffee, apple pie and comfortable chairs, and he writes about his obsessions at 90WPM.

As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions… read more

57+ Contact & Web Form Designs for Inspiration

57+ Contact & Web Form Designs for Inspiration

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Greece Brings Crowdfunded, Face-Filled Billboard to Times Square

A crowd-funded campaign is placing a giant billboard in Times Square Friday, urging tourists to visit Greece.

The billboard, which is designed to highlight Greece’s beauty, was organized by volunteer group “Up Greek Tourism” on crowd-funding platform LoudSauce.

The campaign raised $20,000 in 20 days, exceeding its $15,000 goal. About 50%… read more

40+ Easter Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

40+ Easter Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

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The Most Epic Collection of Photography Links (Since Last Week)

It’s been an action-packed week in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of the best links to tutorial, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone here.  The Toad loves to follow the work of incredible artists and photographers, and loves… read more

Daily Inspiration #1089

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

Butterfly Set design Vector

Butterfly Set design Vector

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Resfly: One-Click Job Publishing

Hunting for a job is a tough task. There are way too many job boards to keep track of and nowadays, there are job listings in popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Then comes the resumes and interviews. While not as tough, employers face a tough time with the… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge: What’s In Your Laptop Bag?

The social web is becoming an increasingly visual place. Facebook users alone upload 250 million photos every day.

One of the things we love most at Mashable is seeing the world as our readers encounter it, through their photos and videos. For this reason, we are excited to announce a new… read more

18 Creative Resumes for Designers – Inspiring CVs !

18 Creative Resumes for Designers – Inspiring CVs !

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18 Must Read Typography Related Blogs

Typography is the most important element of any web design that holds great significance. Typography is one of the basic and fundamental parts of any web design that can enhance the attractiveness and elegance of your design. This is the reason why designers pay special attention to font selection. Today,… read more

Feel Your Facebook Pokes With This Poking Machine [VIDEO]

What is the purpose of a poke you can’t feel? That’s what occcured to the creators of a device called, appropriately enough, the poking machine.

Netherlands-based student inventors Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck constructed an armband that physically pokes you when someone pokes you virtually on Facebook. … read more

Nicely Designed CSS Buttons

Nicely Designed CSS Buttons

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5 Ways TV Newsrooms Use the Facebook Cover Photo

Kim Wilson is the founder of SocialNewsDesk, a social media management solution created for newsrooms. Connect with her on Twitter @kimsnd.

In TV news lingo, the cover photo is the lead story. And in the competitive world of journalism, newsrooms are all vying for the best lead. I tell my newsroom… read more

7 Time Management Tips For Designers

7 Time Management Tips For Designers

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Video Inspiration #61

Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

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Untapped resource: attend trade exhibitions to find new design clients

Untapped resource: attend trade exhibitions to find new design clients

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‘Ancient GPS’ to Reveal 8,000 Years of Ordinary People [VIDEO]

People who really want to leave behind evidence of their existence, and have the means, will do so — whether the evidence is the great pyramids of Egypt, Machu Picchu or the iPad.

But what about people on the opposite end of the spectrum, the little guys who happened… read more

How Google’s Semantic Search Will Change SEO

Erin Everhart is the director of web and social media marketing at 352 Media Group, a digital marketing agency that also provides web and mobile app development. Connect with her on Twitter @erinever.

While the SEO game has changed drastically over the past months, one thing has remained fairly consistent: It’s… read more

30 Stylish Animal Logos

30 Stylish Animal Logos

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Rick Santorum Hit by ‘Klout Bomb’

Rick Santorum, one of the four remaining Republican candidates for president, is the latest victim of a “Klout Bomb.”

Klout is designed to measure a social media user’s influence about different topics. Users with a lot of Klout can give more Klout (“+K”) to other users often in whatever topics… read more

Twitter Updates TweetDeck, Allows Users to Edit and Retweet

Still struggling in the wake of its acquisition by Twitter, TweetDeck has just issued an update to its desktop, Chrome and web apps that adds support for better list management, inline media support and improved retweeting support.

The first Twitter-branded version of TweetDeck was released in December, and the reaction was… read more

Creating Quality Slideshows

All those photos you have on your harddrive, what are you doing with them? Are they sitting there and then up on a website? Maybe a share on Facebook or Google+? Have you ever thought of presenting your work in a slideshow, or projected, exhibition?

Presenting a slideshow of your work… read more

Photo Effect Tutorials for Designers by Photoshop

Photo Effect Tutorials for Designers by Photoshop

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10+ Testing Tools for Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

10+ Testing Tools for Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

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Photoshop CS6 Beta Is Here!

You’ve probably seen some sneak peaks over the last few months, but now it’s official. Photoshop CS6 Beta was just announced. Adobe’s been releasing public betas for a few versions of Photoshop now. It gives people the chance to test it out before it’s ready for prime time. There’s definitely… read more

Logo Design: Cherries

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with scissors, and today it’s all about logos with cherries!

Every week we search… read more

How to Create a Template Document with Default Path Settings in Adobe Illustrator

How to Create a Template Document with Default Path Settings in Adobe Illustrator

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Perfect Effects 3

Photographic Effects Plug-in

Many of you know the PhotoTools plug-in from onOne Software, but did you know it has been rebranded as Perfect Effects 3? The result is you get most of the same effects with a ton of new capabilities. Perfect Effects 3 packs a complete library of photographic… read more

Manage Your Layers More Efficiently With Photoshop CS6

Designers often work with PSD files that include hundreds, if not, thousands of layers. Managing those layers was a hassle in previous versions of Photoshop. In Photoshop CS6 however, the Photoshop team has given us some tools to help us manage our layers more efficiently. In this episode of our… read more

Freebies: Photoshop Leaf Brushes

Freebies: Photoshop Leaf Brushes

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Download: Free Photoshop Firework Brushes 2.

Download: Free Photoshop Firework Brushes 2.

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Adobe Releases Photoshop CS6 Beta

Just 5 days after we wrote about the fact that Adobe was putting the finishing touches on Creative Suite 6, which promised to be their biggest update to the software package yet, Adobe has released the public beta of Photoshop CS6, the first of the new programs to hit consumers…. read more

Download: A Set Of 15 Dragon Tattoo Brushes.

Download: A Set Of 15 Dragon Tattoo Brushes.

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Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices.

The Challenge

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Infographics: Collection Of High Quality Template Design Elements

Ever been overwhelmed with your workload and concerned about meeting a project deadline?  If you’ve been a reader of Designrfix for a while now you know we feature the best the web has to offer and typically it’s for free.  While we always want to save you a buck, sometimes… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Set of Scalable Grunge Icons

Follow this quick tip and learn to how create a set of grunge icons. We will use plenty of Art brushes and with the help of the Pathfinder Panel we will create the grunge shape. To accentuate the grungy look we will use the Glass (Frosted) effect along with other… read more

WDL Premium: Work – An Elegant WordPress Theme

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Today, for our WDL Premium Members, we have a beautiful premium WordPress theme for your blog. The Work theme from Theme Trust is An elegant portfolio theme built for showing off your work. This theme has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying… read more

How to Illustrate a Vector Vacuum Cleaner

Do you want to illustrate a vector vacuum cleaner? You’ll learn some excellent vector illustration techniques in this tutorial, as well as use powerful Illustrator tools, such as: 3D tools, Opacity Masks, and Blends. Follow along, while creating your own impressive artwork.

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Sketch a vertical elongated rectangle, shown below. You… read more

Readers: Lens Filters: To Use or Not To Use? Your 2 cents, if you please!

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Lens Filters: general information

For those of you who are newer to the wild, wild world of photography, there are many different kinds of lens filters, and thus they are used for varied reasons. The two most commonly used filters would be 1) Polarizing filters which are used… read more

Our First Look at Photoshop CS6 – Now Available in Beta

Today, Adobe announced some big news. Photoshop CS6 is now available for download in Beta. For the last several months, we have been speculating about what features we can expect to see in Photoshop CS6. This speculation was fueled by the Photoshop team’s release of several sneak peek videos that… read more

7 Ways to Toughen Up Your Freelancing Game

Working as a freelancer may not conjure up images of being a tough cookie, but being a one-person show at your own business takes remarkable creativity, discipline, and good old-fashioned moxie. The Atlantic called freelancing the “next industrial revolution” of our time.

Freelancers, from independent creatives to technical consultants, juggle… read more

Review: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4

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How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

This is an interesting topic which isn’t often discussed between web designers. Getting started in Adobe Photoshop is difficult, and you feel an exhilarating rush when you complete your first web project. But what good is a website mockup if you can’t build it?

Arguably designers by definition do… read more

Jaw Dropping Vexel Artwork From the Pros

Vexel art is very similar to vector art in terms of appearance. It typically features sharp-edged lines and areas of flat color, or smooth gradient fills. The word ‘vexel’ was coined from a combination of “vector” and “pixel”. The main difference between vexel art and vector art is that vexel… read more

Cobook – A Better Address Book?

In some ways, the built in Mac OS X Address Book wears like an old pair of sneakers – comfortable and familiar. What it lacks in style and features, it makes up for in dependability. Over the years, updates to Mac OS X have brought numerous improvements and enhancements…. read more

English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons — With an App

In the last eight years, high school English teacher Jeff Scheur has graded 15,000 papers. He estimates that each time he collects a new round of essays from his 150 students, it takes him about 40 hours to read them, fill out grading rubrics and write personalized feedback. Meanwhile, he… read more

Google Maps Posts New Images of Amazon [VIDEO]

Nothing seems out of reach for Google Maps. More than 50,000 images of the world’s largest tropical rainforest — more than a billion acres of lush jungle teeming with abundant animal life — is now available for anyone to view on Google Maps.

The photos went live Wednesday and were… read more

30 Outstanding Examples of Typographic Illustrations

30 Outstanding Examples of Typographic Illustrations

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LCD Style Effect in Pixelmator

Digital LCD effects are very common but they still impress me especially in terms of light effects. The way the light gets blurry on the edges and super strong in the center is simply amazing. I have been doing this kind of effect for quite a long time but… read more

This Camera Can See Around Corners [VIDEO]

Scientists at MIT have created a camera that can capture images of objects hidden around corners.

The camera’s titanium sapphire laser bounces pulses from the camera. Because they move so fast, the pulses are able to bounce off any kind of surface, like a wall or floor — no… read more

18 Inspirational & Nostalgic Postcards

18 Inspirational & Nostalgic Postcards

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Sexy Button UI Design from Dribbble Members

Sexy Button UI Design from Dribbble Members

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First Live Daily Comedy Series to Premiere on YouTube

Online entertainment studio My Damn Channel is planning to launch the first live, daily comedy channel in partnership with YouTube next week. It’s part of the Google-owned video network’s initiative to build out its catalog of original, cable TV-like programming.

The channel, called “My Damn Channel Live,” will be hosted by… read more

Mobile Game Rewards Library Check-ins With Epic Swords

The upcoming iOS title God of Blades asks players to venture to their local libraries to unlock better items in the game.

God of Blades, which is coming to all iOS devices later this year, is a side-scrolling action game set in a fantasy world. Your character, known as The… read more

The Psychology of Empathy & How To Use It To Sell Your Design Services

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Can you remember when Netflix introduced a $6 per month price hike last year? $6, you have to admit, is a tiny increase for most people in the U.S. And even after the increase, many commentators quip that Netflix still has the best offer in town.

The reason… read more

A Collection Of Creative Print Ads For Inspiration – 30 Examples

A Collection Of Creative Print Ads For Inspiration – 30 Examples

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13 Rigorous Illustration of Florian Nicolle

13 Rigorous Illustration of Florian Nicolle

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60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

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Twitter Rewind: Big Highlights From 2012 to 2006

Six-year-old Twitter is a remarkably different animal than it was when co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the service’s first tweet in March 2006: “just setting up my twttr,” he wrote.

A minuscule user base grew into today’s 140 million-strong active tweeters, who at last count send more than 1 billion tweets every… read more

Designing Websites For Touchscreen Devices

Designing Websites For Touchscreen Devices

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22 Creative and Unique Photographs of Hallways

Famous photographer, Jim Richardson, once famously said “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” While that piece of advice says a lot about subject selection, many photographers will know that it’s not always possible. Furthermore, many take challenge from making the mundane… read more

Create a Cute Easter Themed Collage in Illustrator & Photoshop

Create a Cute Easter Themed Collage in Illustrator & Photoshop

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Story Wheel: Give Your Pictures a Voice

“A picture is worth a thousand words”, or so the saying goes. It really does turn out to seem true much of the time. A picture can often tell the story of something without any words being said. The problem is, those “thousand words” are in the eyes of the… read more

45 Insider Instagram Pics From Bands at SXSW

1. Milo Greene

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“The final Milo Greene show of SXSW. #AustinExhaustion” 

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Fashion Portraits – Stylish and Glamorous Fashion Photography Collections

Fashion Portraits – Stylish and Glamorous Fashion Photography Collections

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Flyer PSD – Download Premium Looking Flyer Templates

Flyer PSD – Download Premium Looking Flyer Templates

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Daily Inspiration #1088

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

45+ Intriguing Character Illustrations and Bonus Minimalist Photos

45+ Intriguing Character Illustrations and Bonus Minimalist Photos

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Freelance Bootcamp: Finding Clients

For those of you who are following along with Freelance Bootcamp over on Tuts+ Premium, you’ll be into the second chapter of content: Running Your Business. The first couple videos in this chapter, “How to Get Your First Client” and “How to Find Your Ideal Client” deal all with… read more

40+ Coming Soon Page Designs – Fresh and Creative

40+ Coming Soon Page Designs – Fresh and Creative

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32 Chewing Gum Package Designs That Will Make Your Mouth Water

32 Chewing Gum Package Designs That Will Make Your Mouth Water

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