Fantastic InDesign Tuts from Vectortuts+

At Vectortuts+ we love your feedback, it helps us bring you the very best tutorials and articles about the things that you want to learn. One request that’s been coming though loud and clear has been that you would like to read more fantastic tutorials and Quick Tips about InDesign…. read more

Cartoon: A Very Brief (Hilarious) History Of Micro-Media

Technology changed our lives and made everything much simpler than ever. But who would have thought that one day anyone can create a new content without creating it himself. Just writing a paragraph or two on the actual story from somewhere else produces blog post. There… read more

Create Headings With Big and Small Overlapping Text

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Sites of the Week #136

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new StillPointe and Pentagram. Also we’re featuring the portfolio from Lyons Architects, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than… read more

Monitor Your Social Race With Wildfire

Tracking the success your social media campaign is no easy task and if you’re in a highly competitive vertical that demands you stay on top of your rival’s campaign, there are no simple solutions. Thanks to Wildfire we now have a one click solution to comparitively monitor the social media… read more

Creating Hero Versus Villain Character Archetypes – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to learn how to create great heros and devious villains, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. In order to create a character we need to grasp character theory, how it applies to the… read more

FITC Toronto 2011

Now in its 10th year, FITC Toronto is one of the largest and longest running events of its kind in the world. With some of the most unique and engaging presenters from around the globe, FITC Toronto is a blitz of over 80 presentations, demonstrations, and panel discussions, sandwiched between… read more

Daily Inspiration #717

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

50 Totally Awesome Photoshop Techniques For Retro And Vintage Effects

For sentimental memories and emotions you always prefer retro and vintage designs. Of course they are created with rich colors, grunge elements and different textures and therefore they enhance their density at all. So we have decided to collect a good variety of retro and vintage related Photoshop tutorials to… read more

Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It

Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — and all screen resolutions must be compatible, too. In the next five years, we’ll likely need to design… read more

Quick Tip: How to Make a Nature Illustration with the Opacity Mask

In this tutorial you will learn how to make an illustration for a magazine cover and learn how to use the opacity mask ,the gradient tool and the pen tool to make some leaves with water drops on them and cloudy background. This technique can be applied to many… read more

How to Create a Web Site Mascot

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Scott Jackson was first published on May 8th 2009.

In this tutorial, I’m going to give an overview of how developed a character from the initial brief through… read more

For the Love of Logos: Tips, Resources, and More

When it comes to design projects, logo designs tend to be some of the trickiest to work with, simply because of their purpose. All design tends to be conveying a message, this is true, but most designs get to use so much more to make their points accessible to the… read more

45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers

Over the past year or so we have published several articles featuring a selection of the best free ebooks for web designers, with each post proving very popular and highly resourceful. Sadly, since then some of the fantastic ebooks we previously featured are no longer available or are no longer… read more

35 Amazing Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials

Photography manipulation is always a favorite of the DesignM.ag community. Enjoy this list of cool photo manipulations!

Create a Nature Inspired Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

Create a Vampire Portrait in Photoshop

Design an Indie Rock cd cover in Photoshop

Create a Greek Sculpture Using Stock Photography and Photoshop

How to Simulate X-Ray Photography in… read more

Collegium

Collegium
A4 Cover Magazin,

European Party Planet 2011

Konzept / Illustration / Digital Painting

Wladislaw Sokolowskij & Dave Fuhrer (collaboration)

Photoshop CS 5, Cintiq21xhu

www.rus-star.com
www.microbot.ch
www.spektrum44.de

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Daily Inspiration #716

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

How To Create a Beautiful Vector Portrait in Illustrator

I’ve always love browsing the amazing style of art known as Vexel illustration and recently I decided to finally give it a go myself. Follow this step by step tutorial for the making of my first vector art portrait of Tron Legacy’s Quorra. Learn how the portrait is carefully traced… read more

Careers in Vector Illustration and Design

Want vector to pay your bills or an extra piece of income with your vector illustration and design skills? Then you’re in the same boat as me, as I want to know more about careers in vector too! Check out today’s article that asks the question to some big names… read more

Important Factors of Minimal Web Design

‘Less is More’, an aphorism coined by the German – American architect for Coining suits the term ‘Minimalism’ in an apt way. In today’s world where everything is growing in a fast paced manner, we have to compromise somewhere to catch up with the speed, like a skyscraper cannot be… read more

Getting Started in iOS User Interface Design

iOS devices are becoming mainstream as avid technology buffs are playing with Apple’s latest technology. The release of the iPad tablet computer along with the HD iPhone 4 retina display has shown an impressive year for company branding.

We’ll be going over a few tips for designing a simple iOS interface… read more

The Art of Type: Stroke, Stroke, Stroke

The InDesign Stroke panel can spice up your type in surprising ways. Veteran readers of this column know that I generally take a dim view of electronically manipulated type. When type is electronically oblique or expanded, it doesn’t look as though it came from another typeface, it simply looks fake—ill… read more

Make a Headphones Icon Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic image of headphones using simple and understandable techniques. It turns out that to get a good result there is no need to do it in a complex way. This tutorial is easy for any beginner to complete.

Step 1

Start creating… read more

Stellar Examples of Minimal Logos

In a world so inundated with information, an effective motto to adopt as a graphic designer is “less is more.” This minimalist mindset can set your logo designs apart from those of your competitors and help you create modern corporate identities for your clients. Here are 10 examples of masterful… read more

Radar Icon in Photoshop

We have received quite a few emails with requests about some icon design tutorials in Photoshop. I’m not an icon designer per se however I love icons and really admire guys that are good at that, including my friend Everaldo Coelho, currently working at Apple and great inspiration, including for… read more

Daily Inspiration #714

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Lineal world

Un trabajo realizado en adobe photoshop, cinema4D y adobe illustrator

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Fresh Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Are you not happy with your photograph? Want to make it look stunning and outstanding? Well, photo manipulation is your way to do that. Photo manipulation is an art which can manipulate your photograph the way you want. You can create some very cool results if you put your creativity… read more

The Advancing Future of Web Fonts

We have been seeing a great increase in flexibility among web designers. The community has opened up to new standards and allowed these methods to infiltrate our way of designing. Fonts are a key feature necessary in all forms of web design and development.

Our post web 2.0 generation has grown… read more

The Hotlist – Edition 2

It’s that time again: Friday. This week has been an interesting week. With some heavy hitters being ‘fresh’ into the world and some other just plain awesomeness.

NEWS
Mac Appstore Launches

You guessed it. The MacApp Store put it all under one roof. Now, you can buy, install, update apps all from one… read more

Creative Use Of Video in Web Design: Background Videos

Since its early days, video has been one of the most powerful and efficient tools of visual communication. It is able to deliver a direct and clear message to a broad audience as well as focus viewers on something particular. A visually appealing video is an excellent way to present… read more

30 Beautifully Colorful Typographic Book Cover Designs

Typography is one of the most useful and important tools in the graphic design toolbox. It is even more interesting when it is applied to the very source of words, ie. Books. In this article we have a collection of typography based book cover designs. With this collection we hope… read more

Quick Tip: How to Make a Text Mask in Adobe Illustrator

Let’s imagine your boss gives you a commission to create a simple flyer advertising an event. Nothing fancy – just a plain image, some bubbles and a tiny bit of text. The only reservation is that the text must punch out a section of the bubbles and reveal the image… read more

New Year, New Book: Smashing Book 2 Is Coming: Pre-Order Now!

As most of you may already know, Noupe is a subsidiary of Smashing Magazine. For those of you who don’t, we offer books on the best practices in modern Web Design. Our books share technical as well as practical tips on coding, usability, optimization, typography and much more!

Is… read more

Create a Green Viscous Text Effect

In the following tutorial expand an existing font, use illustrator’s 3D tools to add dimension, and then add a green viscous text effect. If you want to add a fun, vector text effect to your portfolio, then get started now.

Step 1

First, download the Earthling font and move in your Fonts… read more

Hip and Pimpin’ Sneaker Designs You’ll Get a Kick Out Of

Sneaker fashion is on the rise these days; people wear them both for comfort and to make a statement. That’s why some wildly talented sneaker designers and illustrators have grabbed this great opportunity to use these kicks, chucks, slip-ons, and whatever else you call them as literally walking… read more

Make the Most of Two Colors in Illustrator

After an article about 2-color printing from InDesign, Jeff decided to see what he could with Adobe Illustrator.

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Quick Tip: How to make a Golden Curled Corner using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a decorative curled edge using some easy illustrator techniques and a custom Adobe Illustrator Script. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Take the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a rectangle filled with a random color.

Copy it and paste it in front (Command + C… read more

Paintings and Drawings by Charmaine Olivia

Charmaine Olivia is for me one of the greatest design/art revelations from 2010. A 22 years old girl based at San Francisco, CA, she consider herself as a drawer, painter, tea-drinker and a self-taught artist. Her paintings and drawings show us a very particular fashion and beautiful reality with portraits… read more

Super Crisp Font Anti-Aliasing In Photoshop With Sub-Pixel Hinting

Working with font in Adobe Photoshop can be incredibly frustrating at times, especially when working with small font using anti-aliasing. Creating consistent letterforms and crisp characters can be a bit troublesome given the default anti-aliasing options.

To catch some of you up, anti-aliasing is a technique for rendering smooth fonts. This… read more

32 Javascript Alternatives with Pure CSS – Updated

The pure CSS techniques, outlined in this article, are neither new nor are they ground-breaking. What they do offer is CSS solutions to what would typically and traditionally be associated with Javascript, and as a demonstration that they do exist and could be quite easily used.

Having said all that, we… read more

Abduzeedo 2011 Poster in Illustrator and Photoshop

Last week I decided to come up with a new variation of the Abduzeedo symbol, as I have been doing this every year pretty much since the beginning of the blog. So for this year my ideas was to create something more minimalistic with a sort of vintage style. I… read more

Daily Inspiration #708

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Best of the Week #152

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Vector World Map Collection (Redux)

Most of the vector maps below are of the highest detail and accuracy, some have been designed specifically for designers and others to be used by everyone for whatever the project. /> They are all in either .ai (Illustrator) format, .eps format or .svg formats.

Throughout this Christmas week we are taking… read more

Illustrator 101: Perfect Path Alignment

Today I have a simple but important tip when drawing in Illustrator. Have you ever needed 2 points to be perfectly aligned but nudging simply won’t work? Well, you can align points, just like you can align objects. In this example I’m going to use some outlined text. Let’s get… read more

Free Texture Tuesday: Vector Grunge

I’m a day late, but I had trouble writing my own javascript for these textures. I thought I’d change things up a bit and make some vector textures. To generate these textures, I used an Illustrator plugin called Scriptographer. These are 5 vector grunge textures I created using scriptographer and… read more

Interview with Philip Tseng

Philip Tseng is an illustrator from San Diego, California. He works as a 2D artist for an online game company. Philip says he loves vector art for it’s versatility and simple, clean and crisp design. He is an animal lover and his favorite source of inspiration is food. He… read more

Our Most Popular Posts of 2010

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New Year’s Resolutions for Illustration and Design

In the countdown to 2011 I’ve been thinking about the things I have achieved over the past year and the things I would like to achieve for the next. While I haven’t made a New Year’s Resolution for some time (let’s face it, they’re only made to be broken!), I’ve… read more

Accelerated Design: Meeting Deadlines for the End-of-Year Rush

Credit: by joshjanssen/flickr

Part 1: Why the Rush?

Something about the end of December looms as a natural deadline. Project fires have been burning steadily through November but this month, they are burning brightly, finally recognizable as problems that need to be controlled. And who gets the pleading call that says “Help… read more

How to Create an Entangled Lettering Illustration – Part 2

In the second part of this tutorial series, we’re going to bring this treatment to life with some color. Stick around to learn about casting shadows and highlights through abstract color shapes.

Step 49

Before you proceed with this part, I suggest you back up the original file from part 1. Adjustments… read more

iPhone Development GUI Kits, Wireframe Stencils and Icons (Revisited)

To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI kits that will allow you to focus on developing rather than having to design everything from scratch. /> Within this post you will find complete GUI kits and stencils,… read more

Design a Christmas Gift Name Tag

This tutorial is targeted towards experienced Photoshop users since some of the tools aren’t explained, but the process itself is very easy. Create a gift name tag in Photoshop with a friendly snowman illustration.

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Inking and Coloring the Comic Strip “The Brads”

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Brad Colbow was first published on October 13th 2008.

In this tutorial, we’ll walk through the steps of creating a comic strip using Illustrator’s Pen Tool, custom brushes… read more

Tron Legacy Tutorial

Since the very first time I saw the trailer of Tron Legacy I decided that I would have to try to do something inspired on that, all those light effects were exactly what I always love to do in Photoshop. Then I saw the James White design inspired by Tron… read more

Daily Inspiration #694

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Create Grainy Textures in Adobe Illustrator

Easily create grainy textures for use in your illustrations all from inside of Adobe Illustrator. Great technique for creating retro effects.

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A Comprehensive Guide: Illustrator’s Paintbrush Tool and Brush Panel

Ryan Putnam from Vectips has put together a really complete guide on Illustrator’s Paintbrush tool and Brush Panel. A must read for Illustrator newcomers. Even experienced illustrators may learn a thing or two.

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Create a Blood Elf Inspired Portrait in Illustrator – Vector Premium Tutorial

Today, we have another Vector Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take learn how to create a blood elf inspired portrait from a photo, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. We’ll cover some photo manipulation tips, vectoring a portrait in Illustrator and even… read more

Daily Inspiration #693

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Design Makeover: Community Arts Center

For Art’s Sake

Client:
Community Arts Center www.communityartscenter.net

Before

The Community Arts Center in Danville, Kentucky, serves the artistic community from the surrounding Bluegrass region by providing music and art lessons, exhibiting local and international artwork, and hosting artist receptions and lectures. “We target all demographics,” says Mary Beth Touchstone, the Center’s Executive… read more

Quick Tip: How To Create a Simple Sticker Text Effect

In the following tutorial you will learn how to use text and the Round Any Corner script to create a simple sticker effect. This effect can be applied to a variety of graphics, including shapes and symbols. Let’s get started!

Step 1

First, download the Aaaiight! font and move in your Fonts… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar 2010: Vote For Your Favorites!

The year has come to an end, and it has been a pretty eventful one. In particular, we’ve received so many more wallpapers than ever before: in total around 2000 submissions. Only a few of them made it past our final selection to be published on Smashing Magazine. We express… read more

A Call to Arms Against Unscrupulous Autobloggers

For those that don’t already know, autoblogging is much like it sounds. It is a term that was coined around 2006 to mean that a computer can do the job of a human blogger automatically, by using robot to go to the web an acquire content to be published… read more

How to Be Productive Over the Holiday Season

It’s the end of the year and many freelancers and studios will be winding back their work over the holiday period. Rather than seeing this time as a lull in your schedule, take the opportunity to fine tune your folio and get a kick start into the new year! The… read more

Massive Collection of Best Photoshop Tutorials from 2010

Photoshop has given new pinnacles to creativity of designers all around the globe. They are free to create astounding effects that can accomplish almost anything one can imagine. Many artists have shared their creation process through quite a number of tutorials and articles. Today we present to you the best… read more

10 Great Chrome Web Apps Built For Chrome

By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Google’s new Chrome Web Store and some of the great apps you can find there. What you might not have heard or found out for yourself yet is that many of the apps in the Web Store are actually just links to existing… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.68)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing… read more

Daily Inspiration #691

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Free Stuff: Design Cocktail Bundle 3 (10) – Comment to Win

Happy Monday everyone. How about some free stuff! Our friends at Designious.com have just released their Design Cocktail Bundle 3, and I have 10 bundles to give away! The bundle includes 5 Mega Vector Packs, 20 Packs of Photoshop Brushes, 3D Sketch Font, Set of 1000 vector illustrations, as well… read more

30+ Free Magical Christmas Vector Illustrations and Icons

30+ Free Magical Christmas Vector Illustrations and Icons

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24 Clever and Unique Logo Designs

When it comes to logo design, subtle messages can be more creative than the most detailed of illustrations.  In today’s post, we are sharing with you 24 unique an inspiring logo designs.

ArtFarm

Autentika Corporate Identity

Cocoa Stuff Identity

Corporate Brand Identity

Eaton Creative

Ecoelectrons Logo

FLEX Creative

Fluid Brand

For You!

Idealogy

Amazing Seven

Fast… read more

Quick Tip: The Eyedropper Tool

Illustrator’s humble Eyedropper tool can save you lots of time, once you learn your way around it. This Quick Tip will help you to get the hang of these shortcuts to make the most of it.

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Create a Mixed Media Masterpiece in Photoshop

Phil Dunne explores his process for creating a really wonderful illustration in Photoshop using mixed media elements.

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Vector vs Raster – Which Do You Prefer?

When it comes down to it, which would you prefer to work in: vector or raster? Why do you prefer one over the other and is it just a matter of time before vector art rules the digital art and design world?

Introduction

It’s fair to say that if you’re a… read more

Cool Flying Eye Illustration in Illustrator CS5

It’s been quite some time since the last we have posted a full Adobe Illustrator tutorial, we most of the times Photoshop and Illustrator, so in this tutorial Marcos Torres will show us how to create a really cool Flying Eye illustration using basic shapes using only Illustrator. The whole… read more

Stunning Pieces Of Digital Art To Get Inspiration

This is a post in which we are listing down some stunning pieces of digital art that would really inspire you. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to… read more

Daily Inspiration #690

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

5 Classic Children’s Tales Reinvented for the iPad

As anyone who has seen this video of a 2-year-old using an iPad knows, Apple’s famed touchscreen device has proven an intuitive, interactive learning tool for children.

Yet creating apps for children — whether that’s musical games, learning exercises for children with autism or full-featured e-books — is no easy feat…. read more

Linkswitch #47: Personal Mission Statement, Happiness, Late Payments

“Sometimes You Have To Work Through Pain To Get To Happiness.”

Through a group of great writers that I’ve gotten to know, I “met” (virtually) Theo Pauline Nestor. I immediately wanted to read her book, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed, because it’s a memoir of divorce —… read more

A Quick Look Into Evocative Typography: Trends and Examples

Evoking emotion in your viewers can be hard, but typography gives you the advantage of words. Unlike plain old drawings, you can use words or sentences to give the viewer more than just a feeling. You can make statements that explain or hint at something, leaving the viewer thinking. Here… read more

Using and Managing Apps From the Chrome Web Store

The day has finally come; webapps are now treated like real, native OS apps. Thanks to Google’s new Chrome Web Store, it’s easier than ever to discover and install exciting new webapps. Although some of the webapps are simply links to existing webapps, including some we’ve reviewed here on Web.AppStorm,… read more

Daily Inspiration #689

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Adobe Illustrator: Gradient Along a Path

Dave Cross shows Illustrator users how to accomplish a gradient along a path.

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Competition: We have 10 Design Cocktail III Bundles (value of $904) up for grabs

Today we have an amazing competition for you. We have 10 (TEN!!!) Design Cocktail III bundles to giveaway. The bundle includes 5 mega vector packs (value $280), 20 Photoshop brush packs (value $200), Sketch font (value $15), set of 1000 vector illustrations (value $110), Revolve WP theme ($79), two HTML… read more

23 Logos (With Innovative Ideas) That Make You Say WOW

This is the post dedicated to the creative examples of logo designs. In this post, we will give you an idea in one place to see an attractive usage of innovative ideas to get viewers attention. The execution of ideas,  color scheme, illustration and look and feel of these… read more

How to Turn Glasses into a Great Geek Icon

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Ian Yates was first published on December 8th 2008.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to make a cool, or should we say geeky, glasses icon. You… read more

The 10 Best Free Online Racing Games

Of late, it’s just not the apps that are escaping the shackles of the desktop, games are too and they’ve made quiet a splash online. From a single player 2D flash game, today’s online gaming rivals that of their desktop counterparts in 3D graphics and performance. Thanks to online gaming,… read more

Absolutely Awesome Tutorials To Create (Visually Attractive) Typographic Designs

In this post we have featured 45 tutorials for creating beautiful typography design. The tutorials shown here will teach an extensive variety of techniques and will work towards end results of all kinds. These typography tutorials will help you in learning how you can create nice and attractive typographic design…. read more

Quick Tip: How To Draw Wood Curls Using The Scribble Effect

In this Quick Tip you will learn how to draw wood curls and create cracked edges using the Scribble effect in Illustrator. You will also learn a quick way to make a wooden texture effect using Sprayed Strokes. Let’s get started!

Step 1

Let’s start with drawing the curvy shapes. Take the… read more

Premium Vector Pack – Holiday Decorations

We have a new set of vector illustrations available for Vector Premium members. Crafted by Iaroslav Lazunov, there are numerous high quality vector illustrations of holiday bows and decorations in this set. You can use them to add a touch of spirit to your designs this holiday season and decorate… read more

I Need a Logo, What Do I Do?

Choosing a logo for your business is an important step in marketing. Your logo is the first point of visual contact, and your customers and clients will think of it when they hear your business’ name. Logo design is underrated; people don’t understand the importance and value of a good… read more

Create Winter Festival Brushes in Adobe Illustrator

This beginner level tutorial will show you how to create festive winter brushes in Adobe Illustrator.

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Add Cosmic Lighting Effects to Illustrations in Adobe Photoshop

Eric Vasquez wrote a tutorial over at Design Instruct for adding some nifty lighting effects to vector illustrations in Adobe Photoshop. Source files included.

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Beautiful Illustrations by Mr. Waldshnepp

Alexander Koshelev also known as Mr. Waldshnepp is a design, digital artist and illustrator from Russia. Alex sent an email to us with the URL to his Behance portfolio and that’s the best thing about having a design blog, we get the chance to discover new and talent guys all… read more

Daily Inspiration #687

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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Psdtuts Presents Exclusive Wallpaper By Joao Oliveira

Another extremely talented designer by the name of Joao Oliveira has volunteered to create an exclusive wallpaper for the readers of PsdTuts+. This month’s exclusive wallpaper features an interesting illustration by the name of "Street Lights" it features some awesome colors and patterns with around an overall dark atmosphere. So… read more

Designer Spotlight: Lee Calderon

Lee Calderon was born in Southern California, where he lived, dreamt up designs, and created art, until moving to colorful Colorado about four years ago. His creative journey began, perhaps like most budding artists, closely surrounded by a stack of papers and loads of crayons. In fact, even to this… read more

Quick Tip: How to Use the Flare Tool in Adobe Illustrator

The Flare tool in Illustrator is a bit of a mystery. How often do you find yourself in need of a lens flare in Illustrator? Never? Don’t write it off just yet! The Flare tool can be tweaked and transformed to create some spectacular special effects.

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