Illustrator Tutorials Roundup – February 2012

Illustrator Tutorials Roundup – February 2012

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Artist of the Week: Talented Illustrator Giulio Iurissevich

Artist of the Week: Talented Illustrator Giulio Iurissevich

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Presenting Your Work in a Vintage Polaroid Frame

In today’s beginner tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a vector Polaroid, with minimal use of the Pen Tool. I’ll then show you how you can use it in combination with another illustration to frame it.

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When my partner and I first got together, he was trying to… read more

Found it Again – Free Funny Vectors and Illustrations

Found it Again – Free Funny Vectors and Illustrations

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Stunning Photo Manipulations Featuring Water

Nature provides great inspiration for digital art, and water is one of the most visually impressive aspects of nature. Many photo manipulators choose to work with water as it’s fluidity, opacity and reaction to light are all great foundations of art. Water also brings with it tremendous energy. The splashes,… read more

Ludovic Roth: Artist Of The Day

Ludovic Roth 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

Daily Inspiration #1073

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

Illustrator Quick Tutorials: Creating A Vector Flower

Illustrator Quick Tutorials: Creating A Vector Flower

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iPad 3: Who’s the Boss Now, iPad 2? [COMIC]

As the reign of the iPad 2 as the world’s top tablet comes to a close, it’s time for the iPad 3 to take its seat at the top.

Now those haughty iPad 2 owners won’t be able to brag about their superior purchase over lesser tablets, as they’ve… read more

Symbolistic Drawing Illustrations By Julie Dillon

Symbolistic Drawing Illustrations By Julie Dillon

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Wallpaper of the Week 192 by LeRoi3

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Leroy van Drie, also known as LeRoi3. LeRoi3 studied at the ‘Grafisch Lyceum Utrecht’ in Holland and now he’s working for a design agency called ‘The Others’.

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How to create a beautiful abstract background in illustrator.

How to create a beautiful abstract background in illustrator.

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Best of the Week #212

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

Instagram Tops 25M Users [REPORT]

Instagram has topped 25 million users, becoming the largest mobile-based social network in the world, according to a report.

Dirk Singer, the head of U.K. social media agency Rabbit, claims on his Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics blog that the maker of the popular iPhone photo app just recently surpassed that… read more

Daily Inspiration #1072

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

Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator (Part 1)

Effective Methods of Working in Adobe Illustrator (Part 1)

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Craft a Dramatic Vector Landscape Environment

This tutorial will show the intermediate Adobe Illustrator artist how to make a dramatic landscape environment. You should have a basic understanding of Adobe Illustrator tools before you begin this tutorial, as the tutorial moves at a rapid pace.

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Create Cute Characters 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 tutorial you will learn how to… read more

Creative 3D Bar Graphs in Illustrator

Creative 3D Bar Graphs in Illustrator

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Daily Inspiration #1071

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

Juan Doe: Artist Of The Day

Juan Doe 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

Interview with Vector Artist Alexey Oglushevich

Today our guest is a great Russian vector artist, Alexey Oglushevich who won a Grand Prize of CorelDraw International Design Contest in 2009. You would probably be surprised to know that Alexey is a metalworker by education, but he reached success and got recognition in the vector art world. Alexey… read more

8 tools to make your website for free

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25 Creative Examples of Logo Using People Illustrations

25 Creative Examples of Logo Using People Illustrations

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Creating A Simple Cartoon Animal Face In Illustrator

Creating A Simple Cartoon Animal Face In Illustrator

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Daily Inspiration #1070

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

Wicked Illustrations by Nebezial

This one is pretty special. Nebezial’s pieces have been around here for quite some time now, showing up in several illustration posts, but he never got his own feature post, but it changes now. Prepare for some amazing, action-filled illustrations.

Nebezial is Croatian illustrator Stjepan Sejic and he’s been doing some… read more

Cartooning Tips and Techniques in Photoshop

Each month, we like to present you with our favorite workshops, speeches, and presentations from around the web. In this video, join acclaimed illustrator, Patrick LaMontagne as he demonstrates some cartooning tips using his Wacom pen tablet.

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20 Modern Stationery Brand Templates Fit for Freelance Identity

Do you need to carry your freelance brand into print? If so, you can hire a professional designer to assist you with creating your identity. There is another option though. If your budget is tight and time is limited, there is no better solution than grabbing a high… read more

Best of the Vector Web – February 2012

Each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we showcase high quality tutorials on creating photorealistic vector illustrations, drawing with a graphics tablet, designing vector characters, and more. We have loads of tutorials, in addition to… read more

Design before computers ruled the universe

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Jeff Huang’s New Work

One of our missions at Abduzeedo is to help designers and digital artists to promote their work. That’s the reason we are always featuring updated portfolios like the one that we will featured today from Jeff Huang.

Jeff Huang is a multidisciplinary freelance Art Director and Illustrator based in New York… read more

Next Google Doodle Combines Leap Year and Rossini [PIC]

Leap Year and the 220th birthday of Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini both fall on Wednesday. This doesn’t pose a dilemma for most people, but the team that puts together Google Doodles only has one shot at presenting a logo on Feb. 29.

It’s responded to the challenge by combining the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1069

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

Interview with Vector Artist Caramelaw

Today we have a special guest here at Abduzeedo, I’m proud to present this interview with Sheena Aw, also known as her illustrator alias Caramelaw. She told us more about her story, her creative process and other cool topics. Check it out.

You can see more of Caramelaw’s work at her… read more

Community Project: Custom Skateboard Jam

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be launching a new community project that combines both, the Vectortuts+ Custom Skateboard Jam. The best thing is, you can be a part of it! Find out how to get involved, at the jump.

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How to Illustrate a Sausage with Ketchup

What can one say about sausage? A sausage is an appetizing food that allows any person to feel the strength returning after hunger. And if you want to increase your vector illustration skills, then learn how to draw a sausage with ketchup in Illustrator. Let’s get started!

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First, illustrate the… read more

Logo Design in 2011, A Case Study

2011 was the year that defined the importance of HTML5 and CSS3 and the best proves are the websites and applications based on these. In spite of this fulminate ascension, many other web design domains exploded or continued the expansion in the previous year. Logo design is one of… read more

6 ways to improve your blog’s design

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Josip Kelava: Artist Of The Day

Josip Kelava 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

21 Examples of Fixed Position Menus in Web Design

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A fixed position menu is that one that is fixed relative to the browser window, not only to the page, which means that if you scroll up and down the fixed menu will remain in the same position – so the user can quickly access the… read more

Daily Inspiration #1068

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

Focus On: Mobile App Design Trends for 2012

Mobile applications are on the rise as more consumers switch over to smartphones. Between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating system there are plenty of wonderful apps to browse through. The past year has built up a catalog of exceptional design patterns which will continue over into 2012.

In… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Cute Cartoon Dinosaur

This Quick Tip will show you how to create a cartoon dino using only basic shapes like rectangles and circles. This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners. The icons from the inkscape toolbar are added to the images to make it easier to find the tool and function… read more

Tuts+ Premium Pack – Business Icons

Today we have a unique Tuts+ Premium Pack, which is created in Illustrator by Anastasiia Kucherenko. It’s filled with 10 illustrated business icons. Each is completely vector, available in AI and EPS formats. Log in or Join Now to get this exclusive download. Learn more at the jump!

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Create a Mosaic Portrait Using Adobe Illustrator and Scriptographer Plug-in

In today’s tutorial we will learn how to create a vector mosaic from a raster image using a Scriptographer plug-in, which allow us to widen the standard functions of Adobe Illustrator. To create a vector portrait we will use the scripts developed by Russian designer Vladimir Seregin.

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The Eclectic Work of Mike Harrison

Mike Harrison is a self-taught, multi-disciplinary freelance art director, designer and illustrator, currently based in London. Through the years of crafting himself and his career he has experimented with almost every style and discipline in the book and still continue to try new techniques and mediums on a regular basis…. read more

Daily Inspiration #1067

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

Jeremy Roberts: Artist Of The Day

Jeremy Roberts A.K.A JPRart 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… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 20-Feb 26, 2012

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Wallpaper of the Week 192 by PerfectHue

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Jason Benjamin AKA PerfectHue. Based in Boston, MA, Jason is currently studying graphic design at Massachusetts College of Art with a focus in web design, typography, and information architecture.

In the past Jason has served in a web designer/developer role at… read more

Simple Vector Pie Graphs from Illustrator

Simple Vector Pie Graphs from Illustrator

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Liza Donnelly: Drawing on Humor for Change

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting talk by New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly at Ted2010. In this talk Liza shares her portfolio of wise and funny cartoons about modern life — and talks about… read more

Best of the Week #211

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

How to Design a 3D Logo in Illustrator

How to Design a 3D Logo in Illustrator

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Daily Inspiration #1066

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

Luke Lucas: Artist Of The Day

Luke Lucas 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

A Fun Approach To Creating More Successful Websites

As Web designers and developers, each project we work with has a unique set of goals and requirements. But one goal we have for all of our projects is that we want them to make an impression on people — we want the websites that we create to be memorable.

A… read more

Remarkable Illustrations by Hiro Kawahara

This one is quite famous! Hiro Kawahara is a Brazilian illustrator and he’s the face behind some of McDonald’s illustrations. His illustrations are quite cute and I must say I’ve always liked his style, which is cartoonish, and totally sweet. This guy deserves his name to be out there.

The only… read more

Vectortuts+ Workshop #8

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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Learn Photoshop in 30 Days

Are you an Illustrator guru, but a noob at Photoshop? Not to worry. We’ve released a 30 day course that will help you feel comfortable and confident using all of Photoshop’s most important functions, like layers, the brush tool, blend modes, smart objects, and lots more! In one month, you’ll… read more

Creating a Photorealistic Vector Illustration

Creating a Photorealistic Vector Illustration

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Daily Inspiration #1065

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

25 Killer Logos to Get You Inspired

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Every now and then, we like to scour the web for recent logos by fantastic designers, and collate them here on Fuel Your Creativity for your inspiration. In this edition, we’ve got a wide range to get you thinking, from wordmarks to illustrated logos covering styles from… read more

Marketers: What Mobile Users Will and Won’t Put Up With [INFOGRAPHIC]

Young people between the ages of 18 and 24 are even more connected to their mobile devices than you might think.

Nine in 10 young adults spend between one and five hours on their mobile devices daily. Nearly one in 10, meanwhile, are on their gadgets between five and ten… read more

60+ Astute Illustrations that Can Give Goosebumps

60+ Astute Illustrations that Can Give Goosebumps

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Daily Inspiration #1064

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

Michael Molloy: Artist Of The Day

Michael Molloy 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

25+ Illustrator Tutorials for Creating Vintage Graphics and Retro Illustration

If you’re looking to improve your vector design skills, learn how to use Illustrator on a deeper level, and discover how to create vintage vector graphics, then you’ve landed on the right article. We’ve assembled a collection of tutorials that show you how to create vintage illustrations, and retro graphics… read more

Create a cute monkey in 5 easy steps in Illustrator

Create a cute monkey in 5 easy steps in Illustrator

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Illustrator Tutorials: 70+ Awesome Hot New Tips

Once or twice a week I like to come up with articles that really expose my viewers to the various types of tutorials that they need to get their latest designs off the ground. I have rounded up an amazing collection of high quality Illustrator CS5 tutorials that you will… read more

Illustration Inspiration #12

Illustration Inspiration #12

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Spellbinding Showcase of Outstanding Illustrations

Spellbinding Showcase of Outstanding Illustrations

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Daily Inspiration #1063

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

Community Project: Customized Name Tag, Round 2

Vectortuts+ loves Illustration and discovering new talent, so today we are proud to be showcasing Round 2 of the Vectortuts+ Customized Name Tag Project. Check it out at the jump.

Customized Name Tag Project, Round 2

We have selected designs from our Facebook Fan Pictures to showcase in Round 2 of… read more

Designer Interview: Peter Jaworowski of Ars Thanea

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Fuel Your Creativity recently spoke to Peter Jaworowski, a designer from Poland who is the Executive Creative Director and Partner at Ars Thanea (check out their blog) to get a feel for his influences and practices as a designer. Ars Thanea works with a raft of really… read more

23 Amazing Single Page Web Sites

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When a website doesn’t call for a lot of content, it might be a good idea to go with the single page approach – where all of the content lives on the home page and the navigation, in most cases, allows the user to jump from… read more

Diego L.Rodriguez: Artist Of The Day

Diego L.Rodriguez A.K.A Paranoidme 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… read more

Daily Inspiration #1062

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

Arte Limited Print Giveaway

Adbuzeedo and Arte Limited is happy to giveaway one print from Perttu Murto, a graphic designer, art director and illustrator based from Finland. We have a choice of three artworks where you can choose the one you want to get if you’re the winner!

Each artwork is 1 of 200 limited… read more

Quick Tip: Create a Modern Volume Bar with Adobe Illustrator

In the following steps you will learn how to create a simple volume bar. It’s a pretty simple tutorial that will introduce you to the basic tools, effect and techniques used in Adobe Illustrator. You will start with a simple rectangle and circle then using multiple fills, strokes and several… read more

Create a Cocktail Blueprint Using Actions in Photoshop – Tuts+ Premium Tutorial

Photoshop actions are excellent tools for speeding up your workflow. In this Tuts+ Premium tutorial, author Diego Sanchez will use Photoshop actions to create a cocktail blueprint from scratch. This tutorial is available exclusively to Tuts+ Premium Members. If you are looking to take your digital illustration skills to the… read more

How to Illustrate Crocus Flowers in the Snow

This work is a common project created together with Iaroslav Lazunov and Alexander Egupov. Do you love flowers? We think that nobody says: “No” in answer to this question. All of us like the tenderness and elegant beauty of a flowers’ leaves and buds. We love Roses and Daffodils, Daisies… read more

Go VIRAL! The key to great exposure

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Free Photoshop Alternatives For Editing Photos

Photoshop has been the darling of the design industry for decades. It’s a fantastic program that has led the way since the release of Photoshop 1 on the Mac way back in 1990.

However, not everyone can, or wants to, pay the $699 that Photoshop costs. Thankfully there are a… read more

Spectacular Graphic Design Illustrations by Quarme P

Spectacular Graphic Design Illustrations by Quarme P

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Daily Inspiration #1061

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

Our favorite tweets of the week Feb 13-Feb 19, 2012

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Wallpaper of the Week 191 by Mike Harrison

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Mike Harrison,a self-taught, multi-disciplinary freelance art director, designer and illustrator, currently based in London.

Through the years of crafting myself and my career I have experimented with almost every style and discipline in the book and still continue to try new… read more

create a love hot air baloon in illustrator

create a love hot air baloon in illustrator

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How to Create Watercolor Background using Phantasm CS and Adobe Illustrator

How to Create Watercolor Background using Phantasm CS and Adobe Illustrator

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30 Really Fresh and Stunning Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

30 Really Fresh and Stunning Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

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The Fun and Upbeat Illustrations of Imaginism Studios

Imaginism Studios is a group of independent and well-known artists that produce some of the most fun and upbeat designs, concepts, and illustrations that you will see from a studio or agency. In this article we will showcase some of our favorite pieces from their portfolio. Let’s take a look!… read more

Maira Kalman: The Illustrated Woman

Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing an interesting talk by Author and Illustrator Maira Kalman at Ted2007. In this talk Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to… read more

Best of the Week #210

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

Daily Inspiration #1060

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

Hussein Al-Attar: Artist Of The Day

Hussein Al-Attar 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

70 Best Photo Manipulation Tutorials of All Time

Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. One should have lots of patience and creativity to turn a simple photo into an amazing visual art. Sky is the limit when you open image in… read more

20 new business cards – Best of february 2012

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Probably the Best 20 Dragon Illustrations Available Online

Probably the Best 20 Dragon Illustrations Available Online

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