Playful Illustrations by Andrew Bannecker

Not sure how I came across Andrew’s work but not sure how I could have missed it either. I’m really digging his illustrative style: his color schemes, simple use of lines, and not to mention his excellent use of textures.

A collector of old ephemera and just about anything wood and… read more

Typography Mania #89

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

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Bible Inspired Poster Designs by Jim LePage

We don’t get to see much of religious design here at Abduzeedo, and maybe that’s something we should feature more. There are tons of good religious design out there just waiting to be found, like Jim LePage’s.

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Jim emailed us about his work and it happened to be very interesting! As… read more

Web Design Inspirational Cocktail #8

Web Design Inspirational Cocktail #8

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83 3D Typography Design Inspirations

Words are powerful enough, but the art of typography brings that to a whole new level of creativity and imagination. We have scoured the web for some amazing works of 3D typography, and we’ve compiled eighty-three designs for you to enjoy. We hope these inspire you to think… read more

Weekly web design inspiration #4

Weekly web design inspiration #4

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Daily Inspiration #878

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

Time For Photography – Part 1: Finding Time

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It’s time for photography! But for a many of us (myself included at times) the biggest challenge when it comes to the art of photography is not remembering if higher ISO means more or less noise, or if an aperture of f/5.6 will make a background blurry. The biggest… read more

Weapons of Mass Creation Event Recap

So this post is being published a bit later than all it’s other counterparts but nevertheless, I can’t pass up an opportunity to brag on something as cool as Weapons of Mass Creation Fest (WMC Fest), especially as an Ohio Native. So what is WMC Fest? It’s an… read more

Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook : Winners Announced!

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Last week we teamed up with Packt Publishing to give away three copies of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook. We had an overwhelming response and were excited to see just how many Vectortuts+ readers enjoy using Inkscape. Today we will be announcing the winners! We also have a special round-up… read more

Architect Day: Saunders Architecture

Architect, born in Newfoundland and graduated in Halifax, Canada, leads the firm Saunders Architecture in Bergen in Norway. With stunning visuals of their projects, also has works in England, Denmark, Sweden and Canada.

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Todd Saunders was born in 1969 in Gander, Newfoundland, and received his degree in… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 80

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

60+ New WordPress themes, summer 2011 edition

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Clients Don’t Quit Projects, They Quit Freelancers

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There is an old adage in the business world that “employees don’t quit jobs, they quit managers.” The idea is rather basic and reminds us that it is most often the people and not the actual job that generates turnover.

I think this philosophy… read more

Surreal Illustrations by Ryan Lake

How to describe a surrealist artist? Well, I got make phrases using words like creativity and imagination… and that’s most definitely a couple of words that could describe indeed Ryan Lake’s work.

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Surrealists tend to make some pretty crazy pieces, really random thoughts, like crashing limos under a rainbow. What is… read more

100 Bewitching And Colorful Examples Of Sky Photography

100 Bewitching And Colorful Examples Of Sky Photography

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Effective Website Designs with Dark Color Schemes

Effective Website Designs with Dark Color Schemes

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20 Mind Blowing Profile Design Inspirations

20 Mind Blowing Profile Design Inspirations

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Mind-Blowing Collection of Photographer Portfolio Websites

Mind-Blowing Collection of Photographer Portfolio Websites

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How to Capture Stunning Backlit Portraits During the Golden Hours

Portraits taken during the golden hours – that is, the time just before sunset and after sunrise – have an incredibly powerful light to them. The dramatic back-lighting from the sun and the golden tones that flood your viewfinder can give you an incredible image. Not only that,… read more

8 websites to look for infographics inspiration

8 websites to look for infographics inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #877

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

Step by Step Pieces by Marek Okon

You probably already know Marek Okon, even If you don’t know who is exactly him, you definetely already saw his artworks. He’s one of the best digital artist nowadays, working a lot for the games industry doing concept arts for games like Crysis 2, War Hammer 40.000 and Napoleon -… read more

Illustrated by Music

I made an amazing selection of album cover from upcoming bands that you provably don’t know about. The artwork that comes with this unknown music is just amazing, this scene gives chance to many artists and designers to create outstanding work and here are a few for you to check… read more

How to Use Converging Lines to Enhance Your Photography

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When framing a landscape shot one of the types of environmental features that many photographers look for and like to incorporate in their shots is converging lines.

We’ve talked previously about how lines have the potential to add interest to an image – but multiple lines that converge together… read more

Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences

A positive first impression is essential to relationships. People look for trust and integrity, and they expect subsequent encounters to reflect and reinforce their first impression. The same principles apply to brands and their products. Design plays an important role in building lasting relationships with end users and, thus, in… read more

20 iPhone apps to help you create amazing photographs

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Global Web Design Trends: South America

We live in a global world that has an overflow of information. The Internet has given us access to very different cultures and allowed us to share much more information than ever before. But do different regions have their own specific Web design trends?

Design usually has to do with creating… read more

Quick Tips: Instagram your images using Photoshop

Instagram reinvented the photo sharing on our social media structure. It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your pictures to friends and family. And what I like the most about Instagram, are the various schemes that offers you to filter your pictures with your own little touch.

My all-time… read more

20 Excellent Examples of Icon Usage in Web Design

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Here on WDL we love icons! From Icon Tutorials to a list with the Best Free Icon Sets of 2010 and a 15 Must-Have Minimalist Icon Sets, we already showcased a lot of great icons around here to boost your inspiration. Today we decided to gather… read more

The Perfect Office #96

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?

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

Daily Inspiration #876

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

36 Examples of Personalized Photo Background Business Cards

36 Examples of Personalized Photo Background Business Cards

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 11-Jul 17, 2011

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Wallpaper of the Week #60 by Richard Roberts

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Richard Roberts an US based freelance illustrator and designer. He has been illustrating digital for over six years and has had the pleasure of working with clients world wide. Richard is a very diverse artist using an array of different… read more

Best of the Week #180

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

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.97

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This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Discovered a New Band? Find Out Which Songs To Check Out First With GoRankem

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: GoRankem

Quick Pitch: GoRankem is a crowdsourced ratings site that helps users discover new… read more

Daily Inspiration #875

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

Office pranks. Mind your workplace!

Office pranks. Mind your workplace!

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #109

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#109 and make sure to comeback… read more

Liberty Wind

Liberty Wind

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Email Newsletters Worth Subscribing To

Staying on top of the most recent developments in your craft takes time, especially when you have to scan websites daily for articles and news worthy of your attention. Quality newsletters do the job for you. Just check your email inbox every couple of days to find a condensed and… read more

Are You in a Photography Rut? 11 Tips to Get Out of It!

Every photographer hits a wall at one point or another. Here are a few tips to keep things fresh and new.

1. Try something new, get out of your comfort zone. You’ve been photographing nature for years? Try some street photography!

2. Meet other photographers and go on photo walks. It doesn’t… read more

Sites of the Week #162

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Typo Popote and Syropia. Also we’re featuring a nice app Photovine, and much, 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

Smart And Funny Print Advertisements By Grey Agency

Smart And Funny Print Advertisements By Grey Agency

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36 Strong Logo Designs Inspired by Animals

Nothing says branding more than your very own logo. Corporations, organizations, groups and teams all have their own emblems, symbolizing the very ideals and vision that they stand up for. From the purely graphic to the wordy, you too can establish your very own brand with your own… read more

Don’t miss Inspirational Photography #005

Don’t miss Inspirational Photography #005

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90 Beautiful and Creative Business Cards for Your Inspiration

90 Beautiful and Creative Business Cards for Your Inspiration

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60 Extremely Creepy Photo Manipulations

60 Extremely Creepy Photo Manipulations

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Beautiful Houses: Graham Residence

The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more

Super Rad Illustrations by DC Miller

Gotta love these guys that come up with more cartoonish characters from comics books. DC Miller has some pretty awesome art featuring our favorite superheroes, really worth checking out.

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I really like his style! And if you like it too, and want to check out more of his work, you should… read more

Photography Inspiration #9

Photography Inspiration #9

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50 Best french Motion Graphics

50 Best french Motion Graphics

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70+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

70+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

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26 Best Brand and Business Tips Articles of June 2011

26 Best Brand and Business Tips Articles of June 2011

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Elegant Showcase of Popular Automobile Official Websites

Elegant Showcase of Popular Automobile Official Websites

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Inspiration Certain: Superb Portrait Paintings by Ken Keirns

Inspiration Certain: Superb Portrait Paintings by Ken Keirns

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Daily Inspiration #874

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

Video Inspiration #26 – Bizarre “WTF Videos” by Design-Generation

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

Amazing Digital Illustrations by Vision

Adrián Romero is an 18 year old illustrator and graphic designer from Spain known as Vision. His work is breathtaking, a mix of illustrations with photo manipulations that just fits right in and the final results are amazing. Keep an eye on this young talent and check out some of… read more

Worldwide Photography #27: Bruges

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we’re going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Bruges, Belgium.

For the next week we’re going to feature Chicago,… read more

The Constitution of a Modern Freelancer

The majority of the nations around the globe base their interactions between the habitants on a basic law, written or unwritten called the constitution. This entity guarantees various aspects of the common wishes of the citizens as a way of organizing, the most important civil rights and duties. A better… read more

Interview with designer and typographer, Erik Spiekermann

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Definition, Usage and Popularity of Infographics

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In the first quarter of 2011, 99.6 million smartphones were sold and sales of smartphones are expected to rise by 105 percent in 2014 compared with 2010. Facebook has added 45 million mobile users in the last six months and Foursquare reported 380 million check-ins in… read more

Logo Design: Trains

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with ice creams and popsicles… today it’s all about logos with trains!

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Top 12 Logo Design Galleries for Your Inspiration!

Top 12 Logo Design Galleries for Your Inspiration!

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Daily Inspiration #873

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

Stunning Illustrations by Stanley Lau aka Artgerm

As designers, we are artists in whatever we do. Depending on how good we are at it, we can be a master. And Stanley Lau also known as Artgerm is truly a master of his own art. His universe is surrounded of stunning illustrations so rich in colours and… read more

Marvelous Mural Art by El Mac and Retna

Seriously, I believe El Mac and Retna are probably the best partnership since Batman and Robin. These two guys can make some really outstanding mural paintings, it’s like one completes the work of the other and the result is a powerful combination of colors and striking lines.

You should definetely… read more

12 Ways to Add Randomness and Creativity to Your Photography

Photo by Wam Mosely

One of the wonderful things about digital photography is the creativity that you can engage in once you’ve got your image on your computer and in Photoshop. All kinds of effects can be achieved to make your shots look any number of ways.

But what about in-camera techniques… read more

Typography Mania #88

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

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70+ Fresh WordPress Site Designs for Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!

Now days… read more

Cool Illustrations by NjaY

I don’t think my illustration fever will end any soon. I’ve been a big fan of it for a really long time and it just gets stronger. Finding new artists is a mission for me these days, and I hope I’m winning.

These are some cool illustrations by Malaysian artist NjaY… read more

Colors Of Life: 100+ Sparkling Examples of Color Photography

Colors Of Life: 100+ Sparkling Examples of Color Photography

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7 Inspirational Pro Photographers You Should be Following on Facebook

Facebook is a great place for photography fans to learn about the craft, get inspiration and keep up to date with what other photography lovers are doing. Some pages stand out more than others though. While there are a heap of great photographers on Facebook, we think these… read more

35 Creative Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

35 Creative Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

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20 Inspirational and Well Constructed Subnavigation Examples in Web Design

20 Inspirational and Well Constructed Subnavigation Examples in Web Design

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New Movie Poster Inspiration

New Movie Poster Inspiration

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Responsive Web Design: A Quick Guide and Creative Examples

Responsive Web Design: A Quick Guide and Creative Examples

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Daily Inspiration #872

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

UFeedMeBack Giveaway

So…who/what is UFeedMeBack? UFeedMeBack is a straightforward consulting tool that gives it’s members (invite only) access to request feedback from well-known designers (feedbackers) who are willing to share some of their wisdom with the goal of helping others in the design community who are eager to learn and grow…. read more

Brilliant and Illustrated Business Cards for Your Inspiration

Business cards bear significant business information about a company or individual and they are really a good way to promote what yourself or your business. Today a professional business card will sometimes include one or more aspects of striking visual design. In this article we have compiled some… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 79

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Architect Day: Lissoni Associati

Office formed by the architect Piero Lissoni and Nicoletta Canesi in 1985, presents an incredible list of clients such as Boffi, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, Benetton, among other major brands. With over 70 professional employees, also have an area for development of graphic designs.

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Create a Stitched Type Effect in Adobe Illustrator

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stitched type effect. You will create simple geometric patterns, a pattern brush and use the appearance panel to create the final look. Let’s get started!

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Open a new Document. I picked a 180×240 mm portrait format in RGB mode.

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30 Creative QR code business cards

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Adorable Illustrations by Genevieve Godbout

It’s been some time since the last time that I actually called an illustration “adorable”. I was thinking about other adjectives I could use for this one, and “lovely” and “It’s so cute I wanna die” came through my mind.

Don’t laugh, these are seriously cute. I’m guessing by the style… read more

33 Portraits That Use the Golden Hour for Great Lighting

The golden hour around sunset and sunrise are conventionally used to lend great lighting to landscapes and other expansive examples of outdoor photography (see our article on how to photograph sunsets for example), but can equally be used to get great portraits. These examples show that the incredible… read more

50 Fresh And Best Logo Designs From June 2011 For Inspiration

50 Fresh And Best Logo Designs From June 2011 For Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #871

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

Filter Forge Contest Winners & Free Patterns for Download

A few weeks ago we held a design contest sponsored by Filter Forge with the prize being a free copy of their software up for grabs to the top three contestants. However, just in case you didn’t catch that first post, here’s a brief explanation of who/what Filter Forge… read more

How Western Entrepreneurs Are Supporting Egypt’s Growing Startup Scene

A group of young American and Danish entrepreneurs traveled to Egypt last week for the NexGen IT Entrepreneurs Boot Camp, an intensive mentorship program meant to teach Egyptian youth how to turn a simple idea into a viable business in the IT space.

The sort of “traveling startup… read more

Super Creative Ad Campaigns by Lorenzo Vitturi

In the world of Advertising creativity is everything and Lorenzo Vitturi sure knows how to pull it off. Born in Venice, Italy, Lorenzo is a photographer/designer with a lot of experience and an amazing portifolio. Check out what and how he gets done.

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What’s new for web designers – July 2011

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50+ Useful CSS Tools And Generators for Developers

CSS tools are essential for web developers because they act like a sort of magic lamp that can simplify the job at hand. Most development tools are time savers that are there to help developers create stylish, functional and optimized websites with a few shortcuts.

CSS tools and generators are available… read more

20 New Tools for for Easier CSS Development

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There are many tools built to help with CSS, and improved ones are constantly being created. The fresh tools we have for you in this article will greatly improve your work-flow, whether that be by solving validation or debugging snags, or taking care of many of… read more

20 Fresh Examples of Color Usage in Web Design

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Colors are very important to print, graphic and web design. Colors are actually important to everything, from spring to summer, clothes to balloons and so on. To show the power of colors we already showcased colorful websites here a few times, including a showcase published… read more

L.A Noire Neon Style in Photoshop

A few months ago I started seeing some poster in San Francisco about this game called L.A Noire. The text effect was really cool, sort of old style neon effect. I know I have done a few tutorials showing how to create this type of effect, but I needed to… read more

The Perfect Office #95

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?

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