Daily Inspiration #500

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 Set Up Your Freelance Business for the Long Haul

When starting a freelance design business the natural primary concern is how to find clients and to start getting paying work. While this is necessary in order to achieve success as a freelancer, there are a lot of other details that need to be considered as well…. read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of April 2010

April was an amazing month with spring creativity oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks April!

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Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate a Retro Urban Gig Poster in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to create a poster for a dance party using a textured and… read more

The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010

Web design is a fickle industry. Just like every other form of artistic expression, Web design has undergone a continuous and surprisingly fast evolution. Once a playground for enthusiasts, it has now become a mature rich medium with strong aesthetic and functional appeal. In fact, we are experiencing what could… read more

Night of the Living Dead: Zombie Art to Inspire You

Everyone loves a good zombie movie, book or image and illustrators are no exception. This set of inspirational zombie pictures is mostly vector with some raster images thrown into the mix. This set is also broken into two distinct categories, comical and gruesome. So, no matter what style you’re into… read more

Book #Three by Brand Nu

Radim Malinic is an award winning art director, illustrator and graphic designer based in London, England. We have already posted about him but now he has just released his new book called #THREE is a visual tour of the use of creative re-touching, vector illustration and art direction to inspire… read more

Daily Inspiration #499

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

20 Websites For Logo Inspiration

20 Websites For Logo Inspiration

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27 Striking Retro Poster Design Inspiration

27 Striking Retro Poster Design Inspiration

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It’s here! Say Hello to Techi.com

And it’s finally out! Please meet our new site: TECHi.com

It’s a brand new and amazing technology blog that focuses on tech stuff that’s always fresh and never boring.

You may have already come across it, or seen a few of the ads floating around the web. But now, it’s official, TECHi.com… read more

20 Inspirational Surreal Illustrations

20 Inspirational Surreal Illustrations

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The Ultimate Guidances of E-Commerce

The modern era require all the things that can make changes a face of the companies and industries, including the flexibility and connectivity as a part of it. e-commerce are becoming very popular these days, all sales are done directly or more familiar that you can called with traditional sales…. read more

Showcase of 30 Well-Designed E-commerce Sites

E-commerce websites often have the reputation of being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we’ll show that this is not always the case. Here you’ll find 30 sites for your own e-commerce design inspiration.

You may also be interested in:

15 Resources for Setting Up an E-Commerce Website with WordPress
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50 Green Web Designs to Inspire You

A few weeks ago for our Monday inspiration I posted a collection of yellow web designs. So today, we’ll focus on it’s neighbor on the color wheel…green. Although some shades of green can be considered warm, it is a cool color that is primarily used for its calming attributes much… read more

Creative Logo Design: 30 Negative Space Logos

Creative Logo Design: 30 Negative Space Logos

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Daily Inspiration #498

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

7 Ways to Customize Your Real Life Online

Most people have mastered the art of customizing their online profiles by now — whether its their Twitter background, the parts of Facebook you can make your own, or the host of other social accounts added to the average web addict’s list every month. But did you ever think… read more

How Photography Connects Us [David Griffin from National Geographic]

If you have a spare 15 minutes today – watch this presentation by David Griffin, photo director for National Geographic – talking about how photography connects us. It contains some great images and hopefully a little inspiration for those of us looking for a little meaning in our photography.

In it… read more

Best of the Vector Web – April 2010

One of my favorite things about April is the warmer weather. I can finally put the winter months behind me, break out my spring attire, and get outside to play. However, as nice as it is to be able to be outside, the design community has managed to stay inside… read more

97 Beautiful Navigation for your Inspiration

97 Beautiful Navigation for your Inspiration

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Colorful & Impressive Typographic Artworks For Your Inspiration

Colorful & Impressive Typographic Artworks For Your Inspiration

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33 Amazing Examples of Flash Preloaders

33 Amazing Examples of Flash Preloaders

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Best of the Week #117

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

26 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

The week gone by was loaded with essential reading, especially in the tech department. We know you’re busy, and digging through that RSS reader for all the good stuff you missed is a chore.

That’s why we’ve once again gathered the Crème de la Crème in our weekly super-post…. read more

Profile: Getting to Know Russell Tate

Australian illustrator Russell Tate is your buddy. In fact, he’s probably everyone’s buddy. He’s the guy that you always hope will show up to the party because he’s just so gosh darn funny and always has a smile on his face. And if you’re lucky, he’ll bring one of his… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In April’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.39

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel… read more

Daily Inspiration #497

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

70+ Excellent Fresh Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

When it comes to web and graphic design, Adobe Illustrator is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Why I need to look any Illustrator tutorial? Out of many reasons there are three reasons for… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them… read more

Chatroulette Creativity Continues With Speed Painting [VIDEO]

Despite being 14% pervert, Chatroulette is turning out to be a font of creative inspiration. From Merton and Ben Folds to would-be Lady Gagas, Travelocity gnomes and Medieval parodies, there’s no shortage of unintended yet interesting uses of the video chat platform.

Enter the latest in this category: speed painting…. read more

Chatroulette Continues to Spur Creativity With Speed Painting [VIDEO]

Despite being 14% pervert, Chatroulette is turning out to be a font of creative inspiration. From Merton and Ben Folds to would-be Lady Gagas, Travelocity gnomes and Medieval parodies, there’s no shortage of unintended yet interesting uses of the video chat platform.

Enter the latest in this category: speed painting…. read more

How to create a joomla template? (part two)

How to create a joomla template? (part two)

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Daily Inspiration #496

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

100 Wonderfully Designed iPhone App Websites

100 Wonderfully Designed iPhone App Websites

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Blog Design Showcase: 25 Outstanding Blog Designs

If you’re working on a blog design for yourself or for a client it can be helpful to observe well-designed blogs to get some inspiration. In this post we’ll feature 25 beautifully-designed blogs. The showcase includes blogs of all different styles.

Soh Tanaka

Attack from Planet B

204 Beech Ave

Converse Blog

decor8

Comfort Brothers

David Sutoyo

Shaken… read more

Astonishing Paper Illustration by Yulia Brodskaya

Yulia Brodskaya is an artist and illustrator born in 1983 in Moscow – Russia. She is very recognized for her astonishing, elegant and detailed paper illustrations. Currently based in the UK, where she went to continue her education in art at the University of Hertfordshire with a Master of Art… read more

World Cup 2010 Posters Inspired by African Pattern Heritage and Contemporary Football

There are now only eight weeks left until the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This is the first time the greatest sporting event in the world is being held on the African continent, and promises to be an exciting exploration, of not only football, but of… read more

26 Free Progressive and Experimental Fonts

Design is constantly changing and moving forward. However, typography is one aspect of design that seems to resist progression. When it comes to typography, there are standards and traditions that have been around for many years. These rules are there for a reason – to make sure that letters and… read more

Using Negative Space Effectively In Logos

Using Negative Space Effectively In Logos

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15 Amazing Websites of Design Firms for Your Inspiration

15 Amazing Websites of Design Firms for Your Inspiration

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40 Celebrity Sites Using Flash

40 Celebrity Sites Using Flash

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Daily Inspiration #495

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

A Showcase of Animal Concept Logo Designs

Are you in a dilemma? Running out of ideas? Searching for inspiration to create a quality logo design? Well then, this post will help you overcome your designer’s block! A Showcase of Animal Concept in Logo Design is made to fuel your mind. Scroll through this collection… read more

Typography Mania #26

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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How to Boost Your Online Portfolio

Portfolio is the reflection of one’s work and skills; any potential employer actually goes through your portfolio and sees your previous designs and work you have done. Going over your portfolio he decided to either hire you or not. Most employers search on the net; those portfolios which have something… read more

50 Examples of Black in Web Design – Black is Beautiful!

A common misconception is that black is thought of as a color in the same way that red, blue, purple or even green are. In actual fact, black is the complete absence of all color and light, essentially making it the ultimate non-color. And as such, a certain element of… read more

Birth Announcement Cards

Birth announcement card is the kind of thing that you think you’ll never need… but one day you find that special someone (or not), gets married (or not) and just then (or not) a baby comes. Or not… you might just get hired to design a card for someone else,… read more

30 Amazing Business Flash Websites

30 Amazing Business Flash Websites

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Daily Inspiration #494

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

40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins

Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new… read more

7 Lessons Web Designers Can Learn from Print

7 Lessons Web Designers Can Learn from Print

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Swiss Style Graphic Design

I’m a true admirer of most graphic design styles. There are tons of inspiration all over the web, but most certainly, one of the greatest is the sweet Swiss Style. It began in the 1920′s and was a true milestone in graphic design.

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During the 1920s and ’30s, skills traditionally associated… read more

Inspiration: Fashion-Centric Vector Illustrators

Most people turn to Photoshop if the project they’re working on needs high-level editing on details such as facial features, lighting and shadows. However, if you’re looking to create detailed, scalable illustrations, Adobe Illustrator offers a superb selection of vector-based tools, such as the Pen and Pathfinder. For this reason,… read more

The Beauty of Action Video Games: Concept Art and Illustration

By Aquil Akhter

Video games: children just love them, but the adventure of video games is not limited to childhood only, it is the favorite pass time for many grown-ups because video games are the perfect example of mash-ups of visual goodness and the entertainment.

Here we have collected some inspirational video… read more

The exquisite and hellish artwork of Peter Diamond

Peter Diamond is  a Canadian illustrator living and working in Vienna, Austria. You can easily recognize the japanese art influences, some sort of punk art and even mythology. I discovered him and I felt in love with the devils on his blog. If you have seen some anime, like Fullmetal… read more

30 Fresh Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials

In our previous post we’ve showcased several inspirational websites featuring various types of design. To add to that, we’ve decided to come up with 30 Fresh Web Layout Design Photoshop Tutorials that you can refer to when making the actual web layout. This post aims to provide guides… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.34)

We have slightly re-branded our weekly ‘Twitter’ design news, by simply dropping the Twitter from the title. Its not that we no longer like Twitter, we still love, it is just that we use a multitude of other sources as well, and we are not limited to only sharing via… read more

Movie Posters Inspiration: Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of… read more

Top 22 Helpful Color Tools for Designers

Top 22 Helpful Color Tools for Designers

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Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media and Web Events

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event… read more

Daily Inspiration #493

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

9 Essential Social News and Bookmarking Sites for Designers

Jacob Gube is the Founder/Chief Editor of Six Revisions, a popular web development and design site and the Deputy Editor of Design Instruct, a web magazine for designers. He has over seven years of experience as professional web developer and has written a book on JavaScript…. read more

Ask the Expert – Design Discussion with Chuck Anderson of NoPattern

Chuck Anderson and the Design Process
Hi Chuck, first of all, I just wanted to thank you for doing this interview. I absolutely love your designs. Let’s get started. Can you give us a little background of your training in design? How did you get started with it all?

Thank you, I… read more

Awesome Random Inspirations

Sometimes we seek an exactly type of inspiration like web inspiration for example but there are times where the unexpected can do some good for your brain. This collection is full of great images that are quite unexpected and pretty awesome at the same time, so what you waiting for?… read more

Space scenes in modern web design

If you put together stars, shiny multicolors galaxies, gloomy planets and some light effects you can obtain incredible space scenes to use for your artwork, both graphic design and web design.

This style is becoming a cool web design trends for 2010 ’cause it is one of those effects you can… read more

How to Create a Cubist Masterpiece in Illustrator

Cubism is one of the most outstanding movements in abstract art. Geometric shapes, vivid colors, simple figures, and textures are all distinctive features of this style. Let’s try to recreate the cubist painting in Illustrator inspired by works of Pablo Picasso – after learning some simple techniques you’ll be able… read more

Stylish Artworks by Bradley Sharp

I was browsing around the web searching for my daily inspiration images, something that I do everyday, when I bumped into Bradley Sharp’s work and really liked it. The image that got my attention was the first one from this selection, which by the way is already my new desktop… read more

55 Minimal Black and White Web Designs to Inspire You

We’ve already shown you Yellow Web Designs and Blue Web Designs, but sometimes less color is the best color choice for a web site. In this post, we’re showcasing 55 minimal black and white web designs to inspire you. The B&W combination is great, from photography to interior design. It’s… read more

Batman Inspired Artwork

As you probably already know from the last couple of comic book inspired artwork posts, Batman is one of my favorite superheroes. One of my childhood memories was coming home after school and patiently waiting until Batman staring Adam West aired on TV. Without further ado here are some great… read more

A Showcase of Beautiful Packaging Designs

A Showcase of Beautiful Packaging Designs

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Daily Inspiration #492

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 #116

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

Interview with Jesse Hora Dot Com

Jesse Hora Dot Com is an illustrator and art director living in Chicago, IL. He has a true love for typography and lettering, a playful comedic voice, and a stark, stripped down vector style, which has caught the eye of Kanye West, and helped numerous high end clients. Jesse puts… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.38

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel… read more

A Showcase of War Machine Artworks

A Showcase of War Machine Artworks

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Everything Adidas!

If you are anything like me, you really love your Adidas apparel. I have found that over the last few years the Adidas brand has really taken off with their three divisions of clothing; Performance, Original and Style. Although my favorite is the Original line, I found that everything Adidas… read more

Daily Inspiration #491

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

20 Astonishing Tilt-Shift Videos

20 Astonishing Tilt-Shift Videos

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20 Awesome and Very Creative Online Portfolio Designs for Inspiration

20 Awesome and Very Creative Online Portfolio Designs for Inspiration

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Mix Collection of 77 Stunning Photographs to Refresh Your Mind

When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. Photography is one of the key sources of inspiration for some of my past work. Here we talking about photography of various forms like aerial, wildlife, underwater, portrait, nature, travel etc. which I find usually amaze me more… read more

A Showcase Of Colorful & Impressive Typographic Artworks

Typographic Poster demonstrates the art of arranging typographic element in the design in such a way that it becomes an integral part of the design. Designing a typographic poster is not an easy task as it requires lots of patience and time. When a designer opts to design a poster… read more

Daily Inspiration #490

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

CSS tips: how to use the position fixed property?

CSS tips: how to use the position fixed property?

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Design Inspiration: Showcase of Beautiful Typography and Text Effects

Every once in a while we showcase various works of typography and text effects for your design inspiration. In today’s post we have 30 items to feature, covering a wide variety in types and styles of design.

You may also be interested in our previous showcases:

Typography Inspiration Showcase
30 Examples of Inspirational… read more

A Personal Selection of Premium Character Design Websites and Resources

It’s important to not get overwhelmed with all the information out there on character illustration and design. In addition to finding a selection of high quality sites you want to participate in, I recommend buying one or two books at a time and working all the way through them. While… read more

100 Fresh Creative Business Cards

100 Fresh Creative Business Cards

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Showcase Of Web Design In Netherlands

The Netherlands, also known as the “Low Countries,” is a small, crowded, muddy piece of land through which a few big important rivers fortunately run. In this country, you can find coffee shops, wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and a lot of water.

And everything is rather small! Well, at least most… read more

Zombie Inspiration: 50 Awesome Artworks

Zombies have been portrayed using all types of media, from books like H. P. Lovecraft’s ‘In the vault‘ and comic books like the ‘Bombie the Zombie’ in 1949, to movies like the brilliant ‘Evil Dead‘ series, timeless music  videos like ‘Thriller’ and more recently first-person shooter games like, ‘Left 4… read more

Daily Inspiration #489

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

8 Social Media Strategies to Engage Multicultural Consumers

Jessica Faye Carter is an award-winning author and columnist. Her company, Nette Media develops social media technologies for women and multicultural communities, and she blogs at Technicultr.

Recently, more companies than ever have begun using social media to reach multicultural consumers. If you’re wondering what’s behind the trend, it stems… read more

Bad Design Vs Good Design: What You Should Be Doing Part 1

Bad Design Vs Good Design: What You Should Be Doing Part 1

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How to Turn Anything Into a Website Design

By Cameron Chapman

Occasionally, clients might present us with inspiration for a design that doesn’t come in the form of other website or graphic designs. In many cases it’s their product, packaging, or something else closely related to their business. But in other cases, it’s something entirely unrelated that they just… read more

Typography Mania #25

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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The Myth of Inspiration?

The Myth of Inspiration?

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Stylish White Package Design Inspiration

Last year we published an article featuring some beautiful dark package designs, it was the Ultimate Dark Package Design Inspiration. Following the same idea in this post we will feature only white package designs, but as usual, we tried to look for very stylish examples to really inspire you.

For more… read more

70+ Inspirational Logo Designs

I find viewing other artists and designers logos is a great way to get inspired for you next project. If you want to get those creative juices flowing, you should check out this post. I have assembled a beautiful collection of fresh logo designs that will definitely help stimulate your creative juices for your… read more

Daily Inspiration #488

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

Revolution And Future In Blogging World – Art Direction Trend

Revolution And Future In Blogging World – Art Direction Trend

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Inspiration: Amazing 3D Typography

Three-dimensional typography is something we’ve seen a lot of recently, and it doesn’t seem to be dying down, either. This post showcases a huge collection of 3D typography, and we have no doubt whatsoever that it is going inspire!

So, how is this magnificent typography produced? There are actually a handful… read more