Watercolor effect is one of the most popular design styles in both web and graphic design. Using various combinations of pastel and neutral colors, this subtle technique gives designers the ability to give a natural, fresh and spring-like feel to their designs. In this roundup we have put together 950 watercolor brushes for Photoshop to help you create your own watercolor designs. You may also like: 1000 Grunge Photoshop Brushes (40 Sets) → Retro & Vintage Photoshop Brush Collection → [...]

Packaging design is one of the most important aspects of product marketing and the marketing mix for physical goods. When consumers go to a supermarket or a store, they do not see an innovative product or a tasty item of food. What they see is the packaging. The majority of buying decisions are made in front of the shelf. Having an attractive, unique yet practical packaging design is a key competitive advantage for manufacturers and retailers. We’re featuring 20+ Inspiring [...]

Firefox is a widely-used browser – not just by users but web developers. Simply put, Firefox and its addons can make developing for the web easier and simpler. And with the release of Firefox 4, it got even easier. This article features 20 essential Firefox 4 addons for web developers. Before diving into the Firefox 4 addons, though, here’s a quick glimpse into some of the noteworthy new Firefox 4 features that benefit web developers: • Improved HTML5: Gecko now [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all 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, on Stumbleupon or by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Its been a while, but today we have another exclusive free icon-set for you. Yet again, our friends from Iconshock.com have exclusively designed this set for Speckyboy readers. The set is called the ‘Multimedia Icon Set’ and, as the name suggests, contains 14 multimedia icons in PNG format. You will also find included in the download the AI source files. Multimedia Icon Set Preview: Download the Icons Within the Multimedia Icon Sets ZIP package you will find the 14 PNG [...]

HTML5 aims to standardize elements on a page and reduce the use of plugins to get the leverage more from the browser. With HTML4 you would always need a plugin, such as Flash or Quicktime, to be able to listen to music and video (think YouTube). HTML5 changes that. In HTML5, you can just put a video inside some ‘video’ tags (as easy as you would put an image inside an ‘img’ tag) and, voila! Instant video action. In this [...]

Last week we published a competition to win one of five MOJO Themes Anniversary Bundles, it has now expired, and we will now announce the winners.

Musical theater is a pretty old art form. As time has moved on, so has the graphic design of their posters. For some musicals the changes are highly dramatic (no pun intended), others are so rooted in history that designers will not allow themselves to stray too far from the original design. In this post, I shall describe the differences and similarities between three classic posters from three popular musicals. These musicals and their posters have been chosen as they [...]