Category Archive: Graphic Design
Competition, Graphic Design
Once in a while a new design resource arrives that looks so good you simply have to shout about from the rooftops and make sure everybody knows about it. And today such a resource has launched, it is called Media Loot – a lowly priced subscription-based online toolbox of premium design resources. It is your one-stop resource for the coolest icons, the highest quality Photoshop brushes, the perfect textures, the best vectors, professional print templates, and much much more.
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Typography
At some time or another we have all seen it – neighborhood walls with old and deprecated graffiti or, just as common, you may have seen some flyers or posters that have been stuck for so long on these walls that they start to peel and hang on by their edges. It is this effect that is recreated in this tutorial. Rather than use typical graffiti or a common poster this tutorial opted to combine the two, and have old and peeling posterized letters graffiti slowly peeling and falling from the wall.
Graphic Design, Logo, Tutorial
DeviantART stands out as one of the most popular means of showcasing your design portfolio, were users of any artistic level can upload there art and allow others to offer a critique.
In this article, written by Richie Thimmaiah, he has rounded up some of the most awesome looking 3D glossy logo concepts, all designed [...]
Graphic Design, Stock Images
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Fonts, Graphic Design
Whether you are reading a printed magazine or a web article it is very rarely the content that draws you in at first, the hook is always the title or the headline. A well written and thought out title or headline are fundamental, it has to not only describe with very few words the articles [...]
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial
As a graphic designer you will never reach the point were you can say “Yep, I know everything, nothing left for me to learn!“. It doesn’t work that way, graphic design is a constant evolution of learning new techniques, knowing latest design trends and all the while staying focused on your own art integrity.
Photoshop [...]
Graphic Design, Mobile, Photoshop
.psd source files are truly amazing and unique resources – not only do they showcase the talents of the artist, but they also offer the opportunity to dig deeper and discover how they were created. They give you the chance to learn, unlike tutorials which are step-by-step, with a .psd file you roll your sleeves and you get your hands dirty delving into its inner workings.
Graphic Design, Logo
Unless you are a graphic designer, creating a unique and professional logo can be challenging. Were do you start? You could try designing it yourself, but you know what the result will be like, awful! You could even try taking it a step further by following one of the many logo tutorials freely available, still, it won’t look right! Hiring a professional designer would be ideal, but you probably haven’t got the budget for it. You have to have a logo, your companies professionalism is relying on it! What can you do?
Graphic Design, Illustrator, Tutorial
In todays tutorial you will learn how to create a social bookmarking icon set that are wrapped in a photo frame and much just be good enough to hand on your wall…
Graphic Design, Typography
For many ‘designers’ today, the ‘art of typography’ consists of picking a typeface – and, maybe if the audience is lucky, experimenting with leading, tracking, and kerning.
That’s not to say that there aren’t many extremely talented designers working with type today. Typography is, of course, an intricate art-form.
Graphic Design, Web Apps
In a nutshell, DesignCrowd is a graphic design marketplace that gives creative people the opportunities and aids businesses in getting the best design possible: It is a crowdsourcing service for everything from logo design to web design to t-shirt design.
Graphic Design, Photoshop
The demand for high quality Photoshop brushes are huge, every designer needs them. The problem may be that there are far too many of them, resulting in it is nearly impossible to find that particular brush that your design needs.
There are certainly no shortage of Photoshop Brush Directories, and there are certainly no shortage of [...]
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial
This is something new for us today – a Photoshop tutorial. It is area in which I have hoped to explore for a very long time. With this, the plan is to have a weekly section dedicated to publishing a fresh and original tutorial, not only for Photoshop, but also for Illustrator and Fireworks.
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Popular, Tutorial
On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial
What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them.
Graphic Design, Photoshop, Tutorial
Although posters as a concept have been used for many centuries, in traditional art years, poster design is a relatively new. It has only been in the last 100 years that poster design has been elevated and recognized as an art-form, and has gained the kind of popularity that no other design category can rival.
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop
Horror art can be defined as being “the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience” (via Wikipedia). Chilling description isn’t it? Or, if you prefer, it could be described as being blood, guts and gore.
Horror can be [mostly] a very disturbing art, it can also be very memorable and creative. It is the latter two elements that we have captured for todays post.
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