In this post, we’ll be sharing with you a collection of useful tutorials that will help you to to use Adobe Illustrator in a variety of new ways. Whether you are a pro or a budding novice, you are bound to find something that will help you. Below we present a collection of some of the latest, most useful and highly creative tutorials for Adobe Illustrator. Realistic, Vector Bubbles In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create colorful, realistic bubbles. [...]

The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? That’s right – you want to be a great designer. One that’s always hungry to learn a new technique to make your first web and visual design project slick, cool, user-friendly, and just plain awesome. There is only thing holding you back – How to do it [...]

If you have ever tried searching for high quality Chart & Graph templates, you will understand the dilemma and difficulty we had in compiling this round-up. We have also been asked on a number of occasions by a readers to help. For a while we actually thought there wasn’t any. But, thankfully, we eventually found some. We have sifted through every resource, every link and followed every possible lead to compile this list. And the result is not the biggest [...]

I’ve been a full-on Fireworks user now since the first release way back when it was owned by Macromedia. What Fireworks offered then is still as true today. A true web design environment with the right tools to do the job you want. Bringing it back to it’s basics Photoshop and Illustrator are both products that…

For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop. It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put together, I really did expect to find a lot more. What is clear from this is that generally most designers would not even consider Illustrator for UI design, which [...]

Animals have appeared in art throughout history. Some are revered as gods in some cultures while others have been long associated with particular traits and attributes. Animals are a great symbolic tool that designers can use for inspiration. The perception of animals in regard to business identity are no longer constrained to organizations relating to animal welfare or companies manufacturing products for animals. Animals can be representational and symbolic in reference to a business; reflecting the organizations vision and spirit [...]

No doubt every web designer has spent many endless hours mocking up web pages, and as such every designer should have a good set of re-usable and uniform Web UI elements that they can rely upon to save them precious time and spare headaches when they are in the initial stages of a web project. In this article we have 20 completely free Web UI kits and stencils that are perfect for the initial mockup or wireframe stage of a [...]

Over the past year or so we have periodically published web design collections and inspirational showcases from the most popular and important design categories. In total there are 14 different and varied categories or styles and within each category there are 50 carefully chosen web designs (that is a total of 700 web designs). We have called this ‘complete’ inspirational collection the Web Design Style Series. In total the entire collection has had just over 5,000 Delicious saves, and as [...]

In this post you will find a complete collection of templates and mockups that would make a perfect frame for your creative t-shirt designs. The templates cover all major and trending t-shirt styles, and they all vary in format, you will find .psd, .eps, .ai, .jpg and .pdf, so you are practically guaranteed to find the template that is perfect for you and your next t-shirt design. Hi-Res Blank Black T-Shirt Template (.jpg) Hi-Res Blank White T-Shirt Template (.jpg) T-Shirt [...]

Retro(ism) is a cool, cultured and at times humorous representation of pop culture design from the 1930s through to the 1980s. Whereas design trends come and go, retro as a style has remained and will always be “evergreen” (ironic that), and will always be popular with designers due to its distinctive and bold representation of a by gone era. In this article we have collected the best retro and popular cultural Vector resources for your next design project. 1985 – [...]

Film poster art in general, is a combination of a carefully selected layout, beautiful typography, imaginative illustration, creative photography and precise color selection. They do not only give you an insight or a glimpse into the film they are promoting, throughout the decades, they allow a keyholes view into the social values, political views and cultural movements of there times. And nothing more epitomizes this than looking at movie posters from the social revolution and design defining time that was [...]

If you are in search of a high quality vector World map, then your search is now over.
Most of the vector maps below are of the highest detail and accuracy, some have been designed specifically for designers and others to be used by everyone for whatever the project.

Adobe Illustrator can at first seem a little bit intimidating and daunting (speaking from first hand experience) to work with, whereas it is in many ways similar to working within Photoshop (or any other graphic editor), but in others very very different. And the thing is, quite often certain design techniques with Illustrator may seem at first complex, but in actual fact are very very simple – Its just about learning these techniques.