Category Archive: Vector
August 12, 2010 - 15 CommentsGraphic Design,Vector,Web Design
The most important and essential document a freelance designer should have is a rock solid and reliable contract. The worst thing is though, freelance web designers or graphic designers, especially when they are just starting out, can ill afford the expense of paying a lawyer to draw up a decent contract. As a possible cost [...]
July 21, 2010 - 41 CommentsIllustrator,Photoshop,Vector,Web Apps,Web Design
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. [...]
June 3, 2010 - 22 CommentsInspiration,Tutorial,Vector
While most artists may use similar techniques for vector art and portraits, individual artists develop wildly differing styles in the images they create. Some produce photo-realistic images, while others opt for cute cartoon graphics or far-out sci-fi and psychedelic aesthetics. This post brings together 18 of the best examples of vector portraits, and at the [...]
May 27, 2010 - 19 CommentsGraphic Design,Illustrator,Vector
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 [...]
May 24, 2010 - 9 CommentsIllustrator,Inspiration,Photography,Vector
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 [...]
May 10, 2010 - 36 CommentsMobile,Photoshop,Popular,Vector,Web Design
Hot on the heels of our previous GUI article, iPhone and iPad Development GUI Kits, today we focus on Android development. The idea is the same: To help streamline your app design and development, with a fairly comprehensive collection of Android GUI kits, icons, fonts, .psds and tools, that will allow you to focus on [...]
May 3, 2010 - 62 CommentsGraphic Design,Illustrator,Popular,Stock Images,Vector
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.
Mobile,Photoshop,Popular,Vector
Apple don’t have any comprehensive pre-built GUI resources for app development, making it very hard to match the uniformed style of the iPhone or the iPad. You will need to create your own. To help streamline your iPhone app design and development, we have put together a fairly comprehensive collection of iPhone & iPad GUI [...]
April 8, 2010 - 33 CommentsGraphic Design,Patterns,Vector,Web Design
The free beautiful vector background pack (+ source files) that we have on offer today have been designed by Cip (from Vectorious, and can be used within almost any aspect of design – they could be used as a seamless web background, cool apparel design, an elegant flyer … anything!
March 17, 2010 - 23 CommentsGraphic Design,Illustrator,Tutorial,Vector
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.
September 18, 2009 - 63 CommentsIllustrator,Popular,Vector,Web Design
Your search for free Vector graphics is over. Below we have compiled a list of the best free web sites to freely download Vectors, most of the sites don’t qualify into a category, we’ll call them general, but in the second half of the post you will find specialized resources dedicated to vector logos, brands, cartoons and icons.
April 28, 2009 - 74 CommentsGraphic Design,Popular,Tutorial,Vector
Inkscape is a free vector graphic design alternative software similar to Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw, only it doesn’t cost you a penny. It is maybe not as powerful as its higher priced rivals, but certainly powerful enough to design high quality vector graphics.
April 3, 2009 - 20 CommentsGraphic Design,Tutorial,Vector
So far, 2009 has been a great year for vector tutorials. Vector art is gaining more and more popularity and as a result the quality in tutorials and art is greatly increasing.
January 22, 2009 - 17 CommentsFree Icons,Photoshop,Tutorial,Vector
This article is a compilation of the best Icon Design Tutorials, I think everyone will be able to learn something new from these tutorials. The title should have been 41 Amazing Photoshop and Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials and also not Forgetting the Single Gimp Icon Design Tutorial. (A little long, don’t you think).
September 30, 2008 - 14 CommentsGraphic Design,Vector
All of these files have been recommended by various readers, and I am sure you will agree they are worth sharing. Thanks to everyone.
We all love free Vector.
Graphic Design,Inspiration,Popular,Vector
I have taken all Vector articles and all User Submitted/Recommended Resources and compiled this list of the Best Illustrator/Vector Resources. Resources are split into categories: Free Resources (downloads); Tutorials; Free Illustrator Brushs; Illustrator Symbols; Illustrator Plugin; Free Vector Logos; Free Vector Editors.
September 6, 2008 - 13 CommentsGraphic Design,Vector
Illustrator Symbols are a very under rated feature within Illustrator, they let you design quicker illustrations and build a library for quicker reference and to make changes that little bit quicker. If you aren’t already using them you should be.












