Ever wondered where designers get their resources to help them succeed with a project? Here is a list of great resources including sites, PSD. files, actions, UI elements, mock ups, et cetera. Best of all, they are totally free and available for you to download.
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Whether you're redesigning a popular logo or testing the UX on your latest app, being a designer is a busy job. Luckily, there are many useful tools that can help make prototyping, orga…
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iPad drawing apps are a dime a dozen. There are a million of them out there, ranging from the really great (such as Paper by FiftyThree) to…
Feedback is an invaluable tool to grow your career. A single thoughtful review, at the right point in time, can be the difference between success and failure. Listening to a second, third or fourth opinion about your work will only enrich it, opening the door for interesting new perspectives.
There's no one guaranteed route that will score you your first job. Instead, it's usually a combination of several controlled factors, that when used together will dramatically increase…
Let's get back to the basics and talk about design 101. What critical components and concepts do you need to understand before tackling a functional design? One of our most popular, eve…
I need to start with a disclaimer. When I say "sucks", I don't mean your design (which I'm sure is beautiful). I mean, does your portfolio site bring you clients on demand? No? Then it…
It's funny how many fonts there are out there, but people still end up using inappropriate typeface all the time. Anything that uses letters, numbers, and symbols, whether it's a sign outside your store or the report you need to submit to your boss, requires a specific typeface that would make all the difference.
It's difficult to overstate the importance of typography in design. Whether it's the logo, a product description or blog post, choosing a font that conveys the information you want abou…
When we heard the word creativity, most of us think of artistic things like painting, making music or writing poetry. While these are certainly creative endeavors, creativity encompasses a much broader range of s…
Have you ever been in a slump where you just weren't feeling creative or couldn't think of how to begin your next project? Sometimes all you…
the ten commandments of typography.
"Make it Pop" is probably the most feared, incomprehensible and downright horrible phrases in the English language. Designer English, that is. Clients often use the phrase "make it pop" when a logo or marketing design is close, but not quite at the level of "punch" they are looking for.
Tools to help you create infographics on your own.
Here are some photoshop mockups I made from scratch using original photography/artwork, and they're free for you to download and use however you see fit. The only rule is that you can't claim that you made them yourself.
Creating an artistic poster is one of the most fun projects a designer can work on. It's especially satisfying when you have your hard work professionally printed into a physical poster, but this can be quite costly. You don't have to spend all that money to see how your design would look freshly printed and ...
So in this tutorial we will try to create a stylish ornament typography and then apply a chalkboard effect using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and some vector ornaments. The whole process is simple but time consuming, so I would take at least 3 hours to recreate this design.
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