July 2010
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300+ Free Grunge Textures
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34 Awesome Products Geeks Will Love
Today, the term geek has become more complimentary, it became quite trendy to be a geek, given that many technical people had become very successful in their chosen field.
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Eco-Friendly Design Tutorials and Resources...
Eco-friendly is in! With all the global warming issues threatening the world today, ‘going green‘ becomes the keyword as everyone around us scurry to do their part to save our planet…
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99 Icon Sets To Use In Commercial Design Projects
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Six Super Helpful Typography Cheat Sheets
There’s a lot involved in typography, and becoming a master can be difficult. A lot of it requires much experience, practice, and knowing the rules and do’s and dont’s. Nevertheless, there’s a lot to remember...
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50 Informative and Well-Designed Infographics
It’s impossible to comprehend complex data or analyze large amounts of information, if we only use words or texts. Information graphics or better known as infographics are visual explanation of data, information or knowledge.
June 2010
13 posts
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Negative Space in Webpage Layouts: A Guide
Negative space is often misunderstood as a tool to implement in certain designs that call for a simple aesthetic.
However, it is in fact something you should pay attention to and carefully structure in every design you create.
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The Evolution Of The World Cup Logo From 1930 To...
The evolution of the world cup logo from 1930 to 2010. Its pretty much football fever all around the world so over on Creative Nerds we decided to take a look back from 1930 to 2010
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32 Creative and Clever Sports Posters to Inspire...
Poster design is a design medium that allows creative artist to express themselves in one of the most unique ways. Add sports into the mix and you can create stunning pieces of digital artwork for your favorite past time. In this post, we will feature 32 creative and clever sports related poster designs to help inspire you.
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100 Fantastically Free Business Fonts
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My Favorite Icon Sets
I’ve been receiving a few emails lately asking me for some of the web design resources that I personally use. Well, I’d like to start sharing my resources with our readers so today, I’ve gathered up a collection of the icon sets that I have personally downloaded and use on a daily basis…
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How Comic Books Can Make You a Better Designer
Long before I ever picked up a Wacom tablet or even heard the word kerning, I read comic books. I absorbed the artwork, page layouts and character designs like a nerdy little sponge. To this day I can’t figure out why comics are considered a low form of art...
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20 Stunning Concept Cars
While regular production cars might not always resemble the exotics that were on the drawing board…
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HTML5 Showcase: 48 Potential Flash-Killing Demos
So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so powerful that even giant company Apple wants to use it to replace Flash
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2010 World Cup – The Ultimate Graphic and Data...
The World Cup is coming!! One of the world’s biggest sports events, matched only by the Olympics, promises to deliver a whole month of fun for all soccer fans.
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12 Excellent CSS3 Button and Menu Techniques
CSS3 is changing how we build websites. Even though many of us are still reluctant to start using CSS3 due to the lack of support in some browsers, there are those out there that are moving forward and doing some amazing stuff with its cool new features…
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35 Lego Mega Constructions You (Probably) Haven’t...
What we are going to show you today are some Lego models you don’t get to see often, not available for purchase in the neighborhood stores for sure. They are complex, massive and definitely jaw-dropping. If you are a Lego fan, this is something you would not want to miss.
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88 Brilliant Examples of Bokeh Photography
The quality of the blur has come to be known as “bokeh”. Bokeh in terms of photography referring the area in the photo which are out of focus light to increase beautiful and dramatic image…
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Creating a Logotype Depends More on the Means Than...
The process of designing a type-based logo is similar to that of designing a shape-based logo. Both logos need to convey a message, do it quickly and appease the client’s taste.
May 2010
19 posts
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26 Dark Website Designs That Work Well
I have compiled a showcase of the most fantastic dark website design. All of these designs work very well with each other. The colours, backgrounds, text effects, images and overall web design positioning has selected very carefully in order to make them top of their game…
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24 Vintage Brochure Design Examples
Even before the emergence of modern printing equipment, business owners in the past have utilized brochures to advertise their products or services. I personally love how designers back in the day made efficient use of illustration, catchy headlines, photos, illustrations, and typography.
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650+ Free Photoshop Patterns
The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available.
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Beautiful Google Doodles (1998 – 2010)
We’re all familiar with Google Doodles – the customized logos that appear on the search engine’s home page to commemorate special dates or events. For 12 years now Google has been creating these logos, honoring everything from global holidays like Earth Day to the birthdays of historically significant people
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Why Colors Can Make or Break Your Design
Color will be one of the first things anyone notices when visiting your site and it will be a large part of the initial impressions people form about you, your website, and your business…
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Inspirational Black and White logo designs
Any professional logo designer starts their work firstly by interviewing the client(s) and secondly by searching the Internet for similar works as their project…
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This is Why Yosemite is a Photographer’s Nirvana
For over a century California’s Yosemite Park has been a destination for families and everyone who enjoys the outdoors. With over 750,000 acres of stunning beauty, it doesn’t matter what time of year you are there, everything is beautiful.
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80+ Free Exclusive PSD Logos
Once Again, we’ve got something special for our community. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised..
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33 Poster Design Tutorials
Poster design is a favorite of many graphic designers, and there are a number of quality tutorials available to teach you more about poster design in Photoshop. In this post we’ll feature 33 of the best.
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MAKE YOUR OWN GRUNGE BRUSHES 1
In this tutorial you will learn how to make your own set of grunge brushes for Photoshop using After Effects.You don’t need to install any additional plugins or any assets.You can create as many brushes as you need starting with this example, and create your own unique grunge set.
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The Ultimate Roundup of WordPress Tutorials,...
One of the great things about working with WordPress and developing your own themes is the community and all of the resources that are available.
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Ultimate Compilation of Photoshop Fractal Brushes
This post is generally an Ultimate Compilation of Photoshop Fractal Brushes for additional items on your list of resources. Come and download the brushes that you like and use them for your designs!
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25 Advanced Photo Effects and Techniques with...
All of the tutorials in this article have been labeled advanced, simply because of the dramatic transformation…
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Semi Web Safe Fonts to Spice Up Your Web Designs
We all know of the usual web safe fonts, you know, Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman etc? They’ve been around for years and have become the standard for web typography, but there’s a bunch of fonts out there that are just waiting to be put to use in web design.
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40 Beautiful And Amazing Aquatic Life Photos
People love to see aquatic life and the unique creatures found in the oceans, for this we have compiled this post that is purely based on aquatic theme. Let us take a close look at these wonderful masterpieces of photography.
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50 Beautiful Retro and Vintage Photoshop Tutorials
Retro and vintage designs are valued for nostalgia and sentimental memories. You can notice that retro and vintage design is created by using rich colors, grunge elements and various textures. In this collection, you’ll find 50 retro and vintage related Photoshop tutorials.
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March’s Free Professional PSD Web Templates
Here’s a collection of fully customizable templates which contain the graphic source files in .PSD format, fresh and creative resources from design community (March 2010). These web Psd templates are easy to use and customize and with some coding knowledge can be turned into ready websites.
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Top 5 WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely...
I recently gave a presentation at WordCamp Montreal on WordPress Security. While doing research for my presentation I came across a bunch of great WordPress Security tips that all WordPress users should use. Surprisingly, a good majority of these tips are not usually followed.
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10 Astonishing Tilt-Shift Videos
I’m sure you have seen some amazing tilt-shift photos – if not, tilt-shift creates an effect that turns normal sized objects or scenes into miniature-like. It is done by special tilt-shift lenses that have very limited depth of field. To start playing with this technique you need to buy a tilt-shift lens, attach to your dSLR camera and start shooting.
April 2010
27 posts
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30 Stunning jQuery Slider Plugins and Tutorials To...
JQuery has overpowered Flash in a lot of web uses becoming a very powerful tool for web designers. One of these uses that I’m referring to is the image slider. Implementing this feature in your site will definitely count as a big plus so don’t waste your time and download the available jQuery plugins in this 30 Stunning jQuery Slider Plugins and Tutorials To Boost Your Work article.
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How to Create a Funky Vintage Badges
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create three different and exceptional vintage badges using Photoshop that may be used in web design, product design, print or in any other place that comes to your mind! Let’s get started!
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High Five: Friday Design Freebies
Everybody loves quality design items for free. And here is my small collection for you!
1. WordPress Theme:
Absolutely WordPress Theme
2. Font:
Sertig Free Font
3. Social Icons:
Extreme Grunge Garments Icons
4. Photoshop:
Flowers Photoshop Brushes
5. Textures:
25 High resolution free grunge textures
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Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different realm, it has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that’s a pity. Because we, as designers, can learn a lot from it.
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Contextual Slideout Tips With jQuery & CSS3
To create a slideout element, you need to include a regular paragraph p tag to the page. This means that all the content is visible to search engines in a semantic way. The paragraphs are replaced with the markup for the slideouts by jQuery on page load, with the title, class and style attributes of the paragraph passed to the newly created element.
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30 Pure CSS Alternatives to Javascript
With all the cool things that surround Javascript (especially with jQuery) its easy to forget that it’s possible to push pure CSS (with a touch of HTML) into an all singing and all dancing interactive site, with absolutely no scripting at all.
The pure CSS techniques, outlined in this article, are neither new nor are they ground-breaking. What they do offer is CSS solutions to what would...
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Build a Simple Image Slideshow with jQuery Cycle
Image slideshows are a popular method of displaying numerous sequential photographs in web design. By making use of the handy Cycle plugin for jQuery, we can easily create a slideshow of our own, complete with previous and next navigation controls. Not a master of Javascript? Don’t worry…
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High Five: Crazy Premium WordPress Themes
Display 3 in 1
DISPLAY is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your backend with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who dont know much about coding or wordpress.
Chapter 26 - Minimal...
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Earth Day 2010
As a way to help appreciate and observe our environment, I’ve collected 39 recent images here, each a glimpse into some aspect of the world around us, how it affects and sustains us, and how we affect it. Here’s hoping everyone had a great Earth Day yesterday.
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Stylish Re-Envisioned Movie Posters
Posters of famous and classic movies are very popular on the internet, however I’ve been noticing more and more designers doing reinterpretations of these posters, most of them are simply awesome
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14 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
jQuery has changed the way developers write JavaScript and the way users interact with websites and web applications. If you’re a developer, you know what a joy working with jQuery can be, especially the convenience of plugins.