“This article features a mixture of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials. 30 Cool Creative Cartoon Characters, each is a Great tutorial which will guide you through the step by step process on how to create a cool cartoon character. These tutorials will also teach you the necessary skills required in order to create your own cool characters…”
12 Excellent Tools for Picking a Domain Name – Selecting the perfect domain name for your website is the most important, and oftentimes hardest, step in establishing a web presence. There are plenty of tools out there that can help you ease the burden of checking available domains and suggesting similar names that are related to your searches. In this article, you’ll read about 12 neat web tools that will lend you a hand in finding and choosing domain names… (More…)
50 Stunningly Creative Interactive Flash Websites | Spoonfed Design – In the world of Flash-based web applications, there are an endless number of possibilities. Flash is a platform which allows for creativity to flow into a website. Interactive is one way that Flash websites are set away from the rest. Here are 50 amazing interactive and creative Flash websites… (More…)
20 Awesome Examples of Craig Shields’ Work – Also known as ‘Surpy’, Craig Shields is a young and very talented designer from the UK that has incredible illustration, typography and doodle works… (More…)
4 Principles of Good Design for Websites | My Ink Blog – One of my absolute favorite design books is, Robin Williams Design Workshop. It looks into practical design theories and showcases awesome examples. One of the areas of focus that I’ve taken into all my designs are the four major design principles. They include: contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity… (More…)
Making a jQuery Plugin Truly Customizable » Learning jQuery – Tips, Techniques, Tutorials – Most if not all of the jQuery plugins out there have some level of customization. But very few of the plugin authors have mastered the very particular art involved. Achieving the "optimum level" of customization is a bit of a balancing act… go too far either way and you've got an unusable plugin!… (More…)
Free Web Design Icon Set – Here is another icon set that I made nearly two years ago. I always planned to make over 1,000 of these but never got round to it. There are 310 of them and they are designed to be used on web design projects, but some are also suited to be used as system icons. They are all 16 by 16 pixels, in PNG format and free to use in print and web projects… (More…)
Web Templates Blog » Blog Archive » Flash templates for online photo portfolios – Hope you’ve already read our most on the most striking photo portfolios. I also hope you’ve been inspired to create your own photo portfolio or update the one you have. If so then I’m just in time. I’d like to share the most eye catching portfolio templates and art & photography templates with you. With these templates you can create mind blowing photo portfolios and share your best photos with others… (More…)
The Easiest Way to Use Any Font You Wish – Nettuts+ – CSS 3 is on the horizon, and we're all getting excited. Thanks to the latest browser updates, developers can begin working with time-saving new properties – such as @font-face. Unfortunately, the availability of these features is limited to a tiny fraction of our overall userbase. At least for the next year or so, we'll need to continue utilizing the Flash and Javascript alternatives when embedding fonts… (More…)
Illustration Collection Volume 2 – Craig Baldwin’s Blog – Well after the success of the last Illustration Collection, thanks in no small part to my inclusion in the VectorTuts monthly round cup, I thought I’d put together another collection of excellent illustrative work. What I look for when putting together these posts is work that jumps out to me, I like punchy visuals and strong colours but I also really like unique things as I’m sure plenty of other people do… (More…)
How to Create a Grunge Style Illustration with Stains – Psdtuts+ – Inspired by the article "18+ Sources of Inspiration from Coffee, Ink, Blood and other Stains," by Steven Snell, I decided to show my personal way of creating stain based designs in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we'll grab a picture, apply several filters to it and obtain a monochromatic stain, which combined with stain brushes and a texture will transform into an eye-catching grunge result… (More…)
Beautiful Pictures For Spring Inspiration | Inspiration | Smashing Magazine – Inspiration is all around us: you can derive new ideas from people you meet, places you visit and observations you make. Sometimes it is enough just to take a look around and observe the beauty of nature surrounding us everywhere. For instance, spring is often considered the most beautiful and inspirational period of the year, with its refreshing, colorful, vivid imagery and structures. And this post hopes to prove just that… (More…)
60+ Free Vectors Icons for Web Designers | SherifAbdou – The Design Blog – Finding decent hi-quality vector icons for free via google is kinda hard & annoying. My results mainly lead to sites that wanted to sell you icons. I don’t beleive in paying for things like that, especially when there’s an abundant amount of vector icons that are available for free… (More…)
Best of the "B" Fonts | Nerd Business Blog – The ultimate list of the greatest fonts ever made continues in this edition with 142 of the highest quality fonts starting with the letter "B"… (More…)
99 Cool Fonts Starting with "A" | Nerd Business Blog – This in depth font review gives you the advantage of seeing about a hundred cool fonts you can quickly deploy on your upcoming design project. This first edition of my pursuit to identify the 2000 best and most coolest fonts – involves establishing a huge reference of the highest quality fonts: EVER MADE… (More…)
Geometric Pop Art – Tadaomi Shibuya (8 illustrations) – My Modern Metropolis – Tadaomi Shibuya's use of straight lines and shadows transcends into some really original artwork. He creates a perfect sense of balance with his geometric patterns. Born in 1973, Tadaomi graduated college with a degree in product design, and began working as an illustrator/designer/artist. He currently lives in Yokohama, Japan… (More…)
Inspirational Quotes Remixed – In the beginning of 2009, I compiled 22 smart, inspirational quotes from bloggers in 2008 to share with you. Today I thought it would be fun to mash-up some of the quotes with visuals to make them come alive… (More…)
Recycled Treasures Converted Into Inspired Art | WebUrbanist – Wait – before you toss that into the garbage, can it be recycled? Many things obviously can in traditional ways, but an artist often sees beyond the obvious. With a creative eye and artful touch, art can be created with nearly any medium. Innovative artists can transform what you might consider trash into amazing art… (More…)
ForTheLose.org – How To: Use Custom Fields in WordPress – Custom Fields are one of the most powerful features in WordPress. Most newbies are either afraid of these mysterious input areas or simply don't even know they exist. In this post, my goal is to enlighten you on what exactly the Custom Fields are and provide some examples of what they can be used for. Let's get started, shall we?… (More…)
20 Cool WordPress Blog Designs « WPCrowd – I want to contribute to all showcases on the globe with my glorious showcase with WordPress blog designs. There are a lot of cool WordPress designs in the web but I collected the most great I could find. This showcase is with 20 Cool well designed WordPress websites and blogs with original colors and themes. Every design is unique with rich colors and styles… (More…)
150+ beautiful photoshop patterns brushes and textures for download – WittySparks – It’s always very tough to find the best, free, different and hi resolution photoshop textures, patterns or brushes for download. I always collect the best resources at one place for my future reference – in that way it will be very easy for me to get the best stuff at the right time. Just sharing the same with you all and I always love to check the best resources, please share the same via comments… (More…)
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