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60+ Articles for Design Inspiration and Information

Design Inspiration

40 Unconventional Advertisements20/06/2010
just art and inspiration

Web Interface Showcase #1419/06/2010
Today is number fourteen in our Web Interface showcase!
As it seemed quite popular, I will be leaving my thoughts and suggestions to all layouts and logotypes featured each week with adding a few critiques along the way that will hopefully guide the designer into making their designs even better!

Custom Website Designs are More Attractive & Reliable19/06/2010
Advertising is a core aspect of every business apart from the fact that whether business is new or has been running since ages. The owner of the business has to think about the continuous advertising of the business. In this modern world, it is the need of the business to go for advertising by every means. Different people are following different rules for the advertising according to the rules and the requirements of their business. For the p…

25+ Refreshing Flash Website Designs in Green colour18/06/2010
Flash enabled designers and developers to deliver rich content over the browsers, creating motion, interactivity and an impressive visual experience. Good Flash-sites do not require too much bandwidth, load fast and allow for a smooth interaction; besides, beautiful Flash-based sites are Photoshop masterpieces, transporting some kind of reality and fantasy to the Flash movie. It’s quite eco-chic these days to go a bit green at graphic design…

35+ Origami inspired fashion designs18/06/2010
Origami is the art of folding any type of materials to create sculptural designs. The origami folding techniques are also used in the fashion industry.

115 Eye Catching Business Cards for Design Inspirations18/06/2010
We have brought a beautiful collection of business cards which will provide a great design inspiration to many artistic graphic designers, by giving a different modern touch they can present a magical master piece as a new example to others, hope you’ll enjoy these listed eye catching business cards.

19 Cool Blue Brochure Design Examples18/06/2010
Get a head start on your printing project by browsing through these blue brochure design examples.

30 Digital Art Photography Designs for your Design Inspiration17/06/2010
30 inspirational digital art photography design you never seen before. If you are looking to add some creativity and inspiration to your life, you probably need our Digital Art Photography Designs that inspires you to create something creative and original.

30+ Stylish Examples of Business Card Designs17/06/2010
In a company where the visual identity became essential, these creations make it possible to make the difference. A well designed and printed business card can impress and make people take notice and remember you . A badly designed or printed card can leave a bad impression. So here is my list about the most awesome and creative business cards, I’ve ever seen. I hope you would like them.

70 Perfect Dribbble Works to Inspire you17/06/2010
I spend lots of time browsing dribbble works. There are quality, happy and colorful designs there that can inspire you. I collected some perfect works (logos, websites, icons etc.) to show and inspire you.

5 Social Media Sites for Small Businesses – Get Smart! [Part 1]17/06/2010
Social media sites can help small business owners to optimize and expand their business practices to achieve better results. Take a look at the top five sites that can help.

19 Humorous Greeting Card Samples17/06/2010
19 cute and humorous greeting card design samples to perk you up and give you ideas for creating your own prints.

BMW Art Car: Beautiful Designs By Various Renowned Artists16/06/2010
I am sure that everybody out there is familiar with the BMW motor company. In 1975 the “BMW Art Car” Project was launched by Hervé Poulain. The purpose of this project was to invite renowned artists from throughout the world to use the BMW car as their personal canvas.

22 Examples of Vintage Bicycle Poster Designs16/06/2010
Being a fan of vintage posters, I decided to make a roundup showcasing vintage bicycle poster designs. Scroll down and enjoy the ride!

20 Creative & Inspirational Wallpapers #416/06/2010
We have been showcasing some fantastic artwork for the past few week in various categories such as abstract, fantasy, spacescape, landscape and many others.
This is our fourth installment of our wallpaper feature and each week we will be showcasing 20 creative and inspirational desktops to spice up your working environment.

100 Beautiful Movies iPhone Wallpapers16/06/2010
In this beautiful article we sharing some latest movie wallpapers for your iPhone, from these listed wallpapers you will find an amazing collection of movie inspired wallpapers from classics to latest movies even some of these are coming soon. We know most of iPhone users have inspirations about movie heroes and also want to put in this beautiful gadget mobile phone. So why not go ahead and spice up your iPhone with one of your favorite movie …

Jazz Comics by Belgian Illustrator Philip Paquet16/06/2010
Philip Paquet is known to be inspired by the world of jazz. His new book consists of two booklets hidden inside a Blue Note styled record cover and containing 4 Jazz short stories, written by various authors.

60 Wallpapers from 17 Capital Cities of Europe15/06/2010
Let’s travel around some capital cities of Europe with this showcase post. There are lots of sights and places to see and visit. Every country has a special atmosphere and culture. Take a look!

60+ Excellent Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes15/06/2010
In this collection, you’ll find 60+ Excellent Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes that you can use for your website needs.

33 Stunning Examples of Black Art Poster Designs15/06/2010
In today’s post, we bring you 33 stunning examples of black art poster designs that effectively showcase the beauty of this timeless color.

20 Vintage Beach Postcard Designs15/06/2010
Design cards that exude a cool, fun, and classic appeal with today’s roundup of vintage beach postcard designs.

25 Colorful Vector Background Graphic Designs14/06/2010
There are some colorful vector background graphic designs out there which are both great for design inspiration, and sweet to use on your desktop. Colorful vector background with concentric circles, rainbow colors, twinkling stars, dots, arrows and cloud-a-like shapes. Use these vector backgrounds and vector elements in website design is a new trend growing among web designers.

80 Dazzling Examples of Illustration Websites14/06/2010
Illustration can add a fun/innovative vibe to your websites theme. The goal of the illustration should be used to grab the readers attention and showcase your talent. Lately there has been an increased amount of illustrated websites. This trend has been around for awhile, but is getting more popular.

Artist of the Week – Irina Vinnik14/06/2010
This week, inspiration comes from Saint Petersburg, Russia – Irina Vinnik, artist, designer and illustrator.
Traditional inkings illustrating stunning nature elements combined with typography and …

66 Fabulous Words That Can Improve Your Blog Traffic14/06/2010
A good blog head­line is often the only fac­tor that deter­mines whether or not an arti­cle on your blog will be read. The idea that con­tent is king is true, but some peo­ple miss out on read­ing that great con­tent because there is noth­ing inter­est­ing in the head­line that rep­re­sents it.

25+ Creative Font Style for Design Inspiration14/06/2010
Creative Font Designs has always been a fundamental aspect of inspiration, but many designers are now making type the centerpiece of their designs. Not only is typography becoming the design

58 Incredible Logo Designs #413/06/2010
Here’s the fourth roundup of amazing logo designs. This is a series that we do frequently, so make sure to check out the past logo articles. For this collection we found some really creative logos, they’re all unique and eye catching.

Design Tutorials

20 Best Photoshop Video Tutorials18/06/2010
A world of video has descended on the web in recent years. Here we’ll highlight 20 of the best video tutorials covering Photoshop tools, tricks, and technique.

Create a Bubble Text Effect in Illustrator18/06/2010
Hi there. Here you can learn to create a vector bubble and a bubble text effect. First, you need the Ellipse, Rectangle, Rectangular Grid and Twirl tools plus some basic effects. Later, for the text effect you’ll only need the Type Tool and some of the Symbol Tools.

Quick Tip: How to use the Quick Mask Tool16/06/2010
Quick Mask is often ignored by Photoshop users, but it can be really useful to control complex selections, quickly remove background from objects and more. Keep in mind that this tool is built to improve the other tools and not to be used as a stand-alone function.

Quick Tip: Control the number of colors in Illustrator17/06/2010

Many times you had to clean up your work, get it ready for print, with a limited number of colors. Here’s how you can clean up those loose colors, quick and easy.

Tutorial: How to create electric beams in Photoshop15/06/2010
In this tutorial we are going to see how to create electric beams in Photoshop from scratch. These electric beams will be very much useful in creating any music or party posters.

WordPress How To: Add Related Posts Section Without Plugin15/06/2010
you will be very impressive about the related posts section which appeared immediately after the blog post content. In this article, I will show you how to add it to your WordPress theme without any additional plugin and very easy to do.

Designing a Website Following Step by Step Procedure14/06/2010
Are you interested in making your own website? Are you confused about the development of it or how to do design it in an appropriate manner? Well, if this is your concern then don’t be worries anymore because in this piece of writing, I would be discussing some steps with the help of which you can easily design your website in an effective manner.

How to Add the WordPress 3 Nav Menu to Thesis14/06/2010
Thesis already has a navigation menu, but some people would like to take advantage of the new one offered in WordPress 3.0. This quick tutorial will show you how.

Create a business wordpress theme with 3D elements13/06/2010
Learn how to create a sleek wordpress business theme with 3D elements, and 3D Stock images

Design Resources and Freebies

Download 1100 Photoshop Gradients20/06/2010
Free-Stock-Graphics.com is launching with one of the best premium resources available for FREE

Great Backup Plugins & services & Online Storages For WordPres…20/06/2010
Today WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools on the Internet. If you have a blog powered by WordPress you need to take regular backup of your WordPress database and your essential files (uploads, plugins, themes, etc.). If your blog gets hacked, you can simply reload the database and files and your blog will be normal within a few minutes.

35 Best Websites To Download High Quality Free Vector Images19/06/2010
Vector graphics formats are complementary to raster graphics, which is the representation of images as an array of pixels, as it is typically used for the representation of photographic images. Designers love to use vector images for their designs as they never loose their quality even at larger dimensions. But its not that much easy to find high quality vector images. I collect a huge list of websites where you can find high quality free vect…

Fresh illustrations for your art: 170 Seasonal, 21 Business18/06/2010
We’ve been really busy in the last month, creating new vectors for you to download and enjoy. 170 Seasonal and 21 Business illustrations categories have been added to our large collection, all top quality and original.

Girl Silhouette18/06/2010
Vector Silhouettes of Girls. 30+ HQ detailed shapes of standing women. Free for personal & commercial purposes.

Father’s Day Special Logos – I love you Dad!18/06/2010
Take a glance at these Best Father’s Day Special Logos; make your Dad’s day memorable. Happy Father’s Day!

Freebie: Neon Glow Layer Styles18/06/2010

Neon Glow layer styles makes your text look very elegant so that it attracts more attention towards your work. These kind of layer styles can be made use in making posters of parties or music show

10 Free Geometric Shape Photoshop Brushes16/06/2010

Today’s post is a collection of ten geometric shape Photoshop brushes. They are free for personal and commercial use.

Freebie: 25+ Rare Cloth Texture pack14/06/2010
This freebie consists of 25+ very rare and random cloth textures. This texture pack consists of checked, linen, wool, cotton, suit, bed spread, towel, bed sheet and lots other different kinds of cloth texture packs which will be very useful in graphic and more importantly in web designing

Design Thoughts

Color: An Investigation18/06/2010
In this article I reconstruct my understanding of color by looking into its origins. I endeavored to think about color as a concept unto itself, and not be burdened by its ties to a specific field or medium.

The end of Flash? Maybe Not!17/06/2010

As the standoff between Apple and Adobe seems set to last, the future of flash development appears to hang in a balance, if other companies begin to adopt the Apple way of thinking on the subject, support for Flash could be dropped from other browsers. With the new features of HTML 5.0 and the canvas tag there are new ways to develop rich content for the web, could this really be the end of Flash?…Maybe Not!

Promote Your Designs/Articles/News Submit to Top Websites and Get More…16/06/2010

Promote your designs/articeles/news submit to top websites, blog post, News and rss feeds to the following top websites or blogs. Follow each sites guidelines and provide a link back if requested and to increase your link popularity.

The Most Important Features for Your Premium WordPress Theme15/06/2010
What are the most important features to have for your premium WordPress theme? I asked and the people answered. Find the results here including some charts and graphs and quotes.

130+ Productive Resources To Promote Your Design / Article / News15/06/2010

There are already been few posts on this topic but out of them most of the links either been dead or their service has expired, we are sharing only those links which you don’t feel any irritation and also they proved to be fruitful in promoting your designs, articles and news, and you succeed to get extra traffic on your site as well, it will support many new users to gain awareness regarding your designs, articles and news.

Plan Your Way To Hire A Drupal Site Developer15/06/2010
To hire any service provider, its very important for you to understand the whats and hows of that particular set of need.

Principles & Elements of Design15/06/2010

I have reviewed eight designs. I will discuss each one in detail, highlighting the principles and/or elements of design that they make best use of. I’ve included a sample screen shot and a more abstract view of the design highlighting the relevant principle or element.

7 Great Tips To Boost Your Creativity15/06/2010

Creativity is the most important tool for every designer; technology can’t replace it and as a personal opinion it won’t replace it until the end of days. I saw a lot of great works done in earlier version of Photoshop which still impress the users of the latest version of this program (CS5,unfortunately I am not a user of this “wow” version). Here I present a list of some tips to increase your creativity; these work for me and I notic…

Hourly Vs. Flat Rate: Pros and Cons14/06/2010

In this article, I will go to the next step and see which is better, charging a flat rate or hourly, and why the one you choose might depend on the particular project, your work style, and or client.

Theme Thesis is Finally on Facebook13/06/2010

Announcing the Theme Thesis Facebook account. Become a fan or a liker and stay updated, as well as get wordpress and web design resources and goodies delivered straight to your Facebook stream.

Can Selling WordPress Themes Online Become A Full Time Job?13/06/2010
The original idea behind nenuno was to offer WordPress conversions from HTML or PSD templates, but we decided to go down the blogging route as time was limited due to other work commitments.
Here are a few of my thoughts and considerations regarding the selling of web resources in general. I would also love to hear your thoughts on this topic, so please leave a comments below!