See I told you we would be doing the rundowns on Friday. And you thought we were just joshing you! Oh, wait. You didn't? Well, the guy behind you did, so we were talking to him. But once again, we have compiled our favorite posts from the design community this week to present to all of those who may have missed them, or who would just like another opportunity to go through them. So dive in and swim through the best offerings we could find for you. As always, we hope you enjoy. Oh, and by the way, be looking for a big announcement from the Arbenting duo come next week...and that's all I have to say about that...for now.
Article - When Interiors Attack: When Your Feng Shui, Feng Shouldn’t - Design is an eclectic field that has many wonderfully creative facets for the creative community to explore. One area that often gets overlooked by a portion of designers, is interior design.
Freebie - 10 Free Hi-Res Waterlogged Maps Photoshop Brushes - Angie struck brainstorming gold and mined through the web to unearth some old time royalty free map images to age and weather into a mighty fine brush pack. These original brushes are free for the My Ink Blog readers to enjoy and include in their design projects of all shapes and sizes. Commercial or personal designs alike, we want you to find as many creative uses for these Photoshop freebies as you can.
20 Questions To Ask Clients Prior To Designing A Logo - Before starting any project it’s essential to get the right preliminary information from your clients. This will help pave the way to a successful project, assist in bringing client’s vision into perspective and build a lasting relationship.
Five Minute Upgrade – Making Your Design Pop - 8 ways to raise your design from good to great.
20 Excellent Coda Tips - There are quite a few great web development applications out there but if you’re a Mac user, Coda is easily one of the best. Here are 20 excellent Coda tips to increase productivity that I’ve gathered during my use of Coda so far.
10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To - Design patterns are solutions to recurring problems. By extension, UI design patterns are solutions to common user interface problems. This article goes over 10 interesting UI design patterns that you can use in your own projects. In fact, you may already be using them now without knowing it.
Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack - So you just spent 10 or more hours creating a crazy t-shirt design and your client has officially signed off…so what now? You may have created stellar photo-realistic mockups and used tons of really cool colors- but none of this means ANYTHING if your screen printer can’t clearly interpret your vision!
10 incredibly cool WordPress shortcodes - Introduced in WordPress 2.5, shortcodes are a very easy way to display lot of things on your blog posts by inserting a very simple code. In this article, I’m going to show 10 incredible things shortcodes can do.
Essential Practices for Styling Your CSS - With Cascading Style-Sheets you can virtually do anything you want, which is mostly valuable, however, if you are inexperienced, it can most certainly hurt you in the long run. Most of the designers and developers only accomplish to scratch the surface of the amazing abilities of CSS.
Free download: 5 birds vectors - Download this serie of 5 birds silhouette vectors for free. They can be used in any type of work, commercial or not, but I’d love it if you referred to the source.
20 Spray & Splat Brushes for Photoshop - This set of brushes is really nice, especially if you need a little more spray and a little less splat in your design. Give this set a download and try them on for size.
7 Coffee Stained Paper Textures - These textures were made using a high quality textured card, coffee granules and boiling water. The card was soaked in a strong, black coffee over night until completely dry, and the same process was repeated to create the coffee blotches. After creasing, the card was stored flat to dry and scanned in at 600dpi, leaving you with high resolution textures to use for your personal and commercial projects!
5 Free High Resolution Patterned Paper Textures - think these would look fabulous in website background compositions, even more toned down with just a hint of some curvy designs visible. Please feel free to use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions.
Freebie: 7 High Resolution Stone Textures - These high resolution stone textures are of the stone siding on the lighthouse at Old Fort Niagara. The park is nestled on Lake Ontario and has all kinds of great places to visit, look around and photograph. I love the weathered stone and moss growing along some of the rock.
Friday Freebie: Old Vintage Paper Tag - The tag is in .PNG format with a transparent background, one with the text and one with it removed. The tag is about 1776 x 578 px so its pretty big to work with, which is always a good thing!
Grungy Polka Dots Photoshop Patterns - Today’s web treat is a another combo pack of tileable grungy polka dot Photoshop patterns (.pat) and a corresponding seamless grungy texture pack (.jpg). The resolution for both textures and patterns is 740px X 740px.
Free Vector Doodles - Women’s Clothing & Fashion - It’s time for another little vector doodles freebie, this time a collection of vector graphics based on the topic of women’s fashion. The pack contains various roughly doodled clothing items, including shoes, dresses, belts, sunglasses and bags. Feel free to use them in any of your designs, hopefully they will fit right in to a fashion website or promo designs for a clothes store.
Free Texture Tuesday: Floral - These textures were made in Photoshop by layering various grunge and paper textures together along with floral patterns. They may not have a wide variety of uses, but I think they’ll really come in handy when you find a place for them in your designs.
RSS Cheese - A free icon set you can taste - The set contains 4 high resolution RSS icons that come in four sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 128x128 and 64x64. Icons are completely free and can be used without any restrictions in any type of project inlcuding commercial projects.
Free Vector Diagram Icons - 12 free vector icons of diagrams and charts in bright cartoon style. Easy to modify, recolor and mix. Free for personal and commercial purposes.
Interview with Mikael Lugnegard, ID'er gone rogue - Mikael Lugnegard is a Swedish industrial designer [who] graduated from the Umea Institute of Design, and worked as a lead designer for Duke Dynamics (BMW styling), as a concept designer for von Braun Sports Cars and as a sketch teacher at a number of Swedish design schools.
Interview with Marco Kuiper, Marcofolio.net - Marco lives in the Netherlands and is an enthusiast in everything on the web and creates innovative web stuff. In this interview you’ll get to know him a little bit better.
Freelancer Interview: Andy Sowards - The first in a new series of interviews on Guerrilla Freelancing featuring the always talkative and highly talented Andy Sowards.
Interview With Todd Garland Founder Of BuySellAds - Todd is the founder of BuySellAds, an advertising network that makes it easy for both publishers to sell ads, and advertisers to purchase ad spots.
Make A Vector Comment Bubble In 5 Simple Steps - A nifty little 5-step process to create your very own vector Comment Bubble. This tutorial is strictly for those who are too intimidated by Ilustrator and who wake up in the middle of the night because they saw the Pen tool in a ghastly nightmare.
Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel - Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.
Tutorial - Create a Folding Circle - A very simple process for doing a fold over effect.
Create a Glowing Globe Icon in Photoshop - In this tutorial we are going to create a simple 3D glowing world globe icon. This can then be applied to a logo or one color image instead of a map.
How To Create a WordPress Theme - Over the next 12 days this WordPress Themes Tutorial is going to show you how to build a powerful, up-to-date, WordPress Theme from scratch. As we go along I’ll explain what’s happening including (for better or worse) my thinking on certain techniques and why I’m choosing one path over another.
Create a Nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background in Photoshop - In this step by step tutorial I explain how to realize a nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background using two brush sets, a icon pack and some basic techniques.
Create an Online Magazine With WordPress - Many of us have dreamed of writing for a magazine or even being a magazine editor. However, now with WordPress you can be the writer, editor and owner of your very own magazine. With a few steps you can have the magazine designed, laid out and have writers who are writing articles for your own online publication.
Making Sense of the Warp Tool - It’s All About the Lines - What we're going to do is pick the image up from the part where we have the accordion sections in place with the red coloring applied to the sides. Then we'll go step by step through adding the diamond pattern to the side of the top wrap. By the end you should have a pretty good understanding of how the Warp Tool works and will be a Warping Master as well.
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Thanks so much for including my post “80+ Must-Read Blogs” in your amazing round-up! There are tons of awesome resources here, and I’m loving the random inspiration!
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Some great stuff in this roundup! Thanks for that and for including my patterned papers and tutorial! :-)
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Great round up. Thanks for the mention of smy tutorial from Denis Designs!
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