Upcoming at Arbenting
So the year comes another week closer to a close, and the this week in design was quite a week. We have a full showcase for you today and a fine week ahead of us here at Arbenting. For our weekly Monday Freebies, we have another free texture pack coming at you. On Tuesday the follow up to What Does True Freelancing Cost, Pt. 1 rolls your way, and our Inspiration in Color series wraps up on Friday with Inspiration in Spectrum! So check back and see what’s the what as the week flies by.
And don’t forget to submit to the Inspiration in Color flickr group for our upcoming user submitted showcase to cap off the series.
Guest Posts by Arbenting
Freebie - Kaleidoscope Photoshop Brush Pack at Elite by Design
Breaking Through Creative Blocks at My Ink Blog
Showcase of Brilliant Comic Book Cover Art at Smashing Magazine
Magpie, Methinks Your Song Sounds Sour at The Directory for Designers Social Media Blog
Articles

The Benefits of Blogging as a Graphic Designer

The I'm Just Creative Branding Story Part 2 - Logo Design

31 Creative Examples of Mascots to Grab your Attention

15 CSS Tricks that Must be Learned

Steps to Choosing a Successful Colour Scheme

47 Essential Resources for T-Shirt Designers

What to Ask A New Client Wanting A Wordpress Theme

Just Say No: 3 Reasons the Customer Isn't Always Right

7 Essential Things You Should Be Doing When Your Blog is Still Young
Freebies

Free High-Resolution Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set 2

25 Seamless Polka-Dot Pattern Swatches

Free Wordpress Theme - Versatility Lite
Tutorials

How To Create a Copper Photoshop Text Effect

Scalable Content Box Using Only One Background Image

Photoshop Actions - Creating Folder Structures for Web Designs Tutorial

Draw your Snowman in Photoshop

Pushing Photoshop to the Limit - 13 Most Advanced Tutorials
Interviews

Just Creative Design's Designer in the Spotlight: Mike Smith

Sharebrain's Braintalk with Calvin Lee

Fuel Your Creativity's Interview with Designer Menachem Krinsky
New Launches

Logo of the Day is a high-profile logo design award scheme that rewards the best professional logos and trademarks designed throughout the world. All suggested logos are screened by our two judges Jacob Cass & Jeff Fisher to ensure this.
Logo Of The Day is also a place to come for logo design inspiration… daily!
- Logo Of The Day promotes excellence in logo design around the world.
- All logos suggested (or chosen) are screened by two professional, practicing logo designers and are judged on the design, creativity, scalability, usability and memorability of the logo before being awarded the LOTD award.
- All winners will be showcased on the Logo Of The Day website and are eligible for the Logo Of The Day Award of which they can use on their CV or however they wish.
- Logo Of The Day is a powerful marketing tool to promote yourself and / or your design firm.
- Participants are entitled to use the LOTD Badge for display on their website or where ever they wish.


















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Thank you so much for the mention!
Colorburneds last blog post..55 Seamless Line & Crosshatch Swatches
Colorburned — No problem, thanks for the great freebies!
Thank you for the link out to LOTD :) Some nice articles here too!
Jacob Casss last blog post..Designer In The Spotlight: Mike Smith
Thanks for featuring the Snowman tutorial :D
Johnson Kohs last blog post..Stand a Chance to Win FlashEff Premium
Awesome round up, i need to catch up on alot of these, alos thanks for the mention.
Maxs last blog post..Photoshop Actions — Creating Folder Structures for Web Designs — Tutorial
Nice collection, all are deserving.
Mabucs last blog post..Gianmarco Lauriola
Thanks for including my post, Angie! There are some great posts here including a couple which I hadn’t seen yet.
Tracey Gradys last blog post..Steps to choosing a successful colour scheme
Jacob — Thanks, I’m loving LOTW so far!
Johnson — No problem, it’s a great tutorial!
Max & Tracey — No problem guys, great articles! And I’m glad I could provide some reading material for you :).
Mabuc — Thanks so much, the credit all goes to the original article authors. This was a great week in design!
Hi Angie,
thx a lot for the mention :-)
thomass last blog post..Shirts & Stuff: Blog Header Shirt
Great resources (again), I really like kailoon icons :)
Jankos last blog post..Make image buttons a part of input fields
great list thank you very much
joyoge designers’ bookmarks last blog post..Troy Paiva’s lost America
I’ve seen some of these already, but most I haven’t. Thanks!
Nicks last blog post..Kanye West — Love Lockdown Trance Remix
Thanks for the pimpage on my interview at Sharebrain, Braintalk. :)
- Cal