For our “Best of 2010″ series we’ve already shown your our picks for best free WordPress themes and free fonts. So for this week the focus in on jQuery. This javascript framework continued to grow in popularity during 2010, which meant an abundance of plugins being released. This made it difficult to choose our favorites. We made a conscious effort to choose from a variety of types, and ones that were useful to web designers and that had some wow factor. Here are our picks for the Best jQuery Plugins of 2010.
Nivo Slider
A super smooth slider with loads of settings including 9 transition effects. It also supports things like linking images and keyboard navigation.
Quicksand
Reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation. Just specify source container and destination collection which will replace the source collection. New elements will appear with fancy scaling+alpha effect, deleted elements (non-existant in destination collection) will scale out and rearranged items will move to their destination positions.
Spritely
Spritely is a jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript.
Lettering.js
Lettering.js is a lightweight, easy to use jQuery plugin for radical Web Typography.
Colortip
Colortip converts the title attributes of elements withing your page, into a series of colorful tooltips. Six color themes are available, so you can easily match it with the rest of your design.
Masonry
Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall.
gvChart
gvChart is a plugin for jQuery, that uses Google Charts to create interactive visualization by using data from the HTML table tag. It is easy in use and additionally it allows you to create five types of the charts.
Animated table sort
This plugin allows you to animatedly sort a table based on a column’s
jQuery Image Scale Carousel
When working with imagery online keeping the integrity of an images aspect ratio is as important as anything else. This is what’s so nice about this jQuery plug-in; you don’t have to worry about all of your images being perfectly sized for this slider. The jQuery Image Scale Carousel auto scales all of your images making implementation super simple.
YoxView
YoxView is a free Lightbox-type media and image viewer jQuery plugin. It’s easy to use and feature-rich. You can use it to display a variety of media, such as: images, video, inline content, iframes, Flash and more.
Creative Bookmarks: Best of September 2010
Summer had to end eventually. However, with the coming of Fall comes an all new month with great new tutorials, articles and freebies! This is Creative Bookmarks September!
Quick Nav:
- Photoshop Tutorials
- Illustrator Tutorials
- Web/Blogging Tutorials
- Freebies, Inspiration, & Resources
Photoshop Tutorials
Nature-Themed Girl Composition in Photoshop
This great tutorial teaches you how to have some fun with vectors, custom brushes, and stock images to create a colorful and eye-catching nature themed girl composition.
Create a Detailed Ornate Heraldic Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to use some manipulation techniques combined with some Photoshop tricks to create an impressive Heraldic style emblem.
How to Create a Fantasy Banana Ship in Photoshop
In this great tutorial, from PsdTuts+, you’ll learn how to use a combination of photo to create a fantasy flying ship from a banana.
Create a Fantasy Girlbird Illustration in Photoshop
This great tutorial shows you how to create a make believe bird girl illustration with some Photoshop painting and photo manipulation techniques.
Create a Motorola Droid Style Phone in Photoshop
This tutorial teaches you how to use various tricks and techniques to create a realistic Motorola Droid phone.
The creation of A Life Of Aquatic Sounds
This great tutorial, from WeGraphics, combines the use of blending modes, Photoshop filters, and other tricks and techniques to create this beautiful aquatic manipulation.
Photoshop For Beginners: Creating Buttons for Web
In this tutorial, youll learn how to use blending modes and layer masks to create beautiful buttons for the web.
See Also: Part Two
Design a Grunge Vintage Poster in Photoshop
Another great tutorial, from WeGraphics, in which you’ll learn how to use a grid, patterns, layers styles and textures to create a vintage looking poster.
Playing with Custom Brushes to Create Magical Scenes
This tutorial teaches you how to create a custom brush and will walk you through the options of the brush to create a nice composition.
Harnessing the Power of Geometry for a Creative Nike Shoe Design
In this great tutorial, you’ll learn how to make geometric shaped brushes and apply them to create a Nike advertisement.
Make a Stylish Futuristic Textured Wallpaper in Photoshop
In this tutorial, from Design Instruct, you’ll learn how to use blending modes and textures to create a wallpaper that has outerspace-futuristic look to it.
A Perfect Lie in Photoshop #2
Too many photo retouching tutorials use techniques that make the skin look fake. This tutorial, from Abduzeedo, does the opposite, presenting a tutorial that achieves a beautiful and real effect.
Illustrator Tutorials
Create an Elegant Patterned Vector Owl in Illustrator
This brilliant tutorial, by Chris Spooner, will teach you how to create an owl illustration using basic shapes and the clever use of patterns and shading.
How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design
This hybrid tutorial utilizes Illustrator to create and modify type, then uses Photoshop to create a grungy metalic piece of blackletter type.
Creating Seamless Textures
This great tutorial shows you how to creat clean, crisp textures and patterns using the newly improved appearance panel in Illustrator CS5.
How to Create an Adobe Illustrator Brush
In contrast to Photoshop, there aren’t many blogs that publish quality tutorials on how to create Illustrator brushes. This tutorial fills exactly that need.
Create Amazing Patterns using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use the Pattern Brush in Illustrator. But wait there is more! You’ll also create your own pattern brushes and learn the right way of using them.
Create a Graffiti-Inspired Illustration Using Photoshop and Illustrator
This great intermediate-level tutorial, combines the power of Photoshop and Ilustrator to create a graffiti inspired drawing and then, bring it to life with color.
Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator
This excellent tutorial, from Spyre Studios, walks you through creating a vector turtle based on a photo; a technique that can be useful in the future.
Web Tutorials
Basic Beginners Guide to Installing a jQuery Lightbox
This is a great tutorial, from Line25, that gives you a crash course on how to setup a lightbox gallery on your website; perfect for the Javascript coding noob.
A Crash-Course in CSS Media Queries
This great screencast, on Nettuts+, show’s how easy it is to create browser width dependant layouts with CSS media queries.
An Analysis of Typography on the Web
Most designers will agree that typography is the most important part of a design. Unfortunately, it’s usually neglected online. This article/tutorial contains some very useful information on the topic.
Converting a clean magazine-style PSD template to HTML/CSS
This great tutorial, from WeGraphics, isn’t very step-by-step, however, it sheds light on the process and gives great tips and advice.
The WordPress Loop
I always love the screencast’s of Chris Coyier. In his latest he does a great job in explaining the WordPress loop and the different ways to use it.
On Designing Tumblr Themes: 7 Ways to Design a Useful & Customizable Tumblr Theme
This is an excellent article, by the great folks from A Good Company, that gives some great advice on what to think about when designing a Tumblr theme.
Professional Structure and Documentation in Web Design
As creative people, we usually don’t think about structure or organization. However, structure is needed in our projects. This article, from Specky Boy, explains why.
Five Useful CSS/jQuery Coding Techniques For More Dynamic Websites
The beauty of CSS and Jquery, is the ability to make a boring static web page into a rich user experience. This article, on Smashing Magazine, shows you how to do it.
The Look That Says Book
This great article was pointed out to my by Doug Neiner. Hyphenation is always seen in print design and I’m one to believe it should be on the web too. This article, on A List Apart, talks more about the topic.
Freebies, Inspiration & Resources
Piron
This beautiful typeface called Piron is great for both text and display use and at the moment, the regular and italic weights are free.
Social Media Sleek Icons: Icon Pack
This is a beautiful set of 25 icons that come in two different sizes that are free for your personal and commercial projects. As always, be sure to check the requirements for use.
Massive iPad Vector GUI Elements
This amazing freebie comes with every possible iPad element that you can think of. It includes not only the iPad, it also comes with buttons, alert boxes, tabs, the keyboard and more.
Weekly Vector Inspiration #88
Vectips publishes a collection of vector inpiration every week. Of the ones published, it was tough to only pick one of these. I strongly recommend you view the other showcases as well.
Creative Examples of Infographics
This is a great showcase, on Noupe, that is all about infographics. It’s the prettiest data you’ll ever see. I guarantee it.
50 Fresh and Inspiring Dark Web Designs
People liked the first collection of dark websites so much, that ,Web Design Ledger, decided it’d be a good idea to publish another. I disagree, it was a great idea.
40 Inspiring Portfolio Designs
This collection proves that a designers creativity and artistry aren’t confined to the “Portfolio” page. The whole site design can act as a showcase of one’s work.
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration N.58
This great showcase, from Specky Boy has some beautifully designed websites. Also, I’m honored to say that my site forms part of the list.
Finding Success as a Self-Employed Designer
Being self-employed is tough. This great article, on Logo Design Love, gives some practical advice on how to be a successful self-employed designer.
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Creative Bookmarks: Best of August 2010
August was another awesome month with great tutorials and articles oozing from everywhere. Here’s Creative Bookmarks August!
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- Photoshop Tutorials
- Illustrator Tutorials
- Web/Blogging Tutorials
- Freebies, Inspiration, & Resources
Photoshop Tutorials
How To Create The Expendables Winged Skull Poster Art
In this tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll learn how to re-create the sinister and gun-crazy poster for the new movie The Expendables.
Create a Cosmic-Inspired Dreamy Scene in Photoshop
In this great tutorial, from PsdTuts+, you’ll learn how to use a combination of photos, 3d elements, and other tricks and techniques to make a cosmic scene.
Design a Coffee Shop Menu Layout from Scratch with Photoshop and InDesign
This tutorial shows you how to create a beautiful coffee shop menu using the combined power of Photoshop and InDesign.
See Also: Part Two
Create a Retro Sci-Fi Movie Poster in Photoshop
This tutorial, from WeGraphics, teaches you how to use type, textures and some other tricks in Photoshop to make a sci-fi inspired composition.
Photoshop For Beginners: Understanding Layer Masks
The Photoshop For Beginners tutorial series can be very helpful. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use one of the most powerful features of Photoshop: layer masks.
Combine 3D Geometric Shapes and Flowing Lines for a Sleek iPhone Ad
In this tutorial, youll learn how to create a plethora of 3D geometric shapes and abstract lines with bright colors to create a vibrant and appealing iPhone ad.
Cool Text Effect with the Puppet Warp Tool in Photoshop CS5
In this great tutorial from Abduzeedo, you’ll learn how to use one of the new tools of Photoshop CS5, the puppet warp tool, to manipulate a photo of rope into a cool looking composition.
Create a Scene with Retrofuturistic-Inspired Light Effects
This great tutorial from Design Instruct teaches you how to create patterns and vector shapes, combined with photos, to create a retro yet futuristic scene.
Create an Artistic Scene with 3D Light Bulbs and Type
This great hybrid tutorial teaches you how to use the combined features of Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and Illustrator to create a great looking 3D composition.
Correcting Exposure with the Shadows & Highlights Tool
In this great tutorial, you’ll learn how to make the best of your photos by correcting exposure problems with the Shadows & Highlights tool.
Illustrator Tutorials
How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design
This tutorial, by Chris Spooner, you’ll combine a character drawing with bold and blocky text, then texture it up to create a retro cartoonish poster.
Quick Tip: How to Create a Stylized Wave using Adobe Illustrator
In this tutorial, on VectorTuts+, you’ll learn how to use Pathfinder, Envelope Distort with Mesh and various Gradients to create beautiful waves.
How to Make a Flesh Ripping Zombie Type Treatment
This tutorial teaches you the process of creating a scary character and a gory type treatment for this blood-thirsty illustration.
Create a Painterly Apple with Illustrator CS5s new Bristle Brush
The versatilaty of the new Bristle Brush is quite impressive. This tutorial teaches you how to create an apple illustration using this new tool.
Create a Glowing Neon Sign using the Appearance Palette
In this tutorial, you learn how to use the potential of the Appearance Palette to create a great looking Neon Sign.
Simple Roy Lichtenstein Style in Illustrator and Photoshop
Abduzeedo is one of those sites that stays on top of the technology. This hybrid tutorial teaches you how to create Roy Lichtenstein inspired illustration using new CS5 tools.
Type Illustration Project: Experimental Digital Workflow
This excellent tutorial, from Design Instruct, that walks you through creating and polishing a beautiful illustration all in Abobe Illustrator.
Create a Polished Raised Type Treatment
Ryan Putman of Vectips is in love with the Appearance panel and this tutorial shows you how to create a polished metal look using the power of the this panel.
Distort Linear Gradients in Envelope Distorts
This tutorial teaches you how to use Envelope Distort in Illustrator. The funny thing is, the author really doesn’t see the practical use for it but, the effect is cool either way.
Web Tutorials
Post-Install Plugins to Enhance & Protect WordPress
This is a great list from Line25 on WordPress plug-ins that will help with your security, speed and SEO.
How To Add a Custom Facebook Like Box to Your Site
As Facebook becomes more and more popular, it’s essential to link to Facebook from your website. This tutorial show’s you how to make a custom like box that not only looks great but validates as well.
Building a Stylish Blog Design Layout in WordPress
This great tutorial is the third part of a series that walks you through the creation of the design in Photoshop to implementing it in WordPress.
Part One | Part Two
16 Vital Checks Before Releasing a WordPress Theme
Twitter recently released @anywhere, which allows you to easily integrate Twitter’s capabilities into your personal site. This great tutorial from NETTuts+ shows you how.
Who Needs University? The Best Nettuts+ Screencast Training Courses
Going to college can be quite expensive. However, you can go to The NetTuts+ University almost for free and learn a variety of subjects. This great post rounds up some great screencasts they’ve created.
Working With Writers: Some Insight From the Other Side
This is an excellent article, by writer extraordinare, Michelle Oxman, that clears up some common misconceptions and gives some great tips on creating a great writer-designer relationship.
Business Writing for the Web: 27 Ways to Write Better
Business writing can be quite tough as it’s objective is to persuade people to act. This great article, from Inspired Mag, gives 27 tips on how to write better business copy and therefore, get readers to act.
Giving Users Some Credit
This is an excellent Art Directed article from, Design Informer, that makes it clear that making a website easy to starts by throwing away the idea that all users are idots.
Freebies, Inspiration & Resources
Pixel Patterns
These are some amazing patterns created by Designer, Naomi Atkinson. You can download the limited set containing 16 patterns or pay only four dollars for the complete 48 pattern set.
Paper Boat
This beautiful origami inspired typeface, created originally by Bart Van Delft for a concept company, is now free for download.
15 High-Res Dirty Grid Photoshop Brushes
This is a great collection, from Think Design, that’s filled with 15 different grungy-grid brushes free for your use.
Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: September 2010
Just like every other month, Smashing Magazine, rounds up amazing and beautiful wallpapers from all over to spice up your desktop.
Twitter Background Design Great Tips and Gorgeous Examples
A way of attracting followers on Twitter is having a good background design, especially if you’re a designer. This great article, on PsdTuts+, is a great intro on designing one.
26 Beautiful Photo Manipulations of Women
The female figure is nothing short of fascinating and that’s been proven by it’s continued use in art and design. This great collection features some amazing photo manipulations of women.
35 Purple Web Designs to Inspire You
Web Design Ledger has the reputation of finding some very inpiring works around the web and this is no exception. This great round-up showcases beautiful purple websites.
15 Logos With Hidden Messages
As if designing a logo isn’t enough of a challenge, this round-up, from Web Design Ledger, features logos that have hidden messages in them.
Blogging For Web Designers: Editorial Calendars and Style Guides
This is an amazingly detail article, from Smashing Magazine, that talks about the benefits of having an editorial calendar and style guides for your blog.
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Best of the Week #127
It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s going on out there!
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Friday 07/09
YouTube moves solidly into the future by supporting 4K content
iPhone: The Art of the Launch
Miller High Life Redesign
Hand Shadow Shapes Upon the Wall
Should haviannas go into the furniture biz? The…
Facebook Dominates Third-Party Logins For All But News
The Pros & Cons of YouTube’s New Mobile Site, For iPhone Owners
You Should Check Out This Real-time Multi-User Browser Sketchpad
Google Me: One Ring To Rule Them All
Prime Minister David Camerons Video Chat with Mark Zuckerberg [Video]
Borders Launches Its Own Kobo-Powered E-Book Store
Twitter + Vuvuzela. What More Do You Need?
Thursday 07/08
Aplicativo Entregas, para iOS, chega verso 1.4 com diversas novidades
O design como um diferencial estratgico para projetos web
Flash Player investing in a 3D future, plans coming in October
Android 2.2 (Froyo) versus iOS 4: the browser showdown (video)
Lab Partners *up
8 reasons why bad brands are like World Cup vuvuzelas
When Designers And Developers Work Together
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Gmail Gets Native Rich Text Signatures, Custom Signatures Per From: Address
The Art of Bokeh
Illustrator Michael Oswald
Amazing Abstract 3D Digital Art
Apresentao oficial do logo da Copa do Mundo 2014
The art of John Mattos
Life and Power offices by Unsangdong architects
Simple Public Figures
Wednesday 07/07
25 best Stunning Photoshop Illustrations ever seen
The Printing Machine
EverPaper. Android finally has a great Instapaper client.
Twitter should just cut to the chase and start charging for its API
Typography inspiration
Will It Blend? | Vuvuzela
Did LeBron James Just Join Twitter To Tweet Where Hell Sign?
Twitter Explains What @EarlyBird Is: Its All About Distributing Advertiser Deals
YouTube Wants to Put Your Life in a Movie, but You Wont Get Paid
Foursquare Launches Location Layers – This is Big
Chrome OS Gets Ready for Gaming
Tuesday 07/06
Urban Golf by Squire and Partners with Eduardo Recife
Casa Lago Eels – Altius Architecture
The Evolution of The Logo
Vectors by Kamil Czapiga
Basecamp home page redesign
Illustrations by Sick Sheep
Stylish ‘Barceloneta’ outdoor chair by…
Putting the Creative in the Discovery Channel
Tips for Creating Big Stature With Small Caps
Monday 07/05
25 Beutiful Vintage Stlyed Collages
LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z
Pressure-sensitive drawing headed to iPad in free software library (video)
The Future of Location Services: Recommendation
Google: Apple Is Making Our Job Easy
Gowalla Focusing More On Beauty With iPhone 4 Will Users Be Attracted?
How to give a canvas-printed look to your images
Beetle Juice Inspired!
Changi Bungalow / Formwerkz Architects
Add Music To Your Workflow To Improve Results
40 Tasty Restaurant Websites to Inspire You
Creative Bookmarks: Best of June 2010
Quick Nav:
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- Illustrator Tutorials
- Web/Blogging Tutorials
- Freebies, Inspiration, & Resources
Photoshop Tutorials
Design Your Own Graphic Tee in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a cool looking composite t-shirt design from photos and basic drawing techniques.
See Also: Part One
Create a Magical Flaming Heart Illustration in Photoshop
This excellent tutorial will demonstrate how to combine stock images and the use of the Warp feature to create a magical flaming heart illustration.
Create a lovely textured web design from Photoshop to HTML/CSS
In this tutorial you’re going to learn how to create a beautiful web site layout and then code it into a working web page.
Photoshop For Beginners: The Power of Layers
This great tutorial, from WeGraphics, is the third part of the Photoshop for Beginners series that explains in detail the core of Photoshop: layers.
Make a Soft Grunge Product Ad Design in Photoshop
In this tutorial, from Design Instruct, you’ll create as very nice looking shoe ad using stock images and basic yet amazing effects.
Create an Apple Mac Mini Using Photoshop
This tutorial teaches you how to create an Apple Mac Mini from the bottom up. You’ll learn how to use basic yet powerful tools and effects in Photoshop to achieve a beautiful end result.
Design a Space-Themed Poster with Photoshop
In this great tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an amazing TV show ad that combines different types of stock photography and excellent typography for a great result.
Photoshop Quick Tips: Light Leaks in Photography
A trend that is becoming popular in Photography is the vintage/film/retro style. This great video tutorial shows you how simple it’s is to create and apply this effect.
Simple Underwater Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial, from Abduzeedo, you’ll learn how to create a great looking underwater scene with bubbles and light effects inspired by the movie iRobot.
Create a Colorful Candy Store Website Layout in Photoshop
In this tutorial, from Devise Function, you’ll learn how to create a bright and very pink candy store web page layout with a unique and creative background and header.
Recreate the Epic 80s Metal Text Effect in Photoshop
In this excellent tutorial, Chris Spooner, teaches you how to recreate a metal text effect that was very popular in the 80’s using modern day techniques in Photoshop.
Color your Black and White Photos Easily
This excellent tutorial, by Michal Plazinski, teaches you how to color in black & white photos using nothing more than the Brush Tool and Curve Adjustments.
Illustrator Tutorials
How to Create a Lustrous Electric Guitar
An outstanding tutorial, from VectorTuts+, where you learn to create a realistic looking electric guitar using basic shapes and simple techniques.
Create a Detailed, Vector-based iPhone Illustration
This great tutorial shows you how to create a realistic iPhone illustration and walks you through creating the icons on the iPhone home screen.
See Also: Part Two
Create a Trendy Seamless Type Pattern
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a cool looking type pattern in Illustrator using some text and icons. You’ll learn tricks and techniques that can easily be applied to other projects.
See Also: Using Pattern Generator
Create a Distressed Vector Typographic Poster Design
This hybrid tutorial walks you through the making of the “Spectrum” poster; from it’s custom typograpy to the rugged look applied in Photoshop.
How To Draw a Cute Vector Dog Character in Illustrator
This tutorial, by Chris Spooner, teaches you how to take a hand drawn sketch of a dog and then add various lines, color fills, gradients and highlights to produce a vector cartoon dog.
Create a Print Ready Business Card Design in Illustrator
This great tutorial shows you how to create a great looking business card. You’ll learn how to create an illustrated character, create a background pattern and setup the file for print.
3D Text In Clouds
This excellent hybrid tutorial walks you through making 3D text in Illustrator and then making the text look real in Photoshop.
Web Tutorials
Super Cool CSS Flip Effect with Webkit Animation
This awesome tutorial takes a quick look at using the Webkit engine and some of its properties to create a cool looking flip effect.
Getting Started with Tumblr & Custom Theme Design
This article on Line25 takes a look at the basics of what Tumblr is, how to get a tumblelog of your own up and running and basic introduction on creating your own Tumblr theme.
Create a Vibrant Digital Poster Design with CSS3
This excellent tutorial walks you through the making of “Circlicious”, a vibrant and color poster made, amazingly enough, purely of HTML and CSS.
Did Internet Explorer get the Box Model Right?
This interesting video on NetTuts+ addresses the debate on wether or not border and padding should be applied on top of a specified width.
Multiple Borders with Simple CSS
This simple yet useful tutorial teaches you how to create multiple borders without images, just pure CSS by using the :after amd :before psuedo-classes.
The 10 HTML Tags Beginners Arent Using
This is an excellent article/tutorial, that talks about HTML tags that most of know about. However, this articles gives you reasons and practical ways on how to use them correctly.
WordPress 3.0 Upgrade: What to Expect
This is a great article, from Webdesigner Depot, that explains what you can do to prevent having problems when upgrading to the new WordPress 3.0.
Redesign vs. Realign
Redesign and realign. What’s the difference? This great article explains that it’s essential for designer to know the difference and that this knowledge can result in very happy clients.
Web Performant WordPress
This excellent article, by Dave Rupert of Paravel, talks about his experience with achieving page loads of under a second and, fortunately enough, shares the tools and techniques to get your website loading faster.
Freebies, Inspiration & Resources
iPhone 4 Vector Freebie
With all the buzz surrounding the new iPhone 4, VectorTuts+, has released a vector freebie of the iPhone 4 for all of your mock-up needs.
25+ Rare Cloth Texture Pack
This great freebie, from AnimHut, comes with more than 25 cloth textures that can come in handy for your print or web design projects.
Get Inspired
This is beautiful set of twelve professionally crafted by icon artist, Parthiban Mohanraj, that can be used for both your personal and commercial projects.
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration N.45
Speckyboy makes a weekly list of mostly reader submitted webdesign inspiration and, in my opinion, they do a wonderful job of curating these lists that contain so many beautiful websites.
55 Fresh and Creative Logo Designs
With the massive increase in businesses and, therefore logos, it gets tougher to create something unique and creative. This great post showcases logos from designers who were able to achieve just that.
Showcase of 55 Inspiring Typography Designs
Attention to typography and its creative use has become very important to graphic designers and rightfully so, as it form part of the core of our craft. This beautiful showcase rounds up some great uses of type.
40 Creative 404 Error Pages to Inspire You
This cool round-up on Webdesign Ledger features some very creative 404 pages that almost make you want to enter an incorrect URL.
Elements of an Awesome Artist Portfolio
This is a great article where, Angie Bowen, shares her expertise and gives some tips on elements to incluede in a great portfolio site.
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