51 High Quality Free Texture Packs To Download Resources June 23, 2011 Use of texture in web design is extremely common. So every designer is loking for textures but they do not get all at one place so in this collection we have collected different types of textures like grunge, rust, watercolor, bokeh, leather, fabric, metal, natural, paper, graffiti and more. In this round-up we’ve collected 51 awesome free texture packs to freshen up your designs. Apple iOS Linen Texture Download Source 18 essential grunge textures Download Source 6 high quality seamless paper textures Download Source 10 High Resolution Cloud Textures Download Source 12 psychedelic stained paper textures Download Source Nine vignetted vintage paper textures Download Source 5 High Resolution Brick & Tile Textures Download Source Colorful grunge textures vol-2 Download Source 10 free high res watercolor textures Download Source 10 High Resolution Grungy Surface Textures Download Source 5 High Resolution Grungy Paper Textures Download Source Wallpaper Textures – 27 Free Images TexturePack
25 New Free High-Quality Fonts - Smashing Magazine - StumbleUpon Advertisement Every now and then we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to. In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. New High-Quality Free Fonts Pompadour Numeral Set1 (.eps, released under Creative Commons) A beautiful numeral font released by Andy Mangold under a Creative Commons license. Lato2 (open-source sans serif) Lato is a san-serif typeface family. Crimson Text3 “Crimson Text is a font family for book production in the tradition of beautiful old-style typefaces. Color Lines5 This decorative font can be used for a variety of products, such as posters, packaging and label design. Further Resources Last Click
15 Places To Download Free High Quality Stock Photos There are many free stock photography sites. I set out to find as many good ones as I could. I found 15 good, solid resources out there. Royalty Free does not mean the images are free; it means that you don’t need to pay the photographer a royalty each time you use the image. Today I am going to share 15 websites where you can download free stock photos. You can easily get a quality and beautiful wallpaper for your desktop or simply an illustration for your blog. Free stock nature photography. This site is a community for travel photographers. This is a huge resource of over3 million photos! This site provides tons of high quality and high resolution free stock photos. The photos on Imagebase are free to use, and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Stockvault is a very classy, modern site with thousands of images and some Photoshop tutorials. Morguefile is a completely free source for stock photos. All the photos are free to use. Related Posts:
The Architecture of Open Source Applications 60 Highly Clever Minimal Logo Designs Depending on the flavor of your business, your logo may appear big and flashy, bold and colorful or just plain simple and clever. In this roundup, I’ve turned the spotlight towards the more simple and clever logo styles that leave a strong impression. As simplistic as they may appear, there is genius behind these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs. OneFund Filmaps Folder back Bipolar Backspace Stairs Fence v.2 Walk Unarmed Frankenstein Films Thinktank Pelican eveva Love Clip SewPerfect Wave Pendulum Sex Lovers City Direct FishLine Up Straight UP elefont Rocket Golf Illusion Circus of Magazines CodeFish Zip Mummy Foot Missing Helium Killed Productions Bird Giraffe minimum Catch 5 ascus HandsUp Pencil James Forbes Plumbing Wine Searcher Ed’s Electric LocKey Handmade Pictures upside down productions More Wine Kingdom brand Twins Horror Films Ross Poultry Half Crown Jump Atack Tulipart Have a Favorite? When putting a showcase of inspiration together, I often find myself picking a couple of favorites out of the bunch. Written by Shawn Ramsey
How To Create a Retro Badge/Emblem Style Logo The retro style badge/emblem of logos is a hot trend at the moment, and it’s no surprise why – They’re super cool! We’ve already looked at a showcase of retro and vintage style logos based on circular motifs, now let’s build our own. We’ll put the basic structure together in Illustrator, then give it that aged vintage appearance with some finishing touches in Photoshop. The logo we’ll be creating is for the totally fictional Powerhouse Gym (although I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a gym somewhere with this name!). View the retro/vintage logo design Be sure to check out the showcase of retro badge/emblem logos, then when you have plenty of ideas open up Adobe Illustrator and create a large circle. Press CMD+F to paste in another duplicate, scale down and change the fill to white. Paste a couple more circles and scale them appropriately to add a couple of thin strokes on the inside and outside of the white ring. Enter the words Powerhouse Gym then select an appropriate font.
- StumbleUpon Story of handwritten fonts (or we can say only fonts) starts from very old ages, when people was just realizing the need of communication between one and other. People learned to convey their message by using signs and symbols , this process continued and entered different stages of development until the languages and letters were formed. People used to communicate through letters and telegrams, then with the advancement in technology we started using Emails with formal fonts, leaving handwritten letters behind. But now people are going back to use Handwritten fonts to give the communication more personal and informal touch . Have a look at some Elegant Handwritten fonts collected specially for you people. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. le Grand Saut 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 61. 62. 63. 65. 66. 67. 68.
Little People - a tiny street art project 63 of the Best Free Online Tools for Designers and Developers Designers and developers need all the advantages they can get in today’s competitive market. Whether you’re working for a Fortune 500 company, a hot new startup, or just freelancing for yourself, odds are that you use and need a variety of software. Not everyone can afford to spend exorbitant amounts of money on a tool they might only need once, so luckily, there are tons of free tools on the internet. The problem with free tools is that many of them are unreliable, and the good ones are hard to find…until now. In this post, we’ve gone around and spent hours making the ultimate roundup, 63 of the best free online tools for designers and developers. Some more posts On free online tools that you might like :- 16 Powerful Image Optimization Tools to Enhance Website Performance Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology. Bland Text Generator – This handy tool helps you create dummy text for all your layout needs. Gazup!
Great Resume Designs that Catch Attention–and Got People Hired Inspiration June 21, 2011 When applying for a job, you have no choice but to do your best to outshine competition. Even before winning an interview, your qualifications (or in some instance, your character) are already judged by the resume you’ve submitted. It is then important to make your resume or CV as honest, concise, and striking as possible. Take a look at how other designers compose their creative resumes. View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source View Source Author: Cadence Wu Cadence is You The Designer's senior blogger, and the most jack-of-all-trades of the staff.
Six Key Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after) | GiftRocket Blog When we first built GiftRocket 1.0, our team was absent designers. As the only one without a CS degree, I ended up spending a few weeks reading design books and mocking up the site before our March launch. Eventually we recruited a professional designer named Mike Kus to help us out. I did a quick comparison of the before and after, and wanted to point out some things any developer can do to improve the feel of their site. 1. We were extremely conservative when we started, So we made the site… blue and gray. Mike, experienced and unhesitant, presented the cream, gold, and black palette we currently use. 2. We suffered from two contrast issues. Mike approached the app as a cousin to the website, using the same branding but inverting colors and layout. 3. Our Yelp business icons started out tiny at 60px by 60px. Moreover, in certain places he put a padded border around images, which made them appear even larger. The impact was that the pictures of businesses stood out far more. 4. 5. 6.
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