Free Design Resource Roundup #1 Resources December 11, 2009 This holiday season, we’ve decided to give more to our readers by starting a series of free design resource roundups. In these roundups, we’ll compile the fresh free picks of the week, from fonts, brushes, patterns, and textures, to contests, giveaways, and tutorials. Hope you like the roundup for this week, and let us know if you’d like us to include other stuff! Brushes Broken Heart Brushes – QBrushes 50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets – Naldz Graphics Fonts 30 Useful and Free Dingbats – Web Resources Depot 50 High-Quality Free Fonts – DesignM.ag 30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts – instantShift Friday Fresh Free Fonts #27 – Abduzeedo Giveaways Win a Typography T-Shirt – Comment to Win – Bittbox Wix Unlimited Package Giveaway – WebDesignLedger Icons The Best Free Web Icons for Different Purposes – WebAppers 35 Beautiful Set of Christmas Icons – Onextrapixel 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons – Tutorial9.net Free Smashing Christmas Icon Set – Smashing Magazine Patterns Textures
Free Seamless Textures | Tileable Backgrounds and Repeating Patterns Inspiration: Interesting & Unique Typographic Book Covers Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now Books offer graphic designers, illustrators and typographers a great way to expand their portfolios. There are endless possibilities that can be explored when designing for book covers, and often are explored, as can be seen in this post. I’ve had an increased interest in book covers recently after putting together another showcase at The Inspiration Blog on minimalistic book covers, since then I have been browsing for book cover inspiration daily so thought I would share some of my findings here at DesignM.ag. This showcase presents a collection of 64 typographic book covers, all of which are interesting and are genuinely unique. The books themselves are crossed between a number of Coney Island of the Mind Buy on Amazon Eight Weeks of Bruce Buy on Amazon Estrella Distante Buy on Amazon Exit Ghost Buy on Amazon Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme Buy on Amazon We Must Not Slump In Dejection Or Shut Ourselves Away Buy on Amazon Stone
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10 Most Evil Propaganda Techniques Used by the Nazis Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (or National Socialist German Worker’s Party) created in the Third Reich the most extreme and terrifying example of a totalitarian regime the world has ever seen. It is often wondered quite how a sophisticated and highly developed 20th century nation was politically overpowered by the Nazis. One answer, and a major factor in the Nazi’s effectiveness as a political force, was that not only did they ruthlessly deploy violence against dissidence, but they also utterly mastered the art of propaganda, fabricating a national ideology around their twisted beliefs. Here we take a look at some of their most evil and insidiously effective propaganda techniques. 10. Hitler and his leaders understood the power of propaganda in conveying the party line, and poster art was often at the heart of the publicity machine. 9. 8. The radio broadcast was recognized by the Nazis as one of the most important propaganda tools in their arsenal. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.