Design Inspiration

Free Responsive WordPress Themes

Free Responsive Wordpress Themes This is a collection of some of the best free responsive Wordpress themes available at this time. These free responsive Wordpress themes each have demo sites, where you can preview them in action before you download, or you can simply...

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Real Ways to Spark Creativity

Real Ways to Spark Creativity If you are in any type of creative field, it can really be difficult to keep the creative juices flowing. You sit behind a computer for hours a day, and one day seems to blend into another. The problem is that after a while, you begin to...

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Design Inspiration: Where to find it

Where to Find Design Inspiration If your job involves creating something, whether it is art, music, writing, or graphics, chances are you spend more time thinking about what to create than you do actually creating it. Blank screens and papers are all too familiar to...

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10 Awesome Design Quotes to Inspire You

Design Quotes to Inspire You We all have heroes that we look up to. Even designers have mentors and people who we consider icons of our trade. While not every one of these are from designers (like Steve Jobs), they are icons that are important figures, not only in...

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Free: October 2012 Desktop Calendar

Free: October 2012 Desktop Calendar Today is the first day of my favorite month of the year October. Most people love Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, and other holidays, but my personal favorite holiday is Halloween. I am a scary movie fanatic, and I am...

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Cool Stuff For Designers 2

Cool Stuff For Designers Continuing where I left off last week, I am continuing my weekly series promoting some articles and tutorials. They will keep you up-to-date on the latest news and techniques from around the web. This week there is a lot of cool stuff for...

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The Beautiful Work of Finnish Artist Johannes Neumeier

I came across the 3D work of Johannes Neumeier yesterday, and was stricken with the mood and the impact of his work. Neumeier is an artist and designer from Finland, and he is definitely an artist to be looking out for. You can find him on Behance, or you can view is...

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Places to go for creative Inspiration November 2010

Yanko Design- Never Miss the Keyhole Fast Company - An Amazing Collapsible Lamp My Modern Met - Beautiful Watercolor Landscapes The CSS Awards- The Best Free Fonts of 2010 The Photo Argus- 60 Breathtaking Fall Images for Your Inspiration Andre Jolicoeur Illustration...

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Create 3D Gothic Text In Photoshop

Create 3D Gothic Text In Photoshop

This tutorial is just in time for Halloween, with an eerie background and 3D text with textures. In Photoshop CS5 the Repousse abilities give you a lot of flexibility, especially with textures, so you can create some really interesting work. This is only available in...

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An Example of Excellent Branding: Enexis

Enexis is a branding brainchild of the branding and design powerhouse EdenSpiekermann. EdenSpiekermann was founded b the famous and ingenious Erik Spiekermann, co-author of Stop Stealing Sheep & Learn How Type Works. This book is considered a must-have for anyone...

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Should Pentagram Sue? Would it do any good?

I recently came across a case involving Pentagram, where one of their designs were blatantly ripped off by a famous clothing company Sean John, owned by the famous rap artist known as P Diddy. Sometimes you can argue that a work is inspired by someone else's work, and...

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Multiple Masks on One Layer in Photoshop

This is a great method to get great masks in Photoshop. You can actually have 2 masks on an image at the same time. You can use a vector mask and use a custom shape to mask out an image, creating a clean mask for sharp edges. The pixel mask is great for creating...

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Is There A Gap Between Your Ears? Lesson Not Learned

After being constantly attacked last week for ruining their logo, Gap decided to revert back to the old logo that everyone knows and loves. They admitted that is was a wrong step for the company, and that the customer comes first, which is great. They should come...

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Create a Dark and Gritty Effect in Photoshop

Create a Dark and Gritty Effect in Photoshop

First, take your image and duplicate the background layer, so you can go back to your original if you need to. Hide the background layer and work from your copy. Go into the channels panel and hold down the command key (CTRL on the PC) and click on the RGB channel to...

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The Future of Design and Advertising

I was asked a question yesterday that really got me thinking: What do you think the future will hold for design and advertising? What will be the next big platform to design for? I thought about this for a long time, and my guess is as good as yours. People are always...

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Winner Announced: Free Design Book Giveaway

First off, I want to thank everyone that participated for their invaluable comments for this post. There are many aspects to branding and corporate identity, and I think each comment touched on a different aspect. Branding is a vital part of marketing and building a...

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Design Book Giveaway: Comment for a chance to Win!

Contest Rules: It's simple- All you have to do is go to the Creative Beacon website and post a comment at the bottom of the giveaway announcement page to win. Post a comment about what you think is the most important aspect of branding or identity. Post your comments...

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Places to go for Creative Inspiration #9

X-RITE With this site, you take a color test to see if you are as good with color as you think you are. This site goes off the notion that a large number of people have color deficiencies. RECAVE This is a cool blog about all types of interesting artworks, including...

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