Understanding Typography Design is about visual communication and effective delivery of a carefully-crafted message. The message is delivered through a combination of imagery, color, words, and typography. Understanding typography will help you make your message...
Web Design Graphic Design & Typography Weekly There is a lot of great stuff to check out this week, as we start a new year. Many of you are back to work now after a holiday hiatus. In this post, you can catch up on the newest and latest information about Web...
Awesome Free Fonts: 20 Great Examples It seems like everyone is interested in free fonts lately. I have friends that aren't designers, but are interested in great typefaces and awesome free fonts to check out. Everyone seems to love type and people have really taken...
Web Design Graphic Design & Typography Weekly This week you will find a lot of stuff on the web for web design, graphic design & typography. There is a lot of great web development content this week, despite the holidays, and most are on break, vacation, etc....
Fonts With Specific Purposes Every designer has a set of fonts that they like to use for most projects. Most of these typefaces are versatile and can be used in a wide variety of applications. You can use them in headlines and in large bodies of text as well. A great...
A Collection of The Best Fonts of 2012 Fonts are so important in our work, whether we are working on print or web design. It speaks volumes, especially when we are trying to reinforce our message. The right look can really drive that message home. I have gathered a...
3D Candy Cane Text For The Holidays The holidays are here, and there’s no doubt that you will come across a few holiday-related design projects on your to-do list. Being able to create themed designs and artwork is part of the designer’s job description. Having...
Text effects are what make your headlines stand out. Whether you are designing a magazine cover, an inside spread, a poster, or a headline for a website, text effects get great attention. Today I'll show you how to create interesting glossy text in Photoshop shown...
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography Weekly This week there is a ton of stuff to see and learn. There is a lot of Wordpress and web development content to explore. Also, there are so many freebies and cool stuff to download, you won't know where to begin! If...
Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography News, Tutorials & Inspiration This week is full of great stuff. You will find a wide range of tutorials and articles about different topics. You will find design freebies, including a huge bundle of goodies. You will...
Making Your Typography Shine Sometimes you need to create a quick type treatment to dress up a project. This situation applies when flat text just won't do. You just need an extra something to make a headline or an important word stand out. Photoshop is great for...
What's New in Web Design, Graphic Design, & Typography on the Web I decided to change the name of my weekly post, "Cool Stuff For Designers" to a name that made much more sense. This will be a weekly digest of the latest resources for Web Design, Graphic Design,...
Cool Stuff For Designers 5 This week there is a lot of incredibly cool stuff for designers. There are a couple of Adobe Illustrator tutorials to sink your teeth into. You will also find some useful Dropbox add-ons to extend its capability. Create a cool denim effect...
15 Essential Serif Fonts for Professional Designers This is a list of 16 quality serif fonts for professional designers that you will find in most professional graphic design work. These are all found in body copy of books and magazines. They are all beautiful and...
As art artist, designer and illustrator, I have come to understand the importance of sketching. Sketching is the proverbial drawing board. It is the place where our ideas start, and where we can put them down on paper. I have found that sketching helps tremendously in...
Yesterday, I covered some basics regarding glow effects and how to use them to your advantage. Today, I will cover some more advanced techniques that will help you to achieve some really cool effects. I created a new document with the dimensions 1024 x 768 and filled...
In Photoshop CS5, the new Repousse Panel is fantastic, in that you can create 3D from almost anything. You can create a 3D object from a selection, a path, text, a mask, etc. What is really cool is that you can create your own textures, or you can use images as...
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...
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...
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...