Articles Tagged 'resource'
22 Free Seamless Vector Pattern Resources Perfect For Web Design
Dainis GraverisPatterns actually can be found almost everywhere - in print design, web design, graphic design etc. For example if you use pattern in web design, just set CSS repeat-x-y and you'll get beautiful background,but image will be very small and page load time will be much faster. There are very big variety how you can use and implement patterns, but the fact is - free resources - like patterns, brushes, shapes are big time savers. Of course it's better to create your own stuff, but sometimes you receive project with fast deadline and you need everything to do fast and this is one of the solutions. This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, it was very interesting for me to write this article, I am hoping it will be interesting reading and useful resource for bookmarking.
33 Outstanding Apophysis Tutorials: Part 2
So as promised I'll continue with Apophysis tutorial part separated in 3 parts for beginners, basic and advanced users. At the end of article You'll find 2 more links, where You can continue Your research if You are serious about this program. It was real fun and interest compiling this article and through research I saw there are really a lot to learn, but everything is based on math so You can create unbelievable fractals as seen in previous Apophysis inspirational article. Okay, now let the magic happen and good luck in Your own research!
25 Sources For Logo Design Inspiration
As logo designer You can often find moments, when You cannot think of anything good, but then such inspirational like this can become very handy. There are a lot of logo showcase sites You can inspire from and usually those sites list also all logo on popular categories, so You can see which logos and actually why there are so popular, sometimes artists even add their logo creation workflow there, allowing us to see what's really happening behind the scene. OK, now to the post - I found together 25 logo showcase, portfolio sites and even few blogs which dedicate their life to help You become an expert as logo designer. Enjoy!
101 More Quality CSS, XHTML Free Templates: Part 2
As promised second part follows, here I continue free XHTML and CSS template and free layout article, which actually at first was supposed to be one really long article, but WordPress doesn't allow to have such long posts. Anyway those post are directly linked with each other, together there are 202 templates, I picked only those which I found to be interesting for research for people just starting out and looking for new techniques. If You are really advanced user You should consider going straight to this post however - 12 Really Handy CSS Framework, Template And Snippet Sites For Smart Web Designer. Hope this helps in Your development process.
70 Hand Drawing Style Resources, Brushes, Textures,Icons And Tutorials
As promised I finally finish my hand drawing related article series with this one. I categorized all resources so You can more easier navigate through. Here You can find the best resources You need to create hand-drawing style designs, artworks or websites. There are wood, cork and leather textures, various office brushes, photos, templates, icons and even few tutorials at the end of the article as final reference. And I even didn't mention hand-drawn doodles, fuzzy lines, sketches and many high-quality paper backgrounds, notes, pins - just look through and take what You need!
57+ Free Image Gallery, Slideshow And Lightbox Solutions
Actually at first I wanted simple image gallery solution for web design project, but when I started to search I changed my mind and thought how great would be to create article about all the best image gallery solutions available on the Internet. So here it is - this list is separated in 3 big categories like Ajax, JavaScript and Lightbox based galleries, CSS based galleries and FLASH based galleries, so You can easy switch to category You got interest in. I think here You'll find gallery for every needs, should be enough to choose from!
11 Useful Sources To Learn and Improve HTML Skills
If You are graphic designer, You should learn also some simple coding too. If You are new to this simple coding, You could find this resources useful. I listed few resources, I prefer to learn from and hopefully You'll learn something too. This article isn't very long, because I think You should choose just one place, where to learn from. Okay, no more long discussions - enjoy!
30 Beautiful Illustrator Brush and Symbol Collection
Illustrator brushes are always underestimated and AI brushes are a lot less around than Photoshop brushes, but I looked all over the web to search for the best brushes, I could find. Also note, in Adobe homepage You must register in order to download brushes, but I think it's really worth it and for the most cases read description to use brushes correctly. So here You have 30 beautiful Illustrator brushes for daily use! And I am really hoping these brushes will help in Your workflow, as these do and did in mine. Cheers!
33 Beautiful Border And Corner Brush Sets
Nice brush always comes handy in Your workflow and if You have ready brushes to choose from, it's even better. So for now I created a huge list of corner and border brushes to use them in Your designs, posters or graphics. Each brush actually is for one corner, so just flip them in Your brush properties ( F5 to bring up brush options panel). There are more than 400+ brushes out here, so I think You have a little list now to choose from!
Wayback machine – history of Internet
For this time I wanted to share with one more like fun web site. This websites is building digital library of Internet sites and other digital form resources. As for me - this resource page took me big interest, because in 1998 or 2000 I didn't even know much about Internet - now we have a chance to look how design and web developing is evolving. There is 85 billion pages out there. Just type in URL in form and go way back..!
