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The best posts of November

Liam McCabe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:35:23 +0000

So many…

There were so many great articles posted this month. From tutorials to fantastic web design advice the community has definitely be producing some high quality content worth reading. I especially enjoyed reading how to create an iconic logo design and 6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great. Thanks goes out to all the authors of these excellent posts.

Future of Web Design Interview Roundup

Everywhere we go we see transparent objects. So why not implement transparency in web design? If you’ve just made the best background ever but have to cover it all up with content, then why not make that content slightly transparent?

Hash Two Theme: Free Download This Week

Our friends over at Obox Design have allowed us to share some of their premium Micro Blogging Themes with the community here on Tutorial9. You can grab it through the 16th in our Ultimate Resource Package for Web Designers.

Understanding Your Brain for Better Design: Left vs. Right

The concept of the left and right brain only lately popped up in the late 1960’s, but since has become a well-known part of human psychology.

How To: Successfully Launch a Web Design Startup with Social Media and No Budget

This time on Inspired Talks we invited David Perel from Obox Signature Series to give some insights and tips for the creative community. Warning: lots of useful advice for freelancers and startup owners in the design niche.

Showcase of 30+ Blog Designs With Awesome Datetime Display

The beautiful blog designs need many qualifications. There are a lot of bloggers focus on their blog header, footer, the layout of arrangement, font size, and many more… However, there is still one thing which should be considered: it is the display of date and time of the posts.

40 Beautiful Retro Art for Inspiration

Many graphic designers adopt a particular technique for there digital art like Grunge,vintage,retro etc etc.. So for the beginners we have collected some beautiful retro art for inspiration.

21 Best Free Grunge Fonts for Web Designers

Recently we looked at 20 Grunge Style websites that profiled a very popular trend in design. These dirty, abstract and urban designs have quickly become the new favorite among designers.

10 Awesome Tutorials How To Create Image gallery

In this collections you’ll find hight quality tutorials how to create image gallery. All of them demo and source code available for download.

132 Amazing Digital Comics Artworks by Nebezial

Stjepan Šejić (born November 27, 1981) is a Croatian comic book artist currently working as an illustrator for American comic book Witchblade, published by Top Cow Productions. Stjepan almost became a lawyer, but instead decided to draw comics.

Design a Simple Modern Web Template

Today, we present a tutorial by Dedrick Payne on how to create a simple, but modern web site template from scratch in Photoshop.

28 Creative Tech Advertising

This showcase is an inspiration dose for creative designers and copywriters. Each advertisement is creatively molded to make an impact and also give the message is it supposed to. No doubt creative works like these involve hell of brain storming and sometimes great research work but it’s worth when are able to pull off work like this.

The Making of “Constant Slip”

Today I’ll take you through the creative process of making intriguing light effects and applying them in your work. This is more a process description of making this illustration, than a detailed step by step how to. I’ll give you some good guidance on how to deal with an illustration like this and cover the overall workflow. Let’s get started!

Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images. Let’s get started!

Smoothly Shift Winter Colors, While Creating an Icy, Vector Landscape

Handle color changes and variations with ease by following this intermediate level tutorial. This is a special tutorial sponsored by Astute Graphics that incorporates the use of their high-quality Phantasm CS range Illustrator Pugins.

Creative Discussion – What Gets Your Creative Butt In Gear?

In our first Creative Discussion on beating the creative blocks we tackled an issue that most people who are involved with the creative process have run into, a problem of inspiration. In this month’s discussion we are addressing a different sort of bump in the road, a problem of motivation.

Three Big Mistakes that Can Make or Break Your Design Career

The name says it all. If you’ve come here, we mean no offense – there’s just a few career killers that we probably all have been guilty of at one point or another. These concepts definitely apply to interface designers, but if you’ve arrived at this post and you aren’t an interface designer…

Smashing Network Logo and Badge Design Process

I was humbled and delighted when Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine approached me to come up with a new logo/badge for their new Smashing Network. Chalk another one up for the logo design porfolio.

Very Creative Art Projects by Luke Jerram

One of the reasons that I like art and its projects is that there is no ‘formal explanation’ to art… every person can take it and interpret it as they want! So in my opinion artists are free to create what they want and in the format they want.

The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design

There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. If you’re able to execute on all four, you will have a hit web design on your hands. However, if you come up short on one, the entire design will suffer.

50 Stunning Video Game Concept Art

Video games can be a great source of design inspiration; they’re the ultimate mash-up of visual goodness and entertainment.

10 Expert Tips for Designing a One Page Portfolio

Once upon a time, designers would lug unwieldy physical portfolios from interview to interview to showcase their work. This tactic is steadily being replaced with sending out emails containing links to an online portfolio.

50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs

It is wrong to define the magazine style in web design as magazine style (does that make sense?). It should have, perhaps, been called newspaper or tabloid styled, it does have that look and feel.

The Characteristics of a Less Conventional Website with Examples

The evolution of web design has changed significantly since the creation of the internet. Back then, a Geocity webpage could be as simple as a brochure, using a multi colored background and gaudy text effects.

60 Absolutely Gorgeous Textured Logos With That Wow Factor

Textures are a pleasure in Photoshop and a privilege in Illustrator. Now since all good logos are vectors, you rarely come across ones that have intricate and beautiful textures.

6 Ways To Take Your Webdesign From Good To Great

The difference between good and great webdesign is relatively small. The average person may not be able to explain the tangible differences that make up great design, but they can usually spot a design they like.

Tutorial: How To Create An Iconic Logo Design

Logo design is arguably one of the hardest parts of graphic design though with a little insider knowledge, you may find it’s not so difficult after all. By understanding what makes a “good” logo and the principles behind effective logo design you will be on the right track in no time.

June Round Up!

Liam McCabe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:04:49 +0000

Creative Crazy

June was full of creativity with every blog I visited having an interesting article regarding creative design. From website designs to fish tanks, every post was a joy to read. From the huge collection of creative articles I have selected the best of the best and hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did!

125 Creative Text Based Logo Designs For Design Inspiration

Some awesome logos!

25 Creative Flash Websites with 3D Illustration Environment

Flashy websites

45 Stylish and Creative Typographical Desktop Wallpapers

Something creative for ya desktop!

50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects

Some very creative and colourful logos

25 Free Must Download Design Programs

Programs to help produce fantastic design

12 Most Creative Pillow Designs

Some awesome pillows

25 Websites with Creative and Unique Layouts

Inspiring website designs

30+ Creative Typography Art

Fantastic Typography Artwork

10 Creative Brochure designs

Inspiring use of typography and layouts

25 Fun & Creative Web Designs From DeviantArt

Some of the best web designs from deviantart

26 Creative Travel Website Designs for Inspiration

Inspiring website design

15 Creative Design Aquariums And Fish Tank

Amazing Fish Tanks

20 Creative and Unique Typefaces

Creative Typefaces

10 Galleries of Creative Logos

Hours of Inspiration

60 Beautiful & Creative Web Interface Designs

Exceptional Design

May Round Up!

Liam McCabe — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:58:04 +0000

Another Awesome Month!

With PSDTUTS and VECTORTUTS having a graphic design week, there were some great tutorials, articles and giveaways. As always there were lots of inspiring articles which I just had to share with you today. If you think you might have missed something then check these articles out!

Graphic Design Week

An awesome week over at PSDTUTS and VECTORTUTS!

Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop

Awesome icon tutorial at tutorial9

40 Really Awesome Resources for Design Inspiration

Great Inspiration

Inspired by Architecture

Very inspiring building design!

What is creativity?

The guys at fuelyourcreativity give an incite to what creativity actually is.

Fantastic Wallpapers That Will Blow Your Desktop Away

Incredible wallpapers!

40 (NEW) High-quality and Free Icon Sets

Awesome collection

100 Extraordinary Examples of Paper Art

wow just…WOW!

30 Inspiring Dark and Sleek Web Designs

Me like dark and sleek design.

40 Tutorials for Creating Highly Detailed Icon Designs

Some great tutorials here!

Major Networks of Websites: Trends and Showcase

An interesting incite into large networks.

April Round Up!

Liam McCabe — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:53:34 +0000

Awesome April Articles!

April was one hell of a month for creative articles! There were so many wrote, it was hard choosing the best but I have gathered what I believe are the most inspiring articles of April 2009. I hope you enjoy reading the articles. Thanks to all the authors for producing such great posts!

Beautiful and Creative Logo Designs for your Inspiration

Smashing Magazine showcase some brilliant logos found all over the web. You may have seen most of them but not all! Go check it out!

50 Examples and Inspirations

A great article, I had probably only seen a couple of the images posted in this article. A collection of clever business cards, logos, web design and random art make this a great read.

30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers

SixRevsions continues to roll out great articles with 30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers. Jacob has done a great job finding these great sites. But hats off go to the authors of the sites. Great work people!

Hidden Logos in graphic designing

A great article demonstrating what great logo designers have the power to do. Incredibly creative logos and altogether very inspiring. Thoroughly recommended!

100 of the best creative and grunge designs about

A great article demonstrating what great logo designers have the power to do. Incredibly creative logos and altogether very inspiring. Thoroughly recommended!

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

A great list of well written tutorials. If you’re new to illustrator then check this out! Hmmm I should probably check it out!

Some other Great articles!

50 Inspirational quotes on art science and design

Quality within Web Design

Create a glossy volt icon

20 Awesome Wolverine Artorks

Lets hope May has more to offer!

Liam McCabe

March round up!

Liam McCabe — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:34:47 +0000

A month of Creativity!

This month has been very generous with creativity. I would like to thank all the great designers who have written about inspiring designs and clever creations. I would recommend everybody to take a look at these articles as they are of the highest quality and are an enjoyable read.