The best posts of November

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

  

Written by Liam McCabe

The almighty creator of CreativityDen. Absolutely loves design and messing around with wordpress.

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