Bookmarked! Best readings of the week #5
Every week the design community releases a lot of interesting articles, tutorials and showcases that can charge your creativity in different ways. With this series we want to share high-quality contents from the community to provide interesting information for our readers. It's just a small selection, but we are sure that it can help you to find cool stuff that covers a wide variety of topics. Enjoy it!
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Below a collection of awesome articles and resources that we have found in the last week. We suggest you to bookmark and read them. Take your time, get inspired!
There is a lot that you can do in Photoshop with just a few select tools. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let?s get started!
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Photoshop and Illustrator compliment each other in many ways. Today we will demonstrate how you can use them in tandem to draw and color a graffiti-inspired illustration. Let?s get started!
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Follow this step by step guide to creating a fun cartoon style poster design. We?ll combine a quick character doodle with some bold and blocky text, then bring it to life with a muted colour palette and a mix of textures to give the poster an old and retro feel.
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The idea behind Geotica was to build a font out of -more or less- simple geometrical line elements. The open wire frame could then be left open or (partially) filled.
Download the font
Easily, the most important file in your WordPress installation is the wp-config.php file. It serves as your site?s base configuration file, controlling key aspects of WordPress? functionality and enabling WordPress to do mission-critical stuff like connect to the database. Without wp-config.php, WordPress simply won?t work. So whenever you install WordPress, one of the first things to do is pimp your wp-config.php.
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Want to increase your website?s conversion rate? Want more subscribers, opt-ins, members, customers? How about doing less work while you?re at it?
Too good to be true? Nope.
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Vintage design is always described as outdated, old looking design with most updated products like Facebook or Nintendo Wii featured? what?
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Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding.
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Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art.
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Back in 2004, I wrote an article called ?How to Make Friends and Influence Art Directors? that continues to get a surprising amount of traffic. In the course of opening up a new design position at Newsvine/msnbc.com and seeing the applications, however, I feel like I need to update the article for 2010.
We?ve gotten so many poor applications for this position that it really makes me wonder if designers today are aware of how art directors actually hire people.
Read the article
When you?re a freelancer, you often find yourself doing several jobs. You may design, develop, write, manage, bill, consult and answer the phone. Unfortunately, while we?re busy taking care of all these roles in the day-to-day management of our business, we forget to step back and take a look at the long term.
Read the article
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Create a Realistic iMac Icon in Photoshop
- written by Antonie Trejbalova
- topics: photoshop, tutorial
- psd.tutsplus.com
There is a lot that you can do in Photoshop with just a few select tools. Today, we will demonstrate how to create a realistic iMac icon in Photoshop that includes a 27-inch screen, a keyboard, and a mouse. Let?s get started!
Read the article
Create a Graffiti-Inspired Illustration Using Photoshop and Illustrator
- written by Sarah Lyons
- topics: photoshop, tutorial
- psd.tutsplus.com
Photoshop and Illustrator compliment each other in many ways. Today we will demonstrate how you can use them in tandem to draw and color a graffiti-inspired illustration. Let?s get started!
Read the article
How To Create a Fun Cartoon Style Poster Design
- written by Devon Govett
- topics: illustrator, tutorial
- blog.spoongraphics.co.uk
Follow this step by step guide to creating a fun cartoon style poster design. We?ll combine a quick character doodle with some bold and blocky text, then bring it to life with a muted colour palette and a mix of textures to give the poster an old and retro feel.
Read the article
Geotica - geometric fun
- written by Jos Buivenga
- topics: font
- josbuivenga.demon.nl
The idea behind Geotica was to build a font out of -more or less- simple geometrical line elements. The open wire frame could then be left open or (partially) filled.
Download the font
Pimp your wp-config.php
- written by Jeff Starr
- topics: wordpress
- digwp.com/
Easily, the most important file in your WordPress installation is the wp-config.php file. It serves as your site?s base configuration file, controlling key aspects of WordPress? functionality and enabling WordPress to do mission-critical stuff like connect to the database. Without wp-config.php, WordPress simply won?t work. So whenever you install WordPress, one of the first things to do is pimp your wp-config.php.
Read the article
Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website's Effectiveness
- written by Oleg Mokhov
- topics: web design, conversion rate
- sixrevisions.com
Want to increase your website?s conversion rate? Want more subscribers, opt-ins, members, customers? How about doing less work while you?re at it?
Too good to be true? Nope.
Read the article
Vintage Advertisement of Modern Technology
- written by Alvaris Falcon
- topics: advertisement
- hongkiat.com
Vintage design is always described as outdated, old looking design with most updated products like Facebook or Nintendo Wii featured? what?
Read the article
At Least we Dream - Digital Art
- written by Paulo Canabarro
- topics: inspiration
- abduzeedo.com
Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding.
Read the article
Awesome Watercolor Illustrations by Dmitriy
- written by Paulo Gabriel
- topics: inspiration, digital art
- abduzeedo.com
Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art.
Read the article
How To Properly Apply for a Design Position
- written by Mike Davidson
- topics: design, career
- mikeindustries.com
Back in 2004, I wrote an article called ?How to Make Friends and Influence Art Directors? that continues to get a surprising amount of traffic. In the course of opening up a new design position at Newsvine/msnbc.com and seeing the applications, however, I feel like I need to update the article for 2010.
We?ve gotten so many poor applications for this position that it really makes me wonder if designers today are aware of how art directors actually hire people.
Read the article
Working on Your Business, Not Just in It
- written by Amber
- topics: graphic design
- freelancefolder.com
When you?re a freelancer, you often find yourself doing several jobs. You may design, develop, write, manage, bill, consult and answer the phone. Unfortunately, while we?re busy taking care of all these roles in the day-to-day management of our business, we forget to step back and take a look at the long term.
Read the article
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