3D graphic design is becoming more popular and I have noticed a surge in 3D Type work on portfolio sites. Below are 30 examples of 3D graphic design from a variety of truly talented visual artists. many of these 3D graphic design projects were created using programs such as Xara 3D, Maya 3D, Photoshop, and Illustrator to name a few. Feel free to link your 3D type designs in the comments!
Congratulations to Austers the winner of the DB Clay Mini Contest where readers of You the Designer wrote about their passions in life for the chance to win a cool wallet from DB Clay
The U-Printing International Poster Design Competition source images have been chosen and are now available for download!
Spring has arrived early with this free vector art pack, available for download exclusively on You the Designer. Enjoy the free vector graphics!
Loz Ives is a graphic designer from the UK with an impressive graphic design portfolio. His work is all photographed after its been printed, which really gives his portfolio life and a professional feeling. If you’re going to check out any of his pieces look at “Glitter Herpes” its great and shows the process of creating the poster, something you don’t often get to see on portfolio sites.
Photo By Aeioux
Below is a collection of snowboard designs found on various portfolio sites that I thought were really well done. Most portfolio sites consist of very standard types of projects such as business card designs, websites, posters and such, so I found it very refreshing to find some snowboard designs on graphic design portfolio sites.
All three rounds are now over and we will soon be having our finalist round, where the three 1st place winners of each round will compete for a chance to be featured in PRINT Magazine! Stay tuned and we will post the winning entries once the finalist round is over. Thanks again to everyone who participated and you can rest assured knowing there will be more contests in the future. We also want to thank our sponsors UPrinting.com, iStockphoto.com, PSDTuts.com and FontShop.com for making this all happen and for providing us with incredible prizes.
Stay tuned for more great contests and prizes!
From left to right, Round 1, 2, 3 and 4
From left to right, Round 1, 2, 3 and 4
UPrinting.com
UPrinting.com is a trusted leader in Online Printing, featuring a full line of high quality offset, digital and large format products at affordable prices. We are the only online printer to offer custom size options with turnaround times as fast as (1) one business day on almost every product.
iStockphoto.com
iStockphoto, http://www.istockphoto.com, is the world’s busiest image market, with an image downloaded every 1.4 seconds. iStock pioneered the micropayment phenomenon in this industry, enabling buyers to license images for as little as a dollar. iStockphoto entered the stock video market with similarly enticing price points in September of 2006.
PSDtuts.com
PSDtuts.com showcases some of the best Photoshop tutorials online. PSDtuts Tutorials not only produce great graphics and effects, but help beginners and pros alike get better at what they love – Photoshop.
FontShop.com
Founded by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody in 1990, FontShop is the original independent retailer of digital type with locations around the world. FontShop carries over 100,000 fonts from more than 50 international foundries, and offers complete typographic services ranging from typeface selection to Custom Fonts creation.
Your original poster design file must be in CMYK color mode with layers intact, 18×24 (inches) and (vertical format) as in Illustrator “.ai” file or Photoshop “.psd”. If you win you will be asked to send the layered original file for verification purposes and also a high resolution PDF version for printing.
1. You will have a total of 6 source photos to choose from to create your competition pieces. One or several of the supplied images must be recognizable as a central part of your poster design:
DOWNLOAD ROUND 2 SOURCE PHOTOS
2. You will have a total of 3 source fonts to choose from to create your competition pieces. One or several of the supplied fonts must be recognizable as a central part of your poster design:
The quote below must be included in your design ( and must be the only text in your design ) and be set in one or more of the fonts you downloaded above. Remember your use of typography is as important as your use images and other design elements.
“Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.” – George Santayana
3. Create a thumbnail of the work at 72DPI and at 500 x 667 pixels in RGB color mode, saved as a JPEG, which you will submit to the Flickr group below:
4. Join the U-Printing International Poster Design Competition Flickr Group! If you don’t have a Flickr account already sign up for one it’s free!
5. Upload your poster thumbnail to your Flickr account and place it in the group pool “U-Printing International Poster Design Competition” that you joined.
For any questions or comments please email us: contest [at] youthedesigner [dot] com
The greatest toolbar ever is StumbleUpon. Its a toolbar add-on that lets you choose categories you are interested in such as “graphic design” and then all you do is click the stumble button and it will take you to a related website.
DB Clay creates unique wallets with stunning artwork on an eco-friendly Tope material and they were kind enough to sponsor the mini contest and will provide one lucky winner with a cool free wallet! Not only that, but all of you get a special 20% percent discount just for being a You the Designer reader!
Sorry for the down time yesterday, we had an insane amount of traffic and our server was taking a beating. A few of our recent articles were very popular on stumble upon, then LifeHacker.com was kind enough to write about one of our posts, but to top it off we hit the front page of digg.com too which really did us in!
We’ve had over 50,000 visitors in the past two days and today should be another 20k+ day! I’m very happy about our recent stats, but once again I do apologize for the downtime. We upgraded our server again and we are also having the server optimized, so hopefully the site will be much faster soon!
We also know theres are some cross browser compatibility issues and all of that will be fixed promptly. Thanks everyone and I hope you are all enjoying the blog!
As a graphic designer I spend most of my time bettering my self at, well graphic design! The one thing I would love to get better at is coding websites, but I just don’t have the time right now, so I pay a professional to do my coding for me which saves me a lot of time and trouble. Speaking of which our new theme should be recoded very soon, just a few more days!
Internet Explorer is not dead yet,
but it sure seems to be getting close for sites with tech savvy users. I took a look at my browser stats recently and noticed that a large percentage of You the Designer’s readers use Firefox.
Being a graphic designer has made me fall in love with all things creative, including photography. In a previous article I mentioned the importance of building a strong foundation in one career first, such as graphic design and then branching out into other skills sets. One important area I have started to branch out into is photography. I spend a lot of time looking at photography portfolios and below you will find some of my favorite photos.
Blogs are solidifying their spot on the internet very quickly due to the many advantages they provide. You can easily start a blog with very little money, and you can publish content easily to your audience. WordPress is arguably the best blog engine out there and it comes with tons of great and easy to install plugins that you can add to your site.
Aviary is a cool suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for creatives. Aviary has really created an impressive line up of web-based applications for every genre imaginable. Below you will find a list of the web-based applications they currently are working on. I registered for the beat testing of their image editor Phoenix and its really pretty cool! You can do a lot with it and I wish I had signed up for other betas as well I can’t wait to get my hands on all these applications!
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