Below are examples 16 quality band posters from a variety of designers. Examining the work of other designers is an important aspect of becoming a better designer. Every time you examine another design your absorb a little bit of that design. Designers are walking visual sponges and everything we create samples from what we’ve experienced and seen in life.
Adobe has just released an online application called Photoshop Express which is basically a smaller version of Photoshop geared towards photo editing. It is not as extensive as Photoshop obviously, but it is online and free! Some of the features include resize, tint, distort, red eye removal and much more. You can also ad effects to your photos such as pop color, sketch, hue, black & white and so on.
Congratulations to Lori the winner of the Allmightys.com Mini Contest where readers of You the Designer talked about their love of the outdoors for a chance to win two free shirts from Allmightys.
Adobe tutorials are a great way to push your graphic design skills to the next level by learning how to create awesome effects. You can then apply these new tricks to your own designs or use your new found knowledge to create your own unique effects.
Famfamfam.com is known for its free icons and these 3 sets have been around for a while. If you haven’t come across these free computer icons, flag icons and web icons you don’t know what you are missing! These are probably the three most useful free icons sets I have ever come across. They are well executed and can be applied to many design projects. Enjoy the free icons!
We all know how expensive and difficult putting together a quality font collection can be, thats why I was delighted to hear that the Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials font collection had been released. Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials is the essential font collection for design education. Adobe has teamed up with the AIGA ( The Professional Association for Design ) to bring designers 500 elegant and trusted fonts, in one extremely affordable package.
The U-Printing International Poster Design Competition Vector Round has ended! We had an incredible amount of amazing entires ( over 125 entires ) and I want to thank everyone who participated. Our panel of judges will now being the voting process and once the votes come in from our judges we will announce the winners in a post and list them on the contest home page.
The other day I noticed something interesting in my pile of mail. It was a little pack of Sunflower Mix that you would plant in your garden and was exactly what you would find at your local plant shop, but the catch was it was an ad for a real estate agent!
SimpleViewer and Lightbox JS are two great resources that can help take your portfolio to the next level by improving the way your work is showcased.
This is a guest post by Jacob Gube from Six Revisions, a web development and design blog that provides practical and useful information about the topic of web-building.
We’ve all been there… you’ve just pitched an (at least in your mind) amazing design that will revolutionize the client’s company, and you even submitted a few mock-ups and a 20-page (single-spaced of course) design proposal that you did free of charge to try and win them over. Now you’re just waiting for that phone call that will tell you what you already know — that your proposal rocked the house, and now they want to pay you the big bucks.
Luisa Bernardes is a talented designer offering art direction, motion graphics and illustration services from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Luisa often art directs and or designs projects that use photographic images combined with colorful vector graphics used to enhance or highlight whatever action is going on in the photo.
Graffiti fonts are one of the most sought after free fonts available online, so below you will find a great collection of popular free graffiti fonts. All of the fonts can be downloaded for free from the great free font site dafont.com.
Online printing is a tricky business. Can you count on your printer to deliver your prints on time? Is your printer’s quality as good as they say? Are they consistent?
A design professional needs to trust their online printer and UPrinting.com has long been a trusted printer for the YTD community. Recently, the company launched an online program entitled UPrinting.com Reviews. The program focuses on receiving and publishing customer reviews, complaints and experiences for all to see. All reviews can be sorted by product, city and industry, so that you can research how UPrinting.com performs in your niche market. If you ever wanted to know about UPrinting.com’s customer service and print quality, you couldn’t ask for a better resource than UPrinting.com Reviews.
Written by Jacob Cass
A must know list of very handy shortcut keys for any blogger or designer that is serious about time…You must learn these shortcut keys!
I recently came across the portfolio website of Patrik Hübner and noticed a great tutorials section with design tutorials in PDF format. He currently has two issues posted on the site and it looks like there will be a new issue every month. Below is a sneak peak of what you will find in the tutorials:
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