Thank you all for participating in our pre-round three banner design contest. We had some really great entries from talented designers! The winner of this contest will receive a copy of FontBook. Round Three of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition is just around the corner so stay tuned for an official announcement on the blog
Although emails and the internet have become a dominant force in the communication world, people still do send out paper envelopes with letters in them! If you are anything like me then you probably have watched your handwriting degrade over the years due to amount of time spent typing with a keyboard. This is why getting custom labels, custom address labels and custom return address labels with your logo, address and design elements pre-printed is a great idea.
Photoshop brushes are one of the most useful and often under-rated aspects of the program. All you have to do is download these Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes and upload them to Photoshop and you will open up an entire new design arsenal!
The grunge style and (Vector Grunge Packs) have been around for a long time and continues to play a large role in many design projects. Its often very time consuming to create your won vector grunge elements for designs, but thankfully many vector artists have come to the rescue!
Open source software is software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. These three open source software downloads are all free and can be great additions to your site, making for a better user experience, more return visits and more unique visitors per month.
Before we begin Round Three… of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition we wanted to give you all a chance to win a cool prize by designing two banners for round three! In round 3 you will be asked to design a poster using only fonts provided by FontShop.com and textures provided by iStockphoto.com. Round 3 will be coming soon, so in the meantime we would love to see what you can do with the banners we will use for round 3!
In our first part of the series we covered propaganda posters of the U.S.A and in part two we will cover Russian war posters from many different periods of Russian history! Russian war posters mainly fall into 5 different periods including the Bolshevik Era (1917-1921), the New Economic Policy (1921-1927), First and Second Five Year Plans (1928-1937), Great Patriotic War (1939-1945), and the Cold War (1946-1984).
A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!
The Museum of Arts for the Arts (MofAA) was established to be the leading virtual art and image museum in the world, and currently holds one of the largest and most prized collections of images known to man; from Daguerreotype to Hubble, from Lascaux to Warhol, MofAA holds some of the most famous artists and art objects from the art world.
Alex Haigh is graphic designer with a great portfolio of work including identity designs, print designs, digital art and typefaces. He is also part of the young and dynamic studio called ThinkDust which specializes in branding, graphic design and new media work.
The world is buzzing about the upcoming President elections in the U.S. and TemplateMonster has decided to hold its own elections, well to see which template will win of course! All you have to do is vote for the design that you consider to be better for America-the-beautiful. Then after the elections are over TemplateMonster will count the votes and the ones who voted for the design that eventually becomes the winner will be entered into the lottery. The voting is active from June 26th until July 9th 2008 so hurry and get your votes in!
A Print Portfolio
Even though it is arguably more important to have a web portfolio, you can’t neglect having a print portfolio! Many studios and companies want to look at a print portfolio because it can tell them more about you as a designer, especially if you are applying for a print design job. You can refer to our graphic design portfolio guide for more info.
Hey all its finally time to announce the winner of the Markup4u.com comment contest! Markup4u.com can take your designs and convert them into a custom sliced WordPress theme or table-less xhtml/css template. The markup they provide is cross-browser compatible, SEO optimized and W3C valid!
Each day thousands of designers across the world work on creating new and beautiful poster designs for bands, businesses, organizations, events and so on. Below is a collection of some of the best and most recent poster designs that were recently uploaded to a variety of graphic design portfolio sites. Feel free to link us to your most recent poster design in the comments or post a link to a recent design you fell in love with!
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