10 Great New Graphic Design Posts

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Graphic Design Resources Roundup

A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!

1. Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup

Flourishes are one of the most popular current trends in graphic design, ranging from simple flourishes to extremely intricate combinations of swirls and flourishes combined with photographs and typography.

2. Classy Personal Portfolio in Fireworks

In this tutorial Fabio Sasso teaches you how to design a modern looking one page graphic design portfolio in Fireworks.

3. 40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials

The title explains this one pretty well, this is a great inspirational post mixed in with a few solid tutorials.

4. 12 Realities of Pricing Design Services

Pricing your services are a freelance designer or studio can come with many stressful situations and pitfalls. This article will help prepare you for the world of pricing!

5. Photoshop: How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch

Bittbox has developed a useful tutorial for taxing a stock paper texture and giving it a great grunge appearance.

6. How a Change on Design Improves Usability and Visits

This article gives an example of how even the most minor changes in a website’s design can improve the user experience and number of returning visitors.

7. 400+ Swirls, Curls, and Fleurons

Another spectacular collection of useful design elements including swirls, curls and fleurons.

8. Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design

In this tutorial you will learn how to add and color sweet hand-drawn sketches into your graphic design work using channels.

9. Accountants, Lawyers, and Doctors, oh My! A Designer’s Guide to Business.

A great starter guide to the business side of running a new graphic design studio.

10. 101 Design Resource Sites

A large list of useful graphic design resources for any designer interested in the online design community.

July 14, 2008

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  1. Steven Snell - July 14th, 2008

    Thanks for the link Gino. I’ve enjoyed several of these posts in my feed reader recently.

  2. Godzhesas - July 15th, 2008

    Great links and great posts, you might want to take a look at http://www.developflash.com, it offer flash based online design components.

  3. United Voices - July 19th, 2008

    Thanks for this article. great resources for designers like me.

  4. Graham - July 28th, 2008

    Thanks for the bunch of really useful links Gino,
    what a great resource for Graphic Design professionals.

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  6. DN - August 26th, 2008

    Thank you for scouring the web for these links, with the dearth of GD blogs out there its nice to have these all in one place.

  7. Micah - September 2nd, 2008

    Always helpful, thanks.

  8. Logo Design UK - September 24th, 2008

    I like the fireworks portfolio tutorial, the portfolio does look nice. Might have to brush up on my fireworks skills and get started with the tutorial as I think this could look nice on my own website to display my logo design examples. Thanks for the post.

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