Archive for March, 2009
Yes its Monday again and that means another free brush giveaway! This Monday’s giveaway is a free set of crack brushes, which are perfect for grunge designs and old style designs. You could even get creative with these cracks and turn them into design elements such as lightning with some Photoshop adjustments. Hope you enjoy these free brushes, if you have any suggestions for a type of brush pack you would like to see please let us know, thanks!
I’ve always been a big fan of brochure design because I think its one of the hardest mediums to design for. Brochures are often relatively small in size and packed with lots of information. This makes it very hard for a designer because you need to make the brochure eye-catching and easy to read, but still work in all the important information. Hopefully this brochure design inspiration post will help you when you are stuck on a challenging brochure project.
Looking for some quality Photoshop cloud brushes? Well you are in luck, because today we are giving away a second free set of beautiful cloud brushes, perfect for all your nature related design needs. Simply download the cloud brush pack below and you will be on your ways to painting beautiful sky masterpieces.
Just as a reminder UPrinting.com is still running its generous Free Business Cards Promotion for creative professionals. This offer is open to professionals in a wide variety of creative industries such as the fashion, web design, print design, photography and illustration industries. All you have to do is sign up to claim your beautiful new business cards, but don’t wait too long cause the offer will be ending at the end of the month!
Spring is here and now is the perfect time to bring some new life to our graphic designer portfolios. Portfolio websites should be updated regurarly with new work, updated contact information and the overall design style of your site should be kept up-to-date. You may have a more timeless design, but if your website design is more trendy you may want to consider a new look. Today I have put together a bunch of great graphic and web designer portfolio sites to help inspire your spring portfolio cleaning!
Today is our first new Photoshop brush pack of volume 2. We have a lot of great Photoshop brush sets in volume 2 and we will be releasing them every Monday till we run out, followed by a round up post of all the brush packs in volume 2. We hope you enjoy these amazing brushes as much as the ones in volume 1. Our first PS brush set includes 25 abstract lights Photoshop brushes.
Create great looking, 3-Dimensional, gooey looking text . This technique does require minimal drawing skills but is definitely suitable for beginners. Enjoy and stay tuned for more tutorials!
UPrinting has been providing great printing services to the design community for many years and now they are taking it one step further. They are offering 1,000 Free Business Cards to any creative!
Twitter is quickly becoming a hot spot for people and business of all kinds, including designers. Many designers now have twitter accounts so they can network with other designers on twitter and promote their work to a new audience. What I found interesting is, because of twitter a whole new niche of design has been created and that is Twitter backgrounds.
Our friends from the AIGA wanted us to let you know about some great contests over at competitions.aiga.org. The deadline for submissions is soon, so be sure to enter before the party is over!