Graphic Design Inspiration, Blogs, Business & Career Advice | HOW. Conrad Shen | Graphic Design. The Best Designs / Best Web Design Awards & CSS Gallery. 39 DIY Gifts You'd Actually Want To Receive. Emily Henderson | TV Host and Designer of HGTV's Secrets from A Stylist, Season 5 Design Star winner. My Top Ten Basic Camera Settings | Composition: From Snapshots to Great… Freebies. The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow.
This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please! Graphic Design 1stwebdesigner Blog by Dainis Graveris in Latvia covering all things design and freelance. 2expertsdesign A blog filled with tips – whether it’s graphic design, logo design, web design, advertising, branding or typography. 456 Berea Street Blog from Roger Johansson containing articles and tutorials on web standards, accessibility and usability. 72dpi Graphic design inspiration. 50 awesome free fonts for professional design. This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of March.
This collection includes patterns, icons, themes, and… Continue Reading → These days many artists are collaborating with big brands in order to reach a mass market. As well as interiors, artists and designers are… Continue Reading → This post is a roundup of latest free web design resources released during the month of February. Continue Reading → A Collection of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Released in June and July 2012. Adobe Illustrator is now a widely used software in the field of design. Web and graphic designers use this tool to design all sorts of things from art logos to technical illustrations. It makes a way for designers to create and modify their artworks on a computer rather than working with pen and paper. The pliability of this program as well as the power to greatly resize a graphic without the need to lose the quality or sharpness of that graphic make it a mind blowing tool for graphic artists.
In today’s post, we are going to showcase several tutorials for novice and intermediate users of Adobe Illustrator out there. Here is A Collection of Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Released in June and July 2012 which will help you refresh your creative ideas and improve your Adobe Illustrator skills. How to Create a Detailed Calendar Widget In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the detailed calendar widget.Source How to Create a Detailed Button and Needle Illustration Ads.
Adobe Illustrator tutorial: clipping mask and compound path Designer Blog. Aloha, designers! Please meet Community Director, Jason Aiken’s sweet and totally-cute dogs, Job and Lily. Job and Lily have a love for professional swimming and we are going to use one of Illustrator’s brilliant design tools to show off their skills — the clipping mask. What is a Clipping Mask? A clipping mask is a shape (called a clipping path) that masks any object below it, so only what’s inside of the clipping path is visible.
A clipping path can only be a vector object, not a photo. A few things to note about clipping masks: The clipping path must always be on top of the object you’d like to clip.You can only have one clipping path.However, one or more objects can be clipped.Clipped objects must be in the same layer or group. By now you might be thinking… “What? How to Make a Clipping Mask In this demo, the clipping path will be the text of their names, Lily and Job. A clipping mask can be made in a few different ways: In one layer, I have put Job’s name on top of his swimming photo.