A Collection of Retro & Vintage Design Resources. Jul 12 2011 As summer hits and gets underway, many are drawn back to those summer days of our youth.
Memories of summer breaks filled with vacation from school, home, and many other places or responsibilities get us in a sort of retrospective mindset. It is with that theme in hand that we have compiled this bountiful resource post for our readers in a retro frame of mind. Designers dive right in to this collection that is positively overflowing with vintage styled design goodies just waiting to be added into your next design project. From PS brushes to patterns to icons and so much more, this post has got it all! Photoshop Brushes Vintage Ornament & Handwriting Brushes 240 Retro Dynamic Brushes Retro Diagonals 80′s Kunfu Brushes Retro Flower Brushes 11 Sketchy Retro Photoshop Brushes Retro Abstract Circles UK Stamps Newspaper Ads From The 60s 14 High Resolution Assorted Maps Icons Smashing Retro Icon Set Retro Vector Icons Retro Candy: Free Icon Set Retro Toys: A Free Icon Set Textures Patterns Tutorials.
Awesome and Unusual Places to Steal Color Palettes From. A good color palette can make or break a design.
It sets the tone, conveys emotion and can even drastically affect usability. With all this pressure, choosing a color palette is tricky business. Today we’re going to think outside the box and explore some fresh and interesting ways to select the colors for your project by pointing out some great sources of inspiration. Let’s get started. Fashion Bloggers and Designers People that really care about fashion and have a gift for putting together attractive outfits almost always have a stellar sense of color. I’m quite challenged when it comes to fashion but I always take note of the interesting color schemes present on those who seem to have it down and I’ve found that it’s a great place to steal color palettes from for design work, especially when you need something seasonal.
Here’s an image from popular fashion blogger Kendi Lea sporting a colorful outfit that she put together. Interior Designers Famous Artworks Living Things Conclusion. The Ultimate Collection Of Free Vector Packs - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Designers love freebies that make life easier and help them create higher-quality work.
Free vectors are useful, free vector packs even more so. Fortunately, there are plenty of talented graphic designers who are willing to give away their work (or samples of it) to benefit the rest of us. In this post, we feature 60 of the best and most useful free vector packs. Many of the vectors featured here would be useful for particular styles of design and specific types of websites. Abstract Blobs and Bursts1 A pack of 10 vectors for creating abstract effects. Wavy Vector Ribbons3 A pack of 7 trendy vectors of wavy lines. Trendy Circles5 Another trendy collection, this one containing six variations. Circles7 Different types and combinations of circles are in this pack. Weird Bubbles9 If other circles don’t meet your needs, ten vectors are included in this pack. Modern Arrows11 An easy way to add a trendy style to your designs. Birds in Flight31 A pack of 12 bird vectors from Bittbox. (al) Adobe Illustrator 101: 10 Things You Should Know About Ai.
Adobe Illustrator is one of my absolute favorite applications.
For vector work, Illustrator simply can’t be beat and you should really set your reservations aside and give it a shot. Even if you’re commonly creating raster graphics for the web, there are a number of things that Illustrator simply does better than Photoshop so getting to know both apps and their strengths/weaknesses is a must. Today’s article is for the extreme Illustrator newbies. You have the Adobe Creative Suite installed on your computer and have seen Illustrator sitting there quietly begging to be played with but you’ve never jumped in. We’ll go over ten basic things you should know before starting. A Photoshop-Centric Discussion In writing this article, one of the major assumptions that I’m making is that you’re fairly familiar with Photoshop. As I go through the tips below, a lot of the explanation will be based on how working in Illustrator is different than Photoshop.
Vector Graphics Are Magic The Bounding Box Other.