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Daily design inspiration for creatives | Inspiration Grid. 100 Great Resources for Design Inspiration. Finding inspiration is not always as simple as it sounds, whether you've been designing for years or only weeks. Below is a collection of 100 great web resources to find inspiration and direction on your next project, whether it be online or in print. These range from galleries of graphic and web design to online magazines and a few unconventional sources of inspiration.

Keep reading to see our recommendations and then share your favorite sources of inspiration in the comments. Online Galleries Veer: Ideas - A huge idea gallery from stock photography company Veer formatted as a blog and including news and updates from the company itself. Delicious CSS - A CSS web design gallery that was founded because of the lack of features for tracking design ideas on traditional social bookmarking sites. Categorizes sites in useful ways (such as by color) in ways that traditional social bookmarking sites don't. CSS Uber Clean - A gallery of exceptional CSS-based designs. Blogs Online Magazines. 30 Interesting Brochure Layout Ideas « Graphic Fetish. You’ve taken the photos, written the content, and chosen the graphics. Now you just need to put it all together to create a masterpiece brochure printing design.

Gotten stale with your layouts? Looking for new brochure layout ideas that will kick your creative juices into gear? Below is a list of some very interesting, intriguing, unique, and just plain beautiful brochure layouts that are sure to inspire you to new heights. Wine Brochure Layout dvGreen Brochure Bina Brochure Layout 3rock Corporate Brochure Leaf Brochure Layout Graphic Real Estate Agent Newsletter Little Skool House Brochure Layout Curious Minds Brochure Layout Elegant Winery Brochure Layout Graphic Water Company Brochure Hardware Store Brochure St.

Networking Brochure Hand Brochure Layout Brochure in a Box Layout Map Brochure Layout Entre Elles Brochure Layout Swatch Brochure Layout Hybrid Brochure Layout Vertex Climbing Store Brochure Pioneer Brochure Layout Ozlab Brochure Layout Museum Exhibit Brochure Layout Tessuto Fashion Brochure. 40 Breathtaking Graphic Design Examples. Graphic design refers to various artistic, inventive and professional disciplines that focus on visual communication, production, and presentation for its audience. There are many techniques graphic designers use to create and blend words, symbols, and images to form a visual representation that conveys a certain idea or message. Some of these techniques include typography, photo manipulation and icon design. In this post, we’re giving you a closer look to 4 of the most popular graphic design techniques which are vector design, photo manipulation, typography and icon design. And we’ve given you 10 examples of each technique for your inspiration and pleasure!

Table of Contents Vector Design Vector graphics differ from bitmap or pixel graphics in two main ways; vectors can be re-sized without losing any quality and they are also simpler and more focused on the important details rather than all the details of a graphic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Go back to the list? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 35 Incredible Digital Painting Tutorials.

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Yes, you read that right: “digital painting.” Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link Digital Painting Tutorials Link Making of Spanish Girl5 This tutorial shows you how to make this portrait of a Spanish girl. Making of “My Prince” “The girl in the picture is a young witch with mysterious magic. Umbrella Sky Marta Dahlig’s gorgeous “Umbrella Sky” image was unanimously chosen for the cover of Ballistic Publishing’s EXOTIQUE 3. How to Create a Fantasy Mother Nature Scene7 “This tutorial is about creating a fantasy scene called ‘Mother Nature.’ (al)