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10 resource sites for designers

10 resource sites for designers
This week I would like to show you 10 cool resource websites, each one of them offering various examples of images, links, wallpapers etc. Hopefully you will get inspired and can use those websites as a source for future projects. Now here are the 10 Cool Web and Graphic Design Resource Sites 99Percent This website is mainly about “ideas and how to make them happen”. You will find events and workshops listed, an all-around source for creative ideas, professionalism and improvement of performance. Designbump This website is full of content, offering many Photoshop tutorials, information about Web Design, ideas and themes, comic book-art and fonts. Graphicmac Here you can find everything about Illustrator, InDesign, Mac, Photography, Photoshop and Fonts. Marcofolio How to make a rotating banner using CSS3, information about CSS3 for mac and hand-held devices, Photoshop, icons, CSS and Joomla for Web Design, and other useful tools, such as Cheat Sheets. Designreviver Tutorialking Colourlovers

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65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free Freebie 65 Beautiful Fonts You Can Download For Free by Alex on Aug 9, 2012 • 9:43 am 17 Comments There are so many free fonts all around the web these days and sometimes it makes me think is their any really point purchasing fonts. I’ve decide to collect 65 fonts which are suitable for web, print, etc just overall high fonts which can be used in design projects. Mediocrity vs. Excellence: What Separates Good From Great? As a designer, especially one without a lot of experience, it’s normal to look at the designs of others and think how great their work is compared to our own. It’s a frustrating experience for many, especially when we can’t quite put our finger on why their design is so great when ours is merely good. The thing about design, though, is that greatness is usually quantifiable. Unlike with more abstract and interpretable creative pursuits, there are definite elements that go into “great” designs.

The Online Learning Blog from Study2U Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. 25 Free Color Tools, Apps and Palette Generators The marvelous thing about color within design is you have the choice from an infinite number of possibilities and combinations. On the flip side of that, having infinite color possibilities makes it very difficult to lock down on the perfect color scheme or palette for your project. This is were the post will hopefully help you. In this post we have collected 25 completely free tools, apps and generators to help you find, manage, and create beautiful and, hopefully, perfect color schemes. Color Scheme Designer

The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ 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.

Showcase: Funky And Experimental Websites If you spend enough time online, it’s surprising how much most websites start to look alike. Sure, there are variations, but to a large extent, web design is pretty standardized. Swap out the graphics or color scheme and you can make almost any website look similar to almost any other website. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t websites out there that are doing something really different and funky. Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Shame on you. It's due in a few hours.

Free Wordpress Portfolio Themes: 30 Free Wordpress Gallery Themes Free WordPress portfolio themes are a great way for graphic designers, logo designers, photographers and digital artists to show off their collections, without having to fuss around with hiring a web designer or worry about creating their own. Many times, it is simply better for someone to focus on what they do best, as opposed to trying to multitask and focus on their hobby and building a site at the same time. Thus, free WordPress gallery themes are a simple and easy setup and allow anyone to have a website without much of a hassle. While it’s certainly desirable to have a unique WordPress portfolio theme, using templates or a free WordPress gallery theme works fine for starters. In this free WordPress portfolio theme roundup, we’ve gathered up 30 free WordPress gallery themes for you to use.

How to Improve Your Handwriting Style: 7 steps Steps Part 1 Getting Ready to Write <img alt="Image titled Improve Your Handwriting Style Step 1" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn" onload="WH.performance.clearMarks('image1_rendered'); WH.performance.mark('image1_rendered');">1Choose a good pen. 50 Fantastic White Web Designs The color white is simple, elegant and peaceful and the use of this color is seen in lots of websites. Whether they're portfolios or online shops, people agree on one thing: when less is more white is the way to success.White websites are always pleasing to the eye because the feel is clean and uncluttered, similar to the following sites, all their potential lies in the fact that their use of white as the primary color allows the content to occupy first place. Would you like to see some more white web designs? Visit this post: White Website Designs.

sweet saturday: one minute peanut butter cake Picture this scene: it’s 8:30 in the evening. The sky is just starting to get dark outside your living room window. You ate a delicious, healthy and veggie-filled dinner a few hours ago and now you are ready to sit down to the most recent episode of So You Think You Can Dance and dive into a decadent plate of dessert. Oh wait, you have no dessert. No chocolate, no cookies, no ice cream, no cake, no pie, not even a Jordan almond. What’s a girl to do?

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