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Vintage Textures

Vintage Textures
If you are a designer who is working on design projects such as banners or sketch of a website which require vintage touches, the use of design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920′s, 30′s, or 40′s or vintage looking textures is important to give your design a feeling of authenticity and originality. In today’s post, we gathered some great vintage texures that are extremely useful in decorating your designs to make your viewers feel that they have transported back in time. You will no longer spend much of your time in browsing vintage textures on your local antique shops or on your grandmother’s attic since we have already done this job for you. Here are 30 Examples of Old Yet Aesthetically Beautiful Vintage Textures for your Designs. Hope that these wonderful pieces of art will be useful in designing your vintage-themed projects. Vintage Checkered: Texture Pack Grungy Vintage Textures Pack BG Vintage Pk4 12 BG Vintage Textures Pk2

Subtle Textures — Freebies Gallery Have you ever noticed that most websites you see online do not seem to have a strong background design? Many of them have solid color backgrounds with no design character at all. A web background provides you the backdrop against which you place all the design elements and other web features. A good web background can make a huge difference with how viewers or visitors perceive your website. A lot of people nowadays are using beautiful textured web backgrounds. I shared a few fabric patterns with you a while back. Feel free to download the files and create some beautiful designs!

How to Design the Perfect Business Card In this post, we’ll discuss how a thoughtful, well-designed business card can help your company give a good first impression and send the right message. We’ll look at elements to include in your design and the different approaches to take. We often hear of the importance of first impressions in both our professional and personal lives. In business, the first impression we make on potential clients and other professionals can affect how much business we get. Also, we tend to forget that first impressions often begin with a business card. Blink Airbrushing Business Card by Katerina Vourgos Business cards convey the potential of all branded professionals-especially designers-and you should remember that when designing them. Personal Identity Package by Jordan Puopolo Now, what does that mean exactly: the “perfect” design? The Professional To convey that you are a super professional, your business card should have a sharp, clean, minimal design. Dreamten Studios Card by Phillip Lester The Wise

High Resolution Textures | Free Textures, Game Textures, 3D Textures, Design Resources and More 20 Beautiful High Quality Fonts for Your Design Home » Resources » 20 Beautiful High Quality Fonts for Your Design Every designer has its own choices to decide which material he or she has to use in designing. Typography requires good font types and without good font we can’t design any typographic wallpaper or design. Even simple design project can be beautiful with the help of good fonts. There is no need to spend money on high quality fonts , because many font creators are giving their high quality fonts for free. So get started to try all of them and make your project more beautiful, if you like this post don’t forget to comment. Sketchetik Font Mister Jun Font Deibi Font Hattori-Hanzo font Giro Font Quadranta Font Folk font BS-Konstata font Days typeface font Sweat Henry Font Val font Mod Gothic Font Sayitfat font Akashi font Periodica serif Font Lot free Font Rounded Font Gabo Font Paranoid Font Kilogram Font More Fonts from other blogs: 35 Fresh FreeFonts for Designers and Developers 10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers

Premium Textures The Evolution of The Logo Advertisement Logo design has been a controversial subject in the design press lately. One branding professional recently claimed that logo design is not that hard to do1 and another said that logos are dead2; some rebutted3 while others concurred4. Why all the fuss? We live in a Brand Era, where branding is in, and for some, aspiring to the Paul Rand style of logo craftsmanship is about as hip and contemporary as writing your invoices with a quill. Perhaps this clamorous debate is cause for a look at where logo design comes from, what state it’s in currently, and where it’s headed in the future. Symbolism The history of logo design begins with the roots of human expression. Fragment of a vase, third millennium B.C. To communicate effectively with design, it’s important to view the big picture of human communication and mythology. In semiotics (the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation), human communication is discussed in terms of signs and signifiers. The Brand Era

Free Textures - Free Backgrounds - Royalty Free Images - Texturevault.net 46 Sample Party Invitations and Announcements by admin | June 2, 2010 | Design As an invited guest, you may have felt that buzz of excitement when you were given a beautifully prepared card invite, or saw a high-impact poster announcing a big bash or event. When it’s your turn to make your intended guests feel that way for your party, you may need to get a lot of inspiration to get the idea that makes your invites click. No need to look far though, because you can get a whole lot of inspiration right here with this large collection of creatively designed party invitations and announcements! Take notes on how these designs work and what elements they use so you can apply those insights when creating your own invite designs. Sit back, scroll down and enjoy the ride! Disclaimer: The images on this page are not owned by UPrinting and are used solely as design examples. If you feel that we’ve missed any excellent examples of party invites or announcements that you know of, please share them with everyone in the comments! Leave a Comment

Seamless Textures Yes, finally, another textures freebie. It’s been a few weeks since I shared the last texture freebie. Your response has been very encouraging. This post features some seamless textures. Now I don’t claim to have some super creative designer spirit but I do want to share some nice seamless textures with you. You may also like these previous freebies: Subtle Textures, Leather Texture and Rope Texture.

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Hold Close by =IngridTan on deviantART Corset-wearing superwomen from the Age of Steam Mixed bag, honestly. Some are just odd, others are dead on as far as in-character goes. Harley is cute, Emma is actually wearing more than usual and probably has an outfit exactly like that stashed for formal occasions. Yeah, I'm all about the Catwoman.

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