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30 Free UI Kits Featuring Detailed Web Elements
When working under time constraints or on a tight budget crafting every single UI element by hand in Photoshop just isn’t economical. Thankfully there’s a range of ready-made web elements available in UI kits that can be quickly copied over to your own website or web app design projects. This post rounds up a collection of 30 detailed user interface … [Link]
Line25 Sites of the Week for February 3rd 2012
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Allison Grayce, Michela Chiucini, Vimeo, Ausin Eastciders and Highlighter.Allison Grayce Nold 
View the websiteMichela Chiucini 
View the websiteVimeo 
View the websiteAustin Eastciders 
View the websiteHighlighter 
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25 Examples of Super Wide Website Designs
As monitor resolutions become larger, websites become wider. This showcase features 25 awesome website designs over 1000px in width. Many of these super wide designs are built as responsive layouts, which allows the designer to accommodate even the largest of screen sizes with the max-width property without chopping off elements on smaller resolutions.Michela Chiucini 
Dave Gamache 
Park La Fun 
Michael Schmid 
Brad Evans 
Tommy 
HatBox 
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Blog.SpoonGraphics
How To Create a Cool Vector Yeti Character in Illustrator
Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a cool vector Yeti character. We’ll use as many basic shapes as possible to achieve that quirky style of illustration, then bring the character to life with a palette of cold colours. Despite the use of basic shapes this tutorial includes a good spread of intermediate to advanced tools and techniques. … [Link]
MOO Luxe Business Cards Giveaway for Members
The awesome folks from MOO have arranged some great product giveaways for Access All Areas members in the past, and today they're back with an offer for their latest business card product – Luxe. At triple the weight and thickness of standard business cards and featuring a stylish seam of …Log in to your Access All Areas account to read … [Link]
30 Illustrator Video Tutorials Every Designer Should See
If you’re trying to learn a new application there’s nothing better than having an expert guide you through the various menus and tools. This post rounds up 30 of the most detailed Adobe Illustrator video tutorials and screencasts on the web. Each one features a mix of clear commentary and useful techniques that will help you on your way to … [Link]
Web Design Dev
How to use checkboxes and radio buttons in Flash
When you are developing rich and interactive applications in flash, you need to provide the best communication between the user and the application. Flash has some very easy to implement UI components that you can use with your applications. These components will save you from the hassle of designing and programming the User Interface. In this tutorial I am going … [Link]
10 Sources for Stock Photos
More often than not I find myself meeting with a prospective client and telling them one of the biggest keys to designing a stunning website are the images that you use. You can have the most elaborate interface, with parallax scrolling, fluid and responsive resizing capabilities, and the best color pallet possible. But if your images were taken on a … [Link]
Outsourcing Sites for Freelancers
I’m often asked by others questions like, “Where do you get job leads?” “How do you find clients?” And, “What’s a good source for finding work online?” Those are all pretty tough questions to answer, as there are several different ways to do so. But there are certainly some resources out that that are worth checking out. Elance 
If you … [Link]
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Super Bowl 2012 Commercials
The title says pretty much what this post is all about. For those who are more concern about the final score, I am more into looking the commercials. It's where you will witness all the millions of dollars that companies spent each year for a few seconds of air time during the Super Bowl. Some of the commercials are purely … [Link]
Word Paintings by Wayne White
Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. In this post we highlight some of his amazing word paintings which is a mix of landscape paintings with 3d typography. Enjoy! Visit waynewhiteart.com Wayne White is an American artist, art director, illustrator, puppeteer, and much, much more. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Wayne has used his … [Link]
The Perfect Office #125
We've seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have? Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture, sound system, gaming stuff (for lunch time!). A designer is … [Link]
Outlaw Design Blog
App Icon Template
“After more than 10k downloads of my old app icon template and countless of requests for an update, i’ve put together an app icon template that should make your icon endeavors on the iOS platform easier.” App Icon Template | Pixelresort.com.
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Bicycle Can Cage
If you look at this and think; “oh cool a thing to hold my beer so I can steer my bike with both hands.” Then you sir, are a rookie beer drinker. This is in fact made so that you can have an EXTRA beer in ADDITION to the one in your hand. Bicycle Can Cage by WalnutStudiolo on Etsy. … [Link]
Social Media Icons Font
The social icons font is very convenient and easy to use for web design in themes, page layouts etc, as well as for every type of print or offline design. via Social media Icons pack | Fontfabric™.
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BittBox
How To Create A Set Of PS Brushes From A Single Texture Photo
Creating Photoshop brushes is rather easy. But, I often find that brush sets lack consistency and are often created form various textures or sources. I like consistency. I think a great set of brushes isn’t just a matter of throwing a bunch of brushes that kinda look similar together in a set, but rather create a set where each brush … [Link]
Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Split Wood Textures
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Freebie Friday: 6 Abstract Lines Brushes
Happy Friday everyone! Today I’m releasing this set of unique and tough to define brushes. The source for these was a microscopic piece of pollen. Up close the strands looked like barbed wire. After photographic it, I brought the images into Illustrator and Live Traced each one, so the edges are very defined. Each brush is 2500×1800, hope you enjoy. … [Link]
Graphic Design Forums: UK forums for graphic designers
Apparently I own, Graphic Design Forums.
I received this funny little email this evening. ____ Hi, I'm Sara, contributor to a site called personalinjuryattorney.org–founded as a consumer protection resource to help lay people make informed decisions when pursuing a personal injury lawsuit and prevent them from being taken advantage of. Would you consider adding personalinjuryattorney.org to your website's list of resources? Personalinjuryattorney.org exists solely as an … [Link]
Finding your way through carefully designed signage
This short film discusses the importance of being able to easily find and understand signage in a busy environment. The design of our signs is becoming ever more important, especially with advertising gradually taking home to every nook and cranny in densely populated environments such as airports and trains stations. Finding your way through carefully designed signage – Toppers Print … [Link]
Great site for colour palettes
Whilst surfing the net earlier today I came across this fantastic website. Design Seeds is a fantastic resource that has a brilliant array of different colour swatches. Unlike many sites that are already out there, the colours have been carefully picked from vibrant photographs of different colour genres such as Autumn, Nature or Vintage to name but a few. I … [Link]
Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials
CSS3 Image Styles – Part 2
Previously I wrote two tutorials on how to style the image element with CSS3 inset box-shadow and border-radius. The trick is to wrap the image with a span tag and apply the image as background-image. However, I recently ran into a problem with that trick while designing the PhotoTouch theme. The issue is that the [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
UPrinting Business Card Giveaways
This Friday giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting, a shop that provides a wide range of online printing services. We are giving away 3 sets of 250 die-cut business card printing to 3 winners. Each winner will receive a set of 250 business card printing with free shipping. To enter this contest, all you have to [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
Responsive Design in 3 Steps
Responsive web design is no doubt a big thing now. If you still not familiar with responsive design, check out the list of responsive sites that I recently posted. To newbies, responsive design might sound a bit complicated, but it is actually simpler than you think. To help you quickly get started with responsive design, [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
Inspiredology – Design Inspiration Lab
How To Design Great Mac Icons
Back in 1973, a couple guys from Xerox thought of a great idea—to use icons for each application on the desktop. Apple too liked this idea, and developed the Mac desktop in an attempt to revolutionize the field of icon applications. In today’s ever changing market, each and every application has its own unique icon. Apple icons look so tasty … [Link]
Friday Fix January 30 – February 3
The Friday Fix is a weekly recap of all things inspiring. We look at new web apps, portfolios, beautiful websites and anything else design related. Wunderkit 
CoDrops 
Luhse Tea 
Designing Monsters 
Starving for Ethics 
Nike Vision 
BeoPlay 
Dataveyes 
Build A City 
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Designing Patterns for Creative Stationary
So here you are, behind your laptop, you just received an email from your new client for whom you’ve just designed an awesome logo, and boy, is he as excited as you are. Make sure you’ve got the right process and know-how to get it done. He likes the colours you’ve chosen and raves about the beautiful typography—Great! This means … [Link]
Web Design Ledger
21 Examples of Light Color Usage in Web Design
Advertise here with BSALast week we showcased a list with 21 Inspiring Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design, and this week, to show you a different approach on color choices, we decided to go for a list with examples of websites using mainly light colors on its designs. Color is indeed a really important element of web design, so nothing … [Link]
Free Bundle for Designers
Advertise here with BSAToday is Friday, and what better way to celebrate than by presenting you with something new. ZeroBundle.com is a website that offers an awesome free bundle of goodies for designers. It is brought to you by WebDesignerDepot and MightyDeals.com. The bundle will be available for a limited time so speed up and download your goodies while you have … [Link]
23 Free Textures for your Delight
Advertise here with BSAHere at WDL, we take great pride in being able to find useful freebies and share them with our readers. It saves you time, and allows you to focus on creating, instead of hunting. Here you will find 23 free textures to add to your resource library. Remember that textures can always add a nice touch to a … [Link]
You The Designer
We’ve Started Using PunchTab!
Here’s another one of our attempts to reward you loyal readers for sticking with You The Designer all this time, and this one is a pretty big deal! PunchTab is a loyalty program that lets us reward you for engaging with the blog, whether you visit, browse, comment on, and vote up our posts and more – with points you … [Link]
By: Digital Painting Masterpieces that will Make You Dream | Web Developer
[...] paintings can be worth even more. Every day, hundreds of digitally made artworks are … Read the full article at the source. Share Design digital art, digital painting, inspiration, paintings, surrealism [...] [Link]
Behance Launches Student Show, an Initiative to Support Emerging Designers
If you’re a student, here’s an exclusive design community where you can get your work exposure, get feedback from peers as well as world-renowned creative professionals, and even get hired! 
Behance has launched a new student initiative called the Student Show Gallery, which aims to showcase the world’s next generation of creative talent. Membership is free! As a member, your … [Link]
Webdesigner Depot
Our favorite tweets of the week Jan 30-Feb 5, 2012
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent … [Link]
Comics of the week #115
Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.So for a few moments, take a break … [Link]
Free download: Infographic Vector Kit
We have a fantastic freebie to download today from Pixeden, a one stop place for great tools for the modern design.Released first and exclusively on WDD, it’s an infographic vector kit, with the most used elements that you may need for your infographic designs.Included in this set is a world map, gender elements, as well as multiple pie and bar charts. … [Link]
DesignM.ag – All Inclusive-Feed
Review of FLASHized, XHTMLized and Dave Rosen: My Terrible Experience
I hired a company called FLASHized to code a website for me and they completely screwed me over. Visit Source
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20 Best Illustrator Tutorials
If you want to start learning Adobe Illustrator or improve your skills we have selected 30 great Illustrator Tutorials that will help achieve your goal. Visit Source
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Photoshop Tutorial, Dragan Effect
Learn how to apply the Dragan effect a widely used technique in post processing photos to give a dramatic makeover. Visit Source
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Vandelay Design Blog
7 Common Mistakes Made by New Freelancers
Get a free icon and vector bundle (worth $54) just for subscribing to our weekly newsletter! Making a transition from employed designer to freelance designer can be intimidating for even the most talented of designers because there is so much more involved with being successful as a freelancer. As a freelancer you’ll be responsible for every aspect of your own … [Link]
Free Download: Interactive Portfolio PDF (InDesign Template)
Get a free icon and vector bundle (worth $54) just for subscribing to our weekly newsletter! If you find yourself frequently exchanging emails with potential clients, you may be interested in sending them a PDF file that shows off your work. This free InDesign file will allow you to do just that. You can customize the file to include your … [Link]
Showcase of Creative Logos
Get a free icon and vector bundle (worth $54) just for subscribing to our weekly newsletter! Logos are obviously an important part of a company’s identity and branding efforts. Creative logos can help to convey something meaningful about the company and it’s products/services, or they can simply help to capture interest and to make the brand more memorable. In this … [Link]
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