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Wallpaper of the Week 204 by Vlad Axinte
The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Vlad Axinte, a self-taught designer from Romania. The image is called "Coordinates of Chaos" and it was inspired by street art and grafitti. I tried to take the street art into a digital environment using my Wacom Bamboo Pen and Adobe Photoshop CS5 For more information visit Vlad Axinte's Web … [Link]
Sound Design: Mechanical Roof Tweaks Concert Acoustic in Real Time
Imagine a concert hall that adapts to each performer, during the performance. Since humans started building large buildings, we’ve been obsessed with the acoustics of our theaters and concert halls. And despite all that time to get it right, we’re constantly deploying new materials and computer-calculated designs to create perfection in the sound of live performance. Resonant Chamber feels like … [Link]
Best of the Week #223
It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there! We want to give a big … [Link]
Outlaw Design Blog
Gerren Lamson · Multi-discipline Designer · lllustrator · Austin, TX
Kick ass looking hand drawn slab font. Gerren Lamson · Multi-discipline Designer · lllustrator · Austin, TX.
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FiftyThree
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Free Website PSD – Drafted
I made this file a while back intending to use it as a Tumblr theme. I have since moved on to other projects and this file has just been hanging out on my dropbox, so I thought Id share. Special thanks to Premium Pixels for some of the styles used in the design. Homepage 
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BittBox
Freebie Friday: 4 Chipped Concrete Brushes
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33 Hot New Freebies from the Dribbble Community
The designers over at Dribbble are exceptionally talented in a wide range of skills. You can always find work of illustrations, vectors, patterns, and graphics for the web & mobile. Some designers are even nice enough to offer their work for free download to the community. As such I’ve put together a collection of the newest freebies in 2012 you’re … [Link]
Free Texture Tuesday: 5 Vintage Paper Textures
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Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials
5 Useful CSS Tricks for Responsive Design
Making the design to be responsive is very easy as shown in my Responsive Design in 3 Steps tutorial, but maintaining the elements to look aesthetically balanced on all breakpoint layouts is an art. Today I'm going to share 5 of my commonly used CSS tricks along with sample cases for coding responsive designs. They [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
Giveaway from PSD2HTML
If you follow Web Designer Wall, then you have noticed the PSD2HTML banner ad on the sidebar. PSD2HTML is not only my long time supporter, but they are also one of the most recognized vendors in PSD slicing services. Today I'm happy to partner with PSD2HTML to give away PSD to HTML slicing services to [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
Free Base WordPress Theme
Although WordPress has made it very easy to create a custom WordPress theme, but it still takes time to learn and build it. So I've created a Base theme based on the free Basic theme from Themify. I've stripped out the framework and the extra functions that you might not need. It includes only the [...] Advertise here with BSA [Link]
You The Designer
Eye-Catching Railway Art for Weary Travelers
Eye-Catching Railway Art for Weary Travelers | You The DesignerPublic transportation is a convenient service to those of us who do not have our own cars. Riding trains and buses in the metro is a common way for one to get around the city in a fast and cheap way. Most underground train systems look dismal with advertising posters on … [Link]
Modern Street Art: Inspiring People Through Unconventional Art
Modern Street Art: Inspiring People Through Unconventional Art | You The DesignerEveryday we’re being bombarded by advertisements from companies who’d want to make a profit. Out of over a thousand advertisements, we can only process more or less than a hundred – this gives rise over the fact that only ten percent of all these advertisements actually convert into profit. … [Link]
You! Be Informed! #0005 – Live Design Contest, Sticker Design Show, and Portfolio Night
You! Be Informed! #0005 – Live Design Contest, Sticker Design Show, and Portfolio Night | You The DesignerGet your fill of graphic design news with this week’s You! Be Informed! May and June are chock-full of design events and contests, and we hope you get to participate and meet new designers. Always be updated on the latest trends and events … [Link]
Inspiredology – Design Inspiration Lab
Friday Fix May 14 – May 18
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.Congratulations to Graham Paterson 
Graham Paterson is the official winner for our second dribbble invite contest. Please welcome him and have a look at his artwork. 
Winners were not chosen at random and it was a tough process … [Link]
Designer Spotlight: Dann Petty
Every week we are discovering new, awesome, design stars and showcasing them right here. The spotlight may hit on a logo designer, UI designer, web or graphic designer—we’re bringing you a new talent.These bad ass designers bring their “A” game time and time again and we hope that you will find this as a great design resource and be introduced … [Link]
Web Critique #9: Always With Honor
Web Critiques is a take on examining a current piece of web art and breaking it down. We show off the good, the bad, dos and dont’s, why and how it works (or doesn’t), and the list goes on.With every Web Critique we choose to focus on things that are relevant to the website and how they’re trying sell their … [Link]
Graphic Design Forums: UK forums for graphic designers
Will Design Something for £35
Im a graphic design student looking to build up my portfolio Get in touch if you want me to design the below for £35 (pretty cheap) :icon_eek: One custom webpage Logos Newsletters Event poster Magazine Adverts Covers for book, cd's etc… Facebook Cover Photos (make YOURS stand out) http://tommycollett.daportfolio.com~ google_ad_section_end –> [Link]
Clear sticker printing?
Hi all, Anyone got a reliable supplier of full colour stickers on a clear backing? Bit specialist for my normal printers. 70x110mm Quantities 100-1000. Cheers [Link]
Help ID a great elegant font
I’ve tried the usual router of WhatTheFont etc but no luck there so hopefully someone here can help. Attached Images 
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Line25 Sites of the Week for May 18th 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 Iris, Vimeo, Anthm, Little Red Letter and Olly Sorsby.Iris 
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Showcase of Artistic Hand Lettering in Web Design
With websites being built from digital code it’s difficult to imagine them being crafted by hand, but this post showcases a bunch of websites that feature custom hand lettering in traditional mediums. In place of fonts these websites boast hand crafted typography to add a real artistic touch to the design.G’nosh 
Austin Eastciders 
The Soup Peddler 
Kansas City CreepFest 
GiveBeyond.Me 
Whitmans 
Kyle Steed 
Kolonien 
Odosketch 
Marie Catribs 
Amazee Labs 
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Line25 Sites of the Week for May 11th 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 Guided Creative, Peaxl, Rdio, DS22 and Column Five.Guided Creative 
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Blog.SpoonGraphics
Art & Design Inspiration Fix for May 18th 2012
The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from John Duvengar, Junichi Tsuneoka, Travis Price, Karoly Kiralyfalvi and Anna Johnstone.Eternal Melody Records by John Duvengar 
Google x Collabo Arts by Junichi Tsuneoka 
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Create a Dark Vintage Style Motorcycle Poster Design
My absolute favourite style of motorcycle is the custom “bobber”. I love the stripped down appearance and the raw vintage styling. It’s my plan to chop up a bike of my own one day, but for now I have to settle with designing custom motorcycle posters instead. Follow this step by step Photoshop and Illustrator tutorial to combine photography and … [Link]
Yearly FanExtra Memberships Giveaway for Members
If you've found the collection of design resources from the Access All Areas section here on Blog.SpoonGraphics useful, you might be interested in the FanExtra Network's premium membership. With over 2000 downloadable resources and advanced members-only Photoshop tutorials being added weekly it's definitely worth checking out. This week Access All …Log in to your Access All Areas account to read … [Link]
Web Design Dev
10 Amazing Responsive Image Galleries
Responsive web design is a hot topic right now, and if this is a design concept you’re in to and practice then you may have run in to a problem with needing to incorporate an image gallery in to a project, but not knowing how to make it responsive. Let’s keep things simple and check out a few open source … [Link]
10 Business Cards With Wow Factor
Business cards are key when it comes to making new contacts and approaching prospective clients. Having a creative business card that showcases the pinnacle of your artistic abilities is crucial when you’re trying to convince someone to visit your website and view your portfolio when you’re in the creative field. Let’s take a look at some truly inspiring business cards. … [Link]
10 Jaw-Dropping Sites Featuring a Background Video
Websites with full page backgrounds are pretty cool, there’s no doubt about that. Whether you’re using Flash to achieve your full page background, media queries in CSS, or simply setting your height and width to 100% and not particularly caring about the quality of the image, the outcome is usually one that will catch the eye of a viewer. But … [Link]
Pipes Output
25 Sleek Blogfolio WordPress Themes
Advertise here with BSABlogfolio WordPress themes are a great tool to showcase your writing and your work together making them perfect theme for creative freelancers such as artists, photographers and graphic designers. Each Blogfolio WordPress theme allows you to display your featured work or blog posts in various different formats using stylish sliders and various post formats, some of themes are … [Link]
Awesome Graphic / Web Designer Portfolio Website
Advertise here with BSADesign and more design! While thinking about the importance of a good web design let’s take an example, you can try to imagine yourself buying a T-Shirt. First of all, what do we tend to look at? The first thing is the design of the T-Shirt, of course. Assuming that all the other factors are constant, the design … [Link]
Hysterical Minds presents “twisted Essence”.
Advertise here with BSAHysterical Minds is an international artistic collective, characterized in containing only spanish speaking members, and we just released our ninth exhibition, entitled “Twisted Essence”. For this release, we wanted to devise the pack using new working methods, so we proposed a dual theme to stablish a handicap it and to stimulate the creativity of our artists. In one … [Link]
Web Design Ledger
How To Begin Your Creative Dream Job – Today
Advertise here with BSAMaybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did. Like I said, it was ok. But I didn’t love it. I … [Link]
50 Amazing Free Icon Sets
Advertise here with BSAEvery web designer loves to have high-quality icons at their disposal. While creating your own custom icons for your projects is an option, it’s rarely practical. There are plenty of quality icon sets available for purchase, but fortunately, there are also some free icon sets out there with professional quality. These free icons sets are some of the … [Link]
20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design
Advertise here with BSAOne way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minmal approach with other aspects of the design. Not doing so could result in a website … [Link]
Webdesigner Depot
Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 9 – Apr 15, 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 out … [Link]
Comics of the week #125
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: Exclusive Stylish User Interface Kit (PSD)
We’ve partnered with the awesome guys at PurtyPixels.com to bring you a wonderful new freebie!This Stylish User Interface Kit is a cool set of everything UI… toggles, sliders, progress bars, buttons, switches and social icons… in three different colors.Everything is fully layered, completely vector and strictly organized so you can easily implement any element into your designs. Go ahead and download … [Link]
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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