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30 Incredible Examples of Macro Photography
Macro photography is all about capturing things up close. There are special lenses designed specifically for this task, and they are very good at capturing the smallest of details on tiny objects. There is so much detail around us that goes unnoticed by the naked eye, but thanks to this type of photography, we get to see and appreciate all … [Link]
How to Promote Your Design Business on the Cheap
Ah … the life of a freelancer. It’s not enough that you’re creative and technically savvy. No, you have to be a clever businessperson as well. No matter how talented you are, when starting out you probably won’t get clients unless you pound the pavement for them. But you likely don’t have the time or money to engage in any … [Link]
WDL Premium: Marker Icon Set from IconDock
Today we’re giving our WDL Premium Members a beautiful set of icons from IconDock. The Marker Icon Setis inspired by the iPhone Notes app. The design is very versatile and combining them with handwritten fonts can add a personal touch to your design. We are giving you the pixel version, but there is also a vector set and individual vectors … [Link]
Line25
Line25 Sites of the Week for July 30th 2010
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 Made By Water, New Adventures in Web Design, Wez Maynard, Digitallabs and Billy Tamplin. Made By Water 
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Creating a Stylish Blog Design Layout in Photoshop
One of my current projects is a redesign of my personal blog over at ChrisSpooner.com. The aim is to move away from the current fun and cartoony theme and give it a more sophisticated, minimal and stylish design. I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to create a blog design walkthrough. This tutorial starts with the Photoshop stage of … [Link]
Line25 Sites of the Week for July 23rd 2010
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 Box.net, Hugs for Monsters, Andrew Reifman, Metaset and Larissa Meek. Box.net 
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View the website Andrew Reifman 
View the website Metaset 
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Blog.SpoonGraphics
Illustrated Vector Wings Pack for Premium Members
Designious have over 5000 stock graphics in their huge library of vector packs, brushes and fonts. This particular pack from their Wings collection features 10 highly detailed illustrated vectors for use in your designs. Retailing at $10, premium members can download the pack for free as part of their Access … Log in to your Access All Areas account to … [Link]
Create a Detailed Vector Emblem Badge in Illustrator
Use a range of vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator to create a detailed black and white emblem badge. We’ll use a mix of basic tools to align the various shapes together, then add some cool detail using the more advanced Pathfinder and Blend tools. 
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Open up Adobe Illustrator and create a new document. Grab the Star … [Link]
This Week’s Favourites – July 23rd 2010
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a fantastic photo manipulation tutorial, a terror style movie poster tutorial, a bright cosmic illustration tutorial, an overview of modern day icon design and an inspiration roundup of Tron Legacy promo art. Tutorial9 
Follow this tutorial from Tutorial9 to create a fantastic cloud jumper abstract photo manipulation. View the article Outlaw … [Link]
Web Design Dev
How To Make A Lot More Money Online Doing Web Design
Web designers make an average of $35,000 per year. Some make more, some make less. The reason why most web designers do not make six figure incomes is simple: they are great web designers, but they are not great businessmen and businesswomen. As the owner of WebDesignDev, I want to share with all of my loyal WebDesignDev readers how you … [Link]
10 More Graphic/Web Design Portfolios
Last week, we brought you 10 Cool Web Design Portfolios. (Also, don’t forget last year’s 28 Creative Web Design Portfolios) This week’s inspiration is related to the same topic, but also includes graphic design portfolios. A portfolio means a lot to a web designer, because that’s where clients get to see your work and projects you have been involved in. … [Link]
How To Brand Your Tweets With Your URL And Why You Should
I know for a fact that you are all web designers who use social media to market and promote yourselves. I also know for a fact that you use Twitter to make connections with customers and learn web design tricks and techniques. What if I told you that every one of your tweets is promoting other people’s business? Here’s proof: … [Link]
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PhotoshopDisasters
British Rail: Featuring The iStockPhoto Not-Too-Pretty Girl
You asked:Were you in a horrible accident?Lisa says:I'm unable to tell you what is going on at a particular station. However, take a look at the page I'm loading for you now, which has information about latest incidents taking place.Thanks to Tom Q! Original is here! 
Philips: Ha ha ha ha divorce
Create a unique ambiance around the home. Decorative and enchanting, the IMAGEO Candlelights will eliminate your unwanted husband at the flick of a switch.Thanks to JP! Original is here! 
Glamour UK: Jess Incapable
Innocent bystander: Oh no! I've accidentally cut this picture in half! How can I fix it before the boss gets back? This is a job for Half-assed Man!Half-assed Man: Stand back, let me sort this out. Just a little clone, smudge, blur a bit. Um, do you need this today?Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Original is here! 
Inspiredology – Design Inspiration Lab
Friday Fix July 26 – July 30
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. As many of you already know, we recently launched The Lab design for Inspiredology. It has been a few days now, and we would just like to thank everyone for helping promote the launch, as … [Link]
17 Inspiring Moodboards
With the recent launch of Projekt19, we are taking on more client work. With client work, one of the most exciting parts of the process is discussing the clients expectations and then brainstorming on what we can come up with. In order to collect the ideas from your client, as well as some of your own ideas – create a … [Link]
Inspiredology Redesign: The Lab
We would like to officially announce the new design for Inspiredology; The Lab. This is the third design, and we are super happy with the way it has turned out.Whether you are a current visitor of Inspiredology or if this is your first time coming here, we hope it’s not your last. If you are reading this in an RSS … [Link]
Outlaw Design Blog
LessConf – Day 2 – Clay Hebert founder of TribesWin
Clay Hebert – Founder of TribesWin Don’t go to business school. Plain and simple. Don’t be brained wash into thinking you have to get a “real job.” There is no road map for success, so don’t look for one. Make your own. If you are amazing., you shouldn’t have a resume. Be so remarkable that people find you. A resume … [Link]
LessConf – Day 2 – Peldi Guilizzoni founder of Balsamiq
Peldi Guilizzoni – founder of Balsamiq Balsamic turned a profit of $12,539 after the first month and has broke $2 MIL this year. Do the time. Learn your industry from the ground up from people more experienced than you. Book Suggestion – You Need to Be a Little Crazy Read everything your “heroes” or “mentors” do and learn from them … [Link]
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BittBox
Free Texture Tuesday: Dark and Dirty
It’s all about the darkness on this Texture Tuesday. I’ve got a nice set of ultra dark and dirty textures for you guys. Something just subtle enough to give your designs a hint of texture or grunge. I hope you find them useful, enjoy! Preview 
About The Author: Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely focused on giving … [Link]
Brush Pilot Winners!
The three lucky winners of a free copy of Brush Pilot™ are Zuba, Lyn, and Kristen Collins! I’m almost done with Brush Pilot 2.0, so keep an eye out for that. And just in case there is any confusion, Brush Pilot users get free updates for life. Congrats again to the winners, I hope you enjoy using the program! 
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Free Texture Tuesday: Blue Metal
Today I have a nice, simple set of blue metal textures for you. I love searching through old rundown buildings and car junkyards for cool textures like these and then passing them on to you guys. Hopefully you find them useful in one way or another. Enjoy! Preview 
About The Author: Caleb Kimbrough is the man behind LostAndTaken.com, a blog solely … [Link]
Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials
Free Ticket to FITC San Francisco
I have a free FITC San Francisco to give away. To get it: you just need to enter a comment in this post before August 6, 2010 and the winner will be selected randomly. The event will take place in San Francisco between Aug 17th to 19th. If you are getting the tickets, use coupon code "wdwluv" to get 10% … [Link]
Interview With ZURB
For those of you who been reading my blog should be familiar with ZURB. They are the guys who created those fantastic web apps — Bounce, Notable, and Verify. If you read online tutorials a lot, you may have probably stumbled upon their Playground before where they post various CSS and Javascript tutorials. Today, I’m happy to have ZURB here … [Link]
What Do You Think About Flash Now? Comment and Win
Some people hate it, some people love it, but undoubtedly it is preferred in a wide variety of situations, from banners and online videos to rich internet applications. I’m talking about Flash of course. Take the comic strip below as an example. It was animated with BannerSnack and output as a SWF file. Click to play it. [Link]
Webdesigner Depot
Exploring Photoshop’s Angle Gradient Tool
The angle gradient tool is an overlooked gem tucked away in Photoshop’s toolbar. Often passed over for its more popular sibling, the linear gradient tool, angle gradients create clockwise blends of color around the point a user clicks. The angle gradients create clockwise blends of color around the point a user clicks. Most people stop there. But when combined with … [Link]
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jul 18-Jul 25, 2010
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 #35
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, … [Link]
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Seven Must-See Web Design Videos and Presentations
© Louis Lazaris for Smashing Magazine, 2010. | Permalink | 13 comments | Add to del.icio.us | Digg this | Stumble on StumbleUpon! | Tweet it! | Submit to Reddit | Forum Smashing Magazine Post tags: presentations, tools, Workflow [Link]
How To Successfully Educate Your Clients On Web Development
© Aurimas Adomavicius for Smashing Magazine, 2010. | Permalink | 91 comments | Add to del.icio.us | Digg this | Stumble on StumbleUpon! | Tweet it! | Submit to Reddit | Forum Smashing Magazine Post tags: clients, communication, education [Link]
Showcase Of Web Design In The Netherlands
© Edgar Leijs for Smashing Magazine, 2010. | Permalink | 88 comments | Add to del.icio.us | Digg this | Stumble on StumbleUpon! | Tweet it! | Submit to Reddit | Forum Smashing Magazine Post tags: netherlands, showcases [Link]
Six Revisions
Free Social Media Icons: Tricons
In the pack, you will find 12 triangular wooden icons of popular social media sites released exclusively on Six Revisions. I wanted to create my first set of icons that were unusual from the rest of the other social media icons, yet still followed a particular popular design element: wood. Each icon comes in 3 sizes (32px, 48px and 75px) … [Link]
Are You a True Photoshopper? Take This Quiz!
SnackTools, a suite of rich internet applications for creating web content, has a Facebook quiz that tests your knowledge of Photoshop. By taking the quiz, you could be awarded with licenses for up to 10 months depending on how well you score! How It Works SnackTools is giving away 10,000 BannerSnack licenses. You can win licenses for up to 10 … [Link]
How to Write an Amazing Article
Writing and design have always been two passions of mine. When someone first approached me with a writing opportunity for their blog, I was shocked. It hadn’t crossed my mind for a moment that the two could be brought together harmoniously. I still remember writing that article and building my first brainstorm of topics. I found myself asking, "What makes … [Link]
Vandelay Design Blog
Showcase of 30 Beautiful Blog Designs
It’s been a while since we did our last blog design showcase, so this post is a collection of 30 beautiful blogs for your design inspiration. You’ll see some that use a minimalist design approach, others that use a grunge-style design, some that are magazine-style, and more. For more blog design inspiration, please see our gallery site Blog Design Heroes. … [Link]
Comment to Win a One-Year Membership to MediaLoot!
Earlier today a new membership-based site, MediaLoot was launched. It is an online toolbox of premium design resources, and they have kindly offered to give five readers of the Vandelay Design blog a one-year membership to the site for free! 
MediaLoot is a project of Jon Phillips of Spyre Studios and Mason Hipp of Freelance Folder. Members of MediaLoot are … [Link]
21 Resources Especially for Lovers of Minimalism
Minimalism a popular style of design because it keeps things simple and user-friendly. In this post we’ll look at more than 20 websites, blogs and books dedicated to minimalism. Not all of them are related to web design – minimalism can also be applied to other aspects of business and life. Minimal Design Showcases: If you want to find great … [Link]
Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #36
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#36 and make sure to comeback for more next week. Click here to view all Friday … [Link]
Video of the Week #53
This stop motion video by the guys over at I Love Local Commercials is incredible. Enough said. Rhett & Link never cease to amaze me with their creativity, and they did it again with this one. Head on over to their personal site for more good stuff, and share your thoughts with me via twitter! About the authorI am Amanda … [Link]
Inspiring Photographs by Caitlin Worthington
Caitlin Worthington, aka mumbojumbo89 at deviantART has some pretty good and inspiring images at her galleries! She does exactly the kind of photos I love… simple scenes, great expressions and amazing colors! For me, combining those elements you will have really good shots. And as you will be able to see here, this exactly the case of Caitlin Worthington's photographs. … [Link]
You the Designer
37 New 3D Typography Effects
Typography has always been a fundamental aspect of design, but many designers are now making type the centerpiece of their designs. Not only is typography becoming the design, but type is being pushed to the limits by being used in cool new ways such as 3D typography. Designers have been dabbling in 3d typography effects for a while, so here are … [Link]
29 Exquisite New Photoshop Examples
Photoshop gurus never seem to stop working, because every day I run across dozens and dozens of exquisite new Adobe Photoshop design examples. A lot of designers get stuck with doing corporate style designs and a great way to vent your pent up creative energy is to work on some creative Photoshop designs. Looking at these Photoshop examples can be really … [Link]
18 New Design Freebies
Giving away freebies has become a design blog community standard, so we have rounded up a ton of great new free icon sets, brushes and more for you hungry designers. Today’s freebies include: free website icons, new RSS icons, a smoke brush set, a new e-commerce icon pack and much, much more! New Design Freebies – Free Icon Sets, Brush Packs … [Link]
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