Outlaw Design Blog
Episode 21 – The Importance of Interface Design
We all know that slick interface designs are pretty to look at. Personally, I ogle over them like the centerfold in a mens magazine. Is that weird? The more sleek and intuitive the design, the more I am drawn to it. Obviously, one of the results of good interface design is usability. Give me an app that looks pretty and … [Link]
Episode 20 – Staying Organized as a Freelancer
I try so hard to stay organized on a daily basis. Keeping all my ducks in a row is what allows me to juggle way more projects than the typical freelancer. Despite all my efforts to keep my inbox clean, schedule calls ahead of time, run everything through my project management app, and other organizational methods; it seems like it … [Link]
A Preview of Things to Come
As many of you may have noticed, I haven’t had a chance to update Outlaw Design Blog in some time and it has really been bothering me. I would like to apologize for this lack of work on my part. As some of you regulars may know, I recently got married, am buying a house, and having a baby soon. … [Link]
BittBox
Free Texture Tuesday: Scraped Grunge
The other day I was wandering around some back allies in my town and came across all of these cool poles that had been painted and scraped and repainted over and over again. I thought it gave these grunge textures a very cool feel, almost like an abstract acrylic painting or something. I’ve got all kinds of cool textures coming your … [Link]
Vector Pack Winners!
Congratulations to Trevor C, Rommel Miraflores, and Jess. They were the 3 lucky winners of a free Floral Mega Pack of vectors from Designious.com. I’d like to take a second and give a special thanks to Alex, from Designious. In the past 1-2 years, he has generously donated hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars worth of vectors to the BittBox readership. … [Link]
Free Texture Tuesday: Rust 3
I wandered around town today for a few hours and shot over 600 new textures and some of my favorites from the batch are the rusty ones. Rust textures work really well when you want to add a good chunk of grunge to your designs or photos. I tried to include a nice variety in today’s post… I hope you get … [Link]
Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials
30 Free Fonts For Creative Projects
Guest Post by Fonts2U We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Fonts2U. Enjoy! [Link]
Update: InMotion Hosting Winners
Thanks to everyone who has participated the hosting giveaway contest. InMotion Hosting would like to thank you by doubling the prizes. As a result, six winners will be getting a free one-year hosting account. The winners are: 56, 71, 103, 192, 198, and 244 (winners will be contacted by InMotion). For those who didn’t win, InMotion is also offering a … [Link]
The Basics of CSS3
Last week I posted a CSS3 dropdown menu and someone complained that I didn’t explain the CSS code in detail. Well, here is a post on the basics of the new properties: text-shadow, box-shadow, and border-radius. These CSS3 properties are commonly used to enhance layout and good to know. [Link]
Graphic Design | Web Design | UK Forums
Hello
Wow, its been a while, but I've finally bit the bullet and signed up here. I'm a Graphic Design graduate who has been running around trying lots of new things for the last 4 years, but now I'm keen to get back into design on a more intensive basis. I hope to get in contact with other designers, collaborate, share … [Link]
Need help identifying this
I recognise this font but can't for the life of me remember the name, can any one help a senile old duffer out there? Attached Images 
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Questionnaire, 3 mins. Please help me with this!
Hi Guys, I am currently writing a dissertation concerning Graphic Design in Advertising aimed at Children. It is for my honors degree in multimedia. As part of my research, I have constructed a questionnaire aimed specifically at Graphic Designers. I would be very grateful if you could take 3 minutes of your time to fill it out. It would be … [Link]
Web Design Ledger
10 Useful Website Analytics Tools
When you start a website, no matter if you have chosen a top business hosting package or a cheap website hosting package, you will find various website analysis tools in your web hosting admin panel. Website analysis tools, such as Awstats, are typically included in both business hosting and cheap website hosting packages and these tools are indeed good. However, … [Link]
Top 8 Dreaded Favors Asked of Web Designers
Long before you officially take the profession of graphic or web designer, your friends and family will support your ambitions by developing your talent. At first, your loved ones inspect your work and if they like what they see, you’ll get flooded with their requests for one page flyers, t-shirt designs, logos, and company websites. When you are just starting … [Link]
50 Inspiring Textured Web Designs
After showing you A Showcase of Clean White Web Designs a couple weeks ago, it’s time for us to add some textured designs to our lists. Textures are a great way to give a special touch to a website. They can be used in a specific part of the layout – the header/footer, for example, or they can be used … [Link]
Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver
Fantastic City Lights at Night Photography
There are some fantastic photos featuring city lights that I see when looking through photo compilations. So I decided to put together a gallery of some amazing inspirational photography featuring city lights at night. Some of these are amazing! Let me know what one is your favorite. Also, if you know of any other photos that you think would be … [Link]
1000 Business Cards to Giveaway!
Attention all WebDesignDev readers. We are holding yet another free giveaway. This time we are giving out 1000 free business cards on behalf of NextDayFlyers.com. Entering the contest is very simple. Just leave a comment to this post, saying what you will use the business card’s for. Post Image credit to Chris Fisher. A very creative Business Card! Who are … [Link]
The Best of Blog Comment Designs
This is a follow up of our post from back in October titled “24 Wonderful But Different Blog Comment Form Designs“. This time, we are showcasing the best of blog comment designs. Some comment layouts may be threaded, and some aren’t, but they all look great. Let me know what comment design / style you like the best. I think … [Link]
PhotoshopDisasters
Don McKay: I'm Stumpy, The Janitor
“Oh look, there's one of my feet."Thanks to Jorge! Original is here! 
Rock It: Amputation Was A Joint Decision
I guess Lebe Deinen Traum means Fatal Leg Trauma in German.Thanks to Maren! Bigger version here! 
The Librarian: Shhhhhhhh!
Oh Good Lord, what on earth did we do to deserve this? Noah, you should be ashamed of yourself.Thanks to Daniel! 
Line25
Line25 Sites of the Week for March 5th 2010
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Droplr, Mix Online, Yaron Schoen, Traffik and The Hair Foundation. Droplr 
View the website Mix Online 
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View the website The Hair Foundation 
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Top 5 Web Design Debates That Cause the Most Riots
The world that surrounds the topic of Web Design is home to many debates and opinions on best practices or generally how things should and shouldn’t be done. While many of these opinions are accepted and taken on board by everyone, there are some that end up being split into two opposing camps. One camp will provide an expert opinion … [Link]
Line25 Sites of the Week for February 26th 2010
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Suki, idsgn, Finger, Digital Visions and Tapparatus. Suki 
View the website idsgn 
View the website Finger 
View the website Digital Visions 
View the website Tapparatus 
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Blog.SpoonGraphics
This Week’s Favourites – February 19th 2010
In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a great tutorial covering the process of creating an abstract poster design; a rare tutorial topic showing you how to block a printed poster; some super useful hints and tips for Photoshop; an excellent icon design tutorial; and a roundup of cool curvy brush script fonts for reference. Tutorial9 
This great … [Link]
10 Copies of The Smashing Book Available to Members
Last year I was invited to participate as an author in the development of The Smashing Book, the long awaited publication from the giant that is Smashing Magazine. Vitaly, Sven and team have kindly sent over a stack of copies to give away exclusively to Blog.SpoonGraphics members. The book contains … This content is for Access All Areas members only … [Link]
How to Build a Custom Wordpress Theme from Scratch
If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various Wordpress theme files, … [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]
Vandelay Design Blog
Free Set of Office Icons by IconShock
Our friends at IconShock have designed another set of free icons for readers of Vandelay Design. IconShock designs high quality icon sets and in recent months they have provided the design community with a lot of great, free icons. This set includes five icons of typical office items. The icons are free for personal or commercial purposes, and they are … [Link]
Win Free Die Cut Business Cards from UPrinting!
Our friends at UPrinting have offered to give 500 free die cut business cards each to five readers of the Vandelay Design blog! If you’ve been wanting to impress potential clients with some high-quality business cards, this is your chance to get them for free. 
If you’re not familiar with UPrinting, they are a leading online printing company that offers … [Link]
25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs
E-Commerce sites are often considered to be boring and unattractive, however, that is not always the case. This post showcases 25 e-commerce sites that demonstrate creativity in the design. It may be the layout, graphics, design style or site structure, but all of them break the mould of the typical e-commerce site. For more inspiration from e-commerce sites, see our … [Link]
Webdesigner Depot
Winners of “Fluid Web Typography”
Last week we run a great contest here on WDD to give away 5 free copies of the book “Fluid Web Typography” …and today we have the results! Congratulations to all 5 winners: Christopher Barnes (#392), Claudiu (#145), Tutorial City (#403), Austin (#113) and Patricia (#346). Each of you have won a free copy of this excellent web typography book written … [Link]
Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 24-Jan 30, 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 #10
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]
Inspiredology
Friday Fix Dec 21 – 25
The Friday Fix is a weekly recap of all things inspiring. We look at new followers, web articles, awesome new websites and anything else design related. This Week’s Winners of the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! Hope everyone has been enjoying the 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway! We are announcing the winners from Day 7 to Day 11! Day 7 … [Link]
Day 12: 12 days of Christmas giveaways 2009
Day 12 Prizes to be won!! The 12 days of Christmas giveaways has come to an end, we would like to thank all of you for participating, it has been a lot of fun. We would also like to thank Spinning Hat for their generous gifts. The company has some fantastic creative ideas, and we look forward to working with … [Link]
Day 11: 12 days of Christmas giveaways 2009
Day 11 Prizes to be won!! Today we Tie a Noose, and give you Curling, Canada’s fastest game on ice!! How to Win Leave a comment telling us; “What ONE thing you would like to see from Inspiredology in 2010?”. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and follow us on twitter (@chadmueller, @dertmobile ) to stay up to … [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]
Just Creative Design
Six Revisions
Fuel Your Creativity
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