Graphic Design

WebDesignDev » 20 Best Pixel Fonts / Bitmap Fonts

Friday 7 April 15:10:18 UTC 2017

Looking for bitmap fonts with pixel-perfect designs? Then you’re in the right place. These bitmap fonts are composed or lots of pixels, positioned on a grid layout. This article contains 20 stunning examples of 8-bit typography with remarkable designs. These pixel fonts will look amazing on various projects, whether they are websites, mobile applications, or prints. These bitmap fonts can … [Link]

Line25.com » 20 Church WordPress Themes for Religious and Spiritual Websites

Friday 7 April 15:03:10 UTC 2017

This article contains 20 church WordPress themes for religious and spiritual websites. These templates were specially created for churches, non-profit organizations, parishes, charity organizations, and similar types of websites. They have a warm and welcoming design with user-friendly characteristics. Besides their peaceful style, these templates have strong and powerful features that will make your website stand out from the rest … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Poll: Is Google’s Mobile Developer Certification Worthwhile?

Friday 7 April 13:45:56 UTC 2017

In keeping with Google’s tendency to always debut new initiatives for developers, the latest in the company’s plan is its new mobile certification for web developers. Recently launched, this program is essentially an accreditation from Google to mobile developers, confirming that they’re skilled at mobile site creation. You can access the certification program here. To attain certification, you’ll have to … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Video Tutorial: Fun Vector Monster Face in Adobe Illustrator

Friday 7 April 8:47:06 UTC 2017

In today’s Adobe Illustrator tutorial we’re going to combine simple shapes with colourful gradients to create a fun cartoon style monster face. We’ll just concentrate on creating the main facial features which emerge from the background in this tutorial, but you can use the same techniques to illustrate almost anything. Keeping things simple not only helps make this tutorial good … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » 12 Free Wax Crayon Effect Brushes for Adobe Illustrator

Friday 7 April 8:47:05 UTC 2017

I have a new set of free Illustrator resources for you to download today. I borrowed some of my daughter’s wax crayons to make a series of brushes that help you create hand drawn effects within your illustrations. There’s 12 in total, 3 of which are solid, whilst the others feature two colour shades that retain some of the detail … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Mark-It Handwriting Font for Access All Areas Members

Friday 7 April 8:47:04 UTC 2017

Access All Areas members have a great new font to download this week, courtesy of Justin Tordella from Texture Club. During his 15 years as a professional Graphic Designer, Justin has created many high profile designs for the music industry. During this time he has been regularly asked what font he used within his artwork, which often referred to typography … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » A Diverse Arsenal of Vector Resources You Can Rely Upon for $29

Friday 7 April 8:47:03 UTC 2017

Time is money for a designer, so equipping yourself with the right library of tools ensures you can hit the ground running on any creative project. This new bundle of vector resources brings you an incredibly varied, endlessly versatile collection of professional grade vectors that will equip you for any project that comes your way. Whether you’re working on a … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Three Ways to Add Textures to Vintage Logos & Type Designs

Friday 7 April 8:47:02 UTC 2017

Textures are a common addition to vintage style logo designs and type designs. Designers use them to mimic the aesthetics of old prints and handmade art to give their digital artwork more of a tactile appearance. There’s a number of techniques that can be used to apply textures to your designs in Adobe Photoshop, using built-in filters and effects, or … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » 100 Travel Lightroom Presets for Access All Areas Members

Friday 7 April 8:47:01 UTC 2017

Access All Areas members have a huge collection of photo effects for Adobe Lightroom to download today, courtesy of Loaded Landscapes. These Travel Lightroom Presets have been created especially for travel photos, and with a collection of 100 presets at your disposal you will have a great variety of effects and looks that you can create instantly. Save time by … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Video Tutorial: Surreal Collage Style Artwork in Photoshop

Friday 7 April 8:47:00 UTC 2017

Today’s we’re going to have loads of fun creating an abstract—and quite surreal—collage style piece of artwork in Adobe Photoshop. This kind of art style has been popular for years, although originally it would have been made using traditional photomontage techniques with photographs, magazine images and newspaper clippings, all cut apart and reassembled using scissors, glue and photocopiers. These days … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » 35 Scenic Landscape Illustrations with Vibrant Colors

Friday 7 April 8:46:59 UTC 2017

Landscape scenes have been a popular subject for illustrators for some time now. They’re often associated with game development art, or just personal experimentations that provide that same wanderlust feeling as exploring the great outdoors for real. Vector illustrations that feature crisp lines and simplified shapes are common styles, whilst others make use of textures and digital painting techniques. Prevalent … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Geometric Hearts Patterns for Access All Areas Members

Friday 7 April 8:46:58 UTC 2017

Access All Areas members have a lovely collection of seamless patterns to download this week, courtesy of Irene Demetri from Youandigraphics. These beautiful heart patterns make ideal backgrounds for Valentine’s Day projects, wedding invitations, greeting cards, Christmas cards, fashion projects, websites and so much more! Each one is a group of abstract geometric graphics that resemble heart shapes, available in … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » TopClass Responsive HTML5 Template for Premium Members

Friday 7 April 7:30:00 UTC 2017

Access All Areas members have a complete HTML5 website template to download this week, courtesy of Akbar Hossain from Jewel Theme. TopClass is a multipurpose, fully responsive template made with Bootstrap3.2.0, HTML5 and CSS3, incorporating a range of jQuery & CSS3 visual effects. The template includes an array of page layouts, each with three colour variations that help you build … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Interaction Design & UI/UX: Fit Me. Personal Fitness Coach

Friday 7 April 4:34:54 UTC 2017

Interaction Design & UI/UX: Fit Me. Personal Fitness Coach AoiroStudio Apr 07, 2017 We are looking at the interaction design of a personal fitness coach mobile app named: FitMe. Designed by Catherine Wang, what's totally selling me to her concept is for starters the colour palette that is keeping people motivated with a sparking red as the main colour. You'll … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Architecture: Inside the Dropbox Offices in Sydney

Friday 7 April 3:57:05 UTC 2017

Architecture: Inside the Dropbox Offices in Sydney AoiroStudio Apr 07, 2017 For this week's architecture, we are traveling to Sydney, Australia inside the offices of Dropbox. With a concept of creating a workplace as home, Dropbox worked with Gensler who is an agency based in San Francisco, California. I really love the ceiling with these clean lines with that touch … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Design Inspiration

Friday 7 April 2:46:29 UTC 2017

Daily Design Inspiration AoiroStudio Apr 07, 2017 Part of the Daily Design Inspiration series that started it all on Abduzeedo. This is where you'll find the most interesting things/finds/work curated by one of us to simply inspire your day. Furthermore, it's an opportunity to feature work from more designers, photographers, and artists in general that we haven't had the chance … [Link]

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