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Its 50 Deadly Tron Grids. 10 hot pink fingernail painted handfuls of 80’s new wave graphic design ready for your greedy hard drives.
Use them to:
1. Spice up your family memories.
2. Make your art more technological.
3. Stop being uncool.
4. Bring on the singularity.
5. Make unicorns…
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Abstract firewall background, created with Photoshop using motion blur effects and gradients, in a shiny red and yellow colors. A nice background and texture in a high resolution for presentations and other web and graphic design projects.
Check a similar hi-res artwork – flame background.
Resolution: 5000×3750 px
Large preview…
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Happy Friday everyone. Hope the weather around you is as beautiful as it is here! Hopefully I’ll get outside once or twice this weekend :) So today, as usual on Friday, I’ve got a bunch of cool, useful graphic design/web design resources from Twitter over the past week. A bit…
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I used to get so worked up when preparing for a long trip. This feeling of a thousand pounds would start to weigh on me as I thought about what I needed to pack and how much of it I needed to take with me. Do you ever feel like…
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19 March, 2010Wavy Blue Background Vector Graphic
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Given that one of the most important things any designer can do, is to always be learning, we thought we would take a look through a few free Ebooks to suggest them to our readers. (It is important to note, that none of the publishers or authors asked us to…
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This simple black square icons signs set includes a wide assortment of health and hazard signs (radiation, biohazard, no smoking, recycle, hospital, Rx … Etc) as well as road and railroad signs (stop, don’t walk, no parking, detour, keep right, traffic light, railroad crossing … Etc).
Click Here to Browse…
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The latest installment of the HMRC’s Start Up Diaries is now available to view online, offering freelancers, contractors and small business owners a unique insider’s view into setting up and running a new business.
The new episode, ‘one year on’, features three entrepreneurs the HMRC has been following and they…
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Red speedometer icon created with Photoshop. Modern design, round black metal frame, red background and yellow pointer, with a glossy finish.
Resolution: 1280×1024 px
Full size – JPG preview: Red speedometer icon
File Size: 1,50 MB
Format: PSD
Color theme: black, red, yellow
Keywords: automotive sport web icon, sport car…
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This worn cloth icons animals set includes a wide assortment of animals (dogs and cats, bears, birds, butterflies, camels, cows, deer, elephants, giraffes, lions, monkeys, penguins, rabbits, seals, snakes, spiders, turtles … Etc) as well as eagles and other birds, various types of fish, cartoon critters from ants to lady…
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This is part 4 of the Design Toolbox Series where I interview top designers about what tools they use to help them create their art. This series was largely inspired by Grace Smith’s “Show Me Your Dock Series.” It’s my hope that you can gain insight into what other designer’s…
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WordPress is a popular blogging engine and CMS in part because of the active community of users and the vast resources that are available. There are thousands of plugin developers that have worked to extend the possibilities of WordPress, and these plugins can provide plenty of opportunities for you to…
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Sitepoint is known to consistently release amazing books.
Their latest book, “jQuery: Novice to Ninja”, covers jQuery, one of the most powerful JavaScript frameworks.
The exciting new 390-page book is perfect for any jQuery user, regardless of whether you’re a beginner, advanced, or somewhere in-between.
WDD has once again partnered with Sitepoint…
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This 3d glossy orange orbs icons signs set includes a wide assortment of health and hazard signs (radiation, biohazard, no smoking, recycle, hospital, Rx … Etc) as well as road and railroad signs (stop, don’t walk, no parking, detour, keep right, traffic light, railroad crossing … Etc).
Click Here to…
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This PSD file has a urban grunge feel to it. The idea behind this design was to create a silhouette city with some spray paint splatters so you can easily incorporate other elements and make it your own. There are over 30 layers at 3000 x 1955 pixels – 300…
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The best innovations are the ones that make you think “Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before?” Rarely in life do you stumble across these types of innovations, and when you do, you can’t help but share them with the world.
I stumbled across one of these the other day,…
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Bright Apple wallpaper for your desktop. Modern looking theme, white background with a light gray shades and a big Apple logo centered.
Resolutions (px): 1024×768, 1280×720, 1280×800, 1280×960, 1280×1024, 1366×768, 1440×900, 1600×900, 1600×1200, 1680×1050, 1920×1080, 1920×1200
Size: 66 to 150 KB / wallpaper
Format: JPG
Color theme: white, gray, blue…
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This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will…
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We are beginning a new series here on Arbenting for our readers where we take things back to basics, and this post on the WordPress Loop is the first in that Design 101 series. We hope that it is helpful to both beginners and even established pros who are looking…
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Brand new pack called SMOKEY – fire brushes for Photoshop. This HUGE pack contains 50 brushes compatible with PS 7 and up!
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This simple red square icons natural wonders set includes a wide assortment of icons from nature (flowers, roses, houseplants, palm trees, pine trees, rain clouds, rain drops, the moon, the sun, a few planets, and lots of stars … Etc).
Click Here to Browse this icon set. Click on a…
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A new productivity suite of Microsoft windows is soon to be fully launched for everyone who uses computers, it will be a successor of Microsoft Office 2007. Yes, it is Microsoft Office 2010 and this time it will be free to use and a web based application. Microsoft has somehow assured…
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Today I’ve got something that should be pretty useful to all of you. I know it is to me :) Alex Mathers, of the Red Lemon Club, recently launched a new E-Book called "10 Steps to Powerful Online Self Promotion for Creatives." As they put it, it is "An in…
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Razor blade isolated on white background. Blank, silver metal with my brushed metal texture, a great conceptual graphic. Download PSD file to change the color, or add your logo and text on it.
Resolution: 1280×1024 px
Full size – JPG preview: Razor blade on white
File Size: 1,80 MB
Format:…
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Radiant Brush Set – Vector Fractal Brush Pack
PS Version: CS3
Rules:
- You may use these brushes for Personal use, credit is appreciated.
- You may NOT use these brushes for Commercial use without my permission. Contact me if needed.
http://shiftyj.deviantart.com/
Enjoy Brushing!
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Five email icons set – an empty open letter, letter with Polaroid images, closed letter, incoming and outgoing letters. White envelope icons isolated on white, with shadow. Created with Photoshop, download PSD file.
Resolution: 1280×1024 px
Full size – JPG previews:
You have got email icon
No new messages icon…
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Hello all. Hope your week went well. I think I’m finally catching up from my week off! So that’s good. :) As always, today’s links are a mixup of graphic/web design related articles, inspiration, and freebies from the past week. Enjoy!
RT @IndusLogic Amazing Super Street Fighter 4 Artwork…