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10 New T-shirt Designs to Die For from Designious.com!

adriana — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:56:37 +0000

Designious.com just launched a collection of 10 brand new awesome t-shirt designs! Our artists have created 10 masterpieces that will make your t-shirt look amazing! Prepare to be astonished by the level of details in these designs, the cool concepts and the beautiful elements. Check out the previews of the new t-shirt designs:

T-shirt design 380 – Engraved Flower

T-shirt design 381 – Engraved Angels

T-shirt design 382 – Engraved Raven

T-shirt design 383 – Vintage Roses

T-shirt design 384 – Vintage Lion

T-shirt design 385 – Vintage Dragon

T-shirt design 386 – Vintage Angel

T-shirt design 387 – ...

Giveaway – 3 Sets of 500 Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

adriana — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:49:54 +0000

Courtesy of the nice people from Next Day Flyers, Pixel77 brings you a neat giveaway with 3 sets of 500 business cards for 3 lucky winners! So if you were planning on making a set a business cards, you ran out or simply want to get new ones, this is your chance!

Next Day Flyers is an online printer offering an array of marketing solutions including business card printing, flyers, event tickets and more. They are an industry leader in terms of both quality and price. A strict quality control process includes 33 check points to make sure the ...

Geek Mascots Vector Set 1, Stickers Vector Set 1 and Freebie – Fresh Goodies on Designtnt.com!

adriana — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:14:07 +0000

Designtnt.com just launched some fresh and cool design resources! They’ve create the most funny mascot set ever! You can combine the body with different types of hair, eyes and mouths to create tons of geeky little boys, they are so goofy looking! Along with this one, they’ve created another set of 40 vector stickers, which you can use in tons of projects. The cherry on the cake is the Free Brushes Tribal Set they are giving away! Check them out!

Geek Mascots Vector Set 1

This set contains a geek mascot builder with tons of possible combinations. The file ...

The Influence of Japanese Culture in Graphic Design

adriana — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:22:43 +0000

Japanese culture is fascinating for all of us because it’s so different. Along the decades, many have tried to copy various features from it. Just think about the painted ceramic dishes, or the kimono dress, the Japanese umbrella, the lovely flower pattern designs and so much more. Japanese art, for example, covers a wide range of art styles: sculpture in bronze and wood, ancient pottery, ink painting on silk fabrics and on paper and most recently, Japanese art also covers art styles such as manga, cartoons and other contemporary types of artwork.

The preferred artistic expression in Japan is the ...

How to Use Seamless Patterns to Create Fascinating Designs

adriana — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:32:12 +0000

Seamless patterns have been used since ages on fabrics and on wall papers. We think that there are so many ways in which you can use this beautiful feature in creating amazing designs. I’ve made a list of absolutely beautiful pattern designs so that you can get your vector resources, then it’s up to you what to do with them! We will also give you below some ideas on how you can use your seamless pattern!

Seamless Pattern Designs – Resources Seamless Patterns Vector Pack 38

Seamless Patterns Vector Pack 36

Seamless Patterns Vector Pack 35

Seamless Patterns Vector Pack ...

Hot New Design Goodies: Metal Graphic Style, Simple Web Pattern Backgrounds & Textures and Freebie

adriana — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:23:06 +0000

This week Designtnt.com has some new and awesome design resources for you guys! Ease your work by using our Metal Graphic Style add-on and create stylish designs with the Simple Web Pattern Backgrounds & Textures. This is high quality stuff that will help you be more efficient with your time so be sure to get your hands on them!

Check out the previews of our new and premium design resources: Metal Graphic Style

This set contains 3 metallic graphic styles you can use on fonts and shapes. Use the rusty, galvanized or bloody effect on any type of text ...

How to Use Vector Skulls to Create Jaw Dropping Illustrations

adriana — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:42:08 +0000

Imagine you are in a fashion store and you see all of those clothes standing on hangers waiting to be bought. You see shirts, with short sleeves, long sleeves, short and long pants, dresses, coats, colorful and black or white clothes, scarves, hats and a lot of stuff that, individually taken, don’t impress you that much. Now imagine you have a fashion adviser with you, he hand picks the clothes and the accessories and creates a fabulous outfit for you! When you come out of the fitting room, you won’t believe how great you look and you admit that every ...

Giveaway – Win 5 Scary Halloween Vector Masks!

adriana — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:26:06 +0000

We’ve prepared a spooky treat for you guys this Halloween! We know you like to have fun, you like to party and to make the most out of every holiday. That’s why we’ve created 5 awesome Halloween Vector Masks to use if you’re throwing a party, if you or your kids are going trick-or-treating or simply to have fun with your friends or to use on your designs!

All 5 Halloween vector masks are high quality work as they are created in house by one of our talented artists. All you have to do is: adjust their size (if you ...

New Floral, Scrolls, Shields Vector Packs & Freebie from Designious.com!

adriana — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:47:31 +0000

Designious.com is back with more vector goodies! We just released 3 new beautiful floral vector packs, a shields vector pack and a fresh scrolls pack, as well as an awesome free sample from Vintage Mega Pack 13!

These new vector resources are just the thing you need to create beautiful posters, illustrations, postcards, business cards and so much more! Moreover, all the vector packs are top notch quality, designed in house by our talented artists. You want to save some time on your design projects? Then you’ve come to the right place! Check out the previews of the new ...

Fresh Goodies on Designtnt.com: Simplio Business Theme html Template & Photoshop Pencil Drawing Action

adriana — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:14:10 +0000

Designtnt.com brings you a brand new html template called Simplio Business html and a cool Photoshop Pencil Drawing Action which I’m sure you will all love to get your hands on! These are some pretty awesome resources that will help you save precious time with your projects. Check out the previews below:

Simplio Business html

Simplio is a clean, simple HTML template, which uses latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques. The template has 11 pages in with 5 color presets. It suits perfectly a corporate/business website, portfolio or blog. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Photoshop Pencil Drawing Action

This action ...

My Reading List – Typography & Composition Books

adriana — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:40:35 +0000

Many of you might say: “Why do I need to read a book about typography when I can find everything I need to know on the Internet?”. Well, from my experience, I can assure you that you won’t get all the valuable info you need online. There is also the question of disseminating the correct and useful information from the inaccurate or incomplete one. And frankly, you can find tons on information on typography online, but at one point you might get overwhelmed and you won’t know how to structure it properly so that you can use it later ...

10 Mind Blowing New T-shirt Designs from Designious.com!

adriana — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:16:28 +0000

Our artists created 10 of the most cool t-shirt designs you have ever seen! We’re talking about serious skills, crazy lines, extreme grunge, complex design, hardcore overall look and fabulous concepts! You just have to see this for yourself!

T-shirt design 370 – Zombie Maid

T-shirt design 371 – Samurai Helm

T-shirt design 372 – Zombie Head

T-shirt design 373 – Steampunk Helmet

T-shirt design 374 – Armored Unicorns

T-shirt design 375 – Old Puppet

T-shirt design 376 – Reinforced Skull

T-shirt design 377 – Tangled Wires

T-shirt design 378 – Necromancer

T-shirt design 379 – Steampunk Heart

Which is ...

Some of The World’s Iconic Logo Designers

adriana — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:12:32 +0000

We all have a role model, someone we look up to, we admire and we try to live up to. In graphic design, there were people that had a huge impact on the streamline of this beautiful industry. I want to share with you today some of the biggest names in logo design and don’t skip this opportunity of reading about them and seeing their works, you might even learn a few useful things from these pioneers.

Saul Bass

Saul Bass (May 8th 1920 – April 25th 1996) was a famous graphic designer and also an Academy Award filmmaker, being ...

How to Create a Timeless Logo Design for Your Client

adriana — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:24:36 +0000

The importance of brand identity

Every company in this world needs brand identity design! If you look around you, there are logos everywhere: from the moment you wake up and wash your teeth you have the tooth paste logo, the floss logo, the coffee maker logo, the fridge logo and so on. So why is branding important? Did it ever happen to you to buy something based on your perceived value of that product rather than its actual value? It’s all about the right branding and how to create the perceived value we want for a product.

If you see ...

Awesome Design Resources from Designtnt.com: PSD Web Sliders, Vector Doctors Set and Free PS reflection action

adriana — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:21:46 +0000

We have some really useful news for you guys vis Designtnt.com! They just released an absolutely mind blowing set of sliders, vector doctor mascots and a free Photoshop reflection action you just can’t live without! All of these new items are brand new, high quality design resources that every designer should have!

Check out the previews and some extra details about the new products:

Web sliders PSD kit

This set contains 14 high quality sliders that will make your website look amazing! These elements are just the thing you need to add some extra value to the images on ...

Do you have what it takes to be a great graphic designer?

adriana — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:23:07 +0000

Becoming a graphic designer is achievable, becoming a great graphic designer is a challenge. This is a job that most people run after because it gives you a great satisfaction, both personally and materially. To become a great or even a good graphic designer it’s not enough to know how to draw and use some computer software – it’s so much more than that!

Image source

I’d like to talk today about what it takes to be a great graphic designer from a couple of points of view: a young newbie making it’s way in the business, someone looking for ...

Design Goodies & Freebie: Vector Calligraphic Ornaments, Paper Curls and Vector Mascots from Designtnt.com!

adriana — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:37:28 +0000

Designtnt.com is just the place to go if you need some high quality design goodies, from vectors, web design resources, textures, PS & AI addons, brushes to premium tutorials – you can find it all here! This week they just released a magnificent set of 69 detailed vector calligraphic ornaments – rules, corners, frames and borders, a set of 3 high-resolution paper curls and a FREE vector mascots sample!

Check out the previews of the fresh and fabulous new design goodies:

Vector calligraphic ornaments

This set contains 69 detailed vector calligraphic ornaments: rules, corners, frames and borders, ready to ...

Take Advantage of Holidays as a Freelance Graphic Designer

adriana — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:06:52 +0000

Get out of the routine

Whenever there’s a holiday coming up I get a bunch of ideas on how to make that day memorable and it always involves doing something creative for my blog or for the people around me. So I go and ask my colleagues to create a nice wallpaper, a calendar, a photo manipulation or whatever I can think of.

As a graphic designer (freelancer or full time employee), all year round you have various projects, some of them give you a great satisfaction and you are really happy with them, but some you do because you ...

Some Morning Inspiration – Fresh & Creative Artworks via Behance

adriana — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:00:19 +0000

Everyday, I like to check Behance and other creative directories for fresh inspiration. I always get new ideas by looking at other artist’s works, whether it’s a color I loved, a font, a concept, an idea, it’s always great to get in there, to feel updated with new and amazing artworks by talented people. It’s really a great exercise to help your imagination run wild and to feel like your a part of something big.

Here are the cool designs that inspired me today, they are all fresh on Behance:

AIGA Cleveland by Mark Nizinski

Silk – Soy Milk by ...

Famous Type Designers – The Origins of Type

adriana — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:00:42 +0000

As a designer, you come across projects that implies using typography and it’s important that you have some basic knowledge about this subject. Sure, there is a lot of information on the Internet about typography, but today I would like to show you a less known part of this art. I want to show you where it came from, go back to the origins of the oldest fonts and to the designers behind them.

Creating a list of important designers when it comes to typographic history would mean writing a whole book about it, but here I want to present ...

Cheep Guevara T-shirt – Pixel Comic Strip #6 by Alan Jones

adriana — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:48:56 +0000

If you missed the previous comic strips called “Pixel”, designed by Alan Jones for Pixel77, here are some things you should know about them:

About Pixel Comic Strip and its creator – Alan Jones

Alan has been drawing Pixel comic strips for a few years, but he didn’t publish them anywhere except his Facebook. Alan is working in the IT world and he always had a fascination with the overlaps between the digital and the real.

Alan creates these funny characters called: Pixel, Al Gore-ithm, Text and Sound File and puts them in a story. If you want to read ...

Awesome new design goodies from Designtnt – WP Theme, Vectors, PS tutorials, Pricing tables & PS brushes!

adriana — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:15:27 +0000

Designtnt.com is THE PLACE for vectors, Photoshop brushes, textures, addons, web design resources, premium PS and AI tutorials that will simply blow you away! This website is like a treasure chest for creative professionals everywhere! They have a fabulous library of design goodies that will help you save precious time with your projects – which they upgrade every week with fresh design resources.

Here are the newest and coolest design goodies on Designtnt.com: Hexagon WordPress Theme

Hexagon is a multipurpose corporate/portfolio/blog theme that can be easily customized and used as a : presentation website, portfolio site or ...

Photoshop Tutorials Roundup – August 2011

adriana — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:00:30 +0000

You may think that everyone was in vacation in the past weeks, but rest assure, there were a lot of busy creatives on the job, creating some mind blowing, useful and interesting tutorials for you to learn from. So if you want to learn some new stuff or enhance your PS skills, here is what these new tuts are about: how to create layouts, light effects, concept posters, typography, blog themes and more.

Design A Trendy Dark Portfolio Layout in Photoshop

Create a Glowing Light Painting Effect

How to Create a Cool Concept-based Poster in Photoshop

Vintage Typography Tutorial using ...

Learn How to Be a Great Copywriter for Your Website

adriana — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 07:00:31 +0000

When your website’s copy has to go across oceans

Today, English happens to be the language used by over 80% websites. So, what do you do if your online business has a global coverage and you need to get yourself understood even to those not native English speakers? Communicate through a limited English!

Here are some suggestions to get through to those who are not native English speakers:

1. Use short sentences. 15 or tops 20 words. Be straight forward, direct sentences are the best. Example:

“Designtnt.com – An explosive collection of design resources!”

2. Use simple sentences....

Dazzling Artworks by Dan Mumford

adriana — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:00:25 +0000

I’ve been meaning to show you guys the work of this amazing guy for a while now, I had it noted on a pink sticky note (and I have a LOT of sticky notes). Usually, when I see an artwork that impresses me, I look up the author and check out his portfolio. This was also the case of artist Dan Mumford.

Dan is a freelance illustrator/designer/screenprinter working out of Studio100 in London and screenprint studio in Dalston.

Working with pencils, pen and Photoshop, Dan takes on anything creatively exciting, whether it’s illustration, design or print based. All of his ...

An Image is Worth 1000 Words – Optimizing Images

adriana — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:46:25 +0000

Great images sell!

The online environment has the characteristic that it’s based on words. But this doesn’t mean that images are not important. Image optimization is a very efficient way of raising conversion rates for your online store, attracting customers and even of content and self-service.

Image source: Vectorious website

I bet this happened to you also: you clicked on an image (you know those images with “Click for more details”) and you ended on a page with only a bigger image and nothing else.And the only way to get out of there was to hit the back button ...

The Secret Ingredients to a Successful Design Team

adriana — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:05:08 +0000

The Path to Performance

Promptitude in solving problems, excellent communication, great professional work training, identifying with the company’s values, taking on responsibilities and creating performance in everything you do are among the secrets that will lead to a successful company team.

Image source Animation Concept via Flickr

Let’s take, for example our case, the design studio where I am working. We are all a team here. The success of our company depends a great deal on the way we collaborate and on the rest of the things mentioned above.

Besides our regular tasks, we all need to work on other ...

10+ Tutorials on How to Use Photoshop Actions

adriana — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:42:16 +0000

For those of you that don’t know, PS actions are a recording of all the tools you used in Photoshop during a period of time. Most people use them to apply the same tool (for example: filters, cropping, rotating and so on) to a large number of images.

Some people might say that you are lazy and you don’t really like to work, so that’s why you use actions. The truth is, a PS action can save you a lot of time, time which you can then use for another task – so you’re being efficient, right? Moreover, nobody likes ...

Pixel Comic Strip #5 by Alan Jones

adriana — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:34:36 +0000

If you missed the previous comic strips called “Pixel”, designed by Alan Jones for Pixel77, here are some things you should know about them:

About Pixel Comic Strip and its creator – Alan Jones

Alan creates these funny characters called: Pixel, Al Gore-ithm, Text and Sound File and puts them in a story. If you want to read ...

Handwritten Fonts – A Touch of Creativity in Your Designs

adriana — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:27:11 +0000

Is handwriting dead?

In this digital era, more and more people don’t even know how to hand write anymore! Handwriting has lost ground to computer generated fonts. I personally like to believe that handwriting is not “dead”! I have an agenda and I write in it everyday and I think that there are still people who use handwriting in everyday life and in design.

I admit that I’m glad that now we can send emails instead of letters and that information can go around much faster than in the days when we didn’t have emails or mobile phones. But that ...

Floral Brushes, Login Forms, Chat Bubbles, PS tut, 270 Icons & Freebie – New on Designtnt.com this week!

adriana — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:20:37 +0000

As a designer, wouldn’t you like to go to a place where you could find all the resources you need for your projects? Well, DesignTNT is just that place! Here you can find addons, brushes, textures, tutorials, vectors and web resources – all in one place and at a very low monthly price!

This week we added again some top notch design resources on Designtnt.com! We took a pledge to add fresh content every week in the DesignTNT library, so here are the new awesome design goodies we added this week:

Floral brushes 2

Enjoy this set of floral ...

First Step in Making Your Ideas Happen – Sketching

adriana — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:03:23 +0000

Having an idea is not enough

We all have tons of ideas. Actually, we get new ideas every day. The problem is that most of us don’t know what to do with them – and a lot of our ideas get lost along the way, we simply forget them.

Having an idea is just not enough. You need to make that idea happen. You need to pick the right idea from 100 ideas, shape it and develop it.

I’ve discovered that the best way to stop losing ideas is to write them down. I personally have an agenda, but you ...

Photoshop Tutorials Roundup – July 2011

adriana — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:59:13 +0000

This month I came across a bunch of useful and interesting Photoshop tutorials on the web. Follow the steps in the tutorials below and you will learn and enhance your skills in combing elements to create a retro poster, to design a spectrum poster, a grunge portfolio layout, to create an awesome chocolate text effect and much more! Enjoy!

Creating a Spectrum Poster Design in Photoshop

Chocolate Bar Text Effect

Create Expressive Space Girl Composition in Photoshop Tutorial

Design a Creative Retro Wallpaper in Photoshop

How to create a literature inspired composition in Photoshop

Music Poster Design in Photoshop

How ...

Generic Freelancer in “Slow Work Day”

adriana — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 16:02:37 +0000

I bet all of you had some rough times with a client at least once in your freelance activity. There seems to be a difficulty in communicating with the client, especially when he thinks he knows best. Most of the times, the beneficiary doesn’t even have any knowledge in the web design business (for example). So it’s difficult to make him understand why you can’t make his business website pink with white dots.

You may have heard the saying: “Client is KING“. The comic strip below is based on this statement. Keep in mind that we are making ...

Create Your Icon in 5 Simple Steps with Photoshop

adriana — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:32:08 +0000

So, you’ve created a website! …Now what?

Using some simple steps and some software, it is time to make your website outstanding. Whether you are in charge of web hosting or just the website owner, you may want to consider all elements that go into designing a great web page. Hopefully by now, you have found a great dedicated server hosting for your website and are ready to design your page. There a literally millions of websites across the web. What makes your website different? As the creator, you will want to use these features to make your website unique ...

36 Famous Cities – 6 Fabulous New Vector Packs from Designious.com!

adriana — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:54:53 +0000

A couple of weeks ago we launched 10 awesome vector packs with famous cities – a total of 60 cities. In each Famous Cities Vector Pack you can find 6 famous cities which include representative buildings and touristic attractions. Today we are glad to announce you that we released another 6 awesome Famous Cities Vector Packs! So we did it, we reached our goal of creating 16 Famous Cities Vector Packs!

These new 6 vector packs from Designious.com are part of the largest library of vector cities you have ever seen! This is definitely a collection of vector ...

Pixel Comic Strip #4 by Alan Jones

adriana — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:20:04 +0000

If you missed the previous comic strips called “Pixel”, designed by Alan Jones for Pixel77, here are some things you should know about them:

About Pixel Comic Strip and its creator – Alan Jones

Alan creates these funny characters called: Pixel, Al Gore-ithm, Text and Sound File and puts them in a story. If you want to read ...

This Weeks New & Awesome Design Goodies on Designtnt.com

adriana — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:18:02 +0000

Designtnt.com is a fantastic website to visit for design resources such as: Illustrator and Photoshop Addons, Photoshop brushes, textures, Photoshop tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, vector art and even free design resources.

This week they released 3 new fabulous design goodies and we believe that this is something you just have to get your hands on!

Take a look for yourself at the new outstanding professional resources they uploaded to the Designtnt.com library this week.

1. Here is an awesome vector set which you can find new in the Vectors category over at Designtnt.com...

Fotolia Subscriptions – Giveaway Winners

adriana — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:12:35 +0000

Last week we started this awesome giveaway sponsored by the nice people from Fotolia. In case you didn’t know what Fotolia is (although I highly doubt it), Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations.

They were kind enough to sponsor our giveaway with 3 subscriptions for 14 days, where you could download up to 3 images per day, a nice total of 42 high quality images for you to use in your projects. All you guys had to do was to comment ...

Pimp Your Photo – Over 20 Awesome and Free Photoshop Actions

adriana — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:36:57 +0000

Today I want to share with you some of my favorite Photoshop actions. First of all, let me tell you a little about it: an action is a set of recorded commands which you can use on several photos to obtain a certain effect. These actions will help you add more light, sharpen or add some extra effects to your image, they’re absolutely great and they help you save a lot of time!

So if you have a series of dark photos and you want to make them brighter, or you have really dull colors on your photos and you ...

The Application Trend

adriana — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:57:20 +0000

I’ve often heard that in web development “Content is king”. Well right now there is a power struggle on the go, and content is loosing ground.

Content was king ten years ago, today Application is king.

Software developers have always known that application is more valuable than content, but the rest of us have been unable to provide application. Industries outside of software development rely on content to stay ahead of the pack; but there is a subtle shift happening.

Users are saturated with content, there is content everywhere and it is being produced at staggering rates. We ...

Pixel Comic Strip #3 by Alan Jones

adriana — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:38:30 +0000

If you missed the previous comic strips called “Pixel”, designed by Alan Jones for Pixel77, here are some things you should know about them:

About Pixel Comic Strip and its creator – Alan Jones

Alan created these funny characters called: Pixel, Al Gore-ithm, Text and Sound File and put them in a story. If you want to read ...

Giveaway – 3 Subscriptions to Fotolia.com

adriana — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:19:35 +0000

Today, we have an awesome giveaway sponsored by the kind people from Fotolia who offers our readers 3 subscriptions to Fotolia.com! Each subscription is available for 14 days, and you can download 3 images per day, which means a total of 42 top notch images to use in your design projects, your articles or whatever you can think of!

Why take the chance grabbing random images online and the increased legal action on copyright infringement when stock photo prices are so low? It’s much safer to use a stock photo house.

Giveaway requirements and info:

- Comment on this ...

DesignTNT has Launched With an Explosive Collection of Design Resources!

adriana — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:23:16 +0000

DesignTNT has officially launched today!

This is an important day for us, as we have worked very hard on bringing you this mind blowing website packed with top notch design resources!

We wanted to make a website where you can come, subscribe and start downloading everything you need for your design projects, your website or your learning process, all at a very low price – AND WE DID IT!

DesignTNT‘s mission is to provide designers of all types with high quality resources that they can’t find anywhere else all in one place and at a low price!

Here is ...

Beautiful and Funny Illustrations by Camellie

adriana — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:27:38 +0000

Camelia Dobrin aka Camellie is a young illustrator based in Bristol, UK, currently traveling around the world and freelancing for JESS3, an interactive agency based in Washington DC.

Cami has an impressive background, she graduated in 2008 with a bachelor degree in Fine Art from the University of Art in her home country and over the past 4 years she worked for clients such as Computer Arts, Sims, Dorling Kindersley and Fugu. She was featured on a bunch of magazines, books and e-zines.

I loved Camelia’s artwork from the first moment I saw it and I thought to share ...

Valuable Tips to Organize Your Time and to Make Your Ideas Happen

adriana — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:01:25 +0000

Being a freelancer implies being your own boss and doing what you want, when you want, right? Even if that’s true, it doesn’t mean that you can have a chaotic order for your activities as a self employed. You need to learn how to organize your time so that you can be more efficient in what you do.

Image source: Sxc.hu

You may have noticed that I avoid to say “time management”, that’s because most creative professionals have an allergy when it comes to this notion. I think that “to organize” sounds less dramatic, don’t you? When we hear ...

Pixel Comic Strip #2 by Alan Jones

adriana — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:58:48 +0000

If you missed the first comic strip called “Pixel”, designed by Alan Jones for Pixel77, here are some things you should know about it:

About Pixel Comic Strip and its creator – Alan Jones

Alan created these funny characters called: Pixel, Al Gore-ithm, Text and Sound File and put them in a story. If you want to read ...

7 Email Marketing Tips

adriana — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:34:53 +0000

Now that you have a email list, what will you write? You want to promote your business, but you don’t want to put readers off and lose their subscriptions. You certainly do not want anyone to call your emails “spam.”

You need to develop a content strategy that mixes valuable information with soft sell information and the occasional hard sell promotion.

Image source: Sxc.hu

1. Give your subscribers content they cannot refuse.

The core of your email marketing plan should be solid, solution-oriented information that your customers want to read. Whatever you sell, customers will open your emails ...

Photoshop Tutorials Roundup – June 2011

adriana — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:31:05 +0000

I have to say that in June I came across some fantastic Photoshop tutorials which were full of creativity, useful tips and had some unique concepts. Today I would like to share with you some of the most inspiring and resourceful PS tutorials published on the web in the month that just passed.

Here are some of the awesome things you can learn from the tuts presented below: how to create an eco-friendly advertisment using stock images, how to mix custom brushes and stock photo to create an awesome grungy style artwork, how to master distressed effects in Photoshop, how ...

5 Valuable Tips to Convert Your Website Visitors into Buyers

adriana — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:07:30 +0000

Some websites have a lot of visitors – and I mean a lot! And they pride themselves with that. Well, that’s ok if you’re an inspirational website, a design news portal – in short, it’s great as long as you don’t want your visitors to buy something from you – a service or a product.

Image source: Vectorious.net

Some of you may already know the fact that online success can’t be achieved over night, just by keeping your fingers crossed, hoping that your website’s traffic will do the job. You, as a website and online business owner, have to ...