As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories from our colleagues which you probably should check out. Selected stories were published in the past week and were found amongst many other great stories. We made this a traditional Monday post where we point out those that we think were inspiring, helpful, and even funny to read. Of course, they are related to what we do here and that includes design, inspiration, resources, and everything else in between. One for each day of the week. Enjoy.
Monday – Three Big Mistakes That Can Make Or Break Your Design Career
Story found on fuelyourinterface.com
The name says it all. If you’ve come here, we mean no offense – there’s just a few career killers that we probably all have been guilty of at one point or another. These concepts definitely apply to interface designers, but if you’ve arrived at this post and you aren’t an interface designer, don’t check out yet – there’s probably a few things here you can apply to whatever field you are working in.
Tuesday – 50 Extremely Creative Vintage And Retro Photoshop Tutorials
Story found on dzinepress.com
Today we’re with 50 Extremely Creative Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials, we found some professional Adobe Photoshop tutorials about vintage and retro that will teach graphic and web designers how to make vintage, retro and there looks really stylish designs.
Wednesday – Illustration In Web Design – 30 Wonderful Examples
Story found on designer-daily.com
If you are looking to spice up your website’s design a little, then you should consider integrating some illustrations in it. The following websites are good examples of great illustration in web design.
Thursday – Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures
Story found on webdesignerdepot.com
In this post we feature sculptors Ron Mueck, Evan Penny, Jamie Salmon, Duane Hanson, Sam Jinks and Adam Beane who produce sculpture that seems alive in every detail, right down to veins and rashes on skin. This compilation should give you a cross section of modern photorealistic sculpture.
Friday – Logo Design Inspiration – 61 Awesome Fresh Designs
Story found on instantshift.com
All of these logos are very creative and following different trends like PhotoFill, Concealed, VariDots, Candy Stripe, Flip Flop, Sequential, but most importantly Texting which is a common element among all of them. Also, try to catch how they created using specific colors combination, typography adjustments and font selection.
Saturday – 25 High Resolution Free Grunge Textures
Story found on psdeluxe.com
Photoshop textures have been always very useful to create dirty art works. In designers arsenal you must have large collection of great textures, fonts, brushes. We want help you to supplement your arsenal with high resolution and quality grunge textures.
Sunday – 50 RSS Feeds Every Designer Should Read
Story found on leegustin.com
I find having hundreds of RSS feeds to weed through is just too much for me. Around 50 or so of only top-notch sites seems to work very well for my attention span. The sites on this list are all related to web design, development, css, html, wordpress, graphic design, freelancing, and design related articles.
designfollow on November 23, 2009
great
thank you