Typography Showcase
For all those of you typography fanatics riding the current wave of interest in all things typographical and trendy, you’re going to love TypeInspire. It’s a niche gallery showcase site focussing solely on excellent typography in web and graphic design.
Jun 8, 2009
Filed Under: Inspiration
Tagged: fonts, gallery, graphics, type
Comment
Grunge Swirl Vectors
Dead Wings has just released a nice set of grunge swirl vectors. There are ten vectors in the pack and they are free to use however you like, either for personal or commercial projects.
Jun 7, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: graphics, grunge, vectors
Comment
5 Great Box Graphic Resources
It’s just one of those things, at some point you’re going to need a good box graphic. Whether it’s for an icon pack, an installer icon or one of those trendy graphics with a box bursting at the seams with goodies… at some point you’re sure to need to get you hands on some decent resources for building something boxy. Well, fear not dear designer because here are the five best resources for doing just that.
Icon Lab’s Build Your Own Box kit is the perfect place to start.
neoaeduardors‘ Software Install Box Icon is really well done and comes as a fully editable layered Photoshop PSD file.
PhotoshopCandy’s nice and simple Cool Cardboard Box is also available as a layered PSD file.
va-deam offers us his rather nifty box template for developers as a full-scalable PSD template.
2Shi’s got a great DropBox Icon.
And as if all of that wasn’t enough to be getting on with, PSVibes have got a great tutorial for those of you who really want to go it alone and create a shiny 3D box icon from scratch.
Mar 14, 2009
Filed Under: Roundups
Tagged: box, graphics, icons, installer, templates, tutorials
Comment
50 Gorgeous Textures
Every web designer likes a really nice texture. As well as being able to breathe life into a project, they’re also just good for kickstarting your creativity. Just as well that DesiznTech has rounded up fifty very sexy textures for your perusal.
Mar 9, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: backgrounds, graphics, textures
Comment
10 Great Resources For Making Pixel Pattern Backgrounds
Pixel background patterns are all the rage these days and it’s easy to see why. A well implemented pixel pattern for a background can make a good site look really tight.
The only thing is, if you’ve ever tried to make the damn things from scratch you’ll know that those pesky little tiles with their seamlessly repeating pixels can be pretty tricky to get right.
Well, fear not pixel fans. For here is a roundup of ten of the handiest resources when it comes to creating lovely patterned pixel tiles…
The Kaliber 10k has been around for a while and their library of pixel patterns is probably the best single resource you’re going to find.
Mar 7, 2009
Filed Under: Roundups
Tagged: backgrounds, graphics, pixel patterns, pixels, tiles, top 10
Comment
Beautiful Retro Style Web Design
It’s a theme that’s becoming increasingly trendy in web design and Six Revisions have done an excellent roundup of some absolutely beautiful vintage and retro styled web sites.
Mar 6, 2009
Filed Under: Inspiration
Tagged: classic, CSS, graphics, retro, vintage
Comment
Incredible Online Drawing App
Sumo Paint is an incredible online image editor built with Flex. It loads at lightning speed, looks awesome and fits perfectly into the sweet spot between the bloat feature richness of Photoshop and the simplicity of MS Paint.
Mar 5, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: drawing, Flash, graphics, MS Paint, Photoshop, web app
Comment
Online Stripe Generator
If you’re bored with the process of creating good looking tiled background images, you might want to check out Stripe Generator 2.0. It’s an online tool that takes some of the tedium out of making striped background tiles. You can also share what you make or load other users’ tiles to play with.
Mar 4, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: background, graphics, stripe, tile, tools, web app
Comment
Working CSS Transparency Solution
Here is a pure CSS solution for transparency that allows you to set the background transparency without affecting the transparency of the entire div. Woot!
If for some reason that doesn’t turn you on, you might want to take a quick look at this nice little collection of pre-made semi-transparent background gifs instead.
Mar 3, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: CSS, gif, graphics, transparency
Comment
Animated Preloader Graphics
Preloaders.net lets you very easily generate a slick looking animated loading gif for your web app or software project.
There is a nice selection of pre-made animated gifs to choose from in various styles (3D, rectangular, circular or horizontal). You can then modify the colours, proportions and animation speed before downloading your spiffy new loading graphic.
Mar 1, 2009
Filed Under: Resources
Tagged: animated, FX, gif, graphics, preloader, web app
Comment