Sunday, July 17, 2011
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Sites to Check for Logo Design Inspiration
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Sites to Check for Graphic Design Inspiration
Monday, July 11, 2011
Free Handwritten Fonts
Here’s a list of my favorite handwritten fonts. Comment if you want to add your favorites!
Free Sketchy Fonts
There are very few good sketchy fonts available for free download on the World Wide Web. Here is a selection of some of the best free sketchy fonts:
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Logo Design should be Vector Based
- When using Illustrator, a logo that was created only a few inches in size, can easily and clearly scale to the size of a billboard, without any loss of clarity whatsoever.
- Vector images are composed of curves, lines and points, and therefore can be easily re-sized and enhanced to produce a superior quality and much smoother logo.
- Vector graphics programs allow you to spin, stretch, mirror, tilt and shift the base points to create such sophisticated creations and designs, which is not possible using Photoshop.
Raster Graphics Logo Designed using Photoshop | Vector Graphics Logo Designed using Illustrator |
20 Examples of Simplistic but Effective Logo Design
Somehow, I always like this kind of logo design. It’s better to keep things simple and make use of clever negative space and typography. "LESS IS MORE"
2011 Logo Design Trends
Logo Lounge, for the past nine years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2011 logo design trends report.
I get the impression some ‘trends’ won’t work that well offline and some will date quite quickly too, but for the here & now some of these are pretty nice!
Lets take a look:
Gradients
Juvi
Saturday, July 9, 2011
8 useful logo design ideas
Logo is always hard to design, and how to get an inspiring idea for a logo design?Here are 8 simple but fruitful notions which if kept in mind, can give you bundles of successful logo design ideas. Following these simple points will introduce you to new world of logo design ideas.1. Know your business:Best logo designs are those that reflect on what you do; what products and services you tend to offer. | ||||||||||
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
13 Useful Links for Graphic Designers
- Journey Education- Students and educators save tons on Design, Publishing and Web Development software.
- AIGA - American Institute of Graphic Arts - some great tutorials on here.
- Ready made buttons - For just about anything you might ever need a button for.
- CSS Color Names - Great selection of Free Fonts.
- Fonts.com Search by Sight - Like a font but don't know the name of it? This might help.
- 1001 Free Fonts - 1001 Free fonts.
- Adobe PDF viewing issue - Excellent article for designers experiencing problems with fonts after converting to a PDF.
- Graphic Design Dictionary - Graphic Design terminology.
- FREE Vector Art - Some nice vector buttons and artwork FREE.
- Abstract and Pattern Vectors - Tons of FREE vector backgrounds and abstracts.
- Lightbox Javascript - The famous lightbox javascript created by Lokesh Dhakar.
- Free Vector Glass Buttons and Bars - 72 very cool vector buttons that you can alter for your needs in any vector based program.
- Free Photoshop buttons, bars, orbs, and more - Very cool glassy buttons to modify in Photoshop.
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