Best Of Design – October

This October brought lots of really cool design articles into the blogosphere with lots of neat ideas. I have been compiling this list over the last four weeks, and today bring you the best of the online design world for October 2008. From tutorials to inspirational posts, this compilation has everything you would ever want.

This is a compilation over 160 resources that I saw in October of 2008. Does everyone like this amount of resources, or would you prefer that I narrow it down to the top 50 or top 25 for November?

Dellipack 2: A Free Icon Set

We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity.
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400+ Floral Brushes for Photoshop

With the popularity of last week’s collection of Photoshop brushes for creating textures, I thought it would be appropriate to put together another collection of brushes. This time we’ll focus on florals and foliage.
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21 Neatest Templates on ThemeForest

As the calendar ticks over into October, PSDTUTS’s sister site ThemeForest has made it to 1 month of age! We’re very excited about ThemeForest’s potential over here at Envato and I’m working hard to build traffic and content on the site.
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Amazing Absolut Vodka Inspiration

Design lovers everywhere gotta love Absolut. It is an amazing brand that besides the drink itself, makes people enjoy really well done bottles and advertising designs.
A great collection of product design.
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35 Photoshop Tutorials Inspired by Apple

Apple and its innovative products and marketing are the focus of some excellent design tutorials for Photoshop. Since I kept seeing tutorials inspired by the iPhone and iPod, I decided to compile the best tutorials of this kind that I could uncover.
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15 must-have features for modern design blogs (part 3)

Last week we saw how modern design blogs usually manage to gather a wide audience using Presentation techniques and special Features (see part 1 and part 2). Today, part 3 of this series will examine which types of Content modern design blog usually publish…
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25 Ways to be More Productive as a Designer

This list was created to help inspire you to make the most of your work days, become more involved in your career and be a healthier and more productive designer and person. Feel free to add your own suggestions for being a more productive designer to the list below.
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26 More Sites Using Wood

I did a roundup a while back on sites that used coffee in their theme, 26 of them in fact, and it had a nice response, so today I decided to give you 26 more sites that use wood as a texture in their layout.
An inspiring and creative collection!
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How to Create a Colorful Retro Style TV

In this tutorial, we’ll teach the intermediate vector artist how to create a retro style TV with gradients and layers. We’ll also create a nice funky background with circles and lines. Let’s have some fund creating this colorful illustration.
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Behind the Design: 5 Stories of Great Inspiration

We grow our creative talents through experience: whether it’s learning from a veteran designer about how things came to be or finding fresh delight in Smashing Magazine posts, no great artist exists without inspiration.
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Simply Ornate: A Free WordPress Theme

Today we are glad to release Simply Ornate — a free professional WordPress-theme created by Evan Eckard. This theme was designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours. It is designed especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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12 Church Websites You Can Learn Good Designs From

So in my last post I talked about why church web design has being sucky as of par. Most church websites look like they are designed in 1998 and they just put stuff up there which ends up bloating the layout with to much info or they don’t give any of the relevant info.
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35 Essential jQuery Tutorials, Code Chunks and Plugins for Designers

So it’s for this reason I’ve rounded up some of the finest jQuery resources to achieve all kinds of things on a web page, from accordions to Flash-like menus to lightboxes, animation and more!
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10 Great Web Design Podcasts of 2008!

Podcasting is a fairly new medium, yet it has gained a phenomenal popularity due to its easy content generation, cheap distribution, on-demand listening, and low demand of bandwidth.
From radio shows, to interviews, to college lectures – podcasts are convenient…

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Illustrator’s Type Tool: A Comprehensive Introduction

Type is an essential part of Illustrator; whether you’re desktop publishing, designing logos, or using type for image building, you’ll be reaching for the Type Tool. This guide comprehensively covers the essentials of what is a huge amount of Illustrator functionality, which is type.
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Ultimate 3D Effects Tutorials Using Adobe Photoshop

Ever wonder how to add 3D effects in your design? Now you can start doing that by building up the basic skills and starting your own creativity using Adobe Photoshop. This post will help you save hours searching and digging around techniques to succeed!
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Incredible Custom Shoes Designs

We love shoes, that’s total fact. Now, when it comes to custom shoes, we are totally suckers for it. There are some artists that make sweet custom shoe designs that are really worth a look.
A great collection!
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Common Traits of Bad Web Design

In the past the article I wrote about bad blog design was successful, so I felt covering web design in general could be helpful as well. It is important to note that in this article I am referring to “web design” as the whole process of creating a site, not just the visual aspect.
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Web Design : Restaurant Sites

It’s been a time since we had our last Web Design post, so I’ve decided to search the next topic… and since I was pretty hungry, my stomach did all the thinking to me. So here are some cool restaurant sites designs.
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Most Used Elements In Collage Artwork

Collages, mash-ups, photomanipulations, compilations; They all are basically the same thing: Choosing a subject you want your design te be about, mix them up with some good elements and colours and produce stunning artwork. But how do you define “good elements”?
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40 Cool Beauty Amplifying Photoshop Effects

Beauty retouching is one of the most sought-after skills in Photoshop arts today. The techniques here are used not only on magazine covers, but in advertising campaigns, digital artwork and professional photography.
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15 High Quality Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

Everyday we see many beautiful WordPress themes, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. Today we present only 15 Free Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive and you might be willing to use for your next project, which have been released over the last few months.
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5 Beautiful penstyle fonts

I’m always looking for new interesting fonts. This is a list of some of my favourite penstyle fonts you can download and use on your design projects.
These are some great fonts for grungy, desk-style web designs.
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30+ (More) Most Wanted WordPress Tips, Tricks and Hacks

We’ve previously showcased more than 40 WordPress tricks and hacks you can perform on your blog but we quickly realized there are still a lot of impressive WordPress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great.
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Mega Roundup of 60 Cool Custom Designer Toys

Designer toys are a common love between many graphic designer and illustrators, as well as the collectable limited edition runs from producers such as Qee and Kidrobot there are many great examples of customised urban vinyl toys.
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12 of the Best Sources of Premium Vectors

There are a number of resources online for finding free stock photography, vectors, custom shapes for Photoshop, and all kinds of other useful items for designers. However, sometimes the quality you need will not be there with free items, and you may also spend more time searching for something free than it’s worth.

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Celebration Of Smoke Photography and Smoke Art

In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we present 60 examples of beautiful smoke photography and smoke art: a round-up of some of the best examples of photos and artworks where smoke dominates. At the bottom of this post are some links to tutorials on creating your own smoke photographs, as well as other resources on the subject.

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WordPress Rainbow: 35 Colorful Free WordPress Themes

While there are thousands of free WordPress themes available for download, here are 35 excellent options if you’re looking for something colorful.
A great collection of colorful and inspirational designs.
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15 Original Menu Designs

Navigation is important as it guides the user through the website, and you want the guidance to be clear. Yet a bit of creativity and love would do no harm but rather leave pleasant emotions from your journey across the website. Below are the 15 examples of original yet reliable menu designs created to easily guide you through the website.

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Phenomenal Packaging Design & Inspiration

Packaging might be the most important element of a product. Whether the product is a consumable good, some fancy hardware, a service, or even a website — that item might not even be touched if the package doesn’t communicate to the consumer.
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45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes

For graphic designers, working with custom shapes in Photoshop can be a big time-saver. While free brushes get a lot of attention, custom shapes probably get less. Here is a rundown of some of the best resources to download free custom shapes for your own work in Photoshop.
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7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), but also the planning of processes to achieve certain goals. Large corporations clearly understand this and incorporate every form of design into their strategy to achieve success.
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The Leaves Fall: A Social Icon Set For Bloggers

Today we are glad to release The Leaf Fall: a social icon set. This set contains 12 social icons, designed in an autumn-style. The set includes icons for Twitter, Technorati, RSS, Reddit, Facebook, Delicious, StumbleUpon and Digg. You can use the set for free — without any restrictions whatsoever.
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25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials

Here we have collected 25 of the cool 3D typographic Text effect tutorials, well some of them are all done by the combination of some 3D software’s like Studio Max, Xara and some times illustrator with texture and coloring done in photoshop and others completely designed using photoshop.
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Tips on Pre-flight before sending to the printers

Arron Lock has kindly agreed to write some articles for design shard, you can check out his web site and follow him on Twitter He’s compiled some tips that should be taken in to consideration before presenting your files to the printer for printing.
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28 Great WordPress Plugins That I Personally Recommend

One of the cool benefits of using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) is the ability to use plugins which allows you to add on extra features with just a few clicks. I am going to showcase the particular WordPress plugins I use on this blog and the reasons for doing so.
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Designers Favorite Fonts In Use

We all have our favorites – from Pantone colors to stylistic approaches to fonts. Designers are at their best when they like the elements they are designing with. Find out what fonts these 8 designers love and why – AND see them in use!
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Top 5 Terms You Don’t Know for T-Shirt Printing

We think it’s important that we go over them as an introduction or possibly a refresher. The more terms and knowledge you put in your designer toolbox, the better you will be when it comes to designing your own promotional t-shirts or working with a client.
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10 WordPress Blogs You Should Be Reading

There are some great blogs that are 100% dedicated to the WordPress cause. It is through these sites that I keep up to date on the latest news, hacks, tweaks, and bugs in the rapidly evolving world of WordPress.
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5 Trends of Popular WordPress Blogs- Part1

These features are all fine and very important, but today we’re going to look at WordPress trends that are a bit more challenging. They’re not the run-of-the-mill techniques you’d teach a WordPress beginner. These 5 trends are slightly more difficult, but if done well they can add an extra special something to your website layout.
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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

There are a few special techniques or effects that can spice up just about any web page. These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox.
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18 WordPress Plugins to add Professionalism to your Blog

Is it time to take your WordPress Blog to the next level? Has the time come to take your blog up to the level of professionalism that all the top blogs use? Here are some easy to use but powerful WordPress plugins that will help you on your way, they range from Newsletters, RSS, etc…

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CSS Typography Reference Sheet – Get Creative with your Headlines!

This Reference Sheet was created to emphasize the many options available within CSS, particularly for Typography. So, what are you waiting for, get creative with your headlines! The page is split into three: CSS Typography Property Table, Web Safe Fonts Table and CSS Typography Value Conversion Table.

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Retro and Vintage In Modern Web Design

Retro and vintage are becoming a new trend. Once rarely used in this robust, dynamic medium, early, retro and vintage elements are now becoming more and more popular in a variety of design contexts. Online shops, corporate designs, portfolios and blogs incorporate both styles on a small and large scale.

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Freebies – Circular Fractal Photoshop Brush Pack

So usually, most of our Arbent Original Freebies go out to you on a Monday, but yesterday was Robert’s birthday, so we took the day off from posting, and delayed our weekly freebie. This week, we have a special treat in the way of a circular fractal photoshop brush pack for our readers.
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Should You Use A Photo As Your Twitter Picture?

Everyone seems to be on Twitter these days. Or on Plurk. Or Gravatar. Or MyBlogLog. Or Digg. Or Votetime. Or one of the million other social sites out there. And all of those sites use an image on your profile. But what sort of image works best? A photo of yourself? Or your logo? Or just a cool design?

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Logo Design for Olympic Games- Amateur or Professional?

About 90% of the people on this Earth watch the Olympic games, something like a mass psychosis. I’m not much of a sports fan but I’m interested in all related to design so… Does anyone remember the logos of Olympic games, either in 1956 or in 2008?

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3 Reasons Your Rates Are Still Low (And How To Start Raising Them)

If your rates are lower than you want them to be, don’t blame the economy. Don’t blame the state of your particular industry. And for the love of the business, don’t blame the competition. Here are 3 common rate-killing mistakes that could be keeping you scrounging rather than thriving.

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Crazy Ads Inspiration

We have been featuring art and design inspirations, why not some ads with a really good artistic side and tons of creativity. When putting art and business together, this is what you get:
Amazing collection!
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6 Ways To Add More User-Interactivity To Your Blog

Bloggers allow all their visitors to leave a comment anytime. If they asked a question, simple say they enjoyed the article or when you don’t agree with the author’s opinion. That’s the power of the blog.
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WordPress SEO – The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Theme Search Engine Optimization

The WordPress Codex says that “WordPress, straight out of the box, comes ready to embrace search engines“. Well, that may be true … to a certain degree, but there is more than enough work that you’ll need to do after you’ve installed WordPress in order to get it playing nicely with Google.
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iPhone Wallpapers: 40+ iPhone Wallpapers for Designers

Rather than do another post on wallpapers for designers, I thought I would do a post on iPhone wallpapers for designer. Some of these iPhone wallpapers come from some pretty big name designers. The rest are gathered from across the web so you don’t have to bother wasting your time.
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Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of: Part 2

In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with certain aspects of Illustrator and some of its specific tools. You’ll also find more advanced tutorials that deal with all of the potential that Illustrator brings to graphic design.
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25 Graphic Design Career Preparation Tips

The Graphic Design Career is a fast growing career that is becoming more and more competitive with every passing day. People are realizing how much money is available and how flexible the graphic and web design career really is. You can work full-time in house in a small studio or large agency.
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The Future of Web Design Galleries

Web design galleries started out as a novel idea several years ago when the first few were launched to showcase excellent work of designers from all around the world, specifically those that were exemplary in their use of CSS.
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Photoshop Toolbox

Most web and graphic designers use Photoshop on a daily basis, and due to Photoshop’s popularity there are countless resources online for users. In effort to make your life as a designer a bit easier, here is a guide to some of the best resources.
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Using Layer Comps For Web Design In Photoshop

In web design, it can be tricky to decide how to present your layout to a client. There are some designers who believe you should skip Photoshop and go straight to coding. I disagree. At the very least you should sketch out your ideas with a pencil and pad before ever opening up a text editor.
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1000+ Free High Resolution Photoshop Brush Sets

Hundreds of thousands of incredible Adobe Photoshop brush sets are all over the web. Due to this phenomenally vast amount of Photoshop brushes available, you can now add patches of dirt, rust, floral effect, swirls, mold, oil stains in your artworks and photos to give them an aged look.
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10 Principles of the Logo Design Masters

The veterans of the logo design industry have achieved their success for a reason. Sure, it’s partially due to the years of practice, blood, sweat, tears and inky fingers. But mainly, it’s because they stuck to the ten solid-gold principles of world class logo design.
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Design Vocabulary – Typography Terms – Week 1

Hey everyone, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the terms designers kick around. This is the first of what I plan to be weekly posts to teach you all some “design speak” in small bite size pieces. Enjoy!
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Inspiration : Alcoholic Ads

Last week I posted crazy ads, this time I selected the best of alcoholic drinks ads, a mix of nice works and creativity to get people drunk off their products.
A creative article!
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Featuring Twitter birds: 20+ twitter bird designs

I hope you all liked my free twitter icons. It has already became a trend to use custom designed twitter bird icons to show the status of a tweeter. I could find many kind of twitter bird graphics over different websites. I thought of putting together some of that graphics. And here it is…
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Top 10 ThemeForest Templates

In this post I am going to show you my personal favourite 10 templates on ThemeForest, I am addicted to the site and it brings me a nice passive income, I wont feature any of my items in this list but if you would like to check them out then my portfolio is here.
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50 Stunning Examples of a Great Redesign

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign. Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals.
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Create a Vibrant Modern Blog Design in Photoshop

Taking a closer look into the world of web design this tutorial will cover the process of designing a vibrant and colourful modern blog layout in Adobe Photoshop. Beginning with a blank canvas we’ll go through the process of creating the entire structure and effects from scratch.
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25+ Logos of various Design Studios

Below is a list of 27 logos of various graphic and interactive design studios from around the world:
This is a great collection of design studio logos.
Get inspired!
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Old School B-Movie Posters

Movie posters are probably one of the best ways to check some cool designs. Hollywood posters tend to look alike… floating heads, photoshop effects and all that. But B-movies are in another level of coolness for sure.
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25 Beautifully Colorful Websites – Part 3

Colorful websites are always a good source of design inspiration (See 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites, and 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites – Part 2). These 25 showcase designs make excellent use of color. Hopefully you’ll find at least a few for your own inspiration.
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25 Powerful Non-profit Logos, Deconstructed

Amnesty, World Vision, Make Poverty History: important and powerful organizations with equally powerful logos. In this post, we deconstruct 25 logos for organizations that make a positive difference in the world, particularly through fighting poverty.
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20 jQuery Plugins for Unforgettable User Experience

In this article we’d like to present a list of over 20 Useful and New jQuery plugins you should always have ready to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions. Image Cross Fade Transition, Smooth Marquee, Auto-populate multiple select boxes, Feed Menus, sliders, menus, animation that should give you a useful and powerful toolbox which you can use in your future projects.

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WordPress Post Author Description

Lots of words these days about WordPress, people are getting more and more interested in high quality themes with lots of features, so ussual thing to have became post author info very useful if you have more writers. There was a guest post a bit earlier how to make a post author info outside main loop.

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Ten Questions For Fuel Your Creativity’s Adelle Charles

Once again, we at Arbenting have been granted with an insightful and inspiring interview opportunity. Adelle Charles of Fuel Your Creativity, was gracious enough to agree to sit down and answer a few questions that we had to throw her way. With some really great responses, that make for an awesome interview, it was hard to hold on to this post until it was scheduled to go out.

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35 Beautiful Vintage and Retro Photoshop Tutorials

In this post, we go back to the 1900’s all theway to the 1980’s to showcase a variety of vintage- and retro-inspired designs that involve poster art, collages and graphical elements. Whether you’re into print design or web design, you’ll find something you can use or build upon.
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Amazing Vintage Ads

Vintage ads are awesome. We really can learn a lot from them. Colors, typography, the way the designers and artists found ways to overcome the lack of technology to produce some really amazing pieces.
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More Awesome Product Packaging

So enjoy, be inspired and be sure to check out the source sites listed at the bottom of the post. While you do that I’ll decide if I should do a showcase on Vodka bottles – some are just so brilliantly creative. I would love your opinion on that by the way!
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Unique website for your Digg updates

A couple of days ago, I presented the Unique website for your Twitter updates Reloaded. The script was based on another one TutorialBlog released earlier.
Now I’m using the same idea but converting it for another site. Today, you’ll be able to show a Unique website for your Digg updates.

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The Four Basic Design Principles: What Every Designer Should Know

The funny acronym that was created to help people remember these principles is C.R.A.P, the odd thing about this acronym is, if you use these principles your design will be quite the opposite. Probably won’t forget that now, will you?

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Highlight WordPress Category when on a Single Post: Tutorial

I searched high and low and eventually found a simple plug-in, by adding a small piece of code to the plug-in I could achieve this, follow the steps below and you should beable to get your categories highlighted too when on a single post.

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Web Design On Essence

A good director involves the use of fine art, fashion, sound, imagery, dialog and cinematography. All these elements come together to give people a gratifying experience. A good film can make you laugh, cry, scared or even angry.
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30 Beautiful Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

Illustration is usually done in vector graphics applications like Adobe Illustrator or CORELDraw. But with the robustness of Adobe Photoshop, designers who don’t have access to vector graphics software can achieve vector-like objects and compositions with it.
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25 Examples of Amazingly Creative Typography Art

What is type/text art? It is art created solely by using letters and numbers.
It is really is an amazing art.
This is a very neat article!
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10 Ways to Monetize a Design Blog

In this post we’ll take a look at 10 opportunities that design bloggers have for monetization. Of course, you won’t be able to put them all into practice, so choose a few that appeal to you.
Great ideas!
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50 Beautiful Movie Posters

Nowadays, movie posters play a big role in cinema memorabilia collection. They have lost the “informative” tone to wear a more artistic and decorative dress. We want to change it with this post.
Wonderful compilation!
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Really Cool Digital Makeup In Photoshop

Why use real make up if you can do a digital make up and make the skin look pretty and smooth. It’s simple, fast and very effective.
This is a fast and effective PS tutorial.
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Lose the color! 9 reasons to ditch color

So why black-and-white as the subject for a series of posts? It’s because black-and-white is an intriguing limitation and blessing at the same time. If black-and-white is used for a suitable project it puts you into a challenging but beneficial situation.
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12 Beautiful Twitter Themes

I’ve been browsing through a few Twitter profiles recently. If you haven’t heard about Twitter, click here Theming is an important aspect for any social networking site since that lets you represent your interests as well as your business. Good looking themes obviously draws the attention of your visitors.
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35 Phenomenal Fractal Art Pictures

In this edition of our Monday Inspiration series, we look at awe-inspiring examples of the dynamic digital art sensation that is fractal art with 50 Phenomenal Fractal Art Renders. Setting across the vast sea of cyberspace to find these works was such an amazing task as so many fantastic pieces surfaced.

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The Best 30 Art Magazines for Submitting Your Artworks

It is an overview of the most famous Art magazines that are interesting both for reading and for self promotion at the same time. Don’t stay in the shadows, reveal yourself and your works! Let the world see your amazing creations and enjoy your art!
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15 Useful Color Mixers For Effective Designing

I wanted to create this list, because there are times when I struggle choosing my design colors – for me it’s not always easy task to just play with the colors and choose the right ones – of course, there are few favorite colors for everybody, but finding new great color combinations are not so easy task.

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Creatives Ads : Volume 3

A collection of creative ads.
Check them all out to get inspired!
And don’t forget to see more related ad posts.
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A Visual History of 11 Successful Blogs

Many of the blogs that have a huge following today go back to much more humble beginnings. This post is a look at how they got started and what they looked like in their early days, compared to today.
All of the websites presented below are among the 15 most popular blogs according to Technorati.
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16 Free Ajax Contact Forms – For A Better User Experience

Contact forms are the most common bridges between readers & site owners whether it is a blog or an e-commerce site. Creating a better user experience in this bridge definitely helps improving the effect created in the eyes of the site visitors.

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10 Most Sought-after Skills in Web Development

As the moderator of the Freelance Switch job board, there are certain types of jobs that are constantly in demand. Here are the 10 skills that are or will be in highest demand for developers. If you are proficient in these skills, you’ll be in a great position to find work and weather any economic downturn.

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The Top Ten Icon Design Tutorials on VECTORTUTS

Icon design is a fun field to get involved in. It requires illustrative skills, which most of the tutorials on VECTORTUTS are dedicated to teaching. Now if your looking to refine your skills with icon design specific tutorials, we have a list of the top ten icon design tutorials on the site.
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Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and WordPress.

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Enhancing Your Art with Negative Space

Negative Space is the space between an object, around an object, but is not part of the actual object itself. It is the opposite of an identifiable object which can at the same time be used to help define the boundaries of positive space.
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35+ Nature Tutorials for Photoshop

There are plenty of great Photoshop tutorials for working with different aspects and elements of nature. This is a collection of tutorials for working with the sky, clouds, grass, water, rain, and much more.
A wonderful compilation of Photoshop tuts.
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Lose the color! Commercial illustration showcase

Most of the pieces are not pure black-and-white, a lot of them have a splash a tiny bit of color. While they feature some color they’re still perfect for the purpose of our study though and I’m sure they’ll get you’re creative juices flowing whether you’re a hardcore black-and-white buff, color lover or somewhere in between.

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Web Design : Grunge Sites

Grunge design is really nice to do… there are a few elements that make that grunge look: dripping sprays and paints, non-regular brushes, torn papers, old paper textures, rough edges, among many. Here is brief selection of sites… I hope you enjoy these. Cheers!

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I have just listed off the first 100 resources I found in October. For the sake of time, space, and loading times, I am simply going to list the remaining articles. Enjoy!

• Awesome Wall Paintings
• Typography Mega Inspiration
• 55 Premium WordPress Themes To Blow Your Mind
• Creative User Interfaces In Web Design
• Userful Resources For Developing
• 27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration
• 15 Mac Apps Web Designers Should Have In Their Dock
• 30 Exceptional Gimp Tutorials And Resources
• Handycons – A Free Hand-Drawn Social Media Icon Set
• The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions.
• Modern Products in Retro/Vintage Style: 30+ Retro Style Modern Products
• 10 Tips To Avoid Designers Block
• 45 Excellent Sets of Adobe Illustrator Brushes
• Learning About Type
• 26 Business Cards Of Graphic Web Designers On Twitter
• A First Hand Guide On How To Start Freelancing
• Freebies: Circular Fractal Photoshop Brush Pack 2
• Creative Design Firm Names
• Inspired By Repetition
• 208 Retro Photoshop Patterns.
• 50 Ways To Improve Your Productivity As A Freelancer
• How To Make Your Portfolio Better And Get More Clients
• Inspiration: Automotive Ads
• Splatter And Watercolour Brushes For Photoshop
• It’s Twitter Time – Free Vector Icon Set
• Print Finishes To Spice Up Your Designs
• Inspiring Grunge Style Big Typography Posters
• A Design Of The Times
• 50 High Resolution Textures, Tutorials, And Resources
• Moleskin Art – Beautiful Examples And Talented Artists.
• The Finest Coffee Cups – Most Incredible Coffee Icons On The Web
• 40 Challenging And Incredible Vector Illustration Tutorials
• 35 Green And Earthy Photoshop Effects
• 20 Creative Cloudy Designs
• 50 Beautiful Blog Designs
• 15 Websites With Slick Drop-down Navigation
• The Colours Of Toons
• Retro And Vintage Typography Showcase
• Encoding A Photoshop Mockup Into XHTML and CSS
• Best Print Designs.
• The Design Process Of Creating A Corporate Identity For A Beer Label
• 8 Ways To Better And Prettier Article Formatting
• 19 Creative Halloween Ads
• Illustrative Typography
• Inspiration – Fractal Art
• 40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials
• 10 Great Places To Find Web Design Jobs
• 15 Top Site Elements
• Social Media Directory For Designers.
• 11 Powerful Poster Designs That Were Created For The USA Presidential Election 2008
• Smoke Type In Photoshop In 10 Steps
• Outstanding Illustration In Photos
• 5 Books Every Designer Needs
• 25 Must Read Interviews From 2008
• Inspirational Brochures and Booklets
• 24 Beautiful Flash Website Designs
• Inspiration – Blog Footers
• Inspiration – Awesome T-Shirt Designs
• Graphic Design Portfolios 10

This is a compilation over 160 resources that I saw in October of 2008. Does everyone like this amount of resources, or would you prefer that I narrow it down to the top 50 or top 25 for November?