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Graphic Mania editorial team likes to share with you useful resources, tutorials and articles related to the graphic design and technology
15 Unique Seamless Vector Patterns for Your Design
Vector patterns are artworks that include seamless design elements and are used in creating repeated artwork in backgrounds and fills for your website, print designs and more. The most important rule that designer should keep in mind while creating the pattern is to make sure that it looks continuous and flows well when the pattern is applied to the design.
The seamless pattern should have the right side completed with the left side. Also, the top side of the pattern is completed with the bottom side. The patterns can be vector based or bitmap based patterns. The vector patterns are created in Adobe Illustrator or any other vector program. In my personal opinion, the vector patterns are much more usable than the bitmap patterns because it can be scaled and edited easily without affecting its quality.
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Graphic Mania Premium 2012 Wallpapers
Happy new year to all Graphic Mania readers! I would like to take the chance to thank you for following us in 2011 and hope to bring you content beyond your expectations in 2012. Let us start the new year with our new 2012 wallpaper collection.
In this post, I would like to present to you five exclusive 2012 wallpapers with different sizes for iPhone, iPad and desktop screens. Also, Graphic Mania members can download the Adobe Illustrator vector source for these 2012 wallpapers.
Best Usable Free Fonts of 2011
Fonts library is an essential part of any designers and developers’ gear and resources, because the font is what the designer or developer uses to deliver the message behind the design. Free fonts can provide to you great variety of choices to use in your either personal or commercial design based on each font licence.
Many typography experts and font designers upload and share free fonts in their websites, through the fonts site and design networks. As 2011 is fading out, we would like to share with you some of the amazing free fonts that are user-friendly and minimize your ability to deliver your message to your audience.
Although the collection we have today include best usable free fonts of 2011, each font usage licence vary based on the design agreement. Some free fonts allow you to use these fonts for personal use only and other fonts allow you to use it in commercial projects. I hope you find this free fonts useful for your workflow and if you have other usable free fonts that are created in 2011, please share it with us for maximum benefits. Also, do not forget to check other font collections in the links below:
2012 Exclusive Vector Calendars
2012 is at the gates and we would like to take this chance and wish a happy new year for all Graphic Mania friends. Today, we would like to introduce to you Graphic Mania’s exclusive 2012 vector calendars which we hope you enjoy.
The new vector 2012 calendars are provided in different resolutions to allow you to choose the one that fits with you mobile, iPad and desktop screens. You can click on the resolution link under each 2012 calendar to open it and save in your computer.
If you are a Graphic Mania premium member, you can click the download button at the end of the post to get these 2012 calendars in Adobe Illustrator vector format. Finally, I hope you enjoy this collection and share it with your friends and do not forget to comment which one do you like the most.
Also, check these wallpapers collections from external sites:
50+ Funny Christmas Wallpapers to Celebrate Your Holiday
The time is coming to the holiday season and the Christmas time. Along with you plan for the holiday, Graphic Mania provides you ideas to celebrate with you computer with new funny Christmas wallpapers collection.
Here are more than 50 funny Christmas wallpapers collection to let you celebrate with you computer with the holiday, just remember not to spend the holiday in work. Enjoy it and let you computer enjoy it with you. If you like this collection, download it and share with your friends. Also, you may like to see these other Christmas collections:
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Extraordinary Mono-Color Logo Examples
Logo design is one of the challenging tasks for any graphic designer, because it requires very creative concept idea that focuses on visualize the corporate identity using few lines and colors. While understanding the logo design guidelines is very important to ensure the success in creating usable logo design, the concept idea is the most important part of the job.
The creative idea or concept in the logo design industry can be as simple as using special typeface or use the company name characters in specific way. The below showcase presents extraordinary mono-color logo examples that visualize some company names in a very creative way.
At the end of the showcase, let us know what do you think about this type of logos and which design you prefer the most. Also, do not forget to check the other logo designs in the below links:
- Creative Examples of Negative Space Logo Designs
- Logo Design Trends for Big Companies
- 40+ Inspirational Black and White Logos
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New and Fresh Examples of Advertising Ideas
Advertisements are huge projects that involve a lot of efforts done by a big team of designers, creative directors, concept artists and more. Large advertising campaigns require big budgets in order to visualize the basic draft of the creative idea that lays behind the advertisement. While it may look like an easy step in the workflow, finding the idea is the hardest part of the job because it is the base for the whole process that comes after it.
Visualizing your idea and turning it from just draft sketch on a paper of creative description into a real final advertisement requires a good experience and knowledge of the tools and the workflow of the process. Creative advertising ideas success to deliver the message to the audience fast and become a remarkable examples in the advertisement industry as we will see in today’s examples.
Divine PSD to WordPress Giveaway for Graphic Mania Premium Members
WordPress has become one of the most used CMSs not only in blogging, but also in building websites. This is due to many factors that characterize WordPress, such as the simple interface, easy to use CMS and its wide range of resources, such as themes and plugins. Plugins can help you add many functions and extras that do not come with the original CMS. Also, WordPress themes enable you to change the whole look and feel of your website or blog with a simple click of the mouse.
As an open source CMS, WordPress does not require a lot of coding or programming knowledge, which makes it a preferred tool for creative designers who would like to create websites or blogs. However, as a creative person, you may prefer to create your own WordPress-based site or blog design instead of getting a ready-made theme. Customizing your theme will make your WordPress blog unique that can reflect your skills. Here is the main problem, since at this stage you are required to acquire some programming skills, such as PHP, CSS and HTML in order to convert your design into a WordPress theme. This is where the Divine Project comes in.
Tahrir Square Second Revolt in Photos
The Egyptians are revolting again. More than 10 months ago, the people of Egypt have revolted against the rotten regime, demanding a better life and future for their children. It seems like that has only removed the head of the regime, but the body is still there. Now they are revolting again trying to reach their goals against the rotten regime and police brutality.
Overall, the Egyptian revolution was inspiring enough to fit well in the concept of our design and creativity site. The Egyptian revolution was unique and creative for two reasons. The first issue is how it started, the second is how the revolting youth and activists relied on the new media and social networks to fuel the revolution through Facebook and arranged the protest through Twitter.
Introduction to HTML5 Canvas with Java Script
Friends, have a good time here on “Graphic Mania”. In this tutorial we are going to deal with the HTML5 “Canvas”. We will see how this HTML5 specific “Canvas” tag is capable of drawing graphics when used along with Java Script.
This tutorial for beginner HTML5 developers and will cover both HTML5 and Java Script. To complete this tutorial you need to have a web browser such as Firefox or Chrome and text editor to write the code. Also, you can download the final source file through the download button at the end of this tutorial.
Beautiful Examples of photojournalism
In addition to being a type of creative arts, photography can also record special moments and people’s struggle in life which is known as photojournalism. It is usually used in journals as you can guess from the name, and also in magazines and documentary materials. This form of photography uses the talent of the photographer and the digital camera equipments to take shots of people’s activities, such as sports, political protests, special events and more.
Photojournalism requires the photographer to have some special skills, such as an ability to find the right shooting moment and to get into the middle of the event, regardless of how dangerous the situation might be. A really talented photojournalistic shot can turn into a popular artwork that resamples people’s activities or document their achievements.
