Category: ResourcesDesign contests are always a lot of fun. They tend to be challenging and interesting and really expand your creativity. This year there were a large number of design contests for professionals, amateurs and even children. Each one has given people the opportunity to show off what they are able to create, no matter what the genre.
These five pages show off the design winners for five different contests from last year. Their innovative, interesting and creative designs impressed judges from different contests and could lead to big things in the future.
There are millions of free fonts available on the web. However, grunge fonts deserve special attention for their unique appearance, which goes beyond the typical typeface design and reaches the levels, where fine art starts.
Grunge fonts with distorted lines, fancy glyphs arrangement and ornamentally-rich backgrounds possess magic power to amaze, astonish and surprise. Among the myriad of grunge fonts we have selected the most prominent and free typefaces, which are presented for you below. These free grunge fonts are capable of transforming any project into a masterpiece.
iPhone is a smart phone developed by Apple Inc. This Internet-enabled phone was first introduced on January 9th, 2007. Numerous apps have been developed for these phones to help people perform various activities.
It supports different multimedia options and this makes it a versatile one for all kinds of people. Designers are no exception to this latest technology. There are many apps in iPhone that will make life easy for designers. We will review some of the important ones in this article.
The holiday season is slowing down as Christmas time has ended, so now we’ve decided to celebrate the next event which is Happy New Year 2012 Wallpapers.
Here is a collection of more than 30 interesting New Year wallpapers, based around the year 2012. This time of year is associated with parties and having fun. Scots celebrate Hogamany this time of year too and Chinese will be celebrating their own New Year with the upcoming year of the dragon. Enjoy this collection, download it and share with your friends.
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:
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:
Freelancers are quite busy nowadays, even if they have to deliver designs or to write articles. For many, freelancing is just another job besides the real-world assignments they have at work, therefore the freelancing world can sometimes interfere with the business world out there.
Most of the people working on the internet own an iPhone or an Android device, which is no surprise; these two options are the most popular on the planet right now. Therefore we thought of making a list with several applications for each of these two operating systems that will increase your productivity and will try to help you deliver in time, regardless of how busy you are.
How did they start with CSS4? On September 29th Elika J. Etemad (Mozilla), the person in charge of the W3C workgroup has published the first CSS4 draft for the so-called selectors (Why so-called? Because that is the term issued in CSS, the CSS selector).
People who keep track of technologies may object that the works on CSS3 are not finished yet! But the version 2.1 workgroup makes modular specifications and, therefore, every part can be nominated for the “recommended” rank.
There are plenty of digital ways of measuring time these days. Calendar programs are a dime a dozen for your desktop or phone, set in apps or standard in Windows. It is all just a matter of preference when selecting one, and sometimes there are so many to choose from that you could select a random link from Google and be fine.
But there is just something special about a traditional calendar, printed and put up for you to see on your wall. It has a touch of class, as well as decoration, and who doesn’t love seeing the next month or day’s photo/comic?
Fonts and typography are one of the most important parts of the design work as they are used to display the text content in a user friendly way. This makes the font library the designer’ best friend that is used frequently in every design task. Free fonts are good resources that designers can rely on to build a useful font library. Although free fonts do not provide as many high quality fonts as the paid ones, but they can help in doing personal designs and some low budget projects, of course this applies to the free fonts that allow commercial use.
Choosing the free font should be done carefully because some fonts do not meet the usability standards and some others do not have the different font styles available, such as normal, bold and italic cases. Thus, it is a good practice to test more than one free font to find the one that suits your design the best. Paid fonts can save you from a lot of the work because they have already been tested and are built in high quality, but on the other hand free fonts can help in small budget projects.
It was only a few weeks ago that I found myself at a local art festival. Going from tent to tent, checking out these incredible local artists, I was surprised by the many that had incorporated photography in with other traditional mediums. Many of them had used photo manipulations software to create a certain look. It was a part of a larger process that made a genuinely unique piece from each artist who used it.
Photo manipulation is a big part of modern art today. While there used to be a limitation on how photographs could be edited, often only by using light and shadow or makeup, now we can greatly influence the finished product. Some people use it only to enhance the image or to make slight changes. Some do things big and completely change the way the image looks or add effects. Others use stock to create a whole new image that would have otherwise been impossible to capture.
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