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Excellent designers

Here Dzineblog presents you the 10 creative designer portfolio of the month may , they are presented in no particular orde

Blogging Icons Set

There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. Bloggers can use it on their own personal and commercial projects.

20 Stolen Designs

Here is another list of possible graphic design rips off. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether these pieces are plagiarised or just inspired.

Website Bg Images

Background images are one of the visual elements that when designed properly, can create an amazing atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen for the website.

7 Principles of Effective Icon Design

Before approaching icon design there are some guidelines and principles that are worth studying. If you want to create effective icon designs, then you should take a holistic approach to issues such as: audience, size, simplicity, lighting, perspective, and style. This article gives you a good starting place for creating icons that work well together and fit seamlessly within your designs.

1. Approach Icon Design Holistically

Icons fit within graphic systems. Whether they are designed for desktop applications or websites an icon is one of many graphic elements that need to work together harmonically. Carry this logic across icon sets as well. Icons can be appreciated for their esthetic solutions individually, but they don’t function alone. Evaluate your icon designs relative to the graphic system your using them in. Make sure that each icon differs from surrounding icons, while still working together as a whole. In the article Designing an iconic language over at Turbo Milk the author Yegor Gilyov states, “If you need to draw several icons, you need to think over images for the whole set of icons before proceeding with illustrating activities.” This is one of two major points made in this article on icon design. He goes on to explain how failing to plan how the whole set of icons will work together from the beginning will ensure a huge waste of time, as redesign will be inevitable. Read more

Addons for Designers

These 10 essential Firefox addons will make your life as a graphic and web designer much easier!

Making Composites with Octoberfest Glassware

Placing masked glassware on a new background can be a difficult task. Either the glass looks too transparent, with bits of the old background showing, or it lacks highlights, or shadows. The techniques covered in this tutorial are not limited to Octoberfest beer mugs. You can use these practical techniques for any type of glassware in composite Photoshop images.

Step 1

We start with a picture of myself holding a beer mug and a photograph of the Octoberfest scene. The picture was a snapshot I shot while I was visiting Munich during Octoberfest. Download the images to get started: Octoberfest image and Beer image. The crowd image has been blurred. This does two things: it fakes a depth of field and it protects the identity of the passerby’s. Read more

killer illustrations

40 Killer illustration designs for inspiration we run into some cool portfolio on the web we found out some great illustration design, i mean u ‘ll love these

Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote

Apple has so many beautiful products. Their product designs consistently attain a sought-after status; This distinguishes them as an innovative company. In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to make a shiny new apple remote.

Step 1

First of all create a new document and fill it with black. Read more

Vector rainbow

Blue background vector rainbow in high quality EPS file.

You can also use it as a desktop background or you can select the awesome shapes from the illustration thanks to the vector format.

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