My week’s off to a bright and mystical start. It’s amazing what a perfectly smooth cup of coffee will do for a designer!
Illustrations for Free Commercial Use
September 5, 2011 By
Here’s a few great websites for really great design elements.
Be sure to read the terms for use and leave a comment to say thanks to the designer for the sweet treats! :-) I’ve added their Twitter links too.
DeadWingDesigns offers some really great vector designs that can be used for your commercial use with no attribution required including bar codes, grunge swirls, kaleidoscopes and abstract circles. Follow them on Twitter.
Rob Bowen & Angie Bowen from DeadWingDesigns also have a really great blog site offering free vectors and helpful advice for design community. Freebies are available for both commercial & personal use with no attribution required. Follow them on Twitter.
Who doesn’t love Smashing Magazine?! It’s the very best resource on the internet for the latest news and resources in tech, design and social media. The freebies are awesome, too! Follow them on Twitter.
WebDesignLedger.com has some awesome posts on free brushes, vectors and other dreamy design freebies. As stated on their website; “The Web Design Ledger is a publication written by web designers for web designers. The primary purpose of this site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources.” Follow WDL on Twitter.
Of course, you could always create your own vector art. Here’s a great tutorial.
Friends of Design have some great video tutorials for designing with Adobe Illustrator.
Free Presets for Adobe Lightroom
October 7, 2008 By
There are so many awesome and free presets out there for Adobe Lightroom these days. If you’re new to Lightroom and not quite sure how to install them, worry not, dear one. Hop on over to LightroomKillerTips.com and learn how right now! Then go grab these… [Read more...]
No Focus on Love Art Piece
May 20, 2007 By
I just finished this piece for art class here at Santa Monica College. The objective was to design to a specific size with a specific number of colors, shapes and fonts. The shapes were not allowed to touch one another. There could not be any focus that the eye would be drawn to, yet there had to be a theme of the words used. The final submission had to be hand drawn and colored. I designed this in Adobe InDesign CS2 and traced it onto art paper using ad markers and a fine tip black marker.
