Tutorials added on September 30, 2008

So our Monday freebie is ready for the masses, and this week, we have a grunge corners and edges photoshop brush pack for all of our readers who have an appreciation for the grunge. Well, and the photoshop. So enjoy the set and know that we have more coming next week. As always, these brushes are free for commercial and non-commercial use!

Are you a designer looking for nice fonts to design high quality logos? Take a look at these 10 free fonts you might use to design impressive logos for your customers. This collection includes Unit Rounded Bold, Helvetica Neue, Qlassik, Punk's not dead, Chica Monospace, Kyra Lynn, Nicotine, Light Out, Anja Eliane and Danube.

Here you will find 28 Excellent Free Mac Apps for Graphic and Web designers: GIMP, Scribus, JAlbum, Paparazzi, Google SketchUp, Linotype Explorer, FotoFlexer, Seashore, Xee, Lego Digital Designer, Colorate, , Front End Digital Media WorkShop, Autodesk Maya, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, Simple CSS, Blender, HyperEngine-AV, POV-Ray, Gnuplot, DAZ Studio, Bryce, Goldberg, Image Tricks, Inkscape, NIH Image, Comipro Plus, Scratch, iPhoto.

Blogger it's a very powerful platform to publish your blog. It's free and with some features which you can customize how you prefer, without limits. In this post I want to illustrate some tips which can help you to improve your Blogger template to design a professional layout for your blog.

Creating stunning space scenes is a great way to practice many photoshop techniques. It’s amazing that many of these tutorials use limited source files and most effects are created with photoshop itself. Rock textures are used to help create surfaces. It’s time to create your own galaxy!

I’ve been wanting for a while now to write a designer wallpaper-list article. As a designer finding nice wallpapers that you actually like can be quite an adventure.

What is a webdesigner without inspiration? And what is inspiration without artists? This time, I was looking for talented 3d artists with great abstract skills across the globe. I’ve researched through many and many gallery’s to get the best (I mean personal) 3d abstract art available. I also included the names of the artists and there website. That means all the credits goes to them! I just made a GREAT top15 of my favourite art. 3D Abstract art is a modern form of art designed on a computer (for the people who lived in a 3d box for the last decate). I wrote an article about it because I see a lot articles about fonts, photo’s and other art but not much about abstract art…strange! Maybe am I the only one who likes it…

Showcasing some very cool business cards and different approaches compared to the traditional ways of the business cards. I have been building up this posts for quite some time now…here is a Flickr group that has some great business cards.

Searching for quality 3D tutorials can be hard to do sometimes. Especially if you have already learned modeling techniques and you wish to learn more in detail other aspects of the 3D software. That’s why I have compiled a list of a few tutorials around the web I think would be excellent to read if it’s your goal to further expand your knowledge of 3D software. These include spline modeling techniques, quick tricks for fast modeling, simulation using reactor and other various techniques.

A kick-butt logo design is of great importance to any business. Often seen as the first impression of a company, its logo must be tailored to communicate specific values and ideals in an instant. However, logos not only have the look good, they should also be thoughtfully designed and capable of taking on a variety of uses. This could include being scaled to a range of sizes, being reproduced in flat color and being printable on paper stock. In this post we look at 30 contemporary examples of great vector logo design and find out what makes them work.

As a compliment to our tutorial post for this week, 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop, we thought Arbenting should put together a piece to go along with it. We have scoured the tubes to find you the coolest collection of commercial free-use Photoshop brush packs we could dig up. So check ‘em out and enjoy.

As the monitor resolution and internet speed is advancing, it seems like more and more designers use over-sized photo or illustrated image as the website’s background. Large background image can create the stunning visual effect, especially for high resolution monitors. It can also add more life to your site design compared to the traditional tiled background graphic. Here is a collection of 80 websites that used large image as the site background (must-see, you won’t be disappointed).

You can find lots of .PSD files all over the net. But if your looking for some good and useful Photoshop Files, I guess you came to the right place. Here’s a list of some high quality .PSD files which i found on some great sites for you to download. Most of this are even a tutorial so you’ll gonna learn from it too. This is just a Part:1 of the list so expect more useful and high quality PSD File resources will be serve here for you in the future.

Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come. In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements, product designs and concepts.

Collections of illustrations and graphic designs from artists around the world. Now and then we stumble at various artists whose work we find inspirational. In a week or so we might not remember the name but the image will still be there. It's great to keep the record of their locations, whether in your computer, or in your bookmarks, etc. Brought all together they might make a nice inspirational collection.

Browse and download Free Vector Desktop Wallpapers.

Since human existence, communication always is playing very important role in our life using drawings, word of mouth, eye signals etc. To make communication easier and to save information, human invented symbols to describe things they see, speak or just use. Now in our days, for example, we don’t write actual letters, we just send an email, which is really impersonal if we compare those two things. Now people tend to use handwritten fonts, sketched graphics to give their design more personal touch, in the sake of old days. Handwritten font can really say something special personalizing communications with Your visitors. Actually there are a huge amount of great fonts out there, we never heard of. I wanted to dig a little deeper and so I created my own selection with some very special handwritten fonts and also great font resources, You probably never heard of!

Having a good looking Web Design Layout on a website has a very nice impact to some visitors. Especially if its an eye catchy and attractive, its pretty sure that they will come back again and again. Here I pick 15 great tutorials where you will learn how to design a nice web layout. I’m sure this will help you. This is just a Part 1 of the list so more nice web design layout tutorials will be post in the future. I’m gonna make a web design layout tutorial here in NaldzGraphics too on one of this days so watch out for it:)

I have taken all Vector articles and all User Submitted/Recommended Resources and compiled this list of the Best Illustrator/Vector Resources. I took into consideration popularity (both from outgoing links and Technoratii ranking), the quality of resources, number of resources and, to be honest, how well there site was designed. I have split the resources into categories: Free Resources (downloads); Tutorials; Free Illustrator Brushs; Illustrator Symbols; Illustrator Plugin; Free Vector Logos; Free Vector Editors. Thanks to everyone who helped me with this list.

When it comes to online publishing, most of us are firm believers of the same old rule - Content is king. We’d like to argue a point that, even with the greatest blog that constantly pumps great contents, it’s not to overlook the importance of interface design. This includes overall color matching, the typography, attractive logo, proper text and paragraph alignment, clear navigation, etc. Another way to look at things is when you put an image and a row of text side by side, image is where the eyeballs are while the text plays a supporting role. We spent weeks going through hundreds and hundreds of blogs in the blogosphere, looking for blogs with nice and interesting design. We marked down those with great interface, graphically beautiful, unique personalities and styles. Here we bring you - 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design. You might learn something or perhaps inspired by these designs. Full list after jump and get prepared to scroll.