Thursday, 10 December 2009

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This Week’s Favourites – December 11th 2009

Posted: 10 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST

In this week's roundup of creative goodness, we have a modern website layout tutorial; a fabulous Adobe Illustrator character tutorial; a roundup of the grunge theme in web design; a prediction of upcoming design trends in 2010; and an overview of current iPhone App website design trends.

Six Revisions

Six Revisions

Six Revisions host this great Photoshop tutorial that covers the process of building a great looking modern portfolio website layout. Learn how to use various layer styles to create subtle interface effects.

Ai Monkey

Ai Monkey

Ai Monkey is an awesome new blog I recently stumbled across. It’s based on the topic of vector graphics and Adobe Illustrator, and is already packed full of some fantastic tutorials. This particular tut shows you how to create an amusing insurance agent character.

Spyre Studios

Spyre Studios

If, like me, you’re a fan of rough and grungy design this post is packed full of inspiration. Spyre Studios host this great collection of samples and discussion about the grunge design style.

Web Design Ledger

Web Design Ledger

With 2009 coming to an end there’s talk of what design trends are in store for 2010. Web Design Ledger post this collection of items that we’re likely to see more of in the new year.

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall takes a look at some of the trends that appear in iPhone app website design, giving a description of common elements as well as a fantastic roundup of examples.

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

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A Splendid Evening at the .NET Awards in London

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 11:00 PM PST

On Thursday 3rd December 2009 I had the pleasure of heading down to London to spend an evening at the .NET Awards, hosted by the fabulous .NET Magazine. It was a great opportunity to finally meet some of the web folk we’re all familiar with, and to experience the results live at the awesome Altitude 360 venue in the centre of the capital. Here’s my video overview of the event from my personal viewpoint, and a summary of the winners of each category.

Web Application of the Year – Dropbox

Dropbox

Best Community Site – Twitter

Twitter

Best API Use – TweetDeck

TweetDeck

Interactive Site of the Year – NVIDIA Speak Visual

NIVIDIA Speak Visual

Blog of the Year – Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine

Podcast of the Year – Boagworld

Boagworld

Vodcast of the Year – Diggnation

Diggnation

Design Agency of the Year – Clear Left

Clear Left

Innovation of the Year – Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Internet Personality of the Year – Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Viral Campaign of the Year – Nitro/Best Job in the World

Nitro - Best Job in the World

Standards Chamption – Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman

Open Source Application of the Year – jQuery

jQuery

Redesign of the Year – Whitehouse.gov

Whitehouse

Mobile Site of the Year – Flickr

Flickr

Mobile App of the Year – Shazam

Shazam

Infamy Award – IE6

IE6

All in all it was a great event! Did your favourites come out on top? Check out the all the finalists in each category over at thenetawards.com

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Sunday, 29 November 2009

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High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes

Posted: 29 Nov 2009 11:00 PM PST

Photoshop brushes are an important tool for creating textures and roughing up a design. This set of rough and grungy Photoshop brushes take on a drybrush effect, with plenty of detailed whispy lines and long strokes. Download them for free and use them in your personal and commercial designs!

High qualuty rough grungy brushes

Photoshop brush preview

Photoshop brush preview

Download Free Photoshop Brushes
8.3mb | 1 x ABR (CS4)

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Thursday, 26 November 2009

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This Week’s Favourites – November 27th 2009

Posted: 26 Nov 2009 11:00 PM PST

In this week's roundup of creative goodness, we have an awesome design project insight; an excellent Illustrator pattern tutorial; a fantastic Illustrator tutorial making use of a pen tablet; an inspiring roundup of texture use in Web Design; and an Illustrator tutorial covering use of the Gradient Mesh tool. So basically if you’re an Illustrator fan you’re in for a treat!

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall

Nick La from Web Designer Wall gave an absolutely awesome design process insight into his Koi Illustration project. Check it out for some serious design inspiration.

SpyreStudios

SpyreStudios

Have you ever wondered how those intricately detailed seamless patterns were created? This post on SpyreStudios shows the process of building a repeating pattern swatch from a sketch with Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.

Vectips

Vectips

Learn how to create an amazing Zombie illustration with a pen tablet with this fab Illustrator tutorial from Vectips.

Web Design Ledger

Web Design Ledger

In need of some web design inspiration? Web Design Ledger has this roundup of excellent examples of texture use in Web Design. A style of design I personally love!

VectorTuts

Vectortuts

The gradient mesh tool is one resource I’ve still got to get my head around. Thankfully there’s tutorials like this from Vectortuts that show us the way forward. This one is particular covers the process of creating a photorealistic iMac.

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