Letterhead Designs
The logo is designed, the colors are picked and even a corporate font...so what's next? Right, the letterhead! Inspiration here:
25 Letterhead Logo Designs.
The people over at
slodrive have picked 25 great design ideas from conventional to wild and colorful.
Labels: logo
Fantastic Vector Speech Bubbles
Need some need
nice very nice speech bubbles for your design? Well, here you go:
Bazaar Designs Speech Bubbles is what you were looking for.
Plainer speech bubbles are sth. anyone can draw since school...but those are just awesome.
You can download the packed Adobe Illustrator file
here.
Labels: illustrator, stock
Icons as Font with Iconscrabble.com
I just discovered this new service called
Iconscrabble. The idea seems to be known to all Mac OSX users that wonder if they can play scrabble with their icondock. Well, now anyone can.
But not only can you type a text an see the result. The images can be downloaded as PNG and also have a vanity URL to share the graphics:
http://iconscrabble.com/0FCu4And it gets even better: discover. Some Icons i recognized some I saw for the first time. Just by clicking on each icon i get info on what's it all about and get a link to the service.
Labels: font, illustrator, logo, photoshop, stock
Logo Trends 2010
Each year the start-ups come up with great new logos usually creating or at least following a new trend. A great summary for 2010 can be found at
LogoLounge featuring such categories as Cubist, Tendrills and Hexagon.
Labels: logo
New Fonts For 2010
Once again the awesome people
at Smashing Magazine made a nice compilation of newish fonts. Go read more about
25 New High Quality Free Fonts. My favorite fonts there are
Tribbon and
Keeparty as they are following the trend of multilayerd or multicolored fonts.
Labels: font, stock
ULTIMATE After Effects Tutorial Collection
Seriously,
THIS collection has it all. Anything you might want to try out in video and postproduction with Adobe After Effects seems to be on
Naldzgraphics.
The 'Growing 3D Vines' guide is quite a suprise and helps you create 3D without 3DsMax or C4D. Awesome!!
'Popping Animation Effect in Adobe After Effects' and 'MoGraph Urban Jungle' are the animations you see on a daily basis on most TV stations. Just the perfect tutorials!
Labels: after effects
2 nice and easy Photoshop tutorials: Smoke and Lightning
Any postproduction requires some final touch...the more boring the original image the more likely one will tend to add some nice effects such as smoke or lightning. As there are millions of more or less usefull tutorials you might want to take a look at these:
"
Abstract Lightning Effect" from
Adobe Tutorialz is pretty cool.
Also this 7-step smoke tutorial by
Abduzeedo is quite a suprise. It is so simple yet powerfull and can give ones image that extra touch.
Labels: photoshop
