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20 Fresh Icon Sets for Web Designers in Fall 2011
Web designers are jumping from one trend onto the next. The utilization of icons in design work isn’t anything new. However with more designers offering free downloads we can see the increase in interfaces and navigation menus everywhere. Check out the set of 20 fresh icons below as we move into Autumn of 2011.
Monochromatic Iconset
37 Mind-Blowing Cityscape Desktop Wallpapers
Your desktop wallpaper is an important facet to your workflow. The image you’re staring at every day can dramatically influence your mood and tone of the room. Cities are often bustling and always moving, so they can capture the world at work. Thus I have collected some fantastic cityscape wallpapers for your viewing pleasure. Each includes multiple resolutions for desktop and even mobile, so check the source for whatever you need.
Chicago at Night
42 Geeky Tech-Themed Apple Desktop Wallpapers
Apple has built a cult of personality behind their destiny-bound branding. The Mac has grown into a booming business for graphic designers and many talented digital artists. In modern times it’s never been easier to learn digital imaging software and the Mac OSX makes the process that much simpler.
To go along with all you Apple fans I’ve gathered a brief gallery of Apple themed desktop wallpapers. Most are found at 1024×768 resolution with some coming at larger sizes from alternative sources (ex. DeviantArt). There are many differing styles of artwork which demonstrate just how powerful the Apple branding has become.
If you know of similar galleries or great artistic works please share them in the comments below. For one hefty collection of Apple inspired wallpapers it doesn’t hurt to include some additional resources.
Apple Chromatic
10 Popular Free Plugins And Shareware for Adobe Illustrator
For over a decade, Illustrator has been the leading program when it comes to vector editing and let’s admit it still is right this very moment. Initially the Adobe developers had no idea what the user wanted but fortunately they made a plug-in platform so that anybody could build plug-ins either for Photoshop or for llustrator.
As a consequence, there has been hundreds of plug-ins build for those two programs. Nowadays, in this new version of Adobe Illustrator (CS5 or even CS4), one can find almost all the functions that plug-ins had offered in the early days: the Adobe team made the best of this system.
10 Must Have Free Adobe Illustrator Scripts
Sometimes when working with Illustrator tools is not sufficient when it comes to vector editing. Fortunately, Illustrator supports scripting from AppleScript, Visual Basic, JavaScript, and ExtendScript.
When activated, these scripts perform operations within Illustrator or may involve other programs such as word processing, spreadsheet and database programs. You can use some of Illustrator’s scripts, downloaded scripts, or create your own scripts if you are a developer by consulting the Adobe Illustrator Scripting Center.
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25 Websites to Download Free Stock Photo for Your Projects
If you are searching for free stock photo databases, there are quite a few sites on the web that do that, and even at high quality: there are sites that are made by artists or designers for other artists and promote sharing their creations, there are also others which have a double policy, offering both photos for sale and for free, in distinct sections, and there are also sites which offer exposure to new talented photographers who are willing to collaborate.
In any case, there are huge resources of free stock photos on the internet and this article means to help you get to some of the best sources available online at the moment.
54 Awesome Background Patterns for Designers
Now a days you can see the usage of beautiful Seamless pattern for complete website backgrounds, A Designer can make a design more stylish and lively by using patterns creatively, usage of patterns doesn’t stops with website, pattern designs are used in clothing, Posters, Billboards and other print ads as well
Searching for a perfect background for your design is always a bit difficult process, To make the Pattern Searching process little bit easier for you, here i’ve listed 54 Awesome Background Patterns to download, hope you find this collection useful in case if i’ve missed a beautifull pattern which you liked please add it into a comments.
1.) By maxcdn.thedesigninspiration
2.) Psychedelic by Tapastar
3.) Finding a Cure by dinpattern
4.) Red-eyed owl by Sunny21327
5.) Navaho by miice
50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers For Designers
Wallpapers can serve as a nice source of inspiration, The more beautiful and elegant they are, the better they can provide some fresh perspective and creativity in a rather tedious work flow, I bet most of the designers are a wallpaper changing addicts. Designers can never have enough wallpapers in their collection, However changing wallpapers frequently will give you a fresh feeling and thought, here i have collected 50 Really Fantastic Desktop Wallpapers, hope you like this collection
Now give your desktop a fresh and appealing look with this huge collection of fantastic Wallpapers.
1. )Saizen
2. )Disparity
3. )Bokeh
50 (fresh) Beautiful and High-quality Free Icon Sets
I bet most of the designers love free icons, The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way, User-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand,
one of the most amazing thing is, many icon designers create absolutely amazing icon sets and give it away for free download, there are many beautiful icon set out there, here i’ve collected 50 of the most beautiful icons packs for you to download , i hope everybody will find something useful.
1. ) Lovely Website Icons Pack
2. ) Oldschool Icon Set
3. ) Kidaubis Chinese Wind Icon
Design Resource | 30+ Free Quality PSD Files to Download
Most Designers share their Creative design stuffs to others for free. so that others can learn from their works, At sometimes these collection will become marvelous time saver.Here I’ve listed 30+ Quality PSD Resource to Download varies form special effect files to card templates and more, hope you like the download list, Also be aware about license terms and agreements before You put them in use.
