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10 Places to Download Free Icon Sets

Whether you want to spice up the look of your desktop, create a unified theme on your website, or use them for graphic design, matching icon sets come in handy. Although in recent times the use of icons has shifted towards web and interface design, icon sets are useful for many purposes. If you have the proper skills, you can use applications such as Illustrator to customize your vectors and design a spiffy icon set, but why re-create the wheel? Here are 10 top resources for free icon sets. Download... 

15 Places to Find Awesome Free Photoshop Brush Sets

Even the best of us creative types struggle with what I like to call “designer’s block,” staring at a blank canvas in your favorite graphics editing program for hours. It can be downright difficult to find inspiration when starting a design from scratch. I have often found that one great source of inspiration are Photoshop brush sets. Depending on the type of website, I might choose to create my design based on a set of grunge brushes. Or for a more artistic website, I could choose... 

10 Places to Find Absolutely Free Vector Graphics

Vector graphics allow the preservation of quality within an image. These graphics at times offer superior quality over the traditional (raster) image formats, such as Bitmap. This means that if you were to view a vector and bitmap image next to each other, as you zoomed in you’ll be able to see that the bitmap image will suffer from pixelation while the vector graphic’s quality will remain intact. Here are 10 of the top sites where you’ll be able to grab absolutely free vector graphics... 

Roundup: Even More Sites Where You can Find Images Free and Clear

I wrote about using Flickr a while ago as a good source of images that you can use free and with few or no copyright limitations. Lately, I’ve been organizing my database of  places to find free and unrestricted images. Keep in mind that “free” often requires your giving the source credit and a link back to the image provider’s site. No, this list does not include every site in the universe. If you have some favorites, please add them as a comment and I’ll add them... 

The Importance of a Simple Online Resume + Free Template

In this day and age, it’s not just graphic designers and programmers who really benefit from having a simple online resume, it is anyone on a serious job-hunt. (Although, if you are a designer or programmer, you should really have one.) Here’s why: 1. It shows you go the extra mile Potential Employers are definitely looking at all angles of you when you apply for a job. Having a personal website, however simple, is a sign that you take some pride in yourself and that you take things... 

Designer’s Toolbox: Blank Business Card Templates

One of the many ways to save time as a designer is to have a toolbox. That is, a collection of design files to help you get started or to reference when designing. These files might be templates, layer styles, swatch pallets, code snippets, anything that keeps you from having to do something tedious from scratch when you’ve done it many times before. Designer’s Toolbox will be a series here on Tutorial Blog. Each post will bring you new tools for your (hopefully) ever-growing toolbox.  Read More →

Free Software for Designers

Paid software is fine but there is always an alternative for free – Today we round up the best free and shareware software for web designers …  Read More →

Wordpress Theme Release : ShinyThings

Our third Wordpress Theme is now available : Shinythings. It’s compatible with Wordpress 2+ and is available for download here.  Read More →

Wordpress Theme Release : CityScape

Our second Wordpress Theme is now available : CityScape. It’s compatible with Wordpress 2+ and is available for download here.  Read More →

Wordpress Theme Release: Tuut

Just a quick announcement to say we have released our first Wordpress Theme : Tuut. It’s compatible with Wordpress 2+ and is available for download here.  Read More →