Presenting the best graphic design links from the web. Over 5,000 articles tested, sorted and classified into relevant categories. A graphic designer's goldmine.
The humble business card. A 90mm x 55mm canvas to express your creativity. Meh.
Prepare yourself for some mind-blowing business cards at Webdesignerdepot. They showcase 100 (really) creative designs that use different textures, materials and shapes. Think outside the square.
This wonderful site lets you easily convert bitmap images to crisp, clean vector art. You get two free conversions to check it out, then there’s a monthly online usage fee, or a desktop edition (for the professionals). It really is Vector Magic.
Oh how we love our icons and buttons. So much creativity from so few pixels. It’s great fun to design your own, but when you’ve got a tight deadline and you need something yesterday, a free icon set can be a lifesaver. Techmagazine‘s got them, as does Desizn Tech, Noupe and another at Noupe . May they save your scalp.
Don’t be concerned by the age of this site, Fawnt highlights the Top 55 fonts rated by downloads. There are some very sweet fonts to choose from, PC or OSX.
A more recent list is the Top 22 at Instantshift. Interesting to compare lists with the passage of time. Of course, all fonts listed are free.
Color is fundamental in our lives. It surrounds and influences us from the moment we wake up. And most importantly, in our work. Check out color trends and palettes at Colourlovers. If you have trouble naming or identifying colors, Name That Color is a lot of fun. Color Name & Hue has a similar approach, as well as linking to color blindness.
Kuler is a free web-hosted application for generating and browsing color themes. It’s provided by the good folk at Adobe.
RedBubble is an open and inclusive website where you can share your creative genius with the world. You can exhibit (and sell) your, art, design or photography at this lively site.
The gang at Bittbox have a regular ‘Free Texture Tuesday‘. Check them out, every Tuesday.
The good folk at urbanfonts provide a staggering 8,000 freeware fonts and dingbats. Nicely categorised and well laid out. You simply must bookmark these guys.
This is simply awesome. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size.
This site offers a useful guide to the usage of dashes and hyphens, ems and ens.