Archive for Graphics

25 Vintage Easter Postcard Designs.

Every holiday is an opportunity to promote your business to the market. Since we will be celebrating Easter soon, MyPostcardPrinting has decided to gather 15 vintage Easter postcards designs to inspire your direct mail marketing campaign.

The mysterious “Save For Web” Color Shift.

Warning, the following information is hotly contested. The color on a recent project at Viget, through no fault of its own, was obviously changing, and they were at a loss for a way to prevent this. The usual suspects get knocked out pretty quickly in this issue: It isn’t a Mac/PC thing, it isn’t a monitor thing, it isn’t because the color profile is somehow set “wrong”. Fellow designers: Somewhere between PSD and JPG, Photoshop is draining our colors of their life, like some horrible, RGB-stealing vampire. There’s a lot of confusion on the web over why this is, and a lot of solutions being offered. Everything they found fails the acid test.

Color in Design: Gray.

In this series by Sitepoint, we’ve looked at pretty much every color in the rainbow and it’s use in design. In this post, we’re looking almost at an absence of color because today, they’re writing about the color gray. Gray is a balanced, neutral color and it is very popular in web design. It doesn’t evoke particularly strong emotions (except maybe a bad mood). It’s not as definite as black, but a very dark gray can do the business in almost the same way. Read on.

18 Travel Brochure Designs

In order to market your travel business effectively, you need to provide customers with attractive and informational brochures. Grab your target customer’s attention by designing a creative travel brochure for your business. To help with your design project, BrochuresPrintingOnline have picked 15 sample travel brochure designs for your inspiration and viewing pleasure.

The Secret Language of Signs.

Signage—the kind we see on city streets, in airports, on highways, in hospital corridors—is the most useful thing we pay no attention to. When it works well, it tells us where we are and it helps us to get where we want to go. When it fails, we miss trains, we’re late to appointments, we spend hours pacing the indistinguishable floors of underground parking garages, muttering to ourselves in mounting frustration and fury. And in some cases, especially where automobiles are involved, the consequences of bad signage can be fatal. Slate presents an excellent article about the Secret Language of Signs.

Balance: Definition and Gallery.

Balance is the arrangement of objects in a given design as it relates to their visual weight within a composition. Symmetrical balance is achieved when design elements hold the same weight or when two sides of a centrally placed item are arranged equally. The second type of balance, asymmetrical, occurs when objects of varying visual weight balance each other around a central point. FreelanceReview elaborates.

Over 50 sets of the latest Photoshop Color Gradients.

If you want to do powerful work quickly, then your Photoshop application should be loaded with all the most important things like brushes, styles and Gradients. If you have proper gradient sets in your Photoshop, then you can make some beautiful eye catching stuff. If you like web2.0 effect then load the gradient of web2.0 and start the work. Artatm has tried to find the best available gradients with web2.0 and glossy effects.

50 beautiful Newsletter Designs.

A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication, generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email (eNewsletters) have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in general is gaining popularity over printed correspondence. Check out these designs at Creativurbia.

The Principles of Great Design.

As a designer or lover of design you might find yourself asking not what is design, but what makes a design great? How often have you gone through a gallery and looked at some great designs and told yourself that you are going to open up Photoshop or a browser and do the same thing right now only to find that when you are done the end result simply doesn’t match what you were expecting? Drawar explains the Principles of Great Design.

Over 500 Beautiful Frames.

StunningMesh presents over 500 Beautiful Frames for you. These frames can be used for making different Wish cards. All Frames are Zipped in a file, some of these are inserted directly so you can view these. Total Frames = 501. Total File Size = 36.4 MB