Category Archives: Roundups

November 16, 2008
Beautiful Business Cards Found on Flickr– also posted in Inspiration

Flickr is a great source for finding inspiration if you know what to search for. I searched for business card designs and found an amazing resource for print inspiration. Check out this short roundup
Rhythm Kitchen

Abnormality World

Bubi Au Yeung

November 13, 2008
50 Must-Have Photoshop Brush Sets

Another nice roundup from the folks over at Smashing Magazine, and they were kind enough to include a set of brushes from Design Blurb in the list

From splatters to paint strokes to textured brushes, this roundup has all of the best quality brushes from around the net all in one place. Well worth [...]

November 9, 2008
40 Great Web/Graphic Design Resources

Another nice roundup of resources from a new and upcoming design Blog, Think Design: 40 Great Web/Graphic Design Resources.

October 23, 2008
High Resolution Textures, Tutorials & Resources

Another nice roundup from Noupe, this time for textures: 50+ High Resolution Textures, Tutorials and Resources. Definitely worth a look if you’re just getting into using textures in your designs.

It’s always nice to see some of my tutorials from PhotoshopStar still being included in roundups, too

October 20, 2008
Ultimate Roundup: List of Useful Photoshop Actions

Another exceptionally helpful roundup on Smashing Magazine - The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions.

I’ve never been much of a Photoshop actions user, but this may well change the course of time… for me, at least.

Check out the list, you might find something you don’t know how you lived without until now

August 26, 2008
“Sketchy” Design Resources

Small list I’ve composed of some helpful grunge/sketchy-style design resources.

Collection of Sketchy Icons (I ended up using Little Red Shoes set).
Sketchy Photoshop Brushes (Perfect addition to your Photoshop arsenal).
Creating a Textured Journal Icon
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters
20 Beautiful Dark Websites to get you Inspired
Free Hi-Res Stone Texture Pack (3)

August 2, 2008
New Design Resource Blogs (That You Should be Following)

I’ve been seeing a few design-related resource Blogs popping up lately, and all of them seem to offer a decent level of quality content, so I thought I would compose a little roundup. Here’s 5 new design Blogs that you should subscribe to
1. Design Shard

2. Kreativuse

3. My Ink Blog

4. DesignM.ag

5. Designious Times

If you [...]

July 15, 2008
27 Best Photoshop Web Design Tutorials

Taken from DzineBlog:
For beginner web designers - design tutorials really help to understand the basic knowledge about web design!, Here is a collection of 27 layout design tutorials that will help you with designing a decent looking website. Some of them are really good!

Definitely worth a look if you’re just getting into designing web templates [...]

July 12, 2008
Top 10 Speed Painting Videos

A short list I’ve composed of the most popular Photoshop/other speed painting videos.
10. Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean) Speed Painting

9. Jessica Alba Speed Painting

8. Indiana Jones Speed Painting

7. Beyoncé Knowles Speed Painting

6. Kate from LOST Speed Painting

5. Jigsaw (SAW IV) Speed Painting

July 5, 2008
Grunge Resources Found on deviantART– also posted in Freebies

Here are some wicked grunge design resources that I found on deviantART after looking for roughly 5 minutes. So, if you’re uninspired and need some more design resources, you know where to look!
Grunge Brushes
A few of the nicest grunge brushes I could find that were made recently. I only selected brushes that are saved at [...]