Coming up in this week?s roundup of interesting and useful links is a group interview with a bunch of designers; a showcase of big backgrounds in web design; a huge collection of designers to follow on Twitter; a tutorial on creating a cool glowing effect and a fun post checking out what random things designers [...]

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A great looking abstract design can be created from the simplest of shapes. Let?s take a look at compiling various geometric shapes and objects to form a dynamic composition in Illustrator, then polishing it all up with some transparency effects to create a trendy vector illustration. Start work sketching out a rough plan for the design, [...]

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The best way to learn the ropes of a new application is to get stuck in with a working project. This Adobe Illustrator tutorial covers the simple steps involved in creating a vector RSS icon and includes a range of handy techniques that can be put into practice in future creations. Adobe Illustrator is a vector [...]

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In this week?s bunch of creative web findings, we have a handy roundup of how-to?s on styling lists with CSS; a great Illustrator tutorial for creating mascots; a fab advertising design showcase; an excellent tutorial for creating a detailed icon; and advice from top designers on how blogging can help your business. Dev Snippets Dev Snippets have [...]

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Templates are a handy resource for any apparel designer to mockup your awesome tee design and show it off in all its glory. Such resources can be a little tricky to come by, especially those high quality files, but check out this huge collection of T-Shirt mockup templates, featuring plenty of highly useful files in [...]

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Detailed digital illustrations come in all shapes and sizes, and often make use of abstract shapes, flowing lines and bright colours. This collection of 50 inspiring abstract illustrations in web design showcases some of the best, eye popping designs out there on the net. ANidea IconDock Wayne Dorrington Bali Web Creator DS Design Funky Remixes CSSStyle.me Rob Sheridan Adventure Drop Danatur.de Douglas Menezes Naumow Chirag Solanki Kirdan Weblody Twenty2Designs iPrimi Dieci Titofelix Zinaz Lyrical Media Sean [...]

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For this week?s roundup of cool and creative links we have a collection of the top design blogs to follow; a bunch of designers who share their logo design processes; a tutorial on how to convert web design mockups into XHTML/CSS; a tutorial covering the process of creating a printed promo kit; and a compilation [...]

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Follow these steps in Adobe Illustrator to create your very own super cute fuzzy monster character. We?ll be working with the basic shapes to start, then use a variety of gradients to add depth. We can then finish it off with some detailed fur effects to really lift the design from the screen. Start work on [...]

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For this week?s collection of creative design links check out a site dedicated to free textures, examples of awesome light graffiti, a tutorial on creating a watercolor effect, an illustrator graph tutorial and a Photoshop steampunk illustration walkthrough. Texture Lovers Texture Lovers is a new design site by Max Stanworth aimed at presenting free textures along with [...]

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Last week I posted an Adobe Illustrator tutorial covering the process of creating your own cute and fuzzy vector monster. This week, I’ve put together a little family of monsters, available for free download in the form of icons. Each monster can be found in PNG, ICNS and ICO filetypes for use on your Mac, [...]

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