Design Shard

Here we feature an artist who goes by the name of "ROAN", for the design savvy amongst you will remember him from the PSD Tuts post about South American Artists in which he was featured - This is truly awesome design and illustration.

I finally had a chance to create some Fractal Photoshop Brushes and here they are. These are very useful for getting unique space effects and abstract compositions, such as a solar flares.

Whilst looking through Behance I discovered a female illustrator called Irina Vinnik from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

This week we bring a concept car design from the Jaguar design team . This is a fantastic look into how a concept car is created from initial sketch to augmented reality hologram.

Today we decided to give you some inspiration; business cards are an important and also fun aspect to branding oneself or company, especially when you’re in the business of design.

This week we bring you 19 well crafted and functional websites. These all have a simple and yet eye catching design ranging from CSS to Flash based. Hopefully they will give you a little boost to your creativity.

These textures are all taken with a tripod to ensure accuracy. They are all at a very large 3264 x 2448 so will come in handy on a variety of projects. They are of various shrubs trees and plants from nature in the British Summer.

Summer is finally here (for the Northern Hemisphere which inspired me to gather together some stunning nature inspired wallpapers. Hopefully these will bring you as much inspiration as they did me.

Here we have a selection of various Photoshop photo effect tutorials fresh from this year. They are all in Photoshop but if there are enough requests, I’m sure we can do some in other photo editing programs too.

I like to think that this is a list of some of the more high quality 3D text effect tutorials out there, Some of these aren't for the faint hearted as they use programs such as Xara and 3DS Max.

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or an initial great first impression of the site, here are jsut a few of what im liking.

These were created by soaking A4 pieces of paper in a tray filled with food colouring and then left to dry in the sun.

We had some old picture frames in bags so I took the opportunity to take photos of them and remove the backgrounds and the actual paintings in Photoshop and create some stock .png images

I've selected various Photoshop tutorials that I'm liking at the moment for light effects, some have quite cool techniques on how to achieve the end result that can be applied to a million different designs.

Robert DeVore of GreenStar TV has kindly donated these awesome concrete textures to be released here at design shard.