Author: Max Stanworth
Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too you can also follow me on twitter @designshard.
These vectors were created by taking rubbings of various objects such as walls and wooden panels with a black crayon on to A4 plain paper - once scanned and vectorised they have immediatly become usable assets for your artwork maybe in poster or t-shirt design.
These paper textures were scanned from an old manuscript that I bought - They have been scanned in at a high resolution and would be ideal for any project that requires a vintage look and feel.
The London 2012 Olympics is not only about the sport and athleticism but also about the art, listed are the promotional posters that have been designed and created by some of Britains iconic desingers for the Olympics 2012 and the Paralympics 2012.
You may have seen me tweeting over the past couple of days making these vectors from paint brush to Illustrator, well here they are for free download.
It's your chance to win a HP EliteBook 8740w Mobile Workstation continue reading for further instructions on how to enter.
The HP EliteBook 8740w has a very distinct grey metal finish to the outer casing which makes it look particularly classy and durable. its scratch resistant and also helps protect against general wear and tear...
A few Photoshop light effect tutorials that have caught my eye while looking over the tutorial sites, for me these produce the best results while using brushes, blurs and other media such as textures to create a top quality effect.
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.
Free Smoke On The Water digital wallpaper download in various sizes and for iphone.
Ive had these fully stained paper textures scanned in a while now made by soaking them in coffee for a few days, you can see all the little details on them and they look great in my opinion!.
I've collected a few twitter accounts together that retweet certain #hashtags that you apply to your tweets, id reccomend adding one or two to the end of your tweets of the related subject.