There a lot of space tutorials out there some are better than others, i have managed to try and select a few of what I think can allow you to get great effects that look like they belong and don’t look completely Photoshopped.

I’ve been experimenting with tea bags and water to create some custom grunge stained paper textures

I closed the competition on Saturday to allow for any more entries, There has been a great response to this theme both about the design and the admin features, so the guys over at Obox / from the couch can be really proud of them selves.

Hash One is the first theme to come out of the Obox Signature Series. This theme is aimed at those who want their personal blog to stand out well above the rest with a unique design which has a subtle, stylish impact on your visitors.

Big Cartel offers an excellent resource for indie t-shirt lines looking for a quick and easy social online store. However, as of this posting, there were well over 4,000 shops at Big Cartel. The majority of these serve up some t-shirts and we wanted to share 12 of our faves?

Please excuse the title, Wings can be one of the hardest things to draw other than the human figure, well Gomedia have been very busy and only yesterday released one part of set 14, these had to be hand drawn wing vectors!

Are you thinking about changing your hosting company because i have, and its great, the value and support is mind blowing. I’ve recently changed my hosting from Godaddy to WP WebHost, and its going great.

This is a collection of baroque style (ornamental) design, this style originates from baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the word baroque can also simply mean that something is elaborate with many details.

Floral and ornamental type dates back to medieval times when scribes were writing manuscripts, they would use the large ornamental lettering as initials and smaller plainer fonts for the body text. Take a look at these great examples of style.

They are relativly high resolution 1600 x 1135 px so they should be a good size to play with and add to your designs, some of them may need colour adjusments and cleaning up but im sure you know what youll do with them.

The random number generator has spoken, and we have our 3 winners for the competion kindly sponsored by U-Printing print company. Congrats to the winners and hopefully youll beable to make good use of your prize.

Yes this is the first showcase from the design shard flickr group and hopefully not the last in a long line to come.

David gives you a quick lesson on how to create a hand drawn website design using the don't lift the pencil technique.

Now we've got the Photoshop basics which enable us to use any type of tutorials in the most friendly manner. It's time to pull out the creativity and realize our own creations.

U-printing is a trusted online printing service for products such as postcards, canvas prints, business cards and many more product ranges. They also have a great give away for the readers of design shard too.