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Ultimate resources for grunge design a massive collection

Ultimate resources for grunge design a massive collection

Im a big fan of grunge and creating grunge designs is one of the most interesting things to do in my opinion whether it be a web design or a piece of grunge art. This post covers where you can find grunge resources such as brushes, textures, tutorials, wordpress themes, fonts and interesting reading articles.
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Typographic + Design inspiration from music magazine ads - pt 2

Typographic + Design inspiration from music magazine ads - pt 2

More typography and design inspiration from music magazine adverts, this post follows on from the first part Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts.
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Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts

Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts

I was browsing some old NME music magazines and i realised some of the advertisments for festivals and bands truly are works of art, they can provide some good ideas for any designer be it for web or print, lots of textures and colours to get some creative inspiration
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Ultimate Source for tiled background patterns

Ultimate Source for tiled background patterns

An excellent resource for repeating background patterns / images, patterns such as these can be used for a host of things such as a web page background and blog backgrounds or adding extra detail to containing blocks, adjust the visibility and youve got a great new look for some thing that would normally look quite plain, here youll find some tutorials on how to create your own and some sources to download patterns.
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22 Online Web / Design  magazines you should look at

22 Online Web / Design magazines you should look at

While looking for some nice resources i found some really cool online art and design magazines that provide some very interesting reading while i wasnt working, they contain alot of inspirational work and provide a good source of knowledge.
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Create a stunning grunge background - A video Tutorial

Create a stunning grunge background - A video Tutorial

With the release of my 300+ hi-res grunge texture pack i thought id do a nice quick simple video tutorial to create a stunning grunge background using the colours from a photo on deviantart and a texture from the texture pack.
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300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before!

300+ Free Hi-Res grunge textures you’ve never seen before!

Here is a free Hi-Res texture pack that i have made over the weeks for you all to download, the pack contains over 300 grunge, worn, torn and weathered textures that i have taken in and around my house.
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16 Interesting ways to browse Flickr images

16 Interesting ways to browse Flickr images

Sometines i need the extra inspiration from Flickr that it does not deliver, flickr is a great tool but there are so many ways to view the images located on Flickr with these exciting mashup sites, They offer a whole host of interesting search functions, such as colour picker and similar image search a good way to see lots of images at once.
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20 Ultimate sources of web design Inspiration

20 Ultimate sources of web design Inspiration

These days with such busy lives designers are increasingly pressured to produce great work, sometimes a push in the right direction is needed to get the right design inspiration, so here is a must know list of css galleries to get the juices flowing for that next project.
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