35 Inspiring Food Packages
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Continuing our posts showing you beautiful and inspiring packages, we gathered some really nice examples of food related packages. From catchup to peanuts and honey, we will show a little bit of everything to illustrate that no matter what your product is about, a nice and well designed package always counts for good! Once again we got the images from Lovely Package , so we recommend you to click at the images to go to LP’s website to read more about each package and its designer. Also, if you have a suggestion about what kind of packages you would like us to showcase here, comments are open. =) Bakina Tajna Pure Land Michael’s Farm Glace Artisan Ice Cream Prima Luce Student Work – Fran Aldea Gallo Occasions Gran Farina Azada Organic La Sirena Justin’s Nut Butter Sir Kensington’s Gourmet Scooping Ketchup Gail’s Bakery 5 Points Honey Student Work – Kayd Mustonen Student Work – Samira Khoshnood A.O.
Tags: architecture, daily, Design, flowers, images, Inspiration, interview, pattern, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography
Photoshop Layer Styles: Comprehensive Guide
Aug 26, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
Photoshop’s layer styles — effects that alter the appearance of a layer — are just fantastic. Photoshop pros use them quite frequently as an absolutely vital component of their workflow. This guide delves into the topic of layer styles, discussing the various effects you can achieve with this handy utility. Continue reading…
Tags: color, drop, glow, guide, illustrator, layer, layer-style, opacity, pattern, shadow
Creating Complex Style Illustrations: A Process
Aug 4, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
Learn the process of making a tribal-style illustration using only some fundamental techniques in Adobe Illustrator. This is more of a process overview than a play-by-play tutorial and thus, some basic skills in the program are needed in order to follow along. The main goal here is to show a workflow process, and from there, it’s up to you to add your own style and aesthetical preferences to your piece. I encourage you to let loose and experiment while doing this project! Continue reading…
Tags: background, blend, Brushes, cloister-black, design-tutorials, duplicate, ellipse, heinritzh-sales, illustration, illustrator, pattern, process, Resources, Tutorials, work
Quick Tip: Create a Damask Pattern Using the MadPattern Illustrator Template
Jul 29, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Damask is a style of pattern that is easy to recognize, but not so easy to replicate. In this tutorial you will learn that with the right tools, anybody can make their own damask pattern that looks just as good as the ones you see on fancy hotel wallpaper, with the help of a template file. The template used in this tutorial can be downloaded for free from: http://www.madpattern.com/ Recognize that: The symmetry is specified as CM (more information on Wikipedia – Wallpaper ) The image only has two colors The main components of the image lie within a triangle which is then mirrored and moved to generate the pattern (see image below) Notice how anything that lies along the right edge of the white triangle gets mirrored, and anything that lies along the bottom left edge of the white triangle gets mirrored and moved vertically (so that it appears at the top left edge). Noticing these features is what gives you the power to create this type of pattern.
Tags: become-a-fan, color, freebies, illustration, pattern, Tips, triangle, Tutorials
MSNBC New Background Design in Photoshop
Jul 5, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In 2007 I wrote a Photoshop tutorial for PSDTUTS that was a user request, actually it was a request to from one but from quite a few readers, they wanted to know how to create the MSNBC header effect. Back in those days it was a brand new design with that very colorful background image on the header. Now in 2010, they have a new website design and I was invited to help them with the background image. I was stoked, especially because they wanted to keep a colorful effect but with something new.
Tags: abstract effect, architecture, blend, case-study, illustration, image, Inspiration, interview, pattern, tutorial
How To Create a Trendy Seamless Pattern in Illustrator
Jul 5, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
The great thing about seamless repeating patterns is that once created, they can be used as a base for all kinds of awesome designs. Skateboard decks, custom apparel, package designs and website backgrounds are just some of the uses for the good old pattern swatch. Follow this tutorial to build a vector based repeating pattern of your own, featuring trendy graphics of skulls, stars, lightning bolts and other cool pop imagery. The pattern we’ll be creating has a mono colour scheme of grey, white and black and features a bunch of cool graphics.
Tags: archives, Design, Graphic Design, graphics, illustration, illustration-tips, illustrator, pattern, shape, skull, vector graphics
Quick Tip: How to Create Multi-tone Vector Noise
Jun 29, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The following tutorial will show you how to create a subtle multi-tone noise texture in Adobe Illustrator. Similar to a filter or effect you would use in photography, this method is 100% vector and can be scaled and edited as much you like. Step 1 Start by opening a new document. Go into your Swatch palette and click on the options button and go to Open Swatch Library > Patterns > Basic Graphics > Basic Textures.
Tags: become-a-fan, Design, facebook, facebook-become, freebies, group, pattern, premium, shape, tools & tips, tools-amp-tips, tutorial, Tutorials, vector
Create an Abstract Design with Patterns in Photoshop
May 17, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
I’ve just finished up another little digital art experiment where I set out to build something cool and abstract out of Photoshop patterns and simple shapes. Follow this walkthrough as I take you through the steps I took to recreate this detailed design with nothing more than gradient and pattern effects. The design itself is made up of a range of concentric circles, with each group varying in size. Each circle is given a base colour from 6 core swatches, then gradients and pattern fills add detail and depth.
Tags: abstract, gradient, Graphic Design, opacity, pattern, Photoshop, selection, Tutorials, vibrant
6 Elements of Design for Striking Photographs
May 12, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
What makes a striking photo? Often, it’s merely ordinary things composed in an ordinary manner. That’s because they always tend to have a single theme or idea, and because clutter is kept to a minimum. They are simple, true, and sincere.
Tags: articles, basix, composition, diana-eftaiha, elements, facebook, Inspiration, pattern, photo, photography fundamentals, phototuts, post-processing, Tutorials, videos
Must Read Inspirational Blogs & Websites for Creatives #6
Mar 24, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
What do you mean your RSS reader is already full? You don’t wanna see mine! Anyway, this week we’re featuring some new, inspirational and (unfortunately) must read blogs for all you design, freelancing & creative ppl out there. Type Goodness This is a showcase, as well as a resource of inspiration and finding anything related to type. We cover anything from Digital, to Print, to showcasing free fonts Theme Flash The primary purpose of this site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources Devise Function Devise Function was launched in January 2010 by professional web designer Matthew Heidenreich, who currently runs the website providing tutorials and resources to developers and designers across the web Johnny Holland Magazine Johnny is the means through which we communicate, with respect for his character.
Tags: articles, catalin-zorzini, Design, Inspiration, Inspired, iphone, pattern, pattern-pulp, Resources, the inspired list, trend-hunting, Websites
