How To Create a Gothic Blackletter Typographic Design
Sep 6, 2010 General, Tutorials
Blackletter or gothic script fonts are hugely popular in a range of modern cultures. Metal bands, tattoo artwork and extreme sports brands all make use of the awesome blackletter style. Often the sharp letter shapes are enhanced with elaborate swirls and decorations. Follow this step by step guide to customizing your own gothic typographic design, we’ll be modifying the original vector letters in Illustrator before moving over to Photoshop to add a cool distressed and metal effect finish to the artwork.
Tags: adobe-photoshop, Design, design tutorial, gothic, Graphic Design, illustration, illustrator, pathfinder, Photoshop, photoshop tutorial, shape, Style, texture, vector
Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In August’10
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes to selection of right resources you need to be very careful and specific about needs.
Tags: billboard, css, Design, design-billboard, official-link, photography, psd-to-html, resource, roundup, showcases, trends, Tutorials, vector, Web Design
Illustrator Template Toolbox for Web, Mobile and App Developers
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
For today’s post we have an extensive selection of UI templates, all in Illustrator format, and all perfect if you are a web, mobile or app designer who prefers to use Adobe Illustrator rather than the more commonly used Photoshop. It was mildly surprising how difficult this post was to put together, I really did expect to find a lot more. What is clear from this is that generally most designers would not even consider Illustrator for UI design, which was an even bigger surprise. So, if you are a UI designer who does prefer Illustrator over everything else, then you may consider this post as your treasure chest.
Tags: css, Graphic Design, icon-design, illustrator, Inspiration, photography, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography, vector
Vexel Art Inspiration by ChewedKandi
Aug 31, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
ChewedKandi is the name of artist/designer Sharon Milne. She lives in the North East of England and has a passion for vector art. Sharon has been interviewed and featured on a variety of websites. She has recently began writing tutorials for VectorTuts+ .
Tags: architecture, Design, Design Inspiration, gimp-tutorials, illustrator, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, north, Photoshop, Photoshop Tutorials, Tutorials, vector
Best of the Vector Web – August 2010
Aug 31, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As you know, each month, we search the web for the best vector-related content and showcase it here for you all to enjoy. This month, we found some really great tutorials on vector character design, creating charts in Illustrator, and vector skulls among others. We’ve also expanded this month’s offering. We have the regular articles and freebies sections, with some high quality fonts front-lining this month, and we’ve added sections on inspiration and quick tip tutorials.
Tags: articles, basix, Design, Effects, freebies, illustration, Resources, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, vector, web roundups
30 Cool Websites with Vector Like Background
Aug 31, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this post we’ll be looking at some awesome site backgrounds that have been created in Adobe Illustrator or in other similar programs, and have an unmistakable, specific ‘vector look’ which is very trendy currently. They usually use shiny looking illustrations as part of the background graphics, or collages of various decorative elements, again with a digital look. In this case it is very important what image you choose to feature on the background: creativity is more than necessary in the choice you make. It is enough to rightly place one illustration whose drawing style and original subject is astounding and you will convey a special personality and character to the whole site.
Tags: business-cards, compilation, flash, illustration, Resources, search-engine, stumbleupon, vector
Freebies Sticker icon Pack Download these icons for Free
Aug 26, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
All members of the editorial staff of this website are web designers, that is the reason we all know then better than someone, the technical problems regarding this job. One of these problems is to get graphical resources in high quality, with a cheap price and with first condition, to be used by all types of projects. Regarding these situation, we have decided to start new series of posts on expertsdesign.com, posts you will be able to access for free. Every week, you will find a new graphic resource you will be able to download and to use by your own or business projects.
Tags: freebies, freelance, graphics, hosting, icons, photography, Resources, tools, Tutorials, vector, wallpapers
Simple Roy Lichtenstein Style in Illustrator and Photoshop
Aug 23, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
I have been playing with the Halftone filter in Photoshop for the past few weeks and trying different things we can do with it. I also discover the Width Tool in Illustrator CS 5 and it was a great surprise because now we have much more freedom when playing with strokes. So with these two things in mind I decided that I had to create an image using them, and then the idea of a design inspired in Roy Lichtenstein. There are quite a few tutorials showing how to create this type of image, but I decided to try it myself.
Tags: Inspiration, pencil-tool, photo, photography, Photoshop, tutorial, Tutorials, vector, vintage, week
Inspiration – 30 Colorful Vector Portrait Artworks
Aug 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources
A vector portrait is a computer-generated work of art made up of lines filled with blocks of color. Most vector portraits are based on photographs, so look pretty realistic in terms of form, but the colors used can vary wildly from natural skin shades to intense, kaleidoscopic tones. The color palette chosen has a direct influence on the mood and atmosphere of the artwork itself, teaching the viewer lots about the personality of the portrait’s subject and their relationship with the artist. Below, we take a look at 30 colorful vector portraits that will hopefully inspire you to create your own.
Tags: artist, free-vectors, freebies, Inspiration, portrait, Resources, think-design, vector, Vectors
A Sneak Peek at Premium for Non-members
Aug 18, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Vector Premium launched in late September 2008. Since then we’ve added over 60 Premium tutorials for Premium members and hundreds of Illustrator and InDesign source files. Over 10,000 members have formed our unique Premium community. Learn more about the material and resources available to Premium members to Join Premium today.
Tags: Adobe Illustrator, Design, details-create, news, premium, premium-tutorial-details, tutorial, vector
