You can run but you can’t hide from the iPhone hype. :) The world is now divided into iPhone owners and the iPhone Envious. I am on the envious poor side my self.

In a previous post I gave you a list of 85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know, which had a great response. Now, in the same line, I have brought together 45 Freeware Design Programs among literally thousands and thousands. It was a great quest, and it was worth it.

No, it won’t replace your fancy CS3, nor Flash, nor 3D Studio Max.
(Remember, we are getting something for nothing here. :)

Some of them are pretty decent alternatives, not only for those who are not willing to spend the big bucks, but also for those who need some specific tasks done, like resizing a batch of picture without needing to run the almighty Photoshop.

Personally, I also find them quite useful when friends & family or clients (or any non-graphically skilled person) ask to do minor/boring tasks (like reducing a red eye). Well, you can hand them one of these apps that can do the trick with a minor learning curve so they will be pleased and you will be relieved.

Hope you can find some gems among them.

We all love those trendy designs with foliage, paint splatters and grunge textures. But we can’t forget our corporate friends.

We can’t always do edgy-looking pieces, sometimes we need to do business designs, too. But that doesn’t mean we have to use the classic handshake pictures.

To help you with that I came up with 3 business silhouettes for you to use in your works. (Don’t worry, the next ones will be business women.)

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Last provocators were white themed. And as Rodrigo Cesár commented, they were peace versus power. Now it`s the other side..

Darkness

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With this post, I’ll be starting a series of frequent (hopefully daily) posts. The idea is to provoke/inspire us.”provocation”

To make it short, I will tag as “provocation” stimuli not directly related to graphic design: architecture, industrial design, photography, textile, etc. And as inspiration, more graphic design related items: movie posters, album art, logos, magazine covers, etc.