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Red Flowers: Free HQ PSD and Vector Pack

February 20th, 2008 by mao
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20 Red flowers cuted from flickr under the creative commons license for you to use on your artworks.

The pack consist on transparent .psd isolated objects, and color vector traced files in .eps and .svg of each them a .txt with the attributions and a .jpg with the preview.

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How to create a “Fake Vector” image in Photoshop (part II of II)

February 15th, 2008 by mao
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Hi! I’m here for the second part of the studies about how to make a photo become a fake vector using Photoshop.

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How To Improve Direction in Your Designs

February 13th, 2008 by mao
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Direction is an often forgotten but never unnoticed principle of design. It is created using some or all of the elements of design—shape, scale, line, value, texture, color and space. Direction can be defined as the movement of the eye throughout a piece. It is an important principle because it guides the viewer through a design; from the first thing they notice on down, across or up to the last object, which should ultimately lead them back into the design so as to keep their eye on the piece.

So how do you position elements to guide your viewer? Take a look at the way the following designs implement the principle of direction.

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Freebie: Wordpress Rainbow Feather Theme

February 12th, 2008 by mao
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The V3 is finally out - one of the most beautiful wordpress themes on the free realm. Maybe you have seen it already, its name is Rainbow Feather. If not, this is a great chance to.

As the name suggests, Rainbow Feather delivers an impressive clean cut layout, with rainbow colors, in a single fluid column with a color palette resembling the rainbow in subtle gradients.

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How to create a “Fake Vector” image in Photoshop (part I of II)

February 11th, 2008 by mao
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Hi guys! I’m really happy to be here as a guest blogger, I have no words to thank Mao. Well, my name is Estefany and I’m here to give you some tips about working with “fake vectors” on Photoshop. First I’ll be showing you the basics of the main tool we use to work with vectors on Photoshop – Pen Tool - and later we’ll make a photo become a fake vector.

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Five CSS-Coding Steps from a Professional

February 8th, 2008 by mao
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Last week I had the opportunity to interview Chris Coyier from css-tricks.com and he gave us his approach on css-coding. In that interview he describes how his coding process can be resumed in five steps which I wanted to review again for you in this post.

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Design Inspiration: 3rd Edge Portfolio

February 7th, 2008 by mao
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3rd Edge is a comunication firm locate in USA since 1996. They aproach in design is quite clean and clever and you can tell that just to enter to they online portfolio.

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American Design Awards Semi Annual Design Contest

February 6th, 2008 by mao
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American Design Awards is calling for entries for its Semmi-Annual Design Contest. The summer deadline will be on August 15th with a grace period until August 31st. The winter deadline in on February 15th with a grace period until March 1st. The contest is open to graphic and web designers from around the world.

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Chris Coyier: The guy who showed us how Beautiful HTML Codes Looks like

January 31st, 2008 by mao
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For those of you who don’t know him, he is the guy behind css-tricks.com, where he teaches us all the tricks he keeps under the sleeve. Today we have the opportunity to interview him and ask him some questions regarding his approach to the tricky world of CSS.

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Design Watch: Design Contests @ Zenhabits/Nielsen Norman Group/Asian Heritage/Karmaloop

January 28th, 2008 by mao
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There is a new category in the blog: Design Contests. In this one I will keep you informed of the latest design competitions on the web. From t-shirts and logos to application UIs. Here are the first 4 contests.
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