14 views on Branding, Identity Design, and Logo design.

I guess there is always going to be a confusion between logo and branding by mostly the clients. Hopefully these 14 designers from around the world will clarify once and for all what is what!!

Brian Hoff's "Understanding Inspiration"

Brian Hoff, a well known designer to most, has written and posted a very interesting article about inspiration and how it can work on designers. A must read if you finally want to "get it"!

40 Photoshop actions to save you time

Actions is one of many features that designers love using while designing. C'mon we all know that Actions save us a good amount of time sometimes, and they much more appreciated when they are cool and creative. YouTheDesigner collected 40 of them in a nice article to share with us the designers.

Safari extensions have arrived (at last)

With the release of Safari 5, Apple has finally introduced extensions, which they will enhance and customize your browsing experience...

Wow! Look at these 15 Awesome 3D Text Effect Tutorials

Rarely one sees awesome tutorials for "hot stuff." Design Shard has put together 15 awesome 3D text effect tutorials that will blow your mind away. If you want to show off, you are going to use them... Guaranty!

The 10 laws of productivity are out

These are the 10 laws of productivity that Thomas Traub from 99% has observed among executors. It's a very interesting article that all designers (new or old) need to read. Sometimes reading again what you know it's better anyway!

Illustrator Tutorials (not only Photoshop)

Enough with the Photoshop tutorials. Finally we can now enrich our knowledge in Illustrator tutorials as well... Why not? Enjoy vectoring (if that can be a word).

Great Resources for Design Freebies - WOW

Design Shack has put together a great resource article for designers. Resources for fonts, blogs, brushes, photography, you name it. I got lost with so many free sites. The only thing you need, is time to start downloading and start designing.  Great source of inspiration as well...

Big and Stylish Headlines with 20 Big Typography Fonts

I just finished downloading some big typography fonts for use, where else, in big and very stylish headlines. Graphic Design Junction has collected some inspiring fonts that are also free to download. Hope you like them too.

80 webiste tutorials by CreativeNerds

CreativeNerds put together a nice collection of website tutorials and how you can build a website that looks great and appealing. Did I mention that these tutorials are for Photoshop?

See what's HTML5 is all about @ Apple

Apple put together a great showcase of what is HTML5 and how to use it. It also has manuals to teach how to use it based only on the safari browser. I think it's a very good source to make you understand what really is HTML5 and its ability to make browsing an ease...

Keep your imagination rolling

Nowadays we have a lot of resources on planning, organizing, freelancing, etc. But now there's a good amount of resources and tools for creativity, and here are 5 techniques that can get you started.

Yet another Photoshop text effect tutorial

Amateur or not, tutorials are a great for keeping you practicing what you already know, but sometimes give you a tip that you didn't know. Tutorials that show you cool stuff are even better. Lunch Photoshop and start teaching yourself...

Handwritten apps to sketch on your iPad

Most of us, designers, when an idea comes we need to put it on paper. But what happens when we have no paper around? Well, if you have your iPad it can come to the rescue. There's already a hand-full apps for hand written note taking apps, but here appadvice takes a look on two best sellers.

Convert .pdf ebooks to be compatible with iBooks

Some of us have already a selection of design ebooks in .pdf files that want to have them in their new iPad. This article will help you, not only to import these documents into the device, but also have them in your iBooks library.

Etiquette for your iPad

With the new technological gadgets, we need to rethink how we are using them in our everyday lives. Sending more than one SMS while talking to your family or friends, it's rude... As rude is to read on your iPad while eating dinner (as newspapers or magazines are). 

Turn yourself into a Photoshop guru

Photoshop and its abilities of creating almost everything is a very popular tool for designers and others that want to only experiment with the software. CreativeNERDS points out 50 websites where one can find high quality Photoshop tutorials.

iPad decals! Yeap they are here...

As decals is one form of design, they are now ready for transfer onto your iPad making it even hotter than it already is.

Throw yourself into the knowledge of HTML5

HTML5 has been very popular lately, threatening to destroy Flash all together. If you still have questions about it, like me, it's time to jump into reading and learn what's the buzz is all about!

Armin follows up on AOL's 2nd collection of logos

Six months ago AOL celebrated its 25th anniversary. Now AOL has a second collection of logos and animations, which they want to dominate out brains.

Yet another 37 unusual business card designs

Collis Ta'eed has gathered some unusual business card designs for inspiration. This post is just some of the concepts, but more can be found on Creattica.

Don't let inspiration kill your design

Sometimes looking at archives designer's think they get inspired. Even though often that's the case Dmitry Fadeyev has an opinion for both.