[App of the Week] Pulse News Reader
03.03.2011, 10:51Prettiest news in town
Consuming news is probably one of the most important pastimes on the internet – besides harassing others with your daily activities and watching cute kitten videos. Accordingly there are news apps aplenty. AppStore HQ currently lists 8349 for the iPhone alone. Let us introduce you to Pulse News Reader Mini – probably the most appealing way to aggregate multiple news feeds on your iPhone.
Astonishing print ads from around the world
01.03.2011, 10:33Captivating designs in print advertising
Print advertisements have the huge advantage of offering a lot more space for your design ideas. They can be developed and implemented down to the last detail. For this article we collected some of the best print ads from all around the world.
[App of the Week] Google Translate
24.02.2011, 8:50Translations to go
Today’s app is a must-have. Google translate does exactly what the name suggests: it translates texts and spoken phrases between more than 50 languages. Only available on the Android market for quite some time it has recently been released for iOS, making it available on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Open PSD files for Photoshop maniacs
22.02.2011, 10:21To learn and get inspired
When creatives make their psd-files available for free on the internet we get the chance to reconstruct the creation process of another artist layer by layer. There’s a lot to learn when photoshop professionals allow a look behind the scenes.
Best of advertising posters
17.02.2011, 9:42Great visual design from the world of advertising
Today we once again present a neat collection to get your creative juice flowing. For you we dived into the area of poster advertising and searched for outstanding examples from current campaigns and marvelous poster design studies.
30 texture packs for instant use
15.02.2011, 9:54For your flyers, web designs or graphic compositions
Textures are very handy to easily create natural looking structures. Photoshop tends to be too “clean” to create these from scratch in the same time. Through different filter combinations it would, of course, be possible. However, the time and effort invested stand in no reasonable relation to the outcome. Here we collected some of the most beautiful ones for you.
Thank you for 1000 followers! [Coupon]
11.02.2011, 12:49We celebrate our millenium with a give-away!
This week we breached the magical 1000 followers and would like to show our appreciation for your loyalte with some free print credit. Thanks everybody!
[App of the Week] Smartr
10.02.2011, 9:02Handy news reader for Twitter
If you use Twitter on a regular basis you will have noticed that finding relevant news isn’t exactly easy. Your timeline tends to be populated by wise-crack quotes, thought bubbles and check-in updates. Searching worthwhile tweets with relevant links easily approaches the limits of his patience. A solution for this problem is now provided with the free app Smartr by Factyle, Inc.
33 fresh Illustrator tutorials worth checking out
08.02.2011, 8:57A collection of the newest workshops and tutorials
Should you wish to upgrade your illustration skills this collection of tutorials for Adobe Illustrator might be your perfect starting point. More than 30 step-by-step instructions guide you towards formidable results. The spectrum ranges from cool text effects, cartoon characters and handy patterns to icon design and logo drafts or complete graphic artworks
24 design resources for Valentine’s Day
03.02.2011, 10:21Everything you need for a beautiful Valentine’s design
Valentine’s day is less than 2 weeks ahead. February 14 is probably the most romantic day of the year. You wish to give your loved one a beautiful present but don’t have a good idea about the styling? We gladly help you out and scanned the web for useful resources to create a beautiful Valentines design for your gift and put them in this collection of brushes, textures and tutorials.
