Graphic Identity: August 2008

Sunday, August 31, 2008

BrushKing.eu: Free Photoshop Brushes with Quality

Have you wonder of how much time you've been taking to look for a high quality photoshop brush on the internet? The search engine might display lots of resources, but only few that included high quality of brushes inside the recommended website. I think this is the time for you to visit BrushKing.eu ;).

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BrushKing.eu is a new website that collects great numbers of free Photoshop Brushes with quality. No need to be hassled to find what you're looking for when you visit the Brushes Gallery, because at the very right sidebar you will see how those brushes are nicely ordered into categories. You can navigate better by browsing the whole brushes that have been tagged using a search form.

FEATURES
Featured Photoshop brushes by specific categories that get lots of attention are: Splatters, Swirls and Vectors. The collections of those three brush set categories are the most wanted stylish trends over the professional designers and blogers. While the community news section, allows you to submit one of your own articles or something that you appreciate from another blog (all related articles about brushes). Yet, BrushKing.eu has became more dynamic as a resourceful Photoshop brush set collections website, ever!

Another amazing thing about BrushKing.eu is how easy you will get direct access information from an animated sliding tool tip when image thumbnail box of each brush set is hovered. You will see common infos about the brush's author, download link, brush set license, number of brushes in a set, download popularity counter and detail link, simply by going through pages of brushes gallery.

WHY BRUSHKING.EU?
BrushKing.eu has currently listed over 2000 brushes from great designers, so make sure that you won't miss the updates by subscribing to BrushKing.eu RSS Feed. Please tell us what you think about this website after your first visit or drop a testimonial comment of how BrushKing.eu collections have become such a helpful resource to your design project!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Biweekly Blogroll Links - August 17th 2008

WEB DESIGN and INTERNET
XXX Inspiring Desktop-Space and Book Theme Web Designs by ShareBrain.info
Irresistible Websites: Part One by Tracey Grady
List of Free Online Tools to Generate Boxes with Rounded Corners by AllWebDesignResources.com
How To Create Facebook CSS Styles by AK
Cao Interactive Web Design Portfolio by caointeractive.com
FlockStar! by divageekdesigns.com

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

10 Flickr Groups for Designers

Sharebrain Flickr Group
If you are a designer, web-worker or just a creative person feel free to share your work with the community. Designs, Layouts, Photographs, or Logos are welcome. This group is quite new, but you may have the opportunity to be featured on sharebrain.info web resource community.

Web Design and Graphic Design Group
Web Design and Graphic Design group is created by Alex of CrazyLeaf Design blog providing news and resources for both beginners and advanced designers, coders, photographers and graphic artists.

Graphic Identity Design Showcase
A place to share many things about graphic design resources and share your graphic design to receive comments and constructive criticism from other member's community. If you were using Graphic Identity's free designs box to your design, just don't hesitate to submit your work by joining this group :) We have published the first Graphic Identity User Showcase and get ready for the second roundup guys!

PSDTUTS
This group is for readers of PSDTUTS photoshop tutorial website, to post up their creations using or inspired by the tutorials and you can chat with each other and generally show off the design work!

BittBox User Showcase
A Flickr group for anyone and everyone who would like to share their designs and what they have learned or used from BittBox Freebies/Tutorials.

Go Media User Showcase
Post your art or designs created using stuff from Go Media's Arsenal. If you get lucky as they like your design, it will be highlighted on their blog at www.gomediazine.com.

My Ink Blog
This group was created for the readers of My Ink Blog. So they can show off their work, or the results of stepping through one of the tutorials.

Abduzeedos
A group made for Abduzeedos blog readers. Stunning graphic designs are posted here.

What is Graphic Design Poster Competition
The pool was created for Graphic Design Poster Competition contest held by Veerle's Blog in the early of July 2008. 623 posters were submitted and you can also check out some of the incredibly awesome winner's posters on Veerle's Blog

The Business Card
This group is all about business cards. Design, application, and distribution. A great spot to discuss good quality of card designs and aesthetics. Compare and contrast styles, composition, and technique.If you're proud of your business card, just join to start posting your creative biz card!

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Monday, August 11, 2008

CSSnewbie Contest

CSSnewbie celebrates the August with the first-ever CSSnewbie Contest! CSSnewbie is one of our favorite CSS resources website. We have joined with over 1400 happy readers by subscribing to CSSnewbie email feed about a month now and absolutely happy reading the wonderful updates so far.

How to enter?

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You just need to subscribe to the CSSnewbie RSS feed and if you’re already a subscriber, you don’t have to do anything else except remain the subscriber you are.

Watch for a pass-phrase to appear at the bottom of an article in CSSnewbie RSS feed. The pass-phrase won’t be present in every article, but it’ll be there often enough that you’ll be able to find it if you’re looking for it.

Once you’ve found the pass-phrase, shoot an email to contest@cssnewbie.com. The subject line should be the pass-phrase and nothing else. The body of the message should contain a link to the website you’d like to have reviewed/promoted, and can also contain any other comments you’d like to include. Email them before the contest ends at the end of the day (11:59PM Central Time) on August 31, 2008.

The winner will receive:

1. A review of your website on CSSnewbie.
2. Eric Meyer’s book, CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web.

Sounds great isn't it? Start your entry by visiting this cool CSSnewbie blog and subscribe now before you are running out of time ;)