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Creattica Community Linkup – July 09

Travis — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:50:43 +0000

Once again our great community has stepped up to the plate and sent us in a compilation of top-notch links. From inspiration to humor, it’s all here in this month’s Creattica Community Linkup!

45+ Beautiful Logo Design Tutorials and Resources for Designers

A compiled a list of outstanding logo design tutorials that will give you a head start in the process of creating great logos.

Four ways to keep the creative juices flowing

Four ways to keep the creative juices flowing.

Creative Den goes over 4 different ways to stay creative and to keep the new ideas coming.

7 Incredible Computer Generated Works of Art

A great selection of works of computer generated art.

30 More Essential PDF Documents Every Designer Should Download

A collection by Positive Space of some of the most useful PDF documents available to designers on the web.

ProFolio

ProFolio is an elegantly designed portfolio for artists, designers, photographers, or anyone that has creative visual pieces to share.

60 Beautiful High Resolution Paper Backgrounds

I can never seem to get enough paper backgrounds. Photoshop Roadmap drops 60 more HR paper backgrounds our way.

Inspired Interview – Jerrod Landon

Inspired Magazine interviews Jerrod Landon Porter, graphic designer extraordinaire.

When Design Meetings Have Got You Down

A big thanks to Creative Fluff for sending in this clip from one of my favorite comedy troupes.

Ultimate list of Typography resources: inspiration, tutorials, tools and books

A big list from for the typography lovers among us. Lots of useful resources for learning the basis of typography, from books, inspirational works, tutorials etc.

Tips for designing big websites

From the Couch shares their tips on designing for monster size web sites.

Free tool: Symbol Signs collection

Great collection of 50 common used signage symbols, all professionally designed. The symbols signs are free of charge available as an OpenType font format.

25 Creative Flash Websites with 3D Illustration Environment

DzineBlog runs down a collection of the best Flash Websites with 3D Environment and 3D interfaces.

Cute, Japanese emoticons for iChat and for your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Add a little kawaii to your iPhone with with Marmalade Moon’s cute, Japanese emoticons.

10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing

Ready to add more browser tester bookmarks? Here’s a few more ways to test for cross browser compatibility with minimum of fuss.

Vintage 2.0 – Glossy Retro Takes Over Web Design

Inspired Magazine’s roundup of 25 websites that mix the retro with the shiny. Worlds are colliding!

Maximize Your Keyword Efficiency

A good list of Do’s and Dont’s when it comes to keywords and how they will effect your search engine ranking.

Top 3 Cost-Cutting Strategies for Web Designers

Pinch those design pennies with Matthew Paul’s cost-cutting strategies for web designers.

Jaw-Dropping Examples of Beautiful Contact Page Designs

Some great examples of beautiful contact form design by Balkhis.

10 Inspiring Designers & Developers You Should Get To Know

Niki — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:59:20 +0000

Its always interesting to see other designers under the spotlight – being interviewed about their work process, inspiration and their thoughts on the future. Hope you enjoy this round up of 10 talented and inspiring designers and developers.

Adelle Charles on My Ink Blog

Adelle talks about multi-tasking, productivity, and how she manages to squeeze more than 24 hours out of a day.

Chris Coyier on Line25 Blog

Chris Spooner of the new Line25 blog interviews Chris Coyier. Chris talks about how he got started blogging and designing and where he is headed in the future.

Soh Tanaka on CSS-Tricks

Next up we turn the tables and Chris from Css-Tricks interviews Soh Tanaka. Soh talks about his education, personal projects and his education and background.

David Leggett on Fuel Your Creativity

David talks about how he got his start at age 10, his freelancing life and his background.

Collis Ta’eed on The Design O’Blog

Collis talks about bananas, his favorite projects and how he got his start in design.

Liam McKay on Fuel Your Creativity

Liam discusses inspiration, freelancing, and how he named his business.

Fabio Sasso on PSD Fan

Fabio talks about his work/life/blogging schedule, his favorite projects, and where he thinks the design industry is headed in the future.

Jonathan Snook on Net Tuts

Jonathan discusses his favorite programming language, taking the freelance plunge and his pet projects.

Zeldman on .Net Magazine

Zeldman talks to .Net Mag about web standards (how’d you guess?), surviving the dot com bubble and how he is surviving this recession.

Cameron Moll on Net Tuts

Cameron talks about speaking at An Event Apart, HTML5 and where he sees the web design industry headed.

Other places to look for interviews

Design Interviews
This site has a great collection of interviews with designers of all types – from web design to type design to print design.

Creattica Community Linkup – May 2009

Travis — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:08:21 +0000

Creattica is blessed with an active and interesting community! So I’ve pooled up some of the best links that you’ve sent our way for our monthly Creattica Community Linkup.

I can’t get through all the great links in one month, so keep sending those links in!

15 fresh & funny iPhone apps you must touch

For all you iPhone lovers, you’ll want to check out Inspired Magazines app rundown for the iPhone & iPod Touch. These aren’t your traditional apps!

Twitterspread

Spread the good work with this Twitter app. Twitterspread is about those small moments of joy that bring a smile to our face, and on rare occasions, that ultimate kick-ass-feel-good moment.

Creative Opera

Be sure to bookmark this new blog. Designer Manda Szewczyk has worked in the design industry for over 10 years and brings a lot of value for new designers, future designers, and those who just love to love design.

Mushin Do

Johan Dorper sent us in this link to the website Mushin Do. I’m a sucker for anything Japanese…but I must say I really dig the header and how it breaks out of the box.

twittag

Impress your friends by busting out Designer Rafie’s twitttag at your next conference. It can be used for tweetup (twitter meet up) or any social networking event where twitter is common. Maybe don’t bust it out at your Grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary :P

Molly On Opera The W3C And Web Standards

OpenSourceRelease interviews usability expert Molly E. Holzschlag on her take on current web standards and Opera. It’s also great to see Molly using a different headshot :)

Iconfinder

A big thanks to Martin Leblanc for this link to Iconfinder! It’s a wonderful resource for quickly searching for freely available icons. Simple to use and it works really well.

My 10 Favorite Typefaces Of All Time

Grace Smith goes through her top 10 favorite fonts. It’s always fun to see which fonts capture the imagination of designers. One thing I have to say about Grace’s favorites – she certainly likes sans serif helvetica-ish style fonts :)

Why Niche Banner Ads Fail

Interesting article by Zach Dunn on why certain niche banner ads fail. I’d say most surfers filter out ads pretty well. It’s as Zach says because of the “tendency of serving up some incredibly bland or gimmicky contextual banner ads for many basic keywords.”

The Social Bird icon set

Tired of the same old twitter icon? Inspired Magazine servers up some…unusual alternatives.

Creative Gap

Jin gives his feelings on what he terms the “Creative Gap” – the disconnect between what we want to create, and what we end up creating. Very interesting article on what many designers suffer with when they get stuck in a design.

BestPhotoshopTutorials

Tired of searching the net for Photoshop Tutorials? BestPhotoshopTutorials tries to pull all the quality tuts into one place.

Illustration work by Matti Kemppainen

Illustration work by Matti Kemppainen for Finnish catering service. Some great use of strong saturated colors.

Reviewmydesign

From browsing the FreelanceSwitch forums there always seems to be a big need for designers to have their work reviewed by their peers. It’s great to see the launch of Reviewmydesign as a site dedicated to having your worked reviewed by fellow designers.

How Much for a Website?

The question “How much for a website?” can be every designer’s dream or nightmare. Matthew Ferreira article justifies the cost of a strong website design and build by outlining the number of steps involved in the creation of a website. And he doesn’t even use the “How much is a car?” analogy once!

Wikimetro

Looking to add some local twitterers to your follow list? Wikimetro makes searching for people in your area much easier that doing a regular twitter search.

60 Layout design tutorials

Area 1 rounds up some quality design layout tutorials. Make sure you have some extra time before you click because the list is gigantic!

25 years of cool designs

Internationally recognized design firm Duffy & Partners has just posted 25 years worth of logos they have created. It’s quite a collection.

Spray paint: a collection of 9 hi-res textures

Get grungy with some high resolution spray paint textures. The best thing is – no annoying spray dots all over your arms and clothing!

Shadowness Sneek Peek

Shadowness Sneak Peek

For those unfamiliar – Shadowness is an art community that allows artists to share their work with others. It’s currently undergoing a new design and Kyle Thacker gives a little sneak peek behinds the scenes.

Beautiful board game designs

I’m a board game geek – no ameritrash for me! :P So I was excited to read Creative Closeup’s list of beautifully designed board games.

The Creative Unity

Joseph Vanlandingham lets us know that The Creative Unity has just launched a new website and is now accepting designs for their 2nd book. Submitting is free and there is no limit on the amount of designs that you can submit.

Interview: Dan & Andre from Dress Code NY

Travis — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:19:56 +0000

Dennis Eusebio sent in this link to an interview with Dan & Andre from Dress Code NY. Dan and Andre have recently written a book on their life from high school to college to starting their own studio.

Why Do We Love the Creative Community?

Travis — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:52:09 +0000

Spoonfed Design was been busy interviewing designers from the around the world to put together the article Why Do We Love the Creative Community? I think I love the creative community because she has a great sense of humor :P

No matter where you live and how you live, you are at some point part of some community, may it be your neighborhood or your town. As a creative, you are also part of the community of brilliant and passionate designers and developers just like yourself.

Designer Q&A

Travis — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:51:12 +0000

Raph Goldsworthy from Design Droplets has put together a great series of question and answers with several designers and artists. You’ll find it an interesting look into their work and methods.

Graphic Design On The Radio

Niki — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:33:00 +0000

Check out some great interviews of well known designers and discussions of hot topics in the graphic design field.

Graphic Design on The Radio is a radio show about graphic design. It features interviews with leading designers who talk about their work and play music that has inspired and influenced them.

Curating Personal Behavior

Niki — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:45:48 +0000

Nicholas Feltron (yeah the annual report guy) was interviewed on SVA’s MFA in interaction design blog about how all this ‘keeping track of everything’ came about. Pretty interesting!

An Interview with Brian Hoff

Travis — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:08:17 +0000

Ever wonder who that Brian Hoff fellow is? Matt from Spoonfed Design gets the dirt on our mysterious black-and-white-bearded designer with his interview of the brains behind The Design Cubicle.

Trained and certified by Apple, Brian has over 8 years of experience in the design field, and he certainly knows what he’s taking about. So, now it’s time for Brian to share his knowledge with you.

Interview With Chris from CSS-Tricks

Niki — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:14:32 +0000

I had the pleasure of coming up with some silly interview questions for Chris Coyer from CSS-Tricks. Chris offers his insight on bananas, web design and buying domain names on a whim.