Ever wonder how popular designer Elliot Jay Stocks works? Well check out this blog post / screencast on how to design a portfolio site from start to finish. This is a really great video that I suggest everyone checks out.
How to Design a Portfolio Site
I am a huge fan of checking out creative advertisements. Rather than do another round up of just creative advertisements, I decided to do one that focused on creative ads that showcased animals. If you enjoy browsing some creative ads, this list has plenty of them!
Vector style mascots seem to be a popular design trend these days. Colorburned has created and AWESOME tutorial about how to create your own, original, mascot from scratch. This includes both sketching and polishing.
Lois van Baarle is a 23 year old Dutch girl with a style all her own. It is pert retro, part digital, and part unexplainable. Whatever you want to call it, her stuff is amazing. I found her on DeviantArt and plan on buying some of her stuff. If you like it as well, you can buy prints of some of her stuff here.
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Designer Daily has compiled a cool list of “lifehacks” specifically tailored for designers and creatives. This includes things like How to make a Moleskine PDA, 8 Important Money Saving Tips For Web Workers, and The 5 Simplest Healthy Habits You Will Ever Learn.
Abduzeedo managed to uncover a cool artist on Deviant art who goes by the name of Poison Vectors. Well the style is a bit trendy, they manage to make it their own by adding in their own personality into the design.
20 Amazing 3d Illustrated Portraits
poisonvectors.deviantart.com
If you have ever wondered how to create that popular space/retro/8os look, then check out this tutorial by the Fudge Graphics blog. Is very well put together. I played around with it earlier and even learned a few things I didn’t know about Photoshop!
Very cool
Tutorial: Create A Retro Cosmic Design in Photoshop
David Walsh put together a nice little round up of Moo Tool plugins that you should always use in your website to help make it more user friendly. I totally agree with just about all the choices on this list, and suggest that you always work these elements into your designs.
Tired of typical and boring contact forms? Well this site showcases the exact opposite! Tones of really cool and creative ways to design and layout your contact page and forms.
Jaw-Dropping Examples of Beautiful Contact Page Designs
If you have never visited the YouLove.Us website, you are in for a treat. They have a pretty neat animated header. But, it isn’t your average annoying animated header. This one is subtle and has some nice effects to you. They recently published a tutorial on how they did it.
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