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My Top 10 Computer Arts Magazine Covers
There is one thing that is guaranteed to make me smile and that’s hearing a thud as my favourite design magazine Computer Arts hits the door mat. Every month I am amazed at the beautiful cover art that stares back at me from the floor. I neatly file away all my magazines after a thorough read as they are always a constant source of inspiration.
I was flicking through them the other day and once again I was taken back by the fantastically designed covers. So I thought I’d post my top 10, here we go in no particular order:
Are you loyal to a particular design mag? We’d love to know, there’s always room for good quality literature on our shelves!
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Graphic design resources
Whether it’s for design inspiration or stock photography, there are a great deal of online resources out there for graphic designers. Here I list a few of the best online graphic design resources we have found:
Faveup.com - graphic design inspiration gallery
A great website for design inspiration. Categories are broken down into Logos, Business Cards, Flash Websites and CSS Websites with a voting system to highlight the very best designs. You can also submit your own designs to gain feedback from fellow designers.
PSDTuts.com - photoshop tutorials and tips
Have you ever seen an effect and wondered how you would use photoshop to achieve it? Well it’s probably listed on PSDTUTS. The website features very in depth tutorials on a wide range of photoshop processes and is also great for inspiration.
ColorBlender.com features a very intuitive user interface to help you choose colour palettes. Simply enter the RGB values of the first colour and ColorBlender will offer you a full colour scheme with up to six colours. Once you have perfected your colour scheme, you can save it and send it to yourself by email. You can also download the palette in a .ACT file for use in Photoshop or an .eps for use in Illustrator.
Or, if you’re not in the mood for designing your own colour cheme, you can choose from the many schemes already saved by other users.
Go Media - Professional Graphic Design Weaponry
Go Media’s wide range of what they call ‘design weaponry’ has to be some of the best available. Featuring stock vectors, stock motion graphics, fonts, textures, icons and photoshop brushes. All at reasonable prices. You can download the packs individually or buy them in bulk for a discount. They also have a very impressive and inspirational portfolio.
Like Go Media, YouWorkForThem.com features an impressive range of stock vectors, motion graphics, typefaces, stock imagery, stock video and photoshop brushes. They also sell a vast range of graphic design books, DVD’s and some awesome t-shirts.
What are the best design resources you have found on the web?
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