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Quick list of my favorite design sites

Brandon Chowning — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:14:42 +0000

photo credit: timparkinson

Ah yes, the ever so popular “list” of favorite websites bug has struck here at Insomniac Drivel. Everyday I spend at least 2 hours reading and viewing my favorite design websites for inspiration and encouragement. Most every design blog has a few of these lists today, if not, they are seriously lagging behind. (like us!)

So I figured it was time I put one of my lists together, some may have already seen these sites, or they may be new to you. Hopefully you can find something within this list that helps or inspires you along your design journey.

If you like any of these sites, be sure to comment and let us know!

Design Blogs

Just Creative Design – A very popular design blog covering many topics of design and business relations ran by Jacob Cass

justcreativedesign.com

Outlaw Design Blog – Design blog with many resource file downloads and a great interface ran by Danny Outlaw

outlawdesignblog.com

Graphic Design Blender – Great blog ran by Preston Lee, covering many topics of graphic & web design.

graphicdesignblender.com

Digital Telepathy – Blog covering mainly web design and CSS topics.

dtelepathy.com

Free Resources

Free vectors – Quality, free vectors for personal use.

freevectors.net

Vecteezy – Free vectors from some of the best designers.

vecteezy.com

And of course last but not least, my favorite:

photo credit: bigmick

Deviant Art – Online community to showcase work and receive feedback. Also a great resource for PSD and Illustrator files.

deviantart.com You can find me at Deviant Art here.

Thanks for viewing my list, if you found anything helpful, please comment!

Creating A Cool 3D Web Design Effect

Brandon Chowning — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:39:54 +0000

This is one of my favorite tutorials from PSDtuts+. The original post did not include a PSD file to work with. So, I have added my own.

You can get it here

Step 1

Create a new document with 1000×750px. Double click on the backgrounds layer and in Color Overlay and choose a dark brown.

Read the ful article at http://psdtuts.com/designing-tutorials/creating-a-cool-3d-web-design-effect/

Free wedding website template #2

Brandon Chowning — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:48:16 +0000

Back again today with another simple wedding website.

Again, these files are intended to help a beginning designer pick apart a design and change various elements.

Download the PSD file here

If you like this download, you might also like my first wedding template

Free wedding website template (psd file)

Brandon Chowning — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:05:55 +0000

Download the PSD here

Hello there! Brandon here from SD Designs with a free template.

I design web templates all day and ones that are rejected by the client will be put in this blog as a free resource for all who want to use it.

This template is intended to help a beginning designer create a unique wedding website. Feel free to use this resource in anyway you like.

The PSD file is organized into layers for easy editing.

Download the PSD here

Fonts used:

Dream Orphans (download it for free here)

Verdana (stock web font)

Please leave any comments below

27 Classic & Elegant Serif Fonts

Brandon Chowning — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:34:49 +0000

article originally posted at http://justcreativedesign.com/2009/10/11/classic-elegant-serif-fonts/

“There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.” Eric Gill

Choosing a font for a project isn’t always an easy task but hopefully this list of professional classic and elegant serif fonts will make the task a little easier… or maybe not.

Cheltenham Old Style No 2

Cushing Std-Book

Aldine 721

Plantin Std