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January 25, 2010 in Inspiration, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

Typography is always a fascinating aspect of design and some designers are better at it than others. Each and every designer has had to develop and learn their own techniques to be able to produce some of the great typography art work they do. Luckily enough, the design community is active and many designers are nice enough to provide us with tutorials on how they create their typography.

In this post, Designussion showcases 18 outstanding typography tutorials to get you started.

January 12, 2010 in Inspiration, Showcases, Tutorials by Tom Walker

The web, computers and mobile phones would be nothing without the humble icon. We use icons to navigate our way around computers and the internet and, on the whole, would be absolutely lost without them. You’ll be amazed by how many icons are firmly lodged in your brain: when presented with a Search, Mail or Battery icon, for instance, you’ll instantly know exactly what it means and what it does.

Icons are tiny, but powerful; underestimate them at your peril. Internet giants like Facebook, Twitter and Windows Live Messenger rely heavily on icon design to boost user numbers, and Microsoft and Apple are constantly refining and redesigning their icons in a fierce battle to stand out from one another and define their respective brand identities.

As an essential element of website navigation, you need to ensure that your icons are polished and attractive. Fortunately, there is a wealth of icon design tutorials available to help you create stunning icons in Photoshop or Illustrator. We’ve scoured the web to bring you the very best. Some are more suitable for experts, while others are accessible to anyone with the most limited graphic design experience. Take a look below and find the ones that are right for you.

December 29, 2009 in Inspiration, Photography, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

Tilt-shift photography is a creative type of photography that takes a photograph of a life-size location or object which is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model. Most faked tilt-shift photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. The technique is particularly effective on buildings, cars, trains and people.

In this post, Designussion showcases a number of fantastic examples of tilt-shift photography ended with a couple of tutorials that will hopefully get you started.

December 28, 2009 in Freebies, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

As Twitter continues to grow people are finding new ways to take advantage of its API and improve the way they communicate with others. Many bloggers are now displaying their tweets on their website and some have taken it further than others. To keep on top of the game and readers interested, some talented and creative individuals have chosen to spice up their micro blogging updates and create some impressive twitter status update designs to match or stand out from their original blog design.

In this post, Designussion showcases a number of impressive twitter status designs. You’ll also find some informative tutorials on how to do this yourself so you can keep up with the rest.

December 23, 2009 in Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

With the continuous growth of Twitter and its users, Twitter has become one of the most visited websites on the Internet today. From individuals sharing personal information to others sharing their favourite links there is always something new on Twitter to check out. In this post, Designussion showcases 21 articles all about twitter which will help you feed your addiction.

December 22, 2009 in CSS, Freebies, Inspiration, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

As a designer, there is always room for improvement, growth and inspiration. To achieve all three, it is often best to go out and read what other designers are doing as they provide a great source of inspiration and growth to others . So in this post, Designussion showcases 20 articles that will help you grow as a web designer. If you enjoyed any of the posts showcased in this post, please visit the original article and leave a comment.

December 7, 2009 in Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

When it comes to creating websites, physically designing the website has somewhat become the easier task with programs such as photoshop available. It is when it comes to coding, individuals usually find themselves outsourcing their design because they are incapable. Because of this, Designussion are showcasing a number of PSD to XHTML, CSS guides to get you up and started.

October 12, 2009 in Inspiration, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

Photoshop has grown to become the industries standard tool to create web layouts. Using other designers tutorials to help yourself grow in adobe photoshop is a great way to grow in both confidence and technique when designing for the web. In thi post, Designussion showcases a number of detailed web layout tutorials that are both perfect for getting started and learning advanced techniques.

September 12, 2009 in Inspiration, Photography, Showcases, Tutorials by Designussion

Bokeh Photography as explained below, takes the out of focus light to create a beautiful images. Being a photographer myself, it has always interested me how photographers can create such an amazing “blur/haze” within the photograph without distracting the eye. In this post, Designussion showcases some brilliant examples of bokeh photography.

September 3, 2009 in Inspiration, Showcases, Tutorials, Wordpress by Designussion

So here it is, Designussions August monthly round up. This month we are focusing on Inspiration and Showcases from around the web and hope you find this post useful. If you did, please visit the original author and leave them a comment.