The past month has been an amazing period for those wishing to learn the ropes of design, whether you’re a noob just getting into the designer or programmer. As we enter August 2010 , let’s take a look back at some of the most popular articles, resources, and tutorials that helped those who toiled away on the web everyday.
So how can you make sure your design is better than the designs of your competitors? How can you point employer’s attention to your product? Here we might be able to help you by showcasing following list of best resources available on web in the month of July.
Digital Showcase, Inspiration and Photography
Showcase of Beautiful Photography
Sometimes, a picture can be powerful enough to be inspirational material all by itself. To provide you with some inspiration for the upcoming week, this sunday we feature some truly beautiful and impressive images from talented artists and photographers worldwide.
The Showcase of Beautiful Pinhole Photography
This article present beautiful and inspiring photographs created using a pinhole camera. Please notice how photographers use the camera creatively to produce quite remarkable images.
Great Ads of the 2010 World Cup
In this post, we’re featuring some great ads made for this worldwide event that you can use for fun and inspiration.
Obsessed With Faces (Photography)
This article presenting lovely and pleasant faces which will make you smile. Your creative thinking will come alive by looking on these pictures and you may also get obsessed with faces everywhere.
45 Funny Examples of Photography and Print Ads
This post showcases some of the brilliant funny photography and print ads that will make your day for sure.
40 Examples Of Eye Popping Pixel Art
This article present 40 Examples Of Eye Popping Pixel Art from some of the best pixel artists around. Be sure to check out their sites for more of their amazing work.
40 Terrific Works of Art Made From Common Trash
Take a look at these 40 terrific works of art made from common trash and be prepared to start looking at your garbage in a whole new way.
50 Beautiful Examples of Toy Photography
In this post, we have put together some outstanding examples of toy photography that will hopefully amaze you.
40 Bizarre and Cool Google Earth Photos
In this post we have collected some bizarre and interesting Google Earth photos, we hope they will impress you.
40 Outstanding Award Winning Photos Around the World
You can express your feeling, your observations, and your imagination in very creative and appealing ways by using your camera. We hope that this showcase will inspire you to get out and shoot more.
Symmetrical Photography
Symmetry is that one thing that really catches everybody’s attention in any photography. It may be natural or manmade, but it’s awesome either way.
Showcase: Modern Retro-Futuristic Digital Art
When today’s designers and digital artists — armed with digital graphics software such as Photoshop and Illustrator — interpret retro-futuristic styles from the past, the results are quite enthralling. For your inspiration, feast your eyes on this collection of retro-futuristic digital art.
Minimize Your Life with Tilt Shift Photography
In this post I will share with you 49 examples of tilt photography that make good use of its clever illusion.
50 Absolutely Stunning 3D Street Art (Paintings)
3d Street Art, often known as 3d chalk art is 2-dimensional artwork drawn on the street itself that gives you a 3-dimensional optical illusion from a certain perspective.
60+ Attractive PS3 Game Covers
That’s why we grab a chance of a post to showcase 63 purely attractive PS3 game covers for you to get inspired, and who knows, you might grab yourself a copy!
65 Mind Blowing Photo Manipulations Art
This presentation shows an amazing collection of photo manipulation art related to nature, photography, objects, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related concepts. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting to ignite their creativity.
32 Excellent Examples of 3D Home Interior Designs
Here are Amazing Interior Design In 3D Max.Those are truly amazing but I must tell you that using the software is not so easily.Is very hard to reach the level for creating such pieces of modern art.
50+ Fantastic Space Arts : Sci-Fi
Some of the world’s most stunning visions of space are made possible with Photoshop. The ability to combine vibrant colors, photo manipulations and ethereal effects makes the software ideal for this kind of work. Here are 51 Fantastic Space Arts that will blow your mind.
Design Showcase, Feature Collection
Showcase of Sweet Chocolate Websites
As one would expect, chocolate website often use an appetizing brown dominant color. If you take time to look at the panel of colors associated with it, you will find out that there is a lot of combination working really well.
Showcase of Well-Designed Banking and Investment Websites
If you have a favorite banking or investment website that has a great design and fantastic usability, please share it in the comments!
50 Examples of Drop-Down Navigation Menus in Web Designs
In this collection are many different types of drop-down menus used in websites all over the web for your navigation design inspiration.
Examples of Solid Colors in Web Design
This is why I have compiled a list of 30 websites that make good use of solid colors, while not relying solely on gradients.
Creative Single Page Website Design: 70+ Latest Designs
In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.
38 Great Examples Mega Drop Down Menus in Web Design
In this article we take a closer look at the nature of drop-down navigation menus, analyze situations in which they should or should not be used, discuss various implementations and finally showcase a couple of bad and good examples of such menus.
50 Unique and Inspiring Website Designs
This collection is comprised of websites offering many different services/merchandise. They’re colorful, funny, artistic and more. What they all have in common is the fact that they do stand out a bit – at least they did to us.
23 Design Inspiration Blogs worth visiting
The following is a feature of PVM Garage’s online friends in the web design and blogging industry. Hope you find inspiration and helpful links with our partners. Don’t forget to bookmark pvmgarage.com!
Tutorials, Tips, Tricks & Resources
50 Useful Tools and Resources For Web Designers
In this post you’ll find 50 useful tools and time-savers for web designers and developers. Among other things, you will find recently released tools, useful reference sheets, articles and further resources.
Tips for Creating Big Stature With Small Caps
Small caps march to their own deliberate beat. Small caps almost guarantee that text won’t look cheap.
Brilliant Adobe Photoshop CS5 Tutorials From 2010
In this post we showcase Adobe Photoshop CS5 tutorials from which you will learn a lot about different features of Adobe Photoshop CS5.
10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Be a Designer
Did you know that becoming a designer is relatively easy? You go to school (some people even skip that part), you interview for a job or start your own freelancing business, and then you start getting paid in exchange for making stuff look cool.
10 SEO Tips to Remember When Building Your Site
As soon as your website goes live–and especially while you are still in the design and development phase–you need to make sure your site’s content will be found through search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and Bing where many people go to look for information.
5 Web Files That Will Improve Your Website
The amount of code that developers encounter regularly is staggering. At any one time, a single site can make use of over five different web languages (i.e. MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML).
5 Tips for Sending More Useful and Effective Invoices
It happens all the time. No sooner than you click the send button does the phone ring. At the other end is an angry client who just received an invoice. Despite the fact that all of your payment agreements were handled before the project ever started, he has still somehow managed to be surprised at the amount that he owes you.
Five Photography Tips for Amateur Photographers
I’m sure each and everyone of us were pretty excited when we first got our DSLR. I mean, who’s not right. And the next thing most of us will do is – start abusing the shutter and snapping non-stop. That’s just how we learn.
Redesigning Your Website: Are you Making the Right Move?
The thing visualised will manifest itself in form.
Freebies Resources
Free Full Layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit
In this post we release a free Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
200+ Exclusive Free Icons: “Reflection”
A new set of icons which we call “Reflection”. It’s simple yet elegant and stylish at the same time.
Sketchy Social Media Icons Freebie
A free collection of hand drawn social media icons from some of the top sites.
40+ Free Professional PSD Design Templates
Here I’ve listed 40+ Free Professional PSD Design Templates to Download, hope you like the download list, Also be aware about license terms and agreements before You put them in use.
Freebie: Cute Twitter Bird Icon Set
These icons delivered as PNGs in 4 different sizes: 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512. Designed by a young talented designer Asher Abbasi from Pakistan exclusively for InstantShift.com readers only.
Freebies Released: Yammy Social Media Icons Set
This release is a set of candy themed social media icons designed exclusively for Onextrapixel by Helen Gizi, a talented self-taught graphic designer.
100 Seriously Awesome Retro Wallpapers
In this article is collection of well designed Retro Wallpapers. When we say retro it mean any culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall postmodern past, or it can be used to simply mean “old fashioned” or old, “timeless” or “classic”.
Free Texture Tuesday: Dark and Dirty
It’s all about the darkness on this Texture Tuesday. I’ve got a nice set of ultra dark and dirty textures for you guys. Something just subtle enough to give your designs a hint of texture or grunge. I hope you find them useful, enjoy!
CSS, xHTML, PHP, Javascript
20+ Demos Showing Advanced jQuery Effects
Here are 21 online demos that show the power of jQuery for creating advanced effects and interactivity that can rival Flash.
CSS Content
Create a CSS3 Call to Action Button
I’m now going to share with you a method for making a slick call to action button using only CSS.
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The 960 Grid System Made Easy
The first time I discovered the 960 Grid System, I was immediately excited about the possibilities of implementing complex layouts so easily.
20+ Free CSS3 Code Generators
One of the biggest problems with all the new CSS3 properties is that most of them have multiple browser-specific implementations.
30+ Powerful WordPress Plugins For Every Website
To handle a blog these days can be quite difficult if you are not well-organized and you don’t spend enough time managing it.
Deciphering Magic Methods in PHP
Magic methods provide some extremely useful functionality, and this tutorial will demonstrate each method’s use.
Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners
Magic methods provide some extremely useful functionality, and this tutorial will demonstrate each method’s use.
Custom Font Uploader for WordPress Themes
In this tutorial, I’m going to demonstrate how to add a custom font uploader to your options panel.
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Very interesting article, thanks. Keep up the good work.
brilliant summary of articles, from across the web!
Jquery Images Slider – Image slider grow to be more and more popular within website in previous few year, usually for display portfolio, product service, photos, feature service. And with jQuery become more well-liked