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17 Most Desirable Designers Collection

We are always looking to come up with the post that is attractive and useful for everyone. We most of the time focuses on the designer’s stuff and where anything is going to launch free of cost. There are countless designer’s free stuff available which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 17 Most Desirable Designers Collection.

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70 beautiful websites with a large background

70 beautiful websites with a large background

Large and amazing collection of websites that have large backgounds than normal.

7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”.

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs

In this issue you will find over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements.

Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design

Top 7 Most Cliché Stock Images Used in Web Design

This is simply by showcasing the most generic and cliché stock images (still) used in web design today. Please also take note that there is nothing wrong with using any of these images if used appropriately.

6 Exceptional Web-based Image Editors

6 Exceptional Web-based Image Editors

This article shares 6 of the finest, free online image editors that are capable alternatives to desktop applications like Adobe Photoshop and GIMP.

15 Original Menu Designs

15 Original Menu Designs

This list has 15 examples of original yet reliable menu designs created to easily guide you through the website.

10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools

10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools

It is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of

Adobe Illustrator Tutorials - Best Of: Part 2

In this post you’ll find some basic tutorials on getting started with certain aspects of Illustrator and some of its specific tools. You’ll also find more advanced tutorials that deal with all of the potential that Illustrator brings to graphic design.

25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials

25 Amazing Photoshop 3D Text Effect Tutorials

This is the 25 of the cool 3D typographic Text effect tutorials, well some of them are all done by the combination of some 3D software’s like  Studio Max, Xara and some times illustrator with texture and coloring done in photoshop and others completely designed using photoshop.

30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

30 Beautifully Blue Web Designs

This collection showcases some of the best, unique, creative designs that utilize shades of blue as a primary color and theme.

111 great and free textures from stock.xchng

111 great and free textures from stock.xchng

This is a little list of some great textures, the only thing you got to do is created a account @ stock.xchng. Dont worry it will cost you nothing.

40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART

Let’s take a close look at some of the most beautiful icon sets listed in this post from deviantART.

45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes

27 Best Photoshop Gadget Design Tutorials to Design Realistic Gadgets

Adobe Photoshop Tutorials A-Z

25 Extremely Useful & Free Web Resources, You should not Miss

27 Adobe AIR Applications - Handy For Web Designers

The Simple And Free Colour Picker Utility, Square Rocks

Color tools and color schemes generators are the most demanding web applications for designers. This type of tools can help them to find the best color combination for their design layout. Square Rocks is the one of them great color schemes generators.

Square Rocks

Square Rocks is a very simple to use colour picker utility, which generates random colour grids. Just keep refreshing the browser until you find on you like!

31 Useful Resources Specially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September 2008

We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we work hard to find new resources and show them here for you. Today, we are starting another great section Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps.com. In this, we will find and make a list for the best of the web for the whole month. Maybe, we cannot cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.

You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of august which our readers/viewers may like.

Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

Design a Detailed Compass Icon in Photoshop

40 Photoshop Tutorials On Rain Showers and Water Drops

rain tutorial

50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II 

50+ Great Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials, Part II

31 Breathtaking Planet & Space Tutorials For Photoshop

Space Tutorials For Photoshop

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

Creating a Cartoon Hot Air Balloon Scene

Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box

creative design layout

100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design

Beautiful Blog Design

30 Creative Website Headers

30 Creative Website Headers

25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography

25 Beautiful Examples Of Macro Photography

Javascript and Ajax
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jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices

Javascript in Modern Web Design

xHTML and CSS
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CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

CSS Typography: Contrast Techniques, Tutorials and Best Practices

Resources
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40+ Beautiful Icon Sets Hand-picked from deviantART- Part 2

Beautiful Icon Sets from deviantART

Monitor Website Up / Downtime: 30+ Free Web Services and Tools

Designer´s Toolbox : 15+ Time Saving Tools- What´s your Secret?

20 Useful Web Applications For Firefox Sidebar 

Miscellaneous Articles
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20 Creative and Inspiring Free Design Magazines

Free Design Magazines

40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers

40 Brilliant Mid + Hi-Res Wallpapers for Photoshop Lovers

38 Free Water Brushes For Photoshop

Brushes are also well demanded free resources for designers. This is a set of various water brushes. It includes bubbles, drops, tears, ripples, rain, foam, splashes, ocean/sea foam textures, waterfalls, and waves.

You can click here to see more free brushes list at SmashingApps.

Water Photoshop Brushes

21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals

I know that creative advertisement post are not unique in these days and you guys saw them very often on various blog as well as you might have seen many post related to creative advertisement at SmashingApps. But our today’s post is different from that. In this, we have covered 21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements Acted By Animals. You can see how creative minds can make any advertisement campaign stronger and eye-catchy without having any human in it. In this collection, you will see that every advertisement is conveying the real message to the viewer with attractive presentation. So, enjoy now!

All the images below are copyright of their respected owners and creators. This post is about just to show their creative ideas and inspiration wonders to the world.

Romantic FM - Throughout the country

romantic fm

Romantic FM. Throughout the country

romantic fm

Foundation Nicolas Hulot - Our destinies are linked. Protect biodiversity

Foundation Nicolas Hulot

Bureaucracy kills nature - In the food chain of the rain forest, the rubber stamp is the principal predator

Bureaucracy kills nature

Bureaucracy kills nature - Demand approval for preservation laws of the rain forest

Bureaucracy kills nature

Greenpeace - Just continue to breath normally. After all, you’re not a fish

Greenpeace

EDF (French Electricity) - If you don’t preserve nature by installing solar panels, who will?

EDF French Electricity

EDF (French Electricity) - If you don’t preserve nature by installing solar panels, who will?

EDF-French-Electricity

EDF (French Electricity) - If you don’t preserve nature by installing solar panels, who will?

EDF French Electricity

ProWildlife - Help mother nature to fight back

ProWildlife

ProWildlife - Help mother nature to fight back

ProWildlife

Eco India- At least now, plant more trees

Eco India

WWF - Stop Global Warming

WWF

WWF - Stop Global Warming

WWF

WWF - Stop Global Warming

WWF

WWF - Fashion claims more victims than you think

WWF

SBP - No insects life

SBP

Eukanuba - Everybody wants to be a dog

Eukanuba

Eukanuba - Everybody wants to be a dog

Eukanuba

Animal Planet - Authentic Wildlife documentaries

Animal Planet

Animal Planet - Authentic Wildlife documentaries

Animal Planet

Free Quality Photoshop Brushes

 qbrushes

Qbrushes.com is a website from where you can download a good collection of free Quality Photoshop Brushes from around the net. They have categorized the brushes in these different category Abstract, Grunge, Misc, Nature, Objects, Plants, Splatter, Swirls

qbrushes collection

Download Now Cheers, A Free “Social” Icon Set

For the icons lovers, there is a great nice and beautiful icons set has been released by SmashingMagazine. This is Cheers, a free set of 12 “social” glasses, designed by Helen Gkizi. It’s a great free icon set available to designers or anyone who are in the search of simple and attractive icons related to social networking.

Smashing magazine cheers icons set

You can go and take a look at more free icon set here.

Largest Collections Of Free Photographs For Non-Commercial Use On The Internet

FreeFoto is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet however link back and attribution is required. The comprehensive, yet easy to navigate site, offers images that are free for on-line use. Also non-commercial users may download our web size images to use off-line in school projects, church services, cards, leaflets, etc.

Free Foto

FreeFoto features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.

39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements

I believe that strong advertisement is a fastest way to convey the message to the audience and if they are attractive as become inspiration for others so it’s more useful. Sometimes they are just an advertisement but some companies works very hard to make their promotional / advertisement campaign very unique, striking and successful. There must be innovation and creativity involve in any successful creative advertisement campaign. Today, I am sharing another post of Extremely Creative Advertisments I have Ever Seen in which I have collected 39 extremely creative advertisement images. I am calling this collection as “39 Masterpieces of Creative Advertisements”.  Maybe most of you guys already had a look at some of these but we tried to make this compilation very inspiring, interesting and entertaining for everyone and specially for our exclusive readers. Just take a look at them.

All the images below are copyright of their respected owners and creators. This post is about just to show their creative ideas and inspiration wonders to the world.

Maybe if you are interested in to take a look at
17 Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements
42 Extremely Creative Advertisements I have Ever Seen!
28 Extremely Creative Advertisement I have Ever Seen!
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration

Monster.Com - Stuck in the wrong job

monster

FIFA World Cup South Africa  - The new home of football

FIFA World Cup South Africa

Against Abuse Inc - More than 300,000 children are sexually abused in Germany every year.

Dont abuse childs

National Air Cargo

National Cargo

Animal Planet - Authentic wildlife documentaries

Animal Planet

Seiko

seiko

Burger King

Burger King

Lexus LX 570: Safety

Lexus

World Aids Day

World Aids Day

Vanish - Daddy, if mommy still doesn’t know of Vanish, you better wear this

Vanish

Reef n Beef

Reef n Beef

Volkswagen - Relax while working

Volkswagen

Obesity is Suicide

obesity is suicide

Dove - Unstick your style

Dove

Nintendo - GameBoy Advance

Nintendo

Small screen, small movie

titanic on smaller screen

World Heart Federation

world heart federation

Museum of Natural History Stuttgart

Museum of Natural History Stuttgart

McDonald - Wake up with the premium roast coffee

Mc-donald-coffee

Fiat - Uncover life. Fiat stilo with sky window

fiat

National Geographic Channel

national-geographic-channel

Career Junction - Put your skills to better use

Career Junction

Brandt - Don’t let smells mix

Brandt

Mitsubishi Refrigerators - Keep them fresh, not miserable

Mitsubishi Refrigerators

Traveller Magazine - Discover a whole new world at your fingertips

Traveller Magazine

Healthier Scotland

Healthier Scotland

Nejma Sunflower Cooking Oil

Nejma-sunflower-cooking-oil

Paws For A Cause

paws for a cause

Braun - Why work when you can create?

Braun

KitKat - Have a break, Have a KitKat

kitkat

Nissan

Nissan

Dunkin’ Donuts - America runs on Dunkin

Dunkin’ Donuts

NSW Police Force - Watch for cars when wearing headphones

NSW-Police-Force

Kellogg’s - Hello delicious!

Kellogg’s

Nintendo - GameBoy Advance

Nintendo

BAD Charity Challenge

BAD Charity Challenge

Heineken

heineken

WWF - Save your forests

wwf

ADESF - Stop consuming your body

ADESF

ZinePress, A Free 2 Column Widget Ready Wordpress Theme

WellMedicated has just launched a new magazine styled theme called ZinePress. ZinePress is a 2 Column widget ready Wordpress theme. This theme has very nice and beautiful layout with a way that can attract users to involve with your blog.

zinepress

It does have advertising blocks in the sidebar and in the header so you can monetize it well too. It passes W3 Validation. ZinePress is compatible with most of a the browsers, including Chrome!