Top 10 MediaLoot Freebies of All-Time
We believe in freebies at MediaLoot. In fact, we released our first two freebies before the site itself was even launched. Since then we've released dozens more free sets with over a million downloads. Not too bad! In this blog post I wanted to recap some of our all-ti...Read more
Designing From Home: Benefits, Problems, & Tips for Working from Home
Working from home is an extremely exciting, but also daunting lifestyle choice for designers. It can be quite different to going freelance and renting office space, but it is worlds apart from working in a traditional office environment for an employer....Read more
Infographic: A Visual History of Design Tools
This infographic displays the progression of graphic design tools, on a timeline covering the last 27 years. Starting with MacPaint in 1984, passing by now obsolete applications such as Macromedia Freehand, xRes, and Adobe Pagemaker and ending up with some of the new ki...Read more
Fireworks For Beginners: A Complete Getting-Started Toolbox
Despite sometimes feeling like the un-loved, adopted child to the Adobe Creative Suite family, Fireworks remains for a lot of professional web and user interface designers to be the most useful, productive tool in their arsenal, however due to the vast popularity of a c...Read more
5 Tips to Teach Yourself a New Creative Skill
I'm sure at some point we have all seen something, maybe a shot on Dribbble, or a photograph on a billboard, and thought "Wow, I want to do something like that", but for whatever reason, a lot of the time, that gut instinct we have to teach ourselves a new creative skil...Read more
How To Get More Out Of Layer Styles
Using layer styles to style objects is something that takes some time to truly master, understanding layer styles in Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator can mean that your designs will never fall short in visual appeal whatever environment you're using....Read more
What is the Perfect Web Design Application?
As designers we spend huge portions of our days staring into screens, looking at the same buttons and dialogs and essentially repeating the same processes over and over again, so hopefully it's not unjustified to sometimes question the tools of our trade that essentiall...Read more
A Hand-Coded Designer CSS UI Kit
Web UI sets have been around for ages, but this takes things a step further. This free UI Kit is coded by hand using HTML5 and CSS3 so you can easily drop these elements into any project you're working on. This code is made to take advantage of modern browsers and to de...Read more