How To Create an OS X Yosemite Style Safari App Icon with Photoshop and Illustrator
The next version of OS X called 'Yosemite' was unveiled by Apple last week and it features a completely overhauled user interface, including redesigned app icons. The new icons are a blend between traditional skeuomorphic styling and the ultra-flat iOS 7 style, the resu...Read more
13 Best Free Stock Photo Sites
As designers and visual communicators, we need to make sure to use photos to help tell a story and to convey a message. While it's best to use high quality original photos whenever possible, sometimes they just won't fit into the workflow. Either you ran out of time, do...Read more
How Does Progressive Enhancement Relate to Mobile-First Strategy?
Have you ever heard of progressive enhancement or graceful degradation? They are two schools of thought which relate to how one goes about designing a website. Progressive enhancement is a strategy which takes a bottom-up approach where you first design for the most com...Read more
Tutorial: Easily Create an Artistic Watercolor Painting in Photoshop
Watercolor effects have long been a popular style among designers. While many of techniques involve building the watercolor strokes from scratch, in this tutorial we'll use existing watercolor textures and some simple image combination to show you how to quickly turn al...Read more
Quick Tip: How to Make Retro Text with Illustrator Roughen Tool
Retro text and graphics are all the rage. Adding some vintage flair to your designs can easily help your designs transform into another era, but it's also important to remember that a lot of vintage designs are worn, weathered, and imperfect. In this quick tip, I'll sho...Read more
Which Do You Prefer: Dribbble or Behance?
Designers know how important it is to post and maintain a portfolio somewhere on the web, especially if you're a freelance designer. Having a corner of the internet carved out to display your best work is a great way to be discoverable by potential clients and peers, ev...Read more
How To Create a Tangy Orange Text Effect With Photoshop Layer Styles
Layer styles are a fun way of quickly transforming text, but they can also be quite tricky to get right. All too often text layer styles look like tacky remnants from the Web 2.0 era. However, when used correctly and appropriately they can also be pretty awesome! This t...Read more
Best Wedding-Centric Designs and Branding
Wedding season is just starting to gear up. In my late twenties, I see more and more friends getting married as the normal progression of a life timeline would suggest. What I'm surprised to see is how many more people are branding or socializing their weddings, be it w...Read more