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
Designer’s Ultimate Resource Collection
Resources are a designers best friend. They help you save time in your daily workflow and provide inspiration for projects, there are a huge plethora of resources on the web for designers, from pixel perfect Photoshop web elements to super cute icons and grungy high res...Read more
How To Create Your Own Grunge Brushes In Photoshop CS5
Love grunge brushes and textures? Ever wanted to make your own Photoshop brush, or just have something in your collection that's unique to you? Then you're in luck because it's surprisingly easy, especially in Photoshop CS5 to build a collection of unique grunge brushes...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 Code a Clean Website Template in HTML5 & CSS3
Last week on MediaLoot we posted a tutorial on designing a clean homepage template using Adobe Fireworks, the result was a sleek web page concept that we're now going to imagine that we have shown to our client, and they have just given us the go ahead to start coding i...Read more
How to Design a Clean Website Template From Scratch in Adobe Fireworks
Welcome to the first instalment of this 2 part tutorial in which we will be creating a clean, crisp website homepage design from scratch using Adobe Fireworks, and then coding it with HTML5 and CSS3 in part 2 next week....Read more