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Community Pick for Designers and Developers

Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest Community Links submitted on tripwire magazine. Get more user submitted links here


Credit Crunchmas – 12 Cheap’N’Cheerful Designer iPhone Games

A roundup of cool iPhone apps you can offer as a digital gift to your design oriented buddies, kids, bosses or – even more exciting – to yourself :-]

20 Best Upcoming Social Networks

Social networking can be defined as grouping of many individuals or even organizations into different specific kinds of groups, like some small rural communities or even a neighborhood subdivision

Top 10 Sites to Order Business Christmas Cards

Sending business Christmas cards to your clients and customers? If you do then here are the top 10 sites where you can order your business Christmas cards.

5 Simple Ways To Keep Your Code Friendly

There are thousands of blogs and tutorials websites are available on the internet but not all of the information is useful or of good quality.

Sweet Sixteen: 16 Ways of Giving Designer’s Block the Boot

Do you have designer’s block? Find out how to give it the boot!

Eye Opening Photography

Most of us simply just point and shoot photos when we see something we love, or which inspires us, or maybe even to capture a moment in time.

42 Really Funny And Creative Print Ads

Designing a print ad is very difficult, you have to convey your message using few words and single image. If your ad can make others smile they will not forget their smile and so the ad.

Design Chair

USB flash drive, they are now everywhere, slowly replacing compact disks. In this tutorial, I will show you how to draw an USB flash drive in Illustrator. Advanced Illustrator skills needed.

Free Textures – 21 High-Res Texas Snow Textures

A pack of 21 high-resoltuion Snow Texture Shots, created by ThinkDesignBlog.com.

Eight Ways to Combat the Content Crunch

Web design is an exciting field to be involved with. The downside, however, is lack of content. Organizations that haven’t had a good web site don’t have the copy needed to propel their new site.

Freelancing on the Beach: Working While on Vacation

The best thing about being a freelancer is that you can take a holiday whenever you want. Find out how to have a productive holiday.

Cardboard Textures

My sharings will be only for e-mail subscribers. Here is the first one. You can have this high quality 4752 px by 3168 px 6 cardboard texture set, only by activating your e-mail subscription.

330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A collection of over a 100 letter pressed icons, in various letter pressed styles exclusive to Creative Nerds readers

The Morning Routine

“Freelancing is not an easy job, by any means. You work for yourself, which means there’s no safety net. If you don’t have enough self-motivation you’re basically screwed.”

Fading navigation on the Google homepage

Google is testing some new features, trying to improve the interface to a more efficient, simpler and intuitive search experience. How did they do this?

The Never Ending Photoshop Mistakes

In this post you will find 21 photoshop disasters. Just take a look and you will know what i mean.

33 Creative and Meaningful Logos For Inspiration

It was the time for the 2009 last inspirational logo post.Again i’ve collected really inspiring,meaningful and creative logo designs.

Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #53

Remember, remember, the 10th of December. No, it is not V for Vendetta, it is PS for Vendetta. The weekly top quality PS tuts, week 53, arrived. 20 detailed tutorials for different areas of design.

117 Beautiful Chritsmas Wallpapers for iPhone and iPod

December is a month when peoples around the world celebrates the Christmas, that’s why we share some really beautiful wallpapers for your latest gadgets like iPhone and iPod, there..

A look at some car companies logos design evolution

The evolution of big companies logos is always interesting, and I found car companies logo designs to be among the most interesting to inspect.

Transform Creative Ideas into Stunning Designs

This article provides comprehensive guidelines on how to transform creative ideas into visual masterpieces. It explains how designers can harness creative ideas effectively.

Design An Easy Colorful Star Light in Photoshop

So in this tutorial we will create a composition from scratch first in Illustrator where we will play with shapes and the Blend Tool.

35 Epic and Awesome Wallpapers

35 Epic and Awesome Wallpapers for insipration and designers

Purple Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a purple colour scheme

Meet Paul Rand

Meet the man who started the graphic design profession and view his work.

60 Iconic Album Artwork Posters

Feast your eyes on this five-decade spanning showcase of psychedelia, minimalism, pure brilliance, the bizarre and the iconic! Your imagination is the only limit for your album cover art posters.

Photography by Ronald Stoops

As Ronald Stoops was born in one of the smallest countries in the World, the Netherlands, he decided early on in life to travel extensively in order to broaden his view of the world.

Calling all Website Designers!

If you think you have an awesome new website designed in CSS, this competition just might interest you.

Christmas & New Year PSD Templates Package Download

Christmas & New Year PSD Templates Package Download All 8 Layered PSD Templates Just For $8

Create animated GIF images

In this tutorial you will learn how to animate your pictures using Photoshop CS3.

Best 26 Brilliant and Free Photoshop Brushes Resource Sites

The perfect locations where to find the perfect brushes for your Photoshop projects. No matter what you have in mind, you will find everything on these sites.

8 Tips For Promoting Your WordPress Site

This is the seventh part of An Essential Guide to WordPress SEO that focuses on techniques for promoting your site.

Designing the Browser of the Future

A post that explores various mockups about how the “Browser of the Future” could look like.

25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt

Web designers can (and should) draw inspiration from places other than web design, so today’s article is going to showcase 25 creative packaging designs that I found on Deviantart.com

35 Dazzling Logo Design Tutorials Part-1

This article includes 35 logo design tutorials and will come with second part of this articles in upcoming days. Enjoy

Circular Social Media Icons

A pack of 36 circular social media icons free for commercial and personal use. The download includes .png files in grunge & clean versions and three sizes.

13 Magnificent Web User Interfaces and How to Create Them

Web designing is an art. It is always to learn from the best in the field especially in a dynamic world like Web Design where today’s design become anachronistic by tomorrow

Take a advantage of 10 new handy features of Google Docs

In this post post I am sharing a list of newly added features by Google Docs. In this list includes features like Bulk upload, Shared folder, Docx import, Snap to grid and much more.

Free PSD’s Give Away: High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

Cutielicious! Free High Quality Layered PSD Files Of The Cute Twitter Birds.

3 free PDF to Excel converters

3 free PDF to Excel converters

Corporate Logo Design

Bruce loves designing modern, eye catching logo designs but most of all he loves adding an up to the minute feel to logo designs that have seen their day.

The Visual Science Blog

A Graphic Design Blog Filled with daily inspiration.

14 Best CSS Editors for Web Designers & Developers

CSS definitely provides you the ease of changing the appearance of your entire website by just modifying a single file.

Amazing Digital Portraits

Below are some great portrait examples that will leave you drooling for more and wishing there was more time in the day to actually do these yourself.

Alice in wonderland fairytale scene in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorials we will learn how to create fantasy scene from one of the interesting and eccentric fairytale – Alice in Wonderland.

28 Creative Tech Advertising

This showcase is an inspiration dose for creative designers and copywriters. Each advertisement is creatively molded to make an impact and also give the message is it supposed to.

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.

How to Become a Superstar Freelancer

Not every freelancer wants to be a superstar, and that’s perfectly fine. Becoming a superstar doesn’t simply mean being a talented designer, although that is certainly a huge part of the equation.

27 Clothing Retailer Logos from New York City

Let’s go shopping in New York City! We visited 27 clothing retailer websites and took a look at their logos. What messages are fashion retailers in the Big Apple looking to send with their logos?

No More Minimum Deposit for Premium Wordpress Themes

Some design news: You can now purchase themes and files from the Envato marketplaces without a minimum deposit.

40 Best Photoshop Web Page Layout Tutorials

Photoshop is the premiere app for web designers, especially when it comes to layout. The 40 examples below walk you through the sometimes difficult process of creating a website layout in Photoshop.

29 IncrEDIBLE Food Related Logos for Inspiration

Inspirational collection of food related logos

17 Awesome Free Fonts for Your Work

The type is the main concern of all designs and because of that, i´ll show you a collection of fonts that i used on my works in 2009. Its a collection of free and amazing good quality fonts.

50+ Most Creative and unusual 404 error Pages

In this new era we as designers also focus on Error 404 pages as well which mostly neglected by web developers is the proper handling of this specific errors 404, Error 404 page is displayed..

An Amazing free smoke illustrator brush pack

If you play around with the opacity, and blend modes in Illustrator you can get some really nice effects.

Simple rules to follow for good typography.

Simple rules to help improve your typography.

Exclusive Illustrator Snowflake Scatter Brushes

This new Vector Freebie is created by Grant Friedman of Colorburned. There are 50 brushes in this set. He has been cranking out all sorts of vector and other freebies on his blog.

How to make Wordpress and Blogger Post Via e-Mail

If you want to add a post to your blog without having to open the WP Admin and log in, you can set up your WordPress installation to accept posts sent via email.

25 Excellent Advertisements on Environmental Issues

This post has a collection of 25 excellent and really creative advertisements and posters on environmental issues.

7 Super Creative Portfolio Designs

When it comes to freelancing, your portfolio is at the core of it all. Take a look at these super creative portfolio designs to help you develop your own.

30 Amazingly Creative Photo Manipulated Wallpaper to Tune Up Your Desktop

In this post, I will show you 30 amazingly beautiful, ultra-creative Photo Manipulated wallpaper I collected and stored in my browser favourites.

13 Glamorous Photoshop Techniques For Extreme Facial Makeovers

So here are some extreme makeover tutorials that will allow you to create the finest photo with the human soul in it.

HTML 5: Does Flash Developers need to Worry?

Since there is a long duration for the release of new HTML and its effect on web- forums, blogs, communities and comments have started discussing opportunity and threat attributed to this new change.

The Snow Show In Your Blogs

The result is a lightweight, hassle free experience. As the snow is white, this script is only suitable on pages with a dark background.

Download a free 7-in-1 Joomla Template

A Free seven-in-one Joomla Template is now available for download. It isn’t just one page design but includes a number of different layouts which can be used to customize your site for holidays.

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

From blank screen to web design in 5 easy steps

Showcase of Strange but Absolutely Beautiful Illustration Portfolios

We love illustrators as much as any design enthusiast does! In fact we love them a bit more :-]

Cute Rank Checker

Free rank checker software that checks and tracks website rankings on multiple search engines including Google, Yahoo, Bing(MSN), Ask, and AOL.

Breathtaking Digital Art by Kerem Beyit

This post has a collection of a few of the breathtaking, creative and really inspiring artwork by Turkey based digital artist Kerem Beyit.

Stunning Collection of Digital Art and Paintings of Fruits

Today I am presenting you a new style of Fruits. I was searching some stuff for designing then I saw a picture of fruits in which I saw some images related to fruits and then I found this stuff from

21 HQ Winter Style Wordpress Themes

More than 21 cool and high quality wordpress themes for the 2009 winter. Customize your Wordpress blog for winter and feel the holiday spirit.

Best collection of robots illustrations – 49 artworks

We can only imagine how they’ll look like and keep the term in the sci-fi area.Some designers did not only imagine,but made great illustrations in which these magnificent machines are involved

19 Amazingly Creative Mass Human Formations, That Will Blow You Away!

This collection will spark an interest for designers to design with more creative elements & provide the inspiration needed to be your very best.

21 Useful Typography Tutorials in Photoshop

Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

What Is A Web Designer Responsible For?

A successful website is the result of many different parts working together toward a common goal. Of all those parts, which are the responsibility of the web designer?

30+ Amazing Examples of Famous Caricatures

One of the great things about Montreal (the city I am from) is all the activities that go on here all year long.

Education Themes

Medhley provides education related themed templates for all your education purpose.

“Digging Into Wordpress” Book by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr

Chris and Jeff have proven till now that they are truly Wordpress masters and Digging into Wordpress Book is meant to be the best Wordpress Book ever.

19 Excellent Packs of Christmas Icons

Great packs of thoroughly selected Christmas icons. Best looking, fresh icons from all around the web.

How to Create a Vector Goldfish in Six Steps

In this tutorial It will show you the process I use for creating a vector goldfish in six easy steps. The steps are a bit condensed so Intermediate Illustrator users will benefit greatly

Maximize Prospective Client Communication

How can you make more money as a freelance designer? By maximizing your billable time. How can you maximize your billable time? Streamline the time you put into talking with prospective clients.

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design In Photoshop

Watercolor in graphic design has become very trendy the last couple of years, many websites and incredible designers are using this style and taking it to another level.

Introducing Freelance Review: 30 Articles You Shouldn’t Miss

A collection of 30 articles from Freelance Review

Designer Showcase – Mike Campau

A showcase of brilliant designs from the extremely talented, Mike Campau

20 Amazing Minimalist Wordpress Themes Design

We have see many designer using minimalist design style to give their wordpress themes a good look. Here I compiled some my personal favorite wordpress themes that very well using minimalist style.

10 Detailed Photoshop Tutorials Of November

Best Photoshop video tutorials produced in November. In those videos you will learn how to make exclusive dramatic portraits, create explosive color swath, some extraordinary uses of clone tool.

40 Best Ever Photoshop Tutorials of Web Layout Designs

Adobe Photoshop ever famous Designing tool and most useful for creating attract high-quality website designs, all web professional designers have been using in their practices for years..

100+ Useful Techniques and Tutorials for jQuery

jQuery provides amazing simplicity and advanced features out of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. It’s strong, powerful, and interactive.

Airopia Free Web Design Resources

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