Thinking Outside the Box: Desirable Packaging Collection
The First of hopefully many guest posts from Jared Thompson of Design Juices.This roundup features several different types of products which all have unique packaging designs, all of which I find to be of the highest quality.
A Collection of 400+ Free Fonts
Typography is an integral part of any design and getting it right can take your design from good to great. Finding the right font is the tricky part and can often take up a lot of your whilst you test out different fonts styles, etc. Font's can also be very expensive costing anything from a few quid up to several hundred which will soon eat up your budget.
Okay so my post title might sound a bit negative but don't get me wrong Twitter is great! For anyone who hasn't joined or for anyone who is in the 'I don't get it phase' well Twitter can be a great web tool, it's not all about telling the world you've just had a cup of tea or something daft like that...
5 Reason’s to work directly from your Dropbox account
Dropbox, the must have app for 2009! Right? Well for most of us with a brain it was and my god it's a life saver! For anyone who hasn't heard of Dropbox yet, in a nutshell, its a piece of software that allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Better yet, it works on Mac, PC, Linux and as from a few months back the iPhone too.
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Write a Guest Post on Design Woop! »
Posted in News on 25 Feb
Design Woop is looking for guest writers to help push the blog even further after a great start to the year. If you are interested in sharing anything design related, including inspirational posts / showcases / tutorials / tips or anything along them lines then give me a message on Twitter (via @stugreenham).
Favourite Links of the Week (#4) »
Posted in Freebies, Inspiration, Web Design, WordPress, jQuery on 01 Feb
Week 4 is up and here are my favourite posts/links/freebies of the last 7 days. There are not much this week unfortunately I will make up for this next week!
Guest Post: 50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes »
Posted in Inspiration, News, Web Design on 25 Jan
The guys over at Inspired Mag kindly asked me to write a guest post for their amazing website, which I did, titled 50+ Beautiful Websites with Great Colour Schemes and you can see the post here. I am happy to say that several hours after the post went live it actually appeared on Digg's homepage which is amazing! I would appreciate any help with the diggs / retweets / bumps / moo's etc to help the post stay there.
Favourite Links of the Week (#3) »
Posted in All Posts, CSS, Freebies, Inspiration, Tutorials, iPhone, jQuery on 18 Jan
Time again for another round of fun and exciting links! If you have any you want featuring on next weeks roundup then let me know via Twitter (via @stugreenham).
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7 Black and White Photoshop Conversion Techniques
Another great tutorial from Photo Tuts + showing 7 different method's of converting an image to black and white all done in Photoshop.
How To Use Curves in Photoshop
Good tutorial from Tutorial9 showing you how to use the curves tool. Something I've used many times but always good to brush up on your skills once in a while!
Great tool for any grid users out there. Break away from using the same grid each time and generate your own using this tool from Zurb that even provides you with the code to get you started!
600+ Photoshop Gradients to Download
Huuugge collection of gradients brought to you by Best Design Options!
Start BitTorrent downloads remotely with Dropbox
Great tutorial / tip showing how any mac users can use Dropbox to set torrents to automatically download remotely!
The Ultimate iPhone Setup for Web Designers (40+ Apps)
The perfect post for any Web Designing iPhone lovers! A huge list of some great apps which will help us all be that little bit more productive! Thanks Appstorm!
How To Write The Perfect Tweet
Interesting post from Twittercism looking at things we can do to help us write better Tweets. I'm guilty for a lot of these but a good article for anyone looking to use Twitter as a marketing tool.
130+ Stunning Examples of Macro Photography
Great article from Photo Tuts+ showcasing over 130 amazing close up Macro shots. Mainly insects here but still amazing to see so close up!
jQuery Resources for One-Page Portfolios
Another good post from Vandelay Design showing off some nice tools and tips for one page websites. I've just become a fan of the Smooth Anchors myself!