25 Free Futuristic & Sci-Fi Styled Fonts
Feb 4th
Here’s a selection of futuristic and sc-fi styled fonts collected from a handful of font resources. The best thing is that all of these fonts are absolutely free so you can use in your designs. Thanks to Da Font, Fontspace, and Font Parade for supplying the fonts below. Great places to find some excellent free fonts. Go check them out.
How Do You Conquer Designer Burnout?
Feb 1st
1st February 2010 – Recently I have been feeling the strain. Eye ache, neck tension (of which I have started calling ‘laptop neck‘ ) and zombie-like tiredness. Working as a designer you can probably relate to this by working long days and excessive hours per week. Overworking yourself can seriously affect a designers creative flow, productivity and health and cause the dreaded ‘burnout’ effect and then there is the distraction of social media to update which can clock up even more hours.
Most Popular Design Links of the Week 24 – 30 January 2010
Jan 31st
Here at Web Design Mash we are huge fans of Twitter and on this weekly post you will find the 10 most popular links tweeted by our Design Blend Account on Twitter throughout the week.
If you wish to stay up to date with all the latest design news and links then follow us on Twitter and you can also click on our Twitter page for a real-time up date of our ‘Love Design‘ List featuring over 140 designers and design enthusiasts.
Best Photoshop Tutorials, Brushes & Resources in January 2010
Jan 30th
Below you will find an ultimate list of Photoshop Resources that were featured throughout January 2010 from a selection of the best Design and Tutorial Blogs out there. In the list you will find a selection of the best Photoshop tutorials, 1000′s of free brushes, a collection of nice gradients and a resource of handy tips. Photoshop fans I hope you enjoy.
Tutorials
Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop – Tutorial 9
20 Spectacular Artworks by 20 Exceptional Artists
Jan 29th
I’m a big fan of great art and illustration and while browsing on art sites like DeviantArt you can come across some absolutely stunning pieces of artwork. I just compiled this small collection of 20 Spectacular Artworks by 20 Exceptional Artists. I hope you enjoy the selection I have chosen as I have tried to include a mixture of styles. More >
52 Awesome Designers to Follow on Twitter
Jan 27th
If you are a regular user of Twitter then you will know what an awesome place it is to share ideas, resources and links. I’ve been using Twitter now since last year and find that it’s a pretty neat and great place to find excellent design links and inspiration. There are many of times I have tweeted that I need some resources or inspiration for certain projects and people respond with links and advice that is always of great help. So this is kind of like the ultimate #Followfriday design list which was originally going to be a compilation of 40 designers but I squeezed to 52 great Twitter designers (which are in no specific order) who I find to be the ‘who’s who’ to follow in the design community (and including myself – shameless promotion I know!). I salute you all…
Top Mozilla Firefox Add-ons
Jan 26th
If your a fan of Firefox then you will know of the great add-ons that are available.
I thought I’d compile a list of smart add-ons that I have found and also use on my browser of choice.
We love you Firefox!
Personas 1.51
Free, easy-to-install “skins” for Firefox. Choose from over 30,000 cool designs, including art from Harry Potter and Bob Marley. Join over 8 million people from around the world who are asking themselves: “What Will My Browser Wear Today?”
Excellent Resources for Finding WordPress Themes
Jan 25th
With the evergrowing popularity of bloggers, designers and even corporations now using WordPress as a web and blogging platform there has been a rapid growth of sites offering premium and free themes for WordPress.
With so many sites out there offering so many themes you have to wander what the quality of some of these themes are like and admittingly a lot of the free themes out there can be pretty lame, but all is not lost.
Below is a list of sites which offer quality themes for free and premium and hopefully you will find a great theme that’s right for you.
WordPress – Free Themes Directory
WordPress itself offers thousands of free themes and where else better to look than the site itself
Most Popular Design Links of the Week 18 – 23 January 2010
Jan 24th
Here at Web Design Mash we are huge fans of Twitter and on this weekly post you will find the 10 most popular links tweeted by our Design Blend Account on Twitter throughout the week.
If you wish to stay up to date with all the latest design news and links then follow us on Twitter and you can also click on our Twitter page for a real-time up date of our ‘Love Design’ List featuring over 140 designers and design enthusiasts.
