Designious Mega Vector Pack Giveaway: Winners Announced

Posted by on Aug 20, 2010 | 14 Comments

Last week we ran a Designious giveaway where 10 WDL readers would get to pick a mega vector pack of their choice. Yesterday the winners were randomly selected, and today we are announcing those winners. So… Congratulations to the following ten people. (more…)

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Amazing Examples of Paper Art

Posted by on Aug 19, 2010 | 20 Comments

When most people think of art involving paper, they think of drawing, sketching, or maybe painting. However, there are very talented people out there that create art from paper in more unusual ways. I’m talking about paper art that involves creative forms of cutting, folding, and carving. Materials for this type of art can vary, ranging from ordinary paper to whole books. To inspire you and let you see what other things artists are doing with paper, we’ve collected some pretty amazing works for you to enjoy. (more…)

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WDL Premium: High-Quality Peeling Paint Textures

Posted by on Aug 17, 2010 | 7 Comments

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These high-quality peeling paint textures have plenty of cracks, bumps, and flakes to add lots of interest to your designs. There are 21 textures included in this pack. (more…)

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Bundle Hunt: A Treasure Trove of Spectacular Design Goodies

Posted by on Aug 16, 2010 | 3 Comments

Bundle Hunt is a premium resource pack aimed at empowering the creative community, offering more than $1,400 worth of outstanding apps, templates, icons, eBooks, hosting plans and premium memberships, all for less than $50. The design bundle has only been available for 14 days, and today is the last day to get your hands on it. It’s really a great deal that you shouldn’t miss. (more…)

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WDL Premium: Flourishes Vector Pack from Go Media

Posted by on Aug 14, 2010 | 5 Comments

Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. Flourishes is a beautiful set of flowing linework. These work great in any sort of elegant design that needs some whispy and waving accents. This pack includes 30 vectors in all. (more…)

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10 New High-Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs

Posted by on Aug 13, 2010 | 16 Comments

We’re always on the look out for high-quality freebies for our readers. Whether it’s Photoshop brushes or icons, we love finding top notch free files and sharing them with you. We do the searching so you don’t have to. This saves you time and helps you focus on what’s important. So for this post, we’ve rounded up 10 new high-quality fonts for you to use in your designs. (more…)

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7 Useful Resources to Help You Learn HTML5

Posted by on Aug 11, 2010 | 18 Comments

Even though HTML5 is relatively new and it’s not supported yet by all major browsers, it is being used now by a lot of web designers and developers. Without a doubt, HTML5 is going to play a big part in the way we develop on the web, for many years to come. As I just mentioned, many people are using it now, but there are also many of you out there that hasn’t touched it yet. Now is a good time to start learning it. So, in order to give you a helping hand with that task, we’ve rounded up 7 Useful Resources to Help you Learn HTML5. (more…)

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Designious Mega Vector Pack Giveaway

Posted by on Aug 9, 2010 | 324 Comments

Designious has teamed up with WDL to give 10 of our readers a mega vector pack of their choice. Mega vector packs from designious are packed full of awesome vector graphics for you to use in your designs – so this is a great opportunity. To be eligible to win, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post and we will randomly select the winners. (more…)

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20 Examples of Simplistic but Effective Logo Design

Posted by on Aug 6, 2010 | 33 Comments

Something we hear over an over in the design world is that less is more. Even though using that statement has become a bit cliche, it is true – especially when it comes to logo design. Sometimes designers can get carried away with trying to incorporate too many complicated elements into a logo. It’s better to keep things simple and make use of clever negative space and typography. These types of marks are usually far more effective and memorable. To inspire you, here are 20 Examples of Simplistic but Effective Logo Design. (more…)

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Six Useful CSS3 Tools

Posted by on Aug 5, 2010 | 20 Comments

CSS3 continues to gain popularity as we’re seeing it used in more and more websites. However, there are still those out there that are holding out on learning it and using it. This is probably due to the fact that it’s not fully supported yet in all browsers. Nevertheless, if you’re one of those that haven’t started using CSS3 or you’re a CSS3 pro just looking to speed up your work flow, here are six CSS3 tools that you should find useful. (more…)

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