35 Inspiring Examples of Transparency in Logo Design

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Transparency effects in logo design help bring to life a digital mark, adding that extra level of depth and color. This showcase of examples provides some great design inspiration and shows how designers have creatively used transparency and overlaying effects to build unique logo designs.

This Week’s Favourites – February 5th 2010

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In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a selection of handy website wireframing templates; an article highlighting some interesting factors that boost the ‘wow factor’ in web designs; an interesting discussion about the risk of being unique; a fabulous vibrant Photoshop illustration tutorial; and a showcase of stationery and print design inspiration.

Nebulae Grunge Texture Pack for Premium Members

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This second high resolution texture pack from Caleb Kimbrough of design resource blogs Lost and Taken and BuenoBrushes features a range of heavy grunge textures. Access All Areas members can get their hands on these high quality resources for free as part of their ongoing membership.

How To Create a Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop

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The Internet world exploded with the news of the Apple tablet launch last week. Named the iPad, it’s set to bring yet another revolution to the way people access and browse the web. An iPad icon would be a sensible addition to any web designer’s resources toolbox, so let’s fire up Photoshop and create our very own detailed iPad icon graphic.

Hand Drawn Skulls Vector Pack for Premium Members

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Skulls are one of the most sought after vector resources, and are a particularly popular theme in the apparel industry. Who better to create a hand-drawn skulls vector pack than the talented folks from Go Media. This premium pack comes straight from their arsenal range of resources, and is free to Access All Areas members.

Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop

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The theme of retro futurism combines digitally created graphics and abstract shapes with distressed and aged textures, giving that cool mix of old and new. Let’s take a look at how to create our own bright and colourful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop, using dynamic lines, vibrant gradients and rough textures to build up the design layer after layer.