About Andrew Houle

Andrew is the originator and primary contributer for this blog. He is a web and graphic designer with a passion for helping aspiring designers develop their skills.

Previous User Submissions

1. Houle Designs
   

   A shameless plug to my own design portfolio. And testing the community link feed.

2. That INDIE Dude
   

   Design, social marketing, and living the indie life.

3. Dk Design
   

   A Brazilian Design blog, with wordpress guides, plugins and many inspiration

4. Superush
   

   My personal site that also offers resources like tutorials and brushes.

5. 19 Free High Resolution Textures
   

   Part 2 of Colorburned’s Waterfalls Set

6. Flexible Philosophy
   

   Trying to promote a Flexible Philosophy for understanding life, the Universe, and the Internet.

7. CSS: From a Basic Beginning, To a Neat, Organized End!
   

   Creating clean, effective code is not only a skill, but an art. This article will teach you a little bit about a lot of subjects. Included are examples of IE bug fixes, list styling + much more!

8. AiVault- Vector Tuts & Resources
   

   Awsome collection of Vector tuts and Resources!

9. The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration
   

   Free Twitter Bird Illustration & Icons

10. July's Best : 15 CSS Design on CssLeak
    

    My selection of CSS design for July. There is 15 websites design in no particular order

11. 30 First-Rate Vector Packs. Take Them. They’re FREE
    

    A collection of the best free cool vector packs you can find in internet…

12. 40 most beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008
    

    View the top 40 amazing, beautiful and inspirational website designs of 2008.

13. Free Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration
    

    Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

14. 41 Free High Quality Illustrator Paint Brushes
    

    Colorburned releases 41 free high quality Illustrator paint brushes.

15. I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday, For A Design Done Today...(maybe)
    

    A look at the NO!SPEC movement, and their fight to end the disrespectful treatment both designers and the community face in the grips of corporate greed

16. ZipperCMS- The CMS for designers
    

    Use your design with ZipperCMS to create fantastic websites for your clients.

17. Cymbolism
    

    A new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words. It’s fun, and dead simple.

18. How to install PHP, Apache and MySQL on windows?
    

    Install PHP, Apache, MySQL on windows in few seconds.

19. How to install wordpress manually?
    

    Install wordpress without cPanel support.

20. How to install wordpress automatically using cPanel (fantastico) and Simple Scripts?
    

    Install wordpress using cPanel or SimpleScripts.

21. How to update wordpress blog automatically?
    

    Hassle free wordpress update process.

22. Awesome artistic inspiration from music magazine adverts
    

    Music magazine advertisments are truly works of art, they can provide some good ideas for any designer be it for web or print

23. 12 Ways To Improve Your Websites Design
    

    A list of ways to improve your websites design.

24. Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images - Giant Design Pack
    

    This is a collection of beautiful retro Photoshop brushes & vector images to help you design faster & inspire.

25. Resources Medicine
    

    Collection of link to resources medicine for your designs: Brushes, Images, Scraps…

26. 11 Brilliant Burgeoning Design Blogs
    

    A list of the newer design related blogs that we think deserve more subscribers.

27. 18 Free High Quality Illustrator Brushes
    

    Colorburned.com releases another 18 free Illustrator brushes!

28. Free Wordpress Theme for Designer and Portfolio Websites
    

    WP Coda is a free Wordpress theme made for web designer and portfolio websites.

29. Wednesday Weekly Spotlight #3 (Tuesday Edition)
    

    This week’s dose of inspiration from Arbenting.

30. Sketchplanet
    

    Draw online and share artwork

31. How to move wordpress from hosting site to local computer or to a new domain?
    

    Move wordpress blog from web hosting company to your machine or to a new domain.

32. How to embed PHP, MySQL, HTML or JavaScript source code within wordpress posts or pages?
    

    Learn source code embedding and syntax highlighting within wordpress posts or pages.

33. Sunbursts Resources
    

    Compilation of links to sunbursts resources for your designs: Shapes, images, tutoriales, brushes…

34. 15 Unbelievable Photo-realistic Vector Illustrations
    

    Can you belive these illustrations are 100% vector?

35. 45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper
    

    Some of the best tutorials for exploring creativity by design wallpaper.

36. How to run browser compatibility check in Dreamweaver?
    

    Check your web layout for browser compatibility issues.

37. How web browser resolves CSS conflicts?
    

    Understand CSS conflicts.

38. 21 Free High Resolution Beach & Sand Textures
    

    Colorburned.com releases another set of high resolution beach & sand textures.

39. Irresistible Websites: Part One
    

    What makes a website irresistible? A series looking at websites employing striking design techniques to attract visitors.

40. 10 Flickr Groups for Designers
    

    A compilation of Flickr Groups to join, where you can showcase your work if you are a designer.

41. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Illustrator
    

    Teach yourself how to use Adobe Illustrator in 30 easy to follow, fun filled tutorials.

42. NSOrg - Tutorials
    

    NSOrg Tutorials Collected Quality Photoshop, Flash, 3D Studio Max, Website Development, PHP Coding, Ajax and More Tutorials in This site.

43. 33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources
    

    Everyone loves finding new sites with great content, so I’ve made it a little easier. Here is a collection of new websites and blogs with quality content.

44. *A i V a u l t* -Vector Brushes
    

    AiVault offers illustrator tutorials and vector brushes and you will find an illustration to download free of cost!!

45. Freebies - Grunge Circle Photoshop Brush Pack
    

    A set of 8 high resolution grunge circle photoshop brushes are free for you to use however you like, commercial & non-commercial.

46. 7 Fat & Free High Quality Illustrator Brushes
    

    Colorburned.com releases another set of awesome Illustrator brushes. Check them out!

47. Ultimate resources for grunge design a massive collection
    

    Tutorials, brushes, textures, fonts, and reading material

48. 5 Steps for the Perfect Tabbed Navigation Menu
    

    5 things to consider when adding a tabbed menu to your site

49. Free Simple Wordpress Portfolio Theme
    

    Porftolio Wordpress Theme is a wordpress theme designed for web portfolios and (for now) just for web portfolios. It is coming with an Administrative Panel from where you can customize everything.

50. 50 of the Best Web Design Blogs That You Dont Want to Miss | Naldzgraphics
    

    a great blogs for resources,inspirations,freebies and many more.im sure you not want to miss this very useful web design blogs.

51. 10 ways to create a well designed, user friendly website
    

    A web site needs to be attractive, accessible and functional and here is how to do it.

52. Trendy Lightbursts and Motion Trails Photoshop tutorial
    

    A step by step tutorial on how to create those trendy lightbursts and motion trails in Photoshop.

53. Don't Copy a Design — Steal It
    

    The article discusses the principle of “stealing” good design instead of just imitating it — a process that involves learning

54. Unbeatable Business Flash CMS Templates are Now in the Market
    

    Business Flash CMS templates started up by Flash Mint have two traits which make them an unbeatable product in the web templates market. Business Flash CMS templates are suitable for newbies in web mastering and are affordable for any small or middle-sized enterprise.

55. How to reduce page load time of your wordpress blog?
    

    Learn how to reduce page load time so that your wordpress blog loads faster in web browser.

56. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Photoshop
    

    Teach yourself how to use Adobe Photoshop in 30 easy to follow, fun filled tutorials.

57. Grand Designs - Graphic designers showcase - Rock Sound - pt1
    

    6 interviews from Rock Sound magazine What makes designers tick, where do they get there inspiration, tips for budding designers plus more.

58. Create an Artistic One Eye TV Man in a Grunge Vector Design | NaldzGraphics
    

    a nice photoshop tutorial on how to create a one eye TV man in a grungy vector style.CHECK THIS OUT!!!

59. Quality Photoshop Brushes
    

    Qbrushes.com - Quality Brushes for Photoshop

60. Contest: Win 250 Business Cards!
    

    Two lucky readers will win 250 business cards from Colorburned.com’s first contest!

61. Freebies - 160 Natural, Industrial, Grunge and Fabric Textures
    

    A set of 160, 2080×1544 high-resolution photos contain a mix of natural, industrial, grunge and fabric textures. Free for commercial and non-commercial use.

62. Irresistible Websites Part Three: Textures
    

    The third part in this series on irresistible websites looks at the use of textures and layering as appealing design features.

63. How to Add Drop Shadows to Menus or Windows with CSS
    

    Add soft shadows to your site’s menus and windows with CSS

64. Grand Designs - Graphic designers showcase - Rock Sound - pt2
    

    Interviews from Rock Sound Magazine What makes designers tick in the music industry and there influences

65. Over 550 Photoshop Brush Packs Free for Commercial Use
    

    Links to thousands of free photoshop brushes that are free for you to use in both your commercial and non-commercial design

66. 10 Sparkling 3-Column Joomla Templates
    

    Here a collection of 10 newest free 3-column joomla templates is presented. These joomla themes are very varied and you will definitely find the one if you want to start a joomla-based web site.

67. 750+ Ultimate High Quality Free Grunge Brushes and Resources | NaldzGraphics
    

    A list of 750+ high quality grunge brushes for photoshop everyone needs to have.Check this out!!!

68. How to use WordPress as a Truly Customized CMS (Multiple Headers, Footers, Sidebars and more!)
    

    Info on using WordPress as a CMS (not just as a blog) with “How to” resource links

69. UI is the Killer Feature
    

    Don’t underestimate the importance of UI — it’s your product’s most important feature

70. The Most Retro Illustrator Brushes Ever!
    

    Download 160 free retro Illustrator brushes; each with a unique color scheme.

71. 15 Websites Where to Buy Drupal Themes
    

    These are the websites you have to visit before deciding on a premium or free drupal theme for your website.

72. 10 Free Ancient Ruins Photoshop Brushes
    

    A set of 10 free photoshop brushes available for both commercial and non-commercial use.

73. Using Photoshop to create an Online Brand Image for your Clients Business
    

    Learn how to create an online brand image for your clients

74. sIFR and WordPress Themes
    

    How to get sIFR to play nice with public WordPress themes.

75. Managing Inspiration
    

    Defining and managing creative inspiration are a web designers best friend. Learn how.

76. # Create a Realistic Stone Cursed Man in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
    

    a nice photoshop tutorial where you will learn how to create a stone cursed man.Check This Out!!!

77. What’s Hot in WordPress Themes now?
    

    10 WordPress Themes reflect the hottest trends in web design. View the selection to get to know what’s on now.

78. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Fireworks
    

    Teach yourself how to use Adobe Fireworks in 30 easy to follow, fun filled tutorials.

79. List of 15 Websites with Wood Background Structure
    

    CSSCount 15 list of wood background websites, some of this are web design portfolio and others are from a blog and corporate designs.

80. Mac or PC? - VOTE NOW (If You’re A Designer)
    

    The age old debate… to use Mac or PC? Cast your vote.

81. Usability Tip: Use Verbs as Labels on Buttons
    

    Improve usability of your dialog boxes and other controls by simply changing labels on buttons from exclamations to verbs.

82. Styletime, BlogActionDay contest!
    

    In true new blog stylie I thought I would launch a contest! The basic idea being to turn the usual blog contest into a fund raiser against poverty for BlogActionDay!

83. Get web design ideas & inspiration from other designs - Brown
    

    Gain web design inspiration and ideas from what others have already designed

84. Free Vector Graphics
    

    Showcasing Quality free Vector graphics from around the web, be sure to bookmark it as it’s updated very often.

85. Top Photoshop Tutorial Sites to Check out
    

    Great Quality Photoshop tutorial sites use to be non existent 3 years ago, but all that changed when collis started PSDtuts.com! now there are a handful of fully dedicated sites to photoshop tutorials and tones of great free quality PS tutorial sites around the web! So here are my favourite PS tutorial sites that I personally visit almost everyday and I highly recommend you do too.

86. Awesome Retro-Style Pixelated Illustrator Brushes
    

    104 free, unique, retro-style illustrator brushes perfect for creating pixelated borders.

87. Best of CSS Design August 2008
    

    CSSBuilt.com selected 19 Best of CSS Design as of August 2008 in no particular order. Be inspired and enjoy!

88. Best Photoshop Resources of August 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
    

    The best Photoshop tutorials, brush packs and texture packs of August 2008.

89. Top 8 FRIENDLY Designers WORTH Following On Twitter!
    

    There has been many posts about designers to follow on twitter, which I did, most don’t follow back most don’t answer @’s or dm’s so i thought I would make a post about the friendliest designer’s on Twitter

90. 50 Ridiculous Retro-Style Broken Line Illustrator Brushes
    

    50 awesome retro-style Illustrator brushes complete with corner tiles.

91. Recap: Vectips Interview with Go Media's Jeff Finley
    

    I thought I’d repost the recap of the interview I did with Vectips that took place over Twitter on Wednesday.

92. Best 22 Websites as of August 2008
    

    22 most beautiful websites for August 2008.

93. Usability Tip: Turn Inline Links Into Padded Blocks for Larger Clickable Areas
    

    A simple trick that will greatly improve usability of the links on your site by increasing the clickable areas.

94. How to Set up your Wacom for Awesome Results
    

    In this post we’ll cover the basics of getting your Wacom working as well as some tips.

95. What's Your Opinion of Stock Artwork?
    

    SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? Are vector packs just a cheap cop-out or are they a saving grace?

96. Create a Simple Face Text Portrait in Photoshop
    

    a photoshop tutorial on how to create a face text portrait using path is more artistic way:)

97. A Sharper Image For Arbenting, And Free Business Cards For You!
    

    To celebrate Arbenting’s new redesign, we’re giving away 500 business cards from UPrinting to two lucky readers.

98. Best Design Resources of August 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
    

    The best design resources of August 2008 in these topics : General Design, Typography, HTML, CSS and Typography

99. 50 Killer Retro Starburst Brushes
    

    Check out these sweet retro starburst Illustrator brushes!

100. Styletime contest launch! Donate a dollar for BlogActionDay and win some great prizes!Styletime contest launch! Donate a dollar for BlogActionDay and win some great prizes!
     

     OK so enough hyping and fannying around here it is! A blog contest fund raiser against poverty for BlogActionDay! does exactly what it says on the tin!

101. 500+ Excellent High Quality Free Tribal Brushes in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
     

     a list of 500+ high quality Tribal Brushes for everyone.Check it out!!

102. 15 Websites to Increase your site statistics
     

     15 List of websites to help increase/promote your site statistics in no particular order.

103. Free webdesign in PSD
     

     Fully editable web layout in PSD

104. 15 Design Blogs To Promote your Articles
     

     Getting the word out on Digg/Stumbleupon can be tricky when no one knows your blog, but luckily for design related articles, there are many high traffic blogs that have community link features where you can submit your design articles and receive decent amount of traffic.

105. How to Win at Design by Humans
     

     Marc gives us 5 tips to give yourself the best chance of winning the next Shirt of the Day.

106. How to set up Wordpress on Your Hard Drive
     

     A step by step tutorial teaching you how to set up Wordpress on a hard drive using Xampp.

107. 105 Stunning Retro Tech-Shaped Illustrator Brushes
     

     This set of brushes will blow you away! Download this amazing set of stunning Illustrator brushes!

108. Create a Business Card on a Wooden Texture Table in Photoshop
     

     a photoshop tutorial on how to create a business card on a wooden texture table in a perspective view.Check it out.

109. Celebrity Websites
     

     Celebrities are often used as role models, affecting how we dress, what we eat, places we go and how we behave. What can we learn from celebrity in regards to our web sites?

110. Design, Design and Re-Design - This post took over 1000 hours of work!!
     

     Really that’s how much time and effort goes into designing great thing’s, I was thinking about the design process (what limited knowledge I have on that subject) and what it must be like to be a designer day in day out working for many clients and trying to come up with fresh ideas…

111. max
     

     A collection of illustration artists work, resources, reading material, tutorials

112. 30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Flash
     

     30 fun filled, easy to follow tutorials that will teach you Adobe’s Flash.

113. Designsphere Contest Roundup
     

     Roundup of some cool contests running right now.

114. Create a Staring Monster Eye in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
     

     a Photoshop tutorial where you will learn how to create a Staring Monster Eye in Photoshop.Check it Out!!

115. Huge Collection of Adobe Illustrator Resources
     

     A big list of various resources to help you improve your skills with Illustrator.

116. 4 Nature Vector Set freebies
     

     I’m happy to announce our first exclusive vector sets for QVectors.com. The 4 sets are Nature oriented design with tens of floral and flowery elements in each set.

117. 10 Flash Websites with Unique Designs
     

     List of 10 Flash Websites with unique designs for inspiration in no particular order.

118. D:/Templates - Final resting place of all good Vector’s PSD files and more…
     

     Not being a designer means you have to HEAVILY rely on the talent and free offerings from other people to make your blog posts look as if they havent been created by Frankenstein.

119. Weekly 30 inspirational websites #8
     

     As you’ve seen in the past weeks, there are css and flash sites that will catch your attention. Some awarded, some not, but all of them very good.

120. Free Silverlight Controls And Tools For Brighter Websites
     

     A collection of free Silverlight controls, components & tools to help making your websites brighter.

121. Who’s Collis?
     

     Mini Interview with this man they call Collis….

122. Webkit: Engine of the Future?
     

     With Google’s entry to the market, Webkit is going to gain even more marketshare, possibly lighting a fire under Mozilla.

123. Create a Happy Panda Hot Air Balloon on a Rainbow Scene in Photoshop
     

     In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Panda Hot Air Balloon on a Rainbow Scene in Photoshop.

124. Featured inspiration: Heiko Klug
     

     Heiko Klug is a designer from Germany who started with graffiti almost ten years ago. At the moment he makes some extraordinaire illustrations which make some of us drool a little bit.

125. Dating Your Clients
     

     Advice for designers when working with a new client.

126. 20 Cool Custom Calendar Printing Examples
     

     Below are some truly amazing custom calendar printing examples form the Behance.net gallery to give you some ideas of what can be done in term of calendar printing.

127. Win a Free Premium Theme from Templamatic
     

     Get one of three free copies of an free premium WordPress theme by commenting on this post.

128. Linux Articles, Tips and tutorials
     

     Linux Articles, Tips and tutorials

129. Designers - Do you REALLY value your work?
     

     The long hours spent lovingly crafting the perfect kerning on a custom typeface or choosing just the right shade of blue can be cast aside in the blink of an eye with a client who “would prefer the text in Comic Sans.”

130. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #17
     

     One slipped in and there seems to be 21 tutorials for this week. No problem there; another thing that you can fill your time with.

131. More than 40 creative business cards
     

     Here is a cool selection of 40+ creative and originals business cards
     More than 40 creative business cards’s last post was… Release : Preview !

132. 101 Creatives Ads
     

     Here is a selection of 101 Creative Ads, there are really funny

133. Inspire yourself with Graffiti Art
     

     I personally think it’s art, do you?

134. Do UI Aesthetics Matter?
     

     The article looks at whether it’s important or not to make your user interfaces look good.

135. Show me some well designed logos! #3
     

     We’re stepping well into the third week with another 20 logos that will make you show respect for their creators and their creations.

136. Multimedia-Stock.com
     

     Multimedia-Stock is a perfect place for people who want to introduce themselves and their creative work to the world and for those who just want to enjoy in viewing or using that work for some purpose.

137. Create a Brilliant Billiard Balls in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
     

     In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Billiard Balls in Photoshop. Check out the great result!!

138. Ask me anything?
     

     as the title says, ask me anything

139. Excellent wallpapers for 39 movies that impressed in the cinemas
     

     Huge article with movie wallpapers for your desktops. Some of these wallpapers are derived from the movies’ posters. Of course, the wallpapers are absolutely free. This will not be the only ‘pack’

140. MdStock - Free Daily Stock
     

     Free Stock Photos, Free Vectors, Design Materials, Design Articles and more.

141. Creattica Daily
     

     A new daily design and creative news blog from Envato!

142. Featured inspiration: Danil Kryvoruchko
     

     Danil Kryvoruchko also known as Myshli is a very talented guy from Rusia and when I say talented I mean very talented (!). Advertising, Art Direction, Print Design, Identity and Branding… yeah, he has them.

143. Aesthetic Girls
     

     New cool group on flickr with female models sourounded by designs made in photoshop/illustrator. Submit your designs!

144. 15 Awesome Photoshop Online Tutorials
     

     CSSCount list of 15 Awesome Online Photoshop Tutorials for Web Designers to improve their Designing skills in no particular order.

145. FREE Product of the Week from Templates.com!
     

     Templates.com is starting permanent superb action “Free Product of the Week!” Enjoy our free product!

146. Weekly 30 inspirational websites #9
     

     9. Week 9. Inspirational. website design inspirational. yeah, 30 sites. now ‘morse’ these CSS and Flash sites into your freaky imagination.

147. Submit and Vote on your fav design links
     

     Quality links to quality articles digg for design

148. Expreso Digital
     

     This is a new door site to connect you all over design world (spanglish)

149. 105 Mind-Blowing Retro Tech-Shaped Starburst Brushes
     

     This set includes 105 incredible brushes that are perfect for creating tech-shaped starburst patterns in Illustrator.

150. The Creativity Wall
     

     A New Website Where You Can Submit Your Design Links…

151. 30 amazing (free) online magazines for graphic designers
     

     Do you need inspiration? Here you have a new list of 30 amazing (free) online magazines for graphic designers

152. 20 Free Handwritten Fonts And Resources
     

     Some great resources here!

153. Miss Jo Gorgeous Vector Patterns
     

     Quality seamless patterns perfect for design projects

154. Photo showcase: Airport Signage Design
     

     A photo showcase of Airport signage & wayfinding design.

155. Featured inspiration: Drew Flaherty
     

     There’s not much to say about him. He’s drawing, he’s illustrating, he’s getting into advertising and also identity and branding. Well… se it for yourselfs.

156. Publish your picks with Google Reader and TwitterFeed, Part 1 of 2
     

     It’s all very well trawling your favourite RSS feeds, and starring them for yourself the best bit is sharing what you find; and we’ll be looking at this – through Google Reader and TwitterFeed initially.

157. Braintalk with Matt Owen from Volumeone
     

     Designer Matt Owen talks about his work and life

158. Adobe InDesign CS4 first look
     

     First look at all the big new features of Adobe InDesign CS4

159. Adobe Illustrator CS4 Preview
     

     Check out the new and updated features in Adobe Illustrator CS4!

160. Creating Usable Website Navigation
     

     A guest post by Nathan Beck on creating usable website navigation

161. Freebies: A Social Media Icon Set Just For You!
     

     Free social media icon sets from Arbenting! And announcements of our coming social media directory for designers!

162. CrazyLeaf Design Blog Community
     

     Web design and graphic design community ment to encourage interaction between the readers of our blog and between designers in general, discussions on web design and web development topics and promotion of your articles.

163. 500+ Photoshop Brushes for Creating Textures
     

     Great collection of the best free brushes for making your own textures.

164. Tips for Working in CMYK for Print - Computer Arts
     

     Tips for print design

165. Create a Colorful 3D Text in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
     

     In this tutorial you’ll gonna learn how to create a Colorful 3D Text effect in photoshop.

166. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #18
     

     20 Photoshop tutorials hand picked from the serious tutorial sites. Some text tutorials, a planet tutorial, a few interesting effects, a few tutorials about speedpainting and other interesting things for you.

167. 106 Delicious Water Color Illustrator Brushes
     

     This set of Illustrator brushes is a real treat! Download this set of 106 water color Illustrator brushes and use them in your designs for free!

168. 10 Free Hi-Res Paper Textures
     

     This is an excellent set of 10 plain and grunge paper textures. Get creative!

169. Wednesday Weekly Spotlight #9 | Arbenting
     

     The team at Arbenting is back with another installment of the Wednesday Weekly Spotlight to inject a bit of inspiration into your mid-week humdrum.

170. Show me some well designed logos! #4
     

     The weekly logo design showcase where you can see 20 company logos or other kind and get inspired in creating your own logo. If not, you can always hire someone

171. Essential Web Developer Tools
     

     List of must have web development resources including xhtml / css validation, browsers, ie6 transparent PNG’s etc. What’s on your list?

172. Using Whitespace to Show Relationships Between Content Elements
     

     Examples and guidelines on how to use whitespace to effectively show relationships between various content elements

173. Ten Questions For My Ink Blog’s Andrew Houle!
     

     Arbenting sits down with My Ink Blog’s Andrew Houle to ask him a few questions on design.

174. Suggest a vector pack
     

     We want to offer you vector packs that you need but you don’t find or you are not satisfied. Please tell us what you wish to find on our website and you can’f find somewhere else. We will listen to you and try to satisfy as many as we can. So what kind of vectors do you need?

175. Robots Parade! The 20 Greatest and Most Famous Robots in Movies of All Time!
     

     It’s an amazing collection of the most popular and most recognizable robots in movies of all time.

176. FREE Professional Vector Illustration!
     

     Amazing Vector Illustration of retro-car from the legendary 70’s! Don’t miss an opportunity to download it for free now!

177. Talking Typography Part 1: Afterthought Typography, Blogs and Websites
     

     Arbenting’s new series about typography kicks off with Part 1 : Afterthought Typography, Blogs and websites.

178. Featured inspiration: Maciej Hajnrich
     

     It’s art? It’s graphic design? It’s typographic? It’s exploding with colors and imagination? It’s… all these and more. Eye candy overbrimming portfolio of Maciej Hajnrich

179. Friday's Five: Week 13 | The Best for the week!
     

     Friday’s Five is a series in which I feature my pick for the week’s best: logos, websites, blog posts, photographs, and illustrations. Enjoy!

180. Show me 3d Abstract Inspiration!!
     

     Click here to give your inspiration a real ‘Boost’! 15 beautiful examples of the best 3d abstract art.

181. Weekly Flash tutorial roundup #1
     

     Yes, we had to have such a thing. If you’re learning Photoshop and maybe Illustrator, why not Flash? 20 tutorials hand picked to help you learn Adobe Flash and Actionscript.

182. Free Pinky icon set
     

     Pinky icon set has 45 pink colour glossy and round icons.

183. 105 More Deliciously Awesome Water Color Illustrator Brushes
     

     Part two of an amazing set of realistically looking water color Illustrator brushes. Download them and try them out for yourself!

184. A simple way to wrap an object in Illustrator
     

     This tutorial will show you how to wrap an object around another object using Adobe Illustrator(I’m using AI CS3 on a PC). It is very simple and it looks really cool.

185. 30 cool wallpapers for designers | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
     

     Download 30 superb wallpapers for designers.

186. Just Blend that HTML, A Quick Case Study
     

     Read my latest product review.

187. Sweet free icon sets
     

     Free icon sets for your website and blog

188. Freebies - Corners and Edges Photoshop Brush Pack
     

     A new free grunge photoshop brush pack from the folks at Arbenting. Download and use as you will.

189. Markup Service reviewed
     

     How can you tell which coding service is the most advantageous for you, the person who’s having a certain budget and a certain time to have it finished?

190. A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand
     

     A quick guide to selecting the right color or colors for your brand identity.

191. 30 Free High Quality .PSD Files to Grab Part:1 | NaldzGraphics
     

     Here’s a list of some high quality .PSD files which i found on some great sites for you to download. Most of this are even a tutorial so you’ll gonna learn from it too.

192. Re-design and new features on Design Shard
     

     Well I finally redesigned design shard with some new features

193. Weekly 30 inspirational websites #10
     

     I got some inspirational websites designs that’ll keep you in the same drooling estate as the last week’s article because of these 30 CSS and Flash good sites.

194. Design Inspiration - Idea2dezign
     

     Design Related Inspiration: News, Resources, Tips, Ideas

195. Website design Inspiration
     

     Collection of website designs from russian authors that could inspire your creativity

196. Design Shards October 2008 Calendar On Smashing Magazine
     

     My October calendar made it to smashing magazine come see it.

197. 50 Inspiring Vintage Advertisements
     

     A nice collection of vintage advertisements from the 50’s and 60’s to spark your creative juices.

198. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #19
     

     Week 19 of this section with 20 Photoshop tutorials that’ll help you learn Photoshop, of course, for free. Enjoy the ride in our tutorial express.

199. Mega Vector Pack 4 free vector samples
     

     New freebie from Designious.com, this is a sample of the new Mega Vector Pack 4. The Vintage Mega Pack 4 free samples are from one skull, one angel, two floral frames and one retro girl.

200. BEST OF: FYC Flickr Group Showcase of Artwork
     

     Showcase of the best artwork

201. Join the Go MediaZine Team
     

     Write an awesome tutorial and get $300 cash and $100 Arsenal credit.

202. Show me some well designed logos! #5
     

     20 Fresh baked logo cookies for your need-of-inspiration eyes. Look, admire, get inspired.

203. Best Design Resources of September 2008 | CrazyLeaf Design Blog
     

     The best design resources of September 2008 in Photoshop Tutorials, Freebies, Typography, Free Icons, General Design, Vectors, HTML and CSS.

204. Manage Focus Effectively Using Contrast
     

     Use contrast not only to give the most important things the focus they deserve, but to also remove any noise from secondary and tertiary elements on the page.

205. Featured inspiration: Mathieu Raynault - matte painter
     

     Mathieu Raynault is probably one of the top 10 film matte painters in the world having worked for movies like Lord of the rings, 300, The day after tomorrow, Matrix, Star Wars, The mummy returns and many others.

206. Talking Typography Part 2: Good Type Gone Bad, Tutorials and Tools
     

     The second part of Arbenting’s typography series covering Good Type Gone Bad, Tutorials and Tools.

207. Promote yourself and your work
     

     Design your way offers the chance to promote yourself and to share good design related material with our readers. The material is represented by: Photoshop tutorials, Flash tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, logos, an excellent CSS or Flash website or even a good quality free icon pack.

208. Best Photoshop tutorials of September on Design your way
     

     I thought it would be better to make a collection of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials of the month that were on Design your way. Of course, these are all text Photoshop tutorials, some for begginers, some for advanced users, every one of them very well explained, and most important all of them free.

209. Advertising at its best! - Latest from SumoJelly
     

     Loooads of our favourite creative ad’s out there

210. PSD to HTML, PSD to XHTML and PSD to CSS Reviews
     

     Top List of PSD to HTML, CSS and XHTML Conversion Services

211. Weekly Flash tutorial roundup #2
     

     Another 20 Adobe Flash and Actionscript tutorials ment to help you learn easier some useful techniques and improve your skills. This week there isn’t any flash game tutorial but there is an mp3 interface tutorial and some serious stuff instead.

212. XHTML Strict, What to Watch for
     

     Things to watch out for if you’re new to coding in XHTML Strict 1.0 doctype.

213. 104 Scribbled Dry Erase Marker-Styled Illustrator Brushes
     

     Need to create a whiteboard style illustration? Download this set of dry erase marker-styled Illustrator brushes.

214. Weekly 30 inspirational websites #11
     

     We find ourselves in this section once again in this day of the week, every week, with 30 great CSS sites to please your eyes and enrich your imagination.

215. Re-Design, Design and Re-Design - This post took over 2000 hours of work!!
     

     This time featuring some new designer’s and some amazing new design’s that didn’t get chosen by the client for various reason’s…

216. How Usable is Your Copy?
     

     Usability is not just about the layout of buttons, tabs, labels and content. It’s also about the writing — the copy.

217. Tips on Pre-flight before sending to the printers
     

     Tips that should be taken in to consideration before presenting your files to the printer for printing.

218. Spotlight on: Ee Venn Soh
     

     Latest from the SumoJelly, featuring an amazing designer, Ee Venn Soh

219. Working With Pattern Swatches in Illustrator
     

     Did you know that the swatches palette can store vector data and that those vectors can then be applied as fills or strokes? This tutorial will show you how to use pattern swatches effectively.

220. BrushKing Brushes : 12 Free Swirls Brushes
     

     I’m glad to share my second brushes pack. There is 12 Hi-Res Swirls Brushes that I made with Illustrator CS3.

221. Featured inspiration: Loic Sattler
     

     Loic Sattler is a French Art Director experienced in web, multimedia, print collateral, clothes styling and corporate identity. Loic works with special emphasis on aesthetics, creative ideas and communication goals, with a very high attention to details. Inspired by everything, everywhere. Interested and enthusiastic, he is in complete love with visual creation.

222. Design an Instant Coffee Sachet in Photoshop | NaldzGraphics
     

     In this tutorial you’ll gonna learn how to create an instant coffee sachet in photoshop.

223. Web Design Freebies
     

     This post lists websites and web blogs which give their readers free web design stuff.

224. Freebies - Circular Fractal Photoshop Brush Pack
     

     A free Circular Fractal Photoshop Brush Pack from the team at Arbenting. Available for commercial or non-commercial use.

225. How to Create a Vector Harley Davidson Pin-Up Tee
     

     It’s time for another sweet vector tutorial. And what would make a better subject than a Harley Davidson t-shirt design featuring a pin-up girl on a motorcycle? Well, not much.

226. 6 Free Premium Textures From the Colorburned Shop
     

     Download and review 6 free premium textures from the Colorburned Shop. If you like them, purchase all 300 high resolution textures for around $35 USD.

227. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials #20
     

     20 Photoshop tutorials hand-picked from all around the web belonging to different categories in order to keep a variety of tutorials and not be boring for the viewer. If you want to learn Photoshop this is the place to start. Weekly top quality Photoshop tutorials are your tutorial heaven.

228. Hallowen and Lips vector packs released
     

     In the new Halloween vector pack you will find pumpkins, witches and bats for those who want to create illustrations for this Holiday.The second pack released is the Lips pack, this packs speaks for itself if I may say so. It contains a set of 11 suggestive, glossy, sexy looking woman lips.

229. Comment and Win a PSD to XHTML Slicing
     

     CrazyLeaf Design Blog Contest - Comment and Win a free PSD to XHTML Slicing

230. Wednesday Weekly Spotlight #11
     

     The team at Arbenting is back with another installment of the Wednesday Weekly Spotlight to inject a bit of inspiration into your mid-week humdrum.

231. Web Design: On Essence
     

     Web Design is about emotion

232. EVERYTHING A DESIGNER NEEDS
     

     A huge round up of over 400+ links of high quality tutorials, useful and informative articles, inspiration, designer assets (brushes, vectors, stock images etc…), designer blogs, tutorial sites, galleries and more! This contains all the vital links that are very important for a designers reference.

233. The Freelancer's Guide to Surviving the Economic Crisis
     

     This article offers some advice for freelancers hoping to navigate the economic crisis.

234. 9 Starter Wordpress Themes
     

     These Starter Themes provide a simple canvas on which you can create your custom themes.

235. Show me some well designed logos! #6
     

     20 inspirational well designed logos showing off their creator’s skills in front of your amazed or admirative look.

236. Social Media Networking And Your Blog!
     

     Arbenting looks at social media networking as a powerful tool for establishing and building your blog’s readership.

237. Inspiration: Emre Durmuş - Excellent photomanipulations
     

     Emre Durmuş is a turkish design artist which impresses with his photomanipulations. Besides the prints he also gets into identity and branding, website creation and a little bit of photography. He’s not offering tutorials on how to make that kind of illustrations but he’s offering in exchange a good photomanipulation gallery.

238. The Art of Philip Straub. Exclusive Interview with the Artist!
     

     Philip Straub. Art Director, Illustrator, Concept Art Teacher and Writer.Read the exclusive interview with him!

239. Contest: Win a Free PSD to XHTML Conversion | Naldz Graphics
     

     Join the Contest and Win a Free PSD to XHTML Conversion

240. Talking Typography Part 3: The Kerning Curve, Free Fonts and Other Resources
     

     The final installment of the Arbenting Typography series, Part 3 - The Kerning Curve, Free Fonts, and other resources.

241. 25 beautiful typographic business cards
     

     Roundup of 25 beautiful typographic business cards. Pure inspiration

242. A few things we can learn from – Andy Warhol
     

     Unfortunately most of what people know about Warhol is “Oh he’s the Campbell soup guy”. Well, yes that is true, but Warhol is so much more than that, I think as a professional designers, we can learn a lot from him.

243. 50 Beautifully Designed Criterion DVD Covers
     

     An inspiring assortment of incredible DVD box art designs from the Crite