One of my personal all time favorite design styles when it comes to the web is the hand drawn look. It’s the reason I got a Wacom tablet for Christmas and have been personally adding hand drawn elements into as many designs as possible. It’s compelling, fun to look at and can add a unique [...]

ExpressionEngine is a CMS that is beautifully built yet doesn’t seem to get the same recognition as other CMS platforms like Joomla or WordPress. Hell, we even featured 100 WordPress powered websites here on MyInkBlog recently. So, to make sure ExpressionEngine gets the proper shine that it deserves, here’s 50 awesome ExpressionEngine powered websites for [...]

Another month in the books and another MyInkTrail for you so you can soak up all of the awesomeness that happened around the design community in the past 31 days. Below are links to the top articles, tutorials, resources, inspiration & random goodness that came out of the design community in the month of March, [...]

Designers love shiny things, right? Well, if that’s true – or even partially true – you’re bound to love this round up of 100 awesome and original business cards. As designers, we should always be thinking of different ways to stand out and market ourselves better and by creating a stunning business card like the [...]

Marketing your business might sound scary, but I guarantee you that when you view this post, you’re going to laugh and be inspired. Thats because I am compiling a set of 100 awesome guerrilla marketing advertisements I’ve collected over the last few weeks. As many of you know, I write a lot about Guerrilla Marketing [...]

From time to time we all like to have some change in our lives (I like change a lot actually) so I figured that today we’d go over some images I found on Flickr recently while doing my normal browsing. I am putting together a list here of 100 awesome images of office workspaces that [...]

Interested in how to make money from your blog? Well, making money blogging is DEAD! I’m sure you’ve heard that before, right? Just like we’ve heard that this industry or that industry is dead and it’s time to move on. Well, I can assure you that making money from your blog is getting easier and [...]

One of the biggest CMS’ in the world is WordPress, and rightfully so. Today we’re going to cover some of the coolest and most creative WordPress powered websites, most of which you wouldn’t even believe could be powered by WordPress. In the past, WordPress was used for blogging only, but when you look over this [...]

When you hear someone say ‘textures in web design’ what is the first thing you think of? Do you picture the heavy textured websites that resemble a grunge band or do you think of the light textures that often occupy the retro styled websites? Whatever answer you chose, you’re right. Textures in web design range [...]

I am very pleased to announce that the wonderful photographer’s over at 10ravens have supplied us with an exclusive set of gorgeous wood plank and wood fence textures to give away to all of our readers! Who is 10ravens? 10ravens.com is brand new website where you can find more than 10.000 of royalty-free textures and [...]

Being a designer means that you will constantly need to come up with new concepts and ideas. The way we present them is of crucial importance. In the following tutorial, I will show you how I have modeled a new packaging concept for Doritos inside 3DS Max. You can see the whole concept and read [...]

In this Photoshop tutorial I am going to show you how to combine different photos to create an Urban Wasteland composition. We will do some background removal by masking images and then composite them together into our scene. We will use adjustment layers to manipulate the colors and hues of our image to achieve the dark and grungy final result. These techniques are essential for photo effects and photo manipulation when using Adobe Photoshop.