In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a great overview of popular blog post formats; a fantastic discussion of the best design related content from 2009; an amazing detailed Illustrator tutorial; a roundup of well designed web design navigation menus; and some simple rules for good typography.
Spyre Studios
Spyre Studios hosts this fantastic overview of the six most common types of blog posts, and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each. A great article for anyone currently growing their blog.
Design Reviver
2010 is now well underway, but this 2009 roundup from Design Reviver highlights some brilliant posts from last year. If you missed any of them, here’s your chance to catch up on the indespensible knowledge each article shares.
VectorTuts
This in-depth tutorial from VectorTuts highlights some useful Adobe Illustrator techniques and shares the process of creating a curious owl character. Particularly, how gradients can be used to create depth and dimension.
Web Design Ledger
This roundup of website navigation menus from Web Design Ledger provides some fantastic web design inspiration by showcasing a wide collection of various design styles and unique approaches.
Fred Design
Typography is one of the core principles of a great design. This article on Fred Design takes a look at some simple rules that you should follow to inject your designs with good typography. What’s more, these rules can be spread across the whole spectrum of design, whether it’s for print or web.
Great list, too bad I’m not very designoriented, just a little bit. :P
Great Selection Chris, thanks, I missed most of them
Thank you very much for mentioning my owl tutorial Chris! Love the little tweaks on the site by the way.
Austoni always has some of the best tutorials on the tuts sites.. keep it up!
You could be right!
Thanks for the navigation menus!
Thanks for doing that!
Stephan
Navigation menus are superb and some great tips!
great list. These are also my favorite posts
Chris, always love the lists to keep me updated on things that slipped by.
Checking them out now.
Love the article on Fred Design! Great list! Btw, *Janurary – you might want to change that.
THANK you admins
nice thank blogs
I’m always looking for tutorials and guides to keep my skills up to scratch, but there’s so many out there now, I don’t know where to look first. So thanks for posting some of your favourites as it makes it much easier for me :)