In this week’s roundup of creative goodness, we have a look at the history of design blogs; a tutorial on how to create seamless patterns; a few everyday lessons in freelancing; an awesome illustrative tutorial; and a fantasy photo manipulation tutorial.
Pelfusion
Design blogs have boomed over the past few years, but the idea has been around for years. Pelfusion takes us through history and looks back at how blogs have developed from the late 90’s onwards. I’m honoured to see Blog.SpoonGraphics listed as part of the 2007 generation.
Design Shack
Repeating patterns are always a useful resource, no matter what you’re designing for. Design Shack takes us through the process of finding and creating your own seamless background textures in Photoshop.
John O’Nolan
Despite all the helpful advice from freelancing blogs, you never really learn until you experience the ins and outs of self employment as a designer. John O’Nolan shares some useful hints and tips from the lessons he’s learnt over the years.
Vectortuts
Anything that combines digital artwork and sketches captures my interest straight away, so this tutorial from Vectortuts was right up my street. Follow the two-part walkthrough on how to create a sweet linework and typography combo.
PSDtuts
It’s always fun to take a break from everyday design work and have fun with some fantasy artwork. This tutorial from PSDtuts explains how to create a surreal fantasy photo manipulation in Photoshop, using various effects on stock photography.
always nice to see websites from tutsplus !
Already seen most of these myself, but its good to keep a round-up of th ebest, cheers Chris.
Nice collection this week. One I liked a lot from (Photo)Tuts+ this week was A Poor Man’s Guide to Budget Macro Photography. Just found it quite interesting!
The giveaway for your 3x one year subscriptions at Blog.SpoonGraphics is going well, not sure if you’re keeping up to date with it currently has 114 entries ;)
Great collection this week…always love checking out the site Chris..Keep up the quality work!
Great collection this week…always love checking out the site Chris..Keep up the quality work and I will check back soon!
Fabulous collection of websites in this week..totally amazing….
Great post. Thank you. :D
Great pages, beautiful designs!
That’s awesome! You know, you should check out this site!
http://www.madmediamonkey.com
I have just started a new job at Dream Media Design Manchester as a trainee and i have been looking around the web for good tips to make sure I impress my new boss, so anything to give me a leg up the ladder is great, designing at uni is nothing like doing it at work the pace is so so fast, I’m on my dinner browsing this site and I just wanted so say thanks to all you guys who left this fantastic content ;) I look forward to reading much more so please keep up the good work I can’t wait to leave articles of my own!!!! thanks
Nice article, thanks…
thanx,very good john o’Nolan blog site
the seamless background is awesome! Very great tutorial.
keep it up
Thanks for the list Chris except for the tutsplus that i visit every day :)))