Best of the Web #49

Happy holidays everyone, I hope that wherever you are, you are able to spend some time with friends and family to celebrate the holiday season.  Since it’s Monday, we’ve gone around and rounded up the best posts from last week from the various design blogs.

This post features a lot of dazzling photography roundups, from beaches to waterfalls, and some really mind-boggling vanishing point photographs from @abduzeedo.  Additionally, Paul from ForCG.com shows us how to create a spectacular holiday card.  Also, don’t miss the great space roundup from my new blog, CreativeFan.com

I hope you enjoy these posts, and have a great start to your week!

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Best of the Web #30

thumbAs always, since it’s Monday, I’ve gone ahead and rounded up the best posts from the design world from the previous week.  While certainly not the “end-all” of best of the web posts, I think that these posts illustrate the 7-10 posts that I think readers would most enjoy.

This week had some great tutorials, some really awesome inspirational posts (including one roundup of really cool Threadless t-shirts), and of course, some excellent design freebies.  Of course, if you feel like I missed any posts, please let me know in the comments.

Thanks for reading as always, everyone, and if you ever need anything, just drop me an email or comment.

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20 Free Useful Tools for Designers and Developers

thumbThere are a host of free tools available on the internet that can help designers and developers increase their productivity. Some tools are great, others just waste your time, so today, we’ve sorted through the free tools available to find 20 free and useful tools for designers and developers.

Whether you’re looking to create invoices, contact your colleagues, find a color scheme, generate some code, or share files, you’ll find a free tool in this list to do the job.

Thanks for reading, and good luck with your freelancing endeavors!

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