Best of the Web #48
Dec 14, 2009 Best of the Web
Hey again everyone, it’s Monday, so I’ve gone around and rounded up the best posts from last week. As always, there some great posts which have been included here.
My friend Kashif made several excellent Christmas-related posts on his blogs, which have been included here, and there were some other great roundups as well. The year-end roundups are beginning, so be on the lookout for more of them. And as always, there were some great tutorials.
Hope you enjoy these resources!
Have a great start to the week.
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55 Incredible Product Advertisements You Haven’t Seen
Jul 1, 2009 Web Roundup
Advertisements are everywhere. On the back of cereal boxes, on the sides of busses, on billboards, in magazines, on TV, and, of course, the internet. It’s funny, most people spend a lot of energy trying to avoid advertisements, but in the world of graphic design, advertisements allow us to look at a specific product or service and see the message that is conveyed through the advertisement.
Today, we have 55 incredible product advertisements from deviantART that you haven’t seen, but are extraordinary examples of how creative and meaningful advertising should be done.
If you liked this post, please share it with your friends so they can see it too. Have a great day everyone, and if you ever have feedback or just want to chat, send me a message with the contact form.
Tags: Ad, Ads, Advertisement, Advertisements, Art, Billboards, Busses, Cereal Boxes, Clock, Design, deviant, Deviantart, Graphic, Graphic Design, Invasion, Iphone, Nike, Nokia, Playstation, Playstation 3, Product Advertisements, Products, Renova, Rpm, Safari, Tiger, Tiger Beer, Unltd
20 Tutorials for Professional Effects in Fireworks
Apr 2, 2009 Web Roundup
Adobe Photoshop isn’t the only graphic design tool in the Adobe family of products. Adobe Fireworks provides a unique balance between vector and raster graphics, which is a nice hybrid between Illustrator and Photoshop. However, good resources and tutorials for Fireworks are somewhat hard to find.
Today, we have 20 tutorials that will get you started with Adobe Fireworks and will help you to create professional effects. So if you have thought about trying out Fireworks but didn’t know where to start, check out these tutorials.
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71+ Free PSD Resources
Mar 3, 2009 Resource
As I promised yesterday, here is new biggest post that I’ve ever written.
Whether you’re just trying to learn Photoshop, or you need some quality elements to use in your latest designs, free PSD resources can be a real timesaver. Today, we have a list of 71+ free Photoshop resources for designers. There are some great stock images here, and some layered PSD files that are just perfect for designers to learn how high quality resources are made.
Please, if you find these posts useful, take a few seconds to submit it to Digg, Stumble, Delicious, Reddit, Mixx, or any of your other favorite social networks. Thank you so much for reading, and enjoy!
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Mobile Phone Ads – Tutorials and Inspiration
Dec 18, 2008 Photoshop
Ever since the advent of mobile phones, a different advertising style has emerged to accompany them. Because of the smaller size of mobile phones, it is possible to do significant artwork to accompany the phone. The screen also adds an additional area for a design.
Today, we’re going to look at the best tutorials out there for creating a mobile phone from scratch, and then adding other effects to help make it into a product advertisement.
Lastly, we’re going to feature some eye-catching inspiration to help give you something to aim for. Hopefully you enjoy it, and if you have anything you want to see, leave a comment and let us know.
Tags: Ad Design, Advent, Artwork, Blackberry, Case Study, Cell Phone, Design Today, Diamond, Fireworks, Htc Touch, Inspiration, Iphone, Lg Phone, Mobile Phone, Mobile Phones, Phone Ads, Product Advertisement, Scratch, Smartphone, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Zune
