179 Totally Clever and Creative Package Designs
Nov 12, 2009 Inspiration, Web Roundup
One of the best ways to get your product noticed is to have a clever package design. A package allows you to combine your branding elements, such as a logo, with other creative concepts in order to not only sell your product, but enhance a branding image and gain publicity. Some package designs are utter failures, because they don’t grab your attention, and they’re incredibly difficult to open. Many designers work for long periods of time to come up with a creative package design, because their career hinges on it.
In this post, we’ve gone around and collected 179 of the most creative, inspirational, cool and clever package designs from various brands, and featured them here. From soft drinks to perfume, cigarettes and alcohol, you’ll wish you could find these packages in your local store.
Hopefully you like these designs, and if you do, please Digg and Stumble this post so everyone can get a chance to see it. Thanks, and have a great day everyone! Oh, don’t forget to subscribe too.
Tags: Branding, Cigarettes And Alcohol, Cool Designs, Creative Concepts, Creative Design, Creative Designs, Designers, Elements, Gain Publicity, Image, Local Store, Logo, Long Periods Of Time, Package Designs, Perfume, Soft Drinks
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.
Tags: Abstract, Adobe Help, Adobe Photoshop, Creating Logo, Digital Collage, Digital Id, Fireworks, Good Resources, Graphic Design Tool, Grass, Hybrid, Illustrator, Interface, Iphone, Lighting Effects, Logo, Neon Lights, Orbs, Path, Professional Effects, Raster Graphics, Scratch, Smoke Effect, Text Caption, Vector And Raster, Vectors, Vista, Wallpaper
The 10 Best Year-End Roundups from 2008
Jan 2, 2009 Resource
As you probably already know, Presidia Creative isn’t the only blog that is doing year-end roundups. Most bloggers know that roundups are a great way to build viewership, because of the backlinking generated, and the fact that readers love these kinds of posts.
So, after scouring the web, here are the 10 best year-end roundups from 2008. There are enough resources here to last anyone a long time, from vectors, typography, wallpapers, web designs and tutorials. If you like it, please subscribe and spread the post around. It really means a lot when a reader takes the time to Stumble! or Digg the post. 
Tags: Airey, Blog, Bloggers, Brilliant Design, Creative Designs, Design Resources, Illustrator Tutorials, Logo, Long Time, Roundup, Typography, Vectors, Viewership, Wallpapers Web, Web Designs, Web Tutorials, Year End
