Leech Shapes: Photoshop Brush Pack

Leech Shapes: Photoshop Brush Pack

This free Photoshop brush pack consists of abstract shapes that resemble leeches. Use them to fancify your artwork and designs, free of charge. There are 9 brush tips included in the pack that are 2,400+ pixels in width (so they’re pretty big).

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A Showcase of Impressed Print Designs

A Showcase of Impressed Print Designs

Embossing is a technique for creating three-dimensional designs on paper. Embossing paper produces either a raised or a lowered surface, with the latter referred to as impressing or, in some circles, “debossing”. Print work with embossing creates a unique and tactile design that embodies a subtle but memorable element that ensures that you’ll make an impression.

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Make Swiss Design Inspired Business Cards in 30 Minutes

Make Swiss Design Inspired Business Cards in 30 Minutes

In this print design tutorial, you will witness a process for creating Swiss Style themed business cards using Adobe Illustrator and some tools and items that you can easily obtain from your your local office supply store (or online). We’re going to go through setting up Illustrator for designing a business card template, as well as how to print the template on business card stock.

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Folds: Texture Pack

Folds: Texture Pack

This is a collection of free textures of folds and creases from a statue for you to download. There are 8 high-scale images in this freebie. You can use these for personal or commercial purposes in your work! You’ll find image files up to 2000×3008px in size included in this pack.

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Concrete/Brick Blocks: Texture Pack

Concrete/Brick Blocks: Texture Pack

There are concrete textures. Then there are brick textures. However, you rarely find both in one texture pack! That’s right, that’s how we do it at Design Instruct! There are 8 large-scale images in this texture pack, and each are up to 2000×3008px in dimension. I found these concrete block pillars with brick pieces shoved in between the mortar. How amazing is that? I thought it was neat-o. Enjoy! Use them for personal and commercial works.

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Mysterious Grunge Stains: Texture Pack

Mysterious Grunge Stains: Texture Pack

This is a collection of free grunge textures for you to download. There are 8 high-scale textures in this freebie. You can use these for personal or commercial purposes in your work, though we have to ask you not to redistribute this pack without prior consent from us. You’ll find image files up to 2000×3008px in size included in this pack.

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How to Make Abstract Typography Art with Illustrator

How to Make Abstract Typography Art with Illustrator

For this beginner level tutorial, I will show you how to create a type design I like to call "Sauce." The design will be done in Illustrator and will be a vector so that we can scale the design up or down depending on where you want to use it, coming out with a vector image that will allow you to apply the design anywhere you’d like.

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