Logotypes (or wordmarks) are logos that use typography to represent companies, organizations and products. Logo designers show their talent and creative skills by crafting a logotype that’s memorable, clever, and symbolic of the company they’re representing. To follow up on our logo design tutorial that presented a process developing a logotype from start to finish, here’s a showcase of logotypes (wordmarks) for visual inspiration.
Your site’s color scheme affects the way your website is perceived by your visitors. The colors of your blog give your audience an insight about your personality. To follow up on our tutorial on how to make a dark blog design in Photoshop, I’d like to show you a collection of beautiful blogs that have selected a dark color scheme for your visual stimulation.
Here are some Photoshop brushes of coffee rings that you can download and use on your personal or commercial projects, free of charge. There are 9 brushes in the set, with their diameters between 500–1000px. Enjoy!
Matte paintings are typically for use in films and video games to make scenes and landscapes that would otherwise be impossible or expensive to create as a film set. We’d like to present you with some master matte painters and their stunning art pieces for your admiration and inspiration. This visual showcase follows up our tutorial on how to create a matte painting in Photoshop.
The use of a bright color palette and gradients can bring a modernistic or playful character to a web design. When done well, bright and sleek web designs are eye-catching and fits a website that drives to convey a neoteric mood. To follow up our tutorial on making a bright and sleek layout, I’d like to present to you some beautiful web designs in the same theme, for your inspiration.
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For the majority of us, creativity comes and goes—one day you can be producing revolutionary work, and the next, you may be staring at a blank canvas for hours. As professionals though, being in a creative rut can be costly, so we often have to find ways to coax ourselves into unfailingly being able to create.
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