Grainy Wall: Texture Pack

Grainy Wall: Texture Pack

These are some very sharp, high-resolution snaps of a great looking, grainy, very textured wall! That’s right, folks! A wall! At 4000px wide, these images are more than big enough for most of your graphic design projects. So get texturing! These textures are provided to you for free, as always. Use them in your personal work or for commercial work.

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Rethinking The Business Card

Rethinking The Business Card

A lot of designers and creative professionals put a lot of time and energy and money into business cards. And why not? It’s a great opportunity to show off your personality, your design sense, and, to some extent, your design skills.

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40 Free High-Quality Web Button PSD Downloads

40 Free High-Quality Web Button PSD Downloads

This collection of downloadable PSD freebies of web buttons features calls to action buttons, social media buttons, download buttons and other GUI buttons from top-notch websites and designers. Using PSDs made by these talented and generous designers can help you speed up the completion of your projects. You can also download, experiment and study the files to learn new UI design techniques.

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Giveaway Winners: Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

Giveaway Winners: Business Cards from Next Day Flyers

We recently ran a giveaway of business cards together with our friends at Next Day Flyers, an online printing company that delivers top-quality printed marketing materials. We had many Design Instruct readers participate in the giveaway, and in this post, we reveal the two lucky winners.

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Create a Light Textured Web Design in Photoshop

Create a Light Textured Web Design in Photoshop

In this web design tutorial, we’ll be creating a light textured web page layout. I will show you how apply subtle textures in web layouts, how to create a seamless diagonal mosaic pattern and how to create a tabbed content area design for the “Services” section.

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Font Collection: 10 Free Geometric Sans-Serif Fonts (Vol. 2)

Font Collection: 10 Free Geometric Sans-Serif Fonts (Vol. 2)

Geometric sans-serif fonts look clean and professional, with a contemporary flare about them. Use this class of fonts when you desire elegance and modernity in your designs. This is our second collection of free geometric sans-serif fonts. Check out the first collection as well.

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Create a Glamorous Vintage-Style Poster in Photoshop

Create a Glamorous Vintage-Style Poster in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, I will walk you through a process of creating digital work inspired by older magazine fashion ads. You will learn how to use basic shapes and brushes to create an abstract background, see how layers react to one another with Blend Modes, how to create trendy abstract shapes, how Gradient Maps can be used to influence the overall design and more.

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