Sep 20 2011 51 Comments By JC Parmley

Next Day Flyers, a leader in fast business card printing is offering 2 sets of 1,000 custom-printed standard business cards with free shipping anywhere in the continental United States (winners outside of the continental U.S. must pay for shipping costs) to two lucky Design Instruct readers. The business cards will be printed in full color on both sides to make an extra impact. Read on to find out how you can win a set of these fantastic business cards.

Sep 18 2011 6 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

This freebie features a vintage-themed checkered pattern set on top of an aged paper background. It comes in 30 color combinations and in JPG format. The files are very large (3600×3600px) and high-resolution.

Sep 16 2011 21 Comments By Jacob Gube

Using retro-styled elements is one of the more recent design trends. The free fonts featured here are free script fonts that can evoke a retro feel in your design projects. Note that most of the fonts in this collection are better off when used as display fonts (they can become illegible at small sizes).

Sep 14 2011 7 Comments By Jacob Gube

The design and usability of sign-up forms for web apps and websites is crucial because it can have a huge effect on conversion rates. In this web design showcase, you’ll be seeing some excellent sign-up web forms from various websites. Perhaps you can find some inspiring elements that you can apply in your next web form design project.

Sep 12 2011 25 Comments By Mahdi El Hanafi

In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a realistic electric guitar using only Photoshop. I hope you will learn a lot of techniques that can help you create complex photorealistic compositions. This tutorial is quite extensive and might take you a few hours to complete.

Sep 10 2011 6 Comments By Isaac Gube

There are people who sketch/doodle in the margins of their notebooks and there are those who illustrate. This collection is about the latter. Below you’ll find some of the most exciting illustrators and artists we’ve come across recently. Discovering the works of amazingly talented people, like those featured in this collection, makes our job at Design Instruct infinitely pleasurable, and we’re glad we get to share that with you.

Sep 8 2011 16 Comments By Isaac Gube

We all sometimes like to think that designing, or any creative work for that matter, is all about talent, exploring ideas and executing amazing projects; that the most important asset in getting our work done is creativity. The truth, as most of you will probably agree, is a little less glamorous than that.