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- 10 Great Grunge Vector PacksJuly 23
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The grunge style and (Vector Grunge Packs) have been around for a long time and continues to play a large role in many design projects. Its often very time consuming to create your won vector grunge elements for designs, but thankfully many vector artists have come to the rescue!
Below are 10 of the best free vector grunge packs around. Some of the type of vectors included in our list are grunge borders, grunge skulls, grunge floral designs and much more. Enjoy!
Free Grunge Vector Art
1. 50 Free Vector Grunge Corners
This incredible vector grunge borders download is way better then any grunge brushes out there. Since its vectorized they can be scaled as large or as small as you want!
2. Go Media’s Sample Vector Pack #2
Go Media is well known for its incredible vector packs and also their generous free sample packs such as this great sample grunge vector pack that has skulls, a crown, a spider, weapons and all other kinds of cool grunge looking vectors.
This is one of the best grunge skull downloads around, where the grunge skulls come with wings
- 3 Great Open Source Software Website EnhancementsJuly 21
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Open source software is software in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design. These three open source software downloads are all free and can be great additions to your site, making for a better user experience, more return visits and more unique visitors per month.
Free Open Source Software
1. Vanilla - Forum
Vanilla is a great free open source forum software that you can install on your site to allow people to start discussions. It comes with all kinds of features such as customizable account profiles, anti spam measures and pretty much anything else you could dream of. Its so easy to customize and is a great option if you are looking to increase traffic to your site and give your readers a place to chat.
2. Pligg - Rating Systems & User Generated Content
Pligg is a great content management system that allows you to create sites similar to digg.com where users can submit links which can be rated by users. Their are some good pre-made templates available, but most people design and implement their own unique templates. Its easy to set up and its a
- We Need a Banner for Round 3 - Win a Copy of FontBook!July 18
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Before we begin Round Three…
of the UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition we wanted to give you all a chance to win a cool prize by designing two banners for round three!
In round 3 you will be asked to design a poster using only fonts provided by FontShop.com and textures provided by iStockphoto.com. Round 3 will be coming soon, so in the meantime we would love to see what you can do with the banners we will use for round 3!
For now, here’s the details for the pre-round 3 banner mini contest:
Prize
1 Copy of FontBook from FontShop.com valued at $99!
Banner Specifications
- Size: 640 x 300 Pixels, 72 DPI and RGB Color Mode
and
- Size: 398 x 514 Pixels, 72 DPI and RGB Color Mode
Text That MUST be Included
- UPrinting.com International Poster Design Competition
- Sponsored by: UPrinting.com, iStockphoto.com, PSDTuts.com and FontShop.com
- Hosted by YouTheDesigner.com
- Round 3 - Typography
- Win a 16GB iPhone & Many Other Prizes
- Finalists Will Compete for a Full Page Ad in PRINT Magazine!
Rules
- Both banners MUST match in style such as color, fonts used etc
- Propaganda Posters Part 2: Russian War PostersJuly 16
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In our first part of the series we covered propaganda posters of the U.S.A and in part two we will cover Russian war posters from many different periods of Russian history! Russian war posters mainly fall into 5 different periods including the Bolshevik Era (1917-1921), the New Economic Policy (1921-1927), First and Second Five Year Plans (1928-1937), Great Patriotic War (1939-1945), and the Cold War (1946-1984).
Russian War Posters
During these periods of time the Russian propaganda posters were used for a variety of reasons including promoting and building optimism for a new Russian society, eliminating illiteracy and even improving health care. The posters were also used by Lenin and Stalin to promote political agendas; for instance using the posters to attack their political opponents.
Artists of the time struggled over the constant battle between their own opinions and and what the government wanted them to show in their posters. Propaganda is still commonly used today, but the internet and television tends to be a much more valuable medium nowadays.
- 10 Great New Graphic Design PostsJuly 14
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Graphic Design Resources Roundup
A collection of the latest graphic design resources, adobe tutorials, inspirational posts and more from all around the graphic design community. Enjoy!
1. Ornate, Floral, Swirly and Curly Vector Roundup
Flourishes are one of the most popular current trends in graphic design, ranging from simple flourishes to extremely intricate combinations of swirls and flourishes combined with photographs and typography.
2. Classy Personal Portfolio in Fireworks
In this tutorial Fabio Sasso teaches you how to design a modern looking one page graphic design portfolio in Fireworks.
3. 40+ Killer Typographic Posters, Photoshop Effects and Tutorials
The title explains this one pretty well, this is a great inspirational post mixed in with a few solid tutorials.