Orlando creates these incredible images with no gradient mesh, no tracing, and no plug-ins. Just good old-fashioned hard work and skill. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Pop-Deco Vector Illustrations by Orlando Arocena

Being great at the art of photo manipulation requires massive amounts of creativity, patience, planning and skills. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 10 Surreal Photo Manipulation Tutorials

When you're doing product photography, portrait photography, fashion shoots, or simply just taking photos of stuff around the house you want to sell online, you'll often want to have a perfectly white background to draw the viewer's attention onto the subject. Continue reading...Continue Reading: A Simple Photoshop Trick for Getting White Backgrounds

Whenever we see great artwork at Design Instruct, the first thing we wonder about is "How did they do it? What application did they use? What was the process?"  Continue reading...Continue Reading: Beautifully Dark, Haunting Photography Art by Leslie Ann O’dell

This is a collection of beautiful workspaces that can give you inspiration and ideas for designing your own workspace. Some of these workspaces are dark and moody, while others are vibrant and open. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 22 Alluring Workspaces for Inspiration and Ideas

If you're looking for some inspiration for your own personal branding or logos, we've got just the thing! Continue reading...Continue Reading: Great Examples of Personal Logos and Branding

Script fonts are characteristically alluring. Beautiful curvature and organic lines make this type of font great in circumstances where you want to achieve a friendly and inviting look. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 10 Free Script Fonts to Download

Have you ever seen a really amazing work of art and wondered how the artist did it? Continue reading...Continue Reading: Time-Lapse Artwork: Artists Show You How It’s Done

As a designer, you can never have enough icons. However, there's an innumerable amount of top-notch free icons on the Web to help you build your personal collection, so there's definitely no shortage of supply. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 5 Great Sites for Downloading Free Icons

Isosmetric projection has been a mainstay in technical drawing and engineering and has become very popular in video games in the 2 decades. Check out Michiel's project of isometric 3D renders. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Wonderful Isometric 3D Renders by Michiel van den Berg

Clothing and fashion accessories are popular retail products to sell online. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 26 Inspiring Fashion Online Store Website Designs

Anyone who has tried their hand at illustration know that it's usually much easier if you do it in pencil first. Not for DZO Olivier. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Ink-redible, Mistake-Free Illustrations by DZO Olivier

Creating your own background patterns for design projects is quite laborious. And making a background pattern for one-off use may be impractical, considering the time it takes to make a really good one. Continue reading...Continue Reading: A Wealth of Beautiful Tiling Backgrounds for Your Designs

Compact digital cameras have a lot going for them. They're small, easy to use, and cheaper than most DSLR systems. Compact cameras are especially great for those looking to ease into the world of photography. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 5 Tips for Taking Better Photos with Your Compact Camera 

Getting inspired by seeing the work of others is part of every designer's workflow. Inspiration is so key to designers that there's a huge industry of sites that aim to satisfy our creative desires to look at great work. Continue reading...Continue Reading: This Site Will Give You Endless Design Inspiration

Micheal Bierut of Pentagram Design shares his views on design and designing today. Continue reading...Continue Reading: What it Means to be a Modern Designer

This free Photoshop plugin will seriously streamline your design project workflow. Continue reading...Continue Reading: How to Collaborate on Designs in Photoshop

This site will help you learn how to code properly, all by yourself. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Teaching Yourself How to Code

Many creatives challenge themselves with 365-day projects to keep their creativity sharp and to explore ideas. Very few, however, create a body of work as polished and beautiful as Justin Maller's Facets project! Continue reading...Continue Reading: 365-Day Geometric Illustration Challenge by Justin Maller

You may have noticed our love of free photos. We write about the topic quite often. And we even give out a few free photos ourselves (you can find them in our freebies section). Continue reading...Continue Reading: 800+ Free High-Quality Photos All in One Place

Are you thinking of using the color green in your next web design project? Green is a wonderful color to use; it's versatile and has positive undertones associated with it. Continue reading...Continue Reading: 20 Beautiful Green Web Designs for Inspiration

One of the most game-changing aspects of CSS3 is the ability to animate HTML elements. And, with the way things are looking right now, motion design is something all designers will need to learn. Continue reading...Continue Reading: This Ebook Will Teach You All About CSS Animations

There are a few key principles that are universally recognized as being vital components of good designs. Some of these principles are balance, negative space, scale and hierarchy. These elements all play a part in the creation of an effective design. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Learn the Basic Elements of Good Visual Designs in 50 Seconds

Ivan Belikov, a Russian artist, has produced a series of illustrations depicting his interpretation of various countries coats of arms. Continue reading...Continue Reading: Artist’s Interpretation of Coats of Arms