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A great colorful vibrant seamless circle vector pattern. The pattern comes in 5 different colors for you to choose from. The pattern comes in two different scalable vector file formats, which are perfect to be used within print design aswell as web based design.

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A great humongous inspirational blog post. Which showcases over 60 creative as well as innovating business card designs. If you’re looking to design your own print business card, this is a great starting point to help fuel your creativity to kick start the thought process.

 You should always think about making a statement with your business card, by making the design unique as well memorable for potential clients who obtain your business card. A creative innovating business card makes a great first impression with clients, and will certainly make it difficult for the client to forget you or your company.

In a previous blog post we put together another compilation which was the top 30 best tutorials for creating a business card design. Which is a blog post for familiarizing you with how to design your very own business card, alongside some tutorials for sharpening your skills.

Why not share in the comments your favorite business card design, featured within the post. I would love to know which one you consider to be your favorite design.

1. SNAP Business Card

2. Emerson Taymor

3. Mogibo business card

4. Wooden Business Card

5. David Fernández Huerta – Business Card

6. Corporate business card set 2

7. intersection Business card

8. Le Tank Letterpress Business Cards

9. Social Vintage Business Card

10. AppWare – Business Card

11. design shop oooo.com.ua

12. Metal steel business cards

13. Good Graphic Design

14. Suite shop

15. San Gretti´s Signature Slices Visual Identity

16. Bent Art Space

17. GREENPAC Identity Card

18. Visual Business Cards

19. USB Business Card

20. Pulkea Paint

21. Plastic Business Cards

22. Acrylic black business cards

23. Greencloud Studio cards

24. MindWarp Business Cards

25. Transparent Colored Business Card

26. Creative Intent Business Cards

27. Alphabet Business Card

28. Francesa Pasito Business Card

29. Lady Bon Bon Business Cards

30. Web Design Harlow

31. Black Diamond Business Card

32. Amaze  Business Card

33. Frizitka Hair Dress Business Card Design

34. Common

35. Transparent Jonhathan Smith

36. Shoe Polish Business Card Design

37. Woody Adams Tree Surgeon Business Card

38. Dufter Typ

39. Magic Carpet Productions Business Card

40. Dario Mantine Business Card

41. Social Style Business Card

42. Flexicom Business Card

43. Razor’s Edge Business Card

44. Allison Suter

45. Timothy Cruz Business Card Design

46. On Demand Business Cards

47. Junpiter Football

48. Mark Jonhson

49. RW Fingerprint Creative Studio Corporate Identity

50. That’s Brave Business Card

51. GUS-Trans

52. Mais Pilates

53. bubblegum letterpress business cards

54. Redbox Media Business Cards

55. Electrician Business Card

56. Accent Creative

57. wildlabs

58. Jordan purplo

59. Vintage typographic business card

60. Creative Tree Business Card

61. TV Remote Control Card

62. NinjaBTL business card

63. Exit Business Card

64. Cut-out Business Card

65. The Roof at Waterhouse

66. Murillo Design

67. davide gasperini

68. structural graphics

69. Paris by Night restaurant

70. Hello

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This is a great short easy to follow video quick tip. Which will guide you through the process of creating a great colourful smoke effect using Photoshop. The end result is great and takes less than a few minuets to achieve.

Tutorial Details

Difficulty: Beginner

Tutorial estimation time: 2 to 5mins

Program: Photoshop

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I’m pretty much a font fanatic. If your anything like me, I’m sure this is a post you will enjoy. This roundup is a collection of fresh free fonts released in the past 12 weeks. There is nothing better than free fonts which look good, and are useable within your design projects. There’s some truly hidden gems in this compilation, so be sure to download some of the fonts featured in the post.

We would love for you to share in the comments section of your favourite fonts featured in the post.  Don’t for get to check out some of our other compilations on Free Fonts Used In Iconic Movies as well as free fonts for creating profession logo designs.

1. ORIGRAM Free Font

2. Perplex Free Font

3. Good Intent Typeface

4. Jura

5. Ledger Regular

6. The Graffiti Font

7. Glegoo

8. Manteka

9. PLSTK – Free Font

10. Adamas Regular

11. Metropolis free font

12. Metropolis free font

13. Prosto free font

14. sn Blinds

15. Miso  

16. Intro free font

17. Forum Free Font

18. Poly  

19. LineaType – 2012

20. DK Nutnik

21. CFF Free Fonts

22. Geared

23. akadora

24. Tommaso

25. Cubanno

26. Abraham Lincoln

27. Awake Sans

28. Fabada

30. Open Sans Condensed

31. Crete Round

32. Offering Font

33. designosaur

34. Neuton

35. Exo Font Family

36. Blanch Font

37. Alegreya

38. Notica Text

39. Silverfake© Free Typeface

40. Cubic Sans

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Today we have a great icon set freebie. The icon set includes large silver 3D  icons which each have a subtle noise effect added to each icon. The icon set includes 12 icons from some of most popular social media platforms.  I hope you enjoy. I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback in the comments  below.

License Details

The icon set can be used within commercial and non-commercial design projects. The icon set CAN NOT be redistributed on any other website without permission from the Creative Nerds team.

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This monthly roundup is another great one. The post includes a great collection of Photoshop and illustrator tutorials, which I’m sure you will enjoy. Along side some excellent freebies certainly worth downloading. I hope you enjoy the post, and i would love to hear your thoughts upon it.

Photoshop Tutorials

Enigmatic Black and White Flyer Design Tutorial with Photoshop

How to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and my preference for black and white elegance, I created this enigmatic and outer space type design.

Create a Light Bulb Inspired Text Effect in Photoshop

Layer styles are a powerful and time saving feature that can help you apply amazing effects to your designs. In this tutorial you will use layer styles to create a light bulb inspired text effect in Photoshop.

How to design a chatroom iPhone UI

In this tutorial you’re going to be designing an iPhone user interface for a forum and chat based mobile application.

How to Design a Modern Style Ski Poster in Photoshop

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie departement in the Rhone-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics. In this step-by-step Photoshop tutorial, I will show you how to create a vintage style ski poster design. You will combine stock photos, textures and brushes with blend mode techniques and filters on our way to achive the final design.

Illustrator

Create a simple compass icon

In the following tutorial I will show you how to create a simple compass icon. We’ll start with a bunch of simple shape and some pixel perfect vector shape building techniques. Next, using the Pathfinder options along with several effects we’ll create the highlights. Finally, using some basic blending techniques and stroke tricks we’ll add the final touches for our icon.

Learn How to Create a Garbage Bin Illustration in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a garbage bin illustration. Use a complete Illustrator CS5 workflow, vector shape building techniques, gradient and opacity shading, as well as various vector effects.

How to Illustrate a Button Sewed into a Cloth

While reading this tutorial and creating your own artwork, you will learn the important techniques of Adobe Illustrator. It will undoubtedly lead you to improving your skills in making illustrations and designs. Here you’ll learn how to create a button sewed into a piece of cloth.

How To Create a Grainy Abstract Lines Poster Design

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a cool abstract lines design with awesome vibrant lighting effects. We’ll use Illustrator’s easy tools to create the vector linework then add a range of glows, colours and effects in Photoshop to finish the design with a cool grainy but luminous style.

Freebies

Free Set of Photography Icons

Our friends at Iconshock have designed a beautiful set of photography icons for you, the readers of the Vandelay Design blog! The set includes 10 high-quality icons that are perfect for use in photography-related web projects. Each icon comes in .png format (256 px x 256 px).

Happy Hippie Black And White Seamless Pattern

A great hippie seamless style vector and Photoshop pattern. The pattern was inspired by retro 1970s style posters. The pattern set can be used in commercial and non commercial design projects.

Free Vector Bumper Pack of Grungy Textures & Brushes

This bumper pack contains a bunch of textures, brush strokes and spraypaint drips to distress and erode your designs whilst maintaining the scalability of vector artwork.

Pixel UI Icon Set

A great free mini icon set.

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This is a great short easy to follow video tutorial, which will teach you how to change colours of specific objects i.e how to change the colour of car which is yellow to pink.  The tutorial is less than 2Mins so a great quick tip worth trying if you have some spare time.

Tutorial Details

Difficulty: Beginner

Program: Photoshop

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A great vibrant seamless vector pattern, which is exclusive to Creative Nerds Premium Members. A nice a seamless pattern to use as you please, within your design projects.

A vibrant colourful seamless vector pattern. The pattern comes in 12 unique different colours to use in your design projects. The seamless pattern is perfect for your print projects, or to be used as a background within your webdesign projects. Download the pattern.

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E-books are great way to learn more about web design. E-books can truly provide you a fountain of knowledge of information and there’s a lot to be learnt. The beauty of ebooks is that there short and insightful not as a long as a book but not as short as a blog post.

This blog post we have collected a personal collection of well of thought out web design related ebooks, which can be downloaded and read all for free. If your a tablet owner i would certainly recommend putting them on your ebook to read. There’s not too many great ebooks currently out their which are available for free, you should certainly take advantages of this post and read one of the ebooks listed in the post.

I hope you enjoy the blog post and we would love for you to share your favourite free ebook featured in are post, or recommend any good free ebooks which we may have missed out.

1. The elements of typographic style applied to web

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers, particularly in body copy. In years gone by this could have been put down to the technology, but now the web has caught up. The advent of much improved browsers, text rendering and high resolution screens, combine to negate technology as an excuse.

2. Webdesign succes guide

Web Designer’s Success Guide is the definitive guide to starting your own freelance Web design business.

3. Why Design

Does your startup need a designer co-founder?
Enrique Allen runs down the characteristics of designer founders, scenarios where design is particularly important, and how to spot designer founders in the wild.

4. Time Management for Creative People

Delivering time management training and coaching for hundreds of creative people has taught me a lot about what it takes to get original work done in the midst of the demands and distractions of the 21st century workplace.

5. Introduction to Good Usability

Over the past year I have written a few posts about design guidelines. They have also proven to be the most successful ones. I have therefor decided to put a few of them together, add some more and bundle it as an ebook. So without much further ado, I present:

6. HTML5 Quick Learning Guide

There are lots of great resources for getting comprehensive information on HTML5, so instead of creating another one of those, I decided instead to create a short “quick learning guide”. This guide introduces you to just the main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This guide is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.

7. How To Be Creative

MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.

8. Taking Your Talent to the Web

Rated Five Stars at Amazon.com since the day it was published, “Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book from zeldman.com

9. How to create your own portfolio

How to create your own design portfolio website without all that HTML nerdy stuff.

10. Design Your Imagination

WebGuru India is glad to offer “Design Your Imagination”; a one stop ebook resource for web design novices. Primarily written for website design wannabes, this book will also benefit experienced web designers. The book has been written by some of WebGuru India’s most seasoned professionals and is divided into 28 comprehensive chapters. Each chapter is on a specific topic with a number of examples for better understanding. The language is lucid, to-the-point and easy to understand.

11. Free E-book – How to Motivate Creative People (Including Yourself)

Running motivation training and coaching sessions for hundreds of clients has taught me a lot about how to get outstanding performance out of people at work.

12. The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design?

13. Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns – A Free New Book 

Hey guys. Today I’m happy to announce the release of a free book I’ve written called ‘Essential JavaScript & jQuery Design Patterns For Beginners’. Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software development and are a very useful tool to have at your disposal.

14. HTML5 WTF?

From Simon Schoeters, the author: Yet another overview of the changes introduced by HTML5. How does it look like? What is sexy?

15. Download the Guide to Guerrilla Freelancing ebook for free!

The best articles from Gurilla Freelancing  that will help guide new freelancers in the right direction as well as give them insight into the benefits and drawbacks of freelance life, some things you must be aware of as well as some guerrilla marketing tactics to get them going.

16. Faster, and More Secure Webfonts

Font embedding for the web is a great step in making the web look better and become more functional, but what about security and load times?

17. Who’s There? the new ebook (free for now)

Is about how to make websites do their job better, then it’s only natural to turn our attention to blogs.

18. Free 27 Page Type Classification eBook

This book has been made to help you learn the 10 broad classifications of type. These are the basic foundations of what you need to learn to learn typography and it is essential for any designer to know how to classify type.

19. The Woork Handbook

The Woork Handbook is a free eBook about CSS, HTML, Ajax, web programming, Mootools, Scriptaculous and other topics about web design… directly from Woork!

20. To Five Smashing Years… And A Free Anniversary eBook Treat!

A collection of several web design articles to celebrate 5 years of smashing magazine.

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A great abstract pattern with the use of very bright vibrant colors. The pattern set comes in 5 different colors for you to choose from, to use in your design projects as you please. The pattern set is a great high quality seamless scalable vector pattern. The pattern set can be scaled as large or as small as you please.

I hope you enjoy the pattern set, and can find some use for this pattern set within your design projects. If your still thirsty for more patterns be certain to check out our sister website Vector Patterns.

License Details

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