The best design articles from 2013

• December 23rd, 2013
• Articles

This is our annual tradition continued. We round-up the year by having a look back at some of our personal favourite design blog posts, which we have published on Creative Nerds  through out 2013. Its been a great 2013, and we have bigger and better plans to pump out even  great content through out 2014.

40 Examples Of Powerful Street Art Graffiti At Its Best

A powerful collection of some jaw dropping graffiti designs. There’s a lot of people who really dislike gratifti and look it more as crime rather than art. This is defiantly a popular misconception, and is certain one of the finest forms art. This post is a great compilation of 40 of the best graffiti designs from all around the world, each graffiti design pays a great attention to detail, which makes them unique and great designs.

Subtle Glossy Fade social media icons set

A sweet social media icon set with a subtle glossy fade effect. The icon set individual size is 64px by 64px. The perfect size for web design projects or even interface design. The icon set includes 12 of the most popular social media website from Twitter to Facebook. The icon set is free and can be used in commercial design projects as and how you wish to do so.

20 Tutorials For Creating T-Shirt Designs

This post is a great collection tutorials, which will educate you on how to use Photoshop and illustrator to create unique t-shirt designs. It’s fairly easy to create good designs to use on t-shirts these tutorials will show you several techniques, which will turn you into a master when it comes to creating t-shirt designs.

How To Draw A Delicious Burger

A burger, the king of fast foods! Who doesn’t like burgers? Everyone does! For those designers that are hungry a new tutorial, how to draw a burger in Adobe Illustrator.

50 Best Free Fonts From 2013

This blog post is a compilation of the very best free fonts, which where created  within 2013 this is the perfect design resource for any webdesign or print designer. A must bookmark asset for any font addict.

Free Rising Smoke Photoshop Brush Set Vol2

About two years ago we created rising smoke brush, for Creative Nerds readers. This was a personal favourite of mine, which i still  heavily use to this day. I thought it would only be wright to finally released vol 2 of the rising some brush set. The brush set is free to use, and can be used in commercial design projects ,as well as for personal use.

400 Ultimate Arrow Vector Pack

Freepik, love freebies and helping designers and developers with the best graphic resources, and here you have an example. Today they have kindly shared with Creative Nerds this amazing 400 arrows icons set just for free. The pack contains the ai files so you can customize the icons, adapting them to your designs.

Jaw dropping 80s style neon artwork designs

This post is a flash back to 80’s looking at ever so popular design trend then neon style movie poster designs. We have decided to showcase in this article our personal favorite designs inspired this design trend, which first started in the 90’s. Please your thoughts, and feedback in the comments section below.

120+ Free Home Vector Icons

This is a must download free design resource. This is certainly a great set of design assets to add to your design inventory. The free design resource includes well 100 home icons in png and in a scalable vector file format. This icon set  can to be used in commercial amd non commercial design projects. Download the icons, and please fell free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below.

Easy Tutorial On How Create Cartoon Dexter Character Illustration

Dexter is probably one of those cartoon characters that don’t need an introduction, but anyway, for those who never heard about him, Dexter is boy genius that has a giant secret laboratory filled with his great inventions. In this simple tutorial I will show you how to draw this character inside Adobe Illustrator.

80 best Photoshop tutorials from 2013

Our annual tradition on Creative Nerds is to showcase the best Photoshop tutorials from the current year. We have scoured the web , in order to roundup the top 80 best photoshop tutorials created this year. The post has a variety of various tutorials from text effects to photo manipulations. The post is a great resource for building and developing your design skills, perfect if you’re beginner or a veteran designer.

20 Epic Photos Which Tell Powerful Stories

This is a collection of truly powerful real life photos, which each tell their own unique story. I love looking at photographs and trying to put together the back story behind that photo what the person was thinking when the photo was taken? What where their emotions?. A great collection of powerful photos, for which each are worth a thousand words to describe the photo.