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The awesome folks from MOO have arranged some great product giveaways for Access All Areas members in the past, and today they’re back with an offer for their latest business card product – Luxe. At triple the weight and thickness of standard business cards and featuring a stylish seam of … Log in to your [...]

If you’re trying to learn a new application there’s nothing better than having an expert guide you through the various menus and tools. This post rounds up 30 of the most detailed Adobe Illustrator video tutorials and screencasts on the web. Each one features a mix of clear commentary and useful techniques that will help [...]

This week MightyDeals have arranged a great offer for Access All Areas members. They are giving away any of their current deals to 5 lucky winners! Fancy some new vector resources, a premium font to add to your collection, or maybe a book to learn something new? Log in and … Log in to your [...]

Follow this step by step Illustrator and Photoshop tutorial to create a cool poster design of vibrant shard graphics. We’ll create the array of shapes with Illustrator’s vector tools before finishing off the poster with some subtle textures in Photoshop. The design we’re creating today features a range of sharp vector shard shapes each with [...]

The Art & Design Inspiration fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Stewart Scott-Curran, Justin Kamerer, Chris Honeywell, Ben Thomas and Tom Whalen. The Flaming Lips by Stewart Scott-Curran Rockaholics [...]

I’ve always loved browsing the insanely detailed and realistic artwork created by digitally painting in Photoshop, so this year I’m planning on setting aside some time to learn the basics myself. I’ve read through numerous online tutorials and have hand picked the best to share with you today. All the tutorials showcased in this post [...]

This week Access All Areas members have the chance of winning $50 worth of credits to spend on website templates and themes from 4Templates.com. Choose from hundreds of beautiful designs, each built with standards compliant code and supplied with the PSD source file.4Templates.com offers website templates and themes that are … Log in to your [...]

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a realistic pewter style metal text effect in Photoshop. The best part is it’s really easy! Just a couple of Photoshop layer styles is all it takes to create the basic effect, with a subtle tweak or two to perfect the lighting to maximise the realism. This [...]

The Art & Design Inspiration fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Alex Varanese, Jude Landry, Mat MacQuarrie, Ben Didier and Justin Van Genderen. The Properties of Identity by Alex [...]

Welcome to 2012 everyone! I thought I’d ease us into the new year with a bit of logo design inspiration. This post rounds up a collection of 30 creative logos all featuring some kind of detailed pattern as part of their design. See how the designers have combined shapes to produce intricate logos that draw [...]