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Graphic Design Group Writing Project Articles
2008-03-06 21:50:00
?Graphic Design ? is not that hard to imagine. When you start typing words using your keyboards, graphic design could give you tremendous outlines to your imagination and actually you are unconsciously experiencing it in every single day of your life. You see it, you touch it, you need it, and you feel it!The first Group Writing Project that I have entered came up with wonderful selected articles. Jacob Cass was organizing this cool group writing contest nicely.If you?re one of the Graphic Design lovers, I send a bit of warm invitation for you to read the articles, socio bookmark, to link up and subscribe!I tried to categorize these articles so it would help you to grasp the headlines a little. Please correct me if somehow I made some mistake in sorting them. Enjoy!Designer BitsCreative Design by committee is OK, but who wants OK? - Submitted by Jason3 Devastating Mistakes that every designer makes and how to avoid them - Submitted by LaurenThe Lucky 7 Graphic Design Stretches - Sub...
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Feed Flare Grand Opening Contest!
2008-03-05 17:32:00
FeedFlare .ca has been launch just over a month. Collin, the owner of this fantastic Feed Flare community site has starting out a grand opening contest with total prize packages are worth just over $5200.00 (cash value) plus the 25,000 Entrecard credits. THE LONG LIST OF PRIZES I have informed you in my previous post that Graphic Identity blog has been taking part to sponsoring Feed Flare first contest. One of these prizes might be yours if you become one of the lucky winners of this amazing contest! Mini Unix web hosting package free for 1 year - Donated by BlurFur web hosting services (value - $70.00) - random drawAdvertising voucher with Bidvertiser worth $200.00 in free clicks (value - $200.00) - random drawBlog branding package which includes (Favico, header, logo, 125x125 button) design package donated by Graphic Identity (value - $200.00) - random drawFree advertising for one month in the form of a 125x125 button on Blogging Cents. (value - $35.00) -...
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Blogspot Design Showcase ? Part 3
2008-03-03 21:40:00
Been very busy with things to do on February :D, so this post kind of hold up a bit. These Blogspot blogs just grabbed my attention for the first time I saw them. You know I love to catch a glimpse on paintings and artistic illustrations and sense the story behind them. So today, the reviews will include 4 Blogspot blogs which has crazily updates their post with breath taking arts and illustration. Buckle up guys!Dot Dot Design Guga is the the author for Dot Dot Design blog. He is enjoying life by featuring wonderful list of designs, beautiful things and wonderful stuff at Dot Dot Design blog to the internet audience. ?visual filtration of ideas, aesthetics and amusements.Dot Dot Design now appears with minimalist single column blog theme. Guga tends to carefully pick design photos or graphic illustrations for his blog every day. Pop and intuitively Innovative-Creative is his personal taste I believe. :D Guga, correct me if I?m wrong! Do you like it? hate it? You are all invited to ...
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The Design Forums and Design Niche Social Media Sites you always wanted for
2008-02-27 15:51:00
As a designer, you surely need to find something fresh to enrich your creativity or simply get interact with other designer in a solid community. If you're an author of design blog niche and having your online portfolio inside it, promoting it is a must do. For those reason, Design Forums and Design Niche Social Media Sites are a great solution. Today, I will share short overview of several new design forums and design niche socio bookmarking sites, well not all of them are new, but they are just great to join with and probably what you always wanted for. ShareBrain.infoShareBrain forum, has enormous numbers of resources which are updated almost everyday. You can find the them by categories that scope design area topics such as CMS, CSS, Free Templates, Photoshop, Typo & Fonts, Wordpress and many more. It is currently running on Wordpress platform. Since every resources URLs was carefully selected by the admin, you can count on its quality and credibility. Only free resources liste...

Finally, a Social Networking Moment with Graphic Identity
2008-02-25 00:32:00
In the last week of February, I won?t publish any post about tutorial or creating another photoshop goodies to download. I think it is about time for Graphic Identity Blog to step outside, to see what?s going on in the internet world. Yes, nothing would be so much pleasurable, when you meet new people, sharing inspirational thoughts, and learning to reduce your own mistakes from other bloggers. For that reason, I took chances to spend a moment to build a strong social networking with great bloggers. Blog promotion comes as another benefit when you unite in a social networking event. It could be a moment to take this blog for re-evaluation and reviews to present better content for Graphic Identity Blog readers in advance. The social networking events that I?ve been very excited to join with or soon will participate as well are:Social Media Mega Project on InspirationBit.comVivien of InspirationBit.com has been setting a new deadline for the submissions to the Social Media Mega Proje...
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What is Graphic Design Poster Competition on Veerle's Blog
2008-02-20 12:50:00
I could have posted this design competition announcement earlier, too bad I found about it late after digging links to some design forums when the submission deadline was only two days left to go. Veerle never provides email subscription to her blog, I got a little upset to my self, why I didn't subscribe to any feed reader before. The basic concept of this contest is to come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design ?'. Veerle is the only judge and jury for the contest and she gathered attractive prizes to win from sponsors like Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Expression Engine CMS and much more.Veerle put forward her own poster design, and got interesting comments by other Flickr users. :D She used the same color scheme as shown on her blog, but the design visualized what Graphic Design is in different typos.The closing date was 15 February 2008, and the contest got the mass attention nearly up to 600 design submissions. As some of you pr...
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Connect to JustCreativeDesign.com Group Writing Project & Win $5000 PRIZE G
2008-02-19 00:22:00
This month, I?ve committed my self to enhance my network by sponsoring several blog contests and a Group Writing Project held by JustCreativeDesign.com.  Jacob Cass is the man behind this wonderful project. He is exclusively running the contest to bring all the design freaks, graphic design blogs and people who subscribe to them a bit closer together with $5000+ worth of prizes to give away.I must say that winning the contest could be sounds so much fun, but then again what I love the most about this project is the opportunity to enhance your network, to link and be linked in with other participants. Your blog would have been nothing if you hold yourself away from the crowd. Participate to meet new people, to link love, to surf the submissions, leave comments and make connections with other fellow graphic designers & subscribers alike would dazzle the fun into hilarity to this group writing project.My part in this contest is listed in Bonus Prize Sponsors. You could be the one w...
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EzMoneyOn.Net First Contest
2008-02-14 07:15:00
Diana 134u.com and Simonne collaborate to start a blog about how to make money online called EzMoneyOn.Net. This blog present you great writing articles about tips and tricks to make living from internet. There are a lot of make money online blogs, we know that. Some of them are quite successful in making money, many of them have some articles and that?s it. But on how many ?make money online? blogs do you really learn how you can make money online? I still find on many forums bloggers who ask that. The EzMoneyOn.Net blog authors present you the case studies, so you can choose what way suits better to your blog. This brand new blog held the first contest since February 11th, 2008, and incredible prizes are waiting for you to participate to the contest. You can always have the opportunity to win first prize $100 cash, 1000 Entrecard credits for the second run winner and free banner design since this is a draw prize contest for the third prize.Find out how to join this contest and re...
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NEW BLOG COMMUNITIES to Promote Your Design Blog Topic
2008-02-14 05:52:00
There are so many ways to promote your design blog niche. If you?re still doing promotion to some specific design forums, there?s nothing wrong to try general blog community for more campaign activity to your blog. A general blog community should always include design category or art category inside. Accordingly, there would be easier for the viewers to find your blog inside the community.Here are 8 new blog communities for you to start with:1. Blog CompetitionBlogCompetition is a digg like competition, win upto $2500, with monthly prizes, and a weekly featured article.Members can vote to various posts which are submitted under certain category.Blog Competition is powered by: Pligg http://www.pligg.com/2. FocialPaid listings are done as you would any other auction except that it is used for advertising, sponsored reviews and paid guest posting.Simply find an opportunity you like and make a bid.3. PeopleizedPromote yourself by doing and giving interviews. Gain interview content and s...
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Free 125x125 Advertising Button in PSD
2008-02-11 02:26:00
I designed 6 diferent theme buttons. They are in .PSD format, so it should be easy for you to edit the fonts or the layer elements inside.125x125 advertising buttons could be useful for Entrecard or any other advertisement program that you run to your blogYou can download these pack for free and exploit them as your wish (commercial or personal), UNDER THESE CONDITIONS:1. Comment to this post with your nick name (no annonymous please), and2. Subscribe to Graphic Identity by emailfree 125x125 buttons.rar (247.84 KB)
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Design Style Tutorial: GRUNGE URBAN ART
2008-02-06 14:48:00
Being around with several simple tutorials about typography and general design using Photoshop, we will now move to specific design styles in a series that will continue for some time now, to start with Grunge Urban Art Style .Before we step further, you will need sorts of design elements to create such design style. You don't have to worry, because all those design elements are actually available for free on the internet. I have great listings of Grunge Urban Art design resources just to help you to figure out what they're look like. When you use one of those resources, please credit the original designers for appreciation and read his or her design copyright before you apply them to your design. There are certain design elements which are essential to establish a grungy vibes to your design. However, you don't need to use them all together at once, because these are just sorts of technique hints. They are:1. Fonts and typography. The best font type I suggest would be typewri...
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Graphic Identity Blog Redesign
2008-01-31 05:35:00
I'm curently focused to redesign my blog layout. The previous version didn't look good thou, I found it difficult to maintain the very right sidebar to stay fixed.So, with the help from friends, I decided to create completely new Blog ger Classic themes. I didn't develop the template CSS code from the default Blogger Classic template this time. I prefer three columns and minimize the use of image replacement and of course...sorts of tiresome experiments with the CSS codes.I think this would be better than the last I had, at least the two columns stay on their place nicely. But I'm kindda thinking to remove some unnecessary web elements if the loading get worst than before :( (and I have to) You can take a look to the beta version and could you please tell me what you think about this new design layout :)I will be back with new tutorials about Grunge Style design soon... so stay tune and be ready!
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Graphic Identity Blog Recap
2008-01-24 11:29:00
Just want to let you know that Graphic Identity Blog was first published in June 16th 2008 and now we have 65 posts published until the end January 2008. A pretty young blog :) and we convey grateful regards to all of the devoted subscribers for keep visiting Graphic Identity Blog. So, If you are a new visitor to my blog or you just subscribed to our RSS feed recently, you may missed out reading the previous posts. This blog recap is somehow will help you to track back Graphic Identity Blog from the first time it was born till now. ;) enjoy:First post , June 16th 2007 Graphic IdentityGraphic Design Tutorials Creating a Perfect Selection in PhotoshopCreating Vector Shape Object in PhotoshopSnow Text EffectCreating Object Reflection on a SurfaceMake a Dotted Line in Photoshop by BittBoxHow to create Swirly Curls in IllustratorQuick ways to Create Buttons using Photoshop and IllustratorHow to Create Water Droplets in PhotoshopPhotoshop BrushesHow to Install Photoshop Brush SetRound Cor...
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Graphic-Illustration Design Contest: Win your Entrecard designed for free
2008-01-19 08:50:00
For you who still haven?t try the powerful promotion advantage of Entrecard, I think it?s about time for you to get your own card submitted. Don?t loose time to promote your blog with Entrecard, while you can improve traffic and increase your potential readers only by submitting 125×125px size banner card. What if you want to have your card submitted to Entrecard, but you don?t know how to design it, don?t have the skills or time to do it. Or you don?t have money to order it? Well?..I have wonderful news for you. BSilvia, a good friend of mine, has been starting a design contest and she will make free 6 designs for the winners. This is how to enter: Just go to graphics-illustrations.com, select the graphic style that you prefer.Leave your most creative, innovative, funny comment anywhere on graphics-illustrations.com blog. Post a link back to your blog. Contest winnersSilvia will draw 3 (three) winners! Each of contest winners will receive two (2) cards designed by he...
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Blogspot Design Showcase ? Part 2
2008-01-19 08:09:00
Are you looking for Blogspot graphic design showcase carnivals? I came up with three blog resources. These blogs are offering different kind of stuff. You?re going to love their design freebies and excellent articles.One of them is actually featured by request. If your design blog is in Blogger Blogspot platform, and you it to be featured as well, you can contact me by email at: graphicidentity.blog@gmail.comChill out :D and let me present you the Blogspot Design Showcase ? Part 2box 313Claudio Madella is the author of Box 313. A graphic designer and illustrator from Milano, Italy. His design is almost urbanist in style and brings the sense of modern look. Box 313 is also his portfolio gallery, sort of design projects collections are available to download in PDF files.Read More

Featured Blogspot Graphic Design: THE PUNGEONING
2008-01-18 03:24:00
THE PUNGEONING is about Art, Graphic Design , Cultural Criticism, and Psy-Ops.Designers are seeking inspiration in different kind of ways. Does it always have to be visual experiencing? When you see something unique or when you find an unusual creation then you react to see what you can do about it? What if the inspiration comes from what I call: ?Cultural Criticism?.Lordsomber is the author of THE PUNGEONING . It is a blog, a story telling of your surroundings, a beautifully poetic depiction of cultural criticism into graphic and a journey of moving souls. Well this designer artist has all the answers in an interesting interview. Lordsomber, could you first introduce yourself? Salutations. I am Lordsomber, silent fly on the wall, amnesiac from the future, the sizzle in the brain pan. Cultural criticism is your interest for most of the time. Why? It is a way to observe today?s thought patterns and behaviours in the context of underlying psychohistorical memes, attitudes and actio...
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10 Enhancement Ideas to Optimize your Design Blog Topic
2008-01-11 16:08:00
We often read SEO tips for general blogs. I was so curious how to implementthose tips and tricks to my design blog topic. Because a design blog niche (like any other niches) always has uniqueness in context, and therefore I always experiment and doing trial and error to improve my blog.I?ve seen tons of design blog topics, but not all of them can win the viewer?s attention. Creativity in optimization plays important role. My blog is so young and still in the learning process of optimization. However in the middle of that never lasting process, the challenge would always be how to enhance your blog performance. Here are 10 enhancement ideas to optimize your Design Blog Topic :1. Brings an identity to the blog lookYour logo represents your blog identity. It doesn?t have to be a marvelous illustration in style, because a great logo is actually meant deeper than that. Abhinav Sood of InspiritBlog says that ?Logo speaks before words do...And speaks more than words do?2. Choose design nic...
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Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes - Part 3
2008-01-08 07:12:00
I finished these PS brush set in 3 hours only. I feel 3 variation in shape would be just fine :). I made thinner curve lines, simple spiral curls because I was so inspired by the Art Nouveau's flower style that I found recently. I want to make a repro of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald's floral Art Nouveau styles for my Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes series someday. Classic... yet,they are simple and rich with symbolistic shapes.I really hope you will like them :p ?Each of brush is categorized as medium in size (1200px ? 1400px).I would like to remind you that all of my 'Free Design Box' files are FREE (for personal or commercial use). But after I found that my previous Photoshop brushes set were hijacked by someone else, please read: Legal Usage to employ Graphic Identity's 'Free Design Box' files. If you like my Photoshop Brushes please give comment before you download them because I will appreciate any feedback from you.Don't miss out to download my nex...
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FeedBurner Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge
2008-01-02 09:18:00
In the beginning of 2008, I want to celebrate this New Happy Year with a challenge for my blog. I wrote tutorials most of the time, but there is nothing wrong to invite you all to join this challenge together to build a small community of blog readers. All right, you've heard links exchange too often, but I call this exchange: "FeedBurn er Email Subscribers Exchange Challenge " This exchange challenge is open to any kind of blog niches or different topics than mine or everyone who will decide to join. Why you should join this challenge?You will have a chance to promote your blog by email. If your blog is new, bring traffic would takes time. Consider this Exchange Challenge as a try because the subscribers may share your article if they find it useful and informative.It is very easy to join.Follow the steps below, they are easy as 1 2 3!It is absolutely a perfect way to boost the number of your FeedBurner Subscribers.Big Bloggers could established a contest and ask the participant...
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DotArt Paintings
2007-12-29 03:39:00
DotArt is about dots that flicker, dance, move, pulsate and so on??. The artist called himself as: Dot Art Dude, all the way come from Metairie, Louisiana, United States. His unusual art is something that I want to learn more from him. He is also a good friend of mine that I know from Blog Catalog. If you visit Dot Art Dude?s Blog Catalog profile, you will see that he runs long listing of multiple blogs beside DotArt Blogspot, which you can join them as blog neighborhood if you are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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How to Create Water Droplets in Photoshop
2007-12-22 15:11:00
It?s been quite a while since my last Photosho p Tutorial guys :), anyway I spent my long holiday to write another tutorial, which is how to create water droplets in Photoshop. I also included the photoshop action to create this water droplets effect, and there are two kinds of action for creating: bigger water droplets and the smaller one. This tutorial is very easy for photoshop beginners, but actually there are also another ways of technique to create water droplets using Photoshop. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Blogspot Design Showcase Blogs
2007-12-15 03:24:00
When it comes to do the illustration or design search for your inspiration, sometimes search engines just provides you enormous list. But I wonder if any of you know that some of Blogs pot Bloggers are actually dedicated their time to build interesting design showcase for your eyes! Such of hidden treasures I found for this lovely weekend. These blogs are pretty new, some of them even started on November, and here comes the parade: Photoshop Heaven Poerty is the author, and used to write... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Corner Design Photoshop Brushes - Part 2
2007-12-11 01:33:00
I?m coming back now with another 3 sets of corner design photoshop brushes. These brushes have swirly curls, two of them are foliage style and the other one is kindda psychedelic to me. The shapes were designed in half parts that consist alone as photoshop brushes, so it would be easier for you to customize them. Make a copy in a new layer and create the reflection of them by rotating and flipping, and then you can find interesting corner design ;). The result of these photoshop brushes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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My Lucky Number 13 First Contest - Win $100
2007-12-04 02:15:00
Diana, has a very interesting blog, titled : "My lucky number 13".  It's a A blog about her life experiences including personal matters and professional career. Recently, her personal blog is also nominated to win Blogger Choice Awards in Best Blog About Stuff category. I love her blog since she wrote good and informative articles about blogging tips and only in two months, now she helds a first contest :) To enter the contest is easy. Here is how: Write a post about My Lucky Number ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Collin James De Ruyck?s Abstract Paintings
2007-12-01 04:55:00
I always fascinate to abstract paintings. I found sort of well mixed medium of abstract paintings collection of Collin James De Ruyck , and I?m also amazed how he lined up the geometric shape and colors to create 3D texture effect. I should call it: ?Decorative Abstract Paintings ? Somehow each of them can be part as an interior decoration. His abstract art works are able to bring a boring plan room to a very exciting room filed with great colors and style. Here a short conversation about his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Creating MattsNutts Logo and Web Header
2007-11-27 02:41:00
MattsNutts is one of Chris's Blog that talks about SEO and Blogging. Recently, I wrote a blogger guest entry in short explanation of MattsNutts Logo and Web Header design process. Will appreciate your comment on the finishing result ;) If you want me to design your logo or your web header, please contact me via email that you can find in About Me menu links on the top of my page. A discussion will be the follow up step to find best design or theme that will fit to your blog (web) at a very... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Corner Design Photoshop Brushes - Part 1
2007-11-23 08:29:00
I made 3 sets of corner design photoshop brushes. Actually the shapes were designed in half parts that consist alone as photoshop brushes. Make a copy in a new layer and create mirror FX of them by rotating and flipping, so then you can find interesting corner design ;). The result of these photoshop brushes mirror effect could be various, so I suggest you to give a bit of try. It was inspired by Design Fruits Tasty Tattoos, which are more complicated in shape and design than mine. He he he, I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Cool RSS Buttons for Free
2007-11-19 02:33:00
I've been searching for cool RSS buttons to download for free...and maybe you will like these: Bloggers Journey - 51 RSS Button For Your Blog Photosopit - Free Web 2.0 style RSS feed icon Randa Clay - A Rainbow of Free Round RSS Icons Design Bliss - Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes - Part 2
2007-11-13 02:07:00
Talking about flowery style, and many experiments I?ve done to create foliage shape in Illustrator, so now I share them with you: my Fantasy Floral Photoshop Brushes ? Part 2. There are only 3 sets of photoshop brushes inside .ABR file?not much, but I?m sure you can use them as decorative corner element in your design, or as blending shape vector to the background. Do rotate things and add some style into it. When I have a chance to design again, I?ll be back with more simple photoshop corner... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Quick ways to Create Buttons using Photoshop and Illustrator
2007-11-10 03:30:00
These are lists of my old favorite tutorials to create button in quick steps. You can learn both in Photosho p or Illustrator ;) I?m curious finding quick techniques to create buttons. You can find wide range of button type tutorial such as, rounded corner to glossy button, iconic to nice aqua button and many more. If I find something interesting, I will update this post for sure? Stay tune and Enjoy !!! ~ Graphic Identity Read More [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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