16th Annual Fonts Gallery

This year's "History of Typography" includes over 200 links to classic and notable fonts, designers, foundries, letter styles, in all classifications and origin. This is a pictorial romp through 68 of the most recommended, and loved type faces of all times. Hope you enjoy the trip! August 28, 2010

Visual Story Telling in Photoshop

Take a look at these world-class artists who utilized Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter or other image editing and retouching software for some of the best ever visual story telling you'll find. This is true creative inspiration! July 29, 2010

Designing Type into Shapes

Now we'll take an inspirational look at just a few of our samples of excellent typography where letters, characters, letterforms, words and phrases have been bent and formed into a shape -- a powerful for building a metaphor or sending a visual message June 10, 2010

Jumpstart Creative Ideas

Creative people continually face the all-to-familiar design world problems of "idea doldrums" and "creative burnout." Here are just a few pointers of where to go for a creative jumpstart May 31, 2010

100 Flower Images for April

April showers bring May flowers -- you get flowers in April with over 100 new flower and floral images for designers and illustrators -- they come from our favorite, inexpensive resource books from Dover, with samples in the Publishers' Warehouse! April 13, 2010

Ten types of GREEN type

10 excellent examples of using type and typography design with color to send visual, verbal and subliminal messages ... and the color is GREEN! April 13, 2010

Photo color, space, time, illustration

Ten examples of superb photo retouching and manipulation using Photoshop, color, shape, form, motion, time, place, space, to evoke emotion, passion and exciting visual imagery. A wonderful collection of graphic arts talent to learn from. March 30, 2010

Flaming Text Tutorials in Photoshop

Dirty Dozen Photoshop tutorials for very hot, flaming, sparkling, burning, magma, inferno typography text effects! Whew! I'm sweating from all this heat March 29, 2010

High Dynamic Range Photography

High Dynamic Range Imaging is a technique that lets you to portray a much greater range of tonal detail than a given camera could capture in a single photo. Utilizing HDR in Photoshop makes for some spectacular photos. Let's take a look February 15, 2010

Designing in White ... paper

White space is often called negative space. But in this instance, we're designing with the pure characteristics of paper, mixed with some very creative talent. Try some of these and discover the treasures found in paper January 28, 2010