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Freebie: Organic Vector Elements in EPS (80 Vector Files)

Nirhana — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:33:41 +0000

Today we are delighted to release another freebie for our design community. This set contains over 80 original high quality vector files designed by the team at Vecteezy. These masterfully created, hand drawn organic elements are saved as Illustrator 10 EPS files and are perfect to add a touch of nature to any design project.

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: October 2011

Nirhana — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:43:06 +0000

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration.

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Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins

Nirhana — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:23:24 +0000

Recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. We try to avoid round-ups on Smashing Magazine, but sometimes the format is useful and — if the resources are relevant — can be extremely helpful. Besides, we are glad to drive traffic to some obscure, yet useful resources and thus support the developers of these resources.

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2011

Nirhana — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:20:44 +0000

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd.

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Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

Nirhana — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:00:18 +0000

Web typography has evolved a lot over the last years. Today we see rich, accessible typography, a plethora of type design choices for the web and a number of remarkable, type-based web designs. It’s a great time for web design, and it’s a great time for web typography.

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50 New Free High Quality Icons Sets

Nirhana — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:11:20 +0000

Feel free to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee right now because you’ll be investing an hour or so in today’s post. We’ve published our last icons round-up six months ago, and since then we’ve collected over 50 new free high quality icon sets that you can use for your projects.

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2010

Nirhana — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:10:27 +0000

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Showcase of Sweet Chocolate Websites

Nirhana — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:06:11 +0000

The word chocolate can be associated with many words: dark, white, milk, hot, sweet, spicy, etc. But have you tried to combine it with the word web design? We did. We searched the Web for websites in any way related to chocolate and what we found is worth to be collected in this showcase.

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Showcase of Beautiful Photography

Nirhana — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:59:57 +0000

Sometimes, a picture can be powerful enough to be inspirational material all by itself. To provide you with some inspiration for the upcoming week, this sunday we feature some truly beautiful and impressive images from talented artists and photographers worldwide.

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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2010

Nirhana — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:59:03 +0000

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers over 12 months. And to make them a little bit more distinctive from the usual crowd, we’ve decided to embed calendars for the upcoming month.

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