Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

This tutorial, from Abduzeedo, will show you how to use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to a great looking typographic portrait.

Create a Stylish Grunge Poster with 3D Typography in Photoshop

This tutorial shows you how to make a great looking grunge poster in Photohop. Blending modes, stock images and filters are used to create some cool effects.

How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to manipulate stock images and other objects to create this amazing composition.

How to Give a Retro Look to Your Photos

The tutorial is perfect for Photoshop beginners who are looking to understand how to manipulate colors using adjustment layers and filters.

How to Make a Worn Vintage Beach Ad in Photoshop

In this Photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a worn out vintage beach ad in Photoshop. Brushes, color editing, filters, and masking are just some of the techniques used.

How to Create a Dark and Mysterious TV-Head Scene

This Photoshop tutorial will show you how to replace a person’s head with a television—and how to create a stormy sky using brush strokes.

Neon with Layer Styles

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a cool neon looking effect using basic techniques such as Layer Styles and a few brushes.

How To Create a Detailed Apple iPad Icon in Photoshop

With the news of the Apple tablet called the iPad, Chris Spooner, wrote this tutorial on how to create a detailed iPad icon.

Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout

In this Photoshop tutorial you’re going to learn how to create a professional website layout. A lot of techniques are used and all of them are explained in great detail.

Design a Brilliant Product Advertisement

In this tutorial, you’ll learn the steps and techniques involved in creating a great looking ad that integrates the use of multiple images. Also Check Out: Abduzeedo’s Version.

Create an Abstract, Textured Artwork in Illustrator

In this tutorial, you’ll use the Blend Tool, Paintbrush Tool and textures to create a stunning abstract piece of art.

Make Watercolor and Marker Style Portraits with Illustrator

This tutorial will teach you the techniques used to create digital portrait illustrations that have the unique feel of marker and watercolor.

Create A Briefcase Icon

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a briefcase icon with basic shapes and gradients. You’ll also learn some useful techniques that can be used for other projects.

Create An Editable Stitched Label Type Treatment

This tutorial, from Vectips, uses Appearance panel in Illustrator making it easy to edit the text and apply the treatment to other fonts and vector elements.

Create A Mouthwatering Chocolate Covered Strawberry

In this tutorial, you’ll learn tricks and techniques to create a chocolate covered strawberry but can also be used in an array of projects.

How to Design a Cheeky Koala Mascot Head

This great tutorial from VectorTuts+, will show you how to combine basic shapes, blending modes and smart coloring to create a koala illustration.

Learn Gorgeous New Shading Skills

This tutorial from Digital Arts, teaches you how to transform a pencil sketch into a beautiful, digital artwork using Illustrator and Photoshop.

Lego Bricks Typeface

This great tutorial on Vectordiary teaches you how to convert the beloved LEGO bricks into a cool looking typeface in Illustrator.

How to Create a Seamless Argyle Pattern in Illustrator

A great screencast tutorial from Colorburned that explains the steps needed to create a seamless arglyle pattern.

Share Feedback with Twitter and the Bit.ly API

This tutorial from the guys of Build Internet will walk you through the creation of a customizable “Tweet this” link that integrates Bit.ly API and acts as a type of inderect polling system.

Tips for Designing Unique and Attractive Blog Posts

It’s interesting that as time goes by, more and more designers are “Art Directing” their blog posts. This article on Line25, gives some tips on how to do it right.

Also Check Out: The death of the Boring Blog Post?

How to Code up a Web Design from PSD to HTML

This is part two of a tutorial that created a website layout in Photoshop. In this tutorial, that design is now converted into HTML and CSS.

Design a Prettier Web Form with CSS 3

This tutorial, on Nettuts+, will teach you how to create a lightweight and beautiful form and help you learn and understand CSS3 effects that can really spice up a design.

The Principle of Contrast in Web Design

A well designed website has contrast to establish some type of visual hierarchy. This article, from Web Design Ledger, explains how contrast can be achieved in a website design.

Fundamentals for a Kick-Ass Creative Company

A great post from the guys at Build Internet that explains their answer to a simple question: What makes an awesome company on the inside?

How to Guest Post Properly to Build Your Readership

In this great guest post by James Chartrand on Fuel Your Blogging, you’ll learn how to get your guest articles accepted and how to make the best of the opportunity.

5 Bad Work at Home Habits: Are You Guilty?

Working at home can have many advantages. However, it also has its temptations. This article on Freelance Folder talks about the five most common pitfalls of working at home, why they’re bad, and how you can avoid or overcome them.

Free Medical Icons Set (60 Icons)

60 original medical icons in .png 32 bit in resolutions 32×32px and 128×128px. This set was designed by the user interface design agency Centigrade and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

NIXUS Icon Pack: 60 Beautiful Premium Icons

A great new icon pack here on Tutorial9 called NIXUS is great for corporate and creative situations or any other project.

Lighting Effects Pack – 50 Free Brushes and Images

This is a great freebie pack from Media Militia that’s filled with 50 different types of glowing light streaks. The pack is available as either Photoshop Brushes or images. Great for your personal or commercial projects.

Creative and Inspirational Wedding Invitation Cards

Ahh… the day of your wedding is a special one. What makes it even better is a beautiful invitation. This is a inspiring showcase of some of the best wedding invitations.

A Showcase of 50 Amazing Personal Blog Web Designs

A beautiful & inspiring showcase of blog designs that capture the personality and writing style of its owners.

A Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design

An amazing showcase from Line25 of websites that use typography effectively to communicate their message.

50 Stunning Pieces of 3D Typography for Inspiration

Inspiration can be found in a variety of places, one of them being light art. In this round-up Matthew Kammerer did a great job in collecting some beautiful forms of light art.

Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Fuel Brand Inc.

GoMedia had a chat with Adelle Charles & Joshua Smibert of Fuel Brand, Inc and talked about their background, goals, and views on the design industry. Very interesting interview complete with a video and conversation transcript.

Create a Clean Blue Portfolio Design in Photoshop

There are a couple of nice photoshop layout tutorials from around the web in January. First up is simple portfolio design by Tomas Laurinavičius.

How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design in Photoshop

To compliment the clean style, our friend and Tutorial9 contributor Ionut Ciursa has put together a tutorial for a more vibrant outgoing web layout.

Jungle 3D text in Photoshop
Jungle 3D text in Photoshop

Cool Photoshop tutorial that explains how to create a 3D text effect. The text is created in Xara3d and the letters are texturized in Photoshop. Plus+ there’s a free jungle wallpaper for download!

How to create a fantasy photomanipulation in Photoshop

Awesome tutorial that will show you how to combine stock images in Photoshop to make a fantasy photomanipulation. You’ll tinker with colors, mask and adjustment layers.

Abduzeedo 2010 Light Effects in Photoshop

This tutorial on Abduzeedo will show you how to create a light effect in Photoshop.You’ll learn how to use Blend Modes and Blurs to create a great looking poster.

Very Easy Heroes Eclipse in Photoshop – Screencast

This tutorial shows you how to recreate the solar eclipse image from Heroes in a slightly retro style using nothing but Photoshop.

How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop

To created a usable icon, it should be flexible to scale up or down. In this intermediate-level tutorial, you’ll learn how to make an awesome icon from scratch using Photoshop and its Pen tool.

How to Create a Fun, Red-Haired Boy Character

This tutorial, shows you how to make a boy character in Photoshop. You’ll learn how to take a sketch, use shapes, the brush tool, and other effects to create a great looking character.

How to Create a Serene Panorama from Multiple Photographs

This excellent tutorial on PSDTuts+, teaches you how to combine multiple stock photos into a beautiful scenery in Photoshop.

Design a Colorful Retro Futuristic Poster in Photoshop

An excellent tutorial by Chris Spooner that shows you how to make a bright and colorful retro futuristic poster in Photoshop.

Create a Fantastic Abstract Fan Poster

This tutorial uses layering, lighting, textures and some unusual techniques to create a fantastic abstract piece for the band Omega Code.

How to Create a Cute Vector Bear T-Shirt Design

This tutorial shows you how to design a bear character and surrounding scenery using basic shapes, for use as a cool t-shirt design.

Create a Google Phone Styled Background in 6 Easy Steps

This tutorial from Vectips shows you how to create the “Nexus One” Google Phone background with a few simple steps using transparency modes to create cool lighting effects.

Create An Editable Metal Type Treatment

This tutorial uses the Appearance panel to create a metal looking type treatment that is fully editable when it is done.

Create a Set of Shiny Character Eyes

This tutorial teaches you how to create detailed vector eyes. Although the techniques used here are basic, the result looks great and can be used for all sorts of character designs.

How to Create Typeface Characters

This tutorial by Julian Dorado, shows you how to take different sections of the characters of a font and put them together, therefore creating all kinds of creatures.

Shakespeare Text Illustration Tutorial

This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text.

Cafe Style Coffee Art in Adobe Illustrator

This tutorial shows you how to make a beautiful coffee illustration that was inspired by the book “1000 Restaurant, bar & café graphics”.

The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

This article on Smashing Magazine shows you how to use CSS3 visual effects to create impressive image galleries, animated music players and overlay images.

How to Make a CSS Sprite Powered Menu

This tutorial by the guys at Build Internet teaches you the process of building a navigation menu using a single CSS sprite image.

Create Custom Option Panels with Wordpress 2.9

This tutorial shows you how to create a custom options panel to insert analytic tracking codes. The latest version of Wordpress is used which means you’ll be able to transfer the skills you learn to other projects you may have.

How to Create a Cool Anaglyphic Text Effect with CSS

This tutorial on Line25 shows you how to create anaglyphs without repeating markup. The 3D effect might not work but the style is cool looking anyway.

How to Create a Theme-Switcher in 200 Seconds

This tutorial from NetTuts+ teaches you how to create a “color-switcher” in 200 seconds, using jQuery.

jQuery Animations: A 7-Step Program

This tutorial shows you how you can make a dull interface shine with some awesome jQuery animations.

Unconventional: CSS3 Link Checking

This great article by Doug Neiner teaches you how to use CSS3 unconventionally to check for empty links in your website designs.

Maybe Your Blog Needs to Fail

Usually, people view success as avoiding failure. However, Fuel Your Blogging makes the point that maybe failure is what your blog needs to succeed.

The six fundamental ways of adding depth to your designs

Creativity Den gives us a crash course in depth in web design, complete with plenty of examples to boot.

Liquid Ink Pack

The Liquid Ink Pack is filled with 45 images, all at a high resolution. These images are for your personal and commercial use.

Radial Pack

The Radial Pack from Media Militia is a perfect addition to your resources folders with 50 different elements. You can download them as Photoshop Brushes or Vectors.

20 Fonts Ideal for Big and Powerful Headings

It’s important to choose the right typeface to compliment a website’s style. This article on Web Design Ledger, rounds up 20 fonts that are ideal for creating great headings.

30 Websites with Lovely Layout and Typography

I’m a big lover of typography and how it’s used in design. This is a great showcase of 30 websites showcasing beautiful typography and layout design from The Design Cubicle.

What? There is a Clique? Get over it.

This is an excellent article from the guys at Obox wrote. I also recommend you read the comments; the discussion is very interesting.

An Interview with Designer & Blogger Jon Phillips

Jon Phillips is the founder of Freelance Folder, Design Newz, and Spyre Studios. He’s a very interesting guy and I recommend you check out this interview with him.

27 Free Wooden Badges – Social Icon Pack

An awesome icon pack from Dawghouse Design Studio complete with 27 Wooden Social Icons created for the readers of Tutorial9.

Inspiration in Light Art: Photos, Videos, and Guides

Inspiration can be found in a variety of places, one of them being light art. In this round-up Matthew Kammerer did a great job in collecting some beautiful forms of light art.

Learning Light Painting from Abduzeedo

Christopher Hibbert discusses details ranging from basic information to the tools, camera settings, light, and technique. This post is a great resource!

Painting with Light

DIYPhotography outlines the camera, tripod, location, and what kind of light you will need to capture light art. The post goes into detail about different ways to capture light art and different areas you can experiment with.

Drawing in the Dark Photography Tutorial

This post gives you hints as to what ISO and shutter speed to use. The author also gives a few examples that he took as he learned the best way to tackle this method.

How to create amazing light effects in Photoshop

Sebastiano from the new wegraphics.net has quite a few useful techniques up his sleeves. In this photoshop tutorial he shows us how to create very stylish smoke effects that envelop their surroundings.

Light effect wallpaper in Photoshop

Lighting effect tutorials are pratically a dime a dozen now, but this article bears some great resemblance to the famed work from Scott Hansen of ISO50, and deserved some sharing.

Monitor Icon Design

Richard Carpenter shares a simple method for putting together a monitor icon in Photoshop using basic shapes and essential lighting tips.

Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

A great tutorial on PSDTuts+ that teaches you how to use blending modes effectively to create an excellent photo manipulation.

How to Create an Envelope Icon in Photoshop

For those of you wanting to get into icon design, this is a great tutorial for you. Using some fairly simple techniques, the tutorial walks you through making a slick envelope icon.

Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop

The new Magic Mouse design is just sexy. This tutorial on PSDTuts+ helps you create an icon out of it.

How to Design a Print-Ready Flier with Photoshop and Illustrator

A great hybrid tutorial that teaches you how to integrate 3D text, made in Illustrator, into a great looking print-ready flier.

Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop

Although I’m personally not a fan of “Watercolor Themed” things, this is a great tutorial that helps you create a website mock-up that keeps in mind the code that will follow.

Unveiling Photoshop Masks

Having trouble wrapping your head around masks? This article from Smashing Magazine puts you behind the mask and shows you everything you need to know to begin your training as a non-destructive editing master.

How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

This tutorial, on PSDTuts+, helps you make an urban scene using 3D scene as the foundation. Then, polishing it up in Photoshop.

How To Design a 3D Wooden Box in Photoshop

A great tutorial by Asher Abbasi that teaches you how to create a realistic wooden box icon in photoshop.

How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop

Personally, I love interface design tutorials. This one is an excellent example of one, teaching you how to create an audio player interface with some cool Photoshop tricks.

Digital Bokeh in Photoshop

A great video tutorial that will teach you how to create an amazing bokeh effect in a matter of minutes.

Minimalistic Poster Design in Photoshop

This great tutorial on Abduzeedo teaches you how to make a minimalistic poster using some stock photos, blending modes and filters.

Turn a sketch into a Crazy Santa illustration

This tutorial will show you how to create a Crazy Santa illustration from sketch using Adobe Illustrator. Great tutorial to keep as reference for the Holidays in 2010.

Draw a funny snowman in Illustrator

We’re pretty thrilled with the recent tutorials from aiMonkey.com. Their tutorial on designing a snowman in Illustrator is a great Illustrator Tutorial for starters, and produces fantastic results.

Create a Code-Style T-Shirt Design for Website Promotion

A great tutorial on VECTuts+ that walk you through making a promotional T-Shirt for PHP enthusiasts in Illustrator.

Use Illustrator to Create a Fun, 3D, Character Logo

In this tutorial, David Laplante, shows you how to integrate 3D text and a custom illustration into a fun looking logo.

Create Colorful, Layered Paper Type in Illustrator

Is winter getting you down? Do this tutorial! It’ll walk you through making some very pretty, custom type with a variety of vivid colors and illustrator effects.

How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4

Awesome icon designer, Andrea Austoni, teaches you how to create an owl using mostly basic shapes and effects in Illustrator.

Geometric Flower Effect Logo in Illustrator

This tutorial, based on an actual logo design, shows you how to create a flower effect in illustrator to make a logo that’s full of color.

Creating Your First PHP Application

This three part tutorial is intended for readers who know the very basics of PHP and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and would like to create a basic web application.

How to Brainstorm
Brilliant Ideas for Your Blog

Brainstorming is one of the most powerful creative techniques ever devised. When used properly, it can produce more and better ideas than any other process. It’s based on the concept that two heads (or three, or four, or more) are better than one.

The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS

This is the last entry in the series of posts that have taught you how to take your mockup design in Photoshop, to a fully coded website.

Use Sprites to Create an Awesomeness-Filled Navigation Menu

This tutorial by NETTuts will teach you how to use CSS sprites and JQuery to not only increase your website’s performance, it’ll also show you how to make your navigation menu look good in the process.

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

Most big blogs have this feature to showcase the picture, bio and homepage of their writers. This tutorial on Line25 teaches you how to implement the same feature on your blog.

How To Display Your Twitter Status in a Unique Design

An excellent tutorial on Line25 that shows you how to display your latest tweet with the use of some Javascript and CSS.

Styling an Individual Article

“Art Directing” or designing a custom page for each article, is a very popular trend that I hope is here to stay. Although the great, Jason Santa Maria pioneered the idea, Chris Coyier from CSS Tricks teaches how to “Art Direct” in this video tutorial.

Is Your Content Lagging?

Has your blogging effort decreased? Do you noticed you’re not as enthusiastic to write? This article gives some helpful tips on how to change that feeling.

Writing User Friendly Content

The content is of upmost importance on a site. If it can’t be understood and interpreted, it really doesn’t matter how UX friendly your site is. This article, by Matthew Kammerer, gives some helpful tips on how to create user friendly content.

Please Create a Unique Site and Avoid the Same Old Crap

72nd Ave. makes the point that the internet is flooded with people that follow trends and don’t create new and unique things. Check out this article and their site and you’ll notice, they practice what they preach.

330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A freebie from the Creative Nerds that comes with over 100 letterpressed icons in three different Photoshop files. Available for your personal or commercial projects.

Rust Textures Pack

Another great freebie from Media Militia! 21 images are included in the new Rust Textures Pack and all of them are high quality for your personal and commercial projects.

Drips and Spray Paint Pack

The Drips and Spray Paint Pack from Media Militia is a perfect addition to your resources folder. You can download them as Photoshop Brushes or high resolution PNG’s for your personal and commercial use.

108 Mono Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons

Jason Cho created these beautiful and easily customizable icons. The pack comes with 108 different icons that are available for your commercial and personal use.

An Awesome Caravan of Winter Themed Artwork

Winter is here and with it many designers come up with stunning artwork. This showcase, by Callum Chapman is an excellent collection of winter themed ads that are sure to inspire.

Go Bananas with 50+ Vector Illustrations that Monkey Around

“Monkeys, chimps, apes, or any kind of knuckle dragging animal, as a group, are a fun illustration subject.” I started to laugh when I read that. Check out this excellent showcase of monkey inspired illustrations.

40+ Vintage Posters to Inspire Your Next Designs Color Palette

Brian Hoff from The Design Cubicle rounded-up some retro colored posters that are sure to give you some great ideas for your next project.

Ask the Expert – Typography Talk with Brian Hoff

I’ve recently become a big fan of Brian Hoff and his work. This is a great interview on The Design Observer where he talks about how to use typography effectively in print and web design.

Master Special Finishes

Tony Harmer draws on simple techniques for adding spot colours, varnishes and special finishes to your layouts

How to Create a Realistic IES Lighting Effect in Photoshop

I was amazed by how real this one looked. Using Photoshop CS4 and some free plugins, you can make one for yourself. A definite must read!

Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

An amazing tutorial on PSDTuts that teaches you how to make an excellent composition giving you the feeling of depth and motion.

How to Create a Contemporary Style Illustration Without Drawing Skills

Can’t draw? That’s ok. This tutorial teaches you simple techniques in Photoshop that will help you make a great looking illustration.

How to Create a Magician’s Hat in Photoshop

Using the pen tool and some shapes, this Photoshop tutorial walks you through making a very nice magician hat icon.

Creating the Spoiled Princess Fashion Poster

This is a great tutorial that shows you how to combine images the right way. A very easy to follow tutorial with a great end result.

Design a Vintage Poster with Vector Pack 16

This tutorial, by GoMedia, is a hybrid tutorial that combines the capabilities of Illustrator and Photoshop to make an awesome vintage poster.

How To Design a Thanksgiving Pumpkin in Photoshop

Using filters and layer styles this great tutorial by Stephen Petrany shows you how to make a great looking pumpkin icon.

Easy Star Light in Photoshop

This is an awesome hybrid tutorial using Photoshop and Illustrator by Abduzeedo. It uses pattern overlay’s and light effects to create a great desktop wallpaper.

Old Style Typography Sign in Photoshop

Another hybrid tutorial that uses Illustrator and Photoshop to walk you through making a custom font and then applying several textures to give a grungy and vintage look.

Learn How to Create Your Own Set of Splatter Brushes for Photoshop

This is a video tutorial by Colorburned that walks you through making your very own splatter Photoshop brushes.

Design an Intense Particle Illustration using Photoshop

I was personally amazed by the photo manipulation by Media Militia. This tutorial teaches you how you can use brushes and lighting effects to accomplish a similar look.

How to Create a Funny Insurance Agent

A great tutorial on AiMonkey that teaches you how to use basic shapes and the pen tool to create an insurance agent illustration.

Draw an Angry Little Samurai in Illustrator

Another great Illustrator tutorial from AiMonkey. This time to create a samurai character.

Create a Rolling Stones Inspired Tongue Illustration

In this tutorial, Chris Spooner shows you how to replicate the iconic Rolling Stones tongue starting with a sketch and finishing with a vector illustration.

How to Create a Crafts Inspired Vector Kids Illustration

This tutorial by Chris Spooner teaches you how to create kids illustrations using simple shapes in Illustrator.

Create an Iconic Logo Design

In this tutorial, logo designer Jacob Cass, shares his expertise and teaches you how to make a simple yet striking logo.

Making an Interactive Picture with jQuery

A great tutorial from the great guys at Build Internet that teaches you how to use Jquery to make an image that has tooltips and other helpful information.

Building an Image Gallery with Progressive Enhancement

This tutorial by NETTuts will teach you how to make an awesome image gallery using progressive enhancement techniques.

How to Create an Author Info Section in Wordpress

Most big blogs have this feature to showcase the picture, bio and homepage of their writers. This tutorial on Line25 teaches you how to implement the same feature on your blog.

Selling Ad Space: Tips from Top Design Blog Owners

An excellent interview on Line25 that talks to some of the best design bloggers around. Great tips on how to successfully sell ad space. By the way, our very own David Leggett was part of the interview!

The Four Key Components of a Great Web Design

What are the key principals of a great web design? This article on Web Design Ledger claims that there are only four and that they are indispensable for an excellent website design.

Leveraging Your Blog to Promote Your Services

Blogging has the ability to improve your business. However, you’ve got to put effort into it. This great article on FreelanceSwitch shows you where to focus that effort so that the results are positive.

Blogging: Secure Your Spot as the “Go-To” Blog

There are millions of people that blog. However, to stand out, you have to know how to blog effectively. Rob Bowen gives some excellent tips on how to do it in this article.

How To Run a Successful Series of Articles

Although running a series of articles requires a lot of planning, preparation and work; it can be a great way to communicate to your readers. This article, written by Brandon Cox, talks about the essentials of doing it right.

Bokeh Effects Pack

Media Militia is featured three times in our bookmarks this month and that’s because they’re constantly coming up with great stuff. One of their newest packs “Bokeh Effects” has 42 excellent images free for your use.

Distressed Grunge Pack

Media Militia released this grunge pack that comes in two different formats. You can get the pack in Photoshop brushes, as vectors or both!

Creativity Runs in the Blood Wallpaper

With the return of Arbenting came the week of wallpapers and I was fortunate enough to have a wallpaper I designed featured in their series. You can download seven different sizes that should fit any moniter plus an iPhone version.

Free Icon Pack: November Seasonal Icons

The designers over at IconShock shared some great looking, fall inspired icons this month that are free for your use.

26 Inspirational Vector Posters from Creattica

It continues to amaze me how Creattica is always featuring some stunning work from around the design community. This post on VectorTuts rounds up the best of the best for your inspiration.

Inspiration in Purple: The FYC Edition

This is a excellent series by Rob and Angie Bowen where they round-up creative works in a specific color scheme. This time it’s purple. The works featured are jaw dropping.

Three Big Mistakes that Can Make or Break Your Design Career

This is an excellent article by the Editor of Fuel Your Interface, Jonathan Cutrell, that lists some mistakes that can hamper your design career.

How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs

The vintage/retro feel is a trend that is coming back. This article on Six Revisions showcases some retro themed web designs and teaches you how to replicate the style for yourself.

Interview with Rogie King from SpectrumDNA

This is an awesome interview on Fuel Your Creativity with Rogie King where he talks about his everyday life, who inspires him and what plans he has for the future.

Interview with Ryan Putnam, aka Rype

Ryan Putnam is an illustrator that I really admire. In this interview with him on VectorTuts, Ryan opens up about how he started in design, his illustration styles, and his current and future projects.

All About hand

Created in Illustrator, this demonstrates how text can be used to make the ordinary seem dynamic and unique.

Mos Def Lyric Portrait

A beautiful mix of style and various typefaces give this Lyrical portrait a multi-cultural vibe that really make it ‘pop’.

Type Industry

An exploration of the combination of type and engineering, with a lovely use of angles to anchor the image on the letter T.

It’s Graphic Design

It’s Graphic Design, not Art – so says this text art. It’s a short essay/manifesto about the relationship between graphic design and art.

Jimi In Type

It’s not as detailed as other type portraits but it’s worth seeing just for the attention to the hair, it’s managed to capture some of the Jimi Hendrix style.

Here’s Looking At You

An illustration for Computer Arts Magazine #111, for an article about typography, with all of the elements hand placed in Illustrator.

Type Art Portrait

This is one of the softest, most creative type art pieces i’ve seen. The tones created by the varying colours and typefaces are beautiful.

Tuatara In Type

This is a Tuatara reptile which is native to New Zealand. It was created in Illustrator and the words used are those that describe the creature.

Love Graphic Design

A different take on the usual text art portraits, it focuses on the background with a confetti like effect.

One Planet

Created in honor of LIVE EARTH 7.7.07. It represents the fact that although we all come from different countries, we are all the same.

Deadly Sin Typography

This is the deadly sin of Wrath with the entire image being solely illustrated by the word Wrath.

Steven Paul Jobs

Perhaps one of the most well known pieces of text art is this portrait of the enigmatic Steve Jobs – founder of Apple.

Times New Roman

An impressive piece which uses the word Typography to construct the female form. It’s a beautiful composition.

M Typographied

The letter M created with the theme “mystery” in mind, this is the second variation of this work which has been given the 3D effect.

Typograthree

In total there were 1612 words used all of them read the number Three. Each was individually set and not copied and pasted.

Self Portrait

This has a delicate ethereal quality which is due to the fantastic use of light, gradients and colour.

What You Write

One of the pieces here that delivers the biggest impact, combining photography and typography with a message behind it.

Martin Luther King

This is part 2 in a series, it uses Bickham Script Pro letters, numbers and characters which are scaled, not distorted along with about 8-9 shades of gray.

Typographic Tree

The history of Typography formed into the shape of a tree as if conveying the very roots of Typography and it’s growth throughout the years.

China Doll

Created in honor of Hispanic day on DeviantART, this is a wonderful portrait drawn directly from a wonderful portrait photograph.

Typographic Portrait

A creative use of the form of letters to suggest lines, the contrast of the huge letters with the stark white background is very effective.

Homeless

A simple yet powerful message is conveyed where the park bench is constructed with a paragraph explaining the plight of those who face life without a home.

Convocation

A piece for a school organisation where the words used for the question mark are a mix of communication professors, equipment, technicians, subjects and laboratories.

Eye Believe

A highly original portrait made entirely out of text to give a newspaper scrapbook effect.

Beer Directions

A poster with directions from Central New Jersey to Philadelphia. It’s themed around the visiting bars along the way and conveys the idea of a drunken night by making it jumbled confusing.

It’s The Joker

An amazing piece of text art which absolutely captures the very essence in which Heath Ledger portrayed the Joker.

Brasilia

Text art in the shape of Brazil, where the bold choice of typeface and colour give this an immediately strong impact.

Am I Your Type?

A self portrait created with the font Trajan Pro, it’s one of my personal favorites due to the incredible details and raw emotion.

With Great Humility..

This portrait of Barack Obama contains the entirety of his 2008 Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech… in his face!

Typomin M

The word “typomin” is a combination of the words typography and vitamin. The image is composed solely of the letters “M”, “O” and “C”.

Love Her Once More

The wonderful effect that the face has exploded with typography is mesmerising to look at.