deltadesignz.com http://deltadesignz.com Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:12:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Deltadesignzcomhttp://feedburner.google.com10 Amazing And Free Design Ebookshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Deltadesignzcom/~3/MSXTmEfhbnE/ http://deltadesignz.com/2010/01/28/10-amazing-and-free-design-ebooks/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:12:10 +0000 Sergio Santana http://deltadesignz.com/?p=701 Get Your Free Logo Design Love Chapter

AIGA: Get A Design Job

From performing a self-evaluation Continue Reading

]]> Below are 10 amazing ebooks that you can download for free! Some require you to leave some of your info but are free and definitely worth it! I hope you guys enjoy these and find them useful!

  1. Get Your Free Logo Design Love Chapter

  2. AIGA: Get A Design Job

    From performing a self-evaluation on the core design competencies that can add value to a wide range of businesses, to navigating different types of interviews and networking situations, Get a Design Job offers practical advice for the changing roles of today’s designers.

  3. Illustrate 3D-Typography Using Only Photoshop

    While most other articles on 3D-typography employ external 3D-rendering applications, this introduction will guide you through the complete process of recreating the tutorial’s cover illustration using Adobe Photoshop and it’s built-in tools only. The tutorial comes with the illustration’s original, layered .PSD-file, a set of 8 3D-Actions and the original bubble- and smudge- brushes.

  4. The Design Funnel: A Manifesto for Meaningful Design

    Would you like a process to create more consistently creative work which distinguishes itself from the work of your peers?
    Would you like a process which would help translate the often vague, unclear wishes of your clients (and yourself, for that matter) into a clear and solid basis for your design?
    This manifesto will show you how.”

  5. Illustrator CS4 How-To Guide

    His inspiration for “Loyal Order of Wormwood”: “I never know when or where inspiration will come. Most often it’s captured initially via a simple doodle. Then at a later point in time I take that doodle and flesh it out into a refined sketch. Once my drawing is exactly the way I like it, I simply scan it in and start building my vector art.”

  6. Free 27 Page Type Classification eBook

    This book goes through the 10 type classifications with a brief history as well as the key characteristics of each. This book has been made to come back to for easy referencing and it looks great printed as well.

  7. Photoshop Lightroom

    The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book describes Lightroom’s features
    in detail and with photographers in mind. The book is aimed at
    photographers at all levels: amateurs as well as professionals and will
    offer a comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about
    the program. Photographers who routinely work with raw images
    will find Lightroom–and The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book–an
    indispensable tool in their digital darkroom.

  8. Seven Steps to Logo Perfection

    The easiest way to describe the process of logo creation, is with an example. Blue Cube Consultancy provides a consultancy service to the music industry. Their old logo had served them well, but often looked out of place along side those of their competitors. Logo Surgery made over their logo to give them a fresh, modern and competitive edge. What follows is an outline of the process.

  9. Logopalooza

    The Logo Factory®’s free logo book – chock full of logo samples and case studies of corporate logos. This time out, we’ve added a series of design tips and pointers featuring insights and observations from our design staff. Logopalooza! Volume Two is a free must-have for designers and those looking to have a logo developed for their new company, product or service. Available for a limited time only.

  10. 10 Tips for Creating Your Web Site

    When looking for ways to build of your web site, even minor steps can make a huge difference. The most helpful information and best content will have little impact without simple protocols that make your Web site easier to use and more visually appealing. This paper focuses on 10 tips you can employ to ensure your web site is effective from the day it goes live. In this paper the structure and function of the PLC is introduced along with a number of related terms that are commonly confused.

    11. Do you know of a great design related e-book? Please leave a comment and share it with us!
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    ]]>     Movie Poster and Dvd covers are very important aspect when promoting a film, Below are some great tutorials that teach you how to make professional quality movie posters, as well as some text tutorials from a few very popular movies and a tutorial on making a billing block! With the help of these tutorials you will have all of the skills neccessary to make your own hollywood style movie poster in no time!!!

    Movie Poster Tutorials

    1. Avatar

    2. Fugitive | PSDTUTS

    3. Blend Photos Like A Hollywood Movie Poster In Photoshop

    4. Last House On The Left

    5. Lord Of The Ring

    6. How To Make An Awesome Movie Poster

    7. How To Create A Movie Quality DVD Cover

    8. Savior

    9. Create A Powerball Effect For Movie Poster

    10. Designing A War Movie Poster

      11. Movie Text Tutorials

      Below are 5 tutorials focused on teaching how to re-create the fonts and effects used in some very popular movies
    11. Bee Movie Text Effect

    12. Make a box office hit with movie poster type

    13. Star Wars Text Effect

    14. Harry Potter Movie Font Tutorial

    15. Iron Man Text Tutorial

      16. Billing Block

      The tutorial below will show you how to create a billing block (the credits usually found on the bottom of the poster or the back of a dvd case).
    16. Create A Movie Poster Billing Block

    Do you know some amazing tutorials that we missed? Leave a comment below and share it with us!
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    An album cover design is important in many ways, it has to standout and be unique, catch peoples attention, it also has to represent the style of the music in the album and much more. Its true that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but as far as music albums Continue Reading

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    An album cover design is important in many ways, it has to standout and be unique, catch peoples attention, it also has to represent the style of the music in the album and much more. Its true that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but as far as music albums go an eye catching cover can sometimes spark the viewers interest in the music and lead to a sale.

    Below are 25 amazing album cover designs that are unique, beautiful, eye catching, and some that do a great job of representing the artists style of music.

    1. Pink Floyd: Animals


    2. Jay-Z: Blueprint 3


    3. De-Loused: In The Comatorium


    4. Michael Jackson: Dangerous


    5. Rjd2: Deadringer


    6. The Starting Line: Direction


    7. Cloud Cult: Feel Good Ghosts


    8. Common: Finding Forever


    9. Efterklang: Under Giant Trees


    10. The Cranberries: Bury The Hatchet


    11. Kisschasy: Hymns for the Nonbeliever


    12. Jedi Mind Tricks: Legacy of Blood


    13. Nervana: Nevermind


    14. Circa Survive: On The Letting Go


    15. Muse: Origin of Symmetry


    16. T.I.: Papertrail


    17. Stereophonics: Pull The Pin


    18. Pink Floyd: Pulse


    19. Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine


    20. Rise Against: Appeal To Reason


    21. Umphrey McGee: Safety in Numbers


    22. Rjd2: Since We Last Spoke


    23. Pink Floyd: Tree of Half Life


    24. Bloc Party: A Weekend In The City


    25. Brisker + Magitman: Wet


    Do you know an amazing album cover to add to the list? Leave a comment below and share it with us!
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    Below are 10 amazing tutorials that teach you how to create typographic posters. Some are created in Photoshop and the others in Illustrator so you can improve your skill in new ways with these programs while creating some beautiful posters! I hope you guys find this post useful!

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    Below are 10 amazing tutorials that teach you how to create typographic posters. Some are created in Photoshop and the others in Illustrator so you can improve your skill in new ways with these programs while creating some beautiful posters! I hope you guys find this post useful!

    1. Create And Then Shatter A Grid While Making A Typographic Poster

    2. Create A Trendy Galactic Poster

    3. Amazing Typographic Portrait

    4. Trendy Geometric Lines Design

    5. Colorful Typography

    6. Wood Inlay Text

    7. Create A Trendy Typographic Poster Design

    8. Create 90’s Design

    9. Command Shape In Illustrator

    10. Torn Vector Wallpaper With Angled Text

    If you found this post useful you might also be interested in:

    Do you know a good typographic poster tutorial? Leave a comment and share it below!
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    ]]>     I recently bought myself a tablet and to be honest I didn’t think it would make a big difference before I bought it, after setting it up and trying it out I realized that I had been missing out and my work was very limited with a mouse. Now I have many more options and I am able to create things I couldn’t before, below are a few reasons why I think every designer should stop using a mouse and start using a tablet to design.

    1. Sensitivity and Pressure

      Everyone has tried drawing with a mouse at one point and realized it didn’t look good, its obvious that with a tablet drawing is going to be much easier but what a lot of people don’t know about is the levels of sensitivity, tilt, eraser, and the amazing work that couldn’t be done without those features. Sensitivity means that just like a real pencil you make strokes lighter or heavier depending on how hard you press down and the eraser works the same way. With the tilt sensitivity you can control opacity, color intensity, hardness, and flow.

    2. Tracing

      You can bring your sketches to life by scanning them and tracing over the image, I found this very useful when designing logos because you can trace your sketches without any flaws and with more precision than when using a mouse and you don’t have to throw out an idea because its not possible to do with the mouse. Now the possibilities are even greater in my designs.

    3. Easy to get used to

      At first using a tablet might be a little frustrating. For practice you can try navigating around your computer with it, sketch, trace over pictures or drawings in photoshop or illustrator. There are some incredible tutorials below to help practice and get started you will get used to it in no time and once you do you won’t look back.

    4. Ergonomic

      As designers we spend a lot of time in front of a computer screen and using a tablet instead of a mouse can be more comfortable and is better for your health. Using a mouse consists of a lot of twisting of the forearm at unnatural angles and repetitive use of the same muscles which can lead to aching body parts and increase the risk of RSI. A tablet allows you to keep your hand in a relaxed and natural position and uses several different muscles evenly.

    5. Programmable Buttons

      The buttons on the pen can be programmed to whatever keystroke you want, so while drawing in photoshop, illustrator, or whatever program you use you can easily undo a mistake, switch to another layer, zoom in and out, and much more depending on what keys you set the buttons to. There are only two buttons on the pen so you have to pick the two functions that you use the most.

    Below are some useful links to tutorials, instructions, and resources for tablets.
    Some Amazing And Inspiring Illustrations




    Leave a comment and let us know what you think about designing with a tablet.
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    Below are 16 of some of the best and most inspirational design studios in the world, most of which have worked with some very big companies such as Nike, EA Sports, MTV, and many more. You can also get an idea of what is required to work with a successful design studio or agency Continue Reading

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    Below are 16 of some of the best and most inspirational design studios in the world, most of which have worked with some very big companies such as Nike, EA Sports, MTV, and many more. You can also get an idea of what is required to work with a successful design studio or agency and the type of work that is produced at that level.

    1. 30 Sixty

    2. Andreas Smetana

    3. The Apartment

    4. Carrot Creative

    5. Corvus Art

    6. Damman Pearce

    7. Electric Pulp

    8. Ladio

    9. Method

    10. Razor Fish

    11. Relish

    12. Resn

    13. Screenagers

    14. Sequence

    15. Struck Creative

    16. Vacuum Sucks

    Do you know an awesome design studio? Leave a comment and let share it with us!
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    Below are 20 beautifully designed packages that are worth buying just for the package itself and nothing more!

    Six Feet Under

    Alexa Lixfeld Perfume Bottles With Concrete Tops

    Tea Forte Holiday Teas

    Banana Juice

    Evian Water

    So Chic

    Greens Dry Gin

    Heide Honey

    Kraftstoff Vodka

    Meat Continue Reading

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    Below are 20 beautifully designed packages that are worth buying just for the package itself and nothing more!

    1. Six Feet Under

    2. Alexa Lixfeld Perfume Bottles With Concrete Tops

    3. Tea Forte Holiday Teas

    4. Banana Juice

    5. Evian Water

    6. So Chic

    7. Greens Dry Gin

    8. Heide Honey

    9. Kraftstoff Vodka

    10. Meat Clothes

    11. Spanish Olives

    12. Plantus Pack

    13. Porto Novo

    14. Seriously Pink

    15. Samurai Vodka

    16. Tre

    17. Agua de Valencia

    18. Vintage Vodka

    19. Debowa Vodka

    20. Tap Water

      21. Leave a comment below and share an interesting design or one that you bought because of the package!
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      3D typography is one of the coolest ways to display text on a design. I put together a list of 10 tutorials that will teach you how to create some amazing 3D effects, most of these can be done with Photoshop and Illustrator but a few require advanced 3D software. I hope you guys Continue Reading

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      3D typography is one of the coolest ways to display text on a design. I put together a list of 10 tutorials that will teach you how to create some amazing 3D effects, most of these can be done with Photoshop and Illustrator but a few require advanced 3D software. I hope you guys find these useful and that they will help you improve your designs!

      1. Abduzeedo: Awesome Milk Typography

      2. GoMediaZine: Collide

      3. Six Revisions: 3D Text Photo Manipulation

      4. Denis Designs: 3D Text With Extreme Lighting

      5. Denis Designs: 3D Text With Extreme Lighting

      6. Tutorial Sphere: Kaboom Exploding Text

      7. PSD TUTS: How To Create 3D Text Blocks In Photoshop

      8. PSD TUTS: Valentines Day-Photoshop Style

      9. PSD TUTS: How To Create A Striking Typographic Illustration

      10. PSD TUTS: 3D Text Render

      Do you know of an amazing 3D text tutorial? Leave a comment below and share it with us!
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      Whenever I watch a movie I always look at the cover and try to figure out how it was made, there are many amazing movie covers and posters which are great sources of inspiration. I got the idea for this poster when I accidentally put on a channel that wasn’t working which reminded me Continue Reading

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      Whenever I watch a movie I always look at the cover and try to figure out how it was made, there are many amazing movie covers and posters which are great sources of inspiration. I got the idea for this poster when I accidentally put on a channel that wasn’t working which reminded me of The Ring, so I went into photoshop and came up with this.


      This is my first tutorial so bear with me, if something is unclear leave a comment and I will try to make it clear.

      Here’s what you will need:

      Lets Begin…
      1. Start with your tv image and lower the lighting around the tv if neccessary

      2. Remove the background, only keep the door and your hand, duplicate this layer and rename it (make sure this layer is under the original) go to layer styles and add a black overlay to this layer and then add a gaussian blur of 15%.

      3. Add the texture over all the layers and set blending mode to hard light, use a layer mask and remove the texture so that it is only over the door make sure its not covering the arm and the door handle.

      4. Add the face, set the blending mode and lower the opacity so that it blends with the TV, add layer mask and use a soft brush to remove everything but the face.

      5. Use the “foreground to transparent” setting with the Gradient tool with black as the foreground and shade around the edges of the canvas

      6. Add text of your choice, I used a font called Calibri, make sure the text color is a gray or (#827f7f) and go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise set the amount around 100%, make sure distribution is set to uniform

      7. For the credit block I used the font that is commonly used for this called Univers LT 49 LightUltraCn, the settings I used are on the image below

      8. Last, Add a layer and fill it with black set the blending mode to hue. You should get a similar result to the one below!


      Leave a comment below and let me know what you thought of this!
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      After almost two months of waiting I have finally received my google wave invite and set up my account, I now have 8 google wave invites to give away. For a chance to win one all you have to do is follow me on twitter, re-tweet any post on deltadesignz.com, and leave a comment Continue Reading

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      After almost two months of waiting I have finally received my google wave invite and set up my account, I now have 8 google wave invites to give away. For a chance to win one all you have to do is follow me on twitter, re-tweet any post on deltadesignz.com, and leave a comment on this page.

      How to qualify
      1. Follow me on twitter.com/deltadesignz
      2. Re-tweet any post here on deltadesignz.com (make sure to add @deltadesignz to your tweets)
      3. Leave a comment on this page

      • The winner will be chosen using Random.org
      • The contest will end two weeks from today (December 14, 2009)

      Good Luck!

      What Is Google Wave?

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