Check out this membership site that offers a huge range of designer tools – textures, gradients, layer styles, patterns, brushes, tutorials – you name it.

There’s a Blog you can subscribe to, to keep updated on new additions.  Altogether looks like a very worthwhile site – I found it via Dribbble.com.

That link to the main URL again -  Ultimate Designer Toolkit

Enjoy!

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

By way of New Year beginnings, we’ve added the first lot of free resources in the Images, Photos, Video, Sound and Music Categories.

You can access these resources from the Navigation Bar just below the site header.

There are Free Graphics and Free Graphic Editing Software, Free Photograph resources.

There are Free Video Clips and Free Video Editing Software resources.

There are Free Music and Free Sound Clip resources, together with Free Sound Editing resources as well.

Note : Just for fun I made the above graphic using the free text generator at CoolText – one of our recommended free graphics resources.

Much More to come!  Sign up to our RSS feed to be informed when we add new stuff.

Patricia Howitt

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http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

With this you can download you favorite songs across all genres.

Additional features are top recommendations, unlimited online listening and top hits listings.

Key features of the Speed MP3 Downloader:

• Instant access to over 100,000,000 songs.
• Latest and hottest songs recommended.
• More convenient for search desired songs by advanced search.
• Different choices of bit rates up to 320kbps.

Visit Giveaway of the Day – daily Giveaways must be downloaded and installed within the Giveaway 24 hour period.

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

It has a pretty classy eco type design on the front and a plain back in matching green.

Download the templates from PSD Graphics.

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

Designing for rock groups, book and LP covers in the 70s/80s, Roger produced some really stunning and original work, that still influences Illustration and Conceptual Design for movies and the gaming industry today.

He created an almost unique sense of other-worldly space, and his strength of design and stunning balance of detail and empty space is something we certainly could do with more of now.

Can you imagine the result if this man were available to the present-day gaming industry – not to mention Hollywood (which has already borrowed heavily from his ideas)?

Click Here for more of my Roger Dean favorites.

Enjoy!

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

His work centers mainly around rural life in southern England – tending flocks of sheep, growing and harvesting corn, the natural forms of hillsides and clouds, and the people of this environment.  There is an element of Pieter Bruegel in the subject-matter, but Palmer’s treatment of his subject is highly individual.

What fascinates me most is his style, and the way the ingredients in his drawings and paintings are ‘managed’ to convey a definite sense of mystery and meaningfulness within the subject-matter.  Though one might look upon the subjects as mundane and ‘simple’, Palmer invests them with a kind of wondrous magnificence – it’s something we in the technological present could do with revisiting.

Hard to describe in words, but very plain to see in the artworks.

Click Here for more of my Samuel Palmer favorites.

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

Master Designers Sang Jun Lee, Kekai Kotaki, Daniel Dociu and Feng Zhu will be presenting and demonstrating styles and techniques during the 2 day workshop, and there will be a Q&A time at the end.

CLICK HERE for more details about the Master Designers Workshop in Singapore in February.

Patricia Howitt

http://patriciahowitt.com/

http://wildnewzealand.com/

http://taketakerau.com/

After about a month at sea, intrepid Polynesian voyagers make landfall in a strange new land – Aotearoa New Zealand.

The native birds are the Kokako or Blue-Wattled Crow (Calleas cinerea), the Weka or NZ Woodhen (Gallirallus australis) and the Fantail or Piwakawaka (Rhipidura fulginosa).

Bottom right are the brilliant red stamens of the New Zealand Christmas Tree, the Pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) that flowers around our northern coasts in December.

Illustration from the newly published book “Taketakerau, The Millennium Tree” by Marnie Anstis – art by Patricia Howitt.

Patricia Howitt
http://patriciahowitt.com/
http://wildnewzealand.com/
http://taketakerau.com/

Just had to take a moment to include this great video.  It’s a designer’s dream – or maybe nightmare, who knows?

Either way, it’s a most fascinating piece of creativity in design and concept – wonderful artwork and animation.  Reminds me of dreams.  Often in dreams things don’t stay what they were to start with – this video is like a continual metamorphosis.  Magic!

Plus the colors are awesome, bright but not garish - ‘rich’ is definitely the word!

Enjoy!