36 cool katakana design fonts free download

02.03.08

Filed Under: Resources, Typography with 27 Comments

There are many cool and creative Japanese Katakana design fonts out there designed by various font designers. Here I compiled a list of 36 cool Katakana font resources which is free for download to add to your Japanese fonts list!
Most of them you can directly type it while some of them you need Japanese IME [...]

32 patterns of car racing game sites

16.02.08

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I did research on many car racing game sites and found that many of them use a lot of patterns for the site design. With all these small little patterns especially the carbon fiber patterns, the websites looks more racing feel. I took screenshots of each websites and turning them into Photoshop pattern preset and [...]

DesignWalker now in English

24.01.08

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DesignWalker is one of my most favorite Japanese design blog and I visit it almost every week. It serves as a diary of the web designer who worked in Los Angeles. The site is full packed with tonnes of collections of web design inspiration and resources that he found around the World Wide Web. I [...]

Dotted world map vector resource

06.01.08

Filed Under: Resources with 160 Comments

Here I present you the dotted world map vector free for download. It comes with three different dot sizes which is fine, medium and large to cater for different purpose and needs. This dotted world map is based on the world map resource from Deviant Art, and I overlay a dotted pattern on top and [...]

6 sites for brochure design inspiration & tips

30.12.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Inspiration, Resources with 33 Comments

A brochure or pamphlet is a leaflet advertisement that normally used to promote latest products and services, or serves as one member of corporate identity merchandise. The new year has come and my company decided to update and redesign the existing corporate brochure. To produce the best outcome, I started to look out some inspiration [...]

Free font: Relato Sans

30.11.07

Filed Under: Resources, Typography with 3 Comments

Font Shop had released a featured freebies of quality font called “Relato Sans” previewed above. According to Font Shop:
Relato Sans™ (Emtype®)
Relato Sans is the best of a fresh new breed of humanist sans serifs. Witness Eduardo Manso’s technical and artistic skill for yourself with this complimentary sampling of the complete OpenType family.
The font looks really [...]

Super lists for web designers

28.11.07

Filed Under: Resources, Web Design with 14 Comments

With the booming of the Internet, we came to a stage where information obtaining is so much convenient nowadays. Like web designers, using the web as main source of information and resources is a very natural thing. But, the information available out there is so much until I think it is impossible to bookmark and [...]

Spice up your design with 56 Photoshop layer styles

24.11.07

Filed Under: Resources, Web Design with 165 Comments

I had been working with Photoshop for more than a year and through out this year, I designed works by using this great tool, really can’t live without it. In Photoshop, the layer blending had been the most frequently used in most designs. By applying layer styles, the design won’t be flat and it looks [...]

Stunning Japanese Foliage Photoshop brushes

25.10.07

Filed Under: Art & Design, Japan, Resources with 4 Comments

Probably you already know this, but I still want to take an opportunity to write about it. The post banner above is done by wonderful Japanese Foliage™ brushes brought to you by DesignFruit. In fact that I used this stunning sets of brushed for my several previous banner designs. The brushes are very high resolution [...]

7 Web 2.0 badges vector download

06.10.07

Filed Under: Resources, Web 2.0 with 36 Comments

Today, I will give out the my latest vector collection which is 7 different styles of badges vector, all free for download! As you can see, the 7 badges each I created is unique shapes and styles, read more to take a clearer view of 7 of it.
To make the series special, I [...]

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