Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Our Friday Free Font giveaways are definitely one of my favourite weekly posts. With coffee in hand and an already ruffled newspaper by my side, I love scouring the web every Friday morning looking for new and interesting typefaces to highlight here. I love typography and it is such a valuable element of design so what better way to thank our readers for following us than by giving you fabulous new and free fonts every week.

Are you tired of looking for wooden background textures for your designs? Are you frustrated because you can't find a specific wooden texture that you need to use in your designs? If you are, why not learn how to create your own wooden background texture in Photoshop. Here is an easy Photoshop tutorial that will only take you about 10 minutes to learn and will end up saving you a lot of time in the long run.

Photoshop swirl brushes are extremely popular these days and designers from all design disciplines from all over the world use them in their designs. They are highly useful and an instrumental design element that designers share freely on the internet.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post called 12 Free Photoshop Swirl Brushes which has been immensely successful. Dozens of people have been visiting our blog every day to download these fantastic swirl brushes. Because of that posts success, this week I want to add to it and give you 8 more fabulous free Photoshop swirl brushes. Some of these swirl brushes are of the normal swirly/floral flavour while others are a little more abstract.

Foil Blocking is an amazing printing technique that adds a distinct element of quality and professionalism to your designs. It is a very special printing finish that gives print design projects an extra punch and it helps them to stand out amongst other print design works.

What exactly is foil blocking? Foil blocking is a printing process whereby a thin metallic foil is added to a specific area of your design. Gold, silver and magenta foils are the colours most commonly used in foil blocking however, most printers also offer quite a wide variety of different foil colour options to its clients.

Designers use patterns all the time in their designs. Sometimes designers use patterns as the backgrounds for their website or twitter page designs while other times designers use patterns to simply add a little extra depth or texture to their designs. Vector patterns are very useful in a wide variety of different ways and they are used often in both print and web design.

Here are some great vector background patterns that you can download from us here for free. To download any one of the vector patterns, simply click on the images and your download will begin. Please carefully read the descriptions for each vector pattern so that you abide by the licensing requirements for each vector pattern.