Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Here is a simple step by step tutorial on how to create a faux metallic effect for a business card created in Photoshop.

1: Open a new file, and set the sizes like shown above. Business cards actual size is 3.50″ x 2″ but its important to leave an additional 1/8 or .125 inch all around for bleed.
2: Create a new Layer.
3: Fill layer with grey, any percentage would do. This is 50% black.
4: from the...

In this Tutorial we would like to demonstrate how to make color changes to a 3D logo template purchased from pixellogo. We would also like to demonstrate how to change characteristics of some of the materials in the logo, like changing a chrome to black high gloss material with very simple few steps, Please follow instructions step by step its see how it works. These steps can be...

Today we present you a perfect example of low-budget creative design. Part of being a designer means discussing costs and more often than not that turns out to be a conflicting issue. However that is not an excuse to neglect creativity and top notch results; such is the case of the visual identity for Mylene Poisson, created by Montreal based agency Caserne.

Poisson is a sommelier...

Well, the year 2012 is coming to an end and we're still here! The apocalypse never came and thus we have to start getting ready for the arrival of 2013, so daily planers and calendars are going to be a necessity very soon. Jorge Fuentes has a pretty sweet contribution for all of us, in the form of an illustrated calendar called Cosmos MMXIIIfor you to download and make use of....

It's been a while since we've featured a cartography related post and it couldn't get any better to make a comeback with this -to say the least- impressive map of NYC. Jenni Sparksis the illustrator behind this project whose main interest and specialty is hand drawn type. I can't even fathom how much work was put into this particular map, but just taking a look at the density of the...