Access All Areas members have a powerful new premium font to download this week, courtesy of The Free Design Club. Moderno Sans is a bold, chunky italic that oozes strength and fierceness. It comes in TTF and OTF formats, along with various Web Font variations making it a versatile typeface Read more…
It is difficult to create convincing vintage-style artwork without the right materials, but tools and resources that are made from real antiques are quite rare! The resources in The Expansive Vintage Design Library are derived from various authentic sources, so you can inject a piece of history right into your Read more…
My latest collection of textures has undergone some extensive processing to produce a set of versatile resources that can be used across a wide range of projects. A series of photographs of rust were first equalised to bring out the tiny details, then smoothed to produce an array of speckles Read more…
Everyone is familiar with .com and .net, but did you know you can get your own free .design domain? As a designer myself, I think it’s pretty awesome that we can get a domain name that reflects what we do, .design. I have teamed up with Porkbun to offer all Read more…
Follow along with today’s Photoshop tutorial to turn your pet into a renaissance masterpiece. We’ll use a public domain oil painting of a 19th century Dutch General as the source, then combine some Photoshop filters to apply the painterly look to a digital photograph to blend the two images into Read more…
Access All Areas members have a collection of awesome graphics from Freepik to download this week. These 10 abstract backgrounds have a colourful retro style, featuring a variety of geometric shapes and vibrant gradients. These background graphics are ideal for creating 80s or 90s inspired designs. Each background is supplied Read more…
Every designer needs a variety of typeface styles that they can rely upon for every project. Usually a collection is built slowly as new fonts are purchased on an individual basis, but on rare occasions an opportunity to acquire a comprehensive library of top quality font families with huge savings Read more…
The merits of Git as a version control system are difficult to contest, but while Git will do a superb job in keeping track of the commits you and your teammates have made to a repository, it will not, in itself, guarantee the quality of those commits. Git will not Read more…
The typical journey for a person browsing a website: view a page, click a link, browser loads new page. That’s assuming no funny business like a Single Page App, which still follows that journey, but the browser doesn’t load a new page — the client fakes it for the sake Read more…
I woke up one morning and realized that I had it all wrong. I discovered that code and design are unable to solve every problem on a design systems team, even if many problems can be solved by coding and designing in a dark room all day. Wait, huh? How Read more…
