Vector Design Resources

AiVault is a vector design freebies and resource blogsite in which you can find free tutorials, brushes and tools and other resources on Adobe Illustrator. They also showcase some Vector designs on their Vector Gallery.

SAMPLE DESIGNS on Aivault.com Vector Gallery


log on to: http://www.aivault.com

Over 40+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Graphic Designers

Whether you need to learn something quickly or need a quick refresher on how to do certain tasks, cheat sheets allow you to do either one with relative ease. Print them out and decorate your workspace or save/bookmark them for later use, whichever way suits you best.

In this collection, you’ll find 40+ of the best cheat for graphic designers for either the Mac or the Windows operating systems. You’ll find cheat sheets for popular graphic design applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. These cheat sheets available in various formats including PDF, PNG, and web-based (HTML) formats.

Get Those 40+ Graphic Designer's Cheat Sheets here

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended and Illustrator CS4 Review

Adobe has recently released Adobe CS4 suites and as a web and graphic designer, I would like to share to you these detailed reviews of Photoshop CS4 Extended and Illustrator CS4 made by renowned tech blog Ars Technica

15 CSS Tricks That Designers Must Learn

As web designers and developers, we have all come to learn many css tricks and techniques that help us achieve our layout goals. The list of these techniques is an ever expanding one, however, there are certain tricks that are essential to achieve your goal.

Today, we will review 15 excellent css techniques to keep in mind when developing your theme.

Screencast: How to Convert a PSD to XHTML

Here's a nice screencast guide on how to convert a Photoshop design (PSD) into a fully functional xHTML/CSS/Javascript template.

Watch the Screencast here.

50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design

A Good typography is one the essentials of a good web and graphic designs. I would like to share the 50 Incredible Fonts for Web and Print Design. This collection will sure help you improve your typography skills

Click here to see them all

9 Types of CSS Hacks

Here's a nice RSS blog post that I found on my Google Reader which talks about the 9 Types of CSS Hacks. To be honest I didn't know that there are so many of this CSS hacks since my last post about CSS hacks. Thanks Insic 2.0 for this one. So without further ado, here are the 9 Types of CSS Hacks

Photoshop Tutorials To Improve Your Modeling and Design Skills

by Vailancio Rodrigues

You have to use Adobe Photoshop for a really long time to understand its potential completely. There are many things you can do using its endless features. You need to discover them and decide how to use them in new and innovative ways to create the creative, beautiful and realistic digital art. In this article, we look at Photoshop in a different way: as a tool for designers to create realistic objects and 3D models.

So without further a do, here are some Photoshop Tutorials to Improve your Modeling and Design Skills

Design a Realistic Sandwich Bag

Problem: I’m in need of a Photoshop/Illustrator routine in which I take photos of fruit or vegetables and make them look like they are inside of a plastic bag. I’ve been playing around with texture effects, but haven’t come up with a satisfactory routine.

Here's a nice tutorial on how to design a transparent Sandwich bag with some food from scratch.

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15 Key Elements All Top Web Sites Should Have

There are a lot of details to consider when designing and developing a web site. In reality, it can seem like an endless list — but if you look carefully you’ll see that there are certain elements that are more important than others, elements that are used consistently among the most successful sites.

Once you’ve completed the Planning Stage of your website, the rest of the elements fall into broad categories ranging from User Interface Design to Content Creation to actual Development. Of course, there are also the issues surrounding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — but we’ll save that for another day…

With that in mind, here are the 15 elements that should always be included on any top web site.