As designers we understand the importance of choosing the right type of fonts when working on a new design. However, some designers take the value of fonts and types to a higher level when developing a typography design.

I’ve always been fascinated by typography designs, just the way the designer combines different typefaces and sizes to form something extraordinary.

Recently, I published a very interesting article over at Design Crash Magazine, that shares with you 27 beautiful hand-picked showcase of typography art designs, make sure you check it out!

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I would like to present to you Design Crash Magazine.

So, what is Design Crash Magazine?

Design Crash Magazine is a blog formed by me and graphic designer Mitch Myers with the contribution of a group of talented professionals. Design Crash Magazine’s main objective is to bring to you as many resources as possible; resourcers such as feeds that will help the web designer, graphic designer and artist in general to get inspired with the  compilation of latest trends.

So, make sure to check out the blog and drop us a line anytime!

Ahhhh… Spring.

I don’t know about you, but I’m really happy Spring is here.  I know we’ve had spring for about a month already, but it just didn’t feel like Spring to me until this past week. We’ve had a tough winter but it’s all gone - at least it seems.

So I figured, brand new Spring calls for a brand new design for the blog. This time I wanted to make something quite different from all the designs I’ve had in the past for this blog. I think you will notice that the main change was the background which is black when in the past I’ve tried to keep the background of a light color, preferably white.

Old Times ..Good Times

First, let’s reminisce a little in the various designs Karina Myers’ Blog has had. At the beginning, I decided to have a very playful approach using different colors and the result was…

I though it was cute and I like that I had my sponsors link in the top of the page. But, a designer’s mind never stops working so guess what…I came up with a second design.

For my second layout I wanted to include my twitter account, so I added a status post in the header which ended up looking like this:

I love swirly brushes, and I was pretty happy I was able to implement it in this design.

For the design that came after that I wanted to make a pretty innovative design with some fire or neon glow somewhere in it. Here is an image of what the header layout ended up being:

Red is one of my favorite colors and I still love that KM logo I made…good times!

The new and improved layout for Karina Myers’ Blog… that’s me

For this new design I decided to give it a rest to my digital web character. I hold the design very close to my heart and I’ll probably implement it in my future design… who knows? what do you think?

Let’s start with the logo. I must say, I’m really happy with the results. This new logo has a fresh look to it and I like that I was able to implement the various colors that I like in it without making it look bad, and guess what.. I’m using neon colors which look beautiful with the black background!

I’m also using different dark tones and thin light borders that you will probably need to take a close look to the design in order to notice it.

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While surfing on the web I run across a beautiful collection of Oriental Resources. Here you will find everything you need to get inspired for a new design, but not only that, you will also get to download resources so you can get started in a brand new design.

This blog written in spanish has put together a serie of resources which includes (in order):  Brushes, Patterns, Vectors for Illustrator, Wallpapers, Wordpress Themes, Fonts, Icons, and Free Stock Images.. it’s an amazing collection.

Even though they are listed as free make sure you read the author’s license before you download them. I’ll make sure to download some of them for my personal collection of resources. Let me know how you liked it!

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Want to create something different for your office? When buying a new computer most people don’t care about its design. Then we have another group of people. The ones that just can’t live with the thought of being just like the average Joe. They want to be among the select few that stands out in a crowd showing off their  designer/manufacturing skills no matter how much money it will take getting there.

Here is a nice collections of designs to get you inspired.

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There are some the freebies that are really essential for me.  These are some of my favorite freebies, whenever I am doing any projects I lean towards these freebies and resources and also, I definitely recommend to friends and acquaintances. In this article I am sharing some of the best freebies on web that I use. Also, there are some useful posts at the end of each section that I thought would be useful.

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Here is a round-up, you’ll find 20 vintage Photoshop brushes you can download for free. There are over 300 individual vintage brushes here, so you will have a broad choice of brushes to apply onto your designs. Continue reading…

hongkiat.com recently published a really nice collection of 50 Photoshop brushes. In the collection you will find Metal Brushes, Twilight Brushes, Fantasy Butterflies, Tape Brushes, Abstract Brushes, Astral Brushes, Cracks and Cuts Brushes… among others. Continue reading…

PSDVault recently published a very useful tutorial where it shows the steps to make a Grungy-Style Abstract Typography using rusted metal texture in Photoshop. The inspiration of this tutorial came from a grungy metal image.

In the tutorial, you will explore some layer blending techniques, various filter effects, and an interesting method of making the text look 3D. Here you go!

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Here is a list of ten useful tips to make your programming in CSS better and faster. In the list you’ll find:

1. CSS font shortcut rules

2. Two classes together

3. CSS border default value

4. !important ignored by IE

5. Image replacement technique

6. CSS box model hack alternative

7. Centre aligning a block element

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