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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Como diseñadores, nosotros entendemos lo importante que es escoger el tip de fuente correcto al crear nuestros diseños. Sin embargo, algunos diseñadores llevan el valor de las fuentes a un nivel mas alto al momento de diseñar un diseño de tipografia.

Siempre he considerado fascinantes los diseños de tipografia, simplemente la manera en que el diseñador combina diferentes tipos de fuentes y tamaños para crear algo simplemente extraordinario.

Recientemente, he publicado un articulo muy interesante en Design Crash Magazine, que comparte con ustedes una coleccion de 27 hermosos diseños que hacen uso de tipografia, asegurate de checkearlo!

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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!

Y con ustedes Design Crash Magazine.

Qué es Design Crash Magazine?

Design Crash Magazine es un blog formado por mi en compañia del diseñador grafico Mitch Myers con la contribucion de un grupo de profesionales muy talentosos. La meta principal de Design Crash Magazine es traer a ustedes la mayor cantidad de recursos posibles; recursos que ayudaran a desarrolladores web, diseñadores gráficos y profesionales en general a inspirarse con la compulacion de las ultimas tendencias diseño.

Asi que sin mas preambulos, asegurense de dar un vistazo al blog y dejanos un comentario!

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.

In the top right of the page you will also find a beautiful box that holds every link  you will need in order to connect with me online through any of the various social networking sites out there; links like my twitter profile, digg, technorati and of course links that will allow you to subscribe to receive the latest updates in my blog via RSS or via email updates, your choice. So in case you haven’t added me yet, make sure you do it soon.

A new addition to the blog are the networking tools that I have added for my beloved readers like yourself.

You can find this box in the sidebar located at the right side of the blog. TwitterRemote is a fun way to connect with your friends from Twitter and also get to know new people with similar interest as yours.

Another very new option added to the site is Google Friend Connect. This widget allows anyone to join the site with one click by using their existing Google, Yahoo and other accounts, that way you will be able to connect and network with your friends from this blog.

There are a couple things that I’m still keeping from the old design and that is the subscribe via email form:

And last but not least, the translate this page option for anyone who likes to have more options that just english.

I hope you enjoyed this short tour and find it entertaining. Is there any tool or widget that you would like me to add to the blog? Let me know your comments below.

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

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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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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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