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Textures are essential elements and play a big role for designers.Whether you are a web or graphic designer free textures can be a great option for your artworks.Adding a texture to your design can totally change the look and make it more realistic so sometimes texture is a must for a design. Last year we have showcased free metal textures for designers and this time we have collected free wire textures.Wires,especially barbed wires are widely…

There is no limit for inspiration and when it comes to webdesign this is much more unlimited. As usual we continue to showcase beautiful and interesting web design that we came across during the week.Hope you like this week’s collection.

Shields are great design concepts and you can use them for many different artworks but they are specially very popular in vintage style designs. You can use them as an antique armory,badge,vintage emblem or heraldic illustrations and create unique designs. In today’s posts we have rounded up free shield vectors to download for free.The below free vectors are in EPS,AI and other vector formats and you can easily open and make a modification. You may…

Here on Designbeep,we love to showcase inspirational logo designs every week and today here is another great logo collection.This time we have gathered logos designed using cherry.Fruit logos are widely used in food and bakery industry and especially very popular for cake,sweet,dating etc websites. and drink companies. Here is the collection of 30 cherry inspired logo designs. You may also take a look at our past logo inspirations; 45 Clever Logos With Creative Use Of…

If you are designing apps for iPhone,iPad or iPod touch you have to follow Apple’s Custom Icon and Image Creation Guidelines.Apple has some strict requirements for application designs especially for custom icons.You can read the complete guidelines on Apple’s IOS Developer Library. Well,what about the tab bar,navigation bar and toolbar icons?Apple also has some rules for these icons. – Use pure white with appropriate alpha transparency. – Do not include a drop shadow. – Use…

We continue to showcase weekly free fonts for our loyal readers.This week’s free font collection is old school fonts.Old school fonts are mostly used in sports,college,university website designs.Old School fonts are more readable rather than other font styles and white space between letters is enough and this makes the text clean,neat and organized. Most of the below fonts are free both for personal and commercial use however please check license aggrements because official font owners…

HTML5, CSS3 and responsive design are new features that you can take advantage of to give your blog an edge for the future. Unfortunately, most WordPress theme providers haven’t caught up with the times yet, and only a few are offering high quality responsive themes. But there are a few companies out there that do, and MyThemeShop is one of them. We have a coupon code and a review of our experience with theme here.…

Successfully marketing and selling a home necessarily entails making that home beautiful and then photographing it to death in order to show off each and every compelling aspect of the design; given the huge role that photography plays in real estate, getting things just right can be a bit trickier than you may think,which is why you see most builders following the latest design trends. Check out these five Flickr groups for interior design and…

Every Photoshop user deal with photoshop brush tool and it is one of the most helpful and key element of this popular software.Photoshop brush tool has a great potential and advantages because you can find thousands of free photoshop brushes for almost every kind to save your time.You know,time is very important for designers.We,designers create the concept first in our minds and then construct it using softwares but sometimes it is really hard to create…

Self-discipline and freelancer are synonymous. Well, kind of. Making the commitment to earning a living outside of the traditional employer-employee mold means that you have to be ready to snap up work opportunities right away and slap your own wrist when off task. Freelancing is all about peaks and valleys, and you must have a game plan for handling the busy times or times when you would rather be lollygagging. That’s where technology can come…