Check out this collection of 40 of the best icon design tutorials from across the web, each covering the process of designing a highly detailed icon graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop.

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“56 Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme”
Light and clean website designs that are simple but very elegant.

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In this web design tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a professional web design with an illustrated “vector” header in Photoshop. You’ll see many techniques here including how to draw using the Pen Tool and a excellent type treatment using layer styles.

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Starter kits are great time savers for web designers; if you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets. These icons and graphics in a single file are particularly useful for designers who often create mock-ups for project pitching.

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Watercolor effects are very popular in web and graphic design right now. Achieving an impressive look can be much easier if you have the right brushes to create the watercolor effect. In this post we’ll feature the best brush sets of this kind.

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Whether you are designing a clean corporate website or a grunge portfolio site, color is going to play a major role in how the design is perceived by the audience. That’s why it’s important to get the colors right upfront. There are plenty of tools out there made especially for this, but like anything else some are better than others. Here are 10 color tools that I think are exceptionally useful.

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A list of 30 Best Photoshop Abstract Effect Tutorials of All Time. These are selected from our Photoshop users and readers.

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The link below will take you to a beautiful collection of floral typography. There are also some outstanding tutorials that will help you to master the technique or at least get some understanding of how this technique can be used.

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When I was sitting at my desk as a middle manager, my boss came by with a printout of this speech.

In my opinion that this speech should be prescribed alongside medications and therapists as a cure for depression.

If you know someone who can use this, here is the link to the .PDF file that I was given almost five years ago.

“Stay hungry, stay foolish. I wish that for all of you.”

There is an abundance of free brushes online, but the vastness of the interwebs makes it hard to find exactly what you’re looking for. This article attempts to bring together all the best places for Photoshop brushes, all in one nifty spot.

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