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A Decorative Radial Seamless Vector Pattern

timothyblake — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:11 +0000

A simple radial decorative pattern which is a great freebie worth downloading. The pattern can be used in commercial design projects. Hope you enjoy the pattern and would really some feedback.

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A Simple Yet Beautiful Abstract Vector Pattern

timothyblake — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:33 +0000

This is a a simple great abstract pattern which was a pleasure to create. I created a few of these types of simple pattern so watch this space for further patterns. If you enjoyed your more than welcome leave a comment or just feedback.

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Insight Into The Supporters Behind Our Design Blog – April

timothyblake — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:59:48 +0000

I thought it would be a good idea to take out some time to thank our sponsors for helping support Design Chair throughout April, their support is immensely appreciated.

Over at Design Chair we currently charge only $10 per ad which last 30 days. $10 for an ad is not a large sum it’s just so we can still be capable of pumping out the best and freshest design tutorials and resources, without worry of finding money to support our over head costs such as paying for hosting etc. We are always welcoming new sponsors who may be interested within advertising their website, services or even sponsors who just want to help support the site.

Here’s an insight into the company’s which are currently supporting design chair.

Heart Internet

With many features other web hosts charge for free at Heart Internet, our unlimited hosting and powerful dedicated server hosting are the logical choice for webmasters of all sizes. Our market leading reseller account has been designed with web designers and developers in mind, offering a completely white label and customizable reseller hosting environment.
Heart Internet customers have a real impact on our business and products with over 1,000 customer ideas and suggestions implemented to date. Using the feedback form within their control panel hundreds of suggestions are sent every week and we read every single one of them.

Vector Pack

Vectorpack.net, a small design studio providing high-quality stock vectors and design elements. Our young and passionate designers are very glad to present you their hard work that stands behind these very detailed and professional looking vectors. Our intention is to always maintain a very high quality standard so as to make our vector art the best solution for all your design needs.

Wait

Wait.co.uk is a brand new, content writing service based in the UK. We offer content writing services for UK web site owners, developers and site designers who simply haven’t got the time to write their own content. This then gives web site owners and designers more time to dedicate their efforts to making money from their projects.

Would you like to become one of sponsors? Here’s how.

Check out Buy Sell Ads Page and you check out our current ad zones which we have available to purchase, and can have your ad live on Design Chair within a few minutes.

An Amazing Halftone Photoshop Brush Set

timothyblake — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:20 +0000

This is high resolution free Photoshop brush set available to be used within commercial and non commercial design projects. The halftone brush set is a popular technique which is used widely in poster designs. We would love for you to share your thoughts on the brush set and where you plan to use it.

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The Best Design Tutorials Of March 2011

timothyblake — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:39 +0000

The month of March marks the return of our monthly wrap up on Design Chair.The monthly wrap is tutorials which have been added to the Site through out March, this month wrap is a great way to kick start our monthly tradition with some truly amazing Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials.

Making a Fantastic Superhero Movie Teaser Poster

In this tutorial It will give you an example of how to create a movie teaser poster. It will show you how to draw a mask for your character using the pen tool , blend modes and textures.

Create an Ice Cream Type Treatment in Photoshop

In this tutorial It will give you an example of how to create a movie teaser poster. It will show you how to draw a mask for your character using the pen tool , blend modes and textures.

Meteorite Impact Photoshop Photo Manipulation tutorial

Welcome to another Photoshop tutorial. In this tutorial It will show you how to create a building hit by a meteorite. I tried to simplify it so that less advanced users can follow it. It will show you how to create a realistic smoke trail and a meteorite using only Photoshop filters and custom brushes.

Create a Lost Fantasy World with Powerful Photo Manipulation Techniques

Today you will take a break from the ordinary stuff and go into a fantasy world. Learn how to build up your own micro society using many different pictures and some cool photo manipulation techniques.

Create an Abstract Starfield Photoshop Background

In this ‘Quick Tip’ tutorial the author uses Photoshop CS5. Here you will learn how to utilize different shapes, brushes and blending modes to create an awesome space scene.

How to Create Fireworks Using Adobe Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to create vector fireworks using the Pixelate Effect and complex Art Brushes. Now we can decorate a night landscape or a greeting card with bright fireworks.

Illustrator Tutorial: Create an Abstract Vector Lava

Learn how to create this super cool abstract lava illustration in Adobe Illustrator. You will learn how to use transparency options to create the overlap color effect. A simple tutorial to achieve trendy lava splashes in Illustrator.

Quick Tip: Create a Shiny Shield with Illustrator

In this Quick Tip, you’ll learn how to harness the Appearance panel to make the basic structure of a shiny, beveled shield. Once the structure is in place, a few well-placed gradients are all it takes to achieve a sharp, polished look.

How To Create A Beautiful Windmill Illustration Using Illustrator

Windmills have been around for centuries and although their construction evolved through time the idea remains the same. Let this tutorial be a tribute to those old fashioned windmills that are hardly met these days.

How to Create Typography Poster Enigma Using Photoshop

Create a Painterly Landscape with the Blob Brush Tool

Illustrator’s Blob Brush is an intuitive and versatile tool. When used with a graphics tablet, you can create loose, painterly images that venture far from the sharp, clean lines usually associated with vector graphics.

Do You Enjoy Awesome Design Tutorials ? Join Us On Facebook

timothyblake — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:52 +0000

Communicating and sharing high quality design resources with our readers over at Design Chair is high in our list of priorities. We thought it would only be right to create a second home for Design Chair readers where we can share even more design tutorials, articles and great freebies.

Join us on facebook and become part of Design Chair facebook community. So why not press little gray button below. :

Top 10 Best Free Bokeh Texture Sets For Commercial Use

timothyblake — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:06 +0000

This is a compilation of the top ten best bokeh textures which are available to download from the internet, for free if charge as well as being used in commercial design projects and non commercial design projects.

Note: The textures are not ascending in order of which ones are the best.

1. Bokeh Dreamscene

2. Bokeh Texture High Res

3. Bokeh Pack 5

4. texture 54

5. Red Bokeh Texture

6. Bokeh Life Texture Pack

7.Bokeh Life Texture Pack

8. Five Colourful Bokeh Textures

9. Bokeh Texture Pack 003

10. bokeh texture

Clever And Creative Variations Of The Twitter Logo

timothyblake — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:55 +0000

A small collection of some unique logo designs which are variation of the twitter logo design, its very interesting to see how people interpreted twitter logo designs in their own way. I hope you enjoy the post and feel free to leave a comment we would love to find out which your favourite logo design

Which is your favourite logo design ? feel free to leave a comment.

Introducing Design Blog Design Chair and New Redesign

timothyblake — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:53 +0000

Design Chair has been running for a through months now and its only right that we match good content with a good design, therefore we have decide to give Design Chair A make over by applying some tweaks here and there to our old design to make a more fresh appealing design for our users.

If this is your first time coming across Design Chair it’s the perfect website for designers offering daily Photoshop and illustrator tutorials also high quality design resources such as brushes and vectors.

Old Redesign

This is just a short refresh to remind you of what Design Chair use to look like before we undertook a redesign of the site.

The New Design Chair

This is what the new Design Chair currently looks like.

1. Logo

The logo on the first Design Chair was floating about 300px below the top corner, we decided to place the logo on the top left corner therefore so it’s the first image which the user will see once they visit Design Chair and try to make the logo instantly recognisable to user by applying a glow to it to make it stand out a bit more.

2. Changed 3d flags

We use to have 3d flags which where a range of different colours for each 3D flag dependent upon what category it was it would be a different colour. We now decide to keep all the colours for headers displaying categories the same colour and instead we use small icons to represent what specific category is i.e. if category is Photoshop a small Photoshop icon.

3. Background image

The background was a dark black before which after I felt didn’t quite work with the colour combination. We experimented with various types of different colours when looking for our new background and decide to go with this blue grey colour then applied some Photoshop filters to the background to make it look less generic and a bit more unique.

4. Post previews background image

Post previews background image was a bit poorly designed last time but the new preview image is a big improvement minimalistic simple look with a drop shadow under the preview image.

Looking for Design Chair sponsors

Our main focus on Design Chair isn’t to make huge amounts of money but we have a few advertising spots at cheap rates just in order to cover hosting costs which would be great to help support Design Chair to help it grow bigger and better. The advertisement spots can be brought directly from buy and sell ads.

A Showcase Of One Of The World’s Greatest Illustrators

timothyblake — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:00:54 +0000

A showcase of Zuttos work an illustrator designer who is currently based in Russia who creates some amazing illustrator designs and is a freelance designer.

What i like most about zuttos worked is that he has a very keen eye for detailed with each design he creates being pixel perfect. After you take a look through his work you will understand why people may consider him as one of the world’s greatest illustrators with his design being simply breath. This is a great source for inspiration for any designer pursuing a career within design.

Where else you can check out more of zuttos work ?

Behance:http://www.behance.net/orange_zutto

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/orange_zutto/

Personal Portfolio: http://zuttoworld.com/

What design is your favourite? What do you think of Zuttos work?

I would to leave to hear your thoughts within a comment below, that would be awsome.

Design Chair Blog » design

A Decorative Radial Seamless Vector Pattern

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A Simple Yet Beautiful Abstract Vector Pattern

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Insight Into The Supporters Behind Our Design Blog – April

An Amazing Halftone Photoshop Brush Set

License Details

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The Best Design Tutorials Of March 2011

Do You Enjoy Awesome Design Tutorials ? Join Us On Facebook

Top 10 Best Free Bokeh Texture Sets For Commercial Use

Note: The textures are not ascending in order of which ones are the best.

1. Bokeh Dreamscene

3. Bokeh Pack 5

Clever And Creative Variations Of The Twitter Logo

Which is your favourite logo design ? feel free to leave a comment.

Introducing Design Blog Design Chair and New Redesign

Old Redesign

The New Design Chair

1. Logo

2. Changed 3d flags

3. Background image

4. Post previews background image

Looking for Design Chair sponsors

A Showcase Of One Of The World’s Greatest Illustrators

Where else you can check out more of zuttos work ?

What design is your favourite? What do you think of Zuttos work?

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