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Adobe Illustrator can be a little tricky to get your head around, particularly after getting used to the workflow of such applications as Photoshop. In this post we present a collection of excellent Adobe Illustrator tutorials for beginners and advanced designers. Click through to see the list.

Today we have some fresh new textures for you to improve your designs with. Textures are always interesting because of how deeply yet subtly they can transform a design. A good texture isn’t too busy or distracting, but adds an element that you can’t achieve with flat color. Play around with these textures and see what they can do for you.

The term “grunge” within graphic design is often mistaken to mean dirty; however, a grunge look is simply one that is achieved by including natural elements into your design. For instance, you may create typography from vine images or your background could be a photo of cement. Some websites even use every day items, such as paper towels, to create backgrounds and texture within the design. Incorporating grunge into your website can be obvious with lots of dirt and grime or subtle with only a fabric background. So, whatever level of grunge you intend to take your website, one of the following backgrounds may be exactly what you need to help you achieve the perfect amount of grunge in your project.

Today we have a cool treat for everyone. We’ve taken the theme you see here at Web Design Fan and packaged it up for the Web Design Fan Club. Now you too can enjoy our beautiful design, as well as build your own variations of it.

In the package comes the full Wordpress theme as well as 2 PSDs: the home page and a post page. Also included is documentation to help you through the process of installation and modification.

Planning a website for a client can sometimes be a frustrating exercise. You must be able to take your vision and translate it into something that everyone can understand and interact with. Last week we discussed having a sketch/idea book to perform tasks like this with, but sometimes it just isn’t enough. You need something more interactive, more professional, and less messy.

Luckily, there are dozens of fantastic mockup tools available on the web to help you do just that. Below we will outline 5 of the top choices.

Introducing the ultimate flag icons set with 2700+ different icons. Within this collection, you will definitely be able to find your favourite country flag in desired format or size. Collected icons are very various, starting from glossy, wavy, rounded and finishing with minimalistic style icons. I hope you will find this collection useful for your desktop, app or web design project.

In this article you will find inspirational showcase of beautiful and very colorful websites with bokeh effect. Also you’ll be able to learn different bokeh effect techniques by checking listed useful and detailed tutorials. For the conclusion you will find a lot of great bokeh resources.

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and seems my timing is just right publishing this selection of beautiful free Valentine fonts. You can’t go wrong with using these when designing personal Valentines for your friends. In this collection you’ll find 25 beautiful free Valentine fonts for your works.

Daily DesignTweets is a series of daily design and development related tweets useful for every active designer. Today’s tweets will share useful A lot of Cheat Sheets, Illustrations and a bit of freebies and inspiration.

Daily DesignTweets is a series of daily design and development related tweets useful for every active designer. Today’s tweets will share useful WordPress tips, jQuery Plugins and a bit of freebies and inspiration.