Using these subtle textures is a great way to create grunge backgrounds for your websites, vintage logos and type treatment or provide a useful backdrop to your design mock-ups if you are looking to upload them to Dribbble or Behance. For the best tutorials, Follow netglos @twitter and netglos.com 15 Free Subtle Brush Set Hi-Res Subtle Grunge Vector Textures Dirtbag #3 50 Subtle Grunge Brushes Vector Brushes: Free High Res Fabric Texture Brush Set Scratchy [...]

If you are a designer or artist who rely on your creative work to provide for a living for your family, then you might not settle for just one source of income. Many of us who is a full time employee of a design firm or a large corporation at some point have tried or at least thought of working for freelance, either quitting your daily job and go full time or continue working by day and [...]

As creative people, there are those days that our brain seems dead. No ideas coming in, run out of creative fuel while thinking of the deadliest deadlines of projects on going. Commonly known as creative block, many are faced with this kind of situation either caused by personal problems, mental block, emotional barrier, communication breakdown, etc. All people in the creative industry is experiencing it. A writer, designer, painter, sculptor or even an art director is once [...]

Conceptual photography is an art of getting your ‘concept’ across the mind of the viewer using just the contents of a photograph. It is a genre of photography where a photographer puts various things in the scenery so that his idea or concept becomes clear to perceive. Most of the times,computers are used for blending various objects into a photograph, but many photographers just use what is available to them. Some photographers just make sure that everything they [...]

It takes two easy steps to install WordPress but you may tweaking some of the default settings to further optimize the performance and also improve the security of your WordPress website. How to Optimize your WordPress Installation These suggestions are only applicable to self-hosted WordPress.org sites and not blogs that are hosted on WordPress.com. Also, I assume that you are running WordPress on Apache. Let’s get started: 1. Change the default media upload folder The [...]

Florida-based artist Princess Tarinan von Anhalt creates abstract works of art by hurling cans and bottles of paint into the air and letting the strong winds produced by a jet engine splatter it onto a canvas. It’s probably the most expensive paintbrush ever used, but clients will often pay as much as $50,000 just to watch her work. Jet Art, characterized by using a jet engine’s air currents to create abstract shapes on a canvas, was invented in 1982, by Prince [...]

When properly applied, the negative space effect can result in a clever and elegant logo. Negative space is the empty space between the main elements of a design and good designers know how to take advantage of this to create something that is memorable and captures the imagination. So, today we gathered some inspiring examples of negative space in logos to show you.

Are you thinking of designing your next home? Like most of the other homeowners, you will also have a vision about your new home. In order to execute your vision smoothly, you need to follow a step-by-step policy. Here is a guide on that. Take a look.   • Before you finalise anything, consult an architect. Architects in Perth are quite famous. If you happen to live there, you can check out the services of [...]

My special Christmas post might be a little late this year, but what better time to post a fun Christmas themed tutorial than on Christmas Eve? Follow this step by step Illustrator tutorial to create a repeating vector pattern. We’ll use Illustrator’s Blob brush to create simple vector doodles then place them together to create a repeating pattern, much like Christmas wrapping paper. If you’re seeing this after the holidays, don’t worry, the same technique [...]

Besides all the magical moments it is a great opportunity for companies to wish everybody a Merry Christmas or relate those magical moments to their brand. Creative Criminals whishes all of you a Merry Christmas!1. Publicis Singapore 2. Tide 3. Pepsi 4. Heineken 5. Mazda 6.Wonderbra 7. Unkown 8. Pedigree 9. Veet 10. Amnesty International 11. Childhope asia Philippines 12. Volkswagen 13. Volkswagen 14. Adidas 15. Levis 16. Jeep 17. Nespresso 18. Mercedes 19. British [...]