HOLIDAY SALE: 300 Premium High Resolution Textures for $15

HOLIDAY SALE: 300 Premium High Resolution Textures for $15

As many of you know, I sell several collections of premium high resolution textures in my online shop which I’ve been selling for around $25 USD. Today, I’m dropping that price from $25 to just $15 from now until…

Create a Burberry Style Plaid Part II: Applying a Twill Pattern

Create a Burberry Style Plaid Part II: Applying a Twill Pattern

Last month I discussed how to Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps. Creating a basic plaid in Illustrator is fun and easy but some of you may have noticed (especially those of you who…

Meet Steven Snell, the Man Behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and Traffikd

Meet Steven Snell, the Man Behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and Traffikd

This week I had the opportunity to interview Steven Snell, the man behind Vandelay Design, DesignM.ag and Traffikd. I visit all three of his blogs fairly regularly and find them all to be excellent resources for design-related and social…

63 Extraordinary Companies that Support the Design Community

63 Extraordinary Companies that Support the Design Community

As bloggers and designers, we’re used to getting a lot of things for free.  Free content is an excellent way to bring new visitors to your website and many visitors these days expect to see free content.  Personally,…

Best of Colorburned – November 2008

Best of Colorburned – November 2008

November was by far the biggest month this website has seen in terms of popularity and traffic.  I’ve been humbled and excited by the support that I have received from my readers and friends in the design community…

55 Seamless Line & Crosshatch Swatches

55 Seamless Line & Crosshatch Swatches

The first graphic design software I ever learned was Macromedia Fireworks. For those of you familiar with the software you may be aware of the many tileable vertical, horizontal, diagonal and crosshatch patterns that ship with the software.…

25 Seamless Polka Dot Pattern Swatches

25 Seamless Polka Dot Pattern Swatches

This week I have another cool set of vector freebies for you. Lately, I have been doing a lot of experimentation with seamless patterns. I have found that pattern design is both fun and challenging so this week…

Meet Sean Hodge, Editor of PSDTUTS & VECTORTUTS

Meet Sean Hodge, Editor of PSDTUTS & VECTORTUTS

This week I had the opportunity to interview Sean Hodge, Editor of PSDTUTS and VECTORTUTS; two of my favorite websites.  I have a great deal of respect for Sean and I was very excited when he agreed to the…

Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps

Create a Burberry Style Plaid with Illustrator in 4 Steps

Since I posted my set of 50 Plaid Pattern Illustrator Swatches I’ve had quite a few requests for a tutorial on how I created them.  The cool thing about plaid patterns is that they are very easy to create;…

Meet Abduzeedo Founder Fabio Sasso

Meet Abduzeedo Founder Fabio Sasso

This week I had the opportunity to interview Fabio Sasso from Abduzeedo.  He is always cranking out amazing tutorials and inspirational posts on his blog and I have wanted to interview him for some time.  I initially discovered…

50 Krazy Kaleidoscope Doodad Vectors

50 Krazy Kaleidoscope Doodad Vectors

If you’ve looked at my gallery, you may have noticed my fascination with kaleidoscopes. I think they’re amazing to look at and I’ve been experimenting for some time in Illustrator trying to come up with the best way…

81 Amazing Argyle Illustrator Brushes

81 Amazing Argyle Illustrator Brushes

When I released my set of 50 Astonishing Illustrator Swatches last week I was really happy with how they turned out and really excited about the response that I received but as I was doing some shopping last weekend,…

127 RSS Feeds That All Designers Should Subscribe To

127 RSS Feeds That All Designers Should Subscribe To

I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds; so many in fact, that I could spend hours browsing through my feed reader.  I love feeds because they put all my favorite sites into one place.  Below is a…

Render an Anime Influenced Fashion Sketch

Render an Anime Influenced Fashion Sketch

I found this really great set of fashion sketching demonstrations by Kathryn Hagen, a fashion illustration instructor at Otis College.  Ms. Hagen is a master at mixing media to achieve life-like and beautiful results.  Her tools include copic…

Best of Colorburned – October 2008

Best of Colorburned – October 2008

Well, it’s been another exciting month here on Colorburned. In terms of traffic, October 2008 was the best month ever receiving over 35,000 visits and 85,000 page views. The site has come a long way in the last…

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