Submit Your Designs to be Featured in My Next Book
If you visit this blog often or follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me mention the book that I am working on. For the last several months I have been putting together a design resource and…
Interview with Jeff Suter, Senior Art Director for Marvel Comics
This week I had the opportunity to interview Jeff Suter (AKA @suterman), the Senior Art Director for Marvel Comics. I’ve always been a huge fan of comic books, specifically comics from the Marvel Universe. Who doesn’t love Spiderman…
Win a Free Camera Bag From F-Stop!
Yep, it’s time for another exciting give away on Colorburned! This time the guys at @fstopgear agreed to let me give away a free camera bag to one of my lucky readers. If you’re not familiar with F-Stop, they…
Make a Pit Stop at F-Stop
The more involved I become in design, the more gear that I seem to accumulate. It seems like every time I go on a business trip, I bring more and more gear with me. For instance, on a…
53 Incredible High Resolution Photoshop Paint Brushes
I love Photoshop brushes, they are very effective tools to help add texture, rough up, or distress your designs. I’ve been looking for a nice set of high resolution Photoshop brushes to help achieve this effect for quite…
Designious Japanese Art Vector Pack Released
Alex from Designious emailed me over the weekend and asked me to let you guys know about the new Japanese Art Vector Pack that they just released. In addition, you can also download some free samples of their packs as well.
…
The Best and Worst Sites to Help Build a Loyal Following for Your Blog
What would you rather have on your website? An enormous amount of traffic or a loyal following of readers? This is a question that a lot of websites deal with on a daily basis. In reality, most of…
Best of the Web – February 2009
February was another fantastic month in the design community. Tons of excellent articles, tutorials and resources were published on a growing number of design websites. February in particular was one of the busiest months I’ve had in a…
Interview with Alex Dumitru from Designious
This week, I had the opportunity to interview Alex Dumitru from Designious. If you are not already familiar with Designious, they are a design studio that specializes in premium stock vector designs. The quality of their work is…
10 Incredible Seamless Destroyed Vectors
One of the best things about vectors graphics is their scalability. If you’ve ever worked with vectors, you know that you can scale them as large or as small as you like. This is the biggest advantage that…
Go Media Releases Vector Set 14: Gives 10% Discount to Colorburned Readers!
Today I received an email from my friends at Go Media. They just released Vector Set 14 today and wanted me to help spread the word. Vector Set 14 includes:
- Ornate Patterns
- Hand Drawn Wings
- Superheroes
- Fight
- Textile Patterns
- Sketchbook
For a limited time my readers…
Filter Forge Announces Free Plugins & HUGE Discounts on Software
Yesterday I received an email from Filter Forge that they have released a new free Photoshop plug-in; Filter Forge Freepack 4 – Distortions. It is available here.
In addition you can also receive a 20% discount for the Windows version…
85 Illustrator Paint Brushes
This set of 85 Illustrator paint brushes is a remake of some brushes that I previously released on this site. Since releasing these brushes, I’ve received quite a few emails from people who have had some difficulty opening…
Interview with Caleb Kimbrough from Lost and Taken
This week I had the opportunity to interview Caleb Kimbrough from Lost and Taken. If you aren’t familiar with Lost and Taken, you should really check it out. Lost and Taken is a blog dedicated towards free high resolution…
Proofing Your Designs Made Easy With Proof HQ
As a designer I am often presented with the same question. How do I send proofs to my clients? In the past, I have always relied on email; email works most of the time but if you’re like…
