Archive for November, 2009

Flickr Find: Bad Menus

We’ve all seen them and we have the graphic designers curse to silently critique them. Yes, bad restaurant menu design is alive and well and I found a Flickr Group devoted to sharing some of them with the world. If you have a spare minute to browse this group, I assure you, it will make you feel better about that design you “weren’t quite happy with but had to go with it because of a deadline.”

Flickr Find: Bad Menus

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Vector Pack Winners!

Well, yet another good contest went down, and the winners have been chosen. Thanks to the folks at Designious for their generosity, and for making the contest possible. Here are the winners…

Giga Pack winners:

  • afterman
  • Mike Lee
  • CaseyJon611
  • Pamela
  • Dina

6 Month Vectorious.net subscription winners:

  • Igor
  • Vicky Wilson
  • RC
  • JimHere
  • adamXYL
  • Jonne
  • Freyja
  • Heidi
  • Tim
  • barth

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Free Texture Tuesday: Noir Grunge

I wanted to try out some more experimental grunge textures this week and this is what I came up with, a nice set of dark and grungy textures. Each textures is actually 4-5 different textures combined in different layers in Photoshop to get the end result. I tried to give each texture it’s own “feeling”, if that makes any sense. Hopefully you guys get some good use out of them, enjoy!

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Free Texture Tuesday: Noir Grunge
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