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Creativeprose: Wacky Web Site of the Week Archive

Because we all need a little weirdness in our lives.

This Dress Code Will Inspire You

Whatever your personal style, watch this video about the design agency Dress Code and be inspired by the founders' positive, wide-open take on what's possible for today's creatives.

Free For All: Stock Photos, Social Media Profiles, and Calendar Templates

It’s 2012, the year the world is supposed to end. Let’s mark the occasion with fiery explosions, templates for Twitter and Facebook profiles, and - for the more optimistic among you - calendar templates.

Free For All: Give Yourself These Gifts

Ring in the New Year with this jolly collection of goodwill to creative freebies, including photo mosaic software, fonts, stock photos, print-your-own graph paper, and inspiring 2012 desktop and tablet wallpapers.

2011 Holiday Gift Guide

Flummoxed by what to buy for the creative professional on your gift list? Perhaps one of the items in the 2011 CreativePro.com Holiday Gift Guide will do the trick.

Best of the Blogs: November 4, 2011

This circumnavigation of the blogosphere includes posts about fonts (best, worst, and missing), color correction (Photoshop curves and/or levels), paper (handmade and mill run), printers (desktop and press), color calibration (monitor and printer), and an impressive if controversial demo of photo-deblurring technology. Plus, job hunting tips and product how-tos.

Free For All: Design and Photography Freebies

Here's how to get 10 InDesign table styles, 12 sans serif fonts, 13 letterpress Photoshop layer styles, and 3 color reference infographics. And none of them will cost you a thing!

Best of the Blogs: September 21, 2011

Lately, there have been a lot of provocative questions in design and photography blogs: Are there rules for creativity? Can designers embrace fear? What's the difference between looking at and seeing typography? But there's less cerebral stuff, too, like upgrading your camera, understanding image compositing, observing the day of a graphic designer, and filling your layouts with hipster lingo. I bring you all of that content and more in this installment of Best of the Blogs.

Best of the Blogs: August 15, 2011

It's an excellent round-up this time, with Photoshop tips, typography tricks, publishing news, and much more. And read to the end to find out why you'll soon be speccing shades of orange as Apu, Garfield, or Tigger.

Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011

Amuse and inform yourself with tidbits from design, graphics, and photography blogs culled from the past few weeks. Find out about Bodoni love, InDesign crashes, Illustrator annoyances, Photoshop freakouts, and how to make Polaroid film and illustrated manuscripts (but not at the same time).

Free For All: Won't Cost You a Penny

The amazing Internet once again yields a crop of freebies so good that you'd pay for them--but you don't have to! These free resources help you to make your own fonts, snag stock photos, watermark images, track your to-do's, and annotate Web pages.

Best of the Blogs: July 7, 2011

Mega-retailer Target meets tiny Hamilton Wood Type; Acrobat Pro X users get testy; photographers are called idiots; Photoshop warps girls' minds; and the Web is doomed. Read these and many other interesting tidbits culled from the past few weeks of design, graphics, and photography blog posts.

Best of the Blogs: June 23, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in the blogosphere over the last few weeks: an homage to the golden age of script lettering, photography tutorials, solutions for prying open ancient Word files, Web typography tips, and strategies for self-marketing. Plus Oprah!

Free For All: The American Southwest

This month, all the free resources are inspired by the Southwest. You can choose from 120 stock photos and textures; 124 color palettes and patterns; 55 Photoshop actions, and 81 Photoshop brushes.

Best of the Blogs, June 6, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past few weeks: an investigation of Adobe Myriad; a rallying cry for FreeHand; ideas for busting design and illustration roadblocks; a new social networking site for creatives; and much more.

Understand the Psychology of Design

When you realize how people interpret the world visually, you can apply that knowledge to your work. The result: more successful designs.

Free For All: The American Northwest

This month, everything is inspired by the Pacific Northwest. I've found 120 free stock photos and textures; 63 free color palettes; 20 free patterns; 25 free Photoshop actions; and 41 free Photoshop brushes.

Best of the Blogs: May 19, 2011

Here's what you may have missed in design and photography blogs during the past couple of weeks: a new "pay-what-you-want" font source; a compilation of LinkedIn groups for publishers; an expert discussion about resume design; a Photoshop technique to fake tilt-shift photography; and much more.

Best of the Blogs: May 5, 2011

In case recent events have distracted you from reading design or photo blogs, I've rounded up the best bits from the past few weeks. The items include clever text tricks in InDesign, handy retouching tips in Photoshop, attention-grabbing resumes for creatives, and 892 ways to slice up a grid.

Turning a Print Magazine into an iPad App in Three Weeks

Using InDesign and Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite, this three-person team accomplished the seemingly impossible: they converted a print magazine into a brand-new iPad app in just three weeks.