Dingbat Fonts are usually seen as a set of totally useless symbols and pictures and are rarely used by Graphic Designers. I mean seriously what on earth can we do with a bunch of usually low quality boring pictures?

Well today I am going to bring new light on Dingbat Fonts and showcase a series of free and commercial Dingbats that are surprisingly useful and high quality.

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Welcome back to the second in the series of DesignNerd’s iPhone Quick Tips. In the release of the iPhone OS 2.0 the ability to save images directly from Safari and Mail was made. This niftly little trick is what we are going to learn today.

I actually came across this function by accident just by playing around with my iPhone. Since finding it I find myself constantly using it. Here’s how it’s done:

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IPhone Quick Tips is a new series on DesignNerd Blog where every now and then I will show simple little tricks of things you can do with your beloved iPhone. Yes I say beloved because all iPhone owners don’t just like their iPhone…they LOVE it. I know that I for one have a very strong relationship with mine!

Anyways let’s get started with the first of this series: How To Take a ScreenShot With Your iPhone!

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Well March has been another fantastic month of design articles! It’s gone so quick but there were many many posts to choose from and was a very difficult decision to only pick a selection. (I could have easily chosen them all!)

Anyways below you will find links to great tutorials, freebies, articles and much more!
ENJOY!

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I’ve always wanted to know how to create beautiful realistic bubbles that look like they are glowing. So I opened up Photoshop and decided to do some experimenting. After some playing around I realised that with only a few simple steps it was possible to create very realistic bubbles with a beautiful surrounding glow! This tutorial will show you how its done!

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