Nerdiest of the Net - March 09 Published by: DesignNerd!   Filed under: Graphic Design Resources Round-Ups Tutorials

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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FF Bau: The perfect Helvetica alternative…well almost Published by: DesignNerd!   Filed under: Graphic Design

 

As much as I like Helvetica, there are a few little things about it that annoy me and stop it from being “The Perfect Sans Serif Font”. Firstly I don’t like the lowercase “g”. I really like G’s that are double storey with all the beautiful curves. Helvetica just has those really boring looking G’s (I don’t know what that type of g is called). Also in Helvetica I really like the little tail on the lowercase “a” but I always feel disappointed when the tail disappears as soon as you use Helvetica Bold. While these 2 things are very minor and any “normal” person would think I was crazy for even noticing them, they just bother me. I have however found a beautiful typeface which fixes both of these problems.

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Create Beautiful Glowing Bubbles On Your Designs Published by: DesignNerd!   Filed under: Graphic Design Photoshop Tutorials

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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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DesignNerd’s Logo has been Helvetica-rized! Published by: DesignNerd!   Filed under: Contests DesignNerd Fonts Typography

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Ok so don’t worry, my logo hasn’t permanently been transformed into Helvetica. It is my entry into the “Transform Your Logo Into Helvetica” Contest being held by the wonderful Graham from ImJustCreative. When I read about this contest I thought it sounded so much fun that I just had to enter! Basically all you have to do is transform your company’s current logo into the historic font Helvetica! Easy and lots of fun!

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Nerdiest of the Net - February 09 Published by: DesignNerd!   Filed under: DesignNerd Inspiration Resources Round-Ups Tutorials

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Welcome to the first of a new series of posts here at DesignNerd. “Nerdiest of the Net” is DN’s version of the “Best of the Web” type posts. Here you will see roundups of the most amazing articles including photoshop tutorials, Illustrator tutorials, Coding tutorials such as CSS, HTML, PHP, Javascript and Jquery, everything Wordpress and many more interesting articles!

So lets get started on DN’s very first “Nerdiest of the Net”!

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