Type Treatments, Typography and Illustration

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 14, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 1 Comment

We love seeing great typography work done by other artists, it inspires us to a whole new level. That said this next collection of Type Treatments, and Illustrations will definitely inspire you to create something new for yourself. The artist that has created this is Stefan Chinof a artist from

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

Author: Franco Averta \ February 8, 2010 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Welcome to my first guest post here at Creativeoverflow. Today we are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this

Inspiration: Experimental Typography

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ January 24, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 6 Comments

As designers we love to experiment in different dimensions and typography is definitely one of the favorite areas.Alex Varanese Portfolio a Artist from San Francisco in the US has done a exceptional job in experimenting with different shapes and lighting positions to come up with a awesome collection of type

Is Freelancing the Life for You

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ December 3, 2009 \ Articles \ 18 Comments

Freelancing, what is it really all about? Why is it that so many people push towards freelancing than the normal stationed employed job. Is their something remarkable about freelancing or something that we have missed? Being a freelancer myself I know about all the ups and downs of freelancing full

20 Portfolio Designs To Blow You Away

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 26, 2009 \ Collections \ 21 Comments

Portfolios are definitely one of those things that every designer/freelancer should have. Its the number 1 thing on “every designers to do list if they don’t have one yet” too. If your on the brink of redesigning your portfolio or if your just sifting around for inspiration this article is

Interview With Illustrator Cristiano Siqueira aka Crisvector

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 12, 2009 \ Interviews \ 1 Comment

Well known for his professional illustrations and creative works, Cristiano Siqueira aka Crisvector sat down with Creativeoverflow to answer a few questions that we had for him. Cristiano hails all the way from Brazil and has been Illustrating Full-Time as a Freelancer since 2005. This interview is a must read

13 Valuable Tips To Overflow Your Blog With Traffic

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 11, 2009 \ Articles \ 29 Comments

There is one word in the blogging industry that nobody gets tired of and that is “Traffic.” One of the main reasons a lot of blogs come to a early end is because they don’t receive enough traffic. Who’s fault is it that they don’t receive enough interaction though? “Yes,

Depthcore Releases New Chapter: Freestyle IV

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 7, 2009 \ Announcements \ 1 Comment

Depthcore is a showcase collective founded by Justin Maller in 2002. Depthcore showcases some of the finest and most talented designers in the world.They do not only fill you with inspiration and Ideas, they make things that seem impossible come true.Depthcore has inspired me ever since I picked up Photoshop

Win a Premium WordPress Theme by Obox-Design

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 5, 2009 \ Announcements \ 18 Comments

The time has come to have our first Giveaway on Creativeoverflow. Obox-Design has agreed to give one lucky viewer a Premium WordPress Theme and in this case it will be Arcade. Every blog has to have some form of uniqueness added to its potential viewing style and whats better than

Design an Intense Particle Illustration using Photoshop

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ November 3, 2009 \ Tutorials \ 4 Comments

In this tutorial, I thought I would show you a simple process of manipulating a image with lighting effects and incorporating brushes too. This tutorial will bid you a step by step guide on how to achieve the illustrated outcome. 4