Image by jorge zapico via Flickr Business cards are still away of life. We still need them as a reminder to who we are and where we have been. Go to any conference or trade show and you will find this out very quickly. Do you have a card? People want to connect and network, but we have not figured out how to do that without the business...

Today I am going to show you how to place text on a path … above and below a circle. I have been a long time user of CorelDraw … well since Corel 4. I really liked Corel 11 the best … mainly because of one thing. They had a tiny button that allowed you to switch the text from above to below the line … in the correct read. 1. Start with getting...

From getting started in Illustrator … explaining the tools and toolbox …. to understand live trace … to getting a straight answer on pathfinder …. this collection of tutorials is priceless. from this article. Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics application, is the tool you use when you need flexible, scalable vector graphics...

Here is a great article and video from the wacky folks at trendhunter.com … these business cards will definitely will not find themselves in the trash or some rolodex or your top drawer. Very innovative … but I would not expect you to be able to get them for $29.95 for 5,000 cards. Take a gander and then let me know which is your fav. The color...

Ok, this is out there, eh? It’s an iPod docking station and speaker made out of a 130 lb. hollowed out tree trunk. Amazing. I wonder if the Keebler elves hang out in there. Probably have a little lounge in there with cool art on the walls and microwaves instead of the old word burning stoves they used to make the cookies in. It could happen. Just...

Here are some of the coolest old factory or urban city scenes in a vector format. It is offered by keepdesigning.com. I think there is also a layered psd file included to give you some kind of idea of how to use it. You could definitely use this for a poster background. Here is the download link. Via: youthgrouptshirts AKPC_IDS += "65,";Popularity:...

Here is a great freebie. The download is a little tricky … but it is worth the hunt … it’s 30 skylines!!! You would think that the download button would be the first link you would come to called “download” … wrong. Use the next one marked download. Here is the link. Via: youthgrouptshirts AKPC_IDS += "64,";Popularity:...

Wow … I knew things were slow for me … but, I had no idea that the big boys were feeling the pinch as well. from this article. NEW YORK — American Apparel, the Made-in-Los-Angeles hipster casual company that built a global following and a fortune on the back of T-shirts and its founder’s antics, has seen its financial health tank. The...

Here is a cool looking tropical, grungy background that would make a great poster or flyer background … or for that matter a banner background. It is in an eps format. It is a free sample from vectorious.net … honestly I have never seen any of their stuff and it looks great. You should go and check out their site. The download is available...

I get posts from folks every once in a while asking where I get some of the funny things I post. Here are a few that I have collected from various sites and books. Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day. He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed. Always laugh...