Illustration and typography are not typically associated with each other, they each evoke a strong and separate visual statement in relation to there own style. Can this type (as a figure of speech) of illustration be regarded as illustration? Or, on the flip side, can the art of typography, mixed in with illustration be regarded as typography? If you are an illustrator or a typographer you will probably each have your own opinion. For us, its a match made in heaven. The combination of the two design styles creates something unique, it demonstrates that art has no boundaries, and ultimately will create something beautiful. In todays post we are showcasing 35 beautiful illustrations of typography, or, if you like, typographical illustrations.

I'm not saying that there are only 20 cool pirate illustrations out there, but during my research at DeviantART, I realized how much people are bizarre. If you look for the word "pirate", you'll find all sorts of crazy, crazy stuff. In summary, people got a fetish for pirates. Bizarre, really... and these were the ones that were "postable". Anyways, I hope you guys like these! Cheers! ;)

This following article is dedicated to car lovers, forumites who use car photos as signatures, web designers or anyone who fascinates nice rides. We search the Internet and here we put forward some of the best Photoshop tutorials with techniques on how to mod a car. Full list after jump.

In this article, we attempt to showcase you 28 High Resolution Wood Textures designers can take full advantage of. Unable to create realistic wood texture from scratch in Photoshop is no longer an obstacle.

I really enjoy natural, floral brushes – something that always comes handy while creating some new web designs, posters or everything else related. In the list you will find different Photoshop brushes for every taste - really inspiriting too! I have a bunch of different brushes downloaded on my computer, but I wanted to see the best of them just in the one place.

Few days from now on, we really got inspired with great artworks. Today it will be little different – I wanted to create one of the biggest RSS Feed icon collections hopefully. I looked over huge amount of resources and hand picked most amazing icons I found. RSS icons are one of the most known sign – every blogger tries to get more traffic and subscribers – no matter what You write about, everybody needs some traffic to make some money.

Anthony Giacomino is an extremely talented designer who has already designed art for big names such as Allen Iverson, Randy Moss, and other big name athletes. He is only 20 and is attending school. Anthony currently freelances and in our interview we talk about the pro’s and con’s of exactly that. We also discuss his design style and how he creates some of his stunning artwork. So lets get into another great interview with this talented artist.

This is another interesting interview with a talented artist. Jaime Jasso is a veteran matte painter who has worked on some popular projects that we’ve all either seen or played first hand. To name a few, he has worked on games such as “Halo Wars” and “Prototype.” This master matte painter gives the readers some advice, as well as some insight on why he chose this artistic route. Let’s get to know this master matte painter.

Nice brush always comes handy in Your workflow and if You have ready brushes to choose from, it’s even better. So for now I created a huge list of corner and border brushes to use them in Your designs, posters or graphics. Each brush actually is for one corner, so just flip them in Your brush properties ( F5 to bring up brush options panel). There are more than 400+ brushes out here, so I think You have a little list now to choose from!

Huh, I know there are maybe even too many articles about places, where to search for photos and images, but those articles were usually very old, many sites do not work anymore and that kind of stuff. So my goal was to create ultimate collection with the best places where to search for and get nice quality images. I think every site of this list is worth checking out, although in most cases with sxc.hu site alone is enough.