Welcome to think design! This is a new graphic design blog, aiming to bring you freebies, resources, inspiration and much more. This site was created by me, Nick Pagano, the (only) designer for Think4: Graphics + Marketing. (New Site Portfolio & Site in Progress)
Basically, I have learned a lot since shifting to primarily web work [...]
Hello all. Back with some more textures. This time, these are homemade grunge textures. I made these basically all with the Think Design Grunge Texture Brushes, with the exception of a few which include stock.xchng pictures, and a few containing my own photography. I tried to make them so they would be useable for many [...]
Here’s some more free vectors! This time, I’m bringing you some social bookmarking icons. I have them in color, and black and white, and they retain there ‘coolness’ when resized. There simple, clean icons, which I hope you enjoy! Feel free to use them on your next project. Below are the color versions of the [...]
Inspiration is always a good thing. I love when I see an object, movement, person, or place that gives me an idea for a piece, or inspires a current project. Since I’m on the computer a whole helluva lot, sometimes the useful spots for inspiration aren’t as inspiring as before. Don’t get me wrong, I [...]
So I am intrigued by typography, and have always loved the idea of some day creating my own fonts. Then I was stumblin’ around, and came across The Bit Maker, and was able to do just that! It’s a cool way to make pixel fonts. Pixel fonts are useful for a variation of things, and [...]
As I’ve said, I’m a fan of the grunge style. Also, I’m a fan of textures, and subtle details. So I really enjoyed making these texture brushes. They we’re all made from photos I’ve taken. They are all fairly high-resolution. Alot of them are around 2500px, with some being smaller. The title image for this [...]
The release of our first free Wordpress theme, SketchyTheme, was just the first of many. I plan on releasing several themes, a couple here in the near future. One of which, is Versatility Lite. This theme will be a 2 column, goody-rich, ad ready Wordpress Theme. Although they are free themes, I am aiming for [...]
There are tons of "Best Resources for (fill in topic)" articles out there, so I don’t expect this to be incredibly ground breaking. However I think it’s important to have a solid list of resources. I’m going to start with CSS. I attempted to make this list quality. I wanted CSS resources for all levels [...]
Sketchy Theme is a 2 Column, widgetized, adsense ready Wordpress theme. The theme comes with integrated Social Bookmarking icons, a customized footer, drop down CSS menu, integrated related posts, and comes equipped with room for adsense, and traditional advertisements.
Sketchy Theme is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
To install:
Upload the “SketchyTheme” folder to [...]
Last time I was in Italy, I promised myself I was going to take LOTS of pictures. Well, I did! While I took your normal touristy pictures, I also focused a lot on textures and details I found around me. So here is the first of several, Italy Texture Packs. This one includes 15 textures [...]
