Mbah Surip has passed about a view months ago. But his special laugh was stil sounding around the world. Although he was not famous as Micheal Jackson, but he has made all the Indonesian surprised with his death. Actually he was a new comer as Indonesian artist with his booming single "Tak Gendong". Everyone singing this song everytime they sing.
Now, I just want to recall all his dedication on Indonesia's Music with this design. Hopefully, all his hardwork will be in our heart. We All Love You Full Mbah Surip......

Brush is the most important things that the Photoshop's designers should have. Without a brush, they can't add some great effects to their design. So, for that reason, I posted some great brushes collections. This brush sources is come from Smashing Magazine. I've choose the best brush collections from there and share it you. You can download it for free. Then you can use it for all of your projects, including private or commercial use.

1. Light Blurs Photoshop Brushes Free Download

photoshop brush

As designers, fonts play an important role to our designs. Choosing the correct font helps create the design more creative, artistic and unique. They may be “just letters” to some, however, they help create the correct impact that uplifts the effect on the design itself. It is often hard to look for the right font in creating logos and designs. To give you more ideas and options, we give you  A Collection of Free Retro Fonts Style.
The list is composed of 41 amazing fonts that you can choose from. This fonts are intended for retro designs, however, you can still use these for any type of concepts you can think of. Limits are void if you are a designer. Feel free to check out the list we have came up with and download the ones you like best… Have fun!!!

Wonderful World Retro Font

Wonderful World Retro Font

Our previous posts tackled on various icons for designers and bloggers alike. There, icons useful in conveying actions, websites, and applications were showcased. For sure, most of you may have many icons in your collection now. Courtesy of the different articles we have posted and, of course, from the various websites offering Free Icons. Today, we have once again browsed through the web and came up with new and fresh icons for our readers out there who are still looking for high quality icons. Feel free to check out this post of a Free HQ Icon Packs for Bloggers and Web Designers. These are new random icons like bookmarking icons, desktop icons and applications for your future projects. The icons are guaranteed to be cool and unique so missing out this collection may be a loss to you. Have fun and enjoy browsing!!!

Free Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set

grass textured icon set

With the several websites emerging in the net, it is often a struggle to find high quality resources that will make your websites stand out and be completely unique. Although, it pays to create your own designs to cater to this need, it is often impractical to do so because of time and resources constraints. Some designers, then, turns to free resources as offered by numerous websites…
In this next post, we have came up with pretty useful resources that you can use for your designs or websites… This HQ Resources of Free Buttons Design in PSD Files is a compilation of high quality buttons that you may find useful and unique. Also, since the files are in PSD format, you may add a few of your personal touch to make more… Check out these cool buttons and download your best pick…

Free Buttons PSD

Buttons.012 : 5 Black Buttons

black buttons psd

Selecting the best fonts are essential for any image or design. Mostly, they convey important information that are needed for the design. Fonts can either make or destroy the design, so it critical for designers to choose the right font that will correspond to your design. With the numerous fonts we have compiled in our previous post, we have decided to ,yet again, collect valuable fonts if you’re into creating typography designs
Most Wanted Typography Essential Fonts  are collected in this next post just for you. Allow a moment or two to check out the amazing items we have provided here and download the ones that you like..

Best Fonts for Typography Designs

MDRS-FD01

mdrs fd01

Every design made has its own concept and styles. As designers, choosing the type of fonts that will suite on a particular design project is a must to achieve the best result. In continuation of gathering cool free fonts on the web, we came up on another list of fonts that you can download right to your desktop,a list of free brush fonts.
Not to take this long, here is A Collection of Free Brush Fonts that you can use and apply on your next designs. These are the best brush fonts available on the web so far.  Download as many as you like and enjoy the collection.

Free Brush Fonts

Cezanne

cezanne

In our previous posts, we have delivered free brushes and resources ready for usage compiled especially to our readers… As an additional offering to our valued subscribers and readers, we have- yet again- searched the web thoroughly for new and useful resources that can help you create astounding images… May it be creating abstract images or futuristic designs…
Free Download Photoshop Light Effect Brushes is showcased here just for you… These brushes may help you get the right effect that you have been aiming for with your past designs…So, check out our amazing collection and start storing up your desktop with these cool brushes!!!

Free Photoshop Light Effect Brushes

Abstraction

abstract light brush

Present Your Logo Online, How To?

Kamis, 10 Juni 2010 |

How To Present Your Logo Online
 In 4 Important Steps 
When I was exploring the logo design territory a few months ago, trying to get a grasp on how it all worked, I came across many well-written articles on the process of logo designing and what questions to ask before starting out and even what files to include in your final delivery package. But I was hard pressed to find any that explained in depth what your logo presentations should be like. Today, I am going to walk you through my style of presentation.

Christmas Gadgets A Free Icon Set 
Have you dressed up your blogs and websites with Christmas bling yet? If you haven’t, then these icons today will absolutely thrill you and deck your blog halls with holly. IconShock has done it again! A few weeks ago, they immortalized me in icon form and offered a thoroughly customized icon set for designers on my blog. When I suggested that they do a Christmas icon set, but a very tech-oriented, gadget-heavy set, I had no idea they were going to come up with this beauty. Mac/Blackberry lovers will especially love this helping of icons. There are 5 in the set and come in two sizes 256px and 512px. They are free for personal and commercial use. Thanks a whole bunch Iconshock. Check them out, they do really make beautiful icons!


Me Cartoonized!!
I am very excited to announce our very first contest here on the LBOI Design Blog. See that picture of me immortalized forever in all my cartoon glory? Well, that is the handiwork of John Mascarenhas who is also featured in "Artist Spotlight" today. John is an amazing illustrator with a very unique style. And he has very generously offered toCartoonize 5 very lucky readers!! Thanks very much John!! We appreciate it!!


Tweet Pillow A Free Twitter Icon Set
It has been a while since I shared some twitter love on the blog. Today, I have another Twitter Icon Set for download and it is called "Tweet Pillow". There are 2 icons in the the set and each is available in a few sizes. All files are PNG format. This is my third Twitter icon set and I thoroughly enjoyed making this one. As always, this set is free for personal and commercial use, just don’t sell it. Share And Enjoy!

Amazing Wallpapers for Your Deskstop

Jumat, 04 Juni 2010 |

44 Stunning Composition Wallpapers

This week as I sauntered along the path of self-taught designery, I decided to explore some more the wonderful world of Compositions. I have been practicing the art of Composition in design for a few years now, initially starting out on digital piecing of artwork for the celebrity website that relaunches this year. My most recent Composition artwork can be seen on my Twitter Background. Composition basically means planning of a design and arranging it in form or color, a visual piecing together of elemental objects on a background in either two or three dimension for a pleasing, harmonious effect. The beauty of Compositions is that because each designer’s way of thinking is so different from the other and their creativity so unique, it imparts a one of a kind flavor to the final artwork. Compositions can involve any number of design aspects, ranging from typography and simple photographs to complex 3D renderings, lineart, hand-drawn art, de-coupage, vectors and so much more working in tandem or solo. I have put together 44 random but each equally stunning as the other, composition wallpapers for your viewing pleasure.

Character Design like any other design process is best begun with sketching your ideas on paper. Constructing the character’s skeleton and then fleshing it out will open up your options as to how you want the character to be portrayed. One of the basic rules of imaginative, quirky, 3d character design is "Don’t follow norms!". Mostly all creatures have 2 eyes, so try not to stick to routine. How about 1 eye? or no eyes at all? Let your imagination run really wild during the illustration process and your final little cartoon models will not only be unique, they will be much more fun to look at.
There are some great softwares out there for 3d rendering. Some choices amongst many that you would have are Autodesk 3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, Blender and Swift 3D. If you know of any great 3D softwares, please leave a blurb in the comment. Enjoy browsing through these 20 fantastically cute, some weird but all totally awesome and imaginative 3D characters that I came across while browsing the internet today.

Allan Buch's Alien
Alien Dog & Robot from Allan Buch’s Portfolio

 I have 40 more terrific twitter logos in the followup to Perfect Twitter Logos Inspiration Based Competition today. Some of these are being used in applications and on websites. Some of them are up for grabs if you plan to start a twitter based business or blog or website. Some of them are just a terrific designer’s twitter doodle. They are all blue, well mostly all of them and they are good twitter inspiration. It is fun to see the many depictions of the blue bird, with more and more illustrative bird based, cartoon style twitter logos becoming more popular. I wonder what breed the famous blue bird is? Don’t you?

54 Brilliant Wordplay Logos For Inspiration
I love these logos showcased in the post today because they are unbelievably simple [well, most of them] and brilliant in their simplicity. I love words and seeing them used effectively to brand an image gives me a lot of joy. Words are very powerful and with a little imagination once can really produce fantastic logos using just words. Without my usual rambling, I present to you 54 excellent and cool wordplay logos for your inspiration.

20 Amazing Real Photos Without Photoshoped

Kamis, 03 Juni 2010 |


In this post we have showcased some brilliant photographs that look like they’re Photo-shopped but are not. These are not photo-shopped in terms of that all the objects and their actions are real, but might be edited for colors and adjustments in PS or other tools. We hope that you will like this collection, feel free to share your comments.

Surreal but Real



When talking about a green nature or an environmental concept, Wood Texture is the most suitable to used element that will fit on any design projects.  Even on a grunge style will also look good as well. The last day I made a showcase of  200+ High Quality Free Paper Textures. Know here is another huge list of textures which all about Wood.
This Textures are all high quality and FREE. You can download it and use it wherever you want. But make sure to read some of the owner’s conditions first.  Here they are.

Wood Texture Pack

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3 wood texture stocks for you to use.


I recently completed my first full-blown illustration. It took me a good few days to get it right. It is the face of my food website and blog and is called The Sweet Goddess. When I started sketching this gorgeous creature, the hair was much bigger and accomodated an entire orchard of fruits. There were vines of grapes with big, beautiful leaves, strawberries, apples, mangoes, flowers, butterflies and bees in her hair. When I took the sketch to Illustrator, the wonky worm that starts wiggling and makes me meddle and alter stuff, took over. Before I knew it, the goddess had cupcakes, cherries and hearts adorning her mane. Thus was born The Sweet Goddess. She brings a touch of Parisian chic, a little wicked glamor and a cool retro look to my newest brand amidst all the pretty pastels. And what better way to celebrate her then to share her curls and swirls in a wallpaper pack for your desktops. I have five wallpapers, each in 8 resolutions for download today. I hope they bring a delicious sweetness to your MAC & PC screens. Please feel free to tell me what you think of her, I love hearing from you guys.
Each Wallpaper Zip File Contains 8 Files

[2560x1600] [1920x1200] [1680x1050] [1600x1200] [1400x1050] [1280x960] [1280x800] [1024x768]


Sweet Goddess


When designing a fancy logo, we shouldn’t be using a plain font, nor something too grungy. These kind of logos need to maintain their class. The right balance of flair and flourish in typography will render these fancy logos absolutely beautiful. I prepared 20 free fonts which are just right for this purpose. Enjoy!

1. NK38pc-d
NK38pc_D

Movies Without Popcorn Wallpaper
Another little Freebie in a new series I decided to start today FOTD [Freebie Of The Day] on this dull, cloudy Wednesday. This time it is a bright and bold typographic desktop, another ode to the mighty Museo typeface. I was pottering around Photoshop yesterday and this piece just fell together. It has bold reds, popcorn stripes [from a seamless pattern set I am making on the side] and movie titles. It also has a nice scribbly, hand-drawn font effect which seems to be quite the rage lately. The font I have used to that effect is "Clementine Sketch", if you were wondering. On a totally random note, I have somehow managed to get the blog functioning on my own server after tweaking the basic, classic wordpress theme. It is still dicey, but hey, you are reading this, so things can’t be that bad right? Without further ado, enjoy the wallpaper, it is high resolution and available in a cartload of sizes to suit your desktop needs.

Time for some Type Love. That is the theme for a new set of typography wallpapers I have been playing around with for the past couple of days, Type Love. These are fresh and still warm, served up from the layers of Photoshop. Grab them now! And let me know what you think. These are purely experimental, me trying my hand at new techniques and styles, but there’ll be plenty more in this series in the days to come. Spread some Type Love Fellas! Each wallpaper is neatly zipped for convenience and comes in the following sizes

MAC  2560×1600 | 1920×1200 | 1680×1050 | 1280×800

PC 1600×1200 | 1400×1050 | 1280×960 | 1024×768

Type Love Wallpaper 1
Type Love "An Ode To The Pixel" Typography Wallpaper