Designers Toolbox

I love Designer Toolbox. They have everything from the standard business card size to envelopes sizes, folders, cds and etc.
Great for future references.

Click here for link.

FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 logos Vector

Great vectors for FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010. 8 eps files. I love this collection! link

Football player vectors

This Football Players vector graphic includes dribbling, passing, marking, tackling and shooting. link

Football player vector

This is so cool. I found vectors of football players. Great for the coming FIFA WORLD CUP AFRICA 2010.

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Superb Business Card designs.

Image from gooddesignbaddesign.com

Good Design Bad Design compiled a great collection of superb business cards. Great inspirations! 

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FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 logos Vector

The South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup logos.
Click here for link.

More to come. :)

FIFA World Cup Design Vectors!

FIFA World Cup Africa 2010 is just around the corner. How exiting! Which team are you rooting for?

I found  a great site for some of the previous World Cup logos (FIFA World Cup Korea Japan 02, FIFA World Cup France 98, FIFA World Cup Germany 06) and even some Champion league's logo. 

Click here for link.

More Football / World cup vectors coming up.

Logorama

Watching logos has never been so much fun. :D

Logorama directed by the French animation collective H5, François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy + Ludovic Houplain.  It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and even won the 2010 academy award for best animated short.

BTW, that is one crazy scary clown! :)

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

International Paper Size & Format

Image courtesy of Office 365

Something that every designer should know (or atleast bookmarked somewhere (= )
Check out Papersizes.org.

Best of April Business Cards

Im a big fan of Blog of Francesco Mugnai and even a bigger fan of his best of (insert month) Business Cards.

Check out the best of April 2010 Business Cards design here.

My favorite are the Mozzila and the Pink Lady one. :) Whats yours?

New Mother's Day Card & 23 Floral Vectors

2 more days till Mother's Day. Found another lovely printable card and 23 Floral vectors great for backgrounds.

Ambrosia Girl. link


Lord of Design. link

Mother's Day Printable Cards

Im so happy! Found some lovely printable cards from Babalisme and Living Locurto.
Just download and print em for your dear Mother. :)



Babalisme. link


Living Locurto. link

Is your artwork ready for print?

This is something all designers should know. The final checklist before sending your artwork out for print. Great article from Echo Enduring Blog .

(image from Echo Enduring Blog)

Logo Trend 2010

Once again, the trend is out!
The good people at Logolounge.com released the latest logo trend for this year.

Is it me or the logos are getting really too complicated and decorative? Don't get me wrong, I really do like a few of them (ie dust, peepshow and Festoon) but I wonder if we take away the colours, is it still gonna be as exciting?

Click here for the 2010 logo trend.

Mother's Day Freebies - background

Great backgrounds vectors for Mother's Day. You can use it as a background. Work it into your banner. Make wonderful pattern for cards. The list is endless.

Vintage Floral Design. link



Seamless Flower Patter. link



8 Vector Flower Banner. link

More Mother's Day goodies - fonts

Valentine's Day fonts are perfect for Mother's Day.
Here are some fonts that I think will look great for your Mother's Day design.


Love and Passion. link


Just the Flowers. link


Queen of Hearts. link


Mc Sweetie Hearts. link


All about the Heart. link

Mother's Day Freebies

Since Mother's Day is just around the corner, I thought of starting this blog with some Mother's Day vectors and wallpapers. Have fun! Hope you have a good celebration with your loved ones.

There are a bunch of high quality free wallpaper of Mother's Day that you can download here.
Very Korean type of illustrations. Super girly. So many things you can do with a high quality wallpaper ;)


Ask About Hugo have some cute looking ones. Great for cards or banner or mastheads. Its .ai file btw, go crazy! Download here.

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Hello & welcome

Designer’s First Aid Kit is all about sharing with everyone design resources, inspirations and tutorials that I have. Some are created by me and some I came across while researching for assignments.

My objective is to assemble a kit of everything that we designers cannot live without. I hope this blog will benefit some of you especially students and new designers.

Have fun designing!