I like these brushes a lot and they are very helpful for some of my projects. Hope you do the same too.

Download: CS3 version | CS1 version | PNG version

2. Copy the .abr file to your Photoshop/Presets/Brushes folder.

3. In your Photoshop Brushes palette, click on the arrow in the upper right and click on “Load Brushes.”

4. Navigate until you find the file and load it (Photoshop/Presets/Brushes/BB_HiRes_ink.abr )

Note: If you have Photoshop CS2, then it should work with CS1 version. If you have Photoshop version 7 and earlier, then you have to download the PNGs and make the brushes yourself.

There are some other good vectors and brushes for illustrator at bittbox.com too. Make sure to come there and take a look if you like these brushes.

All credits to bittbox.

Afterall, I didn’t follow any trend and made the logo myself ;-), but I think it’s a good thing to share these design ideas with other people. So here they are.

  1. Organic 3D

 3. “Web 2.0″ Logos

  4. Transparency in logo design

5. “Underground” Typography - Minimal Fonts

6. New Rainbow / Color Scale

7. Sci-Fi Fonts

8. Leaves Logos

9. The “Ugly” 80’s

10. The New Crest

Above are 10 logo design trends of 2008. For more information about each trend, you can go to LogoOrange.com to read the rest of the story.

I designed this webblog with two main purposes:

1. To display my online portfolio.

2. To share my ideas with people

My first idea about this website was just a static website with a gallery so that I can post my work here. However, web design is just like fashion, it has styles too, and styles can change through time. Websites with heavy graphics and static contents (it’s actually what I used to create) are no longer a fashion anymore. So, to keep up with other people, I decided to pay more time with a dynamic website.

This website is basically based on Wordpress which is a standard and popular webblog system. It took me a while to familiar myself with Wordpress because I’ve never used it before (poor me!). However, I was glad that I had made a good choice because WordPress appeared to be a flexible and powerful open source system.

So, after 3 days coding with CSS and PHP, Design4F was born. The layout is a simple 2 columns I created based on the default theme of wordpress: manually rewrite the theme’s PHP files and CSS (sounds simple but it’s actually a lot of work there). At this point, I haven’t finish it yet. Some scripts need to be fixed here and there, but I expect everything should run nice and smooth for now. I’m trying to finish it off.

So here we go. This is the very first official post of Design4F.com.