Each week, we’ll be collecting and sharing a selection of new products and shop owners coming onto Creative Market, interesting activity that’s happening in our community, and various design and technology links from around the web.
Here’s our recap for the week of March 3rd through 9th, 2014.
Activity from Our Community
Explore a variety of news, product process, community initiatives, peer education and more from members of the Creative Market Community.
DesignSprint
Vincent Le Moign (webalys) launched a web page that shares 14 tips for faster, smarter digital design in Illustrator. The educational content is very insightful; Vincent offers designers a small toolkit of short-cuts to make building web page designs that much easier in vector.
RetroInk Poster
Dustin Lee (Retro Supply Co.) designed a beautiful typographic, grid-based poster mock-up using his RetroInk product available on Creative Market. He posted it to Dribbble, and said that he’s exploring getting it printed because he liked the way this example poster turned out.
UX Kit Sample Usage
Eric Miller (UX Kits) shared a nice example (via Twitter) of how Philip Meissner was using hia vector wire-framing products for a project. Sharing how customers are using design resources is a great way for shop owners validate their work, and add energy to the personal brand of your Creative Market shop.
UP Themes + Bitcoin
Up Themes announced on their blog that they are now accepting Bitcoins as a new method of payment for their themes on their personal site through a service called BitPay. This is the first instance that we’ve seen where digital design resources are embracing the new controversial internet currency.
Looking for more community activity? Head over to Discussions to start a new conversation with other Creative Market members or join in existing threads.
New & Noteworthy Shop Owners
Help us welcome a few new and noteworthy Shop Owners who’ve joined Creative Market.
Nuno Dias
Nuno is a designer from Portugal. He has a passion for type design and ornamental illustration with letter-forms. Follow him on Twitter and explore his fun work on Dribbble and Behance. Follow his Creative Market shop, nunodias.
Julia Baranova (juliabrnv)
Julia is a new designer who specializes in illustration work. Dig into her work through her Behance profile, and check out the small selection of prints she has available on Society6. Follow her Creative Market shop, juliabrnv.
Sztuchlak Gergő (EightOneSix)
Sztuchlak is a designer who enjoys custom illustration and identity design projects. Sztuchlak has some great work to browse through on Dribbble and his personal site. Make sure to follow Sztuchlak on Twitter, and follow his Creative Market shop, EightOneSix.
Jeremy Richie (GrizzlyShark)
Hailing from Kentucky, Jeremy is a designer isn’t afraid to experiment and is well-versed in bridging physical art with digital execution. He has produced a variety of identity, apparel and music design work. Peruse his portfolio and check out his Dribbble. Follow Jeremy on Twitter, and keep an eye on his Creative Market shop, GrizzlyShark.
Fresh Goods from Last Week
Each week, we see tons of new design resources being added to the marketplace. Here’s a selection of our favorites from last week.
Monster and Character Creation Kit by Zeppelin_Graphics
This fun and flexible kit lets customers build an endless variety of colorful minions in Illustrator.
Grit It or Quit It Vol. 1 + 2 by Texture Club
Distressing your design work is a breeze with these high-res organic textures, which Justin created to use in music apparel and merchandise over the years.
MGH Vinolian by maghrib
Produced as both a clean and rough version, this fresh display font has intricate details and a bespoke, crafted vibe.
Chalkbox – Illustrator Styles by Sivioco
A great value, this AI resource not only contains 14 chalk styles to apply to your vector type and artwork, but also includes a mix of other complimentary resources to round out all of your chalk-look Illustrator needs.
Art Nouveau Backgrounds and Frames by Wing’s Art Studio
If you’re looking for a historic-specific visual system, then this Art Nouveau resource set could help you build out a stylish identity or printsystem.
Minotte Extras Pro Pak by Park Street Studio
A type product that compliments their Minotte Pro font, this resource offers some nice layering techniques to make the original display font go the distance for your projects.
Design Links from Around the Web
Check out what’s being shipped and talked about in the design, start-up, creativity and tech industries.
Appear.in
A new video conferencing platform (h/t Sarah).
Narrative Clip
A new kind of photographic memory, the Narrative Clip is a tiny, automatic camera and app that gives you a searchable and shareable photographic memory of the events of your life over time.
Typecast
Design for the reader by putting type first. With Typecast, users can select fonts and render a live type specimen html test sheet for web projects.
WebFlow
Create beautiful, responsive websites without code. Webflow is the top drag-and-drop website builder for designing custom, professional websites without code.
IconPocket
IconPocket may be the next generation icon service for web designers. Sign-up to be notified of when it ships.
Grid Style Sheets
A tool that reimagines CSS layout & replaces the browser’s layout engine with one that harnesses the Cassowary Constraint Solver – the same algorithm Apple uses to compute native layout.
Intel’s Make It
Intel is hosting a wearable technology competition, and is currently accepting submissions.
Iconic
Iconic is an advanced icon platform based on semantic SVGs with flexible dynamics such as multi-color, css-based styling of individual icon elements, adjustable scale, and rotation controls.
Download these worksheets and start practicing with simple instructions and tracing exercises.
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Making beautiful design simple & accessible to all.
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