Inspiration

Crestock sent five stock images to Peter Nowacki (aka. Velendil) and challenged him to Photoshop it into something weird or wonderful. Check out the end result, complete with an illustrated tutorial of how it was created.

In this post, we're taking a look at the cover designs of 42 album cover designs from reggae and related genres. See how Scientist rid the World of the evil curse of the Vampires, say hello to Uglyman, and learn why the colours red, gold and green are so central in reggae and Rastafari culture.

Designing a website is so much more than just making it look pretty. The bigger the site, the more complex the task grows, and it compasses so many disciplines you'll need a team of specialists for the really big projects. Even if you're working on a small business website, there are still a number of areas to cover – here are some of the best articles from 2008 to help you on your way.

Affiliate marketing can be a very, very lucrative business - especially when you join great programs and know how to promote the services. I personally know several people that makes six figure incomes a year by doing just that.

Well into 2009, Lars, Josh and Gudmund have finally finished arguing over compiling their list of favorite blog posts, galleries and news pieces picked among the stuff they came across during the last year, and now that the dust has settled, here are the best 50 that remained standing:

In the following tutorial David Oei and Carolyn Sullivan show us how they created their entry for the first round of the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008 - a poster inspired by the Russian Constructivist movement

In this Photoshop Tutorial, Sito Alvina gives an extremely detailed walkthrough of how he created and combined all the elements required to create his winning entry in the final round of the Crestock Photoshop Contest 2008.

As we speak, many of you are in the final frenzied days of preparations for Christmas, Chanuka or whichever other holiday you may or may not be celebrating, and we'd like to round off an eventful year with a seasonal greetings to all of you!

We asked some of the best designers from our annual Photoshop contest to put together an illustrated Photoshop tutorial of how they created their entries. First up is Barry Downard with his Round 1 entry - a bright red hippie tank in a field of flowers.

A subjective and eclectic round-up of inspiring stuff.