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Archive for August, 2008

Vector Banners Pack Out Now!

Banners Vector Pack

Banners Vector Pack 2

Vectordiary is releasing 2 new packs of vector banners for your projects. It comes in different colors and designs perfect to use for your commercial projects. Enjoy a discounted rate of only $5 when you buy the banners vector pack now! See more vector packs here.

Top 10 Masters of Gradient Mesh

Gradient Mesh Tool in Illustrator allows artist to to create photorealism drawings. Below are some examples of the top notch artist showing their works online. All of the illustrations below are made using Illustrator. No photoshop!

Takashi Morisak (Japan)


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Changing Domain Name to Vectordiary.com

Due to the infringes of using ‘IStock’ that poses some rights with iStockphoto, I will be changing my domain name from iStockdiary.com to vectordiary.com. Remember to bookmark the new domain name and subscribe to my new feed at http://www.vectordiary.com/feed Thanks!

Win $500 for Flashmint Blog Design

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Flashmint.com which sells Flash Templates is holding a Contest for Flashmint Blog Design. Designers can win $500 for the best theme design and Bloggers get up to $300 for driving the largest audience to the website.

So, here is what they need - a custom WordPress theme for their FlashMint Blog.

It should come with the following features:

  • 3 columns;
  • fixed width (optimized to 1024×768 resolution) and widget support;
  • coded;
  • the colors and style of the theme should correspond to Flashmint design!

Even if you didn’t emerge as the winner, your design also gets the chance to be showcased at Flashmint blog along with the links to your websites.

Submission starts now and ends on 1st September, so hurry now and submit your design.

The second part of the contest is of great interest for the bloggers. Bring the largest number of visitors to their website from August, 1st till September, 1st! The prizes are $300, $200 and $100 respectively for the top 3 bloggers who drawn the largest viewers. Simply write a blogpost about the contest and link back to Flashmint website or add the code fragment under your latest post. For details, visit Flashmint blog.

Kids Party Vector Pack Launched!

Kids Party Vector Pack

I have just launched my first vector pack. Enjoy great illustrations of kids party when you download the vector pack. It comes with 15 amazing party illustrations in EPS 8.0 format and is fully editable with Illustrator. You can use it to print invitation cards, cover designs or use it as a design element for your projects. Buy now and use the discount code below to get additional 10% discount!

Discount code: 9WK3QP (Valid till 31 August 2008)

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