The World Cup through the years

With much anticipation since the end of the FIFA World Cup in 2006, the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has been going on for two weeks with the first round of eliminations coming to an end this week. With everyone, including myself, being focused on rooting for their team to move forward, I had a little inspiration to do this article when I saw the ESPN 33 FIFA Murals for each individual team taking part in the games. I decided to look up the official design posters from the past World Cup. Here are all the poster designs for the World Cup since 1930, starting with the most recent, South Africa to the oldest, Uruguay.

Which one is your favorite?

2010 South Africa

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Rock textures for graphic design

Here are some free rock textures i have shot up in Burrough Valley, CA that's been sitting in my camera for a month now. I have been planning on giving away free textures every week, but have been so busy to post them. These are all free for personal design use as well as for commercial design. You do not need to give me credit for it, although I would be curious to see what you have done with it. So please feel free to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it a sample of your design. There are five samples you can click to download, while all of the 11 high resolution rock textures will be downloadable via 31.1 MB zip format.

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High quality commercial-free fonts

Finding the right font for that one design can be tough. A great font does not necessarily have to be those ones that must be purchased. Great typography can come from anywhere. Here is a list of 25 free fonts ranging from Sans Serif, Serif, Web 2.0 to other type of fonts for you to use in your designs. The fonts below were chosen, not only because they are great and free, but they are also license-free which means that you can use them both for your personal use, as well as for commercial purposes. However, licenses and disclaimers are always changing so please do check each font you download.

Now, which one is your favorite font on the list?

 Calluna

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Need a little business card design inspiration?

A business card is great for first impressions and also a fantastic way to grab attention. It is what makes up a connection between you, your business, and your client. Here is a list of 26 great creative business card designs I have compiled from all over the web.

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