15 Water Splash Brushes for Adobe Illustrator

Here we have a set of ten scatter and five art water splash brushes for Adobe Illustrator from r2010. You can use them for decorating your artwork or designing abstract background elements...

To use expand the ZIP archive, load the .AI file in Adobe Illustrator and open the brushes palette (Window>Brushes / F5). Download

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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The Logo Design Process. Layers Magazine Tutorial

In this tutorial Jacob Cass takes us through the different stages of the logo design process: researching, composing a design brief, sketching, reflecting, developing, color brainstorming and presentation...

"Logo design in today’s world is totally underrated. People don’t understand how important a good logo is and how valuable it is to their business. Let me guide you through the basics of what makes a good logo, while also walking you through the process of creating the identity and logo design for one of my recent clients, Vero, a limited liability company based in Miami, Florida. Hopefully, this will give you an understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes while creating a professionally designed logo..." Proceed to tutorial page

Vector Art

Free Vector Wings and Wing Designs

Download free vector wings and collection of designs created with vector wings and other design elements in this week's update on Vectorportal.com. When you have a good choice of wings in all formats and shapes and vast selection of design elements (vector grunge, vector skulls, vector bursts etc) you can create all kind of abstract vector images perfect for T-shirts, ads, web design...If that's not enough, get one of Clipartandfonts.com clipart collections and you will have no limits.

Download free vector wings 1

Download free vector wings 2

MishMasher.com Goes Live!

Mishmasher.com - Personalized E-card Online Creation Tool is new free tool for creation of e-cards. You can insert your picture in any of pre-made templates and add one of dozen backgrounds to create funny, cool, serious looking e-cards. The site is pretty straight-forward and once you open home page you just need to click on Create and start playing with one of many free templates.You can upload your personal photos from your computer, webcam, Flickr, Facebook account or from a website. Saving and sharing e-cards is as easy as just about everything else on this site.

When the creator of Mishmasher.com, Leo Cave, contacted Vectorportal and showed us a demo for the first time, we decided to fully support his project with a set of free vectors of his choice. You can find our free vectors under Personalize menu. There are several other design sites that contributed to his project. You can find them all in About Us section of Mishmasher.com.

Vectorportal Free Vectors Update 12/20/09

This week's update of Vectorportal brings cool John Lennon vector with lyrics of his famous song Happy Xmas. We also uploaded several tribal vectors and five calendars for 2010 submitted by Stock Graphic Designs. Snowflakes Vector Set makes it easy to create your own Illustrator brushes and symbols and then spray them all over artboard to create cool Christmas backgrounds. That's how this Christmas background was created.

Update: 12/13/09: New Free Vectors For Christmas

Another free vector image of Santa Claus and nice collection of design elements for holiday season by Graphic River are new additions to our growing collection of free vectors. We also added several new vector cliparts and updated Flags section with wavy vector flags of USA and UK.

Vectorportal Update 12/07/09: Little Bit Of Everything

In our latest update, we uploaded several fine vectors from our friends at Designs Done Right and VectorOpenStock. Check out Free Dotted Background and Big Booty Vectors to see what we are talking about. We also uploaded another Free Santa Claus Vector.

Combine this vector and Santa Claus Vector from our previous update with our Christmas Vector Background and you can create some stunning designs for the upcoming holidays.

Christmas Vector Backgrounds For Your Greeting Cards

In latest update on Vectorportal.com we uploaded few Christmas vector backgrounds that you can use to create greeting cards or wrapping paper for example.We will upload more Christmas vectors in the coming weeks.

 

 

Bono Vox and Lenny Kravitz Vector Portraits

Vectorportal proudly presents free vector portraits of rock stars Bono Vox and Lenny Kravitz. They are created in Adobe Illustrator by Vectorportal's one and only Igor Sunjic, fantastic illustrator and graphic design artist. Igor has been responsible for a variety of free vectors that recently have been published in our Stock Vectors section, all free for the benefit of international graphic design community. As it always is the case with our vectors, they are free for commercial use. All we ask is a link to Vectorportal, simple piece of attribution to our free site. Considering these premium vectors, you have to admit, it is not too much to ask for.

Download Bono Vox Free Vector Portrait Here (.ai file)

Download Lenny Krawitz Vector Portrait Here (.ai file)

Vectorportal Designs In The Wild

Banca Intesa's Ad Campaign

Banca Intesa is one of top 10 largest European banks with huge international presence. Their Serbian branch just started "Festival of Saving" marketing campaign which included TV and web flash ads. To create video for their campaign, designers used this vector design from Vectorportal.com. Flash video also featured these vintage 3D stars from our site. It is also possible that one of our vector sunbursts were used, but we do not have any proof of that.

Companies as big as Banca Intesa most often use either local or international ad agencies for their marketing campaigns. All we can say is that they did a very good job, creating effective advertisment with design elements flying in and out, finally creating original Vectorportal design linked above.

Take a look at their flash video here.


 Screenshot of Banca Intesa's Ad Campaign (Thanks to Milos for this tip)

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Fox Syracuse Uses Vectorportal's Vectors To Design TV Ads

Fox Syracuse is a local TV station in the US, part of Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. In the footer of their web site you can see attribution given to Vectorportal. All I can say is - way to go guys. It's a small thing to do for such a company, but fair thing to do to Vectorportal. 

Hernan Prado Uses Vectorportal's Designs To Illustrate Book For Kids

Vectorportal.com was one of dozen vector sites that contributed free vectors to Hernan Prado's book Tadeo Buenas Noches (Good Nights Tadeo). Take a look at this site to find out more (In Spanish only).

Vectorportal Contributes Free Vectors To Scribus

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.In last few months Vectorportal has contributed with several template designs that will most likely be included with new versions of this software.


If you stumble upon Vectorportal's free images used for commercials, ads, covers and other designs, please let us know via email. We will use them as reference and showcase only.

Free Eco Organic Label Icons Vector Pack

A set of 11 organic vector symbols from Marielle P.K. . You can use them for eco-friendly product box design, logo - brainstorming or decorating a design composition of yours.



The artwork is saved in EPS file format, you can use any vector compatible editor to modify or customize it. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Download



To use, decompress the *.rar file with WinRar or StuffIt (Mac Os)

Vector Art

Free Vectors: Abstract Vector Backgrounds

Vectorportal.com presents set of 4 free vector abstract backgrounds, taken from our latest update of Vectorportal. All are created in Letter size and can be used as backgrounds for magazine ads, websites, video and Power Point presentations and everything else your creative mind can think of. Feel free to modify these backgrounds to adapt them to your ideas.

All are free for commercial use. Link is always welcome but is not a must if your project dooes not give attribution on a final product.

Download more free vectors on Vectorportal.com

Download Free Abstract Vector Backgrounds (AI CS and higher file, 3 MB)

How To Skew A Dot Pattern with Adobe Illustrator

Here we have a great video tutorial for Adobe Illustrator explaining how to use the Free Transform, Shear, Skew and Reflect tools to create vector logo types and icons in perspective

Important shortcuts to remember:
*Mac OS
Cmd + Opt + Shift + Drag with the Free Transform Tool = Shear
Cmd + Shif + Drag with Free Transform Tool = Skew

*Windows
Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Drag with the Free Transform Tool = Shear
Ctrl + Shif + Drag with Free Transform Tool = Skew

More about using the "Free Transform Tool" here.

Vector Art

10 HQ Geometric Pop Art Vector Graphics

A free vector set from Angie Bowen. Inside this pack you will find ten free abstract vectors that may help you achieve Pop Art style look in your design composition...



The artwork is saved in EPS file format, you can use any vector compatible editor to modify or customize it.



Free for personal and commercial use. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Download

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Working with Spot Colors in Adobe Illustrator

An eye-opening material on issues with spot colors while using royalty free vectors from iStockphoto. "Picture this: You need an image for a project, and the deadline is looming. You download a cool illustration from iStock, place it in your layout and send it off to the printer. An hour later, the printer phones you back.



“Excellent,” you think, “my print job is done!” But nooo, the printer is calling to let you know that your file contains 15 spot colors, and if you really want 15 different plates made and run through the press, it’s going to cost you at least ten times more and take a whole week to finish. There goes your budget and your deadline.



Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!? Spot colors? How did those get there? And what are they, anyway?" Continue to full article.

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15 Random Design Elements Free Vector Art Pack

Here we have a free vector pack that you can use for your design projects or inspiration. Inside you will find 15 random design elements some of which you might use as logo templates...



The set is saved in AI (Adobe Illustrator), EPS, PDF and SVG file formats, you can use any vector compatible editor to modify or customize it.



Free for personal and commercial use. If you post this vector art pack on your site, please make sure to include a link to www.vector-art.blogspot.com Download

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