Adam Woodhouse, published some great posts recently. Three posts that count for more than 2000 Photoshop brushes.

On a first post, published on January 16, you can get your hands on 42 sets (more than 2000 brushes). A second post, just four days later, places 22 Web 2.0 style brushes for download. Finally, about a month ago, a third post finishes the series by making available 166 brushes of graffiti style letters with lots of variations.

If you want to know more about Adam’s excellent work get on to his DeviantArt page.

Happy brushing.

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Noupe published an excellent and very long list of 73 great graphic headers. You’ll get a bit of everything on this amazing selection. Yet - thankfully - no 2.0 reflections made the list and each and every one of the choices are examples of “near perfect” illustration technique.

An exceptional source of inspiration.

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If you, like me, are a map lover, then this post is definitely for you. The French, - sorry about that - website that I want to introduce you to, makes available more than two hundred ancient sea charts (used by sailors) and some other, also very interesting, maps.

Though image dimensions don’t allow an amazing adventure through the “world of fantastic printing”, 2048/nnnnpx, is still a very nice size tp start from.

You can find the sea charts here and the other maps I was referring to, right over here.

Happy sailing.

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As usual, someone took the task of gathering, organizing and making available a huge amount of graphical resources for Valentine’s Day. Icons, vectorial images, Photoshop styles and brushes, Wordpress and Blogger themes, Powerpoint templates, screensavers and, why not, wallpapers. All of them with a direct connection with Valentine’s Day.

The effort was developed by Diego Mattei, a great blogger from Argentina that got mad at me because I accused him of having too much time on his hands (just a joke of course).

Keep up with the great work Mattei.

Jonas Buntenbruch took the challenge of creating something new each and every day for the whole year of 2008. On the author own words:

DONE is my personal daily design workout for 2008.
Every day I will flex my design skills by creating one piece in 30 to 60 minutes. The presented works range from scrap and sketches to photos, typographic experiments and random creative masturbation.

Worth the visit… each and every day (Sunday and holidays included).

Dezignus published another great post, this time for a high resolution world map with 10.86MB (7200 x 6296px). You can download it trough RapidShare and/or Deposit Files.

To get an idea of what the map looks like click on the header image for this post.

MyPhotoshopBrushes.com, tough recent, is an exceptional source for Photoshop related resources. The site has already hundreds of brushes, custom shapes, patterns, styles and gradients you can add to your Photoshop.

Have fun.

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* A pictogram (also spelled pictogramme) or pictograph is a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, place or event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing where by ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is a basis of cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphs, which uses drawings also as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes.

The website that I want to introduce you to, is nothing more than an extraordinary source for pictograms. Tough pictogram’s existence (ruled by standards) is considered to as old as a hundred years, pictograms are as ancient as the first writting systems… maybe more!

Pictograms travelled trough time to our days and their importance have even been reinvigorated by the digital era (icons, emoticons, etc.). They’ve evolved mostly on the easy and almost automatic fashion in which they’re absoved by human brain and on they’re universal meaning.

They’re present on our everyday life, they’re of extreme importance on modern societies but we don’t even notice them. Take 5 minutes, pay a visit to Sclera Picto’s e try to understand how difficult our life would be without these simple but expressive images.

On a more relaxed reference, pay a visit to Poptogramas, the Pop Pictograms created by Daniel Motta (2005). Is worth the visit!

Happy images.

* Pictogram, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pictogram&oldid=188802830 (last visited Feb 2, 2008).

Hernan Davos, blogger and web designer from Argentine, published the one that is probably the largest personal compilation on Photoshop brushes. It’s almost 800MB of brushes (.iso file) that you get trough eMule, torrent, or MegaUpload (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).

The author also drops a few lines about how to add the brushes to Photoshop and about a super little-app called ABR Viewer, that you can use to preview brushes (.abr) without placing them on their final destination.

Happy brushing.

There are 70 effects and brushes that you can use to create some of the most terrible and horrible digital art the world as ever seen. They’re bad, they’re ugly but they’re every teenager dream. The list was put together by Photoshop Roadmap and it’s more than worth the visit.

Happy faces!