Stunning Free Character Pack: Free Illustrations for any use

Download this set of free Vector Characters - ideal for your designs

This set of free characters is ideal for adding a little personality into your designs. With a variety of actions and poses to chose from you can easily adapt them into your designs anywhere you feel needs it.  

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Free Theme: Color Paper Wordpress Theme now on Smashing Magazine

Our latest work, a free wordpress theme for you from us & DreamTemplate

A while ago we had the pleasure of working with DreamTemple for a Wordpress Theme which they’ve given away for free on Smashing Magazine. That means you can get this beautiful and unique theme for free, from the king of freebies Smashing Magazine.  

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Themes: Open Air, A magazine and A Personal Blog Theme

We should have wrote this post earlier, but its still an amazing theme

Another collaboration between ourselves and WooThemes, the result: this stunning theme with optional layouts. We’ve realized, that while a lot of people no doubt love magazine style themes - there are still a lot of people who would like the option of having something a little more personal. So here you have it!

As always with WooThemes there is a range of colours to chose from, and a really easy to manage back end, which means whichever layout you chose - it’s always easy enough to manage.  

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Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress

Use Custom Write options to easily add any unique data to your post

Everyone knows that WordPress is one of the most, if not the most, popular blogging systems on the internet today. With its out of the box features, plugins, and great theming community, its no wonder WordPress has been accepted as today’s standard. However, sometimes you just want to add a little more.  

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Themes: Hallmark a Joomla theme now on ThemeForest

Joomla: only better with the new Hallmark theme from function

Demo & Info

That’s right, we’ve worked on a Joomla Theme. Although we love Wordpress we realize it’s not everybodies’ first choice of CMS. So we felt it was only fair to make something just as pretty as our Wordpress themes for the Joomla people.

The result, Hallmark, a premium Joomla theme ideal for running news/magazine sites - or your own personal blog. We’ve even included a custom styled comments system, something which is optional but really is pretty and can help add that extra bit of interactivity to your website.  

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50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks

A run down of a collection of my favourite redesigns in recent years

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. Here’s a look at some of my favourite re-designs in no particular order.

01. AT&T Inc.

This is an ideal example of how a subtle upgrade can make a huge difference.

02. BP Garage

A completely different direction and modern feel. A huge improvement!

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Brazen; A versatile WordPress theme for the veteran-blogger as well as any beginner.

A sleek, ready to use WordPress theme created with you in mind.

Demo & Info

First off, I’d just like to introduce myself. My name is Spencer, and I am the lead developer here at Function. I’m the guy that takes Liam’s awesome designs, and turns them into working sites.

Liam had this design laying around, and I knew I couldn’t let it go to waste. So, I’ve spent the last week or so, coding and perfecting this theme. The theme is great right out of the box, ready to be used by anyone or very easily customized.  

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Themes: Evo a fresh Magazine theme available on Theme Forrest with $25 Giveaway

announcing our new theme with $25 Theme Forest credit to be won

Demo & Info

To celebrate the launch of Theme Forest and our new theme Evo, we’re giving away 5 sets of $25 credit to be used on any theme on the site. Find out more at the end of the post.

The theme is ideal for either being used straight out of the box, or brilliant for being customized. It wouldn’t be hard to stamp your own personality onto this clean and sleek magazine theme.  We’re very happy to have the theme available among so many brilliant themes on Theme Forest. Check it out and let us know what you think, for your chance to win $25 Credit.  

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Why I love the Design Community: My Guest Post

I run down 8 top points that make the design community a great place

Ahh yes, the Design Community. I love it! This is the topic of a recent guest post I wrote over at MyInkBlog. Below is an extract from the article, but you can read the full the article here. Please leave your feedback and comments on the actual post rather than here.  

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Contest: Win a Copy of the brand new Papercut Theme

Win a copy of the theme in a cool contest over at Fuel Your Creativity

Just a short post, more of an announcement to let you all know of a great interview & contest over at Fuel Your Creativity. The post discovers a little more about what goes on behind closed doors at WooThemes, and also gives away 3 copies of the New Theme, be sure to read the rules regarding how to enter, and the contest is only running until Wednesday the 27th August 2008.

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33 New Design Blogs with Great Content & Resources

A fresh batch of design related blogs & websites to get following

Everyone loves finding new sites with great content, so I’ve made it a little easier. Here is a collection of new websites and blogs with quality content. I’ve chosen these blogs based on the quality of their posts & resources and not the design. At the bottom there is all of the RSS feeds, so you can keep yourself updated with all of the sites featured.

1. Design Shard

From what I can see, this site only went live on July 25th, and it’s already had some popular content. I suggest you check out the 300+ Free Hi-Res Grunge Textures, as it’s my favourite at the moment.

2. My Ink Blog

A very well organized and well focused blog with some brilliant tutorials, links, resources and articles. So far there has been a lot of great posts, and I don’t see any signs of this changing. I was really impressed with the tutorial on Designing with Swirls & Flourishes, really top notch tutorial.  

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Themes: Papercut A Grungy News Theme for WooThemes

See Our latest Grunge Wordpress theme for Themes Giant WooThemes

We were recently contacted by Adii of WooThemes for an exciting new project. Adii and his team, including Magnus Jepson, Mark Forrester and Elliot Jay Stocks, who have recently launched their new site, wanted to bring some grunge to their themes, so got in touch with us and gave us a great project to get our teeth into.  

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32 Examples of Websites with a Brave colour Scheme

Inspire yourself, and maybe become a little braver with your colours

One key element in the design of any website is colour. Here are some great inspirational websites which show that colour can be used in very extraordinary ways.

1. Design Disease

Yeah we’ve all seen blue before, but this is beautiful.

2. Macalicious

The deep purple/blue work so well together.

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The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

A SMALL BUT CUTE GIVE AWAY & UPDATE, FREE TWITTER ICONS & CHARACTER

More freebies, yes I know! This time we’ve put together a free Illustration, beautifully made by Pasquale D’Silva, and a couple of Icons which you can use for your twitter status sections of your site. The file is a transparent background PNG, so can easily be imported and scaled into any design.  

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