One of the most important aspects of your brand, or website is it’s logo. A Logo is what people most usually identify with your brand.

For example, think of the automobile maker Ford. I bet the first thing you thought of was their blue, oval logo. If this logo had not been done well, or felt outdated, you might get a different feel from the brand.

We’ll explore how to make your logo feel current. by observing current design trends, and looking ahead for future design trends.

In the fourth part of our “Design Your Desk” series, we’re going to be looking into the creation of a set of speakers for your desktop (or laptop) that we created earlier.

We’ll be creating the main body of the speaker, the front cover, and both the woofer and tweeter from scratch. As well, we’ll texture the body of the speaker with a wood texture. Finally, we’ll make a plain, jet black speaker without the wooden case.

Stay tuned for next week’s Design Your Desk, when we’ll be creating a slick mouse to go along with the rest of your desk.

This tutorial is our first “request” tutorial from one of our readers. In this tutorial, you’ll be learning how to create a neat glowing orb effect that’s sometimes seen in in advertisements, on websites backgrounds, etc.

This rather versatile effect can be used in a variety of places, but for the purposes of this tutorial we’ll be designing it to be a desktop wallpaper.

In this week’s quick tip, we’re going to explore how to create a nice, clean, minimalistic portfolio layout in Photoshop in a few simple steps. Utilizing neat background images to stage your icons, logos or other work we’ll create a portfolio that focuses the reader’s eye on your work.

In this third edition of PSVibes’ “Design Your Desk” series, we’re going to be taking a look at the creation of a laptop in Photoshop. More specifically, the creation of a white Apple Macbook.

In the next edition of this series, we’re going to be creating a neat set of wooden speakers for your desk, so stay tuned. Part four should be out in about a week.

In part two of our seven part series called “Design your desk”, we’re going to be looking at the creation of your computer’s horsepower - The Tower - or in this case, an iMac. As usual, this tutorial will cover everything from drawing the basic shape, to shading and shadowing.

Stay tuned for next week’s Design your Desk article, when we’ll be looking at the creation of a laptop - more specifically the creation of a white Macbook.

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In this new 7-Part “Design Your Desk” series, we’ll be looking at creating all the different elements that reside on your desk. Starting up with Part 1, we’ll be looking at designing your viewport into the world of Photoshop - your monitor.

This tutorial covers outlining the basic shape, texturing, shading/shadowing, adding reflections, and much more. In part 2, which will appear next week, we’ll be checking out the creation of your computer’s horsepower - the tower.

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In this month’s neat stuff we’ll be taking a peak at all sorts of cool and inspirational sites from around the web. Everything from small personal blogs, to websites for juggernaut politicians.