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Here I am showcasing 20 Fresh And Creative Portfolio Designs, some portfolio designs are minimal, some contain amazing illustrations, while others are typographic. All portfolios featured here have one thing in common, they are all visually stunning, providing the user with a great experience. Hopefully you will bookmark these portfolio designs and use them for inspiration when you are next designing your online presence.

As June 2010 comes to an end, it seems perfect to take a look at some of the lovely creative business cards to finish this month off.

I hope you enjoy some of the lovely business card designs and can draw on them for inspiration, for you or your clients or for your own branding. Take some time to visit their respective sites and enjoy the business card design overload !

Sources of inspiration: Card Nerd, it even has a watermark, Creattica.

A good collection of fonts is an essential part of every designers toolbox, not all aspiring designers can afford the luxury of paid fonts. There are many free fonts available, many of which are very high quality and well worth the download. Here are 20 free fonts to use with your designs, be it a new web design or a t-shirt, I hope you download these fonts and enjoy them.

Using a CSS grid framework for your design is a great starting point on which you can build a consistant and slick looking website with pixel perfect horizontal and vertical spacing.

Layout grids have been in use long before the web. Magazines and newspapers have long been using grids to acheive visual cohesion for their headings, paragraphs, pictures and ads.

If you have not yet used a CSS grid framework for you design work, I suggest to get started you try out some of these tools and see how they can help you improve your next web design project.

Logo designers in the web design community do not get enough exposure, they are sidelined and shot down in google by cheap turnkey logo design websites that spam up the google rankings, forcing the best designers down making them hard to find.

The current web design community is absolutely busting with great logo designers, here are the best and their portfolios.

I get sent many business cards throughout the week, this is a major benefit of blogging at Card Nerd, a business card inspiration gallery. I get to see some amazing and creative designs, but it also highlights why a business card is important to you as a creative individual. Its a great way to impress new clients, and if you submit it to business card design galleries, it can be a great link building technique to help get people talking about your brand.

This highlights the importance of a good business card design, if you are a creative individual you may design your business card your self, here are ten tutorial to help out your business card design.