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A Designers Guide to the Ghouls and Ghosts of Halloween |
Halloween is just a day away and i’m sure many of us have parties to go to and fancy dress costumes to make and prepare all for a few hours of drinks, fun and games. What does Halloween mean for us as designers? Well it allows us to be creative around a well established theme opening up all sorts of ways. Whether its with creative costumes, wallpapers, themes, artwork or Halloween themed packaging and products.
Looking to be inspired to make your Halloween Costume this weekend? Then look no further in checking out 12 of the best found on Toxel.com
Found over on Design Week, design group pinched post have created there own pumpkin font which has been based upon the matrix system. The typeface has been made by puncturing into the pumpkins.
My top 10 Ghostly Wallpapers to darken your Desktop
Whether you want a terrifying pumpkin, something abstract or a bloody hand they are all here.
‘Halloween’
‘Trick or Treat’
‘Think Halloween’
‘Poze Horor Desktop’
‘Happy Halloween’
‘GrimReaper Halloween’
‘Halloween’
‘Abstract Halloween’
‘Oh no s’
‘Halloween’
Two Brilliant Free WordPress Halloween Themes
Give your WordPress blog/website a few cobwebs this Halloween.
Halloween
Halloween in Blue
You’ll love these pieces of Halloween Digital Art:
Be sure to visit DeviantART for more great digital art, customisation, photography and much more, my DeviantART profile can be found here + dj23′s here.
Queen of Halloween
Happy Halloween
Halloween Witch Fairy
Halloween Natalia
Halloween
The best in Halloween Party Flyers:
Get your party promotion all spooky and scary with inspiration from these great flyer designs.
‘Bam Magazine flyer’
‘Eskepe Halloween flyer’
‘Illbotz Halloween Show Flyer’
‘Halloween Party Flyer’
‘Adv Flyer for Lucifer’
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Article written by Jared Thompson
Head writer of Design Something Blog, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.
Follow Jared (@Jthompsondesign) on twitter! Check out his Design Portfolio here!
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Some great Halloween themed links from great design blogs:
- 55+ Amazing Halloween wallpapers to charm up your desktop: Via Instant Shift
- 200+ Truly Useful Free Halloween icons
- 35+ Free High quality photoshop brush sets for halloween
- 25 Last Minute Traditional and Downloadable Halloween Masks
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October 31st, 2009 at 01:31
Great collection of Halloween freebies! Because it’s my favorite holiday, we’re giving away all sorts of Halloween goodies for designers at ArsGrafik.com, including wallpapers for your desktop and iPhone, RSS ghost icon, vector pumpkins, vector bats, skeleton brushes for Photoshop, and more. Come check it out!
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October 31st, 2009 at 13:06
What a nice collection
It’s so rad how you give other designers some attention and “spotlight” if you will by featuring their works in posts like this. Way cool of you. That’s why I loved this blog when I first visited, not to mention seeing your super artwork as well. I really liked your typo wallpapers. My Thompson Twin from across the pond he he. My brotha from anotha motha. He he he. 
October 31st, 2009 at 18:52
Thank you for the feature in my Queen of halloween :>
Happy halloween!
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Hello there, HAPPY HALOWEN! A little late..!
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November 8th, 2009 at 07:58
Awesome collection of guide of designer. Thanks for sharing this nice post.