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Every week the design community releases a lot of interesting articles, tutorials and showcases that can charge your creativity in different ways. With this series we want to share high-quality contents from the community to provide interesting information for our readers. It’s just a small selection, but we are sure that it can help you to find cool stuff that covers a wide variety of topics. Enjoy it!

Here at WeGraphics we love soccer, and in occasion of the most important soccer event, the FIFA Wold Cup South Africa 2010, we have created a beautiful wallpaper to celebrate the occurrence with all our readers. We are soccer lovers and designers too, so for those interested I’ve published the wallpaper case study, with some screenshot that show the process behind the final result. Which team will win the tournament? The best one, of course (or the most lucky one)!

3D software allow you to bring text to a new dimension. There are no limits to create astonishing type treatments. Cinema4D is an incredible software used by lots of professional designers to create 3d objects and to animate them. It’s perfect if you want to create complex text effects with three dimensions. Today I collected 10 tutorials that explain how to create these effects using C4D and Photoshop.

This is not an article on how to find inspiration. Everyone has his own sources when there’s a lack of ideas. This is an article on how to turn inspiration that derives from others’ digital projects into a new original piece. When you come accross talented designers works, do you spend days trying to achieve a similar result? If yes this post is for you. I want to show you a constructive practice to grow as designer.

Graphic designers community is growing up rapidly. Thanks to web support everyday thousands of people are able to improve their skills and techniques. It is a everybody dream to turn this knowledge into a full time job. The question is: how to emerge to be apart from the crowd?

It’s important for a graphic designer to know where to download quality resources: fonts, images, icons and more. This is why I use delicious to collect useful sites. Since I’m not an icon designer, I prefer to download icon sets created by more skilled folk. For that reason when I came across a site that publishes free icons I bookmark it. Today I selected for you 23 sites where you can download icons for free.

Graphic designers always have to spend lots of money for their resources: quality textures, brushes and icons have a price. But fortunately there are nice persons who share high-quality freebies. And we love them! Today lets give a look to the 20 best graphic design freebies released during 2009.