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New Higher Envato Marketplace Rates!
- Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010, 02:28 PDT (3 weeks ago)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
For four years the Envato Marketplaces have helped authors around the world earn an income selling their digital wares. Along the way we’ve grown from one marketplace to seven, with more on the way. We’ve gone from hundreds of…
Redesign and Other Tuts News
- Thursday, 4 Mar 2010, 22:52 PST (4 March 2010)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
Over the last three days we’ve been steadily rolling out a new Tuts+ theme across all 8 sites. The new design is a refinement more than a big change, with lots of little improvements in usability and more suited to…
Server Issues
- Monday, 22 Feb 2010, 15:16 PST (22 February 2010)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
Over the weekend and into Monday we unfortunately experienced some pretty severe downtime on all Envato WordPress blogs. The downtime was due to problems in the data centre of our current hosting company which was out of our control.
It…
Holiday Giveaways, Freebies and More!
- Tuesday, 8 Dec 2009, 14:20 PST (8 December 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
It’s hard to believe it’s almost a new decade, and with 2010 just around the corner it’s time to get celebrating the holiday season. There’s plenty happening around the Envato network of sites, read on to find out about it…
ActiveDen and Activetuts – New Names, Same Awesome Content
- Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 01:09 PDT (19 October 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
For just over three fantastic years FlashDen has been the jewel in Envato’s crown. It is our longest running and most active community, and thanks to the amazing authors who showcase their work there, has become the largest marketplace for…
Our Biggest Launch of the Year!
- Sunday, 27 Sep 2009, 23:38 PDT (27 September 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
In the last three years our Envato Marketplaces (FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive) have grown like gangbusters, with big communities, huge libraries of files and lots of activity. So when we set out to redesign them earlier this year…
What’s Coming Up in September!
- Friday, 21 Aug 2009, 05:23 PDT (21 August 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
It’s been a hectic 3 days for us here at Envato. We’ve had a massively successful Birthday Bundle (over 5,000 sales in 3 days), lots of giveaways, a fantastic Tuts+ tutorial set up for free download and our first video…
Interview with Envato Founders Collis and Cyan
- Thursday, 20 Aug 2009, 00:38 PDT (20 August 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed,
One of the best things about working here at Envato is that we have an awesome team of people building, managing, writing, reviewing and working on our sites. Yep, things have come a long way since the early days when…
$300 of Files for Just $20! Three Days Only!
- Tuesday, 18 Aug 2009, 04:31 PDT (18 August 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
It’s here, Envato’s 3rd birthday officially starts right now with our MASSIVE marketplace Birthday Bundle now available. In a few hours the first Tuts+ celebrations will begin also, but first take a look at the fantastic offer we have going…
Next Week it’s Envato’s Birthday! Here’s a Preview of What’s Coming Up …
- Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 22:38 PDT (13 August 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
It was back in 2006 that Envato first launched with our very first site FlashDen. That means next week we’ll be turning 3 years old! Since web years are much like dog years, by my count that makes us pretty…
Graphic Design Week Wrap-up
- Sunday, 24 May 2009, 16:30 PDT (24 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
After 7 days of hectic posting we’ve come to the end of our special Graphic Design Week event! During the week we featured 12 Tutorials, 9 Articles, 5 GraphicRiver Roundups, and 2 Competitions. So there’s a pretty good chance that…
Win $3500 to Spend on the ULTIMATE Graphic Design Setup!
- Saturday, 23 May 2009, 22:30 PDT (23 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
After a week of Graphic Design posts, Tuts+ and GraphicRiver are excited to bring you this awesome chance to win $3500 in cold, hard cash to spend on the ultimate creative set-up. You’ll also win up to 30 of your…
Create and Print a Brochure with Photoshop, Indesign and UPrinting.com – Part 2
- Thursday, 21 May 2009, 22:00 PDT (21 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
The great thing about the Adobe product range is how easy it is to combine your work from one program to another. In this tutorial we’ll take the Photoshop work from Part 1 over on Psdtuts+, and place it into…
33 Brilliant Business Card Templates
- Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 21:00 PDT (20 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
When GraphicRiver started I was kinda surprised to see business card templates start appearing in the uploads since there was no specific category or instructions for them. A week later I was even more surprised to see them taking over…
Create a Business Card in Illustrator and Print it with UPrinting
- Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 20:40 PDT (20 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
Business cards are one of the staples of any working graphic designer. In this tutorial we’ll take the Rockable Press brand we worked through in Part 1 of this set of tutorials and apply it to create and print business…
Creating a Rockstar Brand, Logo & Styleguide in Illustrator
- Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 19:40 PDT (20 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
Designing a strong, coherent graphic brand identity is one of the most rewarding tasks in graphic design. It is a unique opportunity to create something that will go on to be used in many different places, applications and designs. In…
Icons, Icons, Icons!
- Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 21:30 PDT (19 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
To me, Icons are up there with Fonts as some sort of design crack. I’m not sure when I got hooked, but it’s been a while now and my hard drive is crammed with icon sets of all shapes and…
Design and Print Bold Promo Cards in 60 Minutes
- Tuesday, 19 May 2009, 21:30 PDT (19 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
I still remember the days when you had to go to a post office to pay your bills, a travel agent to book flights and a video store to get movies. Pretty much everything seems to have moved online these…
30 Vector Elements to Add to Your Next Design Project
- Monday, 18 May 2009, 00:00 PDT (18 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
You don’t always have the time, energy or skill to reinvent the wheel every time. That’s why on GraphicRiver we offer a popular category of Vector Design Elements that sell for just a few dollars each. To showcase the types…
It’s Graphic Design Week on Psdtuts+ & Vectortuts+
- Sunday, 17 May 2009, 22:30 PDT (17 May 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
Beginning today we’re running a very special double site event called Graphic Design Week, featuring tutorials on everything from business card design to typography, prepress to identity design. What’s the occasion? Well our sister site GraphicRiver has just launched a…
FaveUp Redesign Launches on Creattica.com
- Tuesday, 28 Apr 2009, 17:47 PDT (28 April 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
The web can be a great source for inspiration and in the last couple of years we’ve seen a heap of great galleries for website design in particular. But there’s so much more stuff to be inspired by, that’s why…
30 Stunning Flash Image Galleries (via FlashDen)
- Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009, 00:36 PDT (25 March 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, Vectortuts+
One of the most popular uses of Flash for designers and illustrators that I’ve observed is to create image gallerys to showcase graphic work. So its unsurprising that on our sister marketplace FlashDen the image gallery category is jam-packed with…
GraphicRiver – A Graphic Art Department At Your Fingertips
- Monday, 23 Feb 2009, 23:30 PST (23 February 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
Today I’m very excited to announce that we’re taking the lid off our newest Envato Marketplace: GraphicRiver, a marketplace for premium design components like Layered Photoshop Graphics, Vector Illustrations, Icons, and Adobe Add-ons like Brushes, Patterns and Textures at very…
Meet the New Tuts+
- Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009, 08:52 PST (17 February 2009)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
Today across the Tuts+ network we’re rolling out some changes to our brand and how our sites work together. These changes include a rebrand of our logos, a shift from multiple domain names to a single top level domain, a…
Solving Poverty Badges & Tees for Sale – BAD08 Comp Winners
- Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008, 17:28 PDT (14 October 2008)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
Today and tomorrow – depending on where you are in the world – it’s Blog Action Day 2008 and I’m happy to announce the “Solving Poverty” contest badges and tees are up for sale on CafePress. All proceeds from the…
ThemeForest Launch
- Tuesday, 2 Sep 2008, 19:25 PDT (2 September 2008)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
After three weeks in beta of ironing out some crinkles and prepping the site, I’m proud to announce that the latest Envato website – ThemeForest – is now out of the beta wilderness and ready for buying, selling, referring and…
ThemeForest Launch
- Tuesday, 2 Sep 2008, 19:25 PDT (2 September 2008)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
After three weeks in beta of ironing out some crinkles and prepping the site, I’m proud to announce that the latest Envato website – ThemeForest – is now out of the beta wilderness and ready for buying, selling, referring and…
Around the TUTS Sites – July
- Sunday, 3 Aug 2008, 18:12 PDT (3 August 2008)
- By: Collis Ta'eed, VECTORTUTS
With a growing number of TUTS sites in our network, it’s getting easy to miss some of the great content published every month. That’s why starting this month we’re introducing a monthly TUTS Roundup post showcasing the best posts from…