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This Week’s Favourites – March 5th 2010

Posted: 05 Mar 2010 12:00 AM PST

In this week's roundup of creative goodness, we have a unique Illustrator tutorial covering the creation of watercolor effects; a CSS tutorial on the popular sprites technique; a fantastic introduction and overview of CSS attribute selectors; another brilliant Illustrator tutorial, this time creating a bright and crisp illustration; and a well presented bunch of typography tips.

Design Instruct

This unique tutorial from the freshly launched Design Instruct covers some great tips on how to recreate a great looking watercolour and hand-drawn marker effect from a base photo. Definitely worth checking out!

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Build Internet

Using CSS image sprites is a popular technique for menus in web design. This tutorial from Build Internet does an excellent job of introducing the concept of sprites, and takes you through the steps of building a sprite powered menu yourself.

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CSS Tricks

CSS attribute selectors are often left collecting dust at the back of our CSS toolbox, but they’re actually one of the most useful resources when it comes to styling up our websites. CSS Tricks goes back to basics and gives a complete and thorough overview of how attribute selectors can be used.

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Vectips

Ryan from Vectips seems to have a never-ending stream of amazing Illustrator tutorials. One of his most recent takes you through the steps of creating a mouthwatering strawberry graphic, complete with bright colours and crisp vector shapes.

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CSS Wizardry

This well presented post from CSS Wizardry documents some best practices and common mistakes when it comes to setting type on the web. The post includes some super handy tips and is one every designer should check out, I picked out a few good pointers myself.

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