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Vintage design is always described as outdated, old looking design with most updated products like Facebook or Nintendo Wii featured… what?

Yeah it’s not a typo, I mean it, and you’re gonna witness 24 modern products adapted into vintage style advertisement. Some of them are created by modern designer, yet others are modified directly from genuine vintage ads originated from your parent’s era.

So get amused, get inspired, who knows vintage might be the design direction for your next viral ad campaign!

What’s great about .PSD files? For one, we can observe and learn how experts create awesome designs by exploring the different layers and techniques they use. Beginners can appreciate how different functions in Photoshop can affect their images, and hence gain an understanding of how to bring out their desired effects. What’s more, .PSD files allow us to experiment with several layers within the file itself, providing maximum customization for any curious user.

If you can recall, we had previously showcased 60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers some time ago. Thankfully, designers are often willing to share their works to the public, so we now have yet another 45 Splendid High Quality PSD Files for downloads. We all hope designers will continue to showcase their creations to inspire others to pick up their exceptional knowledge and skills.

Full list after jump.

Once in a while, we collaborate with creative designers to giveaway free stuff to readers through hongkiat.com. We figured it benefits all parties – creators get the credit and some exposures, readers get to download them for free with no strings attached. Today, we are going to do the same thing again.

Viv Singh of vivrocks.com has designed a high quality web template for us. It is available in Photoshop PSD format. All layers are open so you can do any chances you want.

Surreal photo is basically displays of a designer’s rich imagination of subjects which then injected into real pictures. Most of these surreal pictures are captivating be it pleasant or not because it is not what we experience in our daily life hence it is out of norm. Given it is not an event we could not possibly experience, it leaves a huge dimension for viewers to interpret what does the designer was trying to convey through their work. This is what makes surreal photos a challenge for the designers and in the same time, an awesome adventure for the viewers. Yes, all of that in a picture.

Today we have 40 manipulated surreal photos to share in this post. Hope it will manage pull you out of the box and have your head tilted figuring out these pictures.

Here’s another giveaway of great stuff. This week, we are giving away 3 gift cards, worth $350 in total to our readers, courtesy of ShortRun Card.

So if you are thinking of printing your own business card, this might be a chance you can get it done for free, or at a very discounted price. Before we start, let’s take a look at who’s giving you guys this free stuff, and what you are about to get.

Last week we ran a Pixmac contest. So here’s the post 175 of you participants are waiting for – the announcement of the winners.

Here’s a recap of the contest. 3 winners, each will walk away with a Pixmac stock photo account loaded with $199 worth of credit. These credits allow you to purchase images in Pixmac for your individual project or commercial usage.

With innovations of web-based technologies, social media is now everywhere, changing the way human interacts. Thus, demands for social media icons are raised within web community especially web designer who creates commercial site or theme.

But hey, I know how it feels: you stumbled upon a nice social media icon set and click on the ‘Download‘ button and bingo! This stuff is not for commercial. Worse, you have to attribute back to the post wherever you use those icons, which sounds bad for commercial products.

Fear not, for there are still many free high quality social media icon sets available for your projects with no attribution required (but highly appreciated!), and 63 of them are listed inside this post. So browse through them, go get what you want and enjoy!

Written by: Stanley Poh

Before the early nineteenth century, books were hand-bound using heavy materials such as wood, leather, gold, silver and jewels. Over the centuries, book binding had always serve as a protection to expensively printed or hand-made pages, and as embellishments tribute to the cultural authorities.

Other than the two most common covers; hardcovers and paperbacks, there are many other alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets, ring-binding and out-dated forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the even more antiquated hand-binding.

It is often said; don’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case, the opposite appears to be more true. It is not often that we would see book covers made of wood or imprinted with real life objects appearing to be part of the book itself, but many have decided to showcase their talent through these beautiful artworks we have below today.