As you’ve probably noticed, Graphic Design Week has had a strong focus on getting designs ready for print, prepress and print terminology and the real life process of sending work to the printers. So we were thrilled when the team over at UPrinting.com approached us about giving away a massive $1,000 to spend on printing! To enter into the running to win this fantastic giveaway you simply need to leave a comment and blog about, link to or Tweet this post! Read on to grab all the details

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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 some of you might have missed a couple of posts. Before we resume our regular Tuts schedules tomorrow, we thought we’d take a breather for a day and just roundup all the posts from our big week and say thank you to the authors who helped make it possible and our two sponsors - GraphicRiver and UPrinting!

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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 favourite Envato Marketplace files and a year of Tuts+ membership. And best of all it’s dead easy to enter, read on to find out how.

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Easily one of the biggest categories on GraphicRiver, backgrounds are handy not only in graphic design but in web and screen design too. From abstract to detailed, Twitter to nature, there are already some 250 backgrounds to choose from. Collected here today are some of the best backgrounds you can buy!

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Years ago when I first decided that I’d like to try out print design (my background is in web and screen work), I had this impression that there was some magically difficult things you had to know to get stuff printed. The reality is that for simple projects it’s actually very easy. In this tutorial I will walk you through the complete process of designing a simple brochure, getting it ready for print and then actually uploading it to a commercial online printer, checking the proof and seeing the finished product.

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Yes you read that title correctly! In this tutorial we are going to take the brand we created in Part 1 and make a letterhead for Microsoft Word to accompany the business cards we put together and printed in Part 2. While traditional letterheads are made by getting them printed at a printers and then running the letterhead paper through the printer, in my experience there are a great many clients who are either too cheap or too lazy to take that option. For all those types of clients (including me!) this is a really easy way of providing a letterhead at very little expense that still looks professional.

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When you have to present your concept design work to a client it really helps if you can give it a bit of added realism to help them imagine the final result. And that’s where Product Mockups come in. These very cool files on GraphicRiver will let you very quickly place your design work into a mockup of their final spot. Not only will you love them for presenting concept work, but next time you’re making a web portfolio these gems will help your work really shine.

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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 Print Design Templates that offers simple, affordable print designs to help you get started with projects, find ideas, or push out super fast turn arounds for urgent work. And for graphic designers with spare time, it’s a simple way to pull in some extra income with 40 - 70% of every sale going back to the author.

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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 today we’re launching Creattica.com a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery that includes not just websites, but logos, business cards, posters and Photoshop art!

The new Creattica site is in fact a redesign and repurposing of our venerable FaveUp gallery that was in need of a bit of love and attention. So we’ve ported all the old content over to give the new site a flying start in its new super suit of Creattica awesomeness!

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Since we launched ThemeForest last year and ran our big Web Design Week promotion here on Psdtuts a few weeks later, the site has been growing like wildfire. With some 800 templates and themes now available and top authors earning in the thousands each month, the site is really gaining on FlashDen to be our top marketplace. So today I thought I’d run down some of the best HTML templates and WordPress themes for those of you who may not have seen the awesome files available lately! Continue Reading