Somebody call the fire brigade, ’cause there’s a fire running wild. It’s too late to tell who started it, but whether it was Apple or Adobe doesn’t matter anymore. It’s on. Flash is currently proving to be a dominant force in web design, breaking all limits of visual creativity and allowing more and more people to experiment with building websites easily. At the end, the answers might come from the web design community, if it decides to fight for the right to Flash.

There is no better time than the present to spruce up your desktop, website, or blog giving it a fresh new look with some of the most recently designed icons available. There are thousands of icons available for purchase, but we have decided to showcase only the ones that are free.

You will find 5000+ very uniquely design icons. From cute little Android shopping bags, to glossy orbs, to creative social media, and networking icons in shapes of bottle caps or ones disguised as a latte.

I think anyone who owns a digital camera has many photographs that might be nice but needs a little something extra to make it special. Of course there are many one or two step processes for those quick adjustments, but is that enough?

Today we would like to share with you some Photoshop tutorials that can really make a difference in some of your everyday plain pictures. When you try out the tutorials, get creative and tweak one or two of the techniques for your own special effect.

Join us as we take a trip around the world of graphic design: First stop, Yemen. The small country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula is an atmosphere of conflict and poverty, but through the sand rises up a few beautiful graphic designs.

All of the designs in this post have been created by graphic designers from the country of Yemen. Notice the influence of the classical Arabic calligraphy and a bit of Middle Eastern spice.

One of my absolute favorite photographers that I would love to share with you is Ville Miettinen of Finland, also known by the name of “wili hybrid.” As a self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur and investor, one may, at first thought, expect this man to be void of any definitive sense of creativity. However, an entrepreneurial spirit must not only be nurtured by, but requires, a flair for artistry and adventure. This comes through in wili hybrid’s photography, much of which is HDR and, by some standards, may be considered overdone … but I love it anyway, and I’m sure with an open pair of eyes and mind, you will, too.

Checking RSS feeds for flash news, I read this headline. When I read it I had to check it out myself. When I wrote about I just had to reuse it. Because what I found was great. Wix has released dozens of new flash templates for 2010!

Two of these really stuck out for me, the music templates. Being flash music templates are so needed and the most asked about. I had to review them and share the resource. Presenting two all new free flash music website templates for 2010.

If typography was restricted to being used as purely a method of communication, I think I can safely avow that it would have been a pretty dull world. Typographic art surrounds us, from the serifs on the most ubiquitous of fonts to modern graffiti art, from calligraphy to abstract scripts. What can be more aesthetic than words? They are what define anything and everything an individual knows, feels, thinks and understands. Also they have enough bends, curves, strokes and specks to challenge even the most prodigal art virtuoso. What better proof of this than some awe-inspiring handpicked works of art!

Another great tournament of athletics is just around the corner. Vancouver, Canada, is bustling with excitement in readiment for the Winter 2010 Olympics that is to be hosted in their town in the next couple of weeks. The excitement has also spread to the graphic designers of Canada and around the world, who have found themselves inspired by the bustle around the Winter games.

The Header question is quite a hot potato in web design discussions nowadays. One one hand, there’s no argue on the value of an impressive header. Headers are the first thing website visitors lay their eyes on (unless there’s also an extravagant loading bar). They set the first impression and to a large extent determine the mood of the site.

Valentine’s Day is approaching quickly and for those design enthusiasts, there is no better way to say, I love you to that special person than to create the perfect Valentine message with these tutorials.

The basic techniques from these tutorials can be applied so your artistic gift of love will truly be unique. To be even more adventurous, you may want to use one of the I Heart Brushes.