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Icons-Land Customized Icon Sets
Since late September of 2009 we at Designrfix have written about 8 articles on the importance of icons and their many uses on the internet. I find creating great looking icons is very important and creating an icon set that matches your web design is even more important in bringing your entire project together.
Posted 23rd August 2010
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When Design Becomes Intrusive
There’s no doubt that a design well done is impressive, but there are times when even the most beautiful designs become intrusive, and that’s when beauty starts to become brassy.
Posted 11th August 2010
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Modernism to the CSS layouts: What is it all about?
The CSS has an accordion effect that works when the user makes an interaction with the element. It can be done either by clicking or just mousing over it. The accordion then, expands outshining the elements of interest and at the same time, and suppressing the rest.
Posted 23rd July 2010
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World Cup Soccer Inspired Designs
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa in its 6th day of competition many of us have been glued to the TV cheering our country on. No matter what country you are rooting for, soccer is a sport that brings the whole world together. In keeping with the spirit of the World Cup, I have decided to compile a beautiful collection of soccer inspired designs from various artists from around the globe. I hope that these amazing works will inspire you to create your own designs. Enjoy!
Posted 1st July 2010
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Typography: 80+ Inspiring Creative Designs
It’s been a while since I have done a post on typography; almost 8 months or so. No need to wait any longer! There is so much new and fresh material that has been created since then and I would love to share with you. So sit back and enjoy this amazing showcase of typographic artwork created by some of the most talented artists from around the world.
Posted 1st July 2010
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Nike Inspired Graphic Designs
About a month ago I wrote a post that showcased some really talented artists’ designs and their tribute to the Adidas brand. In today’s post I am featuring some really cool Nike designs. Although Adidas is my preferred brand, I still think that it is important to showcase these beautifully inspired Nike designs which are equally as impressive.
Posted 19th May 2010
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30 Fresh Icon Sets for Developers and Designers
A rich list of 30 fresh icon sets specifically for designers and developers. You will find some mini icons, pictograms, wireframe icons, ecommerce icons, toolbar icons, mobile app icons… the list goes on and on.
Posted 14th May 2010
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30+ Examples of Login Form Designs
A showcase of several effective and creative log in forms for sites, blogs, and other network systems.
Posted 14th May 2010
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The Meaning of Lines: Developing A Visual Grammar
What types of lines are at our disposal? What do different lines communicate?
Posted 5th May 2010
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The Current State of Web Design: Trends 2010
We describe existing and upcoming trends and explain how Web design might evolve in the coming months and years. We’ll also touch on what we as Web designers should be ready for to keep abreast of new challenges and opportunities.
Posted 5th May 2010
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Showcase of 30 Well-Designed E-commerce Sites
E-commerce websites often have the reputation of being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we’ll show that this is not always the case. Here you’ll find 30 sites for your own e-commerce design inspiration.
Posted 3rd May 2010
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18 Wireframing, Mockup And Prototyping Tools To Plan Designs
I will keep repeating how important is to plan your webdesign, sitemaps, draw flowcharts,wireframes before even start to do actual functional and design planning! Since I am deeply researching this topic myself, this time I found the most popular wireframing software available.
Posted 3rd May 2010
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Grid-Based Web Design, Simplified
A grid at its barest is nothing more than a series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines spaced at regular intervals, but its innate propensity for creating order out of chaos makes it one of the most powerful tools at a designer’s disposal. If you want to reap their benefits of grids on your next project but are unsure of the specifics, this article is for you.
Posted 29th April 2010
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Govislandpark.com
The Master Plan for Governors Island in New York as conceived by architecture team West 8.
Posted 28th April 2010
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Everything Adidas!
If you are anything like me, you really love your Adidas apparel. I have found that over the last few years the Adidas brand has really taken off with their three divisions of clothing; Performance, Original and Style. Although my favorite is the Original line, I found that everything Adidas makes is great. In this post you will see some Adidas focused designs; everything from poster ads for the 2010 World Cup to some really cool library chair painting. This post is a definite must you for Adidas fans. Enjoy!
Posted 28th April 2010
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9 Must See Character Design Tutorials
Character Designs is one of the most effective ways for promoting your projects and also for inspiration. Creating character designs is really very interesting to do it beside design logos and layouts. In this post, we’ll showcase some interesting Character Design Tutorials.
Posted 20th April 2010
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How To Develop A Homepage Layout That Sells
You couldn’t have failed to notice that pretty much every website on the face of the planet has a homepage, and that every homepage uses the same basic layout. Masthead at the top, navigation underneath and/or along the side(s), main content taking up most of the page, and a footer at the bottom. It’s common because it works. It differentiates the content that needs to be differentiated, it presents it in a logical order that follows how people read and interact with websites, and it’s relatively simple to code. In fact, HTML5 encourages you to code this way.
Posted 13th April 2010
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26 Top Fresh Resources for Designers
There are many of design resources in the Internet, And here in this article a roundup of most tweeted design posts this week. Enjoy the news roundups of the most interesting content .
Posted 9th April 2010
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Why Caring for Users is More Important Than Caring for Search Engines
Would you buy from your own store? This is a very important question one should ask oneself when one is running a store of any kind. This article talks about user experience and how important it is for building trust in your customers and not just Google.
Posted 9th April 2010
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Trends in News and Magazine-Style Web Design
News and magazine-style sites tend to follow some specific trends. In this post we’ll take a detailed look at the design trends of news sites with plenty of examples, and the end of the post includes a showcase of sites.
Posted 5th April 2010
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11 Fresh Portfolio Design Tutorials
Creating your own portfolio website will showcase the work and services in best manner.When you start working, your great graphic design portfolio is going to help you land that great job. Your portfolio represents your skill and artistry, so put it together carefully because your artwork is going to speak for you.
Posted 4th April 2010
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Contrast is King
Contrast is the perceived difference in colors that are in close proximity to each other. Using contrast effectively not only differentiates your design from others, it’s the essential ingredient that makes content accessible to every viewer.
Posted 31st March 2010
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The Ins and Outs of Minimalist Design
No matter how many times we are left in awe by impressively intricate designs, there will always be something about simplicity that leaves us just as captured. Today we’ll look at some of the key aspects of minimalism in web design along with some examples from designers who got it right.
Posted 30th March 2010
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13 Company layout Design Using Photoshop
There are some very easy to follow tutorials on just how to design Company layout using photoshop .Company layout should be pleasing to the eye. Choose colors, graphics, text fonts, and other background items keeping in mind both aesthetics and convenience.This post looks at tutorials for Company layout Design Using Photoshop.Hope you will learn something new and share your opinion in comments.
Posted 26th March 2010
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200+ Free Spray Paint Brushes for Photoshop
A collection of free Photoshop brushes that will allow you to easily add spray paint effects to your design. Have fun experimenting and see what you can come up with!
Posted 25th March 2010
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How To Improve Usability With Fitts’ and Hick’s Laws
Consider both laws when creating visual designs. While neither law technically applies to visual design we can perhaps extrapolate some based on the advice in order to improve our designs.
Posted 25th March 2010
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The Value of Good Design
The main premise is this: businesses succeed and fail on the web regardless of how well designed their sites are. An ugly website will succeed if their product or service is good, so why bother making something beautiful?
Posted 25th March 2010
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A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design
Take a look at some of the biggest sites out there today that are showcasing top-notch designs. It’s very likely they’ve used a grid of some sort. Grids enable stability and structure in a web layout, giving the designer a logical template to build the site on.
Posted 24th March 2010
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40 Extremely Cool and Inspiring Typography Designs
This list of 40 Extremely Cool and Inspiring Typography Designs showcases a collection of truly stunning typography designs.
Posted 19th March 2010
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How to use icons to enhance your designs
’s incredible how icons, these tiny, sometimes elusive cute illustrations can do so much for your work. Icon creation has become a giant industry because of the many, many advantages they can bring to any design. They add visual cues to your headings, work as buttons, separate your website sections, and overall give polish and professionalism to your web or application.
Posted 17th March 2010
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Learn Photoshop: All of the Basics for Beginners
Most of the resources and tutorials listed in this post will focus on teaching one particular aspect of Photoshop, such as how to use a specific tool. Everything is broken down into sections so you can find exactly what you are looking for.
Posted 15th March 2010
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40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration
Minimalism is beautiful. It truly is. The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least.
Posted 14th March 2010
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Bokeh Effect in Web Design
In this article you will find inspirational showcase of beautiful and very colorful websites with bokeh effect. Also you’ll be able to learn different bokeh effect techniques by checking listed useful and detailed tutorials. For the conclusion you will find a lot of great bokeh resources.
Posted 14th March 2010
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29 Sexy iPhone App Designs
These apps were only chosen based on their graphic appeal, not popularity, functionality or purpose.
Posted 11th March 2010
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Speed Up Your Design Processes While Reducing Errors
With all these steps involved we need to have some way of simplifying and speeding up the process. So here are some general tips and tricks to help take away some of the leg work in a web project.
Posted 11th March 2010
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30 Free Fonts For Creative Projects
We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Fonts2U.
Posted 10th March 2010
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22 Fresh High-Quality Fonts for Your Designs
This week, we are bringing you more high-quality fonts that have been created in just the past few months. There are 22 in all and they’re all free. There are a few however that will require a quick registration, but they are well worth it.
Posted 8th March 2010
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55 Latest Examples of Perfect Slideshow Presentation in Web Design
In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful, unique, and most importantly inspirational designs which are following the same trend of slideshow presentation.
Posted 6th March 2010
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Inspiration: Wonderful Watercolor Websites
This article showcases 30+ stunning web designs that make use of the incredible watercolor effect. The showcase is followed up with a small selection of links sharing a few tutorials and watercolor textures and brushes that you can use in your own designs.
Posted 5th March 2010
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5 Things That Can Make (or break) A Killer Website Design
Starting the website design process can either give you a really great feeling, or can leave you feeling hollow in the pit of your stomach. The feeling you get is usually dependent on how great of a kick start you get with your design process.
Posted 5th March 2010
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Typographic Posters
typo/graphic posters is a directory of typographic and graphic posters. a passionate project focused on the design community.
Posted 4th March 2010
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15 Quality Web-Based Applications to Create Mock-Ups and Wireframes
A large portion of designers prefer and begin their wireframing process on paper, for the most part, you can see the benefit in this because it is quick, straightforward, and best of all, free. While web-based applications can be relatively hard to interact with, may lead to a lot of wasted time, and may also reduce efficiency. There are pros and cons to either of the above, and many times a decision to utilize one or the other, is based on preference.
Posted 3rd March 2010
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25 Mega Menus for Your Design Inspiration
Navigation is a critical element to any website. Mega menus are a current trend that take drop down menus a step further in attempt to make it easier for visitors to navigate through a large site.
Posted 3rd March 2010
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Showcase of Light Texture in Web Design
Texture is obviously a common design element that is being used on a lot of modern websites. However, texture doesn’t always have to be a part of the design that stands out immediately to visitors. Light textures can also be used to subtly improve the design of the site. In this post we’ll feature 25 sites that use texture without it dominating the design.
Posted 2nd March 2010
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30 Blog Designs with Killer Typography
A killer design is one thing – but one that also uses the right typography is (in my opinion) on a whole other level compared to those that just ‘look pretty’. Typography is needed with blog designs because, well, the blog is built to speak your mind, right? So, if your blog isn’t readable then it fails to do it’s job.
Posted 2nd March 2010
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Design Multilingual Website: A Beginner’s Guide
If you want to build a number of foreign-language equivalents of your main site, they need to be properly localized before you launch and the process can be made much less painful if you plan from the start.
Posted 1st March 2010
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45 Creative Resumes To Sieze Attention
Are you one of those job seekers who have been sending far too many resumes and been hit with far too many disappointment? The problem may not lie with your qualification or skills set. Employer filters tons of resumes on daily basis, only the outstanding ones get noticed.
Posted 1st March 2010
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99 Alternatives to 99Designs
A post that offers some alternatives to spec work for those just getting started in design.
Posted 28th February 2010
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61 Fantabulous Fonts For Titles!
Ahh another font roundup... Gotta love these things! I often find myself scouring sites like WantedFonts or DaFont for hours at a time and end up with about 50-100 new fonts and hardly ANY work done. Well, if this sounds familiar, I have taken the searching out of finding some awesome fonts for you to use for titling in your productions! Bold and beautiful, I am sure there is something here for everyone!
Posted 27th February 2010
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Ultimate guide to table UI patterns
Many agree that tables are a phenomenon in user interface design: they are very important parts of user interfaces but often overlooked. Tables show structured data and their purpose is to make that data readable, scannable and easily comparable. The thing is that in many cases tabular data is obscured. This is why tables have bad reputation and many find them boring. The truth is that the are everything but boring. For people who need tables in everyday work they are hated element that makes them scream. And it shouldn't be this way. Here are some of the patterns that can help in creating less evil tables.
Posted 27th February 2010
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50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs
This 50+ Unique and Inspiring Blue Logo Designs are especially compiled for logo designers who are momentarily out of ideas. Get a glimpse of our latest offering for our readers and be inspired at the same time. Our compilation of blue logo collection may be the inspiration that you need! Enjoy!!!
Posted 27th February 2010
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20 inspirational sites for graphic designers
Inspiration is what allows designers to create unique pieces. It derives from everything: music, films, photos, t-shirts, people… But there are days that you are on computer observing your empty canvas without any idea to start from. In these cases surfing sites that publish fresh inspirational contents can help you.
Posted 26th February 2010
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25 Portfolio Site Designs Using Illustration
Portfolio sites often showcase creativity and the skills of the designer. If you browse around at current portfolio sites you’ll see a lot of illustration being used in the design. In this post we’ll feature 25 portfolios that use illustration.
Posted 25th February 2010
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Taking Type to the Next Level with Alternate Characters
Are you sick of your type looking plain and boring? Many OpenType fonts have alternate characters built into them that can transform your type into a beautiful piece of art. By using these alternate characters you can add things like flourishes and flair to your type with ease.
Posted 24th February 2010
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25 Examples of Convincing Call-to-Action Buttons
Below, we take a closer look at 25 of the most convincing call-to-action buttons found on the web. We examine why each individual button is so successful. Hopefully, they’ll give you an idea of some basic does and don’ts and help inspire your own designs.
Posted 24th February 2010
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Showcase of Transparency in Web Design
Transparency is being used in an increasing number of websites. In some cases transparency subtly adds to the quality and character of the design, and in other cases it can be a major design element. In this post we’ll feature 35 websites that are making excellent use of transparency.
Posted 22nd February 2010
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The Art of Dvd packaging – 100+ Creative Covers
We’ve assembled a great collection of dvd covers from past to current releases that breaks away from the glut of repetitive collages we’ve come to expect from the industry.
Posted 22nd February 2010
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A Showcase of Beautiful Typography in Web Design
We all know how important typography is. Choosing the right typeface(s), colors and, if necessary, applying the right type treatment can help tremendously in conveying your message to your audience. Most of the websites showcased today use large typography mostly in their headers, but also in other places such as sub-headings and other elements to draw attention to areas of importance.
Posted 22nd February 2010
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How to Get Creatively Inspired
For the majority of us, creativity comes and goes—one day you can be producing revolutionary work, and the next, you may be staring at a blank canvas for hours. As professionals though, being in a creative rut can be costly, so we often have to find ways to coax ourselves into unfailingly being able to create.
Posted 22nd February 2010
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Interesting Letterhead Design
Letterheady is an online homage to offline correspondence; specifically letters. However, here at Letterheady we don't care about the letter's content. Just its design.
Posted 21st February 2010
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A Collection of “Coming Soon” Web Pages
In this post, you’ll find a great collection of “coming soon” pages that you can use for inspiration when designing your own.
Posted 20th February 2010
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Skyrocket Labs
Blog of an Ottawa-based web design studio featuring resources and a community of global designers & developers.
Posted 19th February 2010
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Beautiful Vintage Advertisements
The vintage ads also often have some very cool typography, nice illustrations, and much more to draw inspiration from.
Posted 18th February 2010
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10 Keys to Effective Non-Profit Organization Websites
In this article we’ll look at the keys to an effective non-profit organization website, while showcasing some examples from specific sites.
Posted 17th February 2010
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45 Creative and Beautiful Logo Design You Should’ve Seen
Here take a look at 45 Creative and beautiful logos and be inspired, hope you like this collection
Posted 17th February 2010
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Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Yellow and the Sunshine Feel
With this article, we take a look at the impact the color yellow has made in our lives.
Posted 16th February 2010
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Create a Professional Web 2.0 Layout
In this Photoshop tutorial we're going to learn how to create a web 2.0 layout, As we go through the tutorial we'll deal with so many Photoshop techniques. Seems kind of long? that's because it's very detailed. I assure you'll find easy to follow and to get done, just give it a try!
Posted 16th February 2010
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48 great pink powered websites
We can also divide the pink websites in two categories, the bright ones that look like sugar, spice and everything nice and the dark ones, that look a little bit more serious. Like it or not, pink is a web design trend.
Posted 16th February 2010
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Design Trend Showcase: 30 Horizontal Websites
As you may notice from the sites showcased here, portfolio sites of designers and photographers are probably the most likely type of site to use a horizontal layout right now. Here is a look at 30 sites for your own inspiration.
Posted 15th February 2010
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35 Latest High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers
Collection of Excellent Fresh Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs by which you can save money and focus on making great applications.
Posted 15th February 2010
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Designing for the Future with HTML5+CSS3 : Tutorials and Best Practices
A showcase of some of the best blogs and websites in the industry built with HTML5+CSS3.
Posted 15th February 2010
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Websites of 24 Heads of Government
In honor of Presidents Day a showcase of 24 websites of heads of government from around the world.
Posted 15th February 2010
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Getting Credit for Your Work
Three sites aimed at getting you credit for your work.
Posted 10th February 2010
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Creating a Well Designed Invoice: Step-by-Step
Today we’ll walk through designing an invoice from scratch. I’ll be as in-depth as possible and include everything you need to know from the absolute basics to advanced features and even a little design theory.
Posted 9th February 2010
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27 Trendy And Unique Website Header Designs
Coming up with a unique header is always hard, that’s why I decided to make a little list with the ones that had the most impact on me while navigating.
Posted 8th February 2010
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66 Examples of Perfect SlideShow Presentation in Web Design
In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful, unique, and most importantly inspirational designs which are following the same trend of slideshow presentation. We don’t want you to follow any specific trend as the aim here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to create your own design trend because your website represents you and your brand.
Posted 6th February 2010
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The Principle of Contrast in Web Design
A web design is made of many different elements, each having varying levels of importance and some demanding prominence over others. Some elements share a relationship, while others are not related at all. The tricky part is being able to communicate this visually and effectively. This is where the principle of contrast comes into play.
Posted 3rd February 2010
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The “Wow” Factor in Web Design
Sometimes, while looking at a website and browsing through its pages, we will see something that will make us say "Wow!"
Posted 1st February 2010
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Minimal Blog Design Tutorial
Learn how to create a minimal blog design in Photoshop, final PSD available for download.
Posted 20th January 2010
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30 of the Best Fonts Designers Should Use for Print
Although there are a few interchangeable fonts that can be used for web and print, the list we’ve compiled below should help you get a head start on what fonts are the most effective in print.
Posted 19th January 2010
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111 Best Online Web Design Tools
With the progression of the Web, hundreds of web design tools have been established around the world to serve the growing demand for such work.Many of this tools are available and widely used by Web Designers and Webmasters. These tools help Them to explore, learn, design and build their projects from scratch.
Posted 18th January 2010
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In Defense of Vertical Navigation
A rebuttal against the 'The Case Against Vertical Navigation' article
Posted 15th January 2010
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The Case Against Vertical Navigation
I decided to write an article describing what I feel is a solid case against using vertical navigation in modern web design.
Posted 15th January 2010
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20 Basic Illustrator Tutorials Every Beginner Should See
Together they form a super handy resource for any beginner looking to get their brains wrapped around Adobe Illustrator.
Posted 4th January 2010
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All of the Best of 2009
Links to design related "Best of 2009" posts from around the web.
Posted 3rd January 2010
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10 Beautiful Sketches for Website Prototypes
When you start designing a new website it’s very useful to sketch out a first idea of page layout using paper and stencil. This approach help you define easily a working draft of the final version of your website. In general this is a top-down process: you can start sketching first the main sections and then adding more details progressively. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting examples of beautiful sketches for website prototypes for your daily inspiration.
Posted 28th December 2009
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How to Get a Professional Look With Color
Color is the slipperiest design element. “Good” color is so closely tied to elusive things like personal taste and intuition, as well as technical considerations such as contrast and monitor calibration.
Posted 27th December 2009
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Light Fonts Use in Web Design: Examples and Resources
Light/thin fonts are the fonts that are usually slim and slender than usually fonts. Using light fonts one can create beautiful typography, websites, banner and etc. In this post we are exploring basic characteristics of lights fonts , some examples of light fonts and sharing some best free light fonts on the web.
Posted 24th December 2009
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10 Useful Tips for a Captivating Contact Form
Several easy techniques you can use to take your contact forms from boring to brilliant.
Posted 24th December 2009
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Designs of the Year: 2009
What makes these sites special in my mind is that they don’t go overboard in trying to wow you. Their “wow” factor comes from the many subtle nuances that they provide. Many of them go unnoticed when you think about them individually, but when you combine them all they make for a memorable design. I can only hope that after going through these designs you to have a better appreciation of what it takes to bring together a cohesive design.
Posted 23rd December 2009
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30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page
30 examples of nicely designed and implemented sign-up page/ form designs.
Posted 22nd December 2009
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The Best and Worst Identities of 2009
2009 has been a great year for Brand New, with a bottomless source of new and redesigned identities from around the world, and we’ve all had good fun critiquing them in sickness and in health.
Posted 21st December 2009
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30 Website Navigations that Make You Wanna Click It
The navigation might be the single most important aspect of a web design’s usability. Without a navigation, you would be stuck on the home page for a very long time. I believe a navigation or menu must be easy to use, but this doesn’t mean it has to be boring. In fact, it helps to add a little flair to your navigation. It entices visitors to click and hang around your site a little longer. Here are thirty examples of beautifully designed web design navigation for your inspiration.
Posted 16th December 2009
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36 Exmaples Of Simple, Effective Grayscale Logos For Your Inspiration
Here are 36 good examples of logo design that should help you come up with your own excellent logo ideas.
Posted 16th December 2009
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Evolution of Horror Movie Poster Designs: 1922 – 2009
From the dreadful art work created for Nosferatu in 1922 till the present, horror movie posters has evolved with time, immensely. Having celebrated the twisted, the sick, the ghastly, the disgusting and the terrifying, this genre of art is highly evocative. It may be just another creepy photograph conveying malicious promises, or an abstract interpretations rendered by an elaborate painting, designers are experimenting with their creative juices from time immemorial to bring out the ghastly effect in their posters.
Posted 15th December 2009
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Avoiding Multiple Concepts
When doing design work, you have to present your concept for the project to the client, but just how many should you show your client?
Posted 15th December 2009
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16 Ways of Giving Designer’s Block the Boot
As designers our entire career is leveraged on our ability to create a piece of modern art. Some may take this as an exaggeration; however the truth as we know is that we create a miniature masterpiece when we design. From time to time our skills will feel as if they are diminishing and that we don’t have the ability to create designs as we had done before.
Posted 10th December 2009
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21 Big, Bold Typography Website Design
We all (designer) are know that typography is playing a most important part in web design industry. So, have a look at these 21 Beautiful Big, Bold Typography Website Design.
Posted 9th December 2009
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A Showcase of Clever Negative Space in Logo Design
Negative space is the space around and between the main objects in a design. This space often goes unnoticed, unless a creative designer is able to turn the negative space into a key element of the design. Logo designers often use negative space in a way that it becomes just as important as the positive space in conveying the meaning of the logo. Here is a showcase of logos that all possess creative use of negative space.
Posted 8th December 2009
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Create an Animated “Call to Action” Button
In this web design and development tutorial, you’ll get a walkthrough for creating a "Call to Action" button sprite in Photoshop as well as how to use jQuery to animate it. This tutorial is broken up into three sections: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.
Posted 8th December 2009
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20 Killer Dark Portfolio Designs
Today we are here with 20 killer dark portfolio designs by some freelance designers and design studios.
Posted 2nd December 2009
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Oldest Design Galleries
CSS galleries have been around for a long time, but just which ones came first?
Posted 2nd December 2009
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Site Search Trends for Ecommerce Websites
In this article we’ll take an in-depth look at the trends in site searches of ecommerce websites, and plenty of examples will be included for each point. Of course, not all of these points are going to be relevant to every ecommerce site, but it should help to serve as a guide to those who are designing and developing ecommerce sites.
Posted 30th November 2009
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10 Awesome Logo Design Tutorials
Below is a list of 10 awesome logo design tutorials that have really helped me to learn new methods and different effects when designing. I hope you guys find these as useful as I did. Enjoy!
Posted 20th November 2009
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33 Great Examples of Subtle Web Design Details
One easy way to make the sites you build a little more interesting is to add some subtle finishing touches. Often times it's those subtle little details that make a design look "finished" or "polished". In the examples below, picture what each site capture would be like without the details listed above it to see what I mean.
Posted 20th November 2009
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Typography is the backbone of good web design
Below are a few techniques I generally go with when styling my type and aspects I considered and incorporated while designing BrianHoff.net.
Posted 19th November 2009
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How to Use Retro Colors in Your Designs
This article is both a showcase of retro-colored themes in existing web designs, as well as a tutorial on how to achieve retro colors using Adobe Photoshop (you’ll learn about five different techniques).
Posted 18th November 2009
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25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme
Here are 25 online, desktop and iPhone applications to help you live and breathe color management no matter where you are.
Posted 18th November 2009
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50 logo design inspiration
A logo is a uniquely set and arranged typeface that form a trademark or commercial brand. It is a graphical element that gives immediate recognition of an organization. The pattern of a logo depends on the creativity of designer. One Logo of an organization is different from other similar business in shape, color of images, etc. Sometimes Logos are used to identify organizations and other non commercial entities. This collection shows how good logos can be designed.
Posted 18th November 2009
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50 Free Movie Themed Fonts You Can Download
Who doesn't like new fonts? I was searching through the net and realized that a lot of people use some really epic looking movie themed fonts in their projects because, well... they are just plain awesome. I have 50 fonts for you all to check out and download this week and experiment with. Try making some title treatments or some logo reveals, these are bound to spark some creativity in you somewhere!
Posted 15th November 2009
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55+ Creative Street Ideas for Better Inspirations
Some creative persons always try to make more beautiful surrounding area where he live even streets as well which will an example some time for other creative persons as an ideal inspiration for create an better idea for required design assignment, most of the time me prefer to explore other designers work for grow my mind about design tips and tricks so that’s why today sharing some creative street ideas to most of peoples who may get help to make beautiful way on coming charismas as an your latest trend.
Posted 15th November 2009
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10 Ways for Designers to Boost Productivity
Being able to squeeze the benefits out of your workday may be a tough thing to crack, however, fear no more because we’ve provided you with 10 Ways to boost your productivity.
Posted 15th November 2009
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130+ Advertisement Posters of Coca-Cola Past to Present
This graphical article belong to an archive of world famous brand Coca-Cola, they always spend millions in each years on advertisements what ever printing or media advertisements, they always prefer regional trends for creative ads as you seen here in examples of some greatest posters and famous adverts showcase which belongs to different regions and also showing some excellent design presentations from previous century to ongoing.
Posted 15th November 2009
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Photo Retouching: Background Extraction and Color Manipulation
This tutorial aims to educate the reader about the Background Eraser Tool, as well as how to manipulate colors and lighting in Photoshop.
Posted 12th November 2009
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Showcase Of Popular TV Show Website Designs
A collection of Popular TV Show website Designs Around for your inspiration. So this design showcase is worth seeing whether you are in a creative search or just looking for some entertainment.
Posted 9th November 2009
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50 Stunning Video Game Concept Art
Video games can be a great source of design inspiration; they’re the ultimate mash-up of visual goodness and entertainment. Making concept art requires a high skill level with image creation software such as Photoshop and 3D animation applications such as Maya, as well as a very creative mind. In this massive collection, you’ll see variety of stunning video game concept art by talented digital artists for games such as Unreal Tournament, Grand Theft Auto IV, Assassin’s Creed, Half Life, and much more.
Posted 8th November 2009
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49 Beautiful Catalog and Booklet Designs Inspiration
We put together an inspiration post to showcase some of best catalog and booklet designs on the internet.
Posted 6th November 2009
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5 Things to Ignore When Designing Websites
Designers have enough to worry about when doing a design. Here are a few thing that you are safe to forget about.
Posted 4th November 2009
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31 Creative use of Typography in Web Design
Typography is very important in visual communication it is been used in Brochures, Ads, flyers and other marketing materials. Today there is a growing trend among designers to use typography on the web. One of the major reason for the rise of using typography in web design is the evolution of CSS and using of Sprites and browser side font rendering technologies.
Posted 2nd November 2009
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The Dieline's Latest Top 10 Package Designs
A collection of impressive food package designs.
Posted 2nd November 2009
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90 Exciting Typography Posters and Designs
Today we’ve collected inspiring typographic designs, which are great for posters, made by various designers from Behance, Coroflot and more. Click on the images for individual credits, and be dazzled with these awesome designs!
Posted 28th October 2009
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Behind the scenes: Haystack
We designed early concepts for Haystack this past spring/summer. I thought you’d be interested to see some of the designs that we didn’t use, but helped get us to the final launch.
Posted 27th October 2009
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Showcase of 40+ Woody Textured Websites with Texture Resources
Since wood has become one of the most commonly used texture in websites today, this post gathers how these 44 creative examples have implemented it into their websites.
Posted 27th October 2009
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40+ Black Business Card Designs
A good business card can be designed in any color or theme; but the most important thing about any business card is that it is one small piece of paper used to represent your work or your identity. Therefore, the element of elegance is very important in its design. Black color can be used in contrast with a number of different colors, and if used with a combination of some classic elements, can add an elegant touch and appeal to the overall design. Below are some of the business cards which use the power of black in their designs.
Posted 26th October 2009
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40 Amazing Female Role Models for Web Designers
It’s no secret that there’s a large difference in the ratio of males to females in the web design industry, but that’s not to say there isn’t any amazingly talented female designers out there. This post rounds up 40 of the most notable and prominent female designers, who can be seen as perfect role models for anyone currently working their way up in their web design career. Watch out, here come the girls!
Posted 26th October 2009
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20 Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Web Design
Study, read, (re)read and print this page. It will help either make or break your website. And don’t hesitate to let us know of anything we might have left out, in the comments below. We love getting your opinions on things and discussing the articles with you – after all, you’re quite possibly the coolest people in the world.
Posted 25th October 2009
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6 ways to make your design look more professional
I have met with my fair share of inexperienced graphic designers who are searching for their place in this enormous industry. Many have asked me what they can do to design at a more professional level.
Posted 25th October 2009
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The Most Common Design Mistakes That Web Developers Make
The programmer does not need to understand everything about design, but due to the current market it is necessary for the developer to know how to design. Knowing the entire process is also of great benefit when trying to sell your services to a client. It can be possible for a programmer to learn how to design, but following are the most common mistakes that web developers make;
Posted 25th October 2009
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Inspirational Single Colour Logo Designs
We’ve been searching for examples of logos that work fantastically well with just a single colour. Despite the apparent initial simplicity of their designs you soon realise what skill it has taken to create something that works so well without complex colours and details.
Posted 23rd October 2009
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Tips for Designing an Awesome Coming Soon Page
Unlike the traditional under construction pages from the early days of the web, coming soon pages can nowadays prove to be handy tools when launching a new website. Forget yellow hard hats and flashing signs, let’s take a look at what benefits can be seen from some of the best launching soon pages.
Posted 23rd October 2009
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Make an Impact With Your Color Scheme
Choosing the correct colors for your website can be more than just an arbitrary decision, or the use of a particular shade because it happens to be “your favorite color.”
Posted 22nd October 2009
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Big Header – The Power of beautiful web design
In this showcase, you will see how 20 the best websites design their header with a big head. Furthermore, you will understand why they are the best.
Posted 22nd October 2009
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25 Examples of Clean and Well designed Web Sites
Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or initial first impression of the site, here are just a few of the ones im liking.
Posted 22nd October 2009
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How to Plan a Content Heavy Site
A major project can be intimidating. The first time you take one on, it may even be terrifying. But with a little planning, you will succeed with flying colors.
Posted 22nd October 2009
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21 Tactile and Textured Poster Designs
21 beautiful poster designs that make use of texture to some degree or other. Some are really strongly textured, while others are a bit more subtle. All of them are extremely cool and inspiring. I hope you enjoy these!
Posted 20th October 2009
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21 Grid Based Websites
Grid based websites have become very popular over the past year. With a lot of heavier websites users are thrown off or confused because the information is showcased to them in an unorganized way. You can give dominance over other elements without making the website too crowded or overbearing. I love looking at grid based sites – because they are so easy to read and view.
Posted 20th October 2009
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Beautiful Gradient Typography in Web Design
If you’re looking for inspiration and great examples of gradient text treatments in web designs, here are a few to check out.
Posted 19th October 2009
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Design Trends for 2009: Current and Future
Here are some design trends that we’ve seen over the past year as we head towards the end of the year.
Posted 19th October 2009
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27+ Beautiful Examples of Infographics
Infographics allows you to see the and understand the concept in a more interesting and useful manner, Here I’ve listed 27+ beautiful infographic design, that will help and inspire you to design a complex data in to a simple attractive design.
Posted 19th October 2009
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25 Examples of Clean and Well designed Web Sites
Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or initial first impression of the site, here are just a few of the ones im liking.
Posted 19th October 2009
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16 of the Best Designed Sign Up Pages
For developers and designers of successful (and profitable) web based applications, time and careful attention are given to the page where the users sign up or give their money. What point is there to creating a beautiful, functional application to only turn users off with a confusing signup page or convoluted pricing plans?
Posted 18th October 2009
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Elements Of Design: The Line
There are a number of design elements we can use as part of our designs and one of the simplest and most useful is the line. The type of lines you use can convey different feelings, moods and add strength to your ideas. Hairlines, dotted, dashed and curved lines can spice up a design.
Posted 15th October 2009
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40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques
In this post you will see how web designers carefully created background images to achieve their goals in engaging and facilitating the design elements and content.
Posted 14th October 2009
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49 Beautiful Catalog and Booklet Designs Inspiration
We put together an inspiration post to showcase some of best catalog and booklet designs on the internet.
Posted 14th October 2009
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7 examples of innovative effects and techniques in webdesign
Over the years, CSS and Javascript has enabled clever designers to come up with innovative tricks and solutions to common design challenges.
Posted 14th October 2009
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Content Heavy Websites with Beautiful Structure, Layout and Hierarchy
Below are 25 content heavy websites that utilize a beautiful structure, layout and hierarchy in their design.
Posted 14th October 2009
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Fonts Used In Logos of Popular Design Blogs
I got in touch with a good number of design blogs with one question – What font do you use in your logo? I got back a hefty amount of responses and found out the rest through some top notch detective work (a special thanks goes out to all those who replied back).
Posted 14th October 2009
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iPhone App Icon Design: Best Practises
Designing your application icon is a most crucial part of your success on the iPhone platform. The App store with it’s more than 70.000 apps have become quite the crowded bazaar. As an interface designer i cannot but marvel at the emphasis this has put on the delicate art of icon design.
Posted 13th October 2009
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6 Characteristics of Great Logo Design
Like the degrees of separation, we went with the number six when compiling our list of logo must haves, finding these six to play the most pivotal roles in the construction of a great logo.
Posted 12th October 2009
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Tips for Designing an Awesome Coming Soon Page
Unlike the traditional under construction pages from the early days of the web, coming soon pages can nowadays prove to be handy tools when launching a new website. Forget yellow hard hats and flashing signs, let’s take a look at what benefits can be seen from some of the best launching soon pages.
Posted 12th October 2009
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20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs
In the tradition of Inspired Mag’s huge lists, here goes a new one – all the blogs with cool data visualization eye candy in the same place!
Posted 11th October 2009
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3 ways to find the best website color scheme
To help you choose the best color scheme for your next website, here’s a simple process I like to use both with clients and for my own projects.
Posted 10th October 2009
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10 Websites Built with Kohana
A showcase of sites built with Kohana (the PHP Framework) to show what can be done in this excellent framework.
Posted 10th October 2009
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24 Wonderful But Different Blog Comment Form Designs
A showcase of wonderful but very different blog comment form designs. Hopefully some of these unusual designs will help you redesign your own comment form.
Posted 9th October 2009
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Inspiration in Red: The FYC Edition
Inspiration in Red: The FYC Edition, features another awesome collection of imaginative and emotive works from all around the design world with two distinct purposes. The first, of course, is to inspire you, but also to see whether or not that inspiration tends to manifest elements that are associated with the color of choice. Passion, aggression, love, danger, strength, war, vigor, and courage, are generally associated with the color red. Who knows where this inspiration will take you, but you will be the only one that can tell…
Posted 9th October 2009
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15 creative business cards to play with
The business card is one of the must-have stationary marketing material every freelancer should have, and of course having a memorable one will help your business for sure. The following cards are extremely creative and will even allow people to play with it and build something.
Posted 9th October 2009
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15 Really Cool World Map Wallpapers
This compilation shows the best-looking world map wallpaper we can find online.
Posted 8th October 2009
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How to Layout a Comic Book Cover
Learn how to lay out a comic book cover, as well as create a hybrid photograph and comic book inspired image. This style is designed to blur the lines between comic book fiction and reality, creating an image which could feasibly exist in the modern world.
Posted 8th October 2009
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80 Excellent Examples of Mixed Media Fashion Illustration
Fashion illustration is one of the forms of illustration that has been out there forever but seems to blur into the background a bit. This is a shame because it’s one of the most creative and versatile styles in illustration.
Posted 8th October 2009
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15 Common Mistakes in E-Commerce Design and How to Avoid Them
15 of the most common mistakes that e-commerce sites make, as well as advice on how to avoid or fix them. Take the advice under consideration before embarking on a new e-commerce project or when thinking over your current ecommerce site, and make efforts to follow the recommendations outlined here.
Posted 8th October 2009
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3 Powerful Ways To Make Typography Talk On Your Website
Typography is a very powerful tool in a web designer’s arsenal. We have seen simple websites glorified in an instant with the use of proper typography. We have seen brilliant websites pale because the “type” tone they used was all wrong. Understanding typography and implementing its usage might be an art, but it is not so different from being in a society and adapting the etiquettes of proper language, behavior and tone.
Posted 8th October 2009
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25 Must Read T Shirt Tutorials
If you are a designer looking to get into the t shirt design business, be sure to check out these tutorials! The t shirt tutorials below include printing tips, how to create custom stencils and how to mock up your t shirt designs.
Posted 7th October 2009
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Minimizing Complexity In User Interfaces
Clean. Easy to use. User-friendly. Intuitive. This mantra is proclaimed by many but often gets lost in translation. The culprit: complexity. How one deals with complexity can make or break an application. A complex interface can disorient the user in a mild case and completely alienate them in an extreme case. But if you take measures first to reduce actual complexity and then to minimize perceived complexity, the user will be rewarded with a gratifying experience.
Posted 7th October 2009
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Tools for Sketching User Experiences
In this article, I’ll expound on the tools I use every day to design interfaces and experiences. I’ve spent years trying a variety of tools, and so far, analog tools such as markers, notebooks and paper templates have proved to be the most effective because of their constraints and flexibility.
Posted 6th October 2009
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760+ Photoshop Tutorials For Web & Graphic Designers
I have compiled together the ultimate Photoshop tutorial list for web and graphic designers. Mixed in here are a large array of over 760 tutorials from PSD slicing to fantasy art, logo design techniques to text effects, and so many more. Some tutorials are for beginners and some much more advanced. Many thanks to all the websites who have had the time to compile and showcase these lists.
Posted 6th October 2009
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Diving into Flash Design
Notes from a Web nerd on moving from designing Web sites to Flash games.
Posted 6th October 2009
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Showcase of Social Networking Websites
Social networking and social media sites have been popping up everywhere over the past few years. The design of a networking site is important for a few reasons. First, it needs to appeal to the those users who are in the target audience of the site so that they can relate to it and feel at home. Second, usability is very important for these sites because their success hinges on the ability to get first-time visitors to become regular users and repeat visitors. If a site is poorly designed and makes it difficult to interact, chances are the visitors will not continue to use the site.
Posted 5th October 2009
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30 Clever And Creative Package Designs
Thiers great sources for design inspiration every where even including within packaging design. A collection of 30 package designs which which are clever but also very creative. leave a comment we would love to hear which is your favorite design.
Posted 5th October 2009
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Most Used and Abused Web Design Trends of All Time
The year is 1999. You’ve just watched the Matrix, and it’s blown your mind. You sit down in front of your computer to work on a web design and then create or download an animated Matrix background for your Geocities website. You’re so cool. Fast forward 10 years, and you say to yourself, yikes, what was I thinking?! We’ve all been there. As a matter of fact, I’m personally guilty of copying many of following trends.
Posted 5th October 2009
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50 of the Best Movie Websites
Almost every new movie that comes out has an official website. Today we’ll be showcasing 50 of the best ones. You’ll notice that most (if not all) of them are Flash sites.
Posted 4th October 2009
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The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
We present 25 useful print design tutorials as well as a collection of inspirational links at the bottom of the post to improve your skills and get your imagination running wild.
Posted 4th October 2009
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17 Creative Online eCommerce Designs
I have compiled a showcase of 17 of the best creative online eCommerce designs. These designs and user interfaces have thought outside the default shop box and really been creative.
Posted 3rd October 2009
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The Single Purpose Homepage
This post focuses on a design style that's both retro (it's been around a long time) and emerging (the popularity, at least to me, feels like it's on the rise) - the single-purpose homepage.
Posted 2nd October 2009
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45+ Inspiring Examples of Vintage in Web Design
Here is a collection of 45+ Best Examples of Vintage in Web Design that will give you more ideas on how you can achieve a good design. Below you will see a variety of concepts of vintage web design like illustration, grunge, retro, wood and more.
Posted 2nd October 2009
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26 Dark Website Designs That Work Well
I have compiled a showcase of the most fantastic dark website design. All of these designs work very well with each other. The colours, backgrounds, text effects, images and overall web design positioning has selected very carefully in order to make them top of their game, and a masterpiece within itself. If you think I have missed any out from the list of 26, then please feel free to drop in a comment.
Posted 2nd October 2009
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30+ Colourful CMYK Inspired Logos
Alright everybody, time for some inspiration. Today, I have collected over 30 different logo designs that are clearly inspired by the concept of CMYK colour.
Posted 2nd October 2009
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Website Navigation Then and Now
I recently came across a collection of website navigation bars from a few years ago. I couldn't help but wonder how those navbars looked today, and how the impact of site growth, redesigns, branding updates, etc. have affected them. Here's a comparison of the old versus the new (click on an image to view a larger version).
Posted 2nd October 2009
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13 Stunning Pink for October Web Designs
Its October again and that means websites and twitter profiles around the globe are going pink in support of Breast Cancer awareness (including mine). Its not too late to get involved – and you don’t have to turn your website pink to do it – how about a pink Twitter background or give your avatar a pink sheen. For the past few years I have turned my site pink and highlighted some of my favorite Pink for October sites. Below are 13 fabulous websites that have already gone pink
Posted 2nd October 2009
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Links in Print: The Story of a Beautiful Failure
In January 2009 we were invited to take part in a paid pitch for the print redesign for the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. All in all five agencies took part in the pitch. We were the only UX oriented agency. The story of a beautiful failure.
Posted 1st October 2009
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33 Creative and Beautiful Logos
Logo design, like any other design process, sometimes requires some inspiration to spark creativity. If you’re in need of some logo design inspiration, here is a collection of 33 creative and beautiful logos. These all have varying styles, but possess the same high quality.
Posted 1st October 2009
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A Discovery Into 30 Beautiful And Inspirational Korean Websites Design
When you happened to stumble upon a Korean website which seems pretty much rare, the functionality of the site might just disappoint you. But the hard works and the creativeness of Korean designers should not be discounted simply because of some operational aspect.
Posted 30th September 2009
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Bulletproofing Your Firefox For Web Design
Let’s assume that you have a brand new computer and you want to dedicate your time creating web sites and web applications. There are a lot of applications that will be important for your daily tasks, but none as important as Firefox. You can even make your Firefox so powerful that you will need just a couple of applications and you’re done.
Posted 30th September 2009
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27 Creative Website Designs of Art and Design Schools
Below are 27 creative and visually appealing websites of various art and design school worldwide.
Posted 29th September 2009
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20 Inspiring Personal Portfolio Sites You Should Explore
Here is a list of 20 personal portfolios that will hopefully inspire you and give you ideas for your own portfolio site
Posted 29th September 2009
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30 Websites with Maximum Orange
In this showcase we will feature 30 orange colour websites design for your design inspiration. Hopefully this collection will be a good source of design inspiration for you.
Posted 29th September 2009
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77 Inspiring Blog Comment Form Designs – Good Examples
Usually forms are pretty classic with standard fields, submit buttons – nothing more, nothing less. But still even little change of field background, border style, font, rounded corners, small icons can make huge difference.
Posted 29th September 2009
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10 Simple Ways to Instantly Boost Your Inspiration
Inspiration. That strange thing that boosts our brains, lifts our spirits and seems to automagically conduct our hands on the drawing board. Or on the computer keyboard. Or on the rock we’re transforming into a beautiful sculpture. That’s a fantastic feeling to feel. A fantastic place to be in. And fantastic state of your body.
Posted 29th September 2009
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Design a Clean Portfolio Site in Photoshop
Today we will be working through the process of designing a portfolio site layout in Photoshop. The tutorial will break down each step of the process, and you can download the PSD file from Folio Focus if you are interested.
Posted 29th September 2009
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How to Make an Impressive Blog Layout in Photoshop
In this easy to follow web design tutorial, you will learn how to construct a beautiful, sleek, and professional-level weblog design using Adobe Photoshop that you can later use for your very own blog theme.
Posted 28th September 2009
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Inspirational Showcase of Business Card Websites
Business card websites come in all shapes and sizes, but popular charactersitics include a compact, lightweight design, often small in size. Business card sites also tend to make use of Javascript to enhance the user experience and are commonly designed with a fresh take on the interface, taking inspiration from the clean style of Apple’s OSX.
Posted 28th September 2009
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21 Retro Website Designs PT2
These examples showcase many different ways a design can be “retro”. Some attain this look through design techniques like colour schemes or a dusty/rustic look while others use a classic portyal of a “housewife” or a pin-up girl.
Posted 28th September 2009
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Inspirational Tips and Tools from a Designer
I’d like to share with you some of the tools, ideas and resources that I use as a designer whenever I need some design inspiration. Some of the resources and ideas in this article may be things that you already know, and some may be new to you that you can try. Whatever the case, I hope you enjoy it!
Posted 28th September 2009
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Search Results Design: Best Practices and Design Patterns
In this article, we’ll look at a number of trends and practices incorporated on a variety of websites. From this examination, we’ll conclude with a summary of the best practices learned from the examples those sites have set.
Posted 28th September 2009
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Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone
In the showcase below we present some of the interesting, interactive and beautiful designs that are optimized for the iPhone. You will also learn about some handy tools that will help you optimize your website for the iPhone.
Posted 27th September 2009
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40 Websites Using Photography as Their Primary Source of Design
Websites with great use of photos and images have a higher chance to attract the attention of the visitors since humans think and make most of their decisions by seeing. Below you will find 40 websites using photography as their primary source of design to get your creative juices flowing.
Posted 27th September 2009
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25 Impressive Email Newsletter Designs for Your Inspiration
A beautifully designed newsletter can make the user more interested in your product or your service, here i’ve collected 25 impressive news letter designs, for you inspiration, which will be help-full to you on your next newsletter design process
Posted 27th September 2009
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15 Amazing Infinite Scrolling Websites
You don’t have to be a big fan of the scrolling bar, you just have to like an endless stream of cool stuff. And who doesn’t? So we’re ready to unveil 15 amazing examples of infinite blogs and a few tutorials on how you could set up something like that.
Posted 25th September 2009
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Corporate Website Designs: 60 Inspirational Examples
In this presentation, you’ll find variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational corporate designs which is easy to accessible and convenient to approachable. The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to design or redesign your work site to show your skills to potential clients.
Posted 25th September 2009
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30+ Beautiful wood inspired designs
Many designers today are using different styles to create some stunning web designs. In today’s post I would like to share with you some really amazing examples of websites that have been inspired by wood. These sites all bring a sense of warm and personal feeling when viewing them. I have assembled a collection of 30+ beautifully designed wooden website. I hope these sites will inspire you to create your own creations. Enjoy!
Posted 25th September 2009
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25 Creative Retro Styled Website Designs
My goal is to make sure the showcase posts that I create are ‘out of the box‘ and something that will spark your creativity. So, in this article I am going to showcase 25 creative websites that have a retro theme. They range from the use of old-time photos to retro patterns, colors and graphic elements. I hope you enjoy it :)
Posted 24th September 2009
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Trendy Circular Elements in Design
Today I wanted to share my love for circles and show you some examples of circular elements in design.
Posted 22nd September 2009
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Design at Facebook
Today at their headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook’s design team walked through their philosophy and approach to designing for a quarter billion users.
Posted 22nd September 2009
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20 free Photoshop brushes packs for vintage designs
These free Photoshop brushes should make it much easier to create your own vintage design. Although these packs are free, make sure you read the usage requirements before you use them in your projects.
Posted 22nd September 2009
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Bold is Beautiful – 10 Websites Where Big & Bold Rule!
I love sites that use bigger fonts and aren’t afraid to wrap them with the < strong > tag to get the idea across. It’s in your face and and to the point and that’s how I like my fonts.
Posted 22nd September 2009
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The Difference Between Art and Design
So what exactly is the difference between art and design? In this post, we’ll examine and compare some of the core principles of each craft.
Posted 22nd September 2009
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30 Professional Logo Design Processes Revealed Professional
A collection of articles from logo designers who share their tips, tricks and secrets about the process they go through when creating a logo for a client. Including the process which Chris Spooner went through in order to redesign the design bump logo.
Posted 21st September 2009
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Simplicity in Good Web Design : Advantages & How -to
Simplicity in website design doesn’t necessarily equate with a minimalist design aesthetic. Simple sites just remove all unnecessary elements from the design, content, and code. While minimalist sites generally fit this criteria, there are plenty of sites that wouldn’t, by any stretch of the imagination, be considered “minimalist” that still fit the definition of simple.
Posted 21st September 2009
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Mood Board 101: Branding and Image Development
A mood board is a collage of your ideas and inspiration for any design work, whether it be web or print, in the form of visual representations. It’s like brainstorming, but solely for the development of a design’s aesthetics and feel, rather than its content and other plans as well.
Posted 16th September 2009
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30 Free Fonts Which Are Perfect For Professional Logo Designs
A Great compilation of Creative Nerds favourite Free Fonts Which Are Perfect and suitable For creating Professional Logo Designs. A great collections of fonts which are perfect for designers who are designing on a small budget.
Posted 7th September 2009
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Mastering CSS, Part 1: Styling Design Elements
Fresh tips and techniques for creating and styling design elements with CSS.
Posted 9th August 2009
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Getting Your Web Design Coded
A look at the different options for getting you web design coded into HTML/CSS.
Posted 15th July 2009
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21 Fonts That Shouldn’t Be Free…But Are!
Using the right type in your designs, both in type and web, is vital to an attractive and successful design. With so many free fonts out there (Da Font currently has over 9000 fonts to choose from) it’s hard to wade through the varying levels of quality available.
Posted 13th July 2009
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How to Design a Portfolio Site
Screen cast from Elliot Jay Stocks, a well-known web designer, on “How to Design a Portfolio Site.”
Posted 13th July 2009
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Top 15 Logo Design Inspiration Galleries
For companies getting their logos designed in a proper and standout way is very important and on other hand for designers it is not that easy task as they have to show everything that company represents in a small image.
Posted 12th July 2009
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Good Logos Are Flexible: Tips to make sure yours is
Instead of focusing on what makes a logo look good (because we all know we can argue that point for days based on personal taste), I thought it would be best to focus on what makes a logo work well – a better question to ask yourself while designing a logo is “How flexible is the logo?”
Posted 10th July 2009
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17 Remarkably Professional Looking Free Fonts
There is definitely not a shortage of free fonts. However, it can be difficult and time consuming to find free fonts that possess a superior and professional quality. In this post, there are seventeen fonts that fall into this category. These fonts really make you appreciate the generosity of their designers and creators.
Posted 10th July 2009
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Using Wireframes to Streamline Your Development Process
Creating a wireframe is one of the first steps you should take before designing a website. A wireframe helps you organize and simplify the elements and content within a website and is an essential tool in the development process.
Posted 9th July 2009
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32 Useful Portable Apps For Web Designers and Developers
We like portable apps because those applications are lightweight and require no installation to run. As a web designer/developer, i used to work with different PCs. Rather than carrying my laptop everywhere, i prefer saving frequently used applications into my USB drive.
Posted 8th July 2009
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60+ Free Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines
This articles provides a large collection of Fonts for Big, Bold and Beautiful Headlines that will be really useful for most designers.
Posted 8th July 2009
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Create a Web App Admin User Interface in Photoshop
A modern and easy to use Admin User Interface is the key to success of web applications. We are going to show you How To Create a Web Application Admin User Interface in Photoshop. So that you can easily create your own admin user interface for your web applications.
Posted 7th July 2009
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70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website
This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet.
Posted 7th July 2009
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Five Minute Upgrade – Making Your Design Pop
Arms you with a handful of tricks that can have an positive effect on your projects.
Posted 1st July 2009
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8 Simple Ways to Improve Typography In Your Designs
Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.
Posted 28th June 2009
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56 Light & Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme
By now I’m sure you figured out that I love minimalist designs. I’ve featured many simple and minimalist websites on Spyre Studios before but this time I wanted to feature sites that not only have a minimalist layout but that also use very little colors.
Posted 27th June 2009
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How to Create an Illustrative Web Design in Photoshop
In this web design tutorial, you'll learn how to create a professional web design with an illustrated "vector" header in Photoshop. You'll see many techniques here including how to draw using the Pen Tool and a excellent type treatment using layer styles.
Posted 25th June 2009
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27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers
In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. You can download (for free) and use them right away, or customize your own copy that will come in handy in future, your choice. Full list after jump.
Posted 24th June 2009
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7 Highly Practical Photoshop Site Mockups + 1 Amazingly Detailed Tutorial About Converting Them into Working Web Pages
In this post, I will introduce 7 Highly Practical Photoshop Site Mockups I have came aross on the net from a variety of sources, plus 1 Amazingly Detailed Tutorial About Converting Them into Working Web Pages.
Posted 23rd June 2009
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Creative User Interfaces in Modern Web Design
The whole may be more than the sum of its parts, but without the parts, there is no whole. Lest that sound like some weird philosophical meandering to you, take comfort in observing the finer aspects of creative and appealing user interface design.
Posted 23rd October 2008
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CSS Typography Reference Sheet - Get Creative with your Headlines!
This Reference Sheet was created to emphasize the many options available within CSS, particularly for Typography. So, what are you waiting for, get creative with your headlines!
Posted 14th October 2008
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Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services. They are a challenge from both a design and usability standpoint. They must be simple but at the same time clearly differentiate between features and prices of different products and services.
Posted 13th October 2008
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Experience vs. Function a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI
A good user interface (UI) is essential if you want your product to be usable, but you must always be careful to not fall into the trap of focusing too much on that interface. A good UI should fade away, putting content in the front seat it should be transparent.
Posted 13th October 2008
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Admin Templates
Some free, and some paid templates for your custom CMS.
Posted 13th October 2008
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25 of the Best Photographer Portfolio Websites
Web designers often browse through portfolio websites of other designers for inspiration and ideas that can be used in their own work. Photographers, like designers, have a need to display an attractive portfolio for their websites visitors, and many photographers have excellent portfolio sites. In this post I\'d like to take a look at 25 of the best. This collection is based on the quality of the portfolio site itself, not necessarily the work being displayed inside the portfolio.
Posted 13th October 2008
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A Guide to Choosing Colors for Your Brand
strong brand is color selection. Every color has a different feel and various associations. By choosing a color or a combination of colors for your brand identity, you will take on those associations. Colors will evoke certain emotions and feelings towards your brand so it is vital to choose a color that will represent your identity effectively.
Posted 9th October 2008
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Top 10 Sources of Logo Design Inspiration
If you're a logo designer or interested in learning more about logo design, there's no doubt you'd like to see some excellent examples for the best logo designers around for your own inspiration. The ten sites listed below are all great places to visit when you're in need of some inspiration, and many of them will also allow you to share your own work with others.
Posted 9th October 2008
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7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design
It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as engineering, architecture and Web design.
This means that design is not just graphical in nature (which is a form of visual artistic representation), but also the planning of processes to achieve certain goals. Large corporations clearly understand this and incorporate every form of design into their strategy to achieve success.
For a good corporate design, we need to be aware of two main elements, which can be further broken down into a total of seven “ingredients”: design, as in artistic representation (logo, typography, colors), and design strategy (brand, quality, community, culture).
Posted 7th October 2008
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45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes
For graphic designers, working with custom shapes in Photoshop can be a big time-saver. While free brushes get a lot of attention, custom shapes probably get less. Here is a rundown of some of the best resources to download free custom shapes for your own work in Photoshop.
Posted 7th October 2008
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48 Mind-Blowing Ideas and Designs
Over the last years designers came up with a number of interesting concepts which have somehow stuck between the prototyping stage and the production stage. Today we wanted to present innovative designs and concepts that give us an idea of what we should expect from designer’s creative mind over the years to come. In this issue we provide you with over 48 fresh ideas to spice up your environment with a number of innovative gadgets, advertisements, product designs and concepts.
Posted 7th October 2008
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Designers Favorite Fonts In Use
We all have our favorites - from Pantone colors to stylistic approaches to fonts. Designers are at their best when they like the elements they are designing with. Find out what fonts these 8 designers love and why - AND see them in use!
Posted 7th October 2008
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30 Plus Creative Logo Design Gallery for inspiration
Logo design is the master of creation in the design field. I admired some logo designers how they incorporate the concept and the design and finally produce the stunning logos. Here I featured some logo designers site for inspiration. Only for inspiration, for the purpose of you should knowing them. Do not try to copy their work.
Posted 6th October 2008
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CSSSEASON - The Best CSS Based Web Design Showcase
Features the best flash and css web design examples on the Internet, web design gallery, and web design resources.
Posted 6th October 2008
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Top Ten Web Typography Sins
While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected.
Posted 11th August 2008
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Cymbolism
Color is the ultimate tool a designer has at his or her disposal to communicate feeling and mood. Cymbolism is a new website that attempts to quantify the association between colors and words, making it simple for designers to choose the best colors for the desired emotional effect.
Posted 29th July 2008
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12 Best Looking Design Galleries
Design galleries showcase well designed websites, which doesn’t mean that they need to be well designed themselves right? Well of course they should, but with the explosion of design galleries there are some pretty terrible looking ones.
Posted 15th July 2008
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24 Design and Inspiration Websites
Collection of design and inspiration websites that everyone should bookmark.
Posted 14th July 2008
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Creativity and Innovation vs. Predictability
Web design is a creative art. We’ve all experienced situations where we’ve been wowed by a site with an exceptionally creativity design or functionality. However, we’ve also had frustrating experiences with sites that try too hard to buck the trends and wound up being very unusable. In web design and development, creativity and innovation need to be able to work in harmony with usability, not restrict it.
Posted 26th June 2008
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Ptah’s Photoshop Design Framework
Creating layouts from a blank Photoshop file have been pretty tough at times and the fact that I’m primarily a developer doesn’t help at all. In an attempt to speed up my design work flow, I created a little “framework” for designing layouts in Photoshop available for download.
Posted 3rd June 2008
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Which CSS Grid Framework Should You Use for Web Design?
Ever wondered how all those slick "magazine" themes for WordPress and other platforms were created? Many, if not all, were designed using a CSS Grid Framework - at least in essence if not in actual fact. That is, you can use an existing CSS framework or build your own from scratch. While it's possible to design complex web page layouts without a framework, it's arguably an act in masochism. In this article you'll get an overview of the current batch of Frameworks and which you should choose to use.
Posted 21st May 2008
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Typography Essentials - A Getting Started Guide
What is typography? And why is it so important to graphic designers? As long as you spell everything correctly and make sure the message is what the client wants to see, why does the font style make any difference?
Posted 20th May 2008
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The Importance of Favicons
A favicon is an icon associated to a website or web page, it is also called website icon or page icon. There are several ways to implement it but the most traditional one is placing a favicon.ico image file. This image is going to be displayed in the web browser tool bar and bookmarks.
Posted 20th May 2008
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25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and “frilly bits”
25 resources for ornaments, fleurons, and frilly bits.
Posted 19th May 2008
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Footer Design Showcase: 75+ Creative Footer Designs
A showcase of web site footer designs.
Posted 19th May 2008
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Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design
Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different realm, it has a large variety of benefits modern graphic designers often tend to overlook. And that’s a pity. Because we, as designers, can learn a lot from it.
Posted 22nd April 2008
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Should Redesign?
Submit and vote for websites that you think need a redesign.
Posted 4th April 2008
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Grid-Based Design 101
For many designers, grid-based design is still somewhat of a mystery. In this article we’ll take a look at some of the basics of grid-based design so that you can understand it and apply it to your projects.
Posted 26th March 2008
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960 Grid System
The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Posted 26th March 2008
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Perfect pagination style using CSS
This tutorial explains how to design a pagination for search results or more in general to split a long list of records in more pages.
Posted 22nd March 2008
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24 Great Niche Galleries
Tired of seeing the same old stuff in the CSS galleries, check out these niche galleries for something different.
Posted 17th March 2008
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6 Ways to Make Your Website Standout
With millions of websites online and more being added everyday, creating something unique is increasingly difficult. Here is a look at 6 things you can do to make your site standout.
Posted 9th March 2008
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XHTML Slice
XHTML Slice is a fast and easy template slicing service for web developers and designers. We create valid XHTML templates from your graphics (.PSD Adobe Photoshop or .PNG Adobe Fireworks).
Posted 9th December 2007
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Most Sliced
Most sliced is a directory of design slicing services complete with user submitted ratings and reviews.
Posted 17th September 2007
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Pink Sheep Industries
Providing easy-to-use online services that make sense.
Posted 17th September 2007
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CHURCHMEDIA™
Church Media Group is a full service creative agency specializing in media development for churches and ministries. Our goal is to connect ministries to people.
Posted 15th August 2007
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Photoshop Candy
Half Blog/Half Tutorial site. Photoshop Tutorials with a focus on web 2.0 style graphics. Free icons and psds.
Posted 11th July 2007
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Slice'r'us
Slicing your designs into valid XHTML markup & CSS stylesheets.
Posted 15th June 2007
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Port Logo
logo, website and illustration design and some free wallpaper
Posted 23rd April 2007
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icon2u
custom icon design and free icons
Posted 23rd April 2007
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Most Hired
Looking for a new job? Most Hired aggregates all the jobs from the popular job boards.
Posted 30th March 2007
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Texture King
Fantastic textures, must have for any serious designer!
Posted 15th March 2007
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2linka2 - 2creativo
2linka2 is a blog of 2creativo design studio. 2linka2 is a box with a lot of interest links about design, ads, technology, ...
Posted 10th March 2007
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bla.st free visual directory
bla.st lets anyone promote their website, blog or company totally free. bla.st is a graphical, visual directory.
Posted 18th February 2007
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Free & Premium Blog Themes - Tips & Resources
At BlogCut you will find free and premium themes for your blog as well as free icons, tips and other resources!
Posted 16th February 2007
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New Earth Online
New Earth Online offers a range of articles that covers tutorials on various aspects of Webpage development, general programming, and reviews of different products.
Posted 14th February 2007
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Bittbox
Free Design Resources including vector web page elements, buttons, icons, fading corners, quick tips, tutorials and more.
Posted 13th February 2007
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Ergin Tekinbas
Very nice blog site
Posted 11th February 2007
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CSS Showcases and other Inspiration for Designers
Uninspired? Problems with CSS tabs? Need ideas? See this link list about design, tables, navigations and logos.
Posted 10th February 2007
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Adobe kuler
Most educated color picker/color scheme creator I've seen. Very useful!
Posted 8th February 2007
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Firebug
Best firefox extension for any designer. Allows realtime editing of CSS/DOM, javascript debugger and much more.
Posted 8th February 2007
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Talkabout Design
Talkabout Design, lets you do just that.
Posted 8th February 2007
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Squidfingers - Patterns
Resource of lots and lots of seamless textures/patterns. Useful for website backgrounds.
Posted 8th February 2007
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Visual Intent
Visual Intent are graphic and web designers from Perth, Western Australia. Specialising in website design, website development and graphic design.
Posted 7th February 2007
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fadtastic
A multi author web design journal.
Posted 6th February 2007
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Achtentachtig design blog
design and web development blog
Posted 6th February 2007
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ConnorWilson.com Web Dev Blog
Personal web development and design blog of Connor Wilson.
Posted 6th February 2007
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Devlounge
A top-notch designer and developer resource featuring original and fresh articles, interviews, podcasts, and more.
Posted 5th February 2007
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Seven accessibility mistakes you don’t want to make
Even those of us who work hard to build accessible websites make mistakes. Some of those mistakes directly affect the accessibility of the site, others may come back to haunt us down the line. In a two-part article (Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 1), Seven Accessibility Mistakes (Part 2)) published on Digital Web Magazine, Chris Heilmann explains some accessibility mistakes he has encountered and how Web developers can avoid them.
Posted 5th February 2007
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XS Software
XS-Software is a company offering professional internet solutions. Established in 2005 with main office in Sofia (Bulgaria), the company specializes in quality and complete development of complex internet systems like online games, portals and etc. Furthermore, we offer professional design for presentational corporate websites and print materials.
Posted 5th February 2007
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PortfolioBase
Showcasing the best portfolios from all around the world
Posted 5th February 2007
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12 Basic CSS Templates
These templates are intended to be a starting point for your own designs, they aren't in any way meant to be an actual website design.
Posted 5th February 2007
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Browsershots
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers.
Posted 5th February 2007
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The Typetester
The Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.
Posted 5th February 2007
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FavIcon from Pics
FavIcon from Pics is an online tool that can generate a favicon from a picture, logo or other graphic of any size/resolution. It was also the first online tool that simplified the creation of favicons using a regular image without requiring manual edits.
Posted 5th February 2007
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Most Inspired
Most Inspired aggregates designs from all the popular css and design galleries.
Posted 30th January 2007
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Developers Box
A magazine brought to you by the members of Mint Pages discussing about web design, programming and business related articles.
Posted 29th January 2007
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Mint Pages
A private community for forward thinking designers and developers to engage in discussions of design and development related topics.
Posted 29th January 2007
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Uberlook
Uberlook.com is a wonderful directory that is maintained by its users via user submitted websites, blogs, applications -- pretty much any resource one would find useful.
Posted 27th January 2007
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