CSS Sprites Revisited

I’m pretty confident that I won’t surprise anyone here by saying that CSS sprites have been around for quite a while now, rearing their somewhat controversial heads in the Web development sphere as early as 2003.

Still, the CSS sprite hasn’t truly found its way into the everyday toolkit of the… read more

Balancing Work and Family

When I read this article about how Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, leaves work at—gasp! 5:30 pm every day—I was both happy and annoyed.

I am a huge proponent for working smarter—not longer or harder. I can get done in a few hours what takes some people all day. I am… read more

Vue 10 xStream

Create Realistic Digital Nature Environments

It’s finally here! When I heard that the new version of Vue xStream was ready, I was very curious to see what the folks at e-on software had come up with to make the computer graphics crowd take notice and buy this latest version. I… read more

The Art of Vectoring Hair

We’ve previously looked in detail of the theory work and techniques used in skin shading, now we’re going to look into vectoring hair.

Rendering hair in vector is one of the more challenging areas when learning to vector portraits, yet rendering is not the only thing you need to consider. Assuming… read more

65 Fresh and Creative Portfolio Website Designs for Inspiration

Portfolio is the reflection of one’s work and skills; any potential employer actually goes through your portfolio and sees your previous designs and work you have done. Going over your portfolio he decided to either hire you or not. Most employers search on the net; those portfolios which have something… read more

FreelancerPro Interview: Building a Writing Career Without Formal Experience

It’s always nice to hear a good success story. That’s what struck me when I read about Andrea Wren. The UK-based freelance journalist successfully made a career out of freelance writing with no previous experience or training. Andrea is proof that as long as you can write well, you… read more

10 Awesome Websites With Wood Texture

Every now and again I’ll get a client who already knows exactly how they want their website to look.  Now, some times this can be quite nice as it makes the design process quite a bit easier on my end, other times it can be a bit frustrating as their… read more

30 new business cards – Best of march and april 2012

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40 Recently Released jQuery Plugins

Its that time of the year again were we take a look at and highlight the most useful recently released jQuery plugins.
As expected from the jQuery community, the selection we have for you is highly impressive. They never, ever let you down.

The 40 plugins we have… read more

Intertitles and Typography: How Typography Dictates a Film’s Mood

I’ve seen over a hundred films in the last two years, and most of them are some of the best I’ve watched in my life. Well, some of them were shown in cinemas while I was a toddler. After playing catch-up with films from the late 1960s onwards, I’ve seen… read more

Weekly Poll: Have You Ever Backed a Kickstarter Project?

Have you ever backed a Kickstarter project?

Kickstarter is one of the most phenomenal projects on the internet today in many ways. It’s a site where anyone can launch a project to raise funding for a product they’ve always dreamed of making. From new magazines to theme parks to gadgets,… read more

11 Extremely Useful Fresh Free Fonts

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Looks like we almost let an entire month go by without finding some fresh free fonts for our readers. If you’ve been a WDL reader for while, you know that we take great pride in finding and letting you know about hight-quality freebies. It’s all about… read more

5 Ways to Market Your Brand With Location-Based Networks

Brian Honigman is the digital marketing manager at Marc Ecko Enterprises. He is a part of Ecko’s marketing and ecommerce team, ensuring a polished brand experience across all channels. Follow him on Twitter @Brian_Honigman.

Between the rise in location-based social networks, like Foursquare, and the mobile market’s meteoric growth,… read more

Get Paid for Sharing Ads on Your Social Networks

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Wingsplay

Quick Pitch: Earn money to share ads with your social network

Genius Idea: Wingsplay gives average… read more

30 Groovy Gig Posters

When you’ve got 100+ bands in one city, chances are you’re going to miss a couple of gigs that you would have really enjoyed (had you known about them, at least). There are a billion places a poster might occupy, after all, but around 80% of the time those particular… read more

Lost Your Phone? The Government Wants to Find it For You

If you’re one of the many cellphone owners who’ve ever left their mobile device behind at a crowded restaurant, packed bar or city-crossing taxi, you know the heart-sinking shock felt when you reach for your phone only to find it missing — all because some quick-fingered swindler grabbed it while… read more

7 Things a Creative Team Needs to be Great

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Whether we’re talking about a 5-person team at a small agency or hundreds of creatives at a company like Apple, there are seven key ingredients that evoke potential for greatness.

Over the past 13 years, I’ve seen the gamut—from a solid group of talented people handcuffed by rampant… read more

Time Out New York Makes a Major Bet on ECommerce

Online retailers have become a growing threat to lifestyle magazines over the past few years, hiring away influential editors and building their own magazine-like interactive spreads.

Now magazines are fighting back — by establishing online shops of their own.

Time Out New York, a weekly print and digital magazine covering film,… read more

CloudOn Brings Microsoft Office, Adobe Reader To Your iPad

In January CloudOn launched its iPad app allowing you to access and work with Microsoft Office documents directly on your iPad, saving those documents to DropBox. Tuesday, the company took its app a step further, adding support for Adobe Reader as well as the ability to also store and access… read more

On Twitter, Facebook’s Instagram Acquisition Has a 12% Approval Rating

There may have been champagne and celebration at Instagram and Facebook early Monday when their $1 billion acquisition deal was announced. But there was little joy in Twitterville.

Twitter sentiment analysis firm Crimson Hexagon looked at 200,000 tweets that mentioned the deal — and found that just 12% of them… read more

21 Amazing Images of Medieval Structures

National Geographic photographer, Jim Richardson once said, “If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff.” There’s certainly an element of truth to that that these photographs of medieval structures serve to demonstrate. If you are lucky enough to have some of your own,… read more

16 Ways Educators Can Use Pinterest [INFOGRAPHIC]

Teachers are known for their organizational skills, so chances are they’ll love Pinterest‘s intuitive and logical design.

The social network’s user experience has helped it earn a top spot among today’s most popular social networks. Therefore, we predict that teachers will give it a gold star, too.

Our friends at OnlineUniversities.com… read more

YouTube Lets Partners Make Money from Paid Livestream

Next time you have guests at your home for a live TV event, you might be streaming it from YouTube. Just don’t expect it to be free.

YouTube announced it would add the option for partners to monetize on YouTube Live, its year-old streaming service, with advertisements or other paid… read more

How Instagram’s $1 Billion Sale Helps Other Photo-Sharing Startups

When Facebook decided to acquire Instagram for a whopping $1 billion on Monday, the two companies weren’t the only ones with reason to pop open a bottle of champagne.

The acquisition has lent legitimacy to a whole genre of startups — photo-sharing apps — previously accused of being a fad.

“Every… read more

10 Hip MacBook Decals [PICS]

1. Typewriter

We like the retro reference with this old school decal.

Cost: $7.99

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You know… read more

Meme Alert: Chandler Bing From ‘Friends’ Dances on Everything

Rick Santorum may be dropping out of the presidential campaign, but there’s one thing he’ll leave behind in perpetuity — and it’s not sweater vests. Santorum still has the character Chandler from the iconic sitcom Friends dancing on him.

Thanks to Chandler Dances On Things, a Tumblr blog that has gone… read more

30 Great Open Source Mac Apps

An open source application is a piece of software for which the source code is available and in the public domain. Developers are able to download the code and modify, contribute and change it to suit their needs. This means businesses can ‘tweak’ software according to their needs and individuals… read more

Ozzie Guillen Suspended for Fidel Castro Comments; Twitter Talks Back

1. @EdgeofSports

The Nation editor Dave Zirin said others in pro sports have much more to apologize for than… read more

Facebook Contest Finds 10 Best Shots of New York City [PICS]

Robert Caputo

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The City of New York asked city dwellers to submit their… read more

The Best Photography Book

A guest post by Louis Hamwey, tour leader with citifari, New York Photo Tours

As photo tour guides in New York City we get a lot of different questions. They range everything from the newbie asking, “how did you make the background blurry?” to the experienced hobbyist looking to perfect exposing… read more

StarCraft II and the Rise of American Pro Gaming

Marc Georges is a freelance journalist. He writes about how technology is shaping our culture and society. In his free time, Marc produces comedy videos on news and politics with his pals at The Full Ginsburg. Follow him @marcgeorges.

There’s no mistaking it: Columbus, Ohio is a sports town. Drive through the city… read more

Robot Helicopters to Hunt Pirates With Lasers [VIDEO]

Pirates seeking plunder on the high seas might soon be caught by the U.S. Navy’s autonomous “robocopters,” equipped with 3D imaging laser technology.

The Office of Naval Research announced on April 5 that it would begin testing the pirate-seeking drones late this summer. The drones and a software program would… read more

Rick Santorum Drops Out of Presidential Race, But His Memes Live On

Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, has dropped out of the 2012 presidential race, but his campaign’s impact on the social web lives on.

Follow along as Mashable highlights the videos, memes and viral content brought on by Rick Santorum for president.

The “Google Problem”

Who could ever forget Rick Santorum’s infamous… read more

Quickly Apply Effects to Your Artwork Using Filter Forge 3.0

Most designers have at some point in their career, been faced with having to design artwork for a friend or family member, on a tight deadline, with no budget. In those instances, designers often have to rely on special tools and effects to help them quickly produce the artwork they… read more

Build a Successful Creative Business

I was engrossed in this blog post about why creative businesses fail written by Jason Aten. I work in a creative field (magazine publishing) with many creative people (writers, photographers, and graphic designers). If you work in the creative industry and are looking to start your own business—listen up!

Jason… read more

DesignModo’s Impressionist UI Pack (The World’s Biggest User Interface Elements Pack) Giveaway

DesignModo is running a contest, where Impressionist User Interface Elements Pack for 3 winners (1 developer license and 2 personal license) are givingaway. Well, you guys know what is Impressionist UI Pack? Let’s say it once again for n00bs.

Impressionist is the world’s biggest user interface elements pack. It contains over 300 elements… read more

Differences Between Google+ Pages and Profiles

If you are not familiar with Google+ consider reading my previous article –
8 Reasons that Make Google+ Better than Facebook and Twitter – for an introduction.

This article is about the differences between Google+ pages and Google+ profiles. This way you can use each of them to represent… read more

proNotes 2.0: More Than Meets The Eye

It is rare to find a note taking tool that incorporates task management. That’s why proNotes first caught my attention a few years ago, but then development seemed to wane and I lost track of the application. That is until a few months ago, when I stumbled upon the proNotes… read more

Freelance Tasks To Do Without the Internet

Thanks to the internet, it is more advantageous to work as a freelancer these days. You can conveniently find clients online, market your work effectively at a low cost (or for free), network with colleagues, run your website, research, handle your accounting and a lot more.

But having such easy… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create a Projector Screen Illustration

In this new quick tip you will learn how to create a simple Projector Screen illustration using some basic shapes and the Appearance Panel. Let’s begin!

Step 1

Create a 600 by 600px, RGB document. First, enable the Grid (View > Show Grid) and the Snap to Grid (View >… read more

UI Patterns For Mobile Apps: Search, Sort And Filter

Editor’s Note: Smashing Magazine is happy to present this sample chapter from Theresa Neil’s new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery: UI Patterns for iOS, Android and More, which provides solutions to common design challenges. We’re certain you’ll find the information useful for your next mobile project.

As I was waiting for… read more

Create a Plastic ID Badge in Illustrator

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a plastic ID badge in Adobe Illustrator CS5. We’ll use pixel perfect vector build methods, multiple highlights, and effects to create the plastic and lanyard texture, then add your own image to the badge.

Step 1

Hit Command + N to create… read more

40+ Useful Free Online Books for Web Designers

Today, Web site Design is a very important part of current Graphic Design. To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must look out self education sources, such as books, books are very important, helps us to build our spirit, give information, helps us to write and think… read more

Announcing The Ultimate Freelancer Pricing Guide — A Newsletter Exclusive

An Exclusive Series for Newsletter Subscribers

Are you a FreelanceSwitch Newsletter subscriber? If not, now’s the time to join! We’re running a fantastic series of articles, focused on how you can effectively and easily price your services.

We’ll be looking at topics such as hourly vs. fixed rates, assessing the competition,… read more

What’s new for designers, April 2012

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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Create a Simple Map Illustration

In the following Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create your very own simple vector map illustration. First, we’ll build the starting shapes using pixel perfect alignment, some basic vector shape building techniques along with a bunch of warp effects. Then we will put on the finishing touches…. read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.127)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Focus On: Social Media Badges and Viral Marketing

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There is a lot of talk about Internet marketing and the new era of social media. It is now easier than ever before to create accounts on many infamous social websites to build up your own brand. But this technique requires strategy and a bit of… read more

10 Waterproof Smartphone Cases to Prevent Disaster

1. EscapeCapsule

The Kickstarter product has received an overwhelming response, so your pre-order may take awhile. But the high… read more

Need an Instagram Alternative? This Photo App Has Old-School Filters, Private Sharing

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Pinweel

Quick Pitch: Pinweel is a free iPhone app that lets you snap photos, apply filters and… read more

35 Newsletter Design Showcase

35 Newsletter Design Showcase

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Buying an App From a Developer is as Simple as Ebay

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.
Name: Apptopia

Quick Pitch: Apptopia is a marketplace where developers can sell their apps.

Genius Idea: A… read more

‘Legend of Grimrock’ Resurrects the Old-School Dungeon Crawl [REVIEW]

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31 New Inspirational iPhone & iPad Application Websites

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When you first launch a mobile app there is often a huge influx of downloads in the first few days. This is followed by a lull after your app drops out of the brand new section. The solution to keeping your downloads constant is building up… read more

5 Tips for Creating and Maintaining Customer Loyalty

Guy Nirpaz is the CEO and co-founder of Totango, which provides a customer engagement platform for software companies.

Selling cloud and software-as-a-service applications is all about driving usage, adoption, and customer success—not about selling. This is obviously true for onboarding new customers, who start with a free trial and will only… read more

Netflix Starts a PAC. Will It Lobby For a New SOPA?

Netflix has a new feature: Instantly streaming thousands of dollars to lobbyists and candidates through a Political Action Committee.

The company has formed a committee named FLIXPAC, according to Politico. Put simply, a PAC is an organization that lobbies for a certain candidate or piece of legislation. Via FLIXPAC, Netflix can… read more

Meet a New Friend, Robotic Puppet TJ*

If you’ve ever been looking for a robotic puppet, your day has finally arrived.

Meet TJ*. He’s one part toy and one part science project. Just like a puppet, his owners — or rather, his puppeteers — can use a remote control to move his eyes up and down… read more

Learn How to Get Better Photographs With Existing Light

Without light, photography would not exist. Lighting is so important, in fact, that we are constantly creating new devices and equipment that will allow us to control it. Almost all modern cameras come with some sort of flash and a good number of us have a small arsenal of studio… read more

Daily Inspiration #1104

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

20 Free Blackboard PSD Models

20 Free Blackboard PSD Models

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Open Government is Go for Launch at NASA

NASA has revamped its two-year-old Open Government Plan with a new website and a commitment to building a community-focused online architecture, featuring new tools for data sharing and open source development.

The new Open Government Plan, “Flagship Initiative,” is the creation of an “accessible, participatory and transparent web environment,” a goal… read more

Nokia Lumia 900 Hard To Find On Launch Day, Still Selling Well [VIDEO]

Nokia held a huge launch party for the Lumia 900 in NYC’s Times Square on Friday night. But when it came time for the phone’s release on Sunday it was hard to find the handset anywhere near where the celebration was.

According to New York Times writer Brian Chen, nearly… read more

Can Employers Ask For Your Facebook Password? Not in Maryland

If you’re a resident of Maryland, you no longer have to fear a potential employer asking you to hand over the keys to your Facebook or Twitter profiles before giving you a job.

Both Houses of the Maryland General Assembly voted on a bipartisan basis to pass a bill blocking the… read more

6 Ways Social Media Can Bring Your Next Event to Life

Trevor Jonas is director of social media at Access Communications, where he develops digital communications strategies for clients spanning the financial services, consumer electronics, and food and beverage industries. Follow him @TrevR.

Earlier this year, Microsoft brought in an acapella group to sing tweets from CES 2012 and last month Skype… read more

Dear Facebook, Please Don’t Ruin Instagram

For Facebook, buying Instagram looks like one of the smartest acquisitions the company has ever made. But when the news first broke that Facebook had acquired Instagram, my immediate instinct was dread.

I tweeted that my favorite mobile app was now destined to be ruined. Given the stunned reaction from… read more

Redditor Tells All After Home Destroyed by Jet Crash

“Hi my name is Devin and I’m 21 years old. I can’t even begin to wrap my mind around what has happened. Who thinks they’re gonna wake up one morning then have their house destroyed by a jet??”

Devin posted this picture with the wreckage of her home circled.

On… read more

Attend an Intimate Breakout Session at Mashable Connect

Mashable Connect is only a few weeks away! Now’s a better time than ever to get your pass to our biggest conference of the year.

There are many reasons to attend Mashable’s largest conference of the year, and now we have one more: breakout sessions.

In addition to a diverse… read more

Toggl: Time Tracking You’ll Actually Use

Whether you’re a freelancer, billing your clients by the hour, or are working with your team on an awesome idea, It’s always a good idea to track your time. Tracking time lets you plan your tasks better, period. But most of the apps available are riddled with bugs or confusing… read more

Facebook Instagram Acquisition: 20 Witty Reactions

Comparing Instagram to Kodak

On April 9, Facebook announced plans to acquire popular photo-sharing app Instagram. Earlier this year,… read more

What to Eat Tonight? DinnerSpinner App Puts Your Pantry In Your Pocket

Deciding what to make for dinner just got a little easier with Allrecipes’ updated Dinner Spinner app.

The updated app now allows you to keep track of what food items you have at home in a virtual pantry, and scan items at the grocery store with your smartphone to find… read more

How to Think Big in Business

Alex Goldfayn’s new book is called Evangelist Marketing: What Apple Amazon and Netflix Understand About Their Customers (That Your Company Probably Doesn’t). He is CEO of the Evangelist Marketing Institute, a marketing consultancy with clients that include T-Mobile, TiVo and Logitech.

Experience is the enemy of thinking big. So is fear,… read more

Customizing Panel End Marks in Lightroom 4 (or LR3)

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom.

If you own your own studio, or are heading in that direction, it is nice to have your Lightroom customized to your own studio. This portrays an… read more

Many Instagram Users Already Heading for the Exits

Now that Facebook has purchased Instagram, third-party services that offer access to photos and feeds are getting hammered by users.

Although Instagram is a mobile-only social network, the service makes an API available to developers who want to access the stream of user photos and comments. This has allowed for the… read more

Facegram FTW! How Facebook Could Actually Improve Instagram

No doubt you’ll hear or read this phrase a hundred times Monday: Instagram is over. Facebook bought it and now it’s going to ruin it, right? It’ll never be the service we knew and loved again.

Not so fast, Instagrammers. Before you all rush over to instaport.me or any one… read more

Touchscreen Directories Are Coming to NYC Phone Booths

New York City’s dilapidated phone booths are getting a high-tech makeover. Hundreds of phone booths will soon be outfitted with iPad-like touchscreen devices for directions and hyper-local news.

New Yorkers will see 32-inch smart screens in neighborhood phone booths starting next month, as part of a Department of Information Technology and… read more

Deleting Your Instagram Account? Here’s How to Save Your Pics

Facebook is buying Instagram — and some Instagram users aren’t happy about it.

They’re tweeting that they’ll delete their Instagram accounts because of the acquisition.

The fear is that in addition to the company, Facebook has acquired all of that location-tagged photo data from Instagram’s users and may use it… read more

Facebook Acquires Instagram: What Do You Think? [POLL]

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the social network’s acquisition of Instagram on his Facebook Timeline Monday.

In his post, he writes that Facebook intends to keep the service as is, saying that the company is “committed to building and growing Instagram independently.” He stresses that Instagram’s growth is… read more

2.5 Million Laptops Later, One Laptop Per Child Doesn’t Improve Test Scores [STUDY]

At $200 per computer, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has sold or facilitated donations of about 2.5 million laptops to classrooms in 42 different countries.

A new study suggests those laptops do not, however, have any effect on achievement in math or language.

The study, which was conducted by development funding… read more

Nokia and Microsoft Take on the iPhone — By Going Local

Windows Phone just got a big boost from the Nokia Lumia 900, the first phone on the platform to boast an ultra-fast LTE network connection — something you can’t get with the iPhone. The Windows Phone camp also has a plan to attack Apple’s iOS platform where it’s strongest: the… read more

45 Fresh Collection of High Quality Free PSD Files

What else can be so great for a designer than finding out high quality Photoshop PSD files? This is because PSD file format allows designers to add their own personal touch to an already designed work while saving loads of time that will be required to create that work from… read more

How NOT to Deal With Criticism

We face criticism from all sorts of angles, both in our professional and in our personal lives. It never ceases to amaze me how often complete strangers will offer up advice on everything from parenting skills, to recipe enhancements, to the exact right way to get from point A… read more

21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Men

A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App.

Following the previous article on posing when photographing female subjects, let’s look at some starting points with men photography. Men are usually less comfortable in process of being photographed, so it’s important to get him to be at ease with the process… read more

The Perfect Office #134

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Quick Tip: How to Create an Abstract Curly Banner

Follow this quick tip and learn how to create an abstract curly banner. We will use multiple appearances and many Art brushes along with the Transform effect. Also, if you like curls this is good opportunity to practice drawing so let’s begin!

Step 1

First open a new web document. Take the… read more

The Benefits of the Freelancers Union

There’s a union for every profession, and freelancers are no exception. If the thought of joining a union conjures up images of strikes, scabs and outrageous membership dues, think again! The Freelancers Union is an awesome nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting freelancers from all disciplines—and membership is 100 percent… read more

Photoshop CS6 Beta: What Makes This Update Great

Since Adobe announced the beta for Photoshop CS6 a little over a week ago, it has been downloaded more than half a million times. Even if you’ve managed to miss the onslaught of tweets and reviews, the magnitude of eager testers should indicate how anxious photographers and designers were for… read more

Screenleap: Effortless Screen Sharing

The Internet has continued to make it easier for us to keep in touch with friends, hold virtual meetings, and even telecommute to work. It’s almost as if, for the tech savvy, at least, distance is no object when it comes to accomplishing tasks and getting work done. There are… read more

Amazing Typography & Illustrations by Jordan Metcalf

Jordan Metcalf is a Graphic Designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. His love for illustration and typography translate into his amazing works. His creativity with type and detail on the execution is what make his work so special. Check it out!

For more from Jordan visit his Behance & jordan-metcalf.com

Popular… read more

Giveaway: Win Impressionist UI Packs

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

We… read more

Freelance Freedom #253: Directed Focus

Once a week, we feature a fantastic freelance-themed comic from the talented N.C. Winters. Why not also take a look at our comic archive?

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How to Illustrate a Button Sewed into a Cloth

While reading this tutorial and creating your own artwork, you will learn the important techniques of Adobe Illustrator. It will undoubtedly lead you to improving your skills in making illustrations and designs. Here you’ll learn how to create a button sewed into a piece of cloth. Let’s get started!

Step 1

First… read more

Step by Step UI Design Ebook Giveaway – Winners Announced

Last weeks Step by Step UI Design Ebook giveaway has just ended and it is now time to announce our randomnly chosen winners.

Congratulations to the winners, we promise, you will really appreciate this book. You should have all by now received your winner email, if not, please do… read more

From the Unconscious Mind: Gallery of Surrealistic Digital Art

When most people think of surrealism, they merely think of the bizarre. They think of artwork that somewhat blends the real with the abstract. They do not take into account the movement which sought to unleash the full creative potential of the unconscious mind. This injects a much deeper meaning… read more

Interview: Graphic Designer Belle Tragedie

Interview: Graphic Designer Belle Tragedie

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Are You A Light Seeker?

First, let me say that I borrowed the expression ‘light seeker’ from fellow photographer Jerod Foster. It’s the perfect way to describe what we are as photographers and I am going to try to explain why we need to pay more attention to the light around us to make better… read more

5 Social Entrepreneurship Startups You Should Know Right Now

In our new series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.

By harnessing the power of digital technology, these five companies have offered resources to citizens in need, helped to eliminate landfill junk and funded social… read more

15 Free Heartwarming Easter Design Resources

15 Free Heartwarming Easter Design Resources

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Behind the Scenes at 9 Hot Tech Startups [PICS]

For the Startup Spaces Series, Mashable got to scope out the spaces of some of the hottest startups around.

Unsurprisingly, the offices of these companies have just as much personality as the products themselves. Full of killer perks, like ping-pong tables, kegs of beer and endless snacks, startup founders know… read more

Google Glasses on Famous Faces [PICS]

Ever since Google announced Project Glass, people have wondered what place the augmented reality glasses could have in everyday life. Some were excited about the possibilites of Project Glass — while others poked fun at their seemingly impractical nature.

SEE ALSO: The Internet Makes Fun of Google Glasses [PICS]We’ve decided to… read more

Could CISPA Be the Next SOPA?

A bill introduced to the House of Representatives late last year could become the centerpiece of the next SOPA-style struggle between the tech community and Washington, D.C.

The bill already has over 100 co-sponsors and the backing of some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent companies, including Microsoft and Facebook — support… read more