77 Beautiful Examples Of Conceptual Illustration
Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the month of August, 2010. There is … read more
7 Reasons For Malfunctioning Plugins (and Their Fixes)
Why Your Website is More Valuable Than Facebook
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Name: Sprout Social
Quick Pitch: Sprout Social delivers comprehensive tools that… read more
Typography is one of the most—if not the most—important aspects of Web design. Some would argue that it takes up to 95% of web design . . . so why do we often neglect its importance? The readers that come to your site will often decide whether or not to… read more
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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail.
In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream. In less than three years, he’s been able to reduce 90% of… read more
In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.
Facebook appears to have… read more
A Showcase of Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs
FAQs of Logo Designing – a Designer’s Perspective
Japanese Poster Art: Creative and Inspiring Collection
Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.
Just because the economy is still depressed… read more
Design An Angry Vector Turtle Character In Illustrator
Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media, where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you can follow her on Twitter @AlannaFrancis.
We’re thrilled that the Associated Press has recently released… read more
30 Nice Email Newsletter Designs for your Inspiration
Inspired By Creativity – Logos & Logotypes
Another extremely talented designer by the name of Jennifer Cirpici has volunteered to create two exclusive wallpapers for the readers of PsdTuts+. This months exclusive wallpapers feature something for everyone, on one hand we have a beautiful scenery shot with lots of bright colors, and on the other we have… read more
If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The Onion’s A.V. Club has come up with a solution for you: a crowdsourced iPhone app that lets… read more
A Collection of PSD to HTML Conversion Tutorials
Assemble a photograph contact sheet in InDesign.
Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users.
The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was touting 105 million registered users. That stat came just four months ago, which… read more
Another extremely talented designer by the name of Ee Venn Soh has volunteered to create an exclusive wallpaper for the readers of PsdTuts+. This month’s exclusive wallpaper features an awesome combination of colorful and exotic images that form "The Beautiful Peephole". We also catch up with Ee Venn Soh and… read more
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#64 and make sure to comeback… read more
31 Superb New Websites That You Need To See
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Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in… read more
36 Really Cool & Creative Website Headers
In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, Travis King and Thursday Bram look at estimating and how to start charging for your work.
Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If you have a question about freelancing that you want answered,… read more
As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and… read more
For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the Ronin giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as Quipsologies and Relogik. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more
This tutorial will provide you with an overview of the basic tools and ways of creating images in Corel DRAW. Using a hand drawn sketch as the basis of the illustration, you will create objects using some special tools and learn different ways to work with color.
Step 1
Launch CorelDraw. Import… read more
50 Beautiful and Mysterious Underwater Photos You Have to See to Believe
By Tim Mercer
Paper is a humble medium. It’s often cheap and you probably have some within 20 feet of you right now. Most of us just use it for jotting down ideas, writing notes or doodling but some resourceful artists out there use it to create stunning works of art.
Often… read more
Flickr Groups for Logo and Web Design Inspiration
Tumblr. If you’re a savvy tech maven, you may have heard of, or had the chance to use, this powerful microblogging platform.
No wonder; millions of people have chosen Tumblr as their blogging service, and the average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts every month. Half of … read more
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful… read more
3D Artworks That Create Unbelievable Optical Illusion On Streets
Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness
Well-designed ecommerce and shopping cart websites are regularly referred to for web design inspiration by creative and experienced web developers. They are also being featured on various CSS website galleries, and in fact there are more than a few gallery sites that are solely dedicated showcasing beautiful and standards compliant… read more
The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a… read more
If you’ve seen Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine, you may be a little disappointed: NASA’s mission to visit the Earth’s Sun won’t include sending people up there. But it will be sending a spacecraft into the Sun’s atmosphere, approximately four million miles from its surface. The project, called Solar Probe Plus,… read more
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.
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This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more
Abduzeedo takes pride in being one of the worlds leading design blogs. Having interviewed a bulk of the most infamous creative geniuses, we want to use our potential to introduce a new star on the Abduzeedo stage …YOU.
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This is our fifth contest for The World Collabs. Our new cutting… read more
We’ve just gotten an email from Twitter stating that staffers are testing push notifications amongst themselves and the company will be rolling this feature out to all users soon.
Push notifications would enable users to get instant, real-time updates for certain types of tweets — probably DMs and @replies and perhaps… read more
Robot Posters Inspiration: 18 Mighty Fine Designs
A Retro-Futuristic Design that combines vector elements with Photoshop blending techniques. This design was featured on Design Instruct and PSD Tuts.
Watercolor is definitely one of the most awesome techniques of illustration. I find truly amazing of how much control and precision artists have over their watered inks to form precise art.
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And I’m probably overwhelmed by it because I have no idea how to do it… but yet, I know something… read more
How to Track Six Key Metrics for Your Web App
A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea… read more
Vintage Advertisement of Modern Technology
We human beings have come almost a full circle in communicating with each other. From the paintings in caves during stone age, we have now come to communicating with images & combination of fast moving images (videos) in this modern age. When a picture speaks thousand… read more
JavaScript Fundamentals: Basic Types and Tools [Video Tutorial]
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, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more
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Taking a business from idea to reality involves a good deal of attrition, ingenuity, and compromise. But no matter how much… read more
It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one… read more
Alexander B. Howard is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He’ll be reporting live from the upcoming Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 7-8.
Every year, poison control centers get more than one million calls for pill identification…. read more
15 Kinetic Typography Pieces Based on Popular Films
James Maher is a professional photographer and the operator of the Maher Fine Art Photography Gallery, his work is primarily focused on New York photography, but also of various travel spots around the world, and we have to agree that he has some classic photos of New York City.
For more… read more
I’m going to start this discussion of by revealing a secret about my own design work: I don’t have a process. At least, I don’t have a rock solid, time tested step by step formula that I follow for all my projects. That’s not to say that I shoot from… read more
45 Useful Photoshop Actions for Effective Photo Enhancement
Some things can be so complex. Isn’t it great that Photoshop makes them easy? All you need to know is how things work and you can do whatever your imagination conjures up.
One of the billboards in my Times Square painting contains a model wearing an intricate, crocheted top. I’ve no… read more
Paper will never leave our lives, no matter how digitized we get. Its potential for beauty is celebrated in many designs today, whether in textures, layers, or other additional effects.
These following paper textures and patterns range from the simple to the exquisite, from the crumpled and colored to… read more
40+ Creative Logo Designs Using Punctuation Marks
Banksimple has just raised $2.9 million in a Series A round to fund their ambitious alternative online banking startup for full-service, fee-free banking. The round includes investments from First Round Capital, IA Ventures and Village Ventures, a collection of industry veterans with extensive startup portfolios.
Banksimple’s mission is to reinvent the… read more
A picture is worth a thousand words. But if you include an entire database, make it interactive, and add filtering options, the word-to-picture exchange rate is even better.
Infographics at their best are more than just pictures — they can provide new understandings, succinct summaries, or just plain old fun.
In that… read more
We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more
We all have our spirit of imagination from our childhood — we give a shape to our thoughts by drawing image on school yard, on a piece of paper or on a digital tablet. Photoshop, Wacom and Illustrator are beautiful tools that help us transform our imagination into beautiful drawings…. read more
Photoshop Tutorial: A Multi Color Fire Effect in Photoshop CS5
Blogging Basics for Designers: Choosing a Name and a Platform
Jonathan M. Foerster is an amazing digital artist with such rich style full of colorful shine elements that intricate the eyes as they look for an understanding. I could look at each piece for a long time and still find the details that will change my point of view.
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There are a number of mammoth picture editors that can do just about anything with an image. Then there are a few very effective smaller-scale apps that have a lot of power while remaining simpler to use – a personal favourite is Acorn. But if you’re someone with… read more
They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones create atmosphere, vibrant… read more
By definition, the word “freelancer” implies that you are self-employed take on several projects from multiple parties. Many freelancers find this sort of a glamorous life, but in a sense I have to argue against it. In fact, there’s not too much that is desirable about scraping for food. And… read more
25 Fresh and Ultra Creative Text Effect Artworks
Continuing our posts showing you beautiful and inspiring packages, we gathered some really nice examples of food related packages. From catchup to peanuts and honey, we will show a little bit of everything to illustrate that no matter what your product is about, a nice and well designed package always… read more
The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Pop Art
The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you?
Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s… read more
Apple made a lot of announcements today, from the new Apple TV to the Ping social network for music built into iTunes 10.
Because Apple is entering some new market segments (or, in the case of Ping, some new markets, period) Apple is now a direct competitor to a number of… read more
45 (Fresh) High Quality Photoshop PSD Files
Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more
Working on Your Business, Not Just in It
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This is not your father’s world wide web. Thanks to soaring smartphone sales, new tablet devices like the iPad, and the burgeoning trend of connected devices, individuals are accessing and experiencing the… read more
Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app.
It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those… read more
When it comes to adding JavaScript functionality to a website, jQuery has become the solution of choice for web designers and developers. With it’s ease of use and ever-growing selection of plugins, there’s really no point to look elsewhere. Awesome jQuery plugins are popping up everyday, and we’re always on… read more
The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on 3D logos… today it’s all about logos with boats!
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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond, Logo Faves, Logo… read more
Everything’s stored online nowadays. Contact information, bank details and even your files. But just how secure are those backups?
CloudSafe helps to secure online files by the use of heavy encryption. In this article, I’m going to be showing you how to set up a virtual safe where you can store… read more
A Detailed Look into Popular Styles in Web Design
iTunes 10 is now live and available for download. It comes bundled with its own killer feature: music-centric social network Ping.
Announced just this morning, the new iTunes/Ping one-two combo pack a mighty punch. But can this dynamic duo deliver on its promise to revitalize music-based social networking? And will Ping… read more
Styling Submit Buttons for Mobile Safari
Build an iPad-Themed Image Slider With jQuery
One of the great things about stepping up from compact cameras to SLRs is the amount of extra control you get over the final shot. While that control can be used in an almost infinite set of combinations, one of the more popular and effective ways to… read more
Poster Design Inspiration: 40 Examples by Creative Designers