PHP Ad Tracker Part III: Data Object Coding

March 23rd, 2012
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PHP Ad Tracker Part III: Data Object Coding

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Top 30 Beautiful Female Street Fighter Characters

March 23rd, 2012
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Top 30 Beautiful Female Street Fighter Characters

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35 Free and Cute Comic Fonts

March 23rd, 2012
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35 Free and Cute Comic Fonts

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Guidelines to Follow when Building for the App Store (iOS & Android)

March 23rd, 2012
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There are a lot of factors to consider before building and submitting a mobile application. Developers have plenty of resources on the web for consulting official documentation. But there are some traits you should consider about the overall process.

Whether you are building for Apple or Android-powered devices will… read more

Matthew Hawkins: Toying Around With Paper Engineering Creativity

March 23rd, 2012
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When I was with a former employer there were rumors of upcoming layoffs (obviously the rumors ended up being true or I wouldn’t be referring to it as a FORMER employer). The company denied the rumors, which sent employees a message to be nervous. Sure enough, layoffs started. First it… read more

Vector glossy and metallic ninja stars in Illustrator

March 23rd, 2012
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Vector glossy and metallic ninja stars in Illustrator

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30 Useful Chrome Extensions For Bloggers

March 23rd, 2012
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30 Useful Chrome Extensions For Bloggers

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8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

March 23rd, 2012
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8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

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Create Stellar Prototypes with Antetype

March 23rd, 2012
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There are so many among us with a ton of ideas for the next Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. But, ideas are practically worthless unless you have at least a prototype in place. If you think it would be a good idea to entrust someone to make your vision for the… read more

Beautiful and Inspiring Logos

March 23rd, 2012
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Browsing beautiful logos is always inspiring. Logos are actually a very good way to check out how designers put together colors, typography, textures and several other design elements. Today we gathered a few beautiful and inspiring logos to show you. From colorful, bold and textured logos… read more

Creative Fuel #2: Letter-cutting, Presidential Logos, Responsive Design & Chat UI PSD

March 23rd, 2012
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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

Letters & Stone

I Love Typography has an absolutely fascinating feature on Fergus Wessel. Fergus is… read more

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

March 23rd, 2012
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Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

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A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

March 23rd, 2012
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A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

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A Clean Mini Social Media Icon Set

March 23rd, 2012
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A Clean Mini Social Media Icon Set

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Kids Build ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Viper Simulator in Garage [VIDEO]

March 23rd, 2012
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Here is a list of some of the geekiest things in the world: Flight sims. Kickstarter projects. Maker Faire projects. Battlestar Galactica fans who know the 1970s series as well as the 2000s version. And high school students who engineer projects in their spare time, in their garage.

Put… read more

Really Handy WordPress Code Snippets for your Themes

March 23rd, 2012
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Really Handy WordPress Code Snippets for your Themes

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Angry Birds Theme Parks Coming to Europe

March 23rd, 2012
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Angry Birds might be coming for the little green pigs near you. Rovio Mobile, makers of the worldwide mobile game phenomenon, are in talks to open a theme park in the U.K. and additional parks in the U.S. and China at a later date, further expanding the Angry Birds empire… read more

Denis Gonchar: Artist Of The Day

March 23rd, 2012
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Denis Gonchar is our featured artist of the day on Designrfix.com. In this series of posts, we will spotlight talented artists ranging from illustrators to graphic artists all the way to industrial designers. These daily posts will serve two purposes; first, is to showcase the works of these accomplished artists… read more

The $175 Speaker That Lets You Direct Sound Like a Laser Beam

March 23rd, 2012
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You can already buy a special kind of loudspeaker that directs sound with the precision a flashlight beam. These gadgets can send messages to people on the street without disturbing neighbors or create audio explanations for multiple museum exhibits in one room without worrying about a clash of sound. Or… read more

How to Add Facebook Like Box to Your WordPress Manually

March 23rd, 2012
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How to Add Facebook Like Box to Your WordPress Manually

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Vector Flower Icons Packs

March 23rd, 2012
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Vector Flower Icons Packs

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How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom

March 23rd, 2012
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Ben Jackson is a writer and app developer living in Brooklyn, NY. He likes clean typography, dirty language, strong coffee, apple pie and comfortable chairs, and he writes about his obsessions at 90WPM.

As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions… read more

57+ Contact & Web Form Designs for Inspiration

March 23rd, 2012
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57+ Contact & Web Form Designs for Inspiration

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Greece Brings Crowdfunded, Face-Filled Billboard to Times Square

March 23rd, 2012
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A crowd-funded campaign is placing a giant billboard in Times Square Friday, urging tourists to visit Greece.

The billboard, which is designed to highlight Greece’s beauty, was organized by volunteer group “Up Greek Tourism” on crowd-funding platform LoudSauce.

The campaign raised $20,000 in 20 days, exceeding its $15,000 goal. About 50%… read more

Leather Ribbons & Web Elements

March 23rd, 2012
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Leather Ribbons & Web Elements

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Silhouettes with Billboards

March 23rd, 2012
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Silhouettes with Billboards

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40+ Easter Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

March 22nd, 2012
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40+ Easter Photoshop & Illustrator Tutorials & Freebies

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The Most Epic Collection of Photography Links (Since Last Week)

March 22nd, 2012
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It’s been an action-packed week in the world of photography, and Toad Hollow Photography has been busy compiling a list of the best links to tutorial, great photography and interesting blogs to share with everyone here.  The Toad loves to follow the work of incredible artists and photographers, and loves… read more

Daily Inspiration #1089

March 22nd, 2012
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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

Butterfly Set design Vector

March 22nd, 2012
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Butterfly Set design Vector

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Resfly: One-Click Job Publishing

March 22nd, 2012
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Hunting for a job is a tough task. There are way too many job boards to keep track of and nowadays, there are job listings in popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Then comes the resumes and interviews. While not as tough, employers face a tough time with the… read more

Mashable Photo Challenge: What’s In Your Laptop Bag?

March 22nd, 2012
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The social web is becoming an increasingly visual place. Facebook users alone upload 250 million photos every day.

One of the things we love most at Mashable is seeing the world as our readers encounter it, through their photos and videos. For this reason, we are excited to announce a new… read more

18 Creative Resumes for Designers – Inspiring CVs !

March 22nd, 2012
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18 Creative Resumes for Designers – Inspiring CVs !

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18 Must Read Typography Related Blogs

March 22nd, 2012
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Smashing Apps

Typography is the most important element of any web design that holds great significance. Typography is one of the basic and fundamental parts of any web design that can enhance the attractiveness and elegance of your design. This is the reason why designers pay special attention to font selection. Today,… read more

Feel Your Facebook Pokes With This Poking Machine [VIDEO]

March 22nd, 2012
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What is the purpose of a poke you can’t feel? That’s what occcured to the creators of a device called, appropriately enough, the poking machine.

Netherlands-based student inventors Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck constructed an armband that physically pokes you when someone pokes you virtually on Facebook. … read more

Nicely Designed CSS Buttons

March 22nd, 2012
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Nicely Designed CSS Buttons

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7 Time Management Tips For Designers

March 22nd, 2012
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7 Time Management Tips For Designers

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Video Inspiration #61

March 22nd, 2012
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Video Inspiration is a weekly(ish) post where we either feature a specific artist or show a sort of “best of” list of videos we’ve discovered during the week. Everything here may not be brand new, but we felt it worth sharing with the community. If you have good… read more

70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

March 22nd, 2012
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70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

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Untapped resource: attend trade exhibitions to find new design clients

March 22nd, 2012
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Untapped resource: attend trade exhibitions to find new design clients

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Handy Admin Bar: Freebie

March 22nd, 2012
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Handy Admin Bar: Freebie

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World Water Day: Saving Water Through Canvas Art

March 22nd, 2012
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World Water Day: Saving Water Through Canvas Art

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How Google’s Semantic Search Will Change SEO

March 22nd, 2012
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Erin Everhart is the director of web and social media marketing at 352 Media Group, a digital marketing agency that also provides web and mobile app development. Connect with her on Twitter @erinever.

While the SEO game has changed drastically over the past months, one thing has remained fairly consistent: It’s… read more

30 Stylish Animal Logos

March 22nd, 2012
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30 Stylish Animal Logos

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Rick Santorum Hit by ‘Klout Bomb’

March 22nd, 2012
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Rick Santorum, one of the four remaining Republican candidates for president, is the latest victim of a “Klout Bomb.”

Klout is designed to measure a social media user’s influence about different topics. Users with a lot of Klout can give more Klout (“+K”) to other users often in whatever topics… read more

Photo Effect Tutorials for Designers by Photoshop

March 22nd, 2012
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Photo Effect Tutorials for Designers by Photoshop

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10+ Testing Tools for Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

March 22nd, 2012
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10+ Testing Tools for Responsive Web Design | gonzoblog.nl

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Logo Design: Cherries

March 22nd, 2012
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We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with scissors, and today it’s all about logos with cherries!

Every week we search… read more

How to Create a Template Document with Default Path Settings in Adobe Illustrator

March 22nd, 2012
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How to Create a Template Document with Default Path Settings in Adobe Illustrator

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How to Create Points at Tangencies with Dynamic Sketch Tool

March 22nd, 2012
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How to Create Points at Tangencies with Dynamic Sketch Tool

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Manage Your Layers More Efficiently With Photoshop CS6

March 22nd, 2012
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Designers often work with PSD files that include hundreds, if not, thousands of layers. Managing those layers was a hassle in previous versions of Photoshop. In Photoshop CS6 however, the Photoshop team has given us some tools to help us manage our layers more efficiently. In this episode of our… read more

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Freebies: Photoshop Leaf Brushes

March 22nd, 2012
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Freebies: Photoshop Leaf Brushes

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Download: Free Photoshop Firework Brushes 2.

March 22nd, 2012
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Download: Free Photoshop Firework Brushes 2.

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Adobe Releases Photoshop CS6 Beta

March 22nd, 2012
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Mac App Storm

Just 5 days after we wrote about the fact that Adobe was putting the finishing touches on Creative Suite 6, which promised to be their biggest update to the software package yet, Adobe has released the public beta of Photoshop CS6, the first of the new programs to hit consumers…. read more

Download: A Set Of 15 Dragon Tattoo Brushes.

March 22nd, 2012
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Download: A Set Of 15 Dragon Tattoo Brushes.

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Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

March 22nd, 2012
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This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices.

The Challenge

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Infographics: Collection Of High Quality Template Design Elements

March 22nd, 2012
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Ever been overwhelmed with your workload and concerned about meeting a project deadline?  If you’ve been a reader of Designrfix for a while now you know we feature the best the web has to offer and typically it’s for free.  While we always want to save you a buck, sometimes… read more

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WDL Premium: Work – An Elegant WordPress Theme

March 22nd, 2012
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Today, for our WDL Premium Members, we have a beautiful premium WordPress theme for your blog. The Work theme from Theme Trust is An elegant portfolio theme built for showing off your work. This theme has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying… read more

7 Ways to Toughen Up Your Freelancing Game

March 22nd, 2012
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Working as a freelancer may not conjure up images of being a tough cookie, but being a one-person show at your own business takes remarkable creativity, discipline, and good old-fashioned moxie. The Atlantic called freelancing the “next industrial revolution” of our time.

Freelancers, from independent creatives to technical consultants, juggle… read more

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

March 22nd, 2012
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This is an interesting topic which isn’t often discussed between web designers. Getting started in Adobe Photoshop is difficult, and you feel an exhilarating rush when you complete your first web project. But what good is a website mockup if you can’t build it?

Arguably designers by definition do… read more

Jaw Dropping Vexel Artwork From the Pros

March 22nd, 2012
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Vexel art is very similar to vector art in terms of appearance. It typically features sharp-edged lines and areas of flat color, or smooth gradient fills. The word ‘vexel’ was coined from a combination of “vector” and “pixel”. The main difference between vexel art and vector art is that vexel… read more

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Cobook – A Better Address Book?

March 22nd, 2012
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In some ways, the built in Mac OS X Address Book wears like an old pair of sneakers – comfortable and familiar. What it lacks in style and features, it makes up for in dependability. Over the years, updates to Mac OS X have brought numerous improvements and enhancements…. read more

English Teacher Rethinks Grammar Lessons — With an App

March 22nd, 2012
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In the last eight years, high school English teacher Jeff Scheur has graded 15,000 papers. He estimates that each time he collects a new round of essays from his 150 students, it takes him about 40 hours to read them, fill out grading rubrics and write personalized feedback. Meanwhile, he… read more

30 Outstanding Examples of Typographic Illustrations

March 22nd, 2012
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30 Outstanding Examples of Typographic Illustrations

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LCD Style Effect in Pixelmator

March 22nd, 2012
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Digital LCD effects are very common but they still impress me especially in terms of light effects. The way the light gets blurry on the edges and super strong in the center is simply amazing. I have been doing this kind of effect for quite a long time but… read more

18 Inspirational & Nostalgic Postcards

March 22nd, 2012
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18 Inspirational & Nostalgic Postcards

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Sexy Button UI Design from Dribbble Members

March 22nd, 2012
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Sexy Button UI Design from Dribbble Members

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Flash Developers Take Notice: Top 10 Superlative Flash Frameworks

March 22nd, 2012
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Flash Developers Take Notice: Top 10 Superlative Flash Frameworks

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Mobile Game Rewards Library Check-ins With Epic Swords

March 22nd, 2012
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The upcoming iOS title God of Blades asks players to venture to their local libraries to unlock better items in the game.

God of Blades, which is coming to all iOS devices later this year, is a side-scrolling action game set in a fantasy world. Your character, known as The… read more

A Collection Of Creative Print Ads For Inspiration – 30 Examples

March 22nd, 2012
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A Collection Of Creative Print Ads For Inspiration – 30 Examples

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Cool Spring & Summer Break Party Flyers

March 22nd, 2012
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Cool Spring & Summer Break Party Flyers

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13 Rigorous Illustration of Florian Nicolle

March 22nd, 2012
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13 Rigorous Illustration of Florian Nicolle

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60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

March 22nd, 2012
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60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

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Twitter Rewind: Big Highlights From 2012 to 2006

March 22nd, 2012
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Six-year-old Twitter is a remarkably different animal than it was when co-founder Jack Dorsey sent the service’s first tweet in March 2006: “just setting up my twttr,” he wrote.

A minuscule user base grew into today’s 140 million-strong active tweeters, who at last count send more than 1 billion tweets every… read more

No More Powerpoint I Have Impress.js

March 22nd, 2012
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No More Powerpoint I Have Impress.js

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26+ Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Resources

March 21st, 2012
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26+ Useful WordPress Cheat Sheets & Resources

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Designing Websites For Touchscreen Devices

March 21st, 2012
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Designing Websites For Touchscreen Devices

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Create a Cute Easter Themed Collage in Illustrator & Photoshop

March 21st, 2012
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Create a Cute Easter Themed Collage in Illustrator & Photoshop

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Story Wheel: Give Your Pictures a Voice

March 21st, 2012
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“A picture is worth a thousand words”, or so the saying goes. It really does turn out to seem true much of the time. A picture can often tell the story of something without any words being said. The problem is, those “thousand words” are in the eyes of the… read more

Is SOPA an Evil Eye to Online Marketers?

March 21st, 2012
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Is SOPA an Evil Eye to Online Marketers?

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Fashion Portraits – Stylish and Glamorous Fashion Photography Collections

March 21st, 2012
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Fashion Portraits – Stylish and Glamorous Fashion Photography Collections

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Flyer PSD – Download Premium Looking Flyer Templates

March 21st, 2012
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Flyer PSD – Download Premium Looking Flyer Templates

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Showcase of web apps

March 21st, 2012
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Showcase of web apps

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Daily Inspiration #1088

March 21st, 2012
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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

45+ Intriguing Character Illustrations and Bonus Minimalist Photos

March 21st, 2012
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45+ Intriguing Character Illustrations and Bonus Minimalist Photos

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40+ Coming Soon Page Designs – Fresh and Creative

March 21st, 2012
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40+ Coming Soon Page Designs – Fresh and Creative

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32 Chewing Gum Package Designs That Will Make Your Mouth Water

March 21st, 2012
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32 Chewing Gum Package Designs That Will Make Your Mouth Water

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6 Ways to Kill Your New iPad [VIDEOS]

March 21st, 2012
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10 Inspirational Typography Quotes

March 21st, 2012
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10 Inspirational Typography Quotes

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Fantastic Watercolor Illustrations by Thony Silas

March 21st, 2012
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It’s been quite some time now since the last time we’ve featured watercolor illustrations, which are by far one of or favorite illustration techniques. These illustrations usually get super stylish and very beautiful, just like these, by Thony Silas.

Thony Silas is a Brazilian illustrator and he definitely has mastered the… read more

Create Space Fantasy Composition

March 21st, 2012
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Create Space Fantasy Composition

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30 Digital Paintings By Riley Stark

March 21st, 2012
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30 Digital Paintings By Riley Stark

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Tools to make your WordPress theme Responsive

March 21st, 2012
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Tools to make your WordPress theme Responsive

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Extensive Collection Of jQuery Drag And Drop Plugins

March 21st, 2012
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jQuery allows you to create stylish yet user friendly websites that are not only pleasing to the eye but also are very lightweight and load quite quickly. This is the reason why jQuery has a special place in the field of web development. jQuery is getting better day by day… read more

12 Awesome Websites With “Earthy Tones”

March 21st, 2012
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I recently met with two new clients to discuss the development of their websites.  I typically like to see if there are any specific colors they’d like to use, along with any preferences they may have towards layout and content.  I was quite surprised to hear both of them tell… read more

100+ Tutorials To Help You Create A Professional Business Card

March 21st, 2012
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100+ Tutorials To Help You Create A Professional Business Card

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22 Free and Premium Well-Designed Web Form PSD Files

March 21st, 2012
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22 Free and Premium Well-Designed Web Form PSD Files

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Perfect Layers 2

March 21st, 2012
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Perfect Layers 2 from onOne Software is a Lightroom and Aperture plug-in, as well as a standalone Mac OS X and Windows application, for layer-based image editing outside of Photoshop. Its familiar interface makes easy work of editing images with layers without requiring the… read more