Great Examples Of Icons Used In Website Design

Great Examples Of Icons Used In Website Design

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Daily Inspiration #478

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

The Lost Element of Quality

The Lost Element of Quality

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250+ Lines Brushes for Photoshop

Photoshop brushes can be a great time saving resource an they can make it much easier to create attractive designs. From time-to-time we showcase the best Photoshop brush sets of various kinds, and today we’re focusing on lines brushes. This post features 16 excellent, free sets totaling over 250 brushes… read more

Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community

Editor’s Note

This article is the first in our new series of “opinion columns,” in which we give people in the Web design community a platform to raise their voice and present their opinion on something they feel strongly about to the community. Please note that the content in this series… read more

How To Create An Abstract Bokeh Business Card

How To Create An Abstract Bokeh Business Card

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10 Essential Social Media Tools for B2B Marketers

This series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today!

Like anything else, social media marketing is easier, more efficient and more effective if the marketer has the right set of tools. While… read more

25 Fun and Time Saving PhotoShop Actions Tutorials

25 Fun and Time Saving PhotoShop Actions Tutorials

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3 Reasons to Get Excited About the Apple Game Center

This summer, the iPhone and iPod touch will get an operating system update (iPhone OS 4.0) that will include a new service called the Game Center. The service will launch on the iPad this fall, too.

The Game Center will resemble Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network with leaderboards,… read more

6 Ways Brands are Using Social Media For Real-World Action

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Ninjas Taking Over LinkedIn

Apparently, Facebook isn’t the only online sphere where ninjas are becoming a problem — The LinkedIn Blog reports that the job title “Ninja” has become more and more popular since 2002.

According to LinkedIn, those who deem themselves “ninjas” tend to work with computers, social media, design, customer… read more

FarmVille’s Newest Money-Maker: Brand-Sponsored Crops

Next week, FarmVille players will have the ability to grow peanuts, thanks to ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi and an Israeli candy brand.

We’re told this is the first time a FarmVille crop has been directly linked to a brand. Saatchi Interactive in Tel Aviv is working on a rollout… read more

The Basics of Business Card Design

The Basics of Business Card Design

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A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design

A Basic Look at Typography in Web Design

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Popular Social Sharing and Bookmarking Widgets and Buttons for WordPress

Digg Large Button Code

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Reddit Button

The Reddit button is the smart way to get your content submitted to and discussed on Reddit. Below you will find the code snippets fot the most popular buttons, for further options, click here: Reddit… read more

Video of the Week #56 – Pixels

Thanks to Magomed Dovjenko, I got to see this video and within the first 10 seconds I know I have to share it with all you guys. The big apple, better known as New York, is assaulted by 8-bit creatures. Great idea followed by a detailed realization, you wont miss.

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3 Tips for Managing Your Online Reputation

Antony Mayfield is iCrossing’s Senior Vice President, Social Media, leading the company’s services and innovation efforts related to the social web. He is also the author of Me and My Web Shadow, a newly released everyperson’s guide to the social web. You can find him on his… read more

You’re Failing as a Web Developer — and Here’s Why

There is endless content available in the world of web design blogging telling us how to do things right, and how to succeed at our chosen profession.

That’s obviously a good thing, and it will certainly continue that way. But once in a while we need reminders on… read more

60 Fascinating AppStorm Reader Setups

After featuring our huge roundup of stylish Mac setups last week, we then asked you to submit your own setup for inclusion in another post. We’ve gathered 60 of your setups over the past week, and found out about some great new gadgets and software in the process.

Without further ado,… read more

Vintage Illustrations by Kareem Rizk

Kareem Rizk is a Melbourne based Australian artist who graduated from Monash University in 2004 with a Bachelor in Graphic Design. This course encouraged a rich influence of mixed media techniques which has always been evident in his work.

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Rizk’s initial ambition was to forge a career as a Graphic Designer…. read more

Vibrant Stickers Web Icon Pack

This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

This icon pack contains 15 colorful .png icons, each 256×256px. The icons were designed by Aaron Ovadia of Photoshop Candy exclusively for Tutorial9.

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WDL Premium: High Quality Grunge Paper Textures

Today we’re giving our WDL Premium members a premium texture pack from PremiumTextures.com. These paper textures are great for adding a lot of detail and interest to your grunge or vintage designs. There are 12 high resolution textures in all.

Here’s a preview:

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How to Create a Captivating, Self-Promotion Kit

We have another great Vector Premium tutorial available exclusively for Premium members today. If you want to learn how to create a self-promotion kit, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. This tutorial covers all the techniques in creating one illustration that can be used in various compositions to… read more

Clean Prints by Paul Fox Design

As someone who has recently developed a strong liking for print design, I have become infatuated with Paul Fox’s work. Namely his color palette, clean lines, and simple compositions.

I wish I could tell you more about him–is it a growing trend to supply as little information about yourself as possible… read more

6 Free Vector Seamless Backgrounds (+ source files)

The free beautiful vector seamless background pack (+ source files) that we have on offer today have been designed by Cip (from Vectorious, and can be used within almost any aspect of design – they could be used as a seamless web background, cool apparel design, an elegant flyer …… read more

The Dying Art Of Design

Progress is good, but we need to make sure that we’re progressing in the right direction. Our fundamental skills and the craft of design have started to take a back seat. Using the right tools and techniques is certainly an important part of design. But do our tools and resources… read more

Imperial Porcelain: Free Icon Set

Today we are glad to release Imperial Porcelain Icons Set, a set with 5 beautiful original icons in .png (160×160px). This set was designed by Roman Khramov and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. It can be used in various settings — for instance, on hotel and restaurant… read more

The Basics of Business Card Design

The Basics of Business Card Design

A business card in some cases is the most important marketing piece that a company will have. It has the potential to make or break business deals, and is just as important as the way you present yourself during a first impression. In this post,… read more

Beautiful Artworks by Evgeny Kiselev

Evgeny Kiselev is a freelancer illustrator and graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, his works were published in magazines such as Computer arts (U.K.), IDN (Hong Kong), ROJO (Spain), Grafik magazine (U.K.), Beautiful Decay (U.S.A.), E-tapes (France), Chewonthis magazine (U.S.A.), I.O. Magazine (Germany), X-Funs (Taiwan), New web pick, Artzmania e-zine,… read more

LG presents: Design the Future Competition

LG Mobile Phones, the fastest growing mobile phone brand in North America,  is partnering with crowdSPRING, an online marketplace for creative services, and Autodesk, a leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, to hold an innovative competition to define the future of mobile communication.  Starting on March… read more

Logo Design: Script

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Today, it’s all about Script! By script I mean everything that’s handwritten… and there’s some pretty cool stuff here.

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond,… read more

Web Design is 95% Typography

This is a really old article, but I just found it after Mr. Zeldman’s tweet. It’s an article that goes over some great tips about web typography. He also expands a bit more on the title. Do you agree that web design is mostly all about typography?

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15 Apps to Enhance the Tumblr Experience

Tumblr is fast becoming the micro blogging platform of choice across all sections of Internet users. The Tumblr app in itself is well rounded with a gorgeous user interface and nice set of features. Being the spoiled brats of the internet age we are, the quest for accessing and managing… read more

Making Web Video That Sells: eBook Review

With the ever expanding growth of high speed internet connections, video is cropping up on most major websites more and more. Whether you are informing potential purchasers with a screencast or hoping to direct the next viral experience, video is something that most designers and developers should have at least… read more

Create a Fun Vector Frog Logo in Illustrator

Create a Fun Vector Frog Logo in Illustrator

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Showcase of Big Typography in Web Design

Typography is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of web and graphic design. A current trend in web design is to use oversized text, often in headers. In this post we’ll showcase 30 websites that make excellent use of big, beautiful typography.

Jon Brosseau

Mark Boulton Design

Finch

Ryan Keiser

Take Shape

Carsonified

DesignWise

Giant Creative

Elysium Burns

Kyle… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Web Development and Social Media Job Listings

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to… read more

Daily Inspiration #477

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

40 Inspirational Hand Drawn Web Designs

40 Inspirational Hand Drawn Web Designs

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The Inevitable Rise of the Gated Community

I’ve been a member of Dribbble for a couple of months now and I really enjoy visiting the site. Here’s a must read article on why sites like Dribbble are so appealing, and why they choose to not open up the site to the rest of the community.

Related posts:Understanding the… read more

Top 5 Ways to Make Your Site More Fun

Gabe Zichermann is the author of the books “Game-Based Marketing” (Wiley, now available) and “Funware in Action” (Manning, Q3/2010). He is also the CEO of professional mobile social networking startup beamME and frequently muses about games and the world at http://funwareblog.com.

Just like sex, fun sells. The early proof of… read more

Stop Reading “Clients from Hell”

This is an excellent article that I really enjoyed! A lot of times, we are quick to talk negatively about a client without really understanding where they are coming from. I think all designers, especially freelancers should read this post.

Related posts:Why I Can’t Stop Blogging About Design
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Monetize HTML5 Video with mDialog’s Ad Platform

Today mDialog debuts a new video service platform designed to support HTML5, live streaming and dynamic ad-insertion in video streams.

Publishers and content providers can now not only encode and serve live stream or Video On Demand content in HTML5, but they can also insert ads or b-roll into those… read more

DIY Startup: Get a name – Part 1

DIY Startup: Get a name – Part 1

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Showcase of Award Winning Sports Photographer Bob Martin

Showcase of Award Winning Sports Photographer Bob Martin

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The Essential Elements of your First WordPress Design Site (Part 2)

The Essential Elements of your First WordPress Design Site (Part 2)

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20 Fresh And Creative Logos To Inspire You

20 Fresh And Creative Logos To Inspire You

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Building a live news blogging system in php. Spiced with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery [part I]

Building a live news blogging system in php. Spiced with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery [part I]

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4 Web-Based Meeting Schedulers Reviewed

A slew of online applications are attempting to eliminate the headache of scheduling meetings. And, unlike their proprietary older brothers, such as Outlook and iCal, these new entrants into the scheduling market are completely web-based, compatible with Google Calendar, and best of all, don’t require your invitees to install… read more

Canonical URLs effects on WordPress Blog

Canonical URLs effects on WordPress Blog

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Showcase Of Creative Fashion Design Websites

Showcase Of Creative Fashion Design Websites

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50+ Typography art inspiration

50+ Typography art inspiration

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Win an iPad and Free ActiveCampaign Licenses

Who doesn’t like freebies? We all do, and today the good folks at ActiveCampaign are bringing you an absolutely awesome giveaway that’s sure to make you drool…

By participating in this contest, not only you stand the chance of winning a just released Apple iPad, but you can also win a bunch… read more

How to create a torn wall paper effect in Illustrator

How to create a torn wall paper effect in Illustrator

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Getting paid as a freelance web designer

Getting paid as a freelance web designer

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30 Awesome collection of high quality splatter brushes and tutorials

30 Awesome collection of high quality splatter brushes and tutorials

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Replace Flash with jQuery:Tutorials and Resources

Flash been around for sometime. While some web designer loves to work with flash the other despisethe usage of flash on webpage. In this post we are lobbying to increase the use of jQuery on websites. read more

Plan What Happens to Your Online Accounts Post-Mortem with Entrustet

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Entrustet

Quick Pitch: Free service helps you take… read more

CSS Specificity And Inheritance

CSS’ barrier to entry is extremely low, mainly due to the nature of its syntax. Being clear and easy to understand, the syntax makes sense even to the inexperienced Web designer. It’s so simple, in fact, that you could style a simple CSS-based website within a few hours of learning… read more

Enhancing Forms using jQuery UI

Enhancing Forms using jQuery UI

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Typography Mania #23

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography work on the web, from videos to images everything is full of great design and inspiration. Check out this weeks Mania and comeback in 7 days for more.

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Spell Catcher X: Powerful Mac Spelling Correction

So you think you can spel? While we all know how to spell and write correctly, typing errors, lack of concentration, or maybe even a issue such as dyslexia might prevent us from spelling every single word the right way. Then we have to deal with those red squiggly lines… read more

How to Find Local Clients for Your Freelance Business

Finding clients is one of the toughest things for most small businesses. Many people are looking for projects online these days with the widespread use of Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites that allow you to connect and chat about business opportunities. These are great ways to find new… read more

A Quick Look Inside Miami Ad School

Somedays ago Fabio spoke at this school, on the San Francisco headquarters, and after that he told me that he was amazed by the place. That the visual was astonishing, cozy and very inspiring. In the moment he talked to me about this place I decided to check it out… read more

Medialoot Competition Winner Information Announced

Last month we published the competition MediaLoot Competition – 5 Free Year Long Licenses up for grabs, the competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners.

Thanks to everyone for there suggestions and comments, they were all great. But we did have to pick five winners,… read more

70+ Brilliant WordPress Site Designs for Design Inspiration

Many of you should know that instantShift is proudly powered by WordPress, as a Blogging and CMS tool. If you are in search of good CMS or a new web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is free!

Now… read more

10 of the Greatest TV Title Sequences

10 of the Best TV Title Sequences

An area often overlooked by casual viewers is the title sequences for TV shows and movies. They first came around in the 1950′s when Saul Bass created the title sequence for ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’. Ever since then, the title sequence has… read more

China-Based Hackers May Have Used Twitter, Google to Attack Dalai Lama, UN

A group of researchers has linked a huge, China-based cyber espionage ring to the theft of thousands of documents — including classified information, visa applications, and personal identities — from “politically sensitive targets” around the world.

The command-and-control infrastructure of this so-called Shadow Network used platforms such as Twitter, Google… read more

Fantastic Papercraft Design

Last week we had some awesome suggestions for posts. From icon design to specific artists… but one of the best ideas was Papercraft! I searched for some pieces and ended up finding amazing designs.

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I didn’t know that papercraft could get SO realistic… it’s really astonishing how people can do with… read more

Freebies: Various Useful Icons For Your Project

I would like to start this post by thanking all the great designers that have come up with all the free high end icons that are available out there on the web. In this article, you will find some really great icon sets ranging from the latest Google Buzz icon packs… read more

Could Apple Actually Beat Google in Mobile Advertising?

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.

On Thursday, Apple will unveil iPhone OS 4.0. It’s not the only thing the company is expected to reveal, though. … read more

5 iPhone Games You Should Supersize on Your iPad

iPhone and iPod touch users who just added Apple’s third device to their inventory of gadgets know that the out-of-pocket expense on the iPad itself could eventually pale in comparison to the total cost spent on applications.

For those of us left with much less discretionary income after purchasing our… read more

94 Interviews With 39 Designers, Developers And Bloggers

94 Interviews With 39 Designers, Developers And Bloggers

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Daily Inspiration #476

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

MediaLoot Prime Icon Set: 60+ Beautiful Free Icons

MediaLoot Prime Icon Set: 60+ Beautiful Free Icons

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Designing with Lenses

A design lens allows you to view the user experience through the eyes of a single design principle. Lenses were originally created for game design but are just as powerful for user experience design. read more

Topnotch Microblogging with Tumblr

In a world where even adults have the attention span of a three year old, conventional blogs with thousand word posts will not cut it. Blogs are very effective for professional bloggers and blogging networks like Envato, Techcrunch, etc. However, when it comes to personal weblogs, blogs are going fast… read more

Unusual Sources Of Inspiration- 50 Killer Graffiti Characters To Inspire You

Unusual Sources Of Inspiration- 50 Killer Graffiti Characters To Inspire You

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Exclusive: Inside YouTube’s War Room

Since YouTube launched a complete redesign of its video pages last week, the Google-owned website has been flooded with a mixture of praise, criticism, and complaints. That shouldn’t surprise you — whenever a major social media website launches a redesign, users respond with volume.

YouTube was prepared for this,… read more

Designer Spotlight: Vlad Kolarov

Vlad Kolarov is a cartoonist, humorous illustrator, designer, and animator living in Canada. Born in Rousse, Bulgaria, he became one of the “Wind of Change” generation cartoonists after the collapse of communism in his native country. Hired by the largest Bulgarian newspaper publisher, 168 Chasa Ltd (168 Hours Ltd), Vlad… read more

30 Free Web 2.0 Fonts You’ll Love

Finding that perfect font can be a real nightmare! Especially, if you’re on a budget and can’t pay for expensive premium fonts. At You The Designer, we want to enable designers to create art and not spend hours searching for resources online. That’s why we put together 30… read more

30 Free Fonts You MUST Have

Today we didn’t really concentrate on creating a set following specific font styles. This time, we put together a mix of free fonts which are really worth using and shouldn’t be missing in your personal font library. We are sure you’ll find you own favorite between these 30 below.
Enjoy!

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80 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials, Part III

80 Best Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials, Part III

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The Ups and Downs of Being a Perfectionist

Almost everyone out there knows someone who’s a perfectionist, if they aren’t one themselves.

Some people are perfectionists in only one aspect of their life (such as school or work) while others apply their perfectionist tendencies to every aspect of their lives.

Perfectionism is often looked at by those… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.31

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources, freebies and good reading articles that we have shared via Twitter and facebook in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up… read more

Tuesday Total Textures #13

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can use in your projects. Check out this week’s textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture collection.

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The Ultimate List of Twitter Software for Mac (50+ Apps)

Twitter: What started as an obscure and seemingly doomed social network has grown into a huge force on the web. Twitter is home to thriving communities of individuals forming lasting connections forged by 140 characters or less.

An important fuel to this fire is the remarkably open Twitter API which has… read more

Keeping In Touch with Prospective Clients

A lot of your success as a freelancer will depend on your persistence.

It takes many forms – your persistence in learning and improving your skills, the persistence that’s involved in bringing a long, difficult project to completion, and the topic of this article, persistence in keeping in touch with the… read more

Win 250 Business Cards from PrintRunner

PrintRunner has offered to give away a set of 250 business cards to 10 readers of Web Design Ledger. PrintRunner’s business cards come on premium 14 pt card stock with water resistant UV coating. The cards are available in full color, black and white, one-sided, two-sided, matte or… read more

Getting Ready for the CS5 Launch Event

Something GREAT from Adobe is coming April 12!
Things have been dark around here as of late. We’ve been bursting at the seams with excitement over the global launch event for the Creative Suite CS5. I’m happy to say that it is now literally just around the corner!… read more

Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples

Geo-location was a hot topic in 2009. With so many applications on GPS-enabled smartphones, more maps than ever were accessible to the average person. But how can Web designers and developers take advantage of an increasingly location-aware user base? This article explores existing trends, conventions and the possible future of… read more

Preparing Photoshop Files for Web Developers

By Brian Rhinehart

Whether you’re a freelance web designer or part of a team at an agency, handing off Photoshop files to a client, developer, development team or even another designer is part of the process of building websites.

Whereas the development process is generally more structured, by contrast, the design process… read more

From Adorable to Angry: Robot Vectors to Inspire You

This post showcases a great selection of vector robots: cute, angry, small and big – there’s a bit of everything here for everyone! Robot characters are very common in the design and illustration industry at the moment, and have been for several years. They can be found on all kinds… read more

Architect Day: Gigon / Guyer

Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer, for more than 20 years, make a solid and elegant architecture. They gained notoriety by qualifying the urban landscapes of Switzerland, a country where good architecture can be seen easily. Gigon / Guyer are certainly a great source of inspiration for architects and enthusiasts.

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.35

Posting a little bit later than usual (it was Easter after all), this is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope… read more

Wacom Intuos4 Wireless Review

As a graphic designer I have to admit that I am not good at drawing. At first it was something that always bothered me, but I never thought that to be a good graphic designer I had to master the craft of drawing too. So during these years I was… read more

Awesome Robotic Sculptures by Andrea Petrachi

The art of assembly is probably one of the greatest. I remember watching movies like Edward Scissor Hands and thinking “wow, that guys really know how to assemble the right things to make awesome creations”. Andrea Petrachi might be just one of those inventors.

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Andrea Petrachi a.k.a. Himatic creates his robotic… read more

10 Steps to a Stronger Professional Network

Networking is a critical part of building a successful freelance business. A strong network can lead to more referral business, better recognition within the industry, new opportunities, and much more. Although it isn’t the type of work that directly produces income for a freelance designer, networking… read more

Microsoft to Unveil Social Networking Phones April 12

The rumor mill has churned on a Microsoft mobile initiative dubbed Project Pink for some time now, and according to the Wall Street Journal we’ll finally see the official results of that unveiled at a press event this coming Monday, April 12.

Project Pink is reportedly a line of mobile… read more

25 Alluring Flash Websites In Typographic Style

25 Alluring Flash Websites In Typographic Style

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