Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.131

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Justin Mezzell: Artist Of The Day

Justin Mezzell 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

45+Photography Logo Designs Inspiration

45+Photography Logo Designs Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #1090

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

Creative Postcard Design Inspirations

Creative Postcard Design Inspirations

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21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design For Your Inspiration

21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design For Your Inspiration

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Fantastic Movie Posters by David Amblard

Who doesn’t like movie posters? Probably very few people, because as far as I know, people love an awesome poster hanging on their walls. David Amblard definitely love to put his own vision on some classic movies.

David Amblard is a French illustrator, and his posters are really, really stylish. His… read more

5 Interesting Pinterest Marketing Campaigns

Pinterest is so new that a lot of major brands still don’t know what to make of it. However, there are a few outliers who have found creative ways to exploit the potential of the new social media destination.

As the following list shows, there are many ways to do this…. read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #145

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#145 and make sure to comeback… read more

Ask Clients the Right Questions With Osmosis

While working as an account executive in my previous jobs, I quickly learned that clear communication from the very first meeting is crucial to understanding a client’s needs – and now, working as a freelancer has reaffirmed that many times over. It’s not easy though – between multiple meetings, scores… read more

Let’s Reminisce with Some Childhood Games Illustrations

Let’s Reminisce with Some Childhood Games Illustrations

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What Your Dog Knows About Freelancing

Most freelancers are eager for tips and information, turning to forums, classes, and networking for ways to learn and improve. But did you ever consider looking to your canine for some wisdom? Here are a few things your dog knows that just may improve your freelancing life.

Walk it Off

If you… read more

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers: Good and Bad

As bloggers, we face a wide variety of tasks each day related to managing and building our blogs. Productivity and efficiency are vital, especially for part-time bloggers. A number of extremely addictive and time-consuming habits stand in the way, though.

I’m sure all bloggers wonder, “How did others make it to… read more

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

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Denis Gonchar: Artist Of The Day

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

How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom

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

57+ Contact & Web Form Designs for Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #1089

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

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

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

Video Inspiration #61

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

70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

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Logo Design: Cherries

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

7 Ways to Toughen Up Your Freelancing Game

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

LCD Style Effect in Pixelmator

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

18 Inspirational & Nostalgic Postcards

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Mobile Game Rewards Library Check-ins With Epic Swords

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

A Collection Of Creative Print Ads For Inspiration – 30 Examples

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60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

60+ People Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

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Timsanity! Tebow Joins Lin in NYC; Can Internet Handle it? [UPDATED]

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The Twitter account @awfulannouncing puts things in nice perspective. read more

Daily Inspiration #1088

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

10 Inspirational Typography Quotes

10 Inspirational Typography Quotes

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Fantastic Watercolor Illustrations by Thony Silas

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

15 Beautiful and Useful Free PSD Files

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Dribbble is a great community, and is a place where you can find much more than inspiration and awesome professionals. It’s a place where you can find really talented people sharing their work with you for free. This is the case of today’s list, we are… read more

Acid Illustrations and Street Art by Smithe

It’s really cool to see how an artist create his own universe by assimilating and creating relationships between symbols and images. Smithe got a serious relation with the concepts of construction, destruction, structure and the self as we can see on most of his artworks.

You can see more stunning artworks… read more

Chris Parks: Artist Of The Day

Chris Parks A.K.A Palehorse 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… read more

Daily Inspiration #1087

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

30+ Minimalist Web Design Inspiration

30+ Minimalist Web Design Inspiration

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Interview with Elaine Penwell

Today we have a special interview with one of the most talented paper cut artist out there: Elaine Penwell. With a work higly inspired on fabric patterns and 1800s fashion, this gifted artist told us more about her, her artwork and it’s process.

You can see more of Elaine’s artworks at… read more

Iran’s Electronic Curtain: How the U.S. Is Tearing It Down

Channeling Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, President Obama has said that an “Electronic Curtain” is descending over Iran. The country’s government continues to block Internet access for thousands of citizens.

But that’s not stopping the U.S. State Department from using the Internet to engage with average Iranians.

The administration believes that… read more

55+Tree and Plant Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

55+Tree and Plant Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

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The Curious Link Between Icon Design and Candies

Do you like candies? Come on, even if your outer adult doesn’t want to admit it, your inner child is reaching with its palms out! Do you remember when you were a kid with how much attention you paid when you were selecting which candies to buy in… read more

55+ Badge & Emblem Logo Designs for Inspiration

55+ Badge & Emblem Logo Designs for Inspiration

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The Elements Of Navigation

When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s new on Smashing Magazine, or had the explicit goal of finding information about “Navigation… read more

55 House Outline and City Real Estate Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

55 House Outline and City Real Estate Related Logo Showcase Inspiration

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How To Avoid Roadblocks To Your Creativity

Whether you’re a designer or a writer, a painter or a photographer, you can’t escape the occasional dry spell of creativity. Think of it as a more generalized form of writer’s block: a block in creativity that can make you lose any incentive to do innovative and thought provoking work…. read more

Web Worker’s Library: Awesome Printed Web Design and Development Books

There’s no doubt that eBook devices such as the Kindle and the Nook have changed how people read books forever. At the start of 2011 Amazon reported that for the first time eBook sales exceeded paperbacks. It’s doubtful this trend will ever be reversed.

Though with E ink devices, image… read more

Creepy Brands: 50 Evil Logos

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Demons, devils, vampires, monsters. Thanks to Hollywood, all have managed to crawl deep within our minds, exploiting our fears, feeding on our emotions from an early age. The dark side has proven to be a vast inspiration for artists in various fields: from poetry to music to… read more

30 Examples of Creative Wooden Office Interior Design

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Organized and clean workspaces are one of the vital factors in any sort of work. While working as creative professionals, we spend most of the time in offices – doesn’t matter if it’s a home office or corporate one, we should take into consideration and make… read more

Jamie Roberts: Artist Of The Day

Jamie Roberts A.K.A Jam-Wah 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… read more

Fantastic Packaging Design Examples

Fantastic Packaging Design Examples

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25 Creative Typography Ads Design

25 Creative Typography Ads Design

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Daily Inspiration #1086

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

Inspiration: Award Winning Semester End Project For Chocolate Wrapper Design.

Inspiration: Award Winning Semester End Project For Chocolate Wrapper Design.

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The Perfect Office #131

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

Comic Book Artist: Mike Mignola

I might be one of this guys who just happened to notice the work of Mike Mignola after the first Hellboy movie. Anyway, since them I consider him to be one of the most unique and interesting comic book artist. Not only he’s a good writer, but also he’s drawing… read more

60+ Latest WordPress Site Designs for 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 web tool for your projects, we strongly recommend WordPress to you. WordPress is a great tool, and best thing is FREE!

Now days… read more

Beauty of Urban Decay and Destruction Photography Collection

One truth for many seekers of inspiration is that a haunting beauty can sometimes be found in the wake of ruin. This is why so many photographers partake in urban exploration to fill their portfolios. Because in the destruction wrought from age, nature, and the devastating hands of war, photographers… read more

40 Extremely Controversial Print Ads

40 Extremely Controversial Print Ads

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Typography Design Inspiration – #1

Typography Design Inspiration – #1

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100 Super Creative Logo Designs

100 Super Creative Logo Designs

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Henning Ludvigsen: Artist Of The Day

Henning Ludvigsen 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

Creative Logos Designed by Arslan

Creative Logos Designed by Arslan

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28 HTML 5 Websites for Your Inspiration

28 HTML 5 Websites for Your Inspiration

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Inspirational and Creative Digital Painting by Alice X.Z

Inspirational and Creative Digital Painting by Alice X.Z

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Daily Inspiration #1085

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

Wallpaper of the Week 195 by Bram Vanhaeren

The wallpaper of this week is an image created by Bram Vanhaeren. Bram is 20 years old and studies cross media design, after 2 years freelancing together with his brother. He’s been developing his style since his first pen tool experiments in Illustrator about 5 years ago. Bram’s style ranges… read more

Inspiration: 50 outstanding examples of movie/game toongraphics

Inspiration: 50 outstanding examples of movie/game toongraphics

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5 mind blowing examples of Branding Pipeline by Roger Oddone

5 mind blowing examples of Branding Pipeline by Roger Oddone

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40+ Awesome One Page Website Designs for Inspiration

40+ Awesome One Page Website Designs for Inspiration

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.130

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Best of the Week #214

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

10 Features Missing From Pinterest

There’s one thing you should know before we open up this can of worms: I have 795 pins on Pinterest. Probably by the end of writing this article, I’ll have 895. As you can see, my wish list of Pinterest features hasn’t caused me to slam down my laptop screen… read more

Macro Photography: 25+ Inspiration Pictures of Nature

Macro Photography: 25+ Inspiration Pictures of Nature

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20 Professional Print Ads for Inspiration

20 Professional Print Ads for Inspiration

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Daily Inspiration #1084

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

Beautiful Photographs by Julian Calverley

I really love nature photography and how photographers capture the beauty in places we could get for granted. A beach, a wheat field, the sea floor. The beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Julian Calverley is a photographer from the United Kingdom and he’s a super talented artist…. read more

Fantastic Examples of Package Design

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What a better way to end the work week than with a healthy dose of inspiration. And as we’ve mentioned before there’s nothing wrong with looking at other mediums to get inspired. So today we’re showing you some fantastic examples of package design, where beauty and… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #144

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#144 and make sure to comeback… read more

Sites of the Week #196

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Kicksend and Second Story. Also we’re featuring the amazing parallax scrolling ALA website, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

Martin Grohs: Artist Of The Day

Martin Grohs 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

Daily Inspiration #1083

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

Photography Links That Will Rock Your World

This week has been filled with great photography, tutorials and interesting blogs as shared by some truly gifted artists.  The photography community has been busy, and Toad Hollow Photography has compiled this list of some of the very best pieces encountered during their weekly adventures.  We sincerely hope you enjoy… read more

Video Inspiration #60

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

What Does The iPad Line Look Like In Your City?

Apple’s new iPad hits stores on Friday, March 16 at 8 a.m. local time in ten countries, and as usual, people are already starting to line up outside Apple Stores worldwide in order to purchase the new tablet.

Waiting in line overnight outside Apple stores on big product release days… read more

Travel Photography Inspiration Project: Italy

Rome. Venice. Architecture. Wine.

Italy.

It’s the stereotype we all know and so much more. And that’s why I am thankful for this installment in the DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project because those who submitted photos have found another side of the country and reproduced it in beautiful photographs.

They have taken the… read more

Showcase of Inspiration: Illustrator David Andrews

Showcase of Inspiration: Illustrator David Andrews

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Showcase Of Best WordPress Websites And Blog Designs

Showcase Of Best WordPress Websites And Blog Designs

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Symptoms Of An Epidemic: Web Design Trends

Since Elliot Jay Stocks so poignantly told us to destroy the Web 2.0 look, we’ve witnessed a de-shinification of the Web, with fewer glass buttons, beveled edges, reflections, special-offer badges, vulgar gradients with vibrant colors and diagonal background patterns. The transformation has been welcomed with relief by all but the… read more

80+ Fresh Inspirational Single Page Website Designs

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

Explosions of Color: Inspired Collection of Bright and Colorful Vector Illustrations

With Spring on its way to so many, the landscapes will soon be blossoming with bright, vibrant colors. For those who are not wanting to wait for that seasonal colorful explosion, we have prepared a splash of brighter tones to help. With so many talented vector artists sharing their fine… read more

Design Jobs For Creative Professionals On Designrfix

Designrfix.com has always been a platform for our creative community to contribute to the evolution of design via the exchange of our skills, technique&  inspiration. As a natural next step in the process, we are now ready to offer these skills to prospective employers via the new Designrfix Job Board…. read more

Daily Inspiration #1082

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

Goldfish Salvation Project by Riusuke Fukahori

These blew my mind. Riusuke Fukahori, a japanese artist has developed a painting technique that makes you think you’re seeing actual fishes inside water. When I say this I was really amazed, but when I watched the video, my head went through the roof.

Check these out with attention… try to… read more

Typography Mania #123

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around every Wednesday with the best of Typography design works on the web, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Users can submit their typography designs.

Click here to check out all the previous Typography… read more

Typography Inspiration: 60 Mind-Blowing Examples

Typography Inspiration: 60 Mind-Blowing Examples

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9 Great Mac Apps for Color Lovers

As a color lover, and even a color nerd, I am always finding apps out there that excite my interest. I love color both as a designer and photographer and there are a number of Mac apps out there that are made with these interests in mind.

These apps run the… read more

The 17th Exhibit: Illuminate IV by The Luminarium

The online art group named the Luminarium just released their 17th exhibit entitled Illuminate IV. From science fiction to stunning landscape photography, this exhibit will surely offer something for everyone. Hope you will enjoy them and get inspired!

For more information about the Luminarium and their artists, you can visit … read more

Daily Inspiration #1081

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

Super Funny and Cute Illustrations by Randy Otter

I’ve found the work of Randy Otter thru Flickr while looking for some random stuff, since then I got really amused by his childlike and funny illustrations. Once someone said to me that in terms of illustration doing less details and having more meaning it’s way better than doing a… read more

Pinterest to Release New Profile Pages This Week

Pinterest is planning to release redesigned profiles this week, according to CEO and co-founder Ben Silbermann.

“I’m so excited about it,” said Silbermann (pictured, left), who spoke at the South By Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday. “We wanted to make it more beautiful … to make your profile different… read more