Creative Logo Design: Birds

Creative Logo Design: Birds

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The Most Iconic Logo Designers and Their Work – Part 1

The Most Iconic Logo Designers and Their Work – Part 1

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Daytime Fireworks Are More Beautiful Than You’d Expect [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Everyone loves watching fireworks illuminate dark skies, but did you ever wonder what they would look like during the day?

Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang put on this enormous daytime explosion event at the Arab Museum of… read more

Why Your Business Needs a Mobile Website Right Now

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including lead generation tools.

First, the good news: If you have a website, then you have a site that can be accessed by any mobile device… read more

It’s the Last Day to Vote in the Mashable Awards

Today marks the last day of the voting period for the 2011 Mashable Awards.

Both Mashable and the Mashable community have come a long way since this year’s nominations.  We received hundreds of thousands of nominations and narrowed them down to the top seven finalists in all 28 categories.

This year is… read more

The Comprehensive Guide of a Guest Post Writer

Few days ago I read an interesting article that presented in detail the total income of a freelance writer and the figures make me think twice about the actual job I have. Yes, working a lot in addition to a smart strategy of gaining more clients could bring a serious… read more

Introducing “Zero Bundle”: A fantastic bundle of free goodies!

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10 Rules to Follow for Popups and Modal Windows

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Skillfully used popups or unclicked modal windows are among the best ways to attract newsletter subscribers, to sell affiliate products, and to generally get your message noticed. The problem with them is that they are at times far too obtrusive and users do hate it… read more

Students Turn Classroom Notes Into Cash With Social Site NoteWagon

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

Name: NoteWagon

Quick Pitch: NoteWagon is a peer-to-peer network that turns student notes taken into cash.

Genius Idea:… read more

The Best Of Logos: 100 Creative Designs

The Best Of Logos: 100 Creative Designs

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Is it a Good Logo? 5 Criteria to Help You Decide

Is it a Good Logo? 5 Criteria to Help You Decide

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Daily Inspiration #1006

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

Creative Hidden Messages Typographic Logo Designs!!

Creative Hidden Messages Typographic Logo Designs!!

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20 Redesigned Logos of 2011 – An Annual Roundup!

20 Redesigned Logos of 2011 – An Annual Roundup!

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What It Takes to Be a Successful Social Good Entrepreneur

The Commerce With a Conscience Series is supported by Fedex. FedEx does more than shipping. They offer solutions like transporting heart valves to those in need and helping entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life. See how.

So, you want to create social change by starting something new — that’s quite a… read more

Google Shows Soft Side in Ad for Ice Cream Sandwich [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Samsung has already had a crack at promoting the Galaxy Nexus. Now, it’s Google’s turn.

Google, eager to publicize its first phone featuring Android 4.0 a.k.a. “Ice Cream Sandwich,” has risen to the occasion… read more

Logo Design: Shoes

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 diamonds, and today it’s all about logos with shoes!

Every week we search… read more

Creating your first WordPress child theme

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11 Great Examples Of How A Logo Is Born

11 Great Examples Of How A Logo Is Born

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New Video Course: Identity Design

We’re pleased to announce our 7th in-depth course available to Tuts+ Premium members: Identity Design with Ben Gribbin. Over 18 lessons and nearly 3hrs of video training, you’ll learn all the foundational skills needed to start doing identity design work for clients.

Not a member? Not to worry! There are four… read more

Pet Lizard Plays Game on Smartphone [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

A pet owner recently discovered a way to let his lizard interact with a smartphone. Using an HTC Android device, his bearded dragon amusingly tries to eat non-edible virtual bugs residing in a mobile game called… read more

Only 3 Days Left to Vote in the Mashable Awards

The voting period for the 2011 Mashable Awards, a celebration of the most outstanding digital presences and projects, is quickly drawing to a close. You only have three days left to vote for your favorites of the web!

This marks the fifth consecutive year we’ve been celebrating the best of the… read more

Book Review: No Plastic Sleeves

You may be committing a portfolio sin without even knowing it.

And what might that sin be? Well, it’s as simple as that stuff that’s keep your portfolio work samples in place. It’s…

…plastic.

In the eyes of art directors, photo editors, and other buyers of creative work, plastic-sleeved portfolios are a… read more

Big Collection of Free WordPress Themes with Premium Quality

Today we present you a big collection of FREE WordPress themes with premium quality to beautify your self-hosted WordPress blogs. Click on the picture to head to the info, demo and download page.

Personal Blog Themes

Ari by Elma Studio

BonPress by WPZOOM

ecoBlog by iDesignEco

Skeptical by WooThemes

Side Blog by Press75

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Excellent Tips for Branding Your Blog

Branding is an important factor behind the success of all business. Whether you are selling a pen or a car, brand names work everywhere. People still prefer buying a Pelikan and a Toyota. This is because these names have grown up as big brands and people have started relating to… read more

A better project approval process

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Turn Your Great Ideas Into Extraordinary Projects With Rock the Post

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

Name: Rock the Post

Quick Pitch: Rock the Post is a free business social networking site.

Genius Idea: Serves… read more

Ford Teases 2013 Fusion With Logo Recognition App [VIDEO]

Looking to top its own introduction of the 2011 Explorer on Facebook, Ford is teasing its 2013 Fusion via mobile apps.

Starting Wednesday, fans can download an iPhone and Android app that is activated by pointing the phone’s camera at a Ford logo — either on a car, online… read more

Star Friends: George Takei Brings Peace to Sci-Fi Geek Feud [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

George Takei just wants some peace. The actor, famous for his role as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, wants to put an end to the YouTube wars between fans of his franchise and fans of Star… read more

How to Stay Inspired as a Logo Designer

How to Stay Inspired as a Logo Designer

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Daily Inspiration #1004

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

Retro Speakers Find Style — and Big Sound — in Simplicity

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Dance to the Hottest Mashups at MashBash 2012 in Las Vegas

We’re pleased to announce that San Francisco-based DJ duo A Plus D — a.k.a. Adrian and Mysterious D — will be spinning their world famous mashups at MashBash! No, we’re not talking about your typical mashups, this time it’s all about mashing up musical genres. Think Lady Gaga + Bob… read more

Best Of 2011: Ultimate Collection Of High Quality Photoshop Tutorials

Every so often, you may discover it complicated to search for some of the highest quality Photoshop tutorials by means of search engines. Seeing that most of time, approximately all tutorials would tag themselves to be excellent, high quality or even the best Photoshop tutorial you can get. When exploring… read more

Uncharitable Charitable Design

Like many people, I always say, “Never work for free.” Like many people, I break that rule when it comes to a good cause or meeting women. So far, I’ve only been screwed… by the good causes, that is.

This winter, I spent three days working for a nationwide charitable initiative… read more

10 tips and resources for creating a stunning web presentation

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Web Design Trends in 2012

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It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash… read more

Gift Guide 2011: Books

The holiday season is here and it’s time to get together with our family and friends, celebrate and get ready for the new year that is about to start. As we see sites with gift guides all over the web we decided to post the Abduzeedo 2011 Gift Guide because… read more

Inspiring Monk Logo Design Collection!!

Inspiring Monk Logo Design Collection!!

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5 Logo Re-Design Disasters – What Can Designers Learn?

5 Logo Re-Design Disasters – What Can Designers Learn?

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7 Top Tools for Reading the News Online

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Thanks to the low barrier of entry for online media, as well as an increasing number of channels to access… read more

‘Comic Sans Project’ Seeks to Save the Web’s Most Hated Font

1. Tumblr

The Tumblr logo itself is re-imagined with the Comic Sans treatment.

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The Cutest, ‘Deadliest’ Fight in All of History [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

If a viral video hits the Internet and millions of people have not yet watched it, is it still a viral video? How can these cute karate-kicking toddlers not make it big with their strangely intense,… read more

14 Insightful Infographics To Demonstrate The State Of Blogosphere

Some bloggers wish that they can receive more profits from advertisers, whilst others are frequently concerned with the most excellent methods of sharing themselves with others. No matter the reason, infographics certainly assists you to review information about your blog distributions, readers’ trends, the blogging economy, and so forth. There’s… read more

4 Ways to Convert Facebook Fans Into Super Fans

Amy Porterfield is the co-author of Facebook Marketing All-In-One for Dummies and creator of the Facebook marketing training program, FBinfluence. You can join her on Facebook at facebook.com/AmyPorterfield or read her blog at AmyPorterfield.com.

For most of us, football season means it’s time to grab our jerseys and clear our Sunday… read more

80+ New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

Last week was a busy one for social media. In fact, Christmas might have come early for you with the reveal of Twitter’s new design and the long-awaiting roll-out of Facebook’s Timeline. If you were left indecisive about which shiny new toy to play with first, we have all the… read more

Design a Detailed Audio Receiver Icon in Photoshop

In this tutorial we will show you how to create a detailed audio receiver icon using Photoshop’s vector editing capabilities. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following assets were used during the production of this tutorial. Powered By Envato API logo Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document… read more

What’s new for designers, December 2011

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The 30 most expensive, elegant and crazy watches ever

De Bethune DB28 ($87,000)

Jaeger LeCoultre Hybris Mechanica Grande Sonnerie ($2.5 Million)

MB&F Legacy Machines LM No.1 ($92,000)

Dedegumo Kakera Watch

Romain Jerome DNA Moon Dust Watch (12,000 euro)

Royale Opera accordion watch ($1.2 million)

Rebellion Time-Machine ($105,000)

Urwerk UR-103 ($60,000)

The Cabestan Winch Tourbillion Vertical Watch ($275,000)

Vulcain Anniversary Heart Watch

Bovet 7-Day Tourbillon ($75,000)

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Retrospective Video by Anonymous Includes Ominous Warning

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The controversial Internet hacking group known as “Anonymous” created this retrospective video commemorating a tumultuous year in the world of anarchy and subversive activism. Its “LulzXmas” video is a complicated and picture-packed montage of mayhem,… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Dec 5-Dec 11, 2011

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Logo Design Symbol or Wordmark – Which is Right to Use?

Logo Design Symbol or Wordmark – Which is Right to Use?

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The Chicago Neighbourhoods Project

The Chicago Neighbourhoods Project

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Showcase of Popular & Not-So-Popular Redesigned Logos!!

Showcase of Popular & Not-So-Popular Redesigned Logos!!

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45 Typography Focused Logo Designs

45 Typography Focused Logo Designs

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Best of the Week #200

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

Comics of the week #107

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25 Inspiring Construction Logo Design Collection!!

25 Inspiring Construction Logo Design Collection!!

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20 Creative Industrial Logo Design Showcase!!

20 Creative Industrial Logo Design Showcase!!

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Meet the 80-Year-Old Woman Who Is a Criminal Duck Feeder [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

Duck feeding is hardly considered a dangerous hobby, but can it be cause for arrest? In the case of one elderly Massachusetts woman, it was.

Clair Butcher has been criminally charged for taking duck feeding too… read more

Perché Android uccide la concorrenza

Il titolo è provocatorio. Non me ne vogliate. Soprattutto ora che mi sono convertito da iOS al sistema operativo mobile di Google e finalmente, dopo tanto tempo, ho fatto pace con una fetta consistente di lettori di questo blog che smaniano per Android.

Niente di personale, intendiamoci. Le solite scaramucce da… read more

What It Takes to Build a Thriving Design Business on the Web

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Jesse Thomas founded the creative agency JESS3 as a student in 2007. In a few short years, he managed to climb an impressive entrepreneurial ladder. The company has completed projects for Facebook, Google and NIKEiD, among dozens of other… read more

Want to Use Xbox Live? First Agree Not to Sue Microsoft

Microsoft just rolled out a big dashboard update to the Xbox 360. In addition to new voice and gesture controls, Microsoft has also updated its terms of service agreement with a new clause that prevents users from suing Microsoft in the event something unexpected happens to the Xbox 360 or… read more

National and International Freelancers Day

Did you know that November 23, 2011 was National Freelancers Day in the U.K.? This year marked the third annual NFD, which was launched by PCG—a trade association and support network for freelancers.

On Wednesday, November 23rd, St. Luke’s in London was host to leading industry experts who debated key… read more

An awesome HTML5 interactive music video

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How to Design the Best Navigation Bar for Your Website

Daniel Alves is the design director for the small business web design division at the digital marketing and web design company 352 Media Group.

The navigation bar is the most important design element on a website. Not only does it guide your users to pages beyond the homepage, but it’s also… read more

Hands on With Twitter’s TweetDeck

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Installation is now like a standard Windows application. No Air here.

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TweetDeck‘s conversion from… read more

The New Twitter: Everything You Need to Know

Twitter is dead. Long live, Twitter!

The Internet’s most popular microblogging service got a major upgrade today, rolling out a brand-new look and a bunch of new features. The update is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging change Twitter’s ever done, revamping its… read more

4 Ways the New Twitter Is Taking on Facebook

Twitter’s native video- and photo-sharing features may have hinted at its desire to go after Facebook, but the redesign it launched on Thursday stated them loud and clear.

Twitter now looks a lot more like the world’s largest social network, with features that focus on social interaction and brand pages.

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What Do You Think of Twitter’s New Look? [POLL]

Twitter just unveiled a major redesign, aimed at simplifying the interface and attracting new users to the popular social network. It’s a top-top-bottom change, revamping the website, mobile apps, and even TweetDeck, the company’s social-network integrator software. The new look for the site is rolling out slowly, but anyone with… read more

5 Ways to Spread Some Festive Freelance Cheer

Freelancing is all about building relationships, and the holidays are a perfect time to nurture those relationships.

Sending a holiday greeting adds a human touch to your cyber business, and keeps your name fresh in people’s minds. It’s also a great way to thank those who have contributed to your… read more

Handling the Well-Meaning Helpers

It’s probably happened to every freelancer. Your friends, relatives, and acquaintances heard about your business – especially your never-ending quest to find and retain good clients – and they try to help.

Sometimes, this help can be just what you need. I can remember when I finished my first-ever website… read more

10 Twitter tools for better social networking

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Hero – A Portrait Composed of Dots [Video]

Hero – A Portrait Composed of Dots [Video]

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Extreme minimalism of the logos is possible?

Extreme minimalism of the logos is possible?

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The Three Stooges Encounter an iPhone, Snooki [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

The iconic Larry, Curly and Moe come back to life in The Three Stooges movie trailer, released Wednesday.

This 106-second clip showcases their familiar raucous antics in a modern setting — featuring Jersey Shore‘s Snooki and… read more

Daily Inspiration #999

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

Five Online Graphic Makers To Create Simple Design Elements

There are many websites out there for generation and creation of graphical elements, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Five Online Graphic Makers To Create Simple Design Elements. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits… read more

Top 10 Worst Logo Makeovers and Lessons We Can Learn From Them

Top 10 Worst Logo Makeovers and Lessons We Can Learn From Them

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10 Tips To Optimize Your WordPress Theme

The beauty of WordPress is in how easy it is to adapt for different tasks. One can extend it with just a couple of lines of code. In this post, we’ll review 10 shortcode snippets that will tweak and optimize your WordPress theme. You can add all of these code… read more

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a… read more

What designers can learn from different animals

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30 Offbeat Albums’ Artistic Covers and Transcendent Sounds

If you’re tired of seeing the same glitterati faces on the record store racks day after day, looking for a bit more art or something more interesting to listen to, this post is for you! Grab a mug of your favorite poison and check out these 30 offbeat albums and… read more

25 Inspiring Logos

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Here at WDL we like to provide our readers with as much inspiration as we can. And from logos to print and web, we like to show you beautifully designed pieces to keep your juices flowing. Since logos are always a good source of inspiration, today… read more

Cool Christmas Holiday and Popular Logos

Cool Christmas Holiday and Popular Logos

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20 Beautiful Christmas Logo Design

20 Beautiful Christmas Logo Design

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Greatest Hits of 2011 Get All Mashed Up [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

One of our favorite things about the end of the year: the awesome music mashups that talented DJs and video editors put together. Every year since 2008, DJ Earworm has created an epic “United States of… read more

Adding an advanced calendar to WordPress

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StumbleUpon Launches Major Redesign, Welcomes Brands

StumbleUpon completely revamped its website Monday — adding a new logo, design and a channel feature that gives brands a non-intrusive role in the service.

“Really this is the biggest refresh in terms of look and feel that we’ve ever had on the web,” StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp told Mashable.

While the… read more

HTML5 Essentials and Good Practices

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HTML5, together with CSS3 and responsive design are the new buzz around web technologies these days. This article will help you get started using HTML5 on your projects today and show you some good practices to put what you learned to good use.

Lets see a typical… read more

Inspiring Logo Designs By Jefrey Devey

Inspiring Logo Designs By Jefrey Devey

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2011 Portfolio Mashes Year in Film into 7:44 Epic Minutes [VIDEO]

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

This video finally answers the question: What would the entire year in film look like as one massive, epic trailer? Mashup artist “hatinhand” stitched together pretty much every major film released in 2011 into this epic… read more

10 Top Tools for Digital Photography Lovers

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The human need for fabulous eye-candy is one of the reasons photography has seen such a boom in the tech… read more

Create a Fabric Textured Web Layout Using Photoshop

This tutorial is another collaboration with a very good friend Ciursa Ionut. In this web design tutorial we will create a portfolio web layout using fabric textures. You will be taken through the process of designing the logo using Adobe Illustrator, creating spotlights for the "services" area and how to… read more

Poll Your Audience the Right Way With PopSurvey

Online surveys are a drag. Usually, they’re just a series of questions on a drab-looking page that are no fun to answer, and they make you wish you hadn’t agreed to fill out the survey in the first place. That’s probably why market researchers, advertising firms, online stores, and corporations… read more

Designer Spotlight: Interview With Illustrative Designer Von Glitschka

As we turn our designer spotlight on once again, this time we have it fixed on Illustrative Designer Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios. With years of design experience under his belt, and an artistic background to boot, Von has made a lasting impression on the field where he has made… read more

Social media for creatives

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Viral Video: Band Brings iPhone Games Into the Real World

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks.

When members of the Australian indie pop group Hey Geronimo put together a music video of the title cut from their upcoming Why Don’t We Do Something? album, they started with some of their favorite iPhone… read more

7 Essential Features a CMS for Beginners Must Have

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When you are looking for a CMS, there are many factors to consider. Obviously, the feature it has is one of them. However, you also need to consider your skill level because when you are a beginner, you can’t take advantage of all the advanced… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Nov 28-Dec 4, 2011

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