Step by Step UI Design Ebook Giveaway – Winners Announced

Last weeks Step by Step UI Design Ebook giveaway has just ended and it is now time to announce our randomnly chosen winners.

Congratulations to the winners, we promise, you will really appreciate this book. You should have all by now received your winner email, if not, please do… read more

7 Mobile Apps for Discovering and Creating Poetry

April is National Poetry Month, when thousands of publishers, booksellers, non-profits and schools celebrate poetry and its cultural influence through readings, festivals and workshops.

National Poetry Month isn’t just for established poets, though. T. S. Eliot may have written that “April is the cruellest month,” but there’s no better time for… read more

Create a Stylized Election Poster Using Illustrator

It’s election season! Time for graphic designers to start helping clients design posters for their upcoming campaigns. It’s a great time to be a designer as each and every city has candidates making their run for spots.

Using Live Trace and Live Paint in Illustrator makes stylized posters an… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.133

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

Manage Events Like A Pro With WordPress

If you’ve ever tried working with, coding for or just thinking about anything to do with events, you know they are a total nightmare in every possible way. Repeating events, schedules, multiple days, multiple tracks, multiple prices, multiple speakers, multiple organizations, multiple payment options — the list goes on on… read more

Probably The Best 35 Time Magazine Covers After 9/11

Probably The Best 35 Time Magazine Covers After 9/11

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Best CSS Validation and Compression Tools

Best CSS Validation and Compression Tools

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Anonymous Leads ‘Time 100′ Poll, But Did the Hacktivists Rig the Results?

Anonymous, the loosely knit hacker collective that has taken credit for a range of data breaches, information leaks and website takedowns over the past eight years, is now topping the Time 100 Poll in the final hours of voting.

The organization has accumulated 382,574 “yes” votes — 100,000 more than… read more

Are You a Journalist?

I remember sitting in a grad school course in journalism school listening to a twenty-something talk about how important blogging was going to become and how it’s changing the essence of journalism. I was so in disbelief as to what I was hearing that my chin was basically resting… read more

Preparing for Disaster

Imagine waking up one morning, booting up your system and realizing that your hard drive is dead. Or maybe you returned from vacation to see that your office has been flooded.

These scenarios would be difficult for anyone. But, for a freelance designer, it could put you out of… read more

‘Texts From Hillary’ is Your New Favorite Clinton-Themed Tumblr

“Texts From Hillary” is the latest Tumblr blog making waves on the political web, and for good reason — it’s downright hilarious.

The meme blog is built around two photos of a sunglasses-clad Secretary of State Clinton checking her cellphone on a military C-17 aircraft from last October. The original… read more

Working with Property Lists in Xcode 4.2

Property lists are designed specifically for Objective-C apps to store and retain data. These are straight XML files formatted for easy access to bundles and application resources. There isn’t anything overly confusing about Property Lists, but they are unconventional compared to web applications.

In this guide I’d like to… read more

Giveaway – 2 Premium Themes from PurtyPixels and WPCrown Magazine

Giveaway – 2 Premium Themes from PurtyPixels and WPCrown Magazine

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Filter Forge 3

Photoshop Texture and Effect Plug-in

Some of you may already know about Filter Forge because it’s one of the most popular plug-ins in the industry today. For those who don’t, it’s a pretty robust plug-in for Photoshop that’s aimed at everyone from novice to expert, so there’s something for everyone… read more

Advanced Dust Correction in Lightroom

Introduction

This tutorial has been transcribed from the SLR Lounge Adobe Lightroom 4 DVD Guide, a 14 hour DVD featuring over 130 tutorials for mastering Lightroom.

As we all know, dust spots on our images can be quite a annoying little pests to deal with. Just when you think you have them… read more

6 Freelancing Tips from Han Solo

Unlike some couples, my husband actually reads some of the blog posts I write for FreelanceSwitch. Which makes me really happy considering my own parents hardly read the articles I write for the regional magazine I work for. Heck, Shane even reposts some of my blog posts on his… read more

The Art Of Launching An App: A Case Study

You’ve made your first app!

Now what?

Anyone in the app business knows that marketing an app is tough. And according to a recent article on TechCrunch, “Getting a mobile app noticed in the increasingly crowded mobile app market is more difficult than ever.” Some titles and concepts are truly unique. Angry… read more

Types of Posts and How to Successfully Combine These on a Web Design Blog

Having a blog could be dangerous because, for many of us, the entire process of administering and maintaining can turn into an addictive task, one not being happy until a new post is published; moreover, the addiction may be acute and one will wait for the first reaction of the… read more

How to make more as a freelancer

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30 Inspiring Spring Desktop Wallpapers

Spring has finally arrived! Bringing with it the idea of renewal and regrowth. The sun, the flowers, the cool flowing rivers, the green grass and the chirping birds. There really is no better season for stimulating inspiration.

Today I have collected 20 colorful and graphical spring wallpapers that will… read more

A Showcase of Amazing Drupal Themes

Since its inception, Drupal has had the (rather infamous) reputation of being the developer’s CMS. Designing a website using Drupal meant hard-coding every aspect of the appearance of your website. However, over time, and with the advent of Drupal 7, the picture has changed. Drupal too, like WordPress, now boasts… read more

Selling Your Photographs Through Stock Libraries: A Primer

Before the advent of digital photography, there was no micro and macro in stock photography, royalty free was a little used term and image catalogues were large glossy books with just a selection of the best images. To purchase an image you either asked one of the library’s researchers to… read more

Free Clean Business HTML/CSS Template

We have a fantastic freebie for you today. The team from Egrappler have been kind enough to release their free Clean Business template exclusively for Speckyboy readers. Built on the 960.gs framework, the feature-rich and very clean template is perfect for any business or as a personal portfolio… read more

Enigmatic Black and White Flyer Design Tutorial with Photoshop

With this tutorial I wanted to create a club flyer design that was not your typical “scantily clad” affair that appeals to the more discerning club goers. So, with a few easy Photoshop and Illustrator effects, and my preference for black and white elegance, I created this enigmatic… read more

Hang Ten! How the History of Surfing Went Digital

For the typical land-locked folk, all one needs to learn about surfing can be found on the Wikipedia entry for surfing. The page is filled with a bulleted history, surfing physics, maneuvers, dangers, locations and of course, a photo of the correct way to make the universal surfing Shaka sign… read more

5 Essential Considerations for Sharpening Your Street Photography

Street photography tells a story in ways that other types of photography can’t. They are spontaneous, interesting, and perfect mementos of a moment in time. As a street photographer, you are capturing life as it happens which may not be as easy as it seems. Moments can happen in a… read more

Drop Caps: Historical Use And Current Best Practices With CSS

The practice of using a large letter to mark the start of a text has been around for almost two thousand years. Illustrated caps increased usability by marking important passages and guiding readers through the text. Unlike their historic counterparts, drop caps on the Web don’t add value in terms… read more

What’s the big deal with Pinterest? [Infographic]

In the past year or so a new social service has been gaining huge popularity, almost explosion-like you might say. You’ve probably heard of it, its called Pinterest. Now, I won’t go into detail about what Pinterest is or what it can do, I am sure you will… read more

Change Your Point of View for Success

I really liked what blogger Emily Heyward had to say on her recent FastCompany.com blog post called Desks, Where Creativity Goes To Die. The SXSW attendee stepped outside of her comfort zone at the conference and learned a thing or two.

Initially, I tried to attend talks or panels directly… read more

90 New High-Quality Free WordPress Themes (2012 Edition)

WordPress! is an award-winning CMS, which enables you to build Blogs, Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made WordPress the most popular blog software available. Best of all, WordPress is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

There are… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.126)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

15+ Brilliant Magazine and Layout Design Tutorials

15+ Brilliant Magazine and Layout Design Tutorials

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Quickly Unlocking Options in InDesign

Using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, Jeff Witchel shows ho to quickly access options for some of InDesign’s more popular tools.

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We Have 5 Copies of Step by Step UI Design (Ebook) to Giveaway – Comment to Enter

Today we have 5 premium editions of Step by Step UI Design to giveaway. Written by Sacha Greif and is a must ebook for all UI designers.

All you will have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us… read more

Keep Your Analytics Data Safe And Clean

Whoever works with analytics on a day-to-to-day basis knows how important it is to have a continuity with the data. Any slip might be fatal: data can disappear, trends misunderstood and jobs lost. Losing data can have long-lasting consequences, as very often it isn’t possible to reprocess the data—so what… read more

Best of Tuts+ in March 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Turning propaganda poster images into modern web design

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25 MORE Completely Free Fonts Perfect for @fontface

A year or so ago we published our original Completely Free Fonts Perfect for @fontface. It has been a long time coming but here, at long last, is our next installment.
Again, we have chosen 25 free (for both personal and commercial use) fonts that are so… read more

Daily Inspiration #1097

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

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX1 Review

This is how I see the game these days:

Compact digicams are the family/personal cameras used by almost everyone.

Mirrorless, interchangeable lens cameras like Sony’s NEX and Olympus/Panasonic’s Micro and Macro Four Thirds models are shooting what the bread-and-butter DSLRs used to care of.

Upper end DSLRs are quickly taking over the role… read more

Shock Bundle Giveaway – The Winners

Last Sunday we published the competition giving away 10 Shock Bundles (valued at $129 each). With just under 200 comments it proved to be very popular. The competition has now ended and it is time to announce the randomnly chosen winners of this fantastic bundle.

Congratulations to our winners,… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.132

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 #216

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

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2012

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the… read more

The Deeply Graphic DesignCast

As graphic designers, it is so important for us to always keep learning in order to stay at the top of our game. Outside of classes, and actual on-the-job learning, there are many outlets for us to teach ourselves new tricks. One of my favorite new places to… read more

The Evolution of Facebook for Brands

Jason Weaver is the CEO of Shoutlet, an enterprise social management software company he founded. He has been involved in social media strategy development since its inception for brands that include Disney, SC Johnson, and eBay. Follow him at @Shoutlet.

Facebook Timeline for businesses is officially here, and companies large and… read more

The Problem With Today’s Journalism Students

Dave Copeland of ReadWriteWeb talks about what I preach to my journalism students every week in his blog post titled “Want To Save Journalism? Start At The Bottom“. It’s not enough to just be a good writer or a good photographer these days—you have to be good at everything.

“When… read more

To Revamp or Not to Revamp?

I guess everybody can think of site revamps that went terribly wrong and of revamps that really improved a site. However, when you discuss somebody else’s site it is much easier than when you need to decide if your own site needs a revamp.

There are times when you… read more

Publish What You Learn

I don’t think anyone can deny that the Web has changed the way people teach, learn, and do research. Of course, this doesn’t mean that everything we read online is true and accurate—far from it. But I believe that through honest discussion and objective collaboration, accurate and useful information is… read more

Magazine Mockup Unpacked 02

Magazine Mockup Unpacked 02

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Daily Inspiration #1095

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 Connect Agenda: 15 Exciting Sessions to Learn From

Mashable’s largest conference, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we’ll bring together the brightest minds to discuss key trends on the horizon and what digital professionals are thinking for the future.

We’re excited to announce the Mashable Connect 2012 agenda. This year’s lineup of… read more

50 Fresh Icon Sets For Developers And Designers

Icon sets although are very small design elements but hold great importance when it comes to overall design. Having a high quality collection of icon sets come in handy at the time of need. This is the reason why designers believe that having a freebie collection of icon sets is… read more

Are Job Ads Phishing For Free Innovation?

A recruiter recently announced an employment opportunity but it came with a test. Candidates would have to write a business plan they would implement in their first year with the company. The request was to “be innovative with your thinking!”

The recruiter insisted candidates needed to “wow!” this company. With the… read more

Selling Digital Goods Online: E-Commerce Services Compared

There’s a realization that every freelance designer must go through at some point: client work isn’t enough to ensure your long-term financial security. What if you get sick? What if you can’t find clients? What if you want to take a vacation?

One possible answer to this problem is earning passive… read more

40 Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

Here is another round up for all you photography lovers out there. Today, we are showcasing some of the best examples of tilt-shift photography. You’ll love it.

In a nutshell, tilt-shift photography is an inspired and mesmorizing photography technique that requires manipulating the camera or image so that a… read more

Daily Inspiration #1094

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

The Usability of Resume Design

When we think résumé design, “usability” typically isn’t one of the first things to spring to mind. An art director seeking a new position might create an 8-point typographic masterpiece that, while beautiful as a design, is not the best read of information. A developer may hammer out… read more

11 AP Style Guide Rules That Are Easy to Mess Up

When I was in journalism school (in both the late 1990s and mid 2000s), the AP Stylebook was our bible. We didn’t go to class without it and frequently had quizzes and assignments built around it.

I recently wrote a blog post about the future of journalism and how astonished… read more

Give Your Website Soul With Emotionally Intelligent Interactions

What is it that makes us loyal fans of the websites and apps we love? When we sat down to answer this question for ourselves, we found that the websites and apps we truly love have one thing in common: soul. They’re humanized. They have emotional intelligence designed into the… read more

Read Your DRM-free eBooks Anywhere With Booki.sh

I’ve started noticing an odd trend: DRM used to bug me to death, but it hasn’t seemed nearly as frustrating lately. I’ve never purchased music with DRM, choosing instead to rip CDs (that I’d legally bought) until iTunes quit DRM-locking their songs. But then it has increasingly become apparant that… read more

15+ InDesign Tutorials for Magazine and Layout Design

Do you want to learn to how to design a magazine in InDesign? Discover industry standard workflows for print design professionals, magazine layout design tips, and follow how to design a magazine cover layout that attracts attention. These are just a few of the topics you’ll find in this roundup… read more

Helvetica and the Vignelli Canon: How Typefaces Ought to Be in Graphic Design

I had my first brush with typography when I had a subject about freehand lettering in high school. In that class I was exposed to lettering and some of typography’s history. From there, I began admiring different type designs on printed material, from magazines (Ray Gun, Esquire) to posters (“Your… read more

Design Trends: The Present, The Future, and You

Whether you agree with them or not, design trends can teach us important lessons on what works and what doesn’t for users. They’re popular for a reason. The true value of a trend, however, lies in its longevity. If you can identify trends that have the potential to… read more

9 Best Free iPad Apps For Web Designers And Developers

At this time, we have come with another electrifying collection of some of the very astonishing iPad apps for web designers and developers. The iPad without a doubt is very helpful in particular for those people whose career are online designing, freelancing and others. We compiled this post especially for… read more

Redesigning With Personality

We are very happy to present a sample chapter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3, written by Aarron Walter. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample… read more

Building Websites with a Priority for Mobile

Today it’s more common to find a skilled web artisan who understands desktop support over mobile. This appears to be a symptom of building on the desktop browser for decades as opposed to other screens. Yet there is a growing case to argue that mobile development is the… read more

The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Freelance Marketer

Freelance marketers have one of the best jobs on the planet.

There’s a never-ending stream of exciting new projects to work on and clients to work with, and at the end of the day, your work is about helping business grow, which means a better livelihood for everyone involved. Not… read more

HTML5 Best Practices for Designers

HTML5 has also removed, changed or depreciated over 50 attributes. The following attributes are allowed but it is best to use an alternative solution:

border attribute on <img> is required to have the value "0" when present.  This is another form of inline styling, so use CSS instead.
language attribute on <script>… read more

Back to basics: how to code an HTML5 template

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.125)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the… read more

Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites

When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation.

In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category… read more

80 Useful (Free) jQuery Plugins to Enrich Your Site’s User Experience

Most of you already aware that jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. it’s also known for fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. Or in developer’s words “write less, Do… read more

State of the News Media 2012

The Pew Research Center recently released their State of the News Media study for 2012, and, believe it or not, it’s not all bad news!

The annual study is an analysis of the health of journalism in America. This year’s study includes special reports on the impact of mobile technology… read more

A Collection of Great New WordPress Themes

Every year designers are pushing the boundaries of what WordPress can do. 2012 is no different. In just a few short months we have seen a large increase in the number of premium WordPress themes being released, and the bar is certainly being raised with the new additions to the… read more

Getting to Grips with HTML5 Browser Compatibility

Over the past few years, HTML5 has gone from mythical creature to vivid reality and has taken its share of hits from skeptics and experts alike as to its readiness and viability. Now, in 2012, HTML5 is ready for use with all modern browsers, including IE9. It has… read more

We have 10 Shock Bundles (value $129 each) to giveaway – Comment to Enter

For this weeks giveaway we have 10 Premium Shock Bundles, courtesy of the guys behind Theme Nation.

All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win this bundle.

The Shock Bundle

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Best of the Week #215

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

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

HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook Giveaway – The Winners

Last week we published a competition to win 3 copies of the book HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook. It has now ended and it is time to announce the randomnly chosen winners.

Congratulations to our winners, who by now should have received their winning email (if not, please do contact… read more

WordCamp hits the Netherlands this weekend

WordCamp Netherlands will feature a lineup of experts on WordPress, Social Media, SEO, and Performance including our very own Andy Killen. While it’s hosted in the Netherlands, many of the talks will be in English for the speaker’s convenience.

Saturday (March 24th) will open the event with a series… read more

Social Network Badoo Officially Launches in U.S. With Nick Cannon [PICS]

Badoo Project in New York City

Multilingual social network Badoo is making a push into the U.S., signaling its… read more

Your Social Media Persona

I got a call yesterday from a publishing house in New York City. One of my former interns had given them my contact information to use as a reference for the job she was applying for. I was pleasantly surprised to get the call.

A lot of the former interns… read more

Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins

If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smashing Magazine Twitter stream, Facebook stream, and other social-media streams around the Web.

These awesome resources have now been… read more

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

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

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

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

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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

A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

A Showcase of Beautiful Letterpress Designs

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Photoshop CS6 Beta Is Here!

You’ve probably seen some sneak peaks over the last few months, but now it’s official. Photoshop CS6 Beta was just announced. Adobe’s been releasing public betas for a few versions of Photoshop now. It gives people the chance to test it out before it’s ready for prime time. There’s definitely… read more

Perfect Effects 3

Photographic Effects Plug-in

Many of you know the PhotoTools plug-in from onOne Software, but did you know it has been rebranded as Perfect Effects 3? The result is you get most of the same effects with a ton of new capabilities. Perfect Effects 3 packs a complete library of photographic… read more

Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

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

Let’s start our journey… read more

How Much Code Should Web Designers Need to Know?

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

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

45 Insider Instagram Pics From Bands at SXSW

1. Milo Greene

@dawsonheringer

“The final Milo Greene show of SXSW. #AustinExhaustion” 

Click here to view this gallery.

Max Blau is Paste… read more

Perfect Layers 2

Create Layered Files outside of Photoshop

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

Weird And Wonderful, Yet Still Illegible

First a question (or perhaps a Freudian jab at your subconscious): What does this shape represent?

Could it be a trowel, a duck, an ornamental motif, or a seed-pod? I know, Aladdin’s Lamp! What if I told you it was an alphabetic character? What alphabet would you assign to it? Cham?… read more

The Benefits of Creating Value for Your Clients

Pomegranate is a mentoring emagazine for creative entrepreneurs—that’s you! Their March 2012 issue is all about creating value for your customers.

Creating value is the easiest way to differentiate you from your competitors. To be honest, when I choose vendors to work with, the lowest price doesn’t always win out…. read more

The Secret Source of Never-Ending Customers for Freelancers

Nine out of ten freelancers will tell you that their biggest challenge is finding new customers.

And not just any customers – we’re talking about the good customers, the ones that really want to work with you, trust you to do a good job, listen to you, accept your guidance,… read more

WordPress plugins for user-submitted & user-generated content

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Improve Your Workflow By Eating Out – The Link Between Restaurants And Design Meetings

Let’s face it: when we eat out at a restaurant, we usually aren’t making the most logical choice on any front. Restaurants are quite a bit more expensive than cooking meals at home; they’re also less nutritious, less filling, and sometimes the quality of the food or the… read more