Perché l’iPad non salverà l’editoria

Il successo commerciale dell’iPad e del modello di business delle Apps disponibili sull’iTunes Store ha spalancato un orizzonte di opportunità economiche inaspettate per moltissimi sviluppatori.

L’editoria in particolare è stata interessata fin da subito nel valutare le potenzialità del tablet della Apple per tentare di trovare un’opzione alternativa alla distribuzione dei… read more

Best of the Week #149

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.70

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers. /> Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and… read more

Adobe Illustrator: Gradient Along a Path

Dave Cross shows Illustrator users how to accomplish a gradient along a path.

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Competition: We have 10 Design Cocktail III Bundles (value of $904) up for grabs

Today we have an amazing competition for you. We have 10 (TEN!!!) Design Cocktail III bundles to giveaway. The bundle includes 5 mega vector packs (value $280), 20 Photoshop brush packs (value $200), Sketch font (value $15), set of 1000 vector illustrations (value $110), Revolve WP theme ($79), two HTML… read more

Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today

For a while now, here on Smashing Magazine, we have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies. Many designers are complaining about the numerous ways how the lack… read more

Turbulent Photography

Today’s collection provides some amazing examples of stormy photography which can be very difficult to capture. Lightning is one of the most intense and most extreme moments which require great skill to create an awesome effect and a good picture.

A perfect storm and lightning photograph is one which… read more

The Beauty of Minimalist Design: 5 Reasons to Include Less

Minimalism. The term is pretty divisive. Some think it’s a bunch of self-serving nonsense – a fancy label for a convoluted lifestyle design. Others swear by the principle, drastically improving their life and surroundings. Regardless of what you think of it, the fact is that there are benefits to be… read more

Importing Raw + JPEGs into Lightroom

Matt Kloskowksi travels the world teaching people how to integrate their photography and Lightroom. He writes a blog at LightroomKillerTips.com which features tips, tutorials, and weekly content about how to improve your Lightroom workflow.

From Matt’s blog: I figured I’d pick off another common question I get during this week’s… read more

Are Male and Female Designers Designed Differently?

After as far as we have come in equality of the sexes, it is still almost impossible to work with men/women. They are so strange and just don’t do things the way they should be done. They are moody, grumpy, too familiar, emotional, threatening and just plain men/women! Add the… read more

Most Common Mistakes in Screencasting

When people think about how to start screencasting, they often forget that screencasting is not only a very interesting way of showing something quickly, comprehensibly and easily; it’s also a way of advertising their products. It’s a shame to see how many websites out there lack a beautiful looking screencast,… read more

20 Plugin Replacing Tutorials, Tips, Snippets and Solutions for WordPress

It is no secret that there is an endless supply of plugins that will make WordPress highly extensible, its one of the main reasons why WordPress is so popular amongst developers. They give endless potential to the most basic installation and with wisely chosen plugins will very easily transform WP… read more

Free WordPress 3.0+ Theme for Portfolios and Magazines: JournalCrunch

In this post we release a yet another freebie: JournalCrunch WordPress 3.0+ theme, a theme for magazines or portfolios with an integrated journal. The theme was designed by Site5 and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. As usual, the theme is absolutely free to use in private and… read more

Daily Inspiration #687

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

3 Things Brands Must Do to Reach Millennials Online

Nick Parish is the North American Editor of Contagious, a London-based intelligence resource for the global marketing community focusing on non-traditional media and emerging technologies.
 
Whereas yesterday’s concept of convenience was all about value and location (e.g. the 24-hour 7-Eleven store), today’s convenience is about getting what you want,… read more

Designer Spotlight: Lee Calderon

Lee Calderon was born in Southern California, where he lived, dreamt up designs, and created art, until moving to colorful Colorado about four years ago. His creative journey began, perhaps like most budding artists, closely surrounded by a stack of papers and loads of crayons. In fact, even to this… read more

35 Stunning Example Of Concept Art

Here is another post for all concept art lovers. Here we are presenting some examples of concept art which shows the creativity of artists in creating an illustrated design for something which doesn’t exist so far. Many of the artworks presented below are Photoshopped while some are designed using the… read more

Networking: Hang Out with Your Clients, Not Just with Your Peers

Credit: jremick/Flickr.

As freelancers, we have many ways to interact with our peers to help us keep abreast of new ideas and emerging trends. We network with others like ourselves for moral support, for answers to business questions, and to develop strategies and skills and resources that can make us more… read more

New Smashing eBook: How to Create Selling E-Commerce Websites

Designing and developing an e-commerce website takes a lot of brain power, knowledge and research before starting. Not only do you have to please your client with a beautiful layout and thoughtful structure, but you have to make your client’s customers easily understand what it’s all about; that is, you… read more

A Review of Web Design Trends from 2010

The past year has shown us some magnificent growth in the web sector. Design innovation can be seen everywhere as the community of both web designers and application developers is on the rise. Trends are emerging from this budding community and they’re greatly shaping the future of our Internet.

Below are… read more

The Right Tools To Start a Blog

The Right Tools To Start a Blog

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HOW TO: Define a Social Media Strategy for Enterprise

The Social Media for Business Leaders Series is supported by The Awareness Social Marketing Hub, an enterprise-grade application for marketers who manage multiple social channels. Learn more here.

Much has been written about social media strategy for small business. It’s a personal medium, and a few employees engaging directly with customers… read more

Daily Inspiration #686

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

Open Type in Adobe Illustrator

Enhance your type design using Illustrator’s open type options. This video shows users how to utilize the useful tools in the glyphs panel.

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.67)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing… read more

Organizing Your Design Inspirations

Virtually every creative out there turns to designs and images created by others to get inspired now and then. Whether you use web design galleries or other sources of visual inspiration, you’ve probably had times when you’ve felt like you’re spending too much time looking for inspiration and not enough… read more

Preparing Artwork for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator

Getting t-shirts printed is an ideal way to promote your business, organization or event. They are a promotional item that people can actually use, and they have the added bonus of being an advertisement for you. In this post, Adobe Illustrator will be used to create a three-color screen print… read more

Three Major Reasons Why You’re Not Getting Any Clients (and how to avoid these pitfalls)

Nothing’s more frustrating than not getting clients. You know your designs are good. You write really concise and sharp emails. Your people skills are impeccable. Yet no matter what you seem to do, you just can’t get many, if any, clients. Or you get desperate and start accepting what you… read more

Daily Inspiration #685

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

Alignment Tools in After Effects CS5

Aligning visual elements inside a project is very important. Franklin McMahon goes over some of the alignment options in After Effects, including the new Align Layers to Composition feature in CS5.

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Using the LESS CSS Preprocessor for Smarter Style Sheets

As a Web designer you’re undoubtedly familiar with CSS, the style sheet language used to format markup on Web pages. CSS itself is extremely simple, consisting of rule sets and declaration blocks—what to style, how to style it—and it does pretty much everything you want, right? Well, not quite.

You see,… read more

Amazing Art Of Snow Sculpture

Last week, we had a roundup of snow photography and have mentioned that winter is not a season to be underestimated. There are people who are eager and can hardly wait for the first snowstorn to hit. As you will see in today’s post, there is a lot one can… read more

Top 50 Web Development, Design and Application Icon Sets from 2010

Its that time of year again where we take a look at the best and freely available icon sets for web and application developers. Its been a tremendous year, with many new high quality sets being released, all perfect for your next project.

The icons have been split into several categories,… read more

Beautiful Photos from the 2010 National Geographic Photography Contest

Every year National Geographic promotes a photographic contest, with the categories “people”, “places” and “nature”, which awards the winner $10000 and publishes their picture in the NatGeo magazine. Accepting entries from all over the world, this year’s submission period was closed on November 30th, and the entries were already unveiled…. read more

MOJO Themes Cyber Bundle Competition Winners Announced

Last week we published the competition 3 Super Awesome Cyber Bundles (worth $579) from MOJO Themes, it has now ended and it is time to announce the winners.

Thanks to MOJO Themes for allowing us to publish this competition, and an evener bigger thank you to all of our readers who… read more

6 Reasons Why Social Games Are the Next Advertising Frontier

Ad spending on social gaming increased 60% since 2009, according to eMarketer. No doubt advertisers have noticed that 56 million Americans are playing social games and that the branded virtual goods market is booming. But more than just social gaming’s growing popularity has gotten attention from advertisers. Social games also… read more

Designers: Here’s the Brief for Project Magazine’s iPad Cover Contest

As part of its launch on Tuesday, Virgin’s first iPad-only magazine, Project, announced a contest to redesign the magazine’s animated cover. In order to get ahold of the brief and assets for the contest, however, designers (or their unemployed friends) had to locate one of four paper mannequins (with Sir… read more

9 Awesome Web Comic Series

The internet is a wonderful and beautiful thing. It used to be that if you had the talent to draw your own comics you were still limited by the avenues of distribution like newspapers and magazines. Now all you need is a computer and a small chunk of… read more

Interview with Marcus McAdam

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing pro photographer Marcus McAdam from Portraits of a Land. Marcus runs photographic workshops on a Scottish Island – I recently came across some of his work and was really impressed. I hope you enjoy learning from him. Lets start with one of his… read more

Top 10 Christmas Social Bookmarking Icon Sets

This post is a little bit early, but it is best to be prepared – Christmas is coming and if you're looking for something to bring some Xmas cheer to your website this year you will be glad to know that there are a lot of social media icon options… read more

Best of the Week #148

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.69

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and… read more

12 Awesome and Creative USB Flash Drives

12 Awesome and Creative USB Flash Drives

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Your iPad Should Be in An Incase Magazine Jacket [GIVEAWAY]

We’ve seen some interesting cases in our ongoing pursuit for perfect iPad protection, but the Incase Convertible Magazine Jacket could be a definite frontrunner. It builds on the Incase Book Jacket by trimming it substantially and adding some crucial features.

The Magazine Jacket is aesthetically similar to Apple’s own iPad case,… read more

15 Blogs to Follow if You’re a Gamer

Just like animated movies, video games in the past few years have transformed from something that kids like to a passionate pastime of people of all age groups. Doctors suggest taking up video games to blow off steam and even the military uses gaming to train recruits.

Started as a gadget… read more

Daily Inspiration #683

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

3 Ways to Empower Social Media Giving This Holiday Season

Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media and fundraising so they can focus on making an impact and achieving their missions. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa.

Year-end preparation is in full swing for most non-profit… read more

This Morning’s Top 3 Stories in Tech, Business & Startups

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Wikileaks.org Downed by Loss of DNS Services Provider

WikiLeaks has been struggling to fend off… read more

Post-Production Trends in 3D Visualizations

Post-production might well be the most underappreciated part of creating 3D visualizations. It gives you the power to easily make some changes; put in the sky you like, add some dirt, make the colors more vibrant and even correct some little mistakes in your 3D mesh.

Most of the traditional 3D… read more

Design Trends of Movie Posters 2010

An eye-catching and original poster is very important for any major success of a movie. You will most probably agree that it is a pretty hard task to embody the plot in one single poster. Of course you can use such powerful tools like typography, colors and protagonist faces but… read more

Coding Flexible Web Layouts in HTML5 and CSS

Web standards are in evolution and continuing to refine how we structure our content. There are many open source platforms which allow rapid prototyping and development of new features in just a few days. As web developers it can be difficult to keep up with such fast-paced times.

Luckily with the… read more

Marie Claire Arrives on the iPad

Marie Claire launched its own iPad app Thursday, making its last six issues available to owners of the device.

The July to November issues are mere PDF scans of the print version of the magazine. The December issue is likewise primarily a PDF edition of the magazine, but but it adds… read more

How the Fortune 500 Use Social Media to Grow Sales and Revenue

Jamie Turner is the Chief Content Officer of the 60 Second Marketer, the online magazine for BKV Digital and Direct Response. He is also the co-author of How to Make Money with Social Media now available at fine bookstores (and a few not-so-fine bookstores) everywhere.

Given the hundreds of social media… read more

HDR Pro in Photoshop CS5

[If you’d like to download the images used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only.]

The new HDR Pro features in CS5 have greatly expanded the HDR capabilities in Photoshop. In addition to basic exposure… read more

15 Ways to Enjoy Freelancing

Freelancers are always in search of some work, so that they can earn something by rendering their services to people from the comforts of their home. Most of us read a lot about productivity, marketing, pricing, customer service, and these aspects of business are all important. But it’s also important… read more

A Study of Trends in Mobile Design

This article is a part of our new eBook Mobile Design For iPhone And iPad (just $9.90). The eBook presents articles on professional design for the iPhone and iPad, including guidelines for the development of mobile web pages. Available in PDF, Mobipocket and ePUB formats.

The industry has evolved in many… read more

Name One Thing About Web Development You Never Saw Coming

Not that this is universally true, but some people look haphazardly into a field before deciding to dive in. We do the odd bit of research, investigating the ins and outs, slowly developing expectations about this new arena of work. Expectations are not necessarily bad to have; they can be… read more

Is Working Freelance Really Worth It? Pros and Cons

Are you tired of working for clients you don’t like? Want control of your time, location, and projects you work on? And make more money while you’re at it? Then you should consider freelancing.

Freelancing is basically being self-employed and not committed to any one company or firm. You’ve heard those… read more

5 Better Ways to Read “Hacker News”

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Hacker News is one of our favorite places to find interesting stories, learn about apps and side projects from the dev community and stay connected to the early stage startup… read more

Weekly Graphic Design Inspiration – N.01

Graphic designers can draw inspiration from anything and everything. In this article I have gathered a series of designs from some of my favorite graphic designers and artists from which I have created many logo’s and designs myself, using their designs as inspiration and perhaps somewhat of a motivational tool… read more

Package Central

AUTOMATED PACKAGING FOR ADOBE INDESIGN

Packaging InDesign files takes up valuable time and computer resources—simply put, Package Central offloads the actual collection of the graphic files to another system. The software is easy to set up and use: Install the Package Central server and then install the User Components… read more

Meet the Developers: Andrew Pepperrell of Alfred App

In today’s interview, I’m talking to Andrew Pepperrell, the developer behind one of my favourite applications of the year—Alfred. This is a fantastic application launcher, and seems to keep growing and expanding every month. It’s certainly been developed with care and attention to detail!

Andrew has taken a few minutes out… read more

Create a Personalized Toolkit for Making Maps

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel every time you draw a map. With Illustrator, you can set up your own map-making toolkit, full of the styles, symbols and other elements you use every time. Having all of these things in one place which will ensure accuracy, consistency and readability,… read more

Best Photoshop Icon Design Tutorials Created in 2010

In today’s post we have compiled a very useful list of Adobe Photoshop icon design tutorials that will teach you the techniques you will need for designing your own icons using mainly Photoshop. If you have a passion for Icon Design or are a GUI designer on the search for… read more

Fashion & Beauty Photography by Lars Botten

Norwegian photographer Lars Botten’s portfolio is captivating. The fashion editorials are right up my alley. Botten has worked with Cosmopolitan France, Marie Claire Italy, S Magazine, Yves Rocher, and Porsche among others.

Head on over to Lars’ portfolio for more and let me know what you think via twitter!

About the author

I… read more

10 Cool and Useful HTML 5 Tutorials

10 Cool and Useful HTML 5 Tutorials

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15 Super-Simple jQuery Menu and Navigation Plugins

There are lots of jQuery menu and navigation plugins freely available that can do anything you could possibly imagine. We love those innovative and ground-breaking plugins we really do.

But, as we are sure you will agree, the most of the time, all we basically need is a lightweight, functional and… read more

Throw a “Playboy Party” on Facebook

GameStop’s social games publisher Jolt Online has just released its latest Facebook game, Playboy Party. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like.

In a world where it seems perfectly natural to tend to a virtual farm or manage a village of Smurfs, perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised that a game… read more

Virgin’s iPad-Only Magazine Has Arrived

Virgin Group’s iPad-only magazine, Project, has arrived in the App Store.

In looks and in subject matter, it is very much like Wired, minus some of the technicality and the extensive, in-depth features (the articles are all noticeably short), and with a greater focus on entertainment. An article about emerging astronomers,… read more

Actionscript Made Easy

[If you’d like to download the file used in this tutorial to practice these techniques, visit www.layersmagazine.com and navigate to the Magazine section. All files are for personal use only.]

Let’s face it, in the past new Flash users had to deal with a dauntingly empty Actions panel and advanced users… read more

The 3 Biggest Stories in Tech & Business This Tuesday

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest today.

Google to Acquire Groupon for More Than $5 Billion [REPORT]

Forget the rumor that Google… read more

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use a specific wallpaper for a longer period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why we have decided to supply you with smashing wallpapers for over 12 months. To make them… read more

Mobile Development Toolkit

Mobile web design has been around for quite a while. Unfortunately, a lot of mobile design guidelines are out of date and focus on low-resolution, non-touchscreen phones. Despite their popularity, there isn’t a whole lot of information out there for designing websites for the new generation of smartphones (iPhone, Android… read more

Competition: 3 Super Awesome Cyber Bundles (worth $579) from MOJO Themes up for Grabs

The first thing to note about this competition is that it will only run for the next three day (it ends on Friday the 3rd of Decemebr), so don’t hesitate, don’t think twice, get your comment in NOW!

For this weeks competition we have three super-awesome Cyber Bundles from MojoThemes up… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.66)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing… read more

Virgin’s iPad-Only Magazine to Launch Tonight

Virgin Group’s iPad-only Project magazine is set to hit the App Store at midnight (technically 12:01 a.m. ET on Tuesday), a little more than 10 hours ahead of the official launch event being held tomorrow in New York City.

When I last wrote about the magazine, I speculated that Virgin might… read more

How Social Media Is Changing the Way Movies are Promoted

The Movie and Tech Series is supported by DVDVideoSoft. Discover Free Studio, a full collection of free software to process video, images and audio at DVDVideoSoft.com. Clean, free and user-friendly.

From self-funded independent projects to big-name Hollywood blockbusters, the movie industry has embraced social media. Big time.

Historically, of course, this makes… read more

6 Free iPad Apps for Planning Your Next Vacation

The Business Travel Series is supported by Philips ChargeOn, a wire-free mobile phone charging system that gives you up to 4 hours of additional talk time when you’re on the go. To learn more about Philips ChargeOn, visit its website here.

Over the past decade, booking travel plans has become exponentially… read more

Winners Announced – WordPress Development Books Competition

Last weeks we published the competition Two Free WordPress Development Books for Two Lucky Readers, it has now ended and it is time to announce the winners.

Thanks to PACKT Publishing for donating these books, and an evener bigger thank you to all of our readers who have left a comment…. read more

Persuasion Triggers in Web Design

How do you make decisions? If you’re like most people, you’ll probably answer that you pride yourself on weighing the pros and cons of a situation carefully and then make a decision based on logic. You know that other people have weak personalities and are easily swayed by their emotions,… read more

Why Typography is the Soul of Web Design?

Typography is integral to web design. The various uses of text on the web, from large headlines and bold blocks to small body, indicate the importance of typography; it is a combination of art and science.

Type is everywhere, doing everything; all websites rely on text and font to convey their… read more

The Beauty of the Hand-Drawn Typography Trend in Design

Hand-drawn typography has recently emerged as a growing trend in print and digital medias. This is due in part from the fact that designers, illustrators, and art directors are struggling to stand out in a digital age. Basic desktop publishing and word processors skills have become blase; even neighborhood garage… read more

Snowy Winter Photography

For some of us, winter is a season that we might try to avoid as much as possible. However, it is a season not to be underestimated and can be beautiful in its own way as much as the remaining seasons. The bright snow and monochromatic tones can make very… read more

5 of the Best New User Experiences of 2010

As part of the ongoing Mashable Awards, we’re taking a closer look at each of the nomination categories. This is “Best Website User Experience.” Be sure to nominate your favorites and join us for the Gala in Las Vegas!

When it comes to user experience, designers and developers must do much… read more

A Planet of Savings This Cyber Monday!

Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned professional, now’s your chance to SAVE BIG on the best Photoshop and photography training available!

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) and Kelby Training have joined forced to create a wide array of outrageous one day only deals and discounts—everything from 18-month… read more

D-Town Live Hits The Big Apple!

Ready for a little inspiration and education? Don’t miss a LIVE one-hour episode of D-Town TV this Monday, November 29 with Matt Kloskowski and Larry Becker from the B&H store in New York City.

Tune in from 2:30-3:30 pm EST to learn some hot digital photography tips while getting a… read more

Art Inspiration For The Weekend

In a creative field like design, we face an undeniable truth: our wells of inspiration are bound to run dry from time to time. In those periods of imaginative downtime, we seek out sources that can help us return the creative flow to our working process, and get us “back… read more

Beautiful and Simple Image Collages with Photovisi

Photovisi.com is a free online service that makes it easy to create your own photo collages online, offering several creative templates and options.

While many different services exist online to creatively process your photos, most of them are just for short-term fun. Photovisi offers a wide range of several high quality… read more

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.68

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and… read more

Daily Inspiration #677

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

Web Design Questionnaires, Project Sheets and Work Sheets

It’s nearly impossible to provide an accurate quote to a prospective web design client without first gathering information about what that particular client needs. Some designers do this in either a face-to-face meeting or over the phone, but more often, they have a questionnaire that prospective clients fill out. This… read more

Beautiful Illustrations by Mike Dutton

Mike Dutton has been a writer/illustrator most of his life. He completed his first book when he was seven, a stapled mass of dot-matrix printer paper filled with leaping dinosaurs. He once drew the entire Sunday Funnies during class, but none of the jokes were funny. In fact, his teacher… read more

Best Nests to Rest

There have been numerous posts on human architecture where most of the architects sharpen their skills with the help of education. However, these small birds and insects are naturally endowed with this super gift. We all find nests everywhere and are awed by the beauty of so many different nests… read more

Toon Boom Animate 2

FAST ANIMATION SOFTWARE

Toon Boom Animate 2 is the gold-standard tool for creating Flash animations. As there’s some confusion surrounding the word “Flash,” you should know that it’s both a file format (used to display animations—and other kinds of multimedia presentations—on the Web and other platforms) and also a program used… read more

Web Font Award Winners Showcase Why Type Matters

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

The very first Web Font Awards were held at the Future of Web Design conference last week. The Web Font Awards ceremony was the first of its type (get it?)… read more

Showcase Of Beautiful But Unusable Websites

“Form follows function” is a widely accepted — albeit controversial — principle that most designers in a variety of disciplines have adopted since its inception at the turn of the 19th century. On the web, we commonly refer to function as usability which is the ease of use and navigation… read more

45 Amazing Examples Of Reflection Photography

45 Amazing Examples Of Reflection Photography

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10 Places to Use Your Logo to Maximise Your Brands Exposure

For any business online or off your logo becomes an important part of your corporate identity. There are several places on a website which beg to be branded with a logo and there are even more opportunities around the web to promote your site and build logo recognition.

You might also… read more

The 3 Biggest Stories in Tech and Mobile This Thursday

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on three particular stories of interest this Thanksgiving.

Apple’s Black Friday Sale Starts in Australia

Apple’s Black Friday sale has begun in… read more

80 Fresh High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

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