40+ Spellbinding Sleeveface Photography

40+ Spellbinding Sleeveface Photography

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8 Button Styles

8 Button Styles

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20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

20 Fresh and Beautiful HTML5 Web Designs Inspiration

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Good Stuff on the Web #9 (web design news)

Good Stuff on the Web #9 (web design news)

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Current Web Typography Trends

The evolution of typography in web design has been hampered by technological limitations. The lack of browser support for CSS in the pre-2000 era, and later, unavailability of a wider range of fonts limited typographical adventures to a handful of font choices. Every web designer willing to experiment… read more

Dealing With Procrastination

Right now I am procrastinating. I should be working on writing a story about American Legion Baseball, but I’m writing this blog post instead.

I am not a serial procrastinator—in fact, rarely do I procrastinate. But when there is a story that I know I have to write on a… read more

Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose

The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Nintendo 64 to play some Zelda.

Now, I am not a game designer. I actually… read more

Breezi: Website Design Sans Effort

Website creation nowadays can be a slightly gruelling task, especially given the demands on web designers and creators to produce high-quality, professional-looking and intuitive websites. Often with these kind of sites there is a steep learning curve as CSS, HTML5, and even Flash in some ways play huge roles in… read more

Tools and methodologies for better coding

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Websites of the Deep: A Showcase of Underwater Web Design

Developing a website can sometimes be a dry process, but that doesn’t mean the finished site can’t make a splash. As the lead designer at a studio called “The Deep End”, it’s always interesting to see what others have done with the underwater web design theme, and it turns out… read more

How to Build an Accordion Image Gallery with only CSS

Fluent animated transitions for sliding web page elements such as a menu or an image gallery, have always traditionally been implemented with JavaScript. But using the CSS3 pseudo-class :target and the negation pseudo-class :not() properties, together with the CSS3 Transition Module you can achieve the same effect, but… read more

Web Design into the Future with CSS3

Web Design into the Future with CSS3

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Why Great Design Is the Future of Content Marketing

Chuck Longanecker is the founder of Digital-Telepathy, a user-experience design company passionate about creating products, like SlideDeck and Impress. Follow him at @dtelepathy.

Although it’s still early in 2012, the importance of visual storytelling is clearly one of the year’s breakout trends. Facebook Timeline, Pinterest, and Instagram are forcing brands to… read more

20 Free E-books For Web Designers

20 Free E-books For Web Designers

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Create a Professional Home Office

Many freelancers have some dedicated space in their home in which to do their work. And setting up a great home office is key to your productivity, sanity, and professionalism.

Of course, some people don’t have an entire room in their home dedicated to a home office, but if you… read more

Awesome Examples Of Thumbnail Usage In Web Design – 32 Sites

Awesome Examples Of Thumbnail Usage In Web Design – 32 Sites

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Build a Better Freelance Business with Strategic Branding

When I first started freelance writing, I thought branding for businesses merely referred to having a consistent “look and voice”. With my partner, we put together a website, designed a logo, added social media accounts– and called it our branding strategy. But I learned that these are just functional… read more

Typography Mania #129

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

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

10 Simply Amazing Logos

Branding a business can be quite the difficult task, regardless of if it’s your own or a clients.  One of the most difficult things to do in this process is come up with a logo.  A sole image, or tag of some sort, that will effectively portray what that business… read more

Expert website monitoring for free!

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You! Be Inspired! #0002

We’ve had quite a lively and green weekend – we’ve got the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival closing out, and on the same day we had Earth Day. Well, if you’re going to count the Friday before the weekend, it’s more a lot more greener than we thought.
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Geological Photography – Trolltunga

Ever wanted to play Superman and have the feeling you’re flying? Well, in Trolltunga, a small rock formation in Norway, you just may accomplish your child’s dream. These are some pictures of this amazing spot.

Trolltunga, which means Troll’s Tongue, is a cold-blooded only tourist spot which I would most definitely… read more

3 Ways WordPress Makes You a More Profitable Web Designer

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Create a Website Planning Spec Before You Build

Successful website design requires both skill and creativity. Another BIG piece that I think separates successful website developers from unsuccessful website developers is the ability to Plan. Website Planning is one of the most critical pieces of website development, yet it’s the piece that I see Website Developers skipping over… read more

Migrating Side Projects into your Work Schedule

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To work as a freelance web designer requires a lot of patience and perseverance. You need to wake up every day and tackle problems one after another until you can successfully complete your projects. There is a lot of stress and turmoil which goes into this… read more

Tutorial: How to design a chatroom iPhone UI

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.129)

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

7 Tips for Women in the Tech Industry

Being a female entrepreneur in the male-dominated tech industry is challenging, and comes with a distinct set of barriers. Thankfully, there are several female-led organizations that are working to bring more women into the tech fold.

I asked a panel of successful young female entrepreneurs from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only nonprofit… read more

11 Free Seamless Pixel Patterns for Photoshop

11 Free Seamless Pixel Patterns for Photoshop

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Surreal Illustrations by Jim Tsinganos

Jim Tsinganos is a Sydney based Illustrator with over 20 years experience. Working primarily with pastels and watercolor, he is interested in creating work with a strong conceptual basis, which in most cases turns out to be very surreal. Check it out!

For more from Jim Tsinganos visit tsinganos.com and behance.net/tsinganos

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The Perfect Office #136

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Absolutely Fresh And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator does not need any introduction. It is the most powerful and basic tool used in the designing industry. With the help of Adobe Illustrator you can create several design elements that are required in a web page design. If you know how to use it properly, you can… read more

Giveaway: Win 70.000 graphic Items with Grafpedia

We are again excited to present you with special, more exciting prizes. InstantShift again came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the iShift community and helping us make it to where we are right now.

We… read more

23 Inspiring Examples of Contact Pages

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When designing a website we need to think about every aspect, from header to footer, from landing page to about us page, and even the contact page. It’s important to make sure the design is great all the way through. So today we decided to gather… read more

How to Find and Land Clients For Your Business

Christmas is always a particularly fun time of year for me.  Sure, there are the obvious reasons of family, gifts, music, movies, eggnog and all that good stuff.  But for me it has more to do with the questions I’m asked by family members and I couldn’t help but laugh… read more

Does blogging get you anywhere?

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20 Useful websites and tools for web designers and developers

20 Useful websites and tools for web designers and developers

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PSD to Joomla Conversion: A necessity for perfect CMS Web Design

PSD to Joomla Conversion: A necessity for perfect CMS Web Design

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Web Design Inspiration: Large Photo Backgrounds

Web Design Inspiration: Large Photo Backgrounds

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5 Ways to Lose Your Dream Job During the Interview Process

Mona Abdel-Halim is the co-founder of Resunate, the makers of the Apply widget for startups. You can start attracting top talent free by getting an Apply widget for your company at Resunate.com/employers. Connect with Resunate on Facebook and Twitter.

If you’ve been on the job search for a while, it’s likely… read more

The Ultimate Digital Customer Service Guide

In our recent Customer Experience Series, Mashable dove deep into the mysterious alchemy of customer service. Those who own their own business will tell you: Getting (and keeping) customers is not easy. There are so many different factors that must work together perfectly within a company to ensure that fans… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 16 – Apr 22, 2012

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WDL Premium: 20 Ultimate Button Styles

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For our WDL Premium members, here’s a set of 20 button styles from WeGraphics. The set includes Photoshop PSD and ASL styles for laying out design comps.They also have included coded HTML and CSS for each button. Check it out!

Be sure to check out WeGraphics for… read more

Best of the Week #219

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 #126

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Funny Fonts for Web Design

Funny Fonts for Web Design

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25+ Stunning Robot Illustrations

25+ Stunning Robot Illustrations

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Rad Illustrations by Alvaro Arteaga

One of the greatest things about the Society6 site is that artists get to turn a single work into apparel design or mobile covers. Many artists there are really good and deserve more attention, like Alvaro Arteaga. Check his work out now.

Alvaro is a Spanish illustrator that comes up with… read more

15 Free High Quality ToolTip PSD’s

A tooltip or infotip can be defined as a graphical hint that is incorporated with the website design element usually with the cursor or a pointer and provides some information when a website user hovers the pointer over that particular item without even clicking it. Or in simple words, it… read more

24 Free Mini Icon Sets To Download

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In this roundup we have collected some mini icon sets to download. Enjoy!! If you like these icons you might want to check out our previous posts below.

35 Free Icon Sets

43 Free Social Media Icon Sets

25 of the Best Blogging and Social Media Icon Sets

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Free download: 200 icons from Inventicons

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20+ Creative Web Designs Built With Wix and IMcraetor

20+ Creative Web Designs Built With Wix and IMcraetor

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30 Days to Learn Adobe Illustrator

New to Vectortuts+, or still learning the ropes with Illustrator? If you’ve always wanted to learn but never had the time or the resources, check out the new course from Tuts+ Premium: 30 Days to Learn Adobe Illustrator. Over the course of one month you’ll go from complete beginner to… read more

15 Killer Startup Web Designs

15 Killer Startup Web Designs

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PinView Turns Your Facebook Timeline Into a Pinterest Board

Ever wished that long, scrolling Facebook Timeline was somehow easier to manage — like, say, a Pinterest board?

Brand new Facebook app PinView displays items from your News Feed, Timeline, friends list and multimedia pages as small panels, just like social bookmarking site Pinterest showcases images on Pinboards.

The spiffy app launched… read more

Speech Bubbles Shapes

Speech Bubbles Shapes

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Why I Think Siri Is the Future of the Mac

For decades now, voice control over any type of hardware has been the epitome of immersive user interface. From Star Trek to Iron Man, you have seen the benefits of vocal commands used over and over in many forms of science fiction. To date, technology still tries to mimic the… read more

Jack Designs – A Free Corporate Identity Package

We have another amazing freebie for you today. Exclusively designed for us by Robby from RobbyDesigns.com, it is a corporate identity package called ‘Jack Designs’ that includes PSD templates for business cards, CD covers (front & back), envelopes, letterheads, door-handles and even a design for a mousepad!.

The… read more

30 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials That You Can’t Missed

30 Amazing Photoshop Tutorials That You Can’t Missed

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Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

There has been a long-running war going on over the mobile Web: it can be summarized with the following question: “Is there a mobile Web?” That is, is the mobile device so fundamentally different that you should make different websites for it, or is there only one Web that we… read more

Black & White Photos of Shanghai

This photo series was taken back in 2010 by the Polish photographer Marvin Stavars. Shanghai is the largest city of China by population. A complete concrete jungle that you are able to experience by these photos, and get a feeling of how massive everything is. Enjoy!

For more from Martin Stavars… read more

9 jQuery Mistakes you Shouldn’t Commit

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jQuery is so easy to use that sometimes we just forget that it’s not CSS. While using CSS, we don’t have to give much thought to performance, because it’s so fast that it’s not worth the effort to optimize it. But when it comes to the… read more

15+ high quality, free pattern sets

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CSS3 Menu and Navigation Tutorials

All of the CSS3 navigation tutorials we have for you today are all fully functional and could easily be used on a live site. But we do prefer to think of them all as being more experimental and proof-of-concept rather than being a robust end-product (a sprinkle of… read more

How to Utilize Social Media Sharing Badges in your Blog

Internet marketing is the best way to slowly ramp up a crowd for your website. Repeat visitors are the attraction to help your brand sink into all areas of the web. And social media has provided just another tool for marketers everywhere to achieve this task.

If you run a blog… read more

15 Free Abstract Smoke Brushes

In this collection, we are showcasing some high quality Photoshop Abstract smoke brushes that you can add in your collection of Photoshop brushes. With these Abstract smoke brushes, you can create smoky effects. Smoke is a cloud of fine particles that are created from partial combustion of burning materials. In… read more

App Store Deals This Week

Here’s Mac AppStorm’s picks of the best deals on the App Store for this week, 11 – 18 April (there is also a little surprise waiting at the bottom of the page as well…).

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If you’re trying to keep to a diet, or simply wanting to eat less,… read more

Announcement: Winners of Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Impressionist UI Packs Giveaway had announced the four winners of Impressionist UI Pack by DesignModo to InstantShift readers.

We’ve got more than 60 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 52 valid comments. It’s really good… read more

Win 10 free PSD to HTML conversion! (valued at $99 each!)

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Massimo And Lella Vignelli: Designs That Will Outlive Mankind

There are two major things that had to be overcome in writing this spotlight on Massimo and Lella Vingnelli: One was how to approach the subjects in a different way as they’ve had so much written about them. Two, as with writing about other designers who are still living, one… read more

40 New Dribbble Freebies Published in 2012

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The community of designers over at Dribbble are always happy to release new freebies to the public. It’s such a populated network that it can be frustrating to browse through all the newest shots looking for hidden gems. Thankfully I keep up with all the latest… read more

12 Free Tumblr Themes to Class Up Your Blog

1. Watercolor

Splash some color over your header with this modern design. The hint of paper texture will do… read more

5 Tips for Selecting the Best Web Designer to Hire

5 Tips for Selecting the Best Web Designer to Hire

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Awesome Photoshop Custom Cars by Richard Andersen

I really enjoy seeing people doing cool photoshop works in photographs, doing all kinds of crazy stuff, like customizing real-life cars. That’s exactly what Richard Andersen does, and it’s pretty awesome.

Richard is a South African graphic designer. For more of his custom cars, you must check his portfolio. Do so,… read more

40 Excellent Logos Created With Helvetica

40 Excellent Logos Created With Helvetica

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30 Awesome Typography Posters That You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

30 Awesome Typography Posters That You’ve Probably Never Seen Before

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7 iPad Apps For Productivity And Project Management

With the plethora of iPad apps available in the market, it has become quite easy to manage your work and improve your productivity. Although people working in the web design and development field spend most of their time on their PCs and laptops and they would hardly get time to… read more

Pinterest: The Social Network You Didn’t Know You Needed

You’ve likely already listed your favorite movies, music, and more on Facebook. You tweet and like new sites you come across online, and if anyone kept up with your online ramblings at all, surely they’d know your preferences in everything from software to soap.

Then comes Pinterest, the latest social network… read more

55 Latest Free Fonts for Professional Designers

Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.

The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design… read more

Ecards: a great marketing tool!

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Free Yet Awesome Online Tools For Web Design And Development

Free Yet Awesome Online Tools For Web Design And Development

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Audio and Video with HTML5

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HTML5 has entered our lives for good and it is changing the way we are embedding media on our web pages. Two of the new greatest features are the <audio> and <video> elements. No more do we have to resort to Flash to serve videos and… read more

Damn Good Web Design #2 (website showcase)

Damn Good Web Design #2 (website showcase)

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What the Mobile Web Means for Web Apps

I’m a web developer; that’s my jam. I enjoy making websites, and I really enjoy trying new technologies, techniques, and hacks for websites. In 2012, that means making websites responsive. While the ‘Responsive Web Design’ movement started a few years ago, it’s really starting to pick up steam with better… read more

20 Examples of Wooden Themed Web Designs

20 Examples of Wooden Themed Web Designs

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20 Examples of Responsive Web Design

20 Examples of Responsive Web Design

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The Perfect Office #135

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

This article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for… read more

Bigstock iPad Giveaway + Double Your Credits

Today I want to bring to your attention how you can win a brand new iPad without having to pay for it. Bigstock is running a promotion where for every credit you purchase from them, you get 1 ticket in the drawing for an iPad.

This offer is valid until May… read more

Little Icons Big Inspiration

I’ve always veen really inspired by the tinniest icon designs, and the amount of work that goes into designing every little detail is simply amazing. Today I selected some really cool icons to inspire you, so take a look and enjoy!

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Good Cooks and Good Writers Use Good Recipes

It must be a wonderful thing to be one of those chefs in the TV cooking competitions, able to take a stack of surprise ingredients and instantly whip up beautiful, tasty dishes from them.

For most of us, if that’s what we had to do every day, it would just… read more

An introduction to Modernizr for designers

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Great WordPress Themes to Show Off Your Portfolio

Great WordPress Themes to Show Off Your Portfolio

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Minimal Poster Designs: Need to Want Less Design

Minimal Poster Designs: Need to Want Less Design

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21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages

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About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where,… read more

Free & Premium Design Elements For Creating Infographics

Infographics Free Elements Set

Free Vector Infographic Kit by WeGraphics

Infographic Vector Kit by Pixeden

Free Infographics Template by Free Web Elements

Vector Infographic Kit by Medialoot

Business Data Elements Vector by Zezu

Infographics Premium Elements Set

Set Elements of Infographics – World Map – $4

Infographic Elements – $5

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5 User-Friendly Tools for Building Your Online Portfolio

Heather R. Huhman is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a content marketing and digital PR consultancy for organizations with products that target job seekers and/or employers. You can connect with Heather and Come Recommended on Twitter and Facebook.

In today’s digital world, your job search has to be as… read more

25 SEO Tips for Successful Web Design

25 SEO Tips for Successful Web Design

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Our favorite tweets of the week Apr 9 – Apr 15, 2012

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Best of the Week #218

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