Amazing Examples of Illustration and Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

Amazing Examples of Illustration and Hand Drawn Elements in Web Design

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Magical Lighting Effect in Photoshop

Magical Lighting Effect in Photoshop

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HTML5: 25 Fresh Web Design For Your Inspiration

HTML5: 25 Fresh Web Design For Your Inspiration

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Tim Brown: More Perfect Typography

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Just because you missed that awesome conference, doesn’t mean that you can’t still watch the lectures! This weekend we’re sharing a talk from Build design conference by Tim Brown, Type Manager for Typekit. In this talk, Tim will guide you through using traditional typographic tools and perspectives with… read more

Comics of the week #77

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.88

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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.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

jQuery Weekly Roundup #4: 5/11/11

jQuery Weekly Roundup #4: 5/11/11

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20 Best HTML5 Media Players

20 Best HTML5 Media Players

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Webdesign: let your website communicate the right way

Webdesign: let your website communicate the right way

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Two Cats In A Sack: Designer-Developer Discord

The differences between designers and developers often erupt in pointed jabs on the Web or at conferences. Jokes or not, the jabs create friction whose consequences are real.

I am a designer, and by no elaborate means of job-title-rejigging do I consider myself a developer, but I see the cruelty of… read more

10 Tips On Organizing Your Client Records

The cornerstone of any successful business is organization, so it’s important to have a handle on all your documents. Keeping track of client records can be bothersome or difficult, but ultimately it’ll help you become more efficient and effective. Here are 10 tips for making sure you keep your client… read more

Friday Fresh Free Fonts #100

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#100 and make sure to comeback… read more

Examples of Blue in Web Design

In current day web design blue has become a dominate color.  In the following examples, we will show you how blue can help make your website stand out from the crowd.

Postbox

Courier for Mac

Awesome

Hull Digital Live 10

Capo – Learn Your Music

Foundation Six Web Design Studio

Rockstar Business

Marie Catribs

WVA 2011

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How to Create a Small Business Card Size Calendar

You can make memorable your logo and your company in many ways. You can prepare gadget for your customers, beautiful business card for new meeting but, depending on your business activity, in my opinion, one of the best way to promote your business card is having a small calendar printed… read more

Sites of the Week #153

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Parkbud and Allastar Mennie. Also we’re featuring the amazing App Galaxy by Google, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

What Color Is Your Money? Showcase of Bank Websites Worldwide

Having lived and worked in various countries during the past 15 years, I have accumulated quite a few different bank accounts. On any given day, some of us may actually need to log on to at least three bank websites. And while one wouldn’t normally turn to a bank website… read more

Showcase of HTML5-Powered Sites

HTML5 brings clear improvements to the web today, the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, specifically stresses that HTML5 is still in testing stages, and is scheduled to reach “Recommendation” stage (i.e. “release”), in 2014. Despite this, many developers have taken advantage of HTML5, as we’re about to see.

HTML5 brings a… read more

35 Stunning Blue Color Website Designs

35 Stunning Blue Color Website Designs

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18 Great Examples Of HTML5 Portfolio Designs

18 Great Examples Of HTML5 Portfolio Designs

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10 Things a Successful Online Community Can’t Live Without

10 Things a Successful Online Community Can’t Live Without

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Which Niche Should You Focus On in Design School?

Which Niche Should You Focus On in Design School?

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Wonderful 3D World of Chris Labrooy

Chris Labrooy is one of the most amazing 3d artists I’ve ever seen, his works it totally out of the box. In this post you will see some of his 3D Types creations inspired by the Gods of architecture, the inspiration is so amazing that got me thinking how can… read more

Getting Ahead Of The Curve: Branding On Mobile Devices And Desktop Browsers

According to Brandweek, “brands are the express checkout for people living their lives at ever increasing speed. This article shows you how, and why, to add “app”-like icons to your sites for several mobile and desktop browser displays, to clearly and elegantly identify your site with an icon that stands… read more

30 Examples of vCard Website Designs for your Inspiration

Versitcard, more popularly known as vCard is a minimalist portfolio website that usually displays the site owner’s basic information such as name, address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, URLs, logos, photographs, audio clips and list of social network accounts. It acts as an online business card which is often… read more

Design a forest inspired Tumblr theme in Photoshop

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50+ Fresh And Useful Adobe Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials

Designing an icon set may sound like an easy thing to do but in actuality it is much easier said than done. Many designers end up with a disaster, while some more matured and experienced designers successfully meet the expectations and deliver.

Generally speaking, a designer needs to learn the basic… read more

WDL Premium: DeCanto – Business WordPress Theme

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Today for our premium members, we’ve got a new premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift. deCanto is an incredibly flexible and professional business WordPress theme. Through the extensive layout and styling options customizing the theme to your liking is a matter of seconds.

If you’re not yet a… read more

15 ECommerce Web Design PSD Files

15 ECommerce Web Design PSD Files

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Logo Design: Pears and Grapes

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with squids and octopuses… today it’s all about logos with pears and grapes!

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Best 5 Online Tool Combos Useful For Freelance Web Designers

Best 5 Online Tool Combos Useful For Freelance Web Designers

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Typography Mania #79

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.

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Big vs. small: Challenges in responsive web design

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The Future Of CSS: Experimental CSS Properties

Despite contemporary browsers supporting a wealth of CSS3 properties, most designers and developers seem to focus on the quite harmless properties such as border-radius, box-shadow or transform. These are well documented, well tested and frequently used, and so it’s almost impossible to not stumble on them these days if you… read more

Promoting Your Freelance Design Business with Social Media

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With the many privatized design agencies it’s common to see freelancers growing in numbers. Illustrators and digital artists are among the most prominent with freelance graphics and design work. It requires a skilled artisan to juggle project works with freelance time management and business ethics.

Marketing is… read more

Beautiful Vector Illustrations by Julien Renault

I got vector fever. I can’t get enough of it lately! I was looking for some cool vectors to post here for you guys to see and found these stylish illustrations that are simply beautiful.

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These are the work of French illustrator Julien Renault. He’s got an awesome portfolio at Behance,… read more

Fresh Free WordPress Themes Of April 2011

Fresh Free WordPress Themes Of April 2011

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Why Web Designers & Developers Should Make Use of Online Billing Tools

Why Web Designers & Developers Should Make Use of Online Billing Tools

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The Browser wars are just heating up

The Browser wars are just heating up

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Budding Logo Design Trends for 2011

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Logo trends have been ever-advancing with the changing web. As digital artists are becoming more creative and mainstream we can see the crescendo of new ideas. Logos are some of the most important graphical pieces in any website, as they display your company and purpose to… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.85)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all 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, on Stumbleupon or by… read more

Tuesday Total Textures 70

Tuesday Total Textures is post series that will bring a new life to your Tuesdays. Every week I’ll be posting some free hi resolution textures that you can download to use in your projects. Check out this week’s free textures, download the ones you like and start making your texture… read more

Best of, Free Vector Business People Silhouette Packs

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Freebie time! Jump in, we’ve rounded up a massive resource of vector business people silhouettes. There are 15 packs listed here and well over 150 vector silhouettes. They’re all free vector downloads with a simple flat or linear style. All these free graphics are illustrated with limited colors and… read more

10 handy jQuery mobile tips and snippets to get you started

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5 Tips to Optimize your Content while Keeping it User-Friendly

If you were to ask any blogger what the most important thing is when it comes to running a successful blog, chances are that the answer would be “good content”. It is content that makes a blog rank well in the search engines.

However, not all content is the same. While… read more

Theme Trust Seeks WordPress Guru to Manage Support Forums

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Theme Trust has been experiencing very rapid growth and there’s no sign of things slowing down. Because of this, I’m looking to expand the team and add a person to help out with support. Customers have had nothing but great things to say about the level… read more

Illustrated Recipes by Pan & Peter

I really enjoy when things that I love get combined (I’ve probably said it like a thousand times, but it’s true). I really enjoy food photography for example… but never really got to see food illustration until now.

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Pan & Peter Recetas Ilustradas is a new blog that comes up with… read more

60+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events

Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences.

Here are some tips on how to network, share your information and promote your event using social media:

The Future of Event Planning and Social MediaHOW TO: Plan and Promote Events with… read more

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #25

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #25

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10 Coolest Freelance Web Designer#2

10 Coolest Freelance Web Designer#2

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Gabcast.TV Wants to Make You A Reality TV Star [EXCLUSIVE]

Gabcast.TV hopes to break into the live video streaming space, with backing from some big players in Hollywood.

At its core, Gabcast.TV, which launches Monday, is a live video service. In that respect, it isn’t too different from Ustream and Justin.tv. However, the site’s focus, design and… read more

Amazing Design & Illustration by Matt Chase

Matt Chase is an incredible designer and illustrator who recently designed a complete re-visualization of our USPS mail system that looks amazing. Get to see some of illustrations and poster projects and make sure to pay attention to details and the use of colors. Enjoy!

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The web designer’s guide to a happier life

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Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best Tips & 40 Examples

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To a prospective client, you as a web designer are often only as good as your portfolio. They’re checking you out for the first time, and if you don’t impress them enough, you won’t get their work. And if you don’t get work, you don’t get… read more

25 Fresh Examples of Minimalist Web Designs

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I believe that we can agree that minimal and clean websites are the new black. Every day people seem to be embracing more and more the idea of less is more. So we decided to gather a new list of minimal and clean websites to show… read more

The Perfect Office #87

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?

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

Top 10 Android Apps For Web Designers And Developers

Top 10 Android Apps For Web Designers And Developers

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Our favorite tweets of the week May 2-May 8, 2011

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Linkswitch #67, Boost Business, Boost Your Happiness, Simplify Sign-Ups

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Boost Business with 4 Old School Marketing Tactics

Everyone’s focused on the digital world these days, and rightfully so. There’s always a new technology rolling out and its exciting to be amazed at what our favorite gadgets can do.

But when it comes to customer service and getting… read more

Two Copies of ‘jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginner’s Guide’ to Giveaway – Comment for a chance to win

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We have two copies of the book jQuery 1.4 Animation Techniques: Beginner’s Guide, written by Dan Wellman, to give away to two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why… read more

Culture & Web Design

Culture & Web Design

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Fresh And Best jQuery Plugins For Free Download

Fresh And Best jQuery Plugins For Free Download

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65+ outstanding blog design showcase

65+ outstanding blog design showcase

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Logo Design Inspiration : 70 Impressive Examples

Logo Design Inspiration : 70 Impressive Examples

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Introducing inuit.css – An Excellent CSS Framework for Web Designers

Introducing inuit.css – An Excellent CSS Framework for Web Designers

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4 Free Ways to Learn to Code Online

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Learning to code is something every tech-minded person should try at least once — and the wealth of online courses, many of which are free or surprisingly… read more

Best of the Week #170

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 #76

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Amazing Graphic Design: Japan Earthquake Poster

Amazing Graphic Design: Japan Earthquake Poster

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Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.87

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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.

We have recently launched StylesInspiration, a web design showcase that aims to not only… read more

Examples and Trends with Single Page Web Design

Examples and Trends with Single Page Web Design

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10 Ways for Web Designers to Upsell

10 Ways for Web Designers to Upsell

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Elegant and Engaging Web Forms Part 1: Search Bars

Elegant and Engaging Web Forms Part 1: Search Bars

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35 Great Examples of Rock Band Website Designs

35 Great Examples of Rock Band Website Designs

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Best Web Design and Web Development Articles of April 2011

Best Web Design and Web Development Articles of April 2011

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Friday Fresh Free Fonts #99

I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#99 and make sure to comeback… read more

Superb Photography by Felipe Neves

It’s great when you find out that someone you know has a gift, specially if that gift is the ability to make beautiful illustrations, play great songs or take amazing photographs, among so many areas of creativity.

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Advanced commenting systems for WordPress

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Ask FreelanceSwitch: Dealing with Problematic Clients and Low Pay

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In this issue of Ask FreelanceSwitch, we look at several questions from the same freelancer who is working with a tough employer. Ask FreelanceSwitch is a regular column here that allows us to help beginners get a grip on freelancing. If… read more

How To Get Sign-Off For Your Designs

“How did you do that?” My colleague Leigh sounded impressed. He had been working with a problem client for weeks trying to get design approval. Then I came along and was able to get signed-off in a single conference call. “Can you teach me how you did that?” he asked…. read more

Examples of Effective Minimalism in Logo Design

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When trying to create something visually impressive, it’s tempting to use lots of eye candy or overloaded detail. However, sometimes the simplest solution is the best one. This is especially true when it comes to logo design. It can be a much bolder statement… read more

Excellent SEO Tips For Better Web Design

Excellent SEO Tips For Better Web Design

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30 Creative Typographic Inspiration Designs

30 Creative Typographic Inspiration Designs

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10 Best Sites For Flash Resources

10 Best Sites For Flash Resources

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PowerMockup Review – An Essential Web Designer Tool

I’ve recently had a chance to use a tool called PowerMockup and want to let you all know about it.

What is PowerMockup? It’s an add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, which helps you sketch mock-ups for websites and applications.  It makes prototyping new designs extremely easy – a matter of a… read more

Alphabet Carved into Food

Garret Steider had the bright idea to create this awesome project that involves typography and food. Carving into food and shaping each letter of the Alphabet with an extra taste of typography making this a very unique and probably very time consuming but the result is amazing. Check it out!

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How Facebook Comments is changing commenting on the Web

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WDL Premium: Heavy Grunge Vector Pack

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This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have an awesome vector pack from Go Media. Heavy Grunge will absolutely destroy any design you throw it’s way. For only the most worn, torn, and distressed applications! These vectors have many points. So those with sluggish computers… read more

Choosing the Right Tools for Your Mobile Project

Mobile web browsing is the next big thing. At least that’s what the pundits say. Recent data shows there are about 4 billion mobile users (almost half the planet) (source). In 2011, smartphone sales will surpass desktop/laptop computer sales, moving over 400 million units per year (source).

But haven’t… read more

Logo Design: Squids and Octopuses

The Logo Design series is up and running! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new ways to sort these listings. Last week we had a post on logos with bears… today it’s all about logos with squids and octopuses!

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As usual, we’ll search for logos in these galleries: Logopond,… read more

Use of Vector Animals as Mascots in Website Design

Use of Vector Animals as Mascots in Website Design

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Webdesign Inspiration Week #2

Webdesign Inspiration Week #2

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Get a Job in Social Media, Marketing or Design

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable‘s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How… read more

Daily Inspiration #813

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

66 Desirable Photoshop Brush Sets For Creating Colorful Lighting Effects

Having a quality set of Photoshop brush pack in place is like the icing on the cake for the designer when he is up to creating a new design. Graphic designers use different types of brush sets to give their design an edge that sets it apart from others’ work.

High… read more

Rapid Website Wireframing and Prototyping with ProtoShare

Wireframing and prototyping are two very vital aspects in web design. They take away ambiguity and guess work from the design equation. Moreover, with a detailed wireframe model lot of rework can be eliminated leading to increased productivity of web designers, which in turn leads to increased profitability.

ProtoShare is an… read more

Typography Mania #78

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.

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Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using handy tools, actions, plugins and templates to save time for solving mundane regular tasks. The better our professional tool set… read more

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: Portfolio – What Do You Really Need In It!

Professional Practices They Don’t Teach You In Art School: What Do You Really Need In Your Portfolio?

I’ve traveled to many art schools, being asked to review senior student portfolios and speak on professional practices in the design business and the one thing I always notice is the lack of direction… read more

Do’s and don’ts for designing email newsletters

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Showcase of Inspiring Foggy Photography

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Photography is a very powerful method of creation used to express emotions and internal thoughts. The feelings and auras emitted from different scenery can express a desire for creative energies. Many artists including myself frequently browse photographs for inspiration.

This heightened sense of creativity brings about fresh… read more