In General Jul 3, 20090
Weekly Design News Round Up
In this weeks roundup, we have even more cool resources, there is a little bit of design inspiration, some great CSS lifesavers, an essential Twitter Guide Book and more…and best of all the Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock!
10 Super Creative Business Cards
If your thinking of getting a new business card to impress everyone, here is a little inspiration for you. This selection, from Abduzeedo, showcases the type of business cards that stand out from the crowd, they are certainly different and very creative.
10 Super Creative Business Cards
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
In this post you will find a thorough collection of all kinds of resources that will aid designers and developers working with Joomla-powered websites. This collection is intended to simplify your tasks and save you time when working with Joomla. This post covers essential resources related to Joomla— Themes, Extensions, Tutorials, Forums, Cheat Sheets and Useful Documents.
The Ultimate Joomla Toolbox: Themes, Extensions and Resources
Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock
This video shows one of the entries into the edge.ca’s “Worlds Biggest” contest, The Worlds Biggest Alarm Clock. This is awesome.
It was built by mounting a large air cylinder to the head of his bed and a valve controlled by a computer which is programmed to wake you up in the morning.
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
This post, from Smashing Magazine, 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design will significantly improve your workflow and reduce your time and efforts for CSS-coding. Whether you’re writing, compiling, refining or experimenting with CSS code , these tools can help you get the job done faster and better than ever before. A must bookmark.
35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions
The Twitter Guide Book is the most comprehensive guide to Twitter you could ever find, it covers the basics as well as an indepth look at Twitter and business, sharing via Twitter and managing your Twitter stream. Is your Twitter getting out of control? This is the guide for you.
Twitter Guide Book – How To, Tips and Instructions
56 Light & Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme
56 Light & Clean Website Designs Using A Minimalist Color Scheme
Ceiling Porn
Definetly not what you are thinking by the posts title, this is actually a showcase of the best designed ceilings. Some are remarkable, others seemingly impossible, have a look for yourselves.
Even MSN.com isn’t IE6 compliant!
Judging by the above images, Microsoft ignored their own browser when it came to design. As you can see the new “Bing” search is hovering over the main navigation. Mom’s around the world are freaking out because they can’t click on their Hotmail.
Even MSN.com isn’t IE6 compliant!
14 Bizarre Japanese Toys
No one does weird toys like Japan does weird toys… from presidential action figures to toilet training tigers, this post has the strangest and most bizarre Japanese toys ever.
The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
What do murder, pedophilia, suicide and a baby tiger have in common? They have all been used to sell stuff in these amazingly disturbing vintage ads!
These are real, untouched advertisements from the good old days. It doesn’t matter if it’s lovely ladies or adorable clowns, somehow these old-time ad wizards found ways to traumatize us while pedaling everyday products.
The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads Of All Time
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).
Read moreIn General, Inspiration Jun 29, 20097
Incredible Workspaces: Part II
Read the first part here: Incredible Workspaces: Part I.
Setting up your office has to be perfect, it has got to be tailored to your professional and personal needs, it needs to get your creative and inspirational juices flowing, it has to have limited distractions, speedy access to all the tools of your trade and if possible, have all the coolest and latest gadgetry that you budget allows.
In General Jun 26, 20092
Weekly Design News Round Up
This is a new weekly feature from us, a weekly round-up of the best, the coolest and the most resourceful from within the design community.
This week we feature some cool resources, ranging from jQuery, Wordpress, typography and we even have a Macbook that transforms into a speace ship, you have to see this!
In General, Inspiration Jun 4, 200915
40 of the Best Premium Drupal Themes
Drupal is a powerful free and open source Content Management System, its easy to forget that it is very popular (over 6000,000 users) with only Wordpress and Joomla eclipsing its popularity. Drupal is perhaps the most powerful and versatile of ALL CMSs, the only possible drawback could be that it is a little complicated to use for the first time user, but don’t let that put you off. With help from its huge dedicated community, and its very detailed documentation you will be up and running in no time.
Drupal themes aren’t traditionally beautiful, they are designed to be designed and developed upon, but we think you will agree, that the premium Drupal themes below are pretty nice. Read the rest of this entry »
In General May 14, 200941
The 50 Best Premium WordPress Themes
As the demand for quality premium Wordpress themes increases and competition increases, designers and developers have been going the extra mile recently, to create the next best theme and stay ahead of the competition. This can only be good for us all, developers get better, designers that little bit more creative and for the user, you get a theme almost tailored to your needs at the fraction of the price.
How do you find the best theme, that one theme that is suited to you? Hopefully the list below will help. You will find 50 of the Best Premium WordPress Themes, they range from blog and portfolio styles, corporate and magazine and all the way to specialized themes for video and photoblogging.
In General, Tutorials Apr 23, 20096
22 Excellent Photoshop Brush Creation Tutorials
Photoshop brushes are possibly the easiest way to add style to your designs, there settings are endless, they increase your productivity, you can create a brush from almost anything, and the end result can be amazing. Below you will find 22 tutorials to help you create your own Photoshop Brush. Read the rest of this entry »
In General, Inspiration Apr 2, 200930
Interface Design Trends for 2009
As time goes by, designers keep on improving interfaces for better user-experience. In this article, we try to single out some interface design trends going on in 2009. Read the rest of this entry »
In General, Tips, Tutorials Mar 25, 200912
CSS Image Map Techniques and Tutorials
A CSS Image Map by definition is using a single image with defining multiple clickable hotspots, whether to show information or as navigation. There are a multitude of solutions, below we have listed and demonstrated by far the best and the most helpful techniques and tutorials.
In General, Inspiration, Tips Mar 19, 200979
25 of the Best Designed Twitter Homepages
You are limited to how far you can modify your Twitter homepage, pretty much changing the background color or image and the color of the links is all you can actually do. So, it is no surprise that the best designed homepages (mainly) come from graphic designers, who with a blank canvas can create something amazing out of nothing.
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In General, Tips Mar 17, 200926
7 Common Web Usability Problems
However great you may think your site looks, If it’s difficult to use people won’t come back. If you want to have a successful website, then you have to make sure it’s designed around the requirements of your users. As designers and developers we are sometimes just too close to our sites to see their problems. In this article we have showcased 7 common usability issues that are often overlooked or simply ignored.
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In General, Tips Mar 13, 2009107
10 Things They Don’t Teach You In Design School
I had a great time in design school, I was constantly learning and surrounded by lots of like minded people. However, after five years of freelancing as a graphic designer, I’ve learned many new things. The following list is the top ten things that I had to learn the hard way.
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In General, Tips Mar 4, 200930
A Decade Of Web Design In Pictures – 1997 to 2009
By reviewing what’s changed and what’s stood the test of time, we can make general assumptions of web design principles that will work going forward. Things have moved on in terms of interface design and graphics, some websites more than others. Looking at the examples below sites such as Amazon, eBay and Craigslist have changed comparatively little (Craigslist has hardly changed at all), a testimony to their forward thinking at the time, whilst others such as the Whitehouse have come a long way.
In General Aug 5, 2008114
14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs
There is definitely not a shortage of web design blogs floating around the web, and it’s easy to understand why. Web designers can utilize skills that they already have to get a good looking blog up and running with relative ease. Out of these blogs there are a handful that really stand out in terms of useful content. Read the rest of this entry »
In General Jul 28, 200824
10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools
Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are some resources and tools to help you choose that perfect color palette Read the rest of this entry »
In General Jul 16, 200812
Font Resources: Create, Organize, Identify, and Test
Who doesn’t love fonts! Collecting them is easy, storing them takes minimal space, and most of them are free. But when your collection becomes rather large, do you have the proper resources to organize and test them? Have you ever ran across a website with a beautiful font that you wanted to identify? Or have you ever wanted to create your own font for the sake of tinkering? Well in this article we link a bunch of font resource websites to help answer the above questions. Read the rest of this entry »
In General May 12, 200814
4 Steps Missing From Your Web Design Process
There are steps in the web design process that aren’t as fun as creating a beautiful design or coding an ajax rich interface, and for this reason they are often neglected or completely omitted. These steps may not be necessary to take a site from concept to production, but in terms of achieving the objectives defined by the project’s stake holders, they could make all the difference. Read the rest of this entry »
