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This Dynamic Typeface Interacts with You

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CreativePro
| Editor in Chief
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Press re­lease With LAIKA, there is fi­nal­ly a font that can seam­less­ly use the whole spec­trum of its cuts. A font that is able to move be­tween its ex­tremes in re­al time. An in­ter­ac­tive font that is able to re­spond to its sur­round­ings. A font that ques­tions dead­locked dog­mas and throws up com­plete­ly new de­sign ques­tions, and thus has the po­ten­tial to rev­o­lu­tion­ize the un­der­stand­ing of dig­i­tal ty­pog­ra­phy. Type has al­ways been some­thing stat­ic. read (...)
 

Daily Inspiration #427

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Abduzeedo
| abduzeedo
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| Web Design References
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, al­so use "Daily Inspiration" in the sub­ject, and don't for­get to send your Abduzeedo user­name; or via Twitter send­ing to http://twit­ter.com/ab­duzee­do If pos­si­ble use the HTML code: Do you want to see all im­ages (...)
 

Is International Social Media Marketing Just Too Difficult?

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Search Engine Land
| Andy Atkins-Krüger
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| Search Engines
Social me­dia mar­ket­ing is pret­ty tricky - but it is too tricky to ev­er roll out in­ter­na­tion­al cam­paigns? Where do you start from when you're tar­get­ing in­ter­na­tion­al so­cial net­works - suc­cess at home or do you need to start all-over? ....
 

Flush With $10 Million In Fresh Cash, Yammer Strengthens Executive Team

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TechCrunch
| Robin Wauters
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| Business
Yammer, the San Francisco star­tup that of­fers a solid en­ter­prise-grade mi­croshar­ing and re­al­time com­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vice, is ex­pand­ing its ex­ec­u­tive team after suc­cess­ful­ly clos­ing a Series B fund­ing round to the tune of $10 mil­lion ear­lier this mon­th. The com­pa­ny made one in­ter­nal pro­mo­tion, ap­point­ing co-founder and VP of Technology Adam Pisoni to CTO. In ad­di­tion, Yammer re­cruit­ed David Satterwhite to lead its sales ef­forts, while Steve Apfelberg was brought in as VP of Marketing. (...)
 

Rusbridger: ’iPad Could Produce Significant Revenue Streams’

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paidContent
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It’s not ex­act­ly a great leap from pub­lish­ing an iPhone app to of­fer­ing one on the soon-to-be-re­leased iPad - not on­ly will the former will run on the lat­ter; the skillset for de­vel­op­ing the lat­ter won’t be sig­nif­i­cant­ly dif­fer­ent. So pub­lish­ers who have al­ready found a de­gree of in­cre­men­tal rev­enue from iPhone are now look­ing for an­oth­er in­cre­ment from its big­ger broth­er… Guardian ed­i­tor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger, whose news­pa­per shift­ed 70,000 down­loads of its £2.39 iPhone app in its first (...)
 

Bring Your Websites Alive: From Boring To Exciting!

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1st Webdesigner
| Poonam Agarwal
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| Web Design References
Some have a pas­sion for web de­sign; others con­sid­er it a mere task! This ar­ti­cle is for those who con­sid­er web de­sign more than just a task, in fact, it is meant for those who al­ways have a pas­sion to cre­ate some­thing new! Bringing to­geth­er ele­ments of de­sign and tech­ni­cal­i­ty is an ex­cit­ing task, if you love web­site de­sign that speaks and con­veys its mes­sage ef­fec­tive­ly. The ap­proach tak­en to­wards de­sign is the key to the en­tire site. This is al­so the rea­son why some web­sites grab (...)
 

Effective Visual Communication Using Infographics: 40+ Attractive Examples

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Onextrapixel
| Charlotte
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| Web Design References
Everyone, at some point in their lives would have had to, at the very least, cre­ate a quick map or a sim­ple data pie chart of some sort. Welcome to the fas­ci­nat­ing world of in­fo­graph­ics! Visuals that are used to rep­re­sent, in­struct, or to dis­sem­i­nate in­for­ma­tion, data, and knowl­edge are called in­for­ma­tion graph­ics, or sim­ply, in­fo­graph­ics. Infographics have been around since the ear­ly ages, seen in the form of cave draw­ings and maps. Used ev­ery­where, per­haps it is just that we don’t re­alise (...)
 

5 Free Valentine’s Day Themed Vector Patterns for Illustrator

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Colorburned
| Grant Friedman
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As you know, Valentine’s Day is fast ap­proach­ing. On Colorburned, we’ve de­cid­ed to get in­to the Valentine’s Day spir­it and re­lease a series of Valentine’s Day Themed screen­casts [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and free­bies. Today we are re­leas­ing a set of 5 free Valentine’s Day themed vec­tor pat­terns for Illustrator that you can all use in your work. Preview Below are pre­views of all 5 seam­less vec­tor Valentine’s Day pat­terns. Download You can down­load the­se pat­terns be­low: File type: .ai Compatibility: (...)
 

The Problem with Passwords

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A List Apart
| contact.us@alistapart.com (Lyle Mullican)
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| Web Design References
Abandoning pass­word mask­ing as Jakob Nielsen sug­gests could pre­sent se­ri­ous prob­lems, in­clud­ing un­der­min­ing a user’s trust by fail­ing to meet a ba­sic ex­pec­ta­tion. But with de­sign pat­terns gleaned from of­fline ap­pli­ca­tions, plus a dash of JavaScript, we can provide feed­back and re­duce pass­word er­rors with­out com­pro­mis­ing the ba­sic user ex­pe­ri­ence or los­ing our vis­i­tors’ trust.
 

30 SEO Bookmarklets to Save You Time

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SEOmoz
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Posted by rand­fish We all work hard at the SEO pro­cess - an­a­lyz­ing sites, gath­er­ing data, re­search­ing po­ten­tial prob­lems and iden­ti­fy­ing the so­lu­tions. Today's post is on how to work smarter and faster us­ing book­marklets for SEO. No mat­ter your browser, the­se plug-and-play links will let you get your job done faster and easier, and look like a pro in front of boss­es and clients. The list isn't com­plete­ly com­pre­hen­sive, but it cov­ers 95%+ of the SEO data points I re­trieve on a month­ly ba­sis (...)
 

Choosing The Best CSS Framework: A Complete Guide

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CSS Globe
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| CSS
There are plen­ty of rea­sons to use a CSS Framework to build your web­sites. They can speed up de­vel­op­ment, make your sites more aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing, and they can help elim­i­nate all those nasty cross-browser com­pat­i­bil­i­ty is­sues.
 

Javascript ePub Readers

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Ajaxian
| Michael Mahemoff
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| Javascript
eBooks have gone main­stream, and right now the open ePub for­mat is get­ting a lot of at­ten­tion, be­ing the iPad’s book for­mat of choice. Often over­looked in gad­get-cen­tric me­dia is the fact that ePub is based on web stan­dards, and there­fore amenable to be­ing ren­dered in the browser, sans plu­g­ins. Pure Javascript ePub read­ers are start­ing to crop up, and Keith Fahlgren has writ­ten about sev­er­al of them: Just in the last few days, de­tails emerged of two new JavaScript ePub read­ers, re­Pub­lish (...)
 

My 10th TED Conference

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VentureBlog
| David Hornik
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| Business
I've just ar­rived in Long Beach for the an­nu­al TED con­fer­ence. When I first start­ed go­ing to TED, it was a rel­a­tive­ly small, rel­a­tive­ly un­known gath­er­ing in Monterey, California. But don't con­fuse rel­a­tive­ly small and rel­a­tive­ly un­known for rel­a­tive­ly un­in­ter­est­ing. Since its in­cep­tion, the TED con­fer­ence has been an amaz­ing gath­er­ing of peo­ple across a va­ri­ety of dis­ci­plines (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design). And with the ad­vent of TED's fan­tas­tic video des­ti­na­tion (...)
 

CSS Design: Riser Media

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Design Shack
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View ris­er­me­dia.com at Design Shack
 

Twelve bloggers blogging about SES London 2010

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Search Engine Watch Blog
| Greg Jarboe
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| Search Engines
There are a lot more than "12 blog­gers blog­ging" about SES London 2010. If you want to see a com­pre­hen­sive list, go to the Search Engine Strategies blog. Click to read the rest of this post...
 

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.23

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Speckyboy
| Paul Andrew
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| Web Design References
This is our week­ly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a col­lec­tion of fresh de­sign re­lat­ed re­sources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week. Just in case you are not one of our Twitter fol­low­ers, click here: twit­ter.com/speck­y­boy. As al­ways, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not he­si­tate to send them to us here: Submit News. Thanks to ev­ery­one that has been email­ing. State of the Internet Explained In One Giant Infographic [PIC] 15 Secrets That Can Make (...)
 

All Aboard the SQL Server Express!

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SitePoint
| Andrew Gardner
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| Web Design References
In November of last year we pub­lished an ar­ti­cle about the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, demon­strat­ing how easy it is to set up a web server on Windows with PHP, IIS, and SQL Server Express. In to­day’s tu­to­ri­al, web ap­pli­ca­tion de­vel­op­ment spe­cial­ist Akash Mehta com­bi­nes the­se tools to show us how to build a sim­ple web app. After re­mind­ing us of the var­i­ous open source ap­pli­ca­tions that can be in­stalled with the WPI, Akash then takes us through the pro­cess of set­ting up the de­vel­op­ment (...)
 

Why Google won’t give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut tomorrow

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Scobleizer
| Robert Scoble
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| Blogging
OK, I’ve given you the rea­sons why Google will be suc­cess­ful this time, but why won’t what they an­nounce to­mor­row give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut? Funny aside, I found this pho­to of Matt Mullenweg (the en­trepreneur be­hind Wordpress) get­ting a buzz cut by us­ing Google’s Social Circles search. Some things that will keep Google from giv­ing ei­ther Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut to­mor­row (yes, I’ve been leaked some in­fo about what’s com­ing to­mor­row, so you got­ta read in be­tween the li­nes here): (...)
 

Foursquare patches its content gap with Zagat, HBO partnerships

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VentureBeat
| Kim-Mai Cutler
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| Business
As com­peti­tors with rich con­tent of­fer­ings like Yelp close in on its core mar­ket, Foursquare is ral­ly­ing to fight back with a series of big me­dia part­ner­ships. The New York Times re­port­ed to­day that the com­pa­ny will un­veil a part­ner­ship with Zagat to­mor­row where users can earn a ‘Foodie’ badge if they check in­to the right restau­rants. It comes on top of a deal the lo­ca­tion-based so­cial net­work­ing game signed with Bravo last mon­th, award­ing play­ers themed badges based on the ca­ble chan­nel’s (...)
 

jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin Simulates Camera-like Effect

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WebAppers
| Ray Cheung
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| Web Design References
The jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin gives you the abil­i­ty to con­vert any div on your web page in­to a pho­to shoot­ing stage sim­u­lat­ing a cam­era-like feel. Using this plug-in, we give vis­i­tors the abil­i­ty to take shots of the back­ground im­age. Each time you click the area, a new shot is added to the slide div with a neg­a­tive margin to the right. After this an an­i­ma­tion starts, which slides it in view and push­es the other shots to the left, hid­ing the left­most one. You can freely use the tech­niques (...)
 

Weapons of Mass Creation Interview: Fuel Brand Inc.

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GoMediaZine
| Adam Wagner
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| Web Design References
Welcome to the fourth in­ter­view of the Weapons of Mass Creation video in­ter­view series. Not sure what this is all about? Read the kick-off ar­ti­cle to get caught up! We sat down with Adelle Charles & Joshua Smibert of Fuel Brand, Inc and chat­ted about their back­ground, goals, and views on the de­sign in­dus­try. You’ll find both the video in­ter­view & the typed tran­script be­low. Enjoy. Adelle Charles: Alright, I’m Adelle Charles from Fuel brand­ing, and I’m the CCO. Joshua (...)
 

40 Examples of Cool Javascript

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PSD to HTML Reviews & Tutorials
| admin
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| Web Design References
JavaScript has blos­somed so right­ly. Since then, there are jquery, Mootools , Scriptallicious, Prototype etc..which re­al­ly pro­duces cool ef­fects. In to­days time, java script is a must have com­po­nent. Apart from its func­tion­al­i­ty, it can al­so en­hance users ex­pe­ri­ence by cre­at­ing trans­la­tion­al ef­fects such as slid­ing and fad­ing an­i­ma­tion. With jQuery, it has be­come very easy to write nice JavaScript ef­fects. One need not be a pro­gram­mer to learn it. So, that was the rea­son to make read­ers (...)
 

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

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Web Design Ledger
| Henry
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| Web Design References
Graphs and charts are used to sim­pli­fy com­plex data and make it easy to read and un­der­stand. So it re­al­ly wouldn’t make sense if it was dif­fi­cult to in­te­grate a graph in­to a web­site. Thanks to Javascript and a bunch of tal­ent­ed de­vel­op­ers, we have at our dis­pos­al so­lu­tions for easi­ly adding graphs and charts to our web pro­jects. Here are 13 of the­se, in­clud­ing some writ­ten for jQuery and MooTools, that you will find very use­ful. Highcharts Highcharts is a chart­ing li­brary writ­ten in pure (...)
 

Brandstack gets a new sibling. Introducing: Upstack

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Fuel Your Creativity
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Brandstack, the cre­ative mar­ket­place for lo­gos has an un­veiled an­oth­er way to mar­ket lo­go de­signs to the mass­es. Upstack. Upstack is a unique route for a per­son need­ing a lo­go, web­site, web de­sign, ad­ver­tise­ment or other cre­ative ser­vice. Unlike the pre­de­ces­sor Brandstack, Upstack lets any­one build a team of hand-picked de­sign­ers that are ready to burn the mid­night oil to work on your pro­ject. Upstack man­ages all the pro­cess­es by tak­ing the client from the brief to the fi­nal de­sign. This (...)
 

10 Tactics To Make Your Blog Stand Out

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Entrepreneurs-Journey
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One of the things I en­joy the most about blogs, espe­cial­ly blogs that are run by one in­di­vid­u­al, is an­a­lyz­ing why the blog is suc­cess­ful. What is the mag­ic in­gre­di­ent that makes this blog suc­ceed, when so many others fail? Based on my ob­ser­va­tions, here are some of the ele­ments you can ap­ply to make your blog some­thing spe­cial. Note you don’t have to ap­ply all the­se in­gre­di­ents, one could be enough, though of course if you ap­ply more than one you in­crease your chance of suc­cess. Enter (...)
 

20 Cool T-Shirt Websites For Inspirations and Goods

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The Designed
| The Designed
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This is just an­oth­er ‘cool t-shirt’ post. For what it’s worth, here are 20 cool t-shirt web­sites where you’ll find in­spi­ra­tions, goods, and even a chance to make some money with your mad de­sign skills. You prob­a­bly have heard of some of the­se, hope­ful­ly we’ve in­tro­duced you to a few new ones to brain­less­ly look at re­al­ly neat and fun­ny t-shirts. ATshirtBlog OMG Tees! unee­tee Scribtee TypoTees Shirt Fight ilovey­our­shirt Rumplo Teecycle img (...)
 

Attractive Forms With jQuery: Uniform

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WebResourcesDepot
| Umut M.
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| Web Design References
Uniform is a jQuery plug­in that en­ables you to con­trol the look & feel of form ele­ments (check­box­es, drop down menus, ra­dio but­tons & file upload in­puts). It is unob­tru­sive & works by hid­ing the orig­i­nal ele­ments + re­plac­ing them with cus­tom ones. Uniform is very easy to use & can be set to con­vert ev­ery form ele­ment on the page or any speci­fic ones. The plug­in has them­ing sup­port & comes with a the­me kit to quick­ly cre­ate unique forms. Special Downloads: Ajaxed (...)
 

Virtual Goods, Accounting, and the Power of the “Rental” Model

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abovethecrowd.com
| bgurley
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American jour­nal­ists and cor­po­rate ex­ec­u­tives have been slow to ap­pre­ci­ate the beau­ty, bril­liance, and con­sumer al­lure of the vir­tu­al goods busi­ness mod­el.It’s not that they did not have data points – China is chock full of mul­ti-US$bil­lion mar­ket cap­i­tal­iza­tion com­pa­nies that are based on this busi­ness mod­el. That said, many lud­dites pre­dict­ed it was an [...]
 

Google Forced To Cut Nexus One Termination Fee From Astronomical $350 To Outrageous $150

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Silicon Alley Insider
| Henry Blodget
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Another speed bump on Google's plan to take over the mo­bile phone world. Amy Schatz at WSJ: Read the rest of this sto­ry » See Also:Google Goes For The KillNew iPhone Could Be 1/4-Inch TallerParanoid Steve Jobs Makes WSJ Editor Erase A Tweet Sent From The iPad a href="http://feeds.feed­burn­er.com/~ff/type­pad/al­leyin­sid­er/sil­i­con_al­ley_in­sid­er?a=ANTZXgJt098:cN1r­BrZkd­ME:QXV
 

The 7 Somewhat United States of Facebook

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GigaOM
| Mathew Ingram
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Peter Warden, a former Apple engi­neer, likes to an­a­lyze data — so much so that he start­ed scrap­ing pub­lic pro­files and pho­tos from hun­dreds of mil­lions of Facebook ac­counts about a year ago, and now has data col­lect­ed from more than 200 mil­lion around the world. He wrote a fas­ci­nat­ing post re­cent­ly on his per­son­al blog about what that data shows about how in­ter­con­nect­ed (or dis­con­nect­ed) users in the var­i­ous American states are. The graph be­low is reprint­ed from that post, with Warden’s (...)
 

Google Lowers Nexus One’s Early Termination Fee to $150

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Search Engine Journal
| Arnold Zafra
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Well, what do you know? After the FCC for­mal­ly sent let­ters to var­i­ous mo­bile op­er­a­tors in­clud­ing Google about the high ear­ly ter­mi­na­tion fees that they are charg­ing con­sumers, Google seemed to be the first to heed FCC’s call.  So, if you got you’re Nexus One with the T-Mobile con­tract you can now cancel the deal ear­lier than the 24-months lock-in pe­ri­od. But that’s not after pay­ing Google a $150 ter­mi­na­tion fee, low­er than the pre­vi­ous $350 ETF.  How­ev­er, what is not clear though is whether (...)
 

Winners Announced: 5 Premium Concept Feedback Accounts

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MyInkBlog
| Andrew Houle
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A mon­th ago we an­nounced an awe­some give­away from Concept Feedback that gave you an op­por­tu­ni­ty to win a Premium Concept Feedback Account. Thanks to ev­ery­one who par­tic­i­pat­ed! Here Are The Winners I plugged all the names who en­tered in­to a list ran­dom­iz­er. The win­ners are… Alex – @lup­ka Inspiring Pixel – @in­spir­ing­pix­el Brian Kelly – @we­band­video­dude
 

Code Snippets To Implement 301 Redirect

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Woork
| Antonio Fullone
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Sometimes, if you use a CMS like WordPress or Movable Type, you could need to change the URL struc­ture in use on your blog with a more SEO friend­ly struc­ture. This is a big prob­lem espe­cial­ly if your site is al­ready in­dexed and some posts are pop­u­lar on search engi­nes: if you change the URL struc­ture, all your posts will be unavail­able at the old URLs and, in this way, you risk to lose vis­i­tors and rank­ing. A safe way to change the URL struc­ture of your blog, with­out los­ing vis­i­tors and (...)
 

How to Avoid Gullibility

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How to Change the World
| GuyKawasaki
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We’ve all been sucked in­to do­ing some­thing stupid, right? Fortunately, Steven Greenspan has writ­ten a book called Annals of Gullibility. In its con­clu­sion he ex­plains how to avoid gulli­bil­i­ty, and I’ve pro­vid­ed a syn­op­sis for you. Read the full sto­ry at the American Express Open Forum. More on psy­chol­o­gy if you need the ad­vice.
 

Beer’s Good For You and Other Super Bowl Stats

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ScribeMedia
| Michael Cervieri
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1000 beer la­bels cre­ate one Homer. Marty.FM via Creative Commons/Flickr. Good news for our New Orleans com­rades who awoke to­day with a bit of the hang­over: beer’s good for you. Or at least it could be. A study of a hun­dred beers shows that the suds are a source of di­etary sil­i­con. Dietary sil­i­con, in turn, is im­por­tant for bone health. Non-di­etary sil­i­con makes our com­put­er chips. Now that that’s out of the way, here’s some­thing sur­pris­ing: a siz­able por­tion of Super Bowl fans want more of (...)
 

25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs

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Vandelay Design Blog
| Vandelay Website Design
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E-Commerce sites are often con­sid­ered to be bor­ing and unattrac­tive, how­ev­er, that is not al­ways the case. This post show­cas­es 25 e-com­merce sites that demon­strate cre­ativ­i­ty in the de­sign. It may be the lay­out, graph­ics, de­sign style or site struc­ture, but all of them break the mould of the typ­i­cal e-com­merce site. For more in­spi­ra­tion from e-com­merce sites, see our gallery CartFrenzy. Ride Four Ever Mom & Popcorn The Affair Hipstery Benestar Green Label Organics (...)
 

Favorite Five: Valentine Design Elements

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Devlounge
| Lorraine Nepomuceno
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It’s a few days to Valentine’s, and if you’re a de­sign­er, you’re prob­a­bly cre­at­ing your own Valentine cards or gift tags. To help you along, I’m fea­tur­ing five of my fa­vorite Valentine-themed de­sign ele­ments. They’re all avail­able for down­load, and free! Let’s get to it: Vector Hearts from DragonArtz You could just down­load this and be done with it. There are 63 de­signs here in 2 eps files, wall­pa­pers, and a bunch of pngs. The hearts them­selves don’t re­al­ly dif­fer in shape- but it’s still some (...)
 

Trends Used In Comedy Movie Posters Trom 1915 to 2010

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Spyre Studios
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Movie posters are a fan­tas­tic source of in­spi­ra­tion for artists and de­sign­ers of all kinds. Different gen­res of film tend to have dif­fer­ent tech­niques and trends – sci-fi posters tend to be dark, gloomy and at­mo­spher­ic for ex­am­ple, where­as com­e­dy posters (as show­cased in this ar­ti­cle) are quite min­i­mal (espe­cial­ly posters de­signed in the more mod­ern day such as the 90’s and 2000’s). This com­pi­la­tion show­cas­es a to­tal of nintey-nine com­e­dy posters, that’s one poster per year go­ing all the way (...)
 

24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

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Nettuts+
| Siddharth
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Implementing AJAX tech­nol­o­gy can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and you’ll have users rav­ing over the slick­ness it pro­vides to the gen­er­al user ex­pe­ri­ence while if you mess it up, you’ll be at the re­ceiv­ing end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide you with im­ple­ment­ing AJAX tech­nol­o­gy with­in your web ap­pli­ca­tion. 1. Understand What it All Means First up, you need to un­der­stand what AJAX is, what it stands for and how it has rev­o­lu­tion­ized parts of the in­ter­net. You’ll need to know (...)
 

Polaroid Returning To Instant Film

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aComment.net
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One of Polaroid’s trade­mark tech­nolo­gies through­out the years has al­ways been in­stant film. Their in­stant film line end­ed back in 2008, but due to pop­u­lar de­mand, has made a strong re­turn at CES 2010. Polaroid’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jon Pollock spoke with WebProNew’s Abby Johnson about the rea­sons be­hind their re­turn to in­stant film. The com­pa­ny re­ceived so much sup­port for the for­mat, specif­i­cal­ly from artists and pho­tog­ra­phers, that they couldn’t ig­nore it. The PIC 1000 is the cam­era (...)
 

30 Free Adobe Photoshop Valentine Brush Sets

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You the Designer
| ronald
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As Valentine’s day ap­proach­es, more and more de­sign­ers are search­ing for qual­i­ty brush­es to aid them in cre­at­ing their Valentine de­signs. We put to­geth­er 30 Free Adobe Photoshop Valentine Brush Sets to make sure our fel­low de­sign­ers have high qual­i­ty brush­es in time for Valentine’s Day…. This col­lec­tion of brush­es will help you cre­ate as­tound­ing de­signs for your loved ones to help cel­e­brate a day of love. Check out this awe­some heart brush col­lec­tion and down­load the brush­es you like best. (...)
 

Free Vector Social Media Set

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Web Designer Wall
| Nick La
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In case you’ve missed it, I re­cent­ly re­leased a free vec­tor set of Social Media Icons at IconDock. It in­cludes 50 icons of the most pop­u­lar so­cial me­dia net­works. The icons are avail­able at 32px and 16px in EPS, PNG, and GIF for­mat. Feel free to use it in your blogs or client’s pro­jects. If you like it, don’t for­get to spread the love by blog­ging or tweet­ing about it. (more…)
 

Creating Colorful Gardens

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Colour Lovers
| evad
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Inspiring im­ages, books and peo­ple to help you cre­ate a col­or­ful gar­den. Color Inspiration floa­to Martin_Heigan La Citta Vita | Martin_Heigan UGArdener Colorful Gardening Books San Francisco Bay-area artist and gar­den de­sign­er ­Keelya Meadows en­cour­ages the use of bold col­ors in her book  a href="http://www.sf­gate.com/cgi-bin/ob­ject/ar­ti­cle?f=/c/a/2010/01/20/DD941ALIP1.DTL&o
 

sIFR default CSS hides content from at least one screen reader

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456 Berea Street
| Roger Johansson
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Just a heads-up to any­one us­ing sIFR to ren­der text: the de­fault CSS that comes with sIFR hides the re­placed text from the VoiceOver screen read­er. I don’t know if any others are af­fect­ed – VoiceOver is the on­ly screen read­er I have been able to ver­i­fy this prob­lem in. Read full post Posted in Accessibility, CSS, Typography.
 

A Collection of Free iPad Icons, Tutorials and PSDs

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Webdesigner Depot
| Walter
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Since its con­tro­ver­sial re­lease, the iPad has been both crit­i­cized and ad­mired by the de­sign com­mu­ni­ty. In this post we have com­piled a list of great re­sources, that teach you how to cre­ate your own iPad icons, as well as a col­lec­tion of ready made icons and PSDs. To down­load the files, please click on the pre­view im­age to go to the source site and re­mem­ber to check the terms of use be­fore us­ing them in your pro­jects. If you know of any other great iPad free­bies, please add them in the (...)
 

Strata Enfold 3D CX

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Layers Magazine
| Bruce Bicknell
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CREATE PROFESSIONAL, FOLDED 3D DESIGNS IN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR Do you have a tough time with fold­ed pro­duct de­signs? It re­quires a lot of tri­al-and-er­ror to line up graph­ics across folds, mak­ing sure that some­thing doesn’t get out of line when the cuts are made. Well, hold on­to your hats! Strata has come up with Enfold 3D CX to solve the­se prob­lems. This pro­duct’s tools make the cre­ation of pack­ag­ing ex­treme­ly in­tu­itive, al­low­ing de­sign­ers of all levels to cre­ate fold­ed 3D de­signs di­rect­ly in (...)
 

The Ultimate Website Prelaunch Checklist

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Boagworld
| Andy Wickes
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We’ve all been there. After months of de­vel­op­ment, meet­ings, con­fer­ence calls, pro­tract­ed ar­gu­ments over ty­pog­ra­phy, pho­tog­ra­phy, colour ways and copy. All of a sud­den the site is ap­proved and the client wants it live. Do you think to your­self, ‘I know ev­ery pix­el on this site in­side out’ and put it live? Hopefully not. You’ll have a print­ed check­list which you com­plete be­fore you go pub­lic. By no means is this an ex­haus­tive list. Neither is it pre­sent­ed in any par­tic­u­lar order. Your own (...)
 

Lab Rat: Does A Balanced Email Diet = More Focus & Productivity?

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Behance
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If I had to iden­ti­fy the sin­gle great­est of­fend­er when it comes to re­ac­tionary work­flow – a pas­sive ap­proach to work where our pri­or­i­ties are ruled en­tire­ly by in­com­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions – email would be the ob­vi­ous choice. Empowered by the al­lur­ing goal of “In­box Zero,” we feel a sense of ac­com­plish­ment in tend­ing to a con­stant stream of in­com­ing (but not very im­por­tant) re­quests. It’s the Inbox Hero Mentality: “I may not be mak­ing any head­way on my to-do list, but I’ll be damned if there’s one (...)
 

Events and A Day, Belatedly

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Meyer Web
| Eric Meyer
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I’m a bad con­fer­ence or­ga­niz­er. Why? Because we opened the An Event Apart 2010 sched­ule for sales back in, um, flip­pin’ November, and I nev­er men­tioned it here. Cripes, I nev­er even post­ed when we an­nounced the line­up of ci­ties. I could go through the great big long sob-sto­ry list of rea­sons why 2009 was re­al­ly tough and blah blah blah, but when you get right down to it, I fell down on my job. Okay. So. Time to cor­rect that. (deep breath) Hey ev­ery­one, check it out: the (...)
 

The Tales Silently Told By The Cannons Of Titles

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Graywolf’s SEO Blog
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What Bestselling Authors Know About Writing Titles They vary by gen­re, but the ma­jor­i­ty of best­selling au­thors and ed­i­tors re­turn to the same hooks time and again to rou­tine­ly sell ob­scene amounts of books. On the rec­om­men­da­tion of Clayton Makepeace, a celebri­ty in the web’s di­rect re­spon­se copy­writ­ing world, I de­cid­ed to vis­it a book­store and pe­ruse the ti­tles on their shelves and take note of what ti­tles grabbed me. As Makepeace ex­plains: “Just step through the front doors and take a (...)
 

Mozilla to Put Tiger Down

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CSS Juice
| Chris Crum
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Mozilla is go­ing to stop sup­port­ing Mac OS X 10.4 aka “Tiger” with its Firefox de­vel­op­ment code. On the Mozilla Dev Planning Google Group, they ad­dressed this. “In September of 2009 we stopped sup­port­ing Mac OS X 10.4 (‘Tiger’) on mozil­la-cen­tral but we left much of the code re­quired to sup­port that plat­form in the tree in case we want­ed to re­verse that de­ci­sion,” says Mozilla’s Josh Aas. “We have come to a point where we need to make a fi­nal de­ci­sion and ei­ther re­store 10.4 sup­port or re­move this (...)
 

60+ Comic Strips for Web Designers About Internet and Technology

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instantShift
| Anders Ross
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As long as there have been com­put­ers there have been com­put­er geeks. And as long as there have been geeks there have been geeky comic strips. Don’t you miss read­ing comic strips in your dai­ly news­pa­per? It’s kind of iron­ic to see what de­sign­ers can do with comic strips and graph­ic nov­els as mod­ern age de­sign­ers love to ex­per­i­ment with things and try to con­vey their mes­sage in cre­ative and com­pres­sive man­ner. Even though this is not a com­mon prac­tice to do but still, as the new tech­nolo­gies (...)
 

Why Are Web Pages So Ugly?

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About.com
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I was think­ing about the Reader's Choice Awards and specif­i­cal­ly the Best Web Designs par­tic­i­pants when one of my friends was com­plain­ing that some of the nom­i­nees were (in his words) "down­right ug­ly". He won­dered why, when there were so many good look­ing sites on the Web, ug­ly ones seem to get more promi­nence. So I asked him who he nom­i­nat­ed for each of my de­sign cat­e­gories. And he laughed and said "well, I couldn't think of any for all of them." And I be­gan to won­der, are beau­ti­ful Web (...)
 

How to Create a Somber Composition in Photoshop

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Psdtuts+
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This one’s an­oth­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with my good friend Toma Alin Gabriel. In this tu­to­ri­al you will learn how to ma­nip­u­late stock im­ages and turn them in­to your pup­pets to ex­press your de­sired feel­ings. Final Image Preview Take a look at the fi­nal re­sult first. Want ac­cess to the full PSD files and down­load­able copies of ev­ery tu­to­ri­al, in­clud­ing this one? Join PSDTUTS PLUS for just $9/mon­th. You can view the fi­nal im­age pre­view be­low or view a larg­er ver­sion here.Tutorial Details Program: (...)
 

30+ Artist Interpretations of Mario and Luigi

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Hongkiat
| hongkiat
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By Shane Ward. Shane Ward is a con­tribut­ing ed­i­tor of the art/lifestyles sites: Freshbump, Collect3d, and Format Magazine He’s short and pudgy with a thing for Peaches. He’s an Italian plumber from the Mushroom Kingdom. He is Nintendo’s mas­cot, and prob­a­bly the most pop­u­lar video game char­ac­ter ev­er. You know him as Mario. Mario has ap­peared in over 200 video games, most­ly bear­ing his name, most­ly as the icon­ic smil­ing plumber with blue over­alls and a mus­tache. But his per­sona is open to (...)
 

Google’s Super Bowl Ad: A Romance in Search

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Wired: Tech Biz
| John C Abell
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Google de­but­ed a Super Bowl ad Sunday. The ad tells the sto­ry of a ro­mance helped along by a series of Google search­es con­duct­ed by (one is left to imag­ine) a young man whose sim­ple plan to study abroad in Paris ends with his need to know how to assem­ble a crib.
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35 high quality royalty free textures

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Grafpedia
| Razvan
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Today we have an­oth­er set of tex­tures for 3d mod­el­ing, tex­tur­ing, and ren­der­ing. You can al­so use all our high res­o­lu­tion tex­tures in any 3D soft­ware: 3Ds­max, Cinema4D , Houdini,  Blender or even in Photoshop. You can cre­ate nice ren­ders and al­so scrap book­ing kits Included in this set you will find 35 Stock pho­tos: Rust tex­tures, snow tex­tures, mud tex­tures, wood tex­tures, break stone tex­tures, grunge tex­tures, wall tex­tures,etc. Join now to down­load. Number of tex­tures: 35 Zip size: (...)
 

100+ Resources for WordPress Theme Developers

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DesignM.ag
| Steven Snell
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One of the great things about work­ing with WordPress and de­vel­op­ing your own themes is the com­mu­ni­ty and all of the re­sources that are avail­able. If you’re not sure how to do some­thing or look­ing to see what so­lu­tions other the­me de­sign­ers and de­vel­op­ers are us­ing, you can find plen­ty of in­fo­ma­tion and tu­to­ri­als to help. In this post we’ll fea­ture a wide se­lec­tion of re­sources that are ex­treme­ly use­ful for the­me de­sign­ers and de­vel­op­ers. If you work on cus­tom themes for clients, themes (...)
 

FYI Monday: Rik Oostenbroek aka NKeo

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Fudge Graphics
| Franz Jeitz
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This post is part of the For Your Inspiration Monday Series show­cas­ing the most in­spir­ing de­signs out there. Each week a new artist or de­sign style will be pre­sent­ed in order to get your cre­ative juices flow­ing for the up­com­ing week. I hope you en­joy the series. Rik Oostenbroek, aka NKeo, is a 19 year old graph­ic de­sign­er from the Netherlands who’s been work­ing in the field for over 4 years now. I would de­scribe Rik’s style as ran­dom ge­o­met­ric grunge art though he al­so mas­ters the ev­er (...)
 

Designing for donations

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Think Vitamin
| Jaan Orvet & Andreas Carlsson
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Donating money to a char­i­ty should be as quick and easy on­line as it is to stuff a few coins in a col­lec­tion pot on the high street. It should al­so be ap­par­ent what the money will be used for. With the­se two things in mind, it is sur­pris­ing how often char­i­ties miss the mark when it comes to their on­line do­na­tion screens. Fiddly pull-downs, pe­cu­liar mi­cro­copy, tril­lions of steps, and min­i­mal trans­paren­cy. Here are some of our step-by-step notes and drafts from a con­cept ex­er­cise on be­half (...)
 

Are You Optimized? Use SEO Analysis

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SEO Chat
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There are lots of lit­tle ways you can check to see if your key­word op­ti­miza­tion ef­forts are pay­ing off for your Web site. You ll know you re achiev­ing search engine op­ti­miza­tion when your traf­fic in­creas­es when you en­ter the key­words you re us­ing in­to a search engine and ac­tu­al­ly find your own site. There are plen­ty of tools that will help you check this or that so you can fine-tune your site s SEO. But do you re­al­ly know if your site is op­ti­mized for the Web Learn how to use SEO (...)
 

Google AdSense Publishers Upset Over Recent Earnings

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Search Engine Roundtable
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Since late January and ear­ly February, I have been see­ing spo­radic com­plaints about Google AdSense earn­ings and how they have plum­met­ed for many pub­lish­ers. I re­ceived the­se com­plaints via email most­ly, but all I saw were ran­dom threads from dis­grun­tled...
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A Quick Look at Mobile Web Designs

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Six Revisions
| Jacob Gube
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If there’s any­thing web de­sign­ers learned from the past year, it’s that mo­bile web usage will con­tin­ue to soar. Thanks to smart­phones and so­cial net­work­ing sites like Twitter and Facebook that pro­mote on-the-go in­ter­ac­tion with web ap­pli­ca­tions, the amount of peo­ple us­ing mo­bile de­vices to ac­cess the web has grown ex­po­nen­tial­ly. There are over 4.5 bil­lion mo­bile phones in usage to­day and it’s es­ti­mat­ed that by the end of this year, over 1 bil­lion users will be ac­cess­ing the web via a (...)
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Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your Own Color Palettes

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Smashing Magazine
| Cameron Chapman
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In the pre­vi­ous two parts of this series on col­or the­o­ry, we talked most­ly about the mean­ings be­hind col­ors and col­or ter­mi­nol­o­gy. While this in­for­ma­tion is im­por­tant, I’m sure a lot of peo­ple were won­der­ing when we were go­ing to get in­to the nit­ty-grit­ty of ac­tu­al­ly cre­at­ing some col­or schemes. Well, that’s where Part 3 comes in. Here we’ll be talk­ing about meth­ods for cre­at­ing your own col­or schemes, from scratch. We’ll cov­er the tra­di­tion­al col­or scheme pat­terns (monochrome, anal­o­gous, (...)
 

How to Drastically Improve Your Designs

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Design Informer
| Jad Limcaco
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Design is ev­ery­where. We see it in on bill­boards as we drive down the street. When we go to a restau­rant and look at the menus, we see it. When we sit down on our couch and watch tele­vi­sion, it’s vis­i­ble on the com­mer­cials, ad­ver­tise­ments, and even the movies and TV shows. It is all around us and it stim­u­lates and mo­ti­vates much of our de­ci­sions sub­con­scious­ly ev­ery day. The en­cy­clo­pe­dia refers to graph­ic de­sign as, “the pro­cess of com­mu­ni­cat­ing vi­su­al­ly us­ing text and im­ages to pre­sent (...)
 

35 Inspiring Examples of Transparency in Logo Design

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SpoonGraphics
| Chris Spooner
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Transparency ef­fects in lo­go de­sign help bring to life a dig­i­tal mark, adding that ex­tra level of depth and col­or. This show­case of ex­am­ples pro­vides some great de­sign in­spi­ra­tion and shows how de­sign­ers have cre­ative­ly used trans­paren­cy and over­lay­ing ef­fects to build unique lo­go de­signs. Goosebumps – Jared Milam Meca – Andre Oliveira Andy Fiord – sb­De­sign Nethik – Aurelie Ronflard Boss Hog Studio – Mathieu Schatzier Paranaiv – Are Sundnes Munich 2018 Museum of London – Corey (...)
 

Tips for Designing Unique and Attractive Blog Posts

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Line25
| Chris Spooner
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Designers have be­gan to in­ject in­creas­ing levels of cre­ativ­i­ty in­to their blog posts and ar­ti­cles, throw­ing out the tra­di­tion­al and gener­ic style of blog posts in favour of a much more at­trac­tive lay­out that’s themed specif­i­cal­ly to the con­tent. Let’s take a look at some of the best ex­am­ples, and see what makes them work so well. In his fan­tas­tic ar­ti­cle ‘The Death of the Boring Blog Post‘, Paddy Donnelly sums up this method of fus­ing to­geth­er a blog post with the style and de­sign of a (...)
 

Fundamentals for a Kick-Ass Creative Company

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Build Internet!
| Zach Dunn
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This post has a lit­tle back­ground to its in­spi­ra­tion. At the start of Summer 2009, we start­ed Officeal as a way to show­case the of­fices of com­pa­nies that “get” cre­ative cul­ture. The num­bers are slow­ly in­creas­ing, but it’s end­ed up serv­ing a more im­por­tant role. We’ve seen the kinds of things that make com­pa­nies more than just a place to work. These are the types of com­pa­nies that cre­ate lifestyles you want to be a part of. As some of you may know al­ready, Sam and I al­so run a web and cre­ative (...)
 

Favorite Tools for Web Design

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Customized Marketing
| admin
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I am fre­quent­ly asked what tools I use for web de­sign.  Many of the add-ons and plu­g­ins that I use are free and you might want to in­ves­ti­gate for your own use if you don’t al­ready use them.
 

100 Most Funny and Creative Advertisement Designs

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Creative Nerds
| TimothyBlake
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An amaz­ing in­spi­ra­tional post which fea­tures over 100 print based cre­ative ad­ver­tise­ment de­signs for you to en­joy, which will get your cre­ativ­i­ty flow­ing. In to­day’s mod­ern life ad­ver­tise­ment plays a key role in order for any com­pa­ny or pro­duct to suc­ceed the ad­ver­tise­ment must de­liv­er our pow­er­ful mes­sage which at­tracts the con­sumer’s at­ten­tion. These are a col­lec­tion of cre­ative and al­so very fun­ny ad­ver­tise­ments which are grant­ed to catch your at­ten­tion and make you gig­gle. I be­lieve that (...)

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