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A fantastic minimalist World Cup Posters from a brazilian artist Andre Fidusi. All world cup events since 1930 to 2012 are illustrated and summarised by symbols. I'm not a big fan of world cup, so how many of them do you understand?

Helvetica is my Hero - A creative illustration series of super heroes from A-Z with helvetica type face. Designed by René Mambembe, a french graphic student and illustrator. Following the trend of latest hollywood blockbuster - The Avengers, we have found this creative illustration which uses the popular type face - Helvetica to draw superhero according to their first alphabet of their name.

I discovered this website from Mozilla Developer network called DemoStudio which gathered a bunch of cool CSS3 and Javascript effect. It reminded me of Chrome Experiment but this is Firefox version. Browsing around I found a few pretty impressive effects and you could probably use it in your website!

Portfolio section of a website is the most important page for designers to showcase their works or achievements to impress their potential clients. It's your personal gallery to display your talent, skills and amazing works that you've completed in the past.

Dynamic Grid is one of the hottest page layout we can easily seen in web industry. As you can see, this phenomena is caused by the rising star - Pinterest which allow us to pin our favourite photo and share it in our pinboard. The whole sharing process is painless and pretty fast.

Image Sliders have been quite common solution to showcase works, products and services. Flash use to be dominating this area, but with the rise of Javascript framework such as jQuery and CSS3 slider with cool transition effects are achievable easily.

Web Form is a really common web component in a website, you use it to collect data, user details etc. However, the existing form features are pretty restricted and has the most basic capability. I know we have HTML5 form, unfortunately not all browsers are supporting it yet, so for now we can use some awesome jQuery or javascript magic to enhance the existing form elements.

HTML5 has been with us for a while now and we have seen a lot of crazy stuff, another crazy stuff. How about some latest development of using HTML5 technology along with Javascript and CSS in website and web application design? Here in this post, we found 8 awesome HTML5 websites that will simply blow you away!

Genis Carreras - the graphic designer behind a poster series explaining complex philosophical theories through basic shapes. It needs high level of imagination and creativity to condense such a complex idea into simple shapes and colors and Genis definitely did a great job in this.

Javascript has become a really important technology to bring full interactive website to us. Javascript is famous to build interactive website components such as navigation drop down menu, tab, accordion, image slider etc. Besides that, with HTML5 canvas, WebGL and SVG, it's possible to create insane animation effects as well. However, this time, we are going to show you a few cool examples in which Javascript is used to create a multiplayer game platform. Most of them are using WebSockets, socket.io and node.js to make scalable and realtime apps. Have fun.

Speech bubbles are graphic convention used most commonly in comics, cartoons or illustrations. Instead of putting words into it to represent speech or thoughts of a character, what if the speech bubble itself has its own expression and characteristic? Some of these speech bubbles could even be incorporated into clever business card layouts to add a personified touch.

Infographics (Information graphics) are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics able to let us absorb the information in an effective way. In real life, we can easily find some in our surrounding, for example, maps, train route, signs and so on.

Minimal illustration is not an easy task. Deliver a message with minimal design requires initial planning and creative thinking. Often times using minimal designs in poster printing layouts can help communicate your messaging better than overly cluttered posters where the message is often lost. Here, I found these well-designed graphic strip illustrations that depict the life of some famous historical figures.

You might not expect Gestalt psychology to have any relation to the field of web design, but the truth is that there is a relation and one that is pretty strong. As web design developed tremendously in the past few years, it should come as no surprise that more and more people have learned about the theory of mind and the gestalt effect, the latter appealing to our senses and helping us see an image as a whole and not as a set of unrelated elements.

Many students, when they are entering a university, begin to ask themselves why they should study so many sciences that have nothing to do with design. After some years of practicing, the answer is found and some of them start to ask themselves why they study so few domains. Very few of us have the good luck to find a position in an agency/company where the things that have been learned in school can be actually practiced. Embracing freelancing as a profession has a more powerful effect on the individual: he or she must be able to do many, many other things that someone was expecting in the first months of school.

What happen when you convert famous characters into minimal design? Do you think you will still able to recognize them? Minimal characters are getting really trendy nowadays, using minimal characters like these in postcard printing layouts can help draw attention from potential buyers. I have found some great designers who designed these amazing minimal characters.

It's December already, few more weeks it's Christmas! I know you might think it's still early, but getting presents can take fair a bit of your time, and sometimes you need to wait for the shipping as well. So, don't procrasinate! Now is the time to start thinking of gift shopping. We're slightly off topic this time, but we these 20 creative gifts will impress your fellow designer, developer, nerdy and geeky friends. You will love them.

Infographics seem to be a real trend today, with new ones popping up daily on all sorts of subjects. From mortgages to ice cream, estimating software to infographics about infographics, there is very little now that hasn't been 'visualised' in some form. Many people don't realise that the term information graphic, or 'infographic' was first coined over 100 years ago, with the Coxcomb chart by Florence Nightingale in 1857 being one of earliest recognised examples. They have existed in many forms since then, but only in the past few years have infographics developed into the art form we know today.

The French sculptor Auguste Rodin once said: "beauty is everywhere. For our eyes, not lack of beauty, but lack of discovery." We live in a world of rich variety and mystery, there is always the beauty of nature for us to find and learn. So what have you learn from this world? Do you have an eye of discovery?

I discovered this lovely illustration set for nerds in love from Nicole Martinez. Nicole translates love languages into something nerdy or geeky people would appreciate or understand it. It reminds me of the famous US comedy series "The Big Bang Theory" which centred on five characters who is geniuses, geeky and nerdy (except Penny). As a computer geek and not really a nerdy person, I actually understood most of them! Geez..., what a surprise. Some of them are really funny, I like them.

Thanks to the openness of design community, we have unlimited resources online for web designers, graphic designers. The growth of social community websites such as dribbble and behance, they've built a platform that encourages people to share their work and concept. Many people are using it to show off their works, many are looking for comment and criticism of their work for improvement.

Parallax scrolling effect is one of the hottest techniques many of us have seen around the web. All credit must give to Nike Better World campaign. It stirred such a hugh ripple in web design and development industry and everyone was talking about it. Me, myself was totally amazed by theirs creativity and boldness. This technique involves several large background images, scrolling, mathematic calculation for each sprite to be in right position and good timing for the parallax effect.

As a big fan of minimal design, I always find myself collecting and bookmarking websites that talk about minimalism. I found this cool, funny and inspiring minimal illustrations from Erin Hanson few weeks ago.

How Javascript has evolved the Internet! It's positive changes in my opinion. Modern web browsers, computer hardwares and fast Internet have enabled the ermerging of sophisticated websites that driven with high quality graphics and thousands line of Javascript code to perform cool animations.

News designers and web developers know that a good informational graphic is more than just flashy images or statistics slapped on a three dimensional bar graph. The best infographics should attract an audience’s attention with simple, relevant images, and hold their attention with a compelling story told in visual shorthand. Strong infographics have concise, accurate headlines that let readers know the significance of the story at a glance. At the core of a truly captivating infographic is the grain of truth it conveys. For this reason, designers in particular should enjoy and learn something about their craft from these 10 clever design-focused infographics.