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2010

31

AUG

The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Pop Art

Today’s post is about one of the most “popular” art movements of the Modern Era: Pop Art. Pop Art is thought to be an art style that returned to the material realities of everyday life, to popular culture (this is where the “pop” term comes from) which derives from most of the visual pleasures of people – like television, magazines or comics.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

167

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10 Jaw Dropping HTML5 and Javascript Effects

Alright, HTML5 has been released for quite a while now, and its capabilities never cease to amaze me. Here, I have got 10 more HTML and Javascript demonstrations that show you what they can do.

css-html, inspiration, javascript, trend

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8 comments

The Best CSS Galleries For Fresh Web Design Inspiration

25 great and daily updated web design galleries, which might give you an inspiration when you are looking for ideas on your next web project.

css-html, design, inspiration

blogwebdesigner

188

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Interview with typography artist Moshik Nadav

Today we have for you an interview with typography artist Moshik Nadav from Jerusalim, Israel. He seems to have a special passion for typography, graphic design and branding. He creates some awesome and unique typography and brand designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

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30+ Drop Dead Portraits of Women in Digital Art

he impact of digital technology has transformed traditional activities such as painting, drawing and sculpture, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. Here i have gathered a stunning collection of beautiful women in digital art. Check them out.

inspiration, misc

157

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30 WordPress Based Websites That Don’t Look Like Blogs

When you hear WordPress you normally think blogs, but WordPress is much more flexible than you might think it can be used as much more than a blog. You can mold the WordPress according to your needs and demands.

design, inspiration, wordpress

222

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2010

30

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #66

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

354

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35+ Fashionable Typographic T-Shirt Designs

There are different styles in T-shirt designing that designers use like different colors, logos and etc. Today , in this post, i have collected cool Typography T-shirts. The use of typography in T-shirt design is getting popular day by day.

design, inspiration, misc, usability

310

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2010

27

AUG

30 Nice & Beautiful Looking Portfolio Designs

Portfolio usually known as your work identity over web or showcase of your works which helps you to get paid. Here i have gathered a nice collection of Portfolio designs for inspiration.

design, inspiration, template

535

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Logo Design Inspiration for Everything

That’s a post with really rich logo design content! The links below can show you a variety of logos and logo galleries. It’s a big inspirational post and I’m sure that it’ll help you!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo, usability

528

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2010

26

AUG

Designer Showcase – Rogie King

A showcase of the work from the multi-talented Rogie King. His skills include illustration, UI design, Front-end code and many more!

design, graphic, inspiration

216

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15 Creative Corporate Identity Designs

In this post you'll find a collection of a well and creative designed corporate identity designs from around the web where you can draw inspiration from.

design, inspiration

434

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40 Creative Inspiring Ads from WWF

n this post, we’ve rounded up 40 meaningful, interesting and creative examples of Ads from World Wildlife Fund to inspire you and feed you a creative ideas, You will see many funny ads for nature, animals and another inspirational advertisements. Enjoy!

design, inspiration

360

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30+ Interesting Images of Forced Perspective Photography

Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. Here i have gathered more than 30 best forced perspective photos after going through more than 200 photos from Flickr.

inspiration, photography, wallpaper

286

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This Summer’s Best Logo Designs – 40 Logos

Normally, summer is a time for vacation but somebody still has to work and that’s an opinion that some designers share with me. The proof for that lies in this article with 40 great logos, probably the best that appeared in these last months.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

484

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2010

25

AUG

Running More Effective Project Meetings

People always cringe when a meeting request hits their inbox, especially web designers and project managers. To us, meetings are boring and endless, taking far too much of our time. Perhaps that’s an overstatement, but the fact remains: meetings can be tedious. But what if our meetings with clients and project stakeholders weren’t tedious?

inspiration, misc, tips

10

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25+ Worth Watching Resume [CV] Designs

When you go through 20 – 30 different designs what your mind does is, it starts blending all those ideas / colors into something that you can do to refresh your current CV.Here i have gathered some very stylish examples of resume designs by some creative people for inspiration.

design, inspiration, misc, usability

223

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2010

24

AUG

Web Design Trends – The Ribbon

A showcase of web designs featuring the current design trend of using ribbons

design, graphic, inspiration

185

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10 Must Have iPad Apps for Web Designers & Developers

I have got my list of must-have iPad apps down and today I want to share ten of them with you. Theses iPad apps are particularly geared towards web designers and web developers. With a product as aesthetically pleasing as the iPad, you just know it’s something that designers will be naturally drawn to- especially with apps like these to help us do better work. I hope you find this helpful.

design, inspiration, misc

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40 Beautiful & Creative Portfolio Designs

With this selection, I will show you 40 inspiring portfolio designs. Some of them you probably already know, others are new – some are minimalist, others are colorful and full of elements.

design, inspiration

189

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Interview with 3D Artist Teodoru Badiu

Teodoru Badiu is a freelance artist and creative media designer based in Vienna, Austria who was born in the city of Sibiu, Romania. Teodoru is a fantastic illustrator, character designer and 3d artist with an unique graphic style.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

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The Top 40 Places to Get the Best Graphic Design Inspiration

Today, I’ve gathered up the top 40 places to get the best graphic design inspiration on the web, which I frequently use to stay inspired myself.

design, graphic, inspiration

182

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2010

23

AUG

A Roundup of 25 Jaw-Dropping Infographics

There are literally thousands of incredible infographics available online and you’ll find a small selection of the most jaw-dropping below. Each of the infographics selected for this article have two things in common: they’re all visually stunning and they’re all easy to understand.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

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30 Cool & Creative Hand Drawn Website Designs

When a new website is to be designed, designers often try to use the latest technology to create something spectacular. But sometimes its nice to go back to basics and this is exactly what these designers have done. Here i have gathered 30 cool Hand Drawn Websites for you to get inspiration from. I hope you do like them.

design, inspiration, template, trend

277

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2010

22

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #65

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

382

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50 Amazing Lego Art

Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct such objects as vehicles, buildings, and even working robots. So today we’ve collected 50 amazing lego sculptures.

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2010

21

AUG

July’s Fresh Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials

This roundup includes 21 Photoshop tutorials which deal with creating web layouts, fresh and inspirational resources from design community (July 2010).

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

313

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2010

20

AUG

Showcase: Magazine-Style Layout in WordPress and Resources

In this post we will feature 11 sites that provide inspiration for magazine-style layouts, then tutorials for designing a Magazine Theme, and the end of the post includes free and premium magazine style themes for wordpress.

design, inspiration, wordpress

220

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30+ Beautiful & Striking Bottle Designs

Brilliant and attractive bottle designs for your inspiration. Not only the labels and decoration on these bottles but also the shape and design of the bottle really matters.

inspiration, misc

240

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Showreel: 40+ Stunning And Creative Examples

The use of showreels is one of the best ways for a motion graphic designer to show off their portfolios. Once these talented artists set static elements into motion and add funky music, they can accomplish visually stunning animations and special effects that will leave you drooling for more.

design, inspiration, video

269

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30 Fantastic Examples of Twitter Backgrounds

Twitter background design is one of the most important things, you can change in your account to attract new followers. I hand picked those 30 Twitter backgrounds, while I was browsing through like 400-500 twitter pages – these all were the ones which caught my attention. Interesting to notice, not all of favorites are really colorful, but even subtle, clean and elegant but still stood out.

design, inspiration, misc, template

269

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2010

19

AUG

Designer Showcase – Matt Hamm

This week's designer showcase displays the work of the very talented Matt Hamm. He's a brilliant illustrator, who also works on logos and web design

design, graphic, inspiration

283

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54 Impressive and Well-Designed Resume Examples For Inspiration

Creativity is everywhere.If you want to stand out from the crowd,you have to be different from the others and you can do it by the creativity in your mind.A resume is a document that contains a summary of relevant job experience

graphic, inspiration, misc

465

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Amazing Ballpoint Pen Drawings & Sketches

Ballpoint pens can be an excellent medium for serious fine art or illustration. An obvious advantage is precision and control. With pens you can achieve very tight renderings.

inspiration, misc

326

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30 Striking Examples of Product Packaging Designs

Packaging is a critical marketing tool as it defines the product, it is not just a wrapping material around a consumer item that serves to contain, identify, describe, protect, display, promote and otherwise make the product marketable and keep it clean. Gathered some very stylish examples of Product Packaging Designs that will definitely gonna inspire you.

design, inspiration, misc

311

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2010

18

AUG

Logo Design: 80+ Beautiful Examples

It has been almost four months since my last post on logo design. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh new creative logos for you to be inspired by. I am confident that these new logo designs will get your creative juices flowing. So with no further ado here is your latest dosage of beautifully designed logos. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

490

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Truly Sensational Worlds of Fantasy & Zodiac Signs

Fascinated by the possibility of creating every idea Kolb realized that he was able to increase the resolution and size of his images to a high degree,

graphic, inspiration

270

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Beer Package Inspiration – 38 Brands

Beer is the world’s most widely consumed and one of the oldest alcoholic beverages. Only mentioning that it’s the world’s third most popular drink after water and tea makes it interesting for this article. Its package has always been interesting and I’m going to prove you that today.

design, inspiration

207

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The Problem With Creativity

Helping resolve issues that block our inherent creative abilities.

design, inspiration, misc, tips, tools

231

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15 Creative Name Cards Design That Will Make You Want One

Business cards are really important as it represents your identity. But the problem is, most business cards are dull and just too formal, those business cards are tend to be forgotten. In this post, I have found 45 creative name cards for your inspirations. Enjoy :)

design, inspiration

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Interview with Artist Michael Myers

Michael Myers is a fantastic illustrator and designer from Waterloo, IA. Michael’s work is very versatile and full of imagination and it comprises vintage prints, cool animations, t-shirt designs, freaky design works and disturbingly awesome drawings.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

184

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2010

17

AUG

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites #3

A showcase of some beautiful web designs that heavily use illustrations

design, graphic, inspiration

243

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30 Free High Quality Blogger Templates for Download

Blogger is a blog publishing tool which like all other Google products is free and provides an amazingly intuitive user interface. Starting your own blog is a piece of cake, where you just need to setup a domain name and start posting. handpicked 30 best free blogger templates

design, freebies, inspiration, template

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The Influence of Art History on Modern Design – Cubism

If in the previous posts I wroteÂ about the influence of art history on modern design and I posted about the Gothic Style – Medieval Period, the Baroque Style – Western Art and the Art Nouveau Style – Modern Art, today’s article is about one of the most influential art movements of the twentieth century’s modern art: Cubism.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

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My Guardian Angel – Beautiful Angel Vectors

Angels are a beautiful and precious element which you can use in your art work. You can create magnificent posters, vintage illustrations, wedding invitations, Christmas illustrations, t-shirt designs and much more. I have put together a collection of angel vectors and illustrations to inspire you in your art work.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

163

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2010

16

AUG

80+ Stunning Photographic Portraits

In this post I would like to introduce a new topic on photography. Its surprising that I have never made a post on photography considering that photographs are used in everyday design such as campaign ads, posters, magazine covers and photo compositions just to name a few.

inspiration, photography

333

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Most Fascinating Examples of Traditional Japanese Paintings

Japanese painting is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese arts, encompassing a wide variety of genre and styles.

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43 Impressive and Fully Creative Hand Drawn Websites

We became familiar with Web 2.0 styled websites in the last few years but there are also trendy and unique designs.Hand-drawn style is getting more popular in design world and you can come across amazingly creative hand-drawn websites over the internet

design, inspiration

288

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25 Examples of Web Designs using Water Theme

Adding a touch of nature to your designs can go along way. Today i have picked water as my theme of web designs. So i have gathered a lovely collection of Water Web Designs for your inspiration. These designs are really cool and beautiful. I hope you do like them.

design, inspiration, template

306

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2010

15

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #64

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

420

1 comment

2010

13

AUG

30 Examples of Clean, Simple & Minimalist Website Designs

Minimalism renders a clean, simple and uncluttered website that focuses on what’s most important, the content. When a web page has too many elements, the user may begin to feel confused or annoyed when trying to find what they are looking for. Here are 30 websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance.

design, inspiration, template

438

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2010

12

AUG

58 Really Cool and Inspirational Single Page Websites

For the last 2 years single page websites became very trendy and you can find hundreds of single page designs on the net.They are all wonderful and highly creative.

design, inspiration

297

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Designer Showcase – Alan van Roemburg

A showcase of the fantastic work of the designer Alan van Roemburg

design, graphic, inspiration

164

0 comments

15 Creative and Wonderful Twitter Backgrounds

In this post you’ll find some of creative and wonderful twitter background for your inspiration.

design, inspiration, trend

214

0 comments

55+ Tutorials of Excellent 3d Effects Using Photoshop

There are lots of 3d tools to create 3d effects but creating 3d effects in photoshop is really interesting. Even if you want to create 3d object or 3d typographic design everything is possible in photoshop. So today i have compiled 55+ amazing tutorials of creating 3d effect in photoshop.

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial, usability

186

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30 Splendid Examples of Motion Blur Photography

We normally focus all our attention on getting sharp photos that we miss out on realizing how great motion blur photography can be. Motion blur photography is accomplished using slow shutter speeds, panning, or zooming, and can yield very cool results. Here i have gathered a cool collection of Motion Blur Photographs

inspiration, photography, wallpaper

374

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50+ Amazing Examples of Macro Photography

Macro photography is the art of taking close up pictures to reveal secrets the human eye can’t see. These details make even the simplest, most usual of objects stand out to the viewers.

inspiration, photography

349

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2010

11

AUG

34 Creative and Inspiring Examples Of Vertical Navigation in Web Design

Horizontal navigation menus are mostly used in websites or blogs and i know visitors are much more familiar to horizantal navigation.Personally, i also prefer horizontal navigation bars but there are some really creative vertical navigation examples on the net

inspiration, misc

482

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Dave Hill’s Mind Blowing Conceptual Photography

Its not just the photography we are are going to share with you. Its Dave Hill Photography. The concept and idea involved in his work is damn superb and mind blowing.

inspiration, photography

104

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Superb Examples of Textured Web Designs

A great way to add depth to a website these days is to help create more of a dynamic environment, or portray a lifelike material. Here i have 30 examples of textures used in Web Design, not only as backgrounds but textures can be applied to a lot of different web elements.

design, inspiration, template

379

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2010

10

AUG

A Showcase Of ‘Handmade’ Websites #3

A showcase of websites that effectively use the current trend of making your websites look handmade

design, graphic, inspiration

295

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iPad Wallpaper: 70+ Collection Of Diverse Designs

iPad as we already know, have so many different applications. One of my favorite uses of my iPad is browsing the internet while lying on the couch. It might sound lazy, but It definitely beats sitting behind my desk all day. In this article I have compiled an amazing collection of diverse iPad wallpaper designs. I hope that you will find one to choose from to refresh your iPad desktop. Enjoy!

graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

259

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Most Splendid & Innovative Business Card Designs

Business cards we are going to show you are simple but the look is feel is really stunning and beautiful. Some of the business cards are very innovative and totally different. The shape cutting and the text merged with the paper is worth to watch and really awesome.

graphic, inspiration, trend

237

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Interviewing Women in Web Design Around the World – Huge List

With regard to Web Design, there are many female web designers out there, but it seems there is not enough representation or prominence in bringing them into the limelight.

design, inspiration, misc, trend

229

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30 Attractive Designs of Brochures

One of the best tools of advertising your corporate identity is corporate brochure.So in this post, i have gathered a collection of 30 brochures for your inspiration. I hope you do like them.

design, inspiration, template

293

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15 Creative and Well-Designed Brochures

Brochure can be used for marketing, during a special occasion, or to inform, educate, and let future clients/customers know about your services or products. In this post, I have found 15 creative and beautiful brochures for your inspirations. Enjoy :)

design, graphic, inspiration

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2010

9

AUG

35 Kick Ass Movie Illustrations By Justin Reed

Justin Reed was born in 1979, and received a BFA in Illustration from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. We are going to present his work which is based on killer and spectacular movie illustrations.

design, inspiration

455

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30+ Dark & Emotional Examples of Surreal Art

In this post, i have selected dark surreal artwork from digital art. Here are more than 30 creative photos of dark surreal art. I hope you do like them.

inspiration, photography, photoshop, wallpaper

406

0 comments

50 Fresh Portfolio and Blog Design Interfaces for Inspiration

A showcase of 50 totally fresh web design interfaces hand-picked from Deviantart. This list focus on Portfolio and Blog Designs. Be inspired!

design, graphic, inspiration

293

0 comments

2010

8

AUG

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #63

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

229

0 comments

2010

7

AUG

60+ Super Realistic CG Portraits

They have done it once again! You might be asking yourself, “who has done it once again?” The talented CG artists that create these amazing CG Portraits. Flawlessly rendered works giving the impression that these subjects are actually human…Brilliant!

graphic, inspiration

383

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2010

6

AUG

30 Free WordPress Plugins & Widgets

WordPress is constantly evolving and becoming more efficient, but in the meantime, where there’s a good idea, a plugin isn’t too far behind. I have been searching for some of the best free WordPress plugins and widgets available on the web. So here i have gathered 30 useful WordPress Plugins and Widgets and they are absolutely free for you to use.

freebies, inspiration, misc, wordpress

377

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2010

5

AUG

20 Must See Examples of Signin & Signup Pages

For developers and designers of successful web based applications, time and careful attention are given to the page where the users sign up or sign in. What point is there to creating a beautiful, functional application to only turn users off with a confusing signup or signin page? So here i have gathered a lovely collection of beautiful yet simple signin and signup pages for your inspiration.

design, inspiration, template

449

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15 Premium Business Card Design for Creative Jobs

In this post you will find different kinds of Business Card with Premium quality design for people who work in the field of creativity.

design, inspiration, template

354

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2010

4

AUG

30 Mind Blowing Red Color Website Designs

When you are creating a new website you may be inspired by seeing other sites that are beautifully designed, as a designer it’s a must to know the current trend, particularly in web designs there’s always new trends emerging quite often. Here i have gathered some amazing websites have red color scheme

design, inspiration, template

267

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10 Utile Resources of Aug 2010 for Web Design and Development

In this post I am sharing some really useful and fresh resources to help web designers and developers for day-to-day projects needs.

inspiration, tutorial

233

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2010

3

AUG

25+ Marvellous CG Portraits of Girls

Computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most realistic and incredible effects which was once claimed utterly impossible. The extent to which CG can replicate human characteristics is simply breathtaking. With the power of CG art, one could easily mistake images for real life portraits. In this post, i have gathered some beautiful and stunning CG portraits of girls.

graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

537

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Tribute to Kagaya: A Showcase Of His Most Famous and Colorful Works of Art

Kagaya is a fine digital artist who focuses on the creation of colorful computer graphics paintings, digital prints and illustrations for magazines and posters.

graphic, inspiration

345

0 comments

2010

2

AUG

Creative Collection Of Flyer Design

Parties are never complete without a crowd. To get that crowd, though, you need to use seriously creative invitations, or better yet, wickedly engaging club card flyers. However, creating a flyer design that will excite people to join in the fun can be one tricky business. Here is yet another helpful compilation that will inspire you to create that perfect design.

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Interesting & Modern Use of Paper Art AKA Origami

Origami is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD and was popularized in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form.

inspiration, misc

289

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2010

31

JUL

Logo Design Inspiration: Use Of Flower In Logo Design

In this showcase we’ve collected 33 use of flower in logo design.

inspiration, logo

383

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2010

30

JUL

Logos Friday #4: Beautiful Animals inspired logo

Logos Friday is an every week tradition here are The MegaMag where we collect cool and beautiful logos from around the web . This week our collection is an animal inspired logos for your inspiration .

graphic, inspiration, misc, trend

328

0 comments

2010

29

JUL

22 Awarded Logos Made By Asian And American Designers

If last week we were talking about awarded logos from European designers, this week I’m presenting you great logos done by designers from Asia and the Americas. There are here 22 superb logos in different styles and colors that surely deserve the attention.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

306

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15 Creative Fire Inspired Logo Designs

In this post you will find 15 different kinds of Logo Design based on fire concept.

design, inspiration, logo

308

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30 Lively Examples of Single Page Websites

Single page websites may be described as websites that constitutes all of its features in one page. In this kind of design visitors need not to load different pages just to find what they are looking for and this can give your website an advantage to the rest. Here i am showing you an awesome collection of single page websites for you get inspiration from it.

design, inspiration, template

462

0 comments

2010

28

JUL

30 Multi Level Websites

Would you like to see totally original websites and blogs? Please find them in our article and learn what differs Multi Level Websites from the other sites you can find on the net.

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25+ High Quality Free WordPress Themes of 2010

Most of bloggers use wordpress as blogging application and therefore demand of wordpress themes are increased. Here i have gathered some nice and amazing collection of free wordpress themes of 2010 for your inspiration.

freebies, inspiration, template, wordpress

429

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2010

27

JUL

Awesome & Brilliant Illustrations By Mark Fredrickson

We are going to present the brilliant and funny illustrations by Mark Fredrickson. Mark Fredrickson is one of the finest and talented Artists from Tucson, Arizona.

graphic, inspiration

147

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2010

26

JUL

25+ Fashion Websites in Flash Designs

Fashion refers to costume or clothing style. Flash is the future of user interface design because it is so much flexible that you can create any graphics and establish a new environment for your website visitor. In this exclusive collection I am showcasing some of the much interactive Fashion flash websites.

design, flash, inspiration, template

335

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Photoshop Tutorial: Create a Stormy Harry Potter Environment Effect

This Photoshop tutorial will show us how to create a similar effect we see in the Introduction clip of Harry Potter Series: a Stormy Environment Effect.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial, wallpaper

361

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External Design Inspiration - Stunning Pictures by Uribaani

Let me introduce the great artist Miika Ahvenjärvi aka Uribaani from Finland. He is a graphic and webdesigner with a big spectrum of different works, which are characterized of very harmonical and interesting compositions.

inspiration, misc

286

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2010

24

JUL

Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration No. 24

A series of web design inspiration collection published every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration. If you have any website(s) you would like to submit for our next week roundup, use the Contact page or comments section below. We respect all website recommendations and list them only after review.

css-html, design, inspiration

546

3 comments

2010

23

JUL

30+ Lovely Images of Macro Photography

Macro photography is close-up photography. A round-up of some truly revealing and inspiring macro photographs which are sure to have you marveling at the world around you. Here is a collection of truly amazing macro photographs from various photographers.

inspiration, photography, wallpaper

351

0 comments

2010

22

JUL

15 Awesome Footer Inspirations

Amazing Collection of 15 Footer Examples and Ideas for your Design Inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

423

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15 Great Examples of Corporate Identity Design

In creating a corporate identity or branding identity design (some also call it visual identity), consistency is one of the most important aspect that designers should consider. Below yo'll find 15 great examples of well designed corporate identity design.

design, inspiration

492

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40 Interesting & Cool 404 Error Pages

A 404 error indicates that the requested resource may be available again in the future. This list is made up of 40 individually designed 404 error pages, some are clever, some are funny and some are just better than a blank white page declaring 404 Error page not found! I hope you do like them and get inspiration from it.

design, inspiration

452

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Apart - Black And White Photography

I prefer to capture surroundings and moments in my pictures where I feel simply apart. It might be a bit abnormal to show a sunset reduced to black and white, but I think that this reduction helps to support this feeling. I hope you enjoy.

inspiration, photography

359

0 comments

2010

21

JUL

Showcase: Illustration in WordPress Blog Design & Resources

In this showcase you'll find beautiful wordpress blog designs that feature creative illustrations, integrated properly to create a visually pleasing effect. Also some resources, to help you create a good illustration.

design, inspiration, wordpress

622

0 comments

2010

20

JUL

Flash Design Showcase #11

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

37

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Showcase Of Websites With Large Photo Background

In this showcase we’ve collected 30 websites with large background photo.

407

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Ads Tuesday#2 :Full Inspiration

A new collection of cool , smart and creative ads this week .. enjoy .

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

239

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35+ Absolutely Free Social Media Icon Sets for Download

You can’t simply choose any icon-set for your blogs social bookmarking, you need to choose a set that not only compliments your themes design but will also define the character of your content and of your writing style. So here, i have gathered some great free social media icons for you to download. Choose wisely, not an easy task.

design, freebies, icon, inspiration

452

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30+ Examples of Large Background Photos in Web Design

Websites using large background photos are consistently increasing in popularity. These large background photos gives life to the website and make them more stunning and lively. Here i have gathered some great websites that have used large photos as backgrounds.

design, inspiration, template

471

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Get Inspired by Asian Flash Sites – Part 1

Check out the Flash sites that have been created in Asia. See for yourself if they differ from the Flash sites you are used to.

flash, inspiration

271

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Seriously Creative & Inspirational Map Designs

May be you can’t find the treasure through these maps but you can find bundle of creative and inspiration treasure through these beautifully and magically created maps.

design, graphic, inspiration

362

0 comments

2010

19

JUL

External Tip - 12 Great Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 12 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

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2010

18

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #62

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

382

1 comment

2010

17

JUL

55 Amazing Wallpapers of London from Flickr

London is one of my favourite cities. Whereas most of the wallpapers are similar, they have something unique. It’s a wonderful holiday destination that you will remember for all your life. You can explore some beautiful parts of London inside my post!

design, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

342

0 comments

30+ Beautiful Photo Manipualtion used for mobile advertisements

Advertisements often feature excellent design. Sometimes it’s creative, sometimes it’s funny, and sometimes it’s just a well-designed piece that may spark some ideas of your own. Using photo manipulation in ads can be a very good idea if they are well used , here is a collection of 30+ examples of photo manipulation used for mobile

256

0 comments

2010

16

JUL

40 Beautifully Designed Bird Logos

Previously published posts on 50 heart logos and burning logos were very much liked by blog readers. So today i decided to make post on logos which have bird illustrations or impressions.

design, inspiration, logo

276

1 comment

35 Breathtaking Examples Of Road Photography

In this article, We’ve compiled 35 of the most beautiful and breathtaking examples of road photography, and don’t forget to look at the authors other work by clicking on their relevant images.

inspiration, photography

335

0 comments

75 Dark Portfolio Websites

Here, i collected the huge collection of dark portfolio websites to inspire web designers.

359

0 comments

2010

15

JUL

50 Amazing 3D Images and Graphics

Beautiful Collection of 50 Amazing 3D Graphics, Images, and Pictures.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

253

0 comments

Top 35+ Amazing Sand Sculptures Of The World

Sand Sculptures are beautiful sources for creativity and inspiration. Some of these sand sculptures can takes days to complete using tons of sand. Today we present the 35+ amazing and unbelievable sand sculptures of the world. So check it out.

design, inspiration

320

1 comment

2010

14

JUL

67 Creative Twitter Background Designs

By designing a creative twitter background you can attract new customers. I can guarantee you that any visitor will click on your website link in the description box, if you have an eye catching wallpaper.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

434

0 comments

30 User Friendly and Stylish Navigation Menus

Web designers always have to strike a balance between usability and visual appeal when designing a website. An eye-catching and unique menu can bring you more traffic and more hits. To help you generate new ideas and inspiration for user navigation, here are 30 excellent examples of attractive and usable navigation.

design, inspiration

795

0 comments

30 Beautiful and Gorgeous Female Portraits in Vector Art

Vector art is a form of digital illustration and its use is increasing every day. Vector art can be seen in almost every part of print, online and televised media. Vector Artwork demands a lot of hard work and creativity. Here i have a gathered a lovely collection of female portraits in vector art made by very talented and creative artists. I hope you would like this.

inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

479

0 comments

35 Fresh Examples Of Creative Web Design

A perfect layout, A good design and nice resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Here, we present 35 examples of creative Web Design to inspire you.

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0 comments

13 Amazing Examples of HTML5 and CSS3

Another post that demonstrate the power of HTML5 and CSS3. New experimental demonstrates are being released so often, so I must make another post for it!

css-html, inspiration, javascript, trend

14850

14 comments

2010

13

JUL

40 Creative Examples of Coffee Art

Creating coffee art usually consists of pouring the steamed milk into a shot of espresso, thus creating a design. This process takes skill and creativity. There are even world wide latte art competitions.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

2301

1 comment

Ads Tuesday #1: 43 cool ads

Another new tradition The Mega Mag a new collection of cool , creative and clever ads every Tuesday.

design, graphic, inspiration

217

0 comments

120+ Beautiful Examples of Advertisements #8

In this post we put up some beautiful and inspirational examples of Advertisements. You will see many funny and creative ads. I hope these ads will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

2373

0 comments

2010

12

JUL

Designing Webforms with CSS3 - Visual design and the lack of graphics

By the possibilities that some of the browser manufacturer with the support of Web standards such as CSS3 users now make available, especially graphically complex (re) forms can be realized without large expenses using CSS. Advantage of this approach is ...

css-html, design, inspiration

Webstandard-Team

609

0 comments

130 Wonderful Website Designs categorised by color (1#)

After the success of 150 Wonderful Logo Designs categorised by color, I decided to bring to you a similar post about Website Designs. It’s too big so I will publish it in 2 parts. The first part includes the colors: Blue , Green & Red and it’s here to inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, template, trend

500

0 comments

2010

11

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #61

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

357

0 comments

2010

9

JUL

20 Free Windows 7 Wallpapers

Free Windows 7 Wallpapers, Beside default wallpapers, we are showcasing here some really cool 20 Free Windows 7 Wallpapers for your desktop.

design, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

642

0 comments

Logos Friday#1 : Colors and colors

Friday logo will be a new tradition here at MegaMag .. every Friday we’ll share our picks of fresh and cool logos .

inspiration, logo, trend

470

0 comments

30 Amazing Examples of Infographics

Here i have gathered few examples of infographics for you to understand it better. I hope you do like them.

graphic, inspiration

503

0 comments

2010

8

JUL

30 Inspirational Double Sided Flyer Designs

Lets look at some creative and inspirational double sided flyer designs.

design, graphic, inspiration

430

0 comments

50 Beautiful Website Interfaces from DeviantArt for Inspiration

One of the best places to inspire you is the DeviantArt. I usually browsing it because there are lots of high quality projects there. I collect 50 Beautiful Website Interfaces for your Inspiration, i hope that you like them.

cms, design, inspiration

590

0 comments

A Showcase Of Amazing Prints Ads

A showcase of some very creative thinking, within the field of print advertising

design, graphic, inspiration

401

0 comments

2010

7

JUL

External Design Inspiration - Kubicki And His Unique Art

Jarek Kubicki is an artist, photographer and webdesigner from Poland which impressed me very much. He is the winner of many prestigious awards in the internet creation field and the Digital & Brand Creative Director in one of largest advertising agency in Poland. His works have a really unique style and look sometimes strange and different but always interesting and inspiring.

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0 comments

Multicultural web design

To ensure that your website is appreciated by the widest possible global audience, you need to be aware that different cultures are likely to view it with different perspectives.

css-html, inspiration, usability

webanddesigners

428

1 comment

35 Stunning Examples Of Conceptual Photography

Conceptual photography is a photography genre in which the artists makes a photograph of a concept or idea. Usually the conception of the idea precedes the realization of the photography. This kind of photography often involves use of computer editing, to achieve the desired effects. Here are some Stunning examples of conceptual photography to inspire you. Enjoy.

inspiration, photography

386

0 comments

2010

6

JUL

A showcase of iPad App Sites

A showcase of websites advertising their iPad apps

design, graphic, inspiration

477

0 comments

30 Awesome & Funny Examples of “Caricature Magazine Art”

The Art of caricature in magazines and news papers are very trendy these days. Some times they create controversies but the style and fun in these illustrations always make you laugh.

inspiration, misc

415

0 comments

Inspirational websites of the week III

When we want to develop a new website, some sort of idea or inspiration should be taken into consideration before we built it. These website would definitely help you with some sort of inspiration and we will continue to present top design website each week for you.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

724

0 comments

30 Mesmerizing Examples of Fractal Art Designs

The idea behind fractal art is from calculations and equations, which can produce great artwork and creative inspirations with combinations of colors and shapes. The Fractal Art Gallery features innovative fractal-based art, rooted in the spectacular beauty of fractal geometry. Here i have gathered an amazing collection of fractal art designs for your inspiration.

design, inspiration, wallpaper

603

0 comments

When a Client Hates Your Work

What do you do if a client truly wants to work with you, but they just don’t like your work? I’ve had the pleasure of working with some clients on multiple projects where they approve nearly all my outputs except for that one outlier project in which nothing seems to look right in their eyes. Here are some ways to work through the situation without losing your cool.

design, inspiration, tips

439

0 comments

Photography : 60 Cute Baby Animals

Today, we are showing you 60 cute Examples Of baby animal Photography. The credit goes to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes.

inspiration, photography

249

0 comments

30 Water Inspire Websites

In this showcase we present 30 eye-cathy water inspire websites for inspiration

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0 comments

2010

5

JUL

Nature’s Wonders: 30+ Breathtaking Landscape Photography

Landscapes include the visible features of an area of land and the physical elements of landforms, such as plains, quarries, hills and mountains, bodies of water such as rivers, lakes and the sea.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

339

0 comments

50+ Extremely Clever and Impressive Ads For Inspiration

One of the best way to draw attention for companies is the clever advertising strategy .In the recent years we saw hundreds of ads which make us smile and say woow..

design, inspiration, misc

414

0 comments

Animal Logos: A New Approach to Logo Design

Using animal logos as the trademark of a business is one such approach in the world of logo designing. Earlier, animal logos appeared only in organizations related to animal welfare or companies manufacturing products for animals. But today, businesses use the unique qualities of the animals in their logos to reflect the vision or spirit of their organizations.

design, inspiration, logo

526

1 comment

2010

4

JUL

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #60

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

427

0 comments

2010

2

JUL

70 Beautiful Vector Business Cards

Today a professional business card will sometimes include one or more aspects of striking visual design. So we have collected 70 beautiful vector business card for inspiration which help you in your next business card project.

371

0 comments

2010

1

JUL

iPhone App Sites #2

A showcase of websites advertising iPhone apps

design, graphic, inspiration

367

0 comments

Extraordinary Portraits on Floopy Disks & Cassettes

Nick Gentry recovers old and obsolete media storage and turns them into a medium for his expressive paintings.

300

0 comments

Collection of all the Pixar Animation Studios

No one makes animated movies quite like Pixar. With 23 years, 10 films, and 22 Academy Awards under their belt, the incredible guys over at Pixar Animation Studios keep getting better and better with each passing year.

inspiration, misc, wallpaper

239

0 comments

50 Magical Fantasy Scenes to Make You Dream Away

Our post for today illustrates just 50 of the most beautiful fantasy images, created by talented artists. They include fairies, dragons, castles, magical landscapes, mythical heroes and mermaids.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

264

0 comments

45 Stunning Infrared Photography

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. So today we’ve collected 45 Stunning example of infrared photography.

inspiration, photography

265

0 comments

2010

30

JUN

Awesome Free RSS Icons

Amazing Free Collections of RSS Icons, Images, Graphics, and Buttons for your Websites, Blogs, Social Networks, and Applications :)

freebies, graphic, inspiration, tools

311

0 comments

Must Visit Sites For Creativity & Inspiration

Looking for inspiration and some excellent creative work from the designers and artists around the web? We compile for you some of the best sites to visit on the web to find bundle of inspiration and creativity.

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0 comments

2010

29

JUN

High-Speed Photography: 30 Fascinating Photographs

High-speed photography involves taking a photograph with a camera on a fast shutter speed. The camera must be able to shoot at a speed of at least 128 frames per second (fps) in order to get the perfect shot.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

240

0 comments

35 logo design inspiration

When we think of LOGO we think about brand, trademark, and image. In short Logos are the ultimate mark of distinction that should be something that can give a strong long lasting impression.

design, inspiration, logo

webanddesigners

345

0 comments

2010

28

JUN

Mind Blowing Wall Writings & Graffiti Art

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings.

design, inspiration

322

0 comments

31 creative and eye catching packaging designs

Packaging is a critical marketing tool as it defines the product, it is not just a wrapping material around a consumer item that serves to contain, identify, describe, protect, display, promote and otherwise make the product marketable and keep it clean.

design, inspiration

webanddesigners

298

0 comments

The Most Attractive Papervision 3D Galleries

Papervision is a 3D engine for the Flash platform. It appeared about 3 years ago and started as an easy way to transform MovieClips to achieve the 3D illusion. Now this amazing technology is widely used for creating interactive galleries. With Papervision 3D the opportunities are endless.

cms, design, flash, inspiration, template

424

0 comments

60 Beautiful Examples of Desert Photography

Today , we have collected some of the best photographs of desert that I could find on flickr , deviantart and 1x. I hope that you enjoy these 60 breathtaking photographs as much as I do. Enjoy and get inspired!

inspiration, photography

275

0 comments

2010

27

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #59

Today we're showcasing the wonderful web portfolio from Matthew Smith AKA Squared Eye

design, graphic, inspiration

317

0 comments

2010

25

JUN

Inspirational websites of the week II

As promised we are back again with inspirational websites of the week II.

graphic, inspiration, template

webanddesigners

254

0 comments

30+ Ingenious Book Photomanipulations

Sometimes we are so caught up with our speeding lives, our ringing mobile phones and our light speed Internet connection, that we forget to slow down and enjoy a good book.

design, inspiration

170

0 comments

2010

24

JUN

Designer Showcase – Squared Eye

Today we're showcasing the wonderful web portfolio from Matthew Smith AKA Squared Eye

design, graphic, inspiration

374

0 comments

Graffiti artworks for inspiration

Graffiti is stated as the dictionary of ART, The term “graffiti” derives from the Greek graphein (“to write”). Graffiti (s. graffito), meaning a drawing or scribbling on a flat surface, originally referred to those marks found on ancient Roman architecture.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

205

0 comments

2010

23

JUN

50 Stunning Typographic Portraits

A very cool branch of typography is text art or making portraits from letters. Here are 50 breath-taking typographic portraits.

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0 comments

22 Most Inspirational Magento Based E-Commerce Store

Magento is a open-source e-commerce platform based on the foundation of robust web techniques. Today, we are present most insprational Magento based e-commerce store.

design, inspiration

blogwebdesigner

575

2 comments

2010

22

JUN

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #7

The seventh showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

273

0 comments

35+ Inspiring Grayscale Images

Contrary to what most people might think, grayscale images are not the same thing with black-and-white images (images with only two colors: black and white). In this type of images there are many shades of gray in between. Check out these cool grayscale images.

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0 comments

40 Refreshing Nature Inspired Web Designs

40 refreshing nature-inspired web designs for your viewing enjoyment, whether you're a fan of retro, illustrated, modern, sleek, rustic, photograph-based.

design, inspiration, template, trend

309

1 comment

Showcase: Typography in WordPress Blog Design & Resources

Typeface is the most important element used in a blog or website. When people come to your blog they don't care much about background image, sound, or other effect that we use. In this article you can find resources and showcase that will improve the typography on your site.

design, inspiration, trend, wordpress

247

0 comments

40 High Quality Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials

Vector characters are a major advantage of a website because it can get the attention of the visitors. Also, vector characters are funny, beautiful and popular.So, if you want to create your own vector characters, first check our post with 40 High Quality Adobe Illustrator Character Tutorials!

design, graphic, inspiration

283

0 comments

2010

21

JUN

30 Examples Of Dark Photo Manipulation

Here we’ve collected 30 great example of dark photo manipulation.

inspiration, photography

418

0 comments

Pricing Page And Plan Comparison Tables: Tips, Tricks, Advices and Showcases

Pricing Pages and Product comparison tables are being used extensively in modern sites. Here, we will look into tips, tricks, advices and examples of cool pricing pages and product comparison tables.

inspiration, tips, trend

447

0 comments

Artist of the Week – Chatchanok Wongvachara

This weeks artist is Chatchanok Wongvachara from Bangkok, Thailand. She is a freelance painter, graphic designer, illustrator and photographer.

design, graphic, inspiration

289

0 comments

30 Awesome 3D Robots Illustrations

If you are looking for inspirational 3d Robot designs , here is the list of 30 are wesome examples of 3D robots illustrations Enjoy!

317

0 comments

25 Incredible and Lifelike CG Animals

We’ve rounded up 25 awesome CG animals in this showcase, so you can see some of the cool and incredible animals that artists have managed to create.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

267

1 comment

50 Stunning Black and White Photos

50 beautiful examples of black and white photography.

inspiration, photography

306

0 comments

2010

20

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #58

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

354

0 comments

2010

18

JUN

60+ Creative Music Logos For Your Inspiration

The stunning use of typography, color scheme, and the rocking idea behind these logos are very inspirational and reflect the true sense of music and rhythm.

inspiration, logo

466

1 comment

2010

17

JUN

40 Really Awesome War Digital Artwork

The superb character designing, weapons and warhead, brilliant color scheming and the way these artists create theses artwork is really awesome.

design, inspiration

415

0 comments

70 Perfect Dribbble Works to Inspire you

I spend lots of time browsing dribbble works. There are quality, happy and colorful designs there that can inspire you. I collected some perfect works (logos, websites, icons etc.) to show and inspire you.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration, logo

441

0 comments

40 Perfectly Captured Motion Blur Photographs

This collection showcases 40 perfectly captured motion blur photographs.

inspiration, photography, trend

451

0 comments

Designer Showcase - DKNG Studios

A showcase of the beautiful poster designs by the guys at DKNG Studios

design, graphic, inspiration

266

0 comments

2010

16

JUN

Paper made website designs for inspiration

Design gets its definition from nature and natural stuff. When designers bring in innovation, creativity from natural item their designs get all the benefit of standing out in their creative world.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

494

0 comments

25 Amazing Examples of Architecture Photography

Today, we are showing you 25 Stunning and Amazing Examples Of Architecture Photography. In this post we have gathered some of the most beautiful and amazing, as well as mind blowing photographys for your inspiration. Enjoy!

inspiration, photography

333

0 comments

2010

15

JUN

Triangle Poster Design Inspiration: 35 Mind-Blowing Examples

In this post I’ve put together 35 beautiful examples of triangle poster designs. Some of these designs include lovely typography, other geometric shapes, and photographs.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, trend

512

0 comments

Top 20+ 3D Flash Websites

Here is a collection of the top 20+ Flash Websites with 3D Environment and 3D interface. In the list bellow you will see some of the most creative flash website designs. I really hope you enjoy them.

flash, inspiration

536

0 comments

One Page Websites #2

A showcase of the latest and greatest in one page website design

design, graphic, inspiration

542

0 comments

60 Wallpapers from 17 Capital Cities of Europe

Let’s travel around some capital cities of Europe with this showcase post. There are lots of sights and places to see and visit. Every country has a special atmosphere and culture. Take a look!

design, graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

345

0 comments

Illustrator Portrait (female) - Tutorial for Professionals

Vectorize a portrait with Adobe Illustrator. This Illustrator-Tutorial will explain the development process of a female photo portrait.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

261

0 comments

2010

14

JUN

15 Excellent Particle Flow Animations

A showcase of amazing particle flow animations from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

355

0 comments

40+ Splendid Wallpapers for Design Lovers Part-1

Time for some more inspiration. Designers derive inspiration from almost everything. Still the major sources of inspiration are photography, themes, graffiti artworks, wallpapers. Wallpapers are a great and very effective source of inspiration. Not just designers, even a common man derive pleasure out of looking at the beautiful and splendid themes of wallpapers.

inspiration, tools, wallpaper

384

0 comments

40 Exampls Of Vector animals

Here, we’ve collected 40 vector animals for inspiration.

263

0 comments

Artist of the Week – Irina Vinnik

This week, inspiration comes from Saint Petersburg, Russia – Irina Vinnik, artist, designer and illustrator. Traditional inkings illustrating stunning nature elements combined with typography and …

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

199

0 comments

80 Dazzling Examples of Illustration Websites

Illustration can add a fun/innovative vibe to your websites theme. The goal of the illustration should be used to grab the readers attention and showcase your talent. Lately there has been an increased amount of illustrated websites.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

309

0 comments

2010

13

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #57

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

253

0 comments

58 Incredible Logo Designs #4

Here’s the fourth roundup of amazing logo designs. This is a series that we do frequently, so make sure to check out the past logo articles. For this collection we found some really creative logos, they’re all unique and eye catching.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

327

0 comments

25 Gorgeous Flash Websites To Inspire You

In the showcase below we present 25 colorful, creative, interactive and beautiful Flash-based web-sites. Hopefully they will serve you as an inspiration for your future works or just entertain you.

flash, inspiration

251

0 comments

2010

12

JUN

50 Amazing Black and White Photography examples

Black and White photos have a “classic” photography look. You have to imagine the colors inside them to solve the puzzle of them. A big collection of Black and White Photography examples is listed here.

graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

468

0 comments

Top 15+ Photography Website Designs

Photographers have always the best portfolios and websites. There are thousands of online Portfolios around and it’s really hard to select few. We spent last few weeks to compile this list of collection of the top 15+ designed photographer portfolios on the web.

design, inspiration, photography

431

0 comments

2010

11

JUN

70 Attractive Examples Of Big Typography In Web Design

Last week i published a post ”50 Inspirational ”Live” Typography Examples From New York ” and as a fan of huge typography examples,this time i will showcase the websites using big typography.This kind of oversized typography

font, graphic, inspiration

541

0 comments

Inspirational websites of the week

From today we are starting a new weekly series called “Inspirational websites of the week”. Main intention will be to collect elegant and fresh website designs to inspire our readers.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

300

0 comments

Hellingly Asylum Mental Hospital Photos

Here you will find stunning photos from Hellingly Asylum Mental Hospital. Hellingly Hospital was a very large mental hospital in the village of Hellingly

design, inspiration, photography

197

0 comments

2010

10

JUN

150 Wonderful Logo Designs categorised by color

Logos, logos, logos. I love logo design and I decided to collect lots of logos here for you. You will find 30 Blue, 40 Red, 30 Green, 20 Yellow and 30 Black & White Logo Designs. They’re beautiful, minimalistic, colorful and they’re here to inspire you! Enjoy.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

297

0 comments

60+ Splendid Vector Illustrations For Inspiration

In adobe illustrator you can create all kind of objects with a lot of wonderful effects, one more real than the other. I have rounded up a collection of 62 vector illustrations for you to mull over and feast your eyes on for inspiration that goes deeper than pure aesthetic design.

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Intelligent Manipulation - Edward Bernays

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons …

design, inspiration, misc, tips, trend

206

0 comments

2010

9

JUN

Stunning Illustration Art by David Lanham

David Lenham has a heck of an imagination, and loves traditional and digital arts. David studied drawing and design at the University of Central Florida, graduating in 2004. He is currently working for the Iconfactory, while keeping up with his personal work in the off time. He worked with clients like MacPractice, Sybase and Microsoft Xbox 360.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

126

0 comments

2010

8

JUN

Flash Design Showcase #10

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

345

0 comments

30 stunning 3d typography designs

Typography has always been linked with creativity and passion towards design. The beauty of typography enriches when it is bonded with 3D. As 3D in itself is know to amaze designers by its wonderful effect.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

373

0 comments

Fresh and Inspiring Flash Photo Gallery Solutions

These fresh and inspiring photo galleries present the creative and original ideas of displaying images online and impress both in terms of functionality and professional look.

design, flash, inspiration, photography

405

0 comments

2010

7

JUN

30 Product Package Designs Showcasing Amazing High Quality Package Graphics

Graphic design has many different strands and disciplines; they each help showcase the best in our own individual design talents. You can enhance creativity with; type, functionality of the package design or the illustrative talents of an artist.

graphic, inspiration

216

0 comments

Typography: The Clothes Your Brand Wears to Work

If you had to wear only one set of clothing to work everyday for the rest of your life, how much time would you spend considering what you are going to wear? You might take some time to ask a few questions. Is this suit still going to hold up for another 20 years? Are these heels still going to be cute and comfortable in 2019?

design, inspiration, misc, tips, trend

443

1 comment

Color Trends Lead the Way to a Better Outlook

Why is it that, in those last dreary days of winter, people are almost choking with the longing for spring? Sure sunshine and warmth play a part, and the desire to shed all those cumbersome layers of clothing that seemed so cozy last September, but I think a huge part of this ache is the fundamental longing for color . . .

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, trend

403

0 comments

35 brilliant tilt photography for inspiration

Photography is an art of make things look vivacious. This art creates a WIN-WIN situation among designers whose creativity blossoms with the exotic blend of photography.

design, inspiration, photography

webanddesigners

266

0 comments

95 Beautiful Business Card Designs

Business Card are commonly used these days to network with all sort of different people. Anybody who owns their own business should definitely have their own business cards.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

506

0 comments

2010

6

JUN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #56

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

322

0 comments

55 Creative Examples of USB Designs

We wanted to do a roundup of something creative, and interesting. We chose USB drive designs. USB drives are very cheap these days, and each year memory is costing less. When USB drives were expensive, they were plain and simple like a stick. Now that they’re so cheap people are getting creative with all sorts of USB drive ideas.

design, gadget, inspiration, trend

404

0 comments

2010

5

JUN

35 Restaurants And Bars Websites

Here, we collected some great restaurants and bars websites for inspiration which help web designer in thier projects.

251

0 comments

2010

3

JUN

External Design Inspiration - Fantastic Graphic Design by Keid

Time for another inspiration. Here I want to introduce the really great works by Keid from Poland. He creates amazing designs and illustrations which are very harmonical and full of interesting details. His special choose of colours and his eye for details is one of the reasons why he should not miss in this inspiration category.

design, graphic, inspiration

110

0 comments

25 Websites for Typography Inspiration

Typography is a beautiful thing, and plays a huge role in designing. Most of the time its hard to get inspired when you’re working on a project. Not every font fits in perfectly with every project. Why not take a little time off, and check out these typography resources for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration, tools

92

0 comments

52 Inspiring Website Elements You Must See [pics]

A list of websites that contain inspirational elements that will help you get inspired and ready to design beautiful websites!

design, graphic, inspiration

80

0 comments

2010

2

JUN

40 Digital Waterfall Paintings

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. So today we’ve collected 40 digital waterfall paintings.

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40 Awesome Pencil Sculptures

Some of designers create fantastic sculptures from pencils. In each pencil sculpture are used hundreds of pencils. Most famous designer how create sculptures from pencils is Jennifer Maestre. Her sculptures are colorful and simply amazing. In this post you can admire cool and interesting pencils sculptures.

design, inspiration

139

0 comments

How to Create a Beach Boy in Illustrator (Very Detailed)

Today we are going to discuss how to draw a simple cartoon character from a sketch in Adobe Illustrator CS4. We are going to learn simple techniques and how to use them to produce a good effect.

122

0 comments

2010

1

JUN

A Showcase Of ‘Handmade’ Websites #2

A showcase of websites that effectively use the current trend of making your websites look handmade

design, graphic, inspiration

425

0 comments

Top 15 Wordpress Plugins to Make Your Blog Secure

Here is the list of Top 15 WordPress Security Plugins that have all the features you need. The more security blog, more successes in blogging we have.

inspiration, tools, wordpress

464

0 comments

Beautiful Google Doodles (1998 – 2010)

We’re all familiar with Google Doodles the customized logos that appear on the search engine’s home page to commemorate special dates or events.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

414

0 comments

Dive into the Photographic Fantasies of Maleonn

Ma Liang, or as known as Maleonn, is a highly imaginative photographer who now lives and works in Shanghai, China. He is one of the leading Chinese contemporary photographers that explored the photographic medium in a new way.

inspiration, photography

330

1 comment

A Showcase of Beautiful Business Card Designs

A well designed and printed business card can impress and make people take notice and remember you . A badly designed or printed card can leave a bad impression or even worse be simply forgotten. Here is a a showcase of beautiful business card designs to inspire you.

freebies, inspiration

337

0 comments

2010

31

MAY

D-Lists 1st Birthday Celebration!!

D-Lists is 365 days old and it's time to celebrate by saying thank you to everyone who has supported us.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

249

0 comments

Showcase of inspiring computer workstation

Style of working is directly inclined towards the way you work and the workstation you are embedded with. Be it PC or Mac workstation defines the style of working. Workstation plays a vital role in whatever you do.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

338

0 comments

jQuery Websites - The international Showcase - Be inspired!

jQuery provides a variety of approaches to making content of Web pages interactive. Whether sliding or fading to navigation or content elements, whether a Lightbox popup offers detailed descriptions, or the incorporation of animation effects for background graphics, jQuery is still a large repertoire in order to inspire them to leave.

design, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

697

0 comments

Artist of the week – Tim Bower

Tim Bower’s illustrations are simply suggestive. When you look at one of his paintings, you will see the literal meaning of an expression or quote. They are full of substance and nostalgia.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

197

0 comments

External Tip - 11 Very Useful Photoshop Tutorials You Should See

In this category we want to give you an advice to other great sites, where you can get a lot of very useful information, inspirations and materials. I collected 11 fantastic Photoshop tutorials, which can help you to expand your skills.

design, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

263

0 comments

55 Meaningful and Inspiring Logo Designs Created Using Numbers

Mostly we see showcases of every type of logo designs in blogs and of course great examples but today i want to showcase more specific logo designs.All the logos are created by using numbers and i’m sure you like them all.

inspiration, logo

531

1 comment

2010

30

MAY

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #55

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

45 Awesome Flash Portfolio Websites

we have collected 45 the best flash portfolio websitesto inspire you.

flash, inspiration

366

0 comments

51 Inspirational Orange Based Websites

What color is vibrant, and makes you feel warm? Orange! In my opinion orange is an eye catching color that grabs your attention. We have gathered some beautiful orange based websites to get your mind juices flowing. All the websites were hand picked and chosen by the quality orange design element.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

390

0 comments

2010

29

MAY

25 Examples of Creative Business Cards Design to Enhance Your Creativity

Showcase of twenty five unique and creative business cards design to enhance more your creativity and get inspired.

blogwebdesigner

532

0 comments

35 Creative Sport Inspired Logo Designs

In this post you will see different kinds of Logo Design based on sport concept which can be used to represent tournament or sport club.

inspiration, photography

443

0 comments

2010

28

MAY

60 Impressive Examples of Fireworks Photography

Fireworks are really beautiful to watch and the photos that almost take your breath. People enjoy the fantastic blasts and the sparkling light displays of fireworks

inspiration, photography

383

2 comments

25+ Best Real Estate websites

Real estate these days is in hype, despite of recession and number of crises around the world, it seems like one booming market.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

402

0 comments

2010

27

MAY

25 Shining Examples of Mobile Websites

Check out beautifully designed mobile websites and learn the tips on how to build really striking mobile websites.

307

0 comments

Designer Showcase – Fontfabric

A showcase of some beautiful fonts from the guys at Fontfabric

design, font, graphic, inspiration

313

0 comments

2010

26

MAY

65 Retro And Vintage Ads

we have collected 65 awesome and stuning retro and vintage advertisements for inspiration.

343

0 comments

Inspirational Watercolor Typography

Handmade Watercolor Typography Examples | Typography And Design Art | Design Alphabet

design, font, graphic, inspiration

71

0 comments

40+ Fabulous Fairy Tales Inspired House Designs

While living in a house like that, you can forgot about some of casual problems and feel like a fairytale character. In this post, you will find more than 40 very interesting and fabulous house designs that are inspired from fairy tales.

design, inspiration

342

0 comments

33 Retro and Vintage Flash Sites

Extremes meet: check out the Flash sites that come with retro and vintage styling.

311

0 comments

2010

25

MAY

20 Stunning Black and White Logos

A logo is something that when done well, it does not take much time or thought to see how amazing one really is. As I have written previously in a few posts about logos, logos are what represent your company, product, business, or even yourself.

graphic, inspiration, logo, trend

598

0 comments

45+ Inspirational Typography showcase

The principle behind topography is based on the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters. Typography to define is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

340

0 comments

50 Inspirational ”Live” Typography Examples From New York

Typography is everywhere.You definetely can see inspirational,creative and interesting typography examples where ever you look,where ever you go.Just turn your head and get inspired.Today i want to showcase of ”live” typography examples from New York.

font, graphic, inspiration, photography

541

0 comments

Innovative Product Design #2

A showcase of some amazingly innovative product design

design, gadget, graphic, inspiration

346

0 comments

30 Fresh And Beautiful 3D Typography Designs

Here we have collected 30 Beautiful 3D Typography Deisgns , I found these design realy inspiring, hope you will be inspired.

design, freebies, inspiration

598

0 comments

Artist of the week – Elena Savitskaya

Elena Savitskaya is a designer from London, UK who specializes the Photoshop lighting effects. Her style is amazing: grayscale images combined with explosions of light...

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

563

0 comments

2010

24

MAY

35 Candy Packaging That Will Tickle Your Sweet Tooth

When it comes to candy, we just can’t get enough. So with Ernestine Ulmer’s saying in mind, I had to go and do a little digging about the best candy packaging I could find.

design, graphic, inspiration

386

0 comments

Sliding Image Gallery - CSS3 Transition Tutorial (without JavaScript)

Sliding Image Gallery - Animated transitions on Webpage-elements such as image gallery are also possible without JavaScript. Based on CSS3-Transition the following Step-by-Step Tutorial is what you can now reach even with CSS3 transition in a few steps (without JavaScript!).

css-html, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

1214

0 comments

Top 25 online t-shirt stores

T-shirt is the best in adding zest to beauty. Now as all that we are talking about is Zest and creativity when it comes to online store, online t-shirt stores comes first as it is high in creativity and there are plenty of designs that can’t be kept hidden.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

346

1 comment

35 Creative & Inspirational Hip Hop Websites & MySpace Designs

A Showcase of the hip hop design world and find some of the top website and myspace designs on the web. They are creative and inspirational.

design, inspiration

289

0 comments

2010

23

MAY

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #54

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

274

0 comments

60 Temptingly Designed Alcoholic Beverages

If you ever find yourself lost designing an alcoholic beverage, this post is for your inspiration. The bottle design says alot about the beverage. It shows you how its viewed by the company’s itself, and how they want others to see it.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

397

0 comments

2010

22

MAY

20 Free And Fresh PSD Website Templates

Below are 20 PSD templates to help you through the learning curve or generate some new ideas.

design, freebies, inspiration, photoshop

507

0 comments

Creative Illustrations by Alexander Lyamkin

Born 1964, in Siberia, Russia. Alexander Lyamkin graduated from art college, but gained the majority of his experience through years of creative and personal development.

271

0 comments

2010

21

MAY

Designer Showcase - Pablo Alfieri

Showcasing the tremendous graphic design skills of Pablo Alfieri

design, graphic, inspiration

426

0 comments

Smoke Art:Wonderful Examples Of Inspirational Smoke Photography

This week’s photography inspiration is about Smoke Photography.Normally,when we take a photo of anything,we know what we have taken but in this kind of photography the result is always in our imagination.

inspiration, misc, photography

370

0 comments

20+ Highly Detailed Black And White Illustration Collection

Here's 20+ black and white drawings/ illustration collection from a number of talented artists. We tried to show how powerful these illustrations can be ...

design, inspiration, photography, photoshop, wallpaper

476

0 comments

2010

20

MAY

50 Awesome Examples of Flower Photography

Today , we have collected some of the best photographs of flowers that I could find on flickr , deviantart and 1x. I hope that you enjoy these 50 delicious flower photographs as much as I do. Enjoy and get inspired!

inspiration, photography

411

0 comments

2010

19

MAY

404 Error: 60+ Creative And Well Designed Pages

When doing my research for 404 error pages, I was surprised to see that three quarters of the websites I visited did not have custom 404 error pages. These pages are designed to tell the end user that he or she is lost or has come across a page that no longer exists and thus guides them back to the homepage of the website that they were viewing.

design, graphic, inspiration

432

0 comments

Top 34 celebrity websites for inspiration

Despite the fact they are not reachable they are in touch with their loved once through their website. From designers perspective, lots of inspirational aspect can be gained from celebrity websites.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

378

0 comments

2010

18

MAY

An Inspirational Talk With Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo.com

Inspiration is a somewhat random but wholly natural association of ideas and sudden unison of thought. Today, we had a chance to meet Fabio Sasso of Abduzeedo.com

347

0 comments

Showcase: Simplicity in WordPress Blog Design

In web design, Simplicity or minimalist not really mean ugly, bad or poor of creativity. Its can mean clean, neat, light, elegan and professionalism. Here are some sites that use minimalist design, as an inspiration for you.

design, inspiration, trend, wordpress

705

0 comments

Red Website Showcase #2

A showcase of sites using a red colour scheme effectively

design, graphic, inspiration

507

0 comments

The Best Art Sculptures By Mark Newman

Mark Newman, whatever he decides to create, impresses either by detail, the lively look or even by grotesque or disturbing appearances. 50 Of his best works.

inspiration, misc

590

0 comments

35 Creative call to action buttons for inspiration

Web designers always focus from the user perspective. Call to action is that expression in web deign that seek an action from the user. The most demonstrated form of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of click able buttons that when clicked, perform an action.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

890

0 comments

2010

17

MAY

History’s Infamous 5: Lessons Freelancers Can Learn From Them

Mao Tse Tung, Saddam Hussein, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Kim Jong-il all have something in common. Each of them has affected the lives of many people, largely in a negative manner.

inspiration, misc, tips, trend

281

1 comment

Design Posters, Not Landing Pages

What are posters? Well, in a nutshell, posters are visually pleasing single pages of highly optimized information for quick scanning and understanding. Does that not sound exactly what you are trying to achieve with your landing page?

css-html, design, inspiration

349

0 comments

10 Informative Posters that you should read

Everyday I see lots of informative posters on buildings, streets or internet. They’re good and usually helpful for everyone, so I decided to find some of them for you. Check them and don’t forget to read them!

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

339

0 comments

Nike Inspired Graphic Designs

About a month ago I wrote a post that showcased some really talented artists’ designs and their tribute to the Adidas brand. In today’s post I am featuring some really cool Nike designs. Although Adidas is my preferred brand, I still think that it is important to showcase these beautifully inspired Nike designs which are equally as impressive.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

316

0 comments

40 Elegantly Designed Agency Websites

Studio Agency’s usually express their designing skills with their own design. This task is challenging because it needs to attract new customers, and express their skill while they’re at it. We have looked around and found some wonderful websites, that implement this perfectly.

design, inspiration, template, trend

414

0 comments

2010

16

MAY

50 Great CSS Awarded Websites and Works Of Designers,Design Agencies and Studios

One of the best CSS showcase site is The CSS Awards Site.The reason is that, they analyse the submitted CSS sites very detailed.They have really professional judges and all the CSS sites are selected daily under a strict system of valoration and every month they decide the ”Site Of The Month”

css-html, design, inspiration

557

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #53

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

284

0 comments

2010

15

MAY

30 Beautiful Examples Of Fractal Art Wallpaper

Today, we are showing you 30 Beautiful Examples Of Fractal Art Wallpaper that will help turn your PC into a real fun and joy.

inspiration, wallpaper

375

0 comments

Creative Illustrations by Tom Bagshaw

Creative illustrations by Tom Bagshaw, talented UK based illustrator, who is currently showcasing his first-ever solo show at the Knifesmith Gallery in Bristol, UK.

438

0 comments

2010

14

MAY

The Fantastic Art of Alongkorn Sanguansook

Alongkorn Sanguansook is a character designer/animator who loves to create the characters with gradient and shading technique. He was born in Chiangmai. After graduated from Faculty Of Fine Art Chiangmai University, he went to Bangkok.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

377

0 comments

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: The Joker

In my last post of comic book inspired artwork Batman was the focal point . In this article it is only fitting that I follow it up with Batman’s archenemy, the Joker. The Joker has been Batman’s nemesis since the 1940’s, and has been responsible for many bad fortunes in Batman’s life.

design, graphic, inspiration

411

0 comments

15 Well Designed E-Commerce Stores

When designing an e-commerce store, you should be focussing on one thing and one thing only: sales conversions. You want to try and minimize the time between when the user first lands on your site to where they make their first purchase.

css-html, graphic, inspiration, usability

608

0 comments

70 Beautiful Animal Logo Designs

Running out of ideas sucks, but we are here to help. If you are looking to create an animal based logo, this roundup will help you. We have collected some truly innovative animal logo designs. These were all hand-picked and based on quality to make the cut. Please leave us your thoughts below.

design, inspiration, logo, trend

520

0 comments

35 Best Wordpress based websites

Wordpress these days is creating hype and is almost reshaping the online world. It is winning the heart of the designers as it gives the designer full liberty and flexibility in the layout and design. What else would a designer crave for other than the sense of security and command over the base of any design?

design, inspiration, wordpress

webanddesigners

475

0 comments

2010

13

MAY

Designer Showcase – Simon C Page

A showcase of the geometric graphic designs of Simon C Page

design, graphic, inspiration

363

0 comments

Karigurashi no Arrietty – Studio Ghibli`s New Movie

Hi Concept Dezain friends!, as promised I bring you a brief overview of the new Studio Ghibli’s film “Karigurashi not Arrietty”.

327

0 comments

55+ Photo manipulations of sexy girls

How about adding sexiness in your art? I’ve made a selection of more than fifty photo manipulations of sexy girls that I want to share with you. Here they are.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

480

0 comments

35 Wine Logo Design For Inspiration

Wine is an alcoholic beverage, typically made of fermented grape juice. So today we have collected 35 wine based logo design for inspiration which help the logo designer in their next project. Enjoy.

graphic, inspiration

409

0 comments

55 Captivating Examples of Illustration Art

Some people say that, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This is so true and we want to show you why. We have gathered some awesome art illustrations, that will totally inspire you. This collection contains many different art works, that are all beautiful. Please let us know what you think, by commenting below.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

354

0 comments

2010

12

MAY

75 Scary Examples of Monster Artworks

A showcase of ugly, scary and dangerous monster artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

400

0 comments

50 most beautiful navigation menus

Creativity of website is only proven when the visitors can make efficient use of it. A website should be user-friendly, where user can easily understand the navigation and can in a proper way interact with a webpage. Then we can say that the goal and objective of a webpage is proven.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

1107

0 comments

2010

11

MAY

20 Unusual Websites Navigation

But now we are in creative work and these days designers and front end developers try to stand out of crowd and in this process they experiment with the navigation menu.

design, inspiration

643

0 comments

Use Of Hand-Drawing In Web Design

Most of the designer reveal their creativity on paper in the form of sketches. So In this showcase we have collected 35 websites in which hand-drawing elements is used.

design, inspiration

281

0 comments

40 ecommerce website designs to look through

Internet is in a hedge of crafting a new economic revolution, the popularity of internet has added an extra value to business as people these days are using Internet as a trading medium.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

350

0 comments

What Are The Pillars Of A Blog?

What are the pillars of a blog? In this post we will discuss these pillars which really make your blog a special one & make it so much more amusing and fun for your reader to read.

design, inspiration

207

0 comments

Bob Marley Artists Tribute

Today 29 years ago, Bob Marley left us victim of cancer. Personally I`m not a big fan of Reggae Music, but I respect him as an artist, musician and activist, I`m sure you have heard at least one of his songs. I thought it would be a good idea to post some works of different artists as a tribute him. Hope you enjoy them!

278

0 comments

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites #2

A showcase of the most beautiful illustrative sites around the web at the moment

design, graphic, inspiration

305

0 comments

2010

10

MAY

Web Design Inspiration

We love webdesign and showcase some amazing websites every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration.

design, inspiration

471

0 comments

The Dynamic World of Sports Flash Websites

In this article, we are going to show you some examples of cool sport websites designed in Flash. We hope they can bring inspiration to you.

design, inspiration

278

0 comments

Artist of the week – Adam Potter

3D modeling is no child’s pencil play and Adam Potter from Adelaide, Australia shows us that this statement is true. It requires extended knowledge of anatomy, a keen...

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

224

0 comments

30+ Best And Impressive Single Page Website Design for Inspiration

Here is a compilation of 30+ Best and Impressive Single Page Website Design for Inspiration. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

50 Remarkable Examples of Typography Design

Typography is the art of print. Typography is everywhere, including greeting cards, books, posters, newspapers, magazines, and any other print media. The goals of Typography are simple, it must clearly communicate the message and do so in a visually effective way.

design, font, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

40 Free Apple iPad Wallpaper

Since the new Apple iPad is one of Apple’s latest products, many designers and developers are scrambling to create products to sell to the iPad consumer. Rest assured, i am not selling anything here today!. What you will find in this post is a great collection of free iPad wallpapers to pimp out your new iPad.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

512

0 comments

2010

9

MAY

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #52

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

396

0 comments

20 yellow color based website design

Color is soul of any design which adds life and light to a design. Color speaks about design perspective and adds elegance to it.

inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

425

0 comments

E-Commerce Website Design: 50 Well Designed Apparel Sites

In the last six months I have written eleven posts on web design covering various types and styles of websites. In this post I am going to focus on e-commerce website design. I have scoured the internet for some of the best designed apparel e-commerce websites.

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

2010

7

MAY

Showcase of Beautiful webdesign right from brazil

Here we present you today with the showcase of beautiful website right from brazil.

452

0 comments

100+Free Bad-ass Tribal vectors

Finding good quality tribal vectors is not an easy task. So we’ve made a collection of free bad-ass tribal sets to help you make your designs more aggressive.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

2010

6

MAY

Designer Showcase – Ginger Monkey

A showcase of the beautiful designs from Ginger Monkey

design, graphic, inspiration

331

0 comments

30 Stunning Upcoming Movie Posters

For designers, one of the most interesting elements of the movies are posters. To draw the attention of fans, the movie industry designers must create stunning, surprising posters. In the movie posters you can find solutions for some of the design works, therefore today I want to show you the best upcoming movie posters.

design, graphic, inspiration

395

0 comments

15 modal boxes to enrich your web application

Modal boxes or lightbox seriously add good feel and great user experience. Today I have collected 15 modal boxes for your inspiration and may be integrated in your upcoming web application.

css-html, inspiration

922

0 comments

50 Beautiful Examples of Aquatic Creatures Photography

Aquatic creatures are sometimes beautiful and bizarre at the same time. Here we’ve collected a total of 50 Beautiful Examples taken by photographers all over the world.

inspiration, photography

339

0 comments

2010

5

MAY

35 Amazing And Mindblowing Photo Manipulation

This presentation shows an amazing collection of photo manipulation art related to nature, photography, objects, illustrations, HDR as well as some abstract and fantasy-related concepts.

design, inspiration, photography

333

0 comments

2010

4

MAY

Tute Argentine Graphic Humor

Hello guys, today we venture into Argentine graphic humor once again. Tute is the nickname used by Juan Matías Loiseau,born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 21, 1974, son of the highly recognized Caloi and like his father transformed into one of the bearers of the Argentine graphic humor.

design, inspiration

249

0 comments

60 Visionary Examples of Creative Photography

Creativity is in the air and you’re about to catch it. As you might know inspiration sometimes comes from almost anything. We have a great roundup of hand-picked creative photography that are sure to inspire you. Some of the photos are obviously photoshopped, but they still look real. We would love to know what you think, so please comment below.

graphic, inspiration, photography, wallpaper

426

1 comment

15 Modern Designed Walls for your house

This post wants to fight the blank or one-colored walls. Don't paint your walls only with one color but decorate them with modern ideas. Below, there's a showcase with 15 Modern Designed Walls for your house. Take a look if your house needs a renovation!

design, inspiration, photography

370

0 comments

Orange Website Showcase #2

A showcase of the very best websites using an orange colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

342

0 comments

2010

3

MAY

35 cool and unique business card design

Business cards are the most prevailing promotional tool to market your company and yourself. Business card speaks about the business you are in and organization that you belong to.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

521

0 comments

25 Original Flash Solutions for a Web/Graphic Designer’s Website

A creative and stylish web/graphic designer's website is the main proof of his professionalism. Here are some original flash websites of web/graphic design online studios and freelance designers. Perhaps, some of them will inspire you to some ideas as for your own flash website.

design, flash, inspiration, template

536

1 comment

Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration No. 17

We love webdesign and showcase some amazing websites every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration.

design, inspiration

347

2 comments

2010

2

MAY

101 Weird and Creative Examples of Surreal Artworks

A showcase of the most creative and weird surreal artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

496

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #51

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

493

0 comments

45 Mind Blowing Colorful Logo Designs

If you’re a logo designer that is looking to design a colorful rainbow like logo, you came to the right place. When designing a colorful logo, the possibilities are endless. We want to help you out and lead you in the right direction. We have gathered some really outstanding logos to inspire you. Please let us know what you think, by commenting below.

design, font, inspiration, logo

518

0 comments

2010

30

APR

33 Creative and Smart Print Ads You’ll Love

Although there are tons of new print ads being created everyday, we managed to pick out the best 33 print ads, that in our opinion are the most creative and delivers the great portion of inspiration.

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

509

1 comment

16 out of the box borders for defining boundries of your web app

Borders being very important aspect of every design thus making them beautiful and attractive. Here is the list of 16 cool borders for your inspiration which can really make your design worth watching.

css-html, inspiration

455

0 comments

12 Helpful jQuery Plugins to Check Before Ending April 2010

This is a list of 12 helpful jQuery plugins you are maybe missing. The list contains some plugins that are really helpful for your up-coming projects. Enjoy the list and don’t miss any awesomeness this month!

inspiration, javascript, tools

715

0 comments

2010

29

APR

Photography by Stephen Frink

Stephen Frink is among the world’s most frequently published underwater photographers. For many years his editorial work appeared in SCUBA DIVING as Director of Photography and monthly columnist on underwater photo trends and techniques.

inspiration, photography

382

0 comments

Top 60 Wordpress Resources

WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools online. If you run your website using WordPress you will be able to benefit from plugins, addons and all sorts of free resources. We round up the best Wordpress Resources on the web arranged by category.

cms, inspiration, tips

503

0 comments

30 Fresh and Exceptional Flash Portfolio Websites

There is no any single “right” way of creating portfolios, as it’s something personal that expresses your personality. This showcase of fresh inspiring Flash based portfolios will definitely help you end up with a successful idea for your own portfolio.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

57 Exquisite Examples of Angel Artworks

A showcase of exquisite angel artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration

300

0 comments

2010

28

APR

20 Websites For Logo Inspiration

If you’re a logo designer you might find yourself lost when you start your logo design project. Right of the bat you have an idea of what you would like to do, but don’t know how to quite get there. These logo inspiration website offer tons of creative logos, helping you get ideas. If you know of any others that we missed comment below.

browser, inspiration, logo, tips

518

1 comment

Sweet Designs of Birthday Cake

When you are creative you have to show your skills in every field. Designing a birthday cake is not much different just medium is different.

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

2010

27

APR

35 creative and funny print advertisement for your refreshment

Advertisement isn't a science, neither its history that can be mugged up, its an Art of persuading people. Its about making them realizing that there are missing on some WOW product or services that they should grab at any cost .

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

311

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #9

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

275

0 comments

35+ Fruits Photo-Manipulations

I was recently browsing for fruits pictures to play around with in Photoshop and I’ve stumbled upon some really creative photo manipulations. Here they are.

design, graphic, inspiration

304

0 comments

The Right Way to Browse a Web Design Gallery

Where do you turn for inspiration for your next website design? If you’re like many, you probably head straight for a design gallery. Read these tips and techniques on the right way to browse a design gallery and I’m sure you’ll find your browsing experience to be more valuable and pleasant.

design, inspiration

300

0 comments

Batman Inspired Artwork

As you probably already know from the last couple of comic book inspired artwork posts, Batman is one of my favorite superheroes. One of my childhood memories was coming home after school and patiently waiting until Batman staring Adam West aired on TV.

design, graphic, inspiration

242

0 comments

2010

26

APR

Photography By Cormac Hanley

Drawn to the clean hyper-realistic styles of artists such as Michael English and Robert Ballagh, Cormac Hanley began his visual career in airbush illustration. This quickly evolved into an early professional in graphic design and in cretive direction.

inspiration, photography

321

0 comments

30+ Brilliant Typography Inspirations Featuring The Word 'Summer'

30+ brilliant typography designs showcasing the word 'Summer'. Some are posters for Summer programs, some paper cutouts but the major part consists of really cool digital artworks. Hope you too will enjoy this 'Summer Collection' and feel a bit chilled out from the scorching heat!!

design, graphic, inspiration

374

0 comments

Love to Work vs Work to Work

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Success comes with determination, right thoughts and right efforts which will inevitably bring about right results. Work turns to accomplishment only when you add love and passion to and get genuinely excited about your work.

inspiration, tips

webanddesigners

279

0 comments

Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #16

A series of web design inspiration collection published every week.We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration.If you have any website you would like to submit for our next week roundup,use the Contact page or comments section below. We respect all website recommendations and list them only after review.

design, inspiration

484

0 comments

Artist of the week – Grant Hood

Grant Hood is an artist who likes to paint any motorcycle tanks, fenders and fairings, leather garments, crash helmets and anything else that has wheels and engine. If you have a dull bike..

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

285

0 comments

30+ Photos : Cats Photography At its Finest

Photographing cats in a colorful background or natural surrounding would be an ideal choice. Here we’ve collected a total of 30 Beautiful cats pictures taken by photographers all over the world. Enjoy.

inspiration, photography

305

0 comments

61 Incredible Logo Designs #3

Here’s yet another roundup of amazing logo designs. This is a series that we do frequently, so make sure to check out the past logo articles. For this collection we found some really creative logos, they’re all unique and eye catching.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

435

0 comments

Everything Adidas!

If you are anything like me, you really love your Adidas apparel. I have found that over the last few years the Adidas brand has really taken off with their three divisions of clothing; Performance, Original and Style. Although my favorite is the Original line, I found that everything Adidas makes is great.

design, graphic, inspiration

271

0 comments

2010

25

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #50

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

2010

23

APR

Showcase of 30 Corporate Website Designs

Design is all about the collage of creative unite brought together to create a WOW effect. But when it comes about corporate site the design calls in a bit of professionalism with simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility in designs.

design, inspiration, trend

webanddesigners

641

0 comments

20 Website Designs with a Desktop Motif

Desktop designs incorporate coffee mugs, post-it notes, and iphones among other common workplace items. Enjoy browsing these 20 desktop-inspired website designs.

design, inspiration

526

0 comments

Photography by Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn is a photographer and director from Strijen, the Netherlands.

inspiration, photography

487

0 comments

2010

22

APR

Designer Showcase – Martijn van Dam

A showcase of the wonderful work by the graphic designer Martijn van Dam

design, graphic, inspiration

440

0 comments

Persepolis from Comic to Movie

Persépolis tells the story of the author from 1979 when she was ten years old and she witnessed social and political changes that puts to an end more than fifty year of the reign of the Persia Shah in Iran and gives way to an Islamic republic

inspiration, misc

333

0 comments

100 Wonderfully Designed iPhone App Websites

The App Store is growing daily, that means if you’re a developer your competition is heavily increasing. Your app needs to be greatly designed, have a website, and should be heavily promoted. Take for example TapTapTap, they have a webpage for each of their apps, and they promote apps by giving away prizes.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

501

0 comments

2010

21

APR

30+ Breathtaking Examples Of Mountain Photography

Today, we are showing you 30+ Beautiful Examples Of Mountain Photography

inspiration, photography

355

0 comments

Interview with digital artist Jurryt Visser

Jurryt Visser is a 21 years old artist from Netherlands who values originality and individuality. He has found a way to harmoniously blend vectors with pictures, obtaining unique...

design, graphic, inspiration

234

0 comments

50+ Impressive and Detailed Photo Manipulation Tutorials

The most detailed and creative photo manipulation tutorials. Try your Photoshop skills in creating a flooded city, floating island or some other type of fantasy Landscape.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop, tutorial

391

0 comments

2010

20

APR

Professional Opinions – Gavin Strange

I asked Gavin Strange (aka Jam Factory) what his favourite web designs were and I thought I'd showcase them for you

design, graphic, inspiration

229

0 comments

70+ Inspirational Logo Designs

I find viewing other artists and designers logos is a great way to get inspired for you next project. If you want to get those creative juices flowing, you should check out this post. I have assembled a beautiful collection of fresh logo designs that will definitely help stimulate your creative juices for your next design. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

509

0 comments

40 Beautiful Rainbow Based Website Designs

Rainbow websites have been very popular lately. For this reason I have gathered some nifty rainbow based websites. The title says they’re rainbow based, what I mean by this is that they contain the rainbow as a common element. This element, will give the website a colorful eye appealing look.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

474

0 comments

30+ Amazing And Mindblowing 3D Portrait Art Works

In this article, we will showcase an amazing list of 3D portraits that we have collected for you the most popular CG artists Community from around the globe

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

299

0 comments

10 usability related websites waiting for your guest post

A great list of websites, interested in contributions from other people, all writing about user-centered design.

design, inspiration, usability

289

0 comments

2010

19

APR

After Effects Tutorial: 60+ Kick Ass Effects

In the last few months I have written a couple of posts about motion graphics. Although I have only dabbled in After Effects, it is still one of the things that intrigues me most. After Effects is a really cool software that allows you create vibrant motions graphics just like the movies.

graphic, inspiration, tutorial

531

1 comment

Single Page Websites With Creative Javascript Effects

So, you must be thinking, how to create a website with good user experience with just CSS, HTML and Javascript? Check out these websites, they are using jQuery, and really captivating! I have gained a lot of inspirations through this findings and I believe you will love it too :)

css-html, design, inspiration, javascript

18294

10 comments

51 Exciting Email Newsletter Designs

Newsletters are very important to your brand or business. A newsletter informs your reader about whats going on. It is extremely important to have an appealing design, on top of that you should have news that will interest the customer. As you might know newsletters are a great marketing strategy to keep your subscribers coming back.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

475

1 comment

2010

18

APR

Portfolio websites using illustration

Portfolio is a platform where sites showcases designers skill, innovation and creativity the skills of the designer.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

358

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #49

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

325

0 comments

2010

17

APR

How To Develop A Homepage Layout That Sells

Every website on the face of the planet has a homepage, and that every homepage uses the same basic layout. Here we will discuss how to develop a homepage layout that sells.

css-html, design, inspiration, trend

585

0 comments

2010

16

APR

40+ Beautiful Arabic Typography And Calligraphy

Today, I want to share with you a different styles of inspiring Arabic calligraphy and Arabic Typography that I hope you like and hear your comments about it.

design, graphic, inspiration

343

0 comments

20 ways to improve website’s readability

When you read something and can soothingly go on and on with no stress then the message that you want your reader to get is conveyed properly. This style of delivering your write up in such a way that your readers feel the ease of reading is Readability.

inspiration, misc, usability

webanddesigners

472

0 comments

2010

15

APR

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Wonder Women

With the Wonder Women movie coming in 2011, there has been much speculation over who will play the part of the attractive superhero. Lots of people are saying it could potentially be Megan Fox while Lucy Lawless has expressed interest in the role as well.

design, graphic, inspiration

439

1 comment

Designer Showcase - Bram Vanhaeren

A showcase of the wonderful work by the mixed-media digital artist Bram Vanhaeren

design, graphic, inspiration

330

1 comment

Creative Detailed Artwork by Matthieu Bessudo

This article displays 16 amazing illustrations by Matthieu Bessudo. Almost every centimetre of a painting has its own object, combining into a perfect composition.

inspiration, misc

355

1 comment

30 Breathtaking Examples Of Drops Photography

Here we’ve collected a total of 30 breathtaking drops shots taken by photographers all over the world. Enjoy.

design, inspiration, photography

391

1 comment

2010

13

APR

Yellow Website Showcase #2

A showcase of the very best websites using a yellow colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

421

0 comments

10 Awesome and Creative CSS Templates For Design Inspiration

In this post I'm sharing some very useful resources to help web developers and designers. This ineresting list includes Pure CSS3 Vignette, Five jQuery Cheats Sheets to Download, 10 great iPad applications for creative people etc.

css-html, inspiration

945

1 comment

100 Refreshing Black & White Business Cards

This is a massive collection of amazing black and white bnusiness cards. These examples prove that the most basic colors can create amazing pieces of artwork. Most of these are white and black, but accasionally you will see a third color. If you are thinking of designing a black based business card then this article is the jackpot. Please let us know what you think by commenting below.

design, font, inspiration

516

0 comments

2010

12

APR

40 Awesome User-Submitted Photos From National Geographic(Editor Picked)

I like awarded,most voted and editor picked photos in various sites.National Geographic Website is also one of the best site to find these kind of photos.So many photographers show their best photos to the world and National Geographic editors

inspiration, photography, wallpaper

402

0 comments

Best of Web #22: Inspiration, Tutorials, Freebies

Continueing a fresh weekly portion of the best graphic resources, inspiration and tutorials from around the web.

design, freebies, inspiration, tutorial

368

0 comments

Reasons You Should Have Your Own Blog

It has been a little over one year since we first launched Admix Web, and we are very happy with how successful we have been. Now, when I say successful, I am not talking about only monetary success.

inspiration, tutorial, wordpress

305

0 comments

30 Awesome Examples Of Metal Artwork

Manipulation with the metals are very sensitive, especially when trying to make something real.Here we have collected 30 truly excellent examples of Metal Artwork.

design, inspiration, photography

363

0 comments

2010

11

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #48

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

435

0 comments

50 Unique Examples of Single Page Portfolios

Portfolios often show off your personality, skill abilities, and the work you have done. To impress the customer you need to have an awesome portfolio and show off your creativity. We made a roundup of ideal portfolio websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

573

0 comments

2010

10

APR

Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #14

Series of web design inspiration collection published every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration

css-html, design, flash, inspiration

782

1 comment

Jonas Jakobsson

Really creative illustrations by Jonas Jakobsson, talented young male illustrator and digital painter, based in Sweden.

296

0 comments

2010

9

APR

Raphael Lacoste

Raphael Lacoste lives in Canada, Montreal, with wife and son since 2002. He was born in 1974 in Paris, but lived mostly around Bordeaux, south west of France until he left for Canada.

441

0 comments

Fernando Forero

Creative illustrations by Fernando Forero, 31 years old talented male illustrator from Colombia.

349

1 comment

2010

8

APR

Designer Showcase – The Beast Is Back

A showcase of work from the illustrator The Beast Is Back

design, graphic, inspiration

290

0 comments

Discovering the Totoro Forest Project

The Totoro Forest Project started quite some time ago and it was to achieve the salvation and promote the conservation of Sayama Hills, a forest near Tokyo that inspired Miyazaki for his film "Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)."

design, inspiration, misc

335

0 comments

34 Unique And Creative Portfolio Designs

This article shares 34 really creative and unique portfolio designs that you don't want to miss!

528

0 comments

40 Mind Blowing Latte Art Designs

A latte (from the Italian caffelatte, meaning “coffee and milk”) is a type of coffee drink made with hot milk.You know art is everywhere and with the help of your imagination you can create amazing things as you can see below.

inspiration, misc

460

0 comments

2010

7

APR

40 Excellent jQuery Plugins To Work With Data Presentation and Grid Layout

The roundup of 40 excellent jQuery plugins to work with data presentation and grid layout

ajax, design, freebies, inspiration, javascript

897

0 comments

Interview with artist Hollis Brown Thornton

Hollis Brown Thornton is an artist who keeps alive the classic drawing on paper using only his talent, acrylics, oils and permanent markers, currently merging...

207

0 comments

2010

6

APR

One Page Websites

A showcase of the latest and greatest in one page website design

design, graphic, inspiration

566

0 comments

Andres Borghi – The Future of Argentine Film Direction

Hi Concept Dezain friends, this time we will learning about an Argentine director that promises to go far, Andres Borghi, he is 27 years old and was born in Buenos Aires, in the district of Ciudadela.

inspiration, misc, video

331

0 comments

2010

5

APR

40+ Beautiful Cleaver Typographic Logos

There are two types of logos: logomarks are symbol-based logos, and logotypes of logos that are made up of artist typography. The latter has become increasing more popular with the explosion of the functional, clever, and simple graphic design.

design, font, graphic, inspiration, logo

552

0 comments

Peeping into 88 Designer’s Workstations in the Design Community

We have seen lots of beautiful websites, created by many talented web designers from around the world. And I bet many of us are curious to know how their workstations look like or what kind of computers they use.

design, inspiration, photography, trend

308

0 comments

52 Amazingly Creative Food Art

It was time for another creative,amazing and mostly unbelievable post.When it comes to creativity there is not limit for human beings.I think the first thing is of course imagination.

design, inspiration, misc

280

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #39

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

288

0 comments

2010

4

APR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #47

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

411

0 comments

70 Incredible Logo Designs #2

Here a fresh new set of cool logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Don’t be shy, let us know what you think by commenting below.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

516

0 comments

David Plunkert Illustrator

David Plunkert is an award winning illustrator and graphic designer based in Baltimore, MD. Plunkert graduated from Shepherd College in 1987.

300

0 comments

18 Creative Video Advertisements of March

18 effective video advertisements, collected in March, including market giants, new players and non profits.

inspiration, trend, video

370

0 comments

2010

2

APR

Irma Gruenholz Illustrations

Irma Gruenholz, an illustrator from Madrid, Spain, who specializes in clay and other materials. Irma makes three dimensional illustrations in clay/plastelina

318

0 comments

Minni Havas Illustrations

Super creative illustrations by Finnish illustrator Minni Havas.The pencils are her weapons and she is truly an assassin.

266

0 comments

40 Brilliant Examples of Mascot Designs

Mascot design is a huge key to your brand, and are thought to bring luck. A mascot usually represent a corporate brand or a public identity. Since human picture memory is better that text, a mascot easily helps people remember who you are. I strongly suggest considering a mascot, before you build your business.

design, inspiration, logo, tips

579

0 comments

Designer’s Break – Commercials gone bad

Commercials are a good way to promote any product out there on the market, whether it’s material, digital or services. We’ve all seen some great commercials, serious, hilarious, dramatic or just plain average.

167

0 comments

25 Unusual website layout for design inspiration

So here we have collected some unusual website layout to get inspired and create one for yourself too.

design, inspiration

668

0 comments

2010

1

APR

20 Free Unique Fire Fonts

Using Fire style fonts in your designs can work tremendously well if done correctly. Take a look at these 20 free Fire fonts I put together. These are some of the best I could find. Enjoy!

design, font, inspiration

584

0 comments

Interview: Chad Engle, Editor of Fuel Your Creativity

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing an amazing young talent, who is a very well known American designer and blogger, Chad Engle, the editor of Fuel your Creativity blog. Chad is only twenty-three years old, and he is already an amazingly successful designer, who can only improve with age and experience.

design, inspiration, misc

241

0 comments

Interview with Alex Tass, Graphic Designer form Bucharest

Today we’ve got a very interesting interview with a great Graphic Designer from Bucharest, Alex Tass. So Alex thanks so much for taking your Time and responding to my Questions! :) So lets start!

design, graphic, inspiration

433

0 comments

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Iron Man

With Iron Man 2 opening on May 7 2010, I have decide to write a second installement on comic book inspired artwork. Iron Man has quickly become one of my favorite super heroes in the last couple of years.

design, graphic, inspiration

466

0 comments

Post to Twitter30 creative and conceptual logos in 3D

A conversation about different ways to create logos with Thiago Vilarinho were discussing the use of 3D. See the best creative 3d Logos

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

161

0 comments

17 Most Used Wordpress Jquery Plugins

Wordpress has hundreds of plugins using jquery. I feel jquery + wordpress will be great combination. It make wonderful design. These plugins are all about efficient simple and spectacular methods of enhancing the functionality of your blog.

inspiration, tools, usability, wordpress

625

1 comment

Emeric Trahand Illustrations

Emeric Trahand, also known as Takeshi, is a French artist and art director. Emeric lives and works in New York City.

273

0 comments

2010

31

MAR

Johan Thörnqvist Illustrations

Sweden based artist mixes illustrations with real life photographs. Johan Thörnqvist adds little cities and characters to photographs with fun results.

316

0 comments

30 Breathtaking Examples Of Ice Photography

A Showcase of Excellent Ice Photography is provided below to help you get inspired and make your next piece of artwork. The list is composed of 30 Ice photos shot in the different parts of the world by talented photographers.

inspiration, photography

284

0 comments

Man-Tsun Illustrations

Man-Tsun is creative illustrator from Hong Kong. A world without Art and Creativity, is like a Harry Potter novel without Magic.

238

0 comments

40 Inspirational Hand Drawn Web Designs.

Hand-drawn website are becoming more and more popular among wed designers. This trend is very inspiring and shows creativity. I think this is really cool, because its different from the regular types of design, like the web 2.0 style. We collected some awesome hand-drawn websites, that are sure to inspire you.

css-html, design, inspiration, trend, wordpress

567

0 comments

30+ Beautiful Examples of Web Design Templates

Check out these 32 Inspirational Examples of Amazing Layout, Interfaces and web design templates and WordPress themes or xhtml, Hope find your design or if you a designer get inspiration and see different ideas. You will see a variety of nice colorful designs from creative designers from DeviantArt.

design, inspiration

835

0 comments

2010

30

MAR

Purple Website Showcase #2

A showcase of my favourite websites with a purple colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

336

0 comments

60+ Amazing and Unique Illustrations By Bob Canada

Bob Canada a graphic designer from USA. He has nice style of drawing funny cartoon. visit its Flickr gallery to see another inspirational illustrations and artworks.

design, graphic, inspiration

385

0 comments

Animation Music Videos and Techniques

In this post we are going to see a little bit of animation in music videos. I `ve compiled a list of videos trying to show different techniques of animation, and after this showcase of videos we are going to learn about the techniques.

design, inspiration, misc, video

422

1 comment

Inspiration: Compilation Of Business Card Designs

I have to say that writing posts on business card design is one of the most satisfying for me. I feel that my readers get the most inspiration out of this type of post, seeing that they are so incredibly popular. So with no further ado here is your monthly dosage of beautifully designed business cards. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

10 Fantastic blogs for Freebies

Freebies are a great way of getting several useful stuffs without any cost. There are several Design blogs on the internet offering freebies to their visitors such as free icons, free textures ,free brushes and free PSD files , etc.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

2010

29

MAR

Comic Book Inspired Artwork: Spider-Man

One thing that I used to love doing while I was in school was to draw my favorite comic book heroes and villains in my homework books. My favorites at the time being Spider-man and Batman. If you are into comic books, you will really get a treat out of this post. In this article you will see some Spider-Man inspired artwork from some really talented artists.

design, graphic, inspiration

360

0 comments

45 Clever & creative advertisements for your inspiration

This is a very interesting field in the design industry . Ads suppose to catch your attention and deliver the message quickly and clearly . Ads should have the wow factor . This a list of 45 ads that has it.

graphic, inspiration

334

0 comments

Beautiful Workspaces Where You Would Love to Work

Just this week I decided to go shopping for a new desk for my home workspace, where I actually spend more than 20 hours a week designing and developing. With so many options ranging from the most ornate desk to the bare minimum, I was getting somewhat overwhelmed as to what type of desk would be best to create the ideal workspace.

design, inspiration, trend

549

0 comments

2010

28

MAR

5 Excellent Footer Design Tutorials

Footers are the usually the last thing you see on sites and blogs But has become useful for many reasons. To be different from the standard design, you can utilize the footer to provide links or shortcuts to other areas of your web site.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

784

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #46

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

441

0 comments

30+ High Quality Examples of 3D Digital Artworks

Create 3D objects you can with some of special programs, such as 3D studio max, Cinema 4D, and others. Today for designers and all our readers, we would like to show the best more than 30 high quality examples of 3D digital abstract artworks.

design, graphic, inspiration

400

0 comments

2010

27

MAR

Illustrations by Ana Benaroya

Ana Benaroya is an illustrator, typographer, and designer; but above all, a decent human being.

382

0 comments

Illustrations by Ken Orvidas

Award winning illustrator, Ken Orvidas, creates conceptual images for annual reports, collateral, books, magazines, CD's and new media for clients in publishing, advertising, design, editioral and music.

363

0 comments

51 Examples of Funny & Creative Advertisement

Advertisement has evolved dramatically in the past decade. Marketing is a huge business and will only keep growing. Print advertsing is a difficult task and takes creativity. Most of the ads below get the message across, while making you laugh.

graphic, inspiration, photography, tips

632

0 comments

25 Flash Website Galleries for Inspiration

For now lets see some flash galleries to get inspired for your next jQuery project.

design, graphic, inspiration

506

0 comments

2010

26

MAR

15 Most Amazing Car Ads For Your Inspiration

In this post we are going to see some of the coolest and newest card ads of the world. We can see here the different concepts of ads following different trends according to the product and brand. Great peace of inspiration, and also, who doesn´t love cars? Enjoy.

600

0 comments

50+ Beautiful Patterns & Useful Tools

High quality free seamless vector and pixel patterns that you may need for your web projects, prints or any other design related works.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, template

632

0 comments

25 fresh and colorful logos

I love colors and I love logos ,so when you combion colors and logos the result is a list of inspiring and beautiful logos. Here is a 25 of fresh and colorful logos .

design, inspiration, logo

650

0 comments

2010

25

MAR

30 Cool Free Futuristic Fonts To Work With

It's clear that futuristic fonts are not suitable for every creative project you are working on. This is a list of 30 cool and free futuristic fonts.

design, font, inspiration

851

0 comments

50 Examples of Beautiful HDR Photography

Photographers spend a long time making the picture just right and it definitely shows. HDR photos look amazing and a lot better than regular photos. They have so much contrast and lighting effects, that often makes them look unreal. Here are a few examples of stunning HDR photography. These were all hand-picked, we hope you will get inspired by them.

graphic, inspiration, photography, trend

680

0 comments

Interview: Jacob Gube from Six Revisions

We are back with our fourth interview in our interview series, where we will be conducting personal interviews on fellow designers and developers! We have been getting some great interest, and we are so excited about the upcoming interviews we have scheduled for the next few weeks.

design, inspiration, photoshop

432

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Mr. Kone

A showcase of the work of the graphic designer Mr. Kone

design, graphic, inspiration

467

0 comments

2010

24

MAR

Take Control of Your Table View

CSS Pseudo-selector come like a saviour, it makes our life easier by saving our time for traversing the Document Object Modelling (DOM). Especially for nth-child pseudo-selector, it can make us choose any element we want by pointing its index number (start from 1), it means we can easily choose any object element we want to modify.

css-html, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

451

0 comments

Digital Art: 40+ Most Beautiful CG Girls On The Web (Part 2)

I have said it in the past and I will say it again, the talented artists and their outstanding works that I showcase on designrfix.com never cease to amaze me. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of beautiful CG girls in 3d, most of these great works are created in 3d Studio Max and Maya. This article is the second part of a two part series on digital art. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

750

0 comments

50+ beautiful Business Cards & Resources

Do you have a Creative Job?, Yes? well then you really need a Creative Business Card! It’s very important to have a special Business Card especially in a Creative Job. So check out these wonderful pieces of Paper and get Inspired!

gadget, inspiration, trend

582

0 comments

2010

23

MAR

18 Awesome Photo Manipulation To Turn Statue Into Life

Photoshop can make the life easy. With the right technique and some creativity you can totally turn any image into something extraordinary with a bigger impact. Today we'll show you some very nice and amusing photo manipulation with which worth1000 have transformed the statues into real life photos. We hope this inspires you and help your creativity.

design, inspiration, photography, photoshop

549

1 comment

5 quick and easy ways to improve your website’s usability

The ultimate goal of usability tests is to obtain the necessary information which will give you the possibility to make an interface so simple and intuitive in use that people can work with it without thinking. In this article I show you how to discover the most prominent interface problems of your website by following five simple tips.

design, inspiration, tools, usability

413

0 comments

Inspiration: Beautifully Rendered 3d Vehicles

There are many sources of inspiration that an artist or designer can draw from. In this post you will see some amazing renderings of 3d vehicles from some very talented artists from around the globe. So whatever type of project you are working on, I hope these designs will motivate you achieve your greatest of works. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

291

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #6

The sixth showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

445

0 comments

2010

22

MAR

13 Company layout Design Using Photoshop

There are some very easy to follow tutorials on just how to design Company layout using photoshop .Company layout should be pleasing to the eye. Choose colors, graphics, text fonts, and other background items keeping in mind both aesthetics and convenience

design, inspiration, photoshop, tips

570

1 comment

Funny and Crazy Illustrations for Inspiration

Sometimes you get amazing ideas and inspiration from funny or crazy artworks and any strange stuff. These are some funny and crazy illustration and artworks, Hope you inspire and feed your creativity.

design, inspiration

313

0 comments

Twitter inspired arts & crafts for your inspiration

It’s twitter’s 4th birthday . Twitter added so much joy to my life and I’m sure it did to so many people , so to celebrate the occasion and to show some love here is a list of lovely art work and crafts that are inspired by twitter.

251

0 comments

50+ Cool Graffiti Artworks

Graffiti has existed since ancient times,with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Basically Graffiti is the name given to the art of drawing images or writing letters which is scratched, scrawled or painted in any form on a property.

287

0 comments

2010

21

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #45

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

472

0 comments

2010

20

MAR

Simple Flip Puzzle Effect with jQuery

Yesterday I saw an ad of a telecommunication provider and I was inspired by its ending which shows the company’s logo using a puzzle paper effect. I think that’s fabulous and we can implement it using CSS plus jQuery without Flash. Ok, let’s go get it!

css-html, graphic, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

1063

0 comments

2010

19

MAR

Weekly Smashing Web Design Inspiration – #11

A series of web design inspiration collection published every week. We work hard to collect these websites to showcase them for design community inspiration

css-html, design, inspiration

580

0 comments

Apple iPad Funny Pictures

Apple iPad, the device which looks like a larger version of Apple’s iPod Touch will be available in April 2010. Before its availability, we would like to share some funny pictures for iPad. A lot of people disappointed after iPad introduced and created some funny pictures and illustrations about it.

design, gadget, graphic, inspiration, trend

918

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CSS Box-Reflect - Reflection without JavaScript and Photoshop

With CSS and the support of webkit based browsers, there is the possibility to generate reflections of web page elements without images or javascript-plugins.

css-html, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

1134

0 comments

2010

18

MAR

Web Designer Interview - Design Vetica

An interview with the young entrepreneurs who started Design Vetica

design, graphic, inspiration

390

0 comments

2010

17

MAR

Minimalist Approach to Creating Flash Websites

Sometimes wisely used extreme simplicity speaks even more, that is less is more or maybe even less but better. Yeah, what is at issue is the minimalist approach in Flash website creation.

design, flash, inspiration

472

0 comments

2010

16

MAR

The most stylish Websites of February 2010

Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in FEBRUARY. We congratulate the winners - they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.

css-html, design, graphic, inspiration

424

0 comments

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part2)

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of February.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

535

1 comment

The Best Worst Web Designs!

A showcase of the very best awful web designs

design, graphic, inspiration

504

0 comments

25 Inspirational Offices

Large and small offices, which inspire creativity and imagination.

design, inspiration, misc, photography

281

0 comments

12 Amazing and Creative Javascript Games

Javascript never cease to amaze me nowadays. I have found some amazing and really creative games made with javascript. A good inspiration to know what javascript can really achieve. You will enjoy this post.

design, inspiration, javascript

13712

5 comments

2010

15

MAR

Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers

The beauty of using vectors for header design and showcase of 38 websites with awesome vectorized or Illustrated headers.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

511

0 comments

5 Fresh Navigation Menu Design Tutorials

Every Designer need to design good website navigation for more usability and attraction.Provide simple and straightforward navigation menus so that every visitor will know how to get round your site and visit your site next time.

design, inspiration, usability

881

0 comments

46 Astonishing Examples Of Digital Paintings

To digitally paint your sketches or illustrations lots of different tools are used. Photoshop and tablets are most important tools to make digital paintings.

design, graphic, inspiration

312

0 comments

40+ Creative Example of Web Interfaces and Web Design

Check out these 40 beautifully Web Interfaces and Web Design. Hope you inspire and feed your ideas.

design, inspiration

185

0 comments

2010

14

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #44

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

479

0 comments

2010

13

MAR

24 Beautiful Web Designs Across the Color Spectrum

Here are 24 beautiful examples of web designs that feature a specific color across the color spectrum. If you’re in a color rut, take this opportunity to expand your horizon and be inspired by a color that may be out of your comfort zone.

design, inspiration

462

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2010

12

MAR

Amazing Super Street Fighter 4 Artwork for Inspiration

Designers surf the web daily and visit popular design galleries for inspiration. Sometimes we don’t see the inspiration source while enjoying what we are doing. Games are one of them. We love to play games, specially me, and Street Fighter is my favorite game with Ryu a favorite fighter.

design, graphic, inspiration

604

0 comments

Showcase: 20+ Blogs Use Paper In Their Design

Paper is one of the most texture that people usually use in their website, the reason is simple because paper given unformal impression for anyone see that. Be sides that paper given a creative impression too. Here we offer 20 + blogs that use a paper element in their design, as a source of inspiration.

design, inspiration, trend, wordpress

387

0 comments

Creative Illustrations by Daniel Conway

Creative Illustrations by 26 years old Daniel Conway, talented illustrator, based in Sweden.

371

0 comments

2010

11

MAR

20 Top Free Fonts

A showcase of the most downloaded fonts from Fonts 2 U

design, graphic, inspiration

532

0 comments

29 Websites having Admirable Footer Designs

Still there are some designers who thought to use the footers in a beautiful way. They took it as one of the ways to impress the visitors.

463

0 comments

45 Web Design Inspiration for iPhone

Web Design is a beautiful (for the viewers) and creativity (for the designers) part of a website. Nowadays, lots of people have an iPhone so if a website wants to gain more visitors, it have to attract them. A web design inspiration for iPhone is a big advantage for a website. Here you will see some beautiful inspiration!

browser, design, graphic, inspiration, usability

536

0 comments

Brand Spankin’ New Google Chrome Extensions You Should Be Trying

There are twenty-three Google Chrome extensions and two themes to try out. The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it's highly unlikely that you've seen them yet.

browser, inspiration, tips, tools

321

0 comments

2010

10

MAR

40+ Effective Call to Action Buttons

In web designing, the Call to Action has a huge importance as this is a term used for soliciting an action from the user. The implementation of Call to Action comes in the form of Clickable buttons which leads the readers to perform an action of buying something or take him to a web page having some additional information.

745

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Amazing Julian Beever 3D Chalk Drawings

Julian Beever is an English artist that creates surreal chalk drawings on pavement surfaces. His art is sometimes so convincing that people avoid potholes he has drawn on a pavement. In this post, we collected the best J. Beevera 3dchalk drawings artworks.

design, inspiration

177

0 comments

Desktop Wallpaper: 80+ Most Breathtaking Places on Earth

There are many sources of inspiration that designers look to when trying to get their creative juices flowing. I think there is none better than the breathtaking landscapes that nature has to offer. In this post you will see some of the most beautiful places on earth.

freebies, inspiration, wallpaper

710

0 comments

2010

9

MAR

50 Hot New Tutorials (Part1)

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of February.

design, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

395

0 comments

50 Incredible Logo Designs

Logo’s are a unique key to a sucessful brand. Here is a roundup of amazing, beautiful, and creative logo designs. I hope these logos will get you inspired. Please share your thought with us below, and let us know what you think!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

523

0 comments

25 Examples of Watercolor Art in Web Design

Hand-painted creations in web design. Be inspired by these 25 beautiful examples of watercolor art in web design

design, inspiration

373

0 comments

31 Great Examples of Vintage Photography

It’s not so easy to turn usual photographs into unique vintage pictures. Take a look at 31 inspiring vintage pictures.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

359

0 comments

Great Uses Of White Space #2

A showcase of web sites that use white space brilliantly

design, graphic, inspiration

382

0 comments

2010

8

MAR

How to Create a Fancy Image Gallery with CSS3

Even though CSS3 is still in the development stages, it is the new craze that many web developers are excited about. CSS3 is something that will take web development into newer and greater heights, while modernizing the web and allowing web designers and developers to make their creativity a reality.

css-html, design, inspiration, tutorial

813

0 comments

2010

7

MAR

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #43

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

418

0 comments

2010

6

MAR

Best of Web #20

Continueing a fresh weekly portion of the best graphic resources, inspiration and tutorials from around the web.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

362

0 comments

NewYork – Amazing Pictures by Aleks Ivic

New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is one of the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment.

design, inspiration, photography

410

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #35

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

349

0 comments

21 Wonderful Logos for your Daily Dose of Inspiration

The probably most important thing of a Brand is the Logo, It gives the Costumer/viewer a Images to the Brand Name. Even Business owners now how important the logo is for their Brand. But unfortionatly most Buisnes owners (Our Clients) have no idea of Design and 99% don’t know why “white space”...

font, inspiration, logo

484

0 comments

2010

5

MAR

40+ Fresh And Great Portfolio Design Interfaces for Inspiration

A collection of more than 40 fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. Maybe it's helpful for you while you are stuck with the next portfolio design.

design, graphic, inspiration

427

0 comments

Web Design: 40 Fantastic Examples

In many of my previous posts on website design I have always categorized the style of websites that I was showcasing. In this post, I have decided to compile some of the most visually appealing websites from all sorts of different design styles that are out there today.

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

50 Awesome Examples and Tutorials of Illustrations in Web Design For Your Inspiration

Illustrations on a website can be found in many places, including elaborate backgrounds, part of a header, or as an accent in the content area. Today, lets take a look at 50 awesome examples and tutorials of illustration in web design for your inspiration.

design, inspiration, photoshop, tips, trend

designtutorials4u

548

0 comments

CSS3 Transition Tutorial - Sliding-Menu without Images & JavaScript

This CSS-Transitions-Tutorial shows you how to fluently animated transitions ( "Slide Effects" ) only based on the CSS3 property transition. Without any Images and JavaScript!

css-html, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

1059

0 comments

2010

4

MAR

Logo Design Inspiration: 50+ Cool Examples

Always logos should be clear, clean and clever . I think that not all designers can design logos because they should be simple and creative. These are cool examples for inspiration with different shapes and colors , Enjoy!

design, inspiration, logo

456

0 comments

2010

3

MAR

Top 10 Fonts 2010

We have complied a list of our TOP 10 fonts for 2010. All but 2 of the fonts are FREE can be downloaded using the link we provided.

design, font, graphic, inspiration

3315

2 comments

50+ Creative Use of Typography in Print Design and Products

Typography now became popular and essential in designs and artworks. but it need creative designers to make it nice and amazing. These are 50+ Creative and inspirational examples of using typography in print design and products. Hope you inspire and get new ideas.

design, inspiration

483

0 comments

50+ Beautiful and Inspiring Drawings

Ozan Küçükusta an Illustrator Designer from Turkey, He has creative and inspirational Drawings.

design, inspiration

382

0 comments

2010

2

MAR

Weekly Inspiration: jackcheng.com/roulette

Why it’s inspirational: Well written copy Interactive Beautifully functional timeline in the header Simple use of single page posts Effective use of whitespace.

design, graphic, inspiration

458

0 comments

Green Website Showcase #2

A showcase of web sites that feature a beautiful green colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

471

1 comment

How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations

In most cases, jQuery can do better than Flash. We'll round up some tutorials and jQuery plugins that are simply awesome. Each of these teaches how to get a desired Flash effect, but with jQuery instead.

ajax, design, inspiration, trend, tutorial

766

0 comments

Business Flash Website Design at Its Best

The winning collection of business Flash website designs that will prove to you the effectiveness of Flash.

design, flash, inspiration

242

0 comments

Hospitality in Web Industry: Good Service is Good Business

Hospitality, the art of making guests feel treasured and welcomed, is the core dictum of the service industry. However, hospitality is not just crucial to the tourism and hotel industry, but also in the web design and development industry as well.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

328

0 comments

2010

1

MAR

Post of March: 5 Well Designed Sites

5 Well Designed Sites for March! 1. Tapmates 2. Riot Industries 3. Atebits 4. Culinary Culture 5. Meta Lab

design, graphic, inspiration, template

453

0 comments

20 Inspiring Illustrations by Murat SÜNGER

In this post we will see a vector artist from Turkey, Murat Sunger has nice inspirational Illustrations. You can contact with him on the web via Deviantart or see his website.

design, graphic, inspiration

408

0 comments

Eastern Artists: Kosai Sekine

In this post we are going to know a little of this amazing japanese director, and see some of the work hi has done.

inspiration, video

325

0 comments

2010

28

FEB

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #42

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

449

0 comments

50 Examples of Beautiful Illustration in WebDesign

Have a look on this beautiful illustration in website design. To stand out from the crowd designers design unique and creative websites, use of illustration or character in website design will make it unique from others.

design, inspiration

442

0 comments

2010

27

FEB

50 Stunning Premium Wordpress Themes

A huge list of beautiful professional Wordpress Themes. There are some amazing themes to use for inspiration or for your next blog, portfolio, or ecommerce site.

inspiration, template, wordpress

676

0 comments

Digital Art: Most Beautiful CG girls On The Web (Part 1)

I have said it in the past and I will say it again, the talented artists and their outstanding works that I showcase on designrfix.com never cease to amaze me. Today I have assembled an amazing collection of beautiful CG girls in 2d, most of these great works are created in Photoshop and Painter. This article is a two part series on digital art. Enjoy and stay tuned for part 2.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

1052

0 comments

2010

25

FEB

Innovative Product Design

A showcase of innovative product designs, ranging from the clever to the ridiculous

design, graphic, inspiration

282

0 comments

2010

24

FEB

CSS3 Tutorial - sliding or bouncing Navigation without JavaScript

This Step-by-Step Navigation-Tutorial is made by the CSS3-Properties "border-radius" and "animation". This demonstrates how easy it can be to get attention to your navigation without Images and JavaScript!

css-html, inspiration, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

1199

2 comments

Inspiration: 27 Great Logo Design Galleries

There are many sources of inspiration that designers utilize when trying to get their creative juices flowing. If you are working on a logo design for a client or just for fun, this is a must see article. In this post I have assembled a great list of logo design galleries that will definitely inspire you to bring your logo design to the next level. Enjoy and happy surfing!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

618

0 comments

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations

Brilliant Digital Paintings and Character Illustrations by amazing Digital Artists

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

370

0 comments

2010

23

FEB

Blue Website Showcase #2

A showcase of beautifully designed blue websites

design, graphic, inspiration

532

0 comments

Showcase of Big Typography in Modern Web Design

This post is a showcase of websites that use big typography, and since this is a blog for web design freebies I have of course also made a section where you can find fonts that are perfect for big typography in modern web design. I have picked out some websites that I think look really nice.

font, inspiration

405

0 comments

22 Dazzling Examples of Fire Photography

Fire photography captures moments of the awesome power of vapors and flames. This collection of 22 fire photography examples displays various states of it’s existence and qualities, from the spark of a match to the explosion of a fireball.

inspiration, photography

318

0 comments

Tutorial on How to Create an Explosive Text Effect in Photoshop

Tutorial on How to Create an Explosive Text Effect in Photoshop in easy ten steps

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, tutorial

502

0 comments

2010

22

FEB

Illustrations by Marc Simonetti

Marc Simonetti is a French artist, born in 1977 and currently living in Annecy, France.

199

0 comments

30 Creative Shoe Advertisement

Today we thought of posting for shoe Advertisement, which are creative and unique. Many shoe companies presents various posters designed in a creative way.So i have sorted some of the unique and creative posters representing shoes. please check out…..

design, graphic, inspiration

431

0 comments

Jeans textures in modern web design: Examples and Resources

Since my post on the Wood texture in modern web design became quite popular, I do not want to disappoint you. Here comes the sequel. Take a look at these stunning examples of websites with Jeans textures. But even more importantly, check out these beautiful jeans textures which you can download for free and edit.

freebies, inspiration

303

0 comments

2010

21

FEB

100 beautiful Floral Ornament backgrounds – Free EPS Files

These are 100 beautiful and colorful vectors for design and inspiration. Free EPS Files for Floral Ornament backgrounds. I hope you find them useful and cool.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

1199

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #41

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

451

0 comments

35 Stunning Fantasy Castle Artworks

A showcase of most outstanding and spectacular castle artworks from around the web.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

515

0 comments

2010

20

FEB

Google Olympic Logos from Past To Present

Google has for many years doodled on their homepage. These doodles are decorative changes that Google makes to their cooperate logo to celebrate certain holidays and other world events. In keeping with the decade long tradition, Google has doodled Olympic events on their website to commemorate this special global event.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

378

0 comments

Weekly Inspiration No. 05

If you're looking for something to inspire yourself then you just have to take a look at our new weekly blog. Enjoy this sensational collection of creative art work and design!

design, inspiration, misc, photography, photoshop

416

0 comments

25 Beautiful Portrait Photography of Various Animals

25 Beautiful Portrait Photography of Various Animals by amazing photographers from Different sites

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

439

0 comments

2010

19

FEB

Beautiful Wildlife Photography by Frtosi

Beautiful Wildlife Photography by Frtosi from DA

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

463

0 comments

60 Web Design Galleries for Design Inspiration

Web design galleries are the best way be keep in touch with latest trends in website designing and also for design inspiration. Web Design galleries also helps bloggers like me to create a list of inspirational websites or list of beautiful websites. So here we have collected some galleries for web design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

622

1 comment

20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications

Here are the list of some popular and Professional Image Editors And Drawing Applications that work online.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips, tools

386

0 comments

2010

18

FEB

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #5

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising/marketing solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

306

0 comments

How Those Famous Websites Have Evolved Throughout the Years

I went to wayback machine and searched for those famous websites and take a screenshot of it in few years ago and also their current website. Pretty impressive changes and very encouraging as they all are moving forward with all sort of new technologies. I hope you will enjoy this post :)

design, graphic, inspiration

7128

12 comments

Eating into Restaurant & Recipe Web Design: 50+ Mouth Watering Websites

The food industry is one of the largest categories of business in the world. While taste is generally the main focus, design & appearance are just as important when it comes to showcasing products, restaurants and recipe websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

425

0 comments

2010

17

FEB

40+ Websites with Awesome Backdrops

Again, now it is time for some more inspiration. Inspiration is the mother of beautiful creation. Backgrounds do play an important role in giving attractive look to the website.

design, graphic, inspiration

685

0 comments

40+ Powerful Children Portraits

These are 45 Stunning example of Children Portraits for inspiration, Kids portraits show their feeling, happy, worry or dreaming, silence and fear. Hope you nice impression.

inspiration, photography

496

0 comments

18 Incredible CSS3 Effects You Have Never Seen Before

I did some search around the web and there are heaps of CSS3 examples that are really make my eyes wide opened! It's incredible! I could never imagine to make animation using CSS few years ago. So, in this post, I will show you my findings of 18 Incredible CSS3 Effects that will blow you away!

css-html, inspiration, javascript, trend

35513

17 comments

50+ Stunning Example of Photo Manipulation

In this post we will see another creative example of photo manipulation for your inspiration. You will see dark designs, light or surreal, digital art and abstract.

design, inspiration

469

0 comments

JavaScript Popup - TopUp the jQuery Solution

JavaScript Popup - Who needs to implement inline HTML, Flash and Videostuff into a JavaScript Popup-Solution, has to check the Plugin TopUp ( based on jQuery ).

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1433

0 comments

2010

16

FEB

Flash Design Showcase #8

A showcase of my favourite flash designs in the last few weeks

design, graphic, inspiration

401

0 comments

50 Awesome Website Design Galleries

For the longest time, one of my best sources of inspiration has been web design galleries. My favourite being The FWA: Favourite Website Awards which was founded in 2000. The FWA showcases the most cutting edge website designs.

design, flash, inspiration

506

0 comments

Six Project Management Skills Every Web Design Freelancer Must Have

Managing web design projects is one difficult job. There are communication and organizing issues, negotiation and networking, and most of all, a strong need for planning. Effectively wielding the skills necessary to implement a successful project can be painful.

design, inspiration, tips

445

0 comments

95+ Amazing and Colorful Floral Designs- Free EPS Files

Here, we’re presenting some of Vibrant and Colorful of Floral Designs - Free EPS Files. Hope you find them useful.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

466

0 comments

99 Creative and Funny Advertisements for Inspiration

These are 99 Creative and funny advertising. Advertisements for Toshiba, Samsung, Val-spar colors, WWF, Food, Tools and a lot of awesome ads. Enjoy

design, inspiration

559

0 comments

2010

15

FEB

Quicksand - The animated jQuery-Filter

The data visualization CoreAnimation ( used on Phone or Mac OS X 10.5 ), was inspiration for the jQuery Filter-Plugin Quicksand ( sort by name, data-size,.. ).

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

795

0 comments

2010

14

FEB

10 Awesome and Creative CSS Templates For Design Inspiration

In this post I am sharing some awesome and very creative examples of CSS templates for design inspiration. So take a test drive of creativeness.

design, inspiration

1290

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #40

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

535

0 comments

2010

13

FEB

The Best Web Design Links From The Week #3

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

568

1 comment

Mouth Watering Realistic 3D Food Artworks

Mouth Watering Realistic 3D Food Artworks gathered from Deviant ARt

inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

546

0 comments

2010

12

FEB

50 Amazing Example of Yellow Inspiration

These are 50 Yellow Creative and inspiration designs , Sites, Cards & Brochures, Typography and Photography.. I hope you enjoy and inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

251

0 comments

Creative And Imaginative World Of Ben Goossens

Every designer has an imaginative world of his own but to make it real is an Art, those who are able to express their feelings and imagination in their work they become artist.

260

0 comments

40+ Creative And Unusual Business Card Designs

Today i will be showcasing of some really unusual but creative business card designs.I’m not sure if all these can be used in business and a little bit risky i think but if you ever decide to use these kind of business cards

design, inspiration, misc

241

0 comments

Puffing Smoke Effect with jQuery - Be interactive with JavaScript

The jQuery plugin "Smoke Effect by Gaya Kessler is a very playful script in which stacks of 2 can alternately be ejected clouds (the graphical elements) are arbitrarily modified.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

338

0 comments

50 Amazing Buildings From All Over The World

Look at these 50+ Creative, crazy and strange buildings. I hope you enjoy and get nice impression. Each Building has its own character and beauty

inspiration, photography

230

0 comments

2010

11

FEB

55+ Beautiful and Colorful Vector Illustration

These are 55+ vibrant colors and amazing Vector Illustration from creative designers. You will see Food Illustration and animals, people and wallpapers.

design, inspiration

679

0 comments

Illustrations by Catalina Estrada

Born and raised in Colombia, Catalina Estrada has been living and working in Barcelona since 1999.

227

0 comments

50+ Brilliant examples of HDR photography

These images are so magical and change our dark, gray world in to colorful shiny paradise. Below you will find more than 50 newest, mystery, colorful examples of High dynamic range (HDR) Photography.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

506

0 comments

Website Design: 30+ Beautifully Designed T-Shirt Sites

Everybody knows how trendy t-shirts are. There are some really creative and fun designs out there. Last November I wrote a post about t-shirt designs titled: T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples.

design, inspiration

472

0 comments

50 Pictures, Dedicated to Love

50 pictures, telling 50 different love stories for Valentine’s day of 2010

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

363

0 comments

12 Useful Logo Web Galleries to Help You Create a Great Logo

Logo design, I guess it's one of the most difficult design because we need to embed meaning, branding and corporate identity into a simple piece of design. In this post, I have found some tips and inspirational website to help you create a good logo.

design, inspiration, logo

10104

11 comments

Designer Showcase - Steven Bonner

A showcase of the beautiful work of Steven Bonner

design, graphic, inspiration

286

0 comments

2010

10

FEB

35+ Brilliant Examples of Optical Illusions

These are 35 Optical Illusions paintings to refresh your mind and inspire you. Creative visual tricks that confuse the eye and the mind in the first look.

design, inspiration

942

1 comment

7 Questions for Jacob Cass

Jacob Cass is a world-renowned web, graphic and logo designer residing in Brooklyn, New York and is the founder of ‘Just Creative Design‘.

design, graphic, inspiration

570

0 comments

70+ Business Card Designs

It has been almost two months since our last post on business cards. Since then I have assembled an amazing collection of fresh and creative business cards. I am confident that these new business card designs will stimulate your creative juices for your own beautiful designs. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

788

0 comments

44 Outstanding Business Card Designs For Inspiration

Unusual and outstanding business card designs

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

Photoshop Tutorial - Wallpaper ( Apple-Style )

This Step-by-Step Tutorial is going to show a photo display Perspective beginners in Adobe Photoshop, as well as the experienced user tips and tricks for designing graphics (including reflection and bending of objects, assign levels of effects) .

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

628

0 comments

50 Majestic Examples of Mountain and Canyon Photography

Nature as a whole is a wonder and a source of endless beauty. We sometimes don't even realize what it is that makes it so spectacular.

inspiration, photography

464

0 comments

2010

9

FEB

28 Beautifully T-Shirt Illustrations #3

These are 28 Nice T-Shirt Illustrations from Flying Mouse 365.com. I hope you find them creative and feed your inspiration. I like their vibrant colors indeed.

design, graphic, inspiration

435

0 comments

A Showcase Of Illustrative Websites

A showcase of websites that feature an illustrative theme

design, graphic, inspiration

432

0 comments

The most influential web designs today and why they work!

This is a list of the most inspirational and influential designs today. Each one is explained and evaluated.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

475

0 comments

Daily Design Inspiration #11

In this post we will show you some inspiration artworks, Logo, Illustrations and Advertising etc of creative designers, André de Aquino, Antonio Sampaio, Walee

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

412

0 comments

12 most exotic wall arts designs : Vibrant and Colorful

Can you imagine intricate artwork on the walls filled with vivacious colors and vivid characters. Here is the list of extraordinary wall arts which might inspire you for a magical color play.

design, graphic, inspiration

455

0 comments

10 Brilliant CSS3 and jQuery Examples

This post is all about CSS3 and Javascript. With all the new features that come with CSS3, there are whole lot of animation possibilites that can't be achieve before. So, Check this out and get inspired

css-html, inspiration, javascript

32034

8 comments

Adventures of Paper Robot

35 moments of little robot’s called Danbo daily life and adventures with its little brother.

inspiration, misc, photography

454

0 comments

2010

8

FEB

38 Amazing FireWorks photos

These are beautifully FireWorks have a special charm. are burn with colored flames and sparks including different colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and silver as you see in this photos.

inspiration, photography

474

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #32

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration

406

0 comments

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect Logo Designs

30 Creative Examples of Glossy Effect and 3D Logo Designs

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

836

0 comments

50 Fantastic Examples Of Origami Art Work

Origami,from oru meaning “folding“, and kami meaning “paper” is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a representation of an object using geometric folds

inspiration, misc

467

0 comments

52Framework - HTML5 and CSS3 Framework

The 52framework was started as a way to expedite the process of the usage of the latest standards in web development, and the love of the number 52. The 52framework provides an easy way to get started using html5 and css3 while still supporting all modern browsers (including ie6).

css-html, inspiration

Webstandard-Team

652

0 comments

Border-Radius - Circles and Curvy Shapes with CSS3

Border-Radius - Circles and Curvy Shapes with CSS3 - It is important to remember that some properties will allow you to achieve effects that aren't necessarily stated. It also has the potential to produce some terrific designs using just CSS – no images.

ajax, css-html, inspiration

Webstandard-Team

1526

0 comments

2010

7

FEB

55 Free Ornamental Heart Vector Files For Valentine's Day

Collection of some beautiful FREE ornate or ornamental vector hearts with download links. These hearts are rich in ornamental design or have swirls and curls associated with them. Most of them are in .eps or .ai (Adobe Illustrator) format, few in .cdr (CorelDraw) format.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

613

0 comments

10 Web Design Blogs You Should Be Reading

As much as I would like to take all of the credit for the ideas behind this blog, it actually had quite a bit to do with the wonderful amount of web design resources that are available out there.

730

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #39

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

484

0 comments

60+ Amazing Abstract Backgrounds – Free EPS Files

These are 60 Amazing Abstract Backgrounds - Free EPS Files, The backgrounds have vibrant colors, Each one has its own beauty. I hope you like.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

672

0 comments

50 Amazing Brown Photographs

Amazing and inspiration photos, that tell you a story. photos with vibrant colors. These 50 images for Kids, Animals, people and Nature etc.

inspiration, photography

460

0 comments

22 Creative Video Advertisements of January

This set consists of 22 creative video advertisements, collected in January, including market giants, new players and non profits.

inspiration, misc, video

501

0 comments

2010

6

FEB

40 Historical Pepsi Cola Ads Which Will Make You Smile

You can easily find inspirational Coca Cola ads all over the internet and especially in these kind of blogs.I’m sure you have seen most of them but today i thought that we are not interested in Pepsi ads.

design, graphic, inspiration

512

1 comment

2010

5

FEB

42 Striking Examples Of Snowboard Designs

Since its Winter season, i decided to make a corresponding post. Today i bring you a showcase of snowboard designs. Snowboard design has become very popular.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

844

0 comments

22 Amazing Planetoid Photographs

Planetoid photography turns panoramic images into beguiling spherical scenes, pictures that at first glance appear to be tiny planets floating in space. Here are 22 breathtaking examples of Planetoid Photography.

inspiration, photography, photoshop

666

1 comment

16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup

Whether to inspire new brand ideas or to inspire you to build a business for one of these, I present you 16+3 of my favorite brands that should should be brought to life.

design, inspiration

459

0 comments

30 Most Creative and Unusual Fonts

Creativity comes in many shapes and forms, so do fonts. Today we’d like to feature 30 of the most creative fonts out there.

font, freebies, inspiration, logo

815

0 comments

2010

4

FEB

20 Classy Free Serif Fonts

A showcase of classy serif fonts from the guys at Fonts 2 U

font, freebies, inspiration

666

0 comments

120 Most Inspiration and brilliant Surreal Artworks

120 brilliant and Inspiration designs, Drawings and Photography by talents Artists who mastered Surreal Artworks. By Suliman Almawash, Eric Lacombe and Adnrey.

design, inspiration, photography

464

0 comments

50 Beautifully Blue Designs

I collect some nice example of blue designs, websites, logo, icons, brochures, typography and photography. I hope you enjoy and inspire you!

design, graphic, inspiration, logo, photography

742

0 comments

75 Fresh Business Cards for Design Inspiration

For marketing point of view to any kind of business, its very important to have a good looking business card. Business card reflects the seriousness of you involved in your own business. Therefore we have collected some nicely designed Business cards for design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

539

0 comments

88 Creative and Free Fonts With Really Inspirational Showcases

Font is a must for designers and you can find thousands of free fonts over the internet.As a big fan of different types of fonts,i downloaded hundreds of them and spend a few hours to try

design, font, inspiration

563

0 comments

2010

3

FEB

WordPress Themes for Health Professionals

Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.

inspiration, wordpress

557

0 comments

115 Creative Advertisements that feed your inspiration

These are 115 creative advertising, many ads for Volkswagen car models, Audi, Minicar agency, Volvo Cars. Samsung Camera, Radio FM, DHL, GPS .. etc

design, inspiration

454

0 comments

150 Best Social Networks Sections on Designers’ Websites

Browse unique ways of showing social icons. This article also proves that creative people are creative in everything they do.

504

0 comments

A Complete Guide to Writing Guest Articles

Guest articles (articles written for a website other than your own) are popping up all over the place. Web design websites are rapidly growing at a rate that would not be possible without the help of guest articles.

inspiration, misc, tips, trend

658

0 comments

2010

2

FEB

Valentines Day - Photoshop-Brushes & Tutorials

Since it is (almost) any request or any big event there such strokes, it is not surprising that it even for a day is like Valentine's Day, gives a suitably wide range of resources. The following list contains photoshop-brushes, a few vector graphics and tutorials on this subject, including book tip!

design, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

739

1 comment

A Showcase Of 'Handmade' Websites

A showcase of websites that look as if they have been made by hand

design, graphic, inspiration

491

0 comments

Beautiful Animals Photography by sooper

Beautiful Animals Photography by sooper deviant from deviant art

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

409

0 comments

50+ Current Tutorials From Around The Web

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of January.

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

462

0 comments

35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary

35 Mind Blowing Digital Paintings by Gary Tonge from Deviant Art

design, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

417

0 comments

75 Creative Architectural Models

These are Amazing, Creative Architectural Models. You will see also Creative landmarks models from one paper each one has its own beauty. Enjoy with inspiration

design, inspiration

471

1 comment

10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animations

jQuery can pretty much do anything you can think of. All you need is a creative imagination and some time to learn the simple and intuitive API. With several JavaScript frameworks available, jQuery is quickly becoming a favorite. If you are interested in using jQuery for animated effects, here are 10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animation to get you on your way.

inspiration, javascript, tutorial

44207

16 comments

99 Beautiful Roads Photos

These are 99 beautiful roads images. Roads in forests, asphalt roads, highway, You will see also a long roads in farmland, deserts and rough roads.. etc. I hope you enjoy and get nice impression. Each picture has its own beauty!

design, inspiration, photography

528

1 comment

2010

1

FEB

60+ Brilliant Examples of Logotype and Typography #2

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

486

0 comments

2010

31

JAN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #38

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

494

0 comments

100+ Amazing Paintings + Sculpture + Graphics Drawings by [Boris Indrikov]

Boris Indrikov was born in Leningrad in 1967 and lives and works in Moscow . From 1991 – 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine “Chemistry and Life”.

design, graphic, inspiration

392

0 comments

Monday Morning Inspiration #31

Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration.

graphic, inspiration, photography

447

0 comments

2010

30

JAN

47 Most Beautiful Wordpress Websites from the internet

Wordpress has became in the last years the most used blogging platform,being utilized by millions of people. The reason is simple:Is so easy to use it,it has many features and more and more people comes with themes,tutorials and plug-ins just to help you and to make your life easier.

design, inspiration, wordpress

677

0 comments

Digging Into E-Commerce Website Design: Overview, Best Practices and Examples

The World Wide Web is a privileged channel for spreading good ideas and, in this time of crisis, it could be very useful to improve a business. Internet provides many possibilities to enhance, in different ways, our activities and one of this surely is the electronic commerce.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

663

0 comments

Avatar movie inspired best designers artworks

Looked at deviantART community, I noticed that a lot of designers designing their works of art of the Avatar movie basis. This led me to create this article, where I summarized the best artworks of designers that where created inspired by the Avatar movie. If you are the Avatar movie fan, these works you must interested in.

487

0 comments

2010

29

JAN

Free Icons: Ultimate Resource List

In the past months I have written a couple of articles on icons; the most recent titled: Freebies: Social Media Icons for Your Blog. In that post I wrote about the importance of using social media icons in your web design or blog.

design, freebies, icon, inspiration

656

0 comments

80 Free Download Illustration Ai Files - For Kids

80 Ai Files - Illustration For Kids

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

835

1 comment

48 Amazing Fresh Links for Designers

Every day there are new design posts being published to help designers promote their projects.We have included the links to some of favorite design posts that are worth checking out and studying.

design, freebies, inspiration, tutorial

1363

0 comments

Navigation Menu made by jQuery - Tutorials

The following selected (for jQuery beginners easily understood) through the implementation of the tutorials have JavaScript library jQuery, etc. add the options according to selected menu items in addition to the self-images or sub-menu

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1176

0 comments

35 Examples Of Creative And Meaningful Typography Art

Typography is one of the most creative art which blends silhouettes,shapes,3D and illustrations with words and letters.This is not only the technical creation but

graphic, inspiration, misc

479

0 comments

50+ Brilliant Example of Fantasy Drawings

This post is part of an ongoing Daily Design Inspiration series that showcases to our readers the best designs to inspire and feed your creativity.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

512

0 comments

Give Your Resume a Creative Boost

No matter what your situation is, it is always prudent to have a well crafted resume to call upon when needed. It is your ticket to new job opportunities and clients.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

459

0 comments

2010

28

JAN

Interview With A Pro Rod Hunt

An interview with the wonderful illustrator Rod Hunt

design, graphic, inspiration

405

0 comments

2010

27

JAN

The Evolution of Popular Brand Logos

This post is about logos, we see them all the time. For example on mobile phone, on cars, in TV and not at last on clothes. Some people pay a lot of money for a T-shirt with a special Logo. But what exactly is a Logo?

inspiration, logo

426

0 comments

120+ Creative Advertisements

These images speak for themselves. I hope you love them as much as I do.

design, inspiration

528

1 comment

Unbelievable Lego Art From Nathan Sawaya

Nathan Sawaya is a New York-based artist who creates awe-inspiring works out of some of the most unlikely things.Yes he is a lego artist,brick artist or whatever you think

inspiration, misc

517

0 comments

100 Cool poster design for your inspiration

A poster is a visual presentation of information.It should be simple , understandable and catch the attention of target audience . This is not an easy task .In this post I’ve collected 100 posters for your inspiration .I’ve tried to collect variety of design styles …enjoy :)

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1192

0 comments

2010

26

JAN

Great Uses Of White Space

A showcase featuring web sites that effectively use whitespace

design, graphic, inspiration

570

0 comments

60+ Stunning Examples of Abstract Designs.

Many designers, painters like abstract art because it expresses the interior feelings and their ambitions etc. The paintings contain symbols and shapes that have no meaning virtual. I hope that when you look at these designs you will feel inspired like me.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

538

0 comments

50 Landscapes and scenery photo manipulation

Check out some great landscape and scenery photomanipulation and play with your raw photos which you have taken on your previous trip.

design, graphic, inspiration

433

0 comments

Amazing Photography of Nature and Animals by Scott

Amazing Photography of Nature and Animals by Scott Stulberg a world class photographer

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

403

0 comments

25 fresh and creative logodesigns

Need inspiration for logodesign? Have a look at this showcase including 25 great examples for creative logo design.

design, font, graphic, inspiration, misc

502

0 comments

70+ New Example of Brochures #2

Brochures and Business cards are used by companies or individuals to provide brief information during formal introductions. They include information such as name, address, e-mail, telephone number and offer services etc . These 70+ New and Creative Example of Brochures. You can learn from them and get nice ideas for your designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

629

0 comments

2010

24

JAN

Monday Morning Inspiration #30

This Post belongs to our “Monday Morning Inspiration” Series. Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

500

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #37

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

504

1 comment

Vibrant Colorful Logos - Part 1

This is the 1st part of my collection of some vibrant, colorful logos from around the web. The logos showcased here have almost all the seven spectrum colors & many more. Enjoy the splash of colors.....

graphic, inspiration, logo, trend

700

0 comments

50+ Beautiful Happy New Year 2010 Wallpapers & Calenders

I was searching the web for a creative 2010 wallpaper to enhance my desktop & found some really cool stuffs. Just thought of sharing my collection with you all. So here's 50+ beautiful creative wallpapers and desktop calenders featuring this year, 2010.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

592

0 comments

2010

23

JAN

The Best Web Design Links From The Week #2

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

436

0 comments

35+ New Websites With A Stunning And Effective Use of Textures

An over-used style in modern Web Design surely is Grunge. It is relatively simple to realize: with some photoshop tricks it’s possible to create stunning effects in a few minutes. A grunge website often is a mix of “confuse” stuff and a good use of textures, but however with a logical order to highlight the contents.

design, inspiration

598

0 comments

Great list with digital painting tutorials

If you want to create digital paintings like a pro then you need to follow these 10 tutorials.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

461

0 comments

2010

22

JAN

Worth Watching Long Exposure Photography

Worth Watching Long Exposure and high Speed Photography

inspiration, misc, photography, photoshop, wallpaper

609

0 comments

Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Blue and the Cool Look

The ability to mix and blend colors creates new possibilities in today’s already colorful world. Today we discuss the color Blue and take a look at how it has benefited us.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

524

0 comments

20 Best Twitter-likes And Useful Tutorials To Work With Twitter

20 best tutorials and resources that are Twitter-like and useful for your web project.

design, inspiration, tools, tutorial

516

0 comments

2010

21

JAN

10 Amazing Avatar movie Photoshop Tutorials

Here is a compilation of some great Photoshop tutorials which will help you to create your own Na’vi Avatar from a picture of yourself.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

1351

1 comment

Designer Showcase - Firmorama

A showcase of the beautiful design and illustration work from the guys at Firmorama

design, graphic, inspiration

427

1 comment

2010

20

JAN

Essential jQuery Tips, Plugins and Tutorials for Building a Fancy Website

In this post, I'm going to let you know all the plugins and scripts that I used in my recent project that requires intensive AJAX calls and javascript fanciness. I have listed them in a list of plugins and tutorials and I know it's going to be really useful to all of you.

design, inspiration, javascript, tips

17298

9 comments

30 Amazing 3D Room Interiors

30 Amazing 3D Room Interior renders by awesome 3d artists

design, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

706

0 comments

Best of the Web for the Week of January 10, 2010

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of January 10, 2010. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration

437

0 comments

2010

19

JAN

Inspiration Car - from the interior to the color-schema of a website

Be inspired by car interior! The following collection of Flickr-Fotos includes some very interesting cars like Aston Martin, Bentley Continental GTC or Cadillac Eldorado which can be part of your inspiration to find a color-schema of a website.

Webstandard-Team

477

0 comments

A Showcase Of Sites For iPhone Apps

A showcase of the very best websites for iPhone apps

design, graphic, inspiration

453

0 comments

90 magnific 3D text effects designs

Here are one of the best 90 text effects in 3D. Hopefully you will find them useful and give you some inspiration towards your design.

design, font, inspiration, photoshop

682

0 comments

25 Excellent Night Photography + Tutorials

Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure.

inspiration, photography, tutorial

436

0 comments

20 Amazing Creature Illustrations

20 Amazing Creature Illustrations by Imaginism from Deviant Art and Imganisim studios

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

535

0 comments

2010

18

JAN

Mind Blowing Illustrations & Branding By Fully Illustrated

While browsing internet i came across a media company named ‘Fully Illustrated’ which offers creative services, from design and branding to illustration and 3D motion graphics.

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations

40 Mind Blowing Surreal Photo Manipulations by awesome manipulators from DA

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

676

0 comments

21 Purple Websites Fit for a King (or Queen)

21 beautiful purple websites to inspire your next design. The last in a series of posts showcasing color in web design.

design, inspiration

651

0 comments

2010

17

JAN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #36

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

444

0 comments

2010

16

JAN

Design Professionals on WordPress

Sometimes words alone are not enough to convey a message. However, creating a Web page that includes both text and pictures is more involved than randomly inserting graphics on the page.

design, inspiration, wordpress

519

1 comment

The Best Web Design Links From The Week

A look back at some of our favourite web design links from the past week

design, graphic, inspiration

524

0 comments

2010

15

JAN

Best of Blogs - Preview 2010 - Webdesign, Inspiration, SEO

Best of Blogs - Preview 2010 includes a small collection of international Webdesign-, Webdevelopment-, jQuery-, Inspiration- and SEO-Blogs.

inspiration, javascript, photoshop, seo

Webstandard-Team

660

0 comments

Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples

A good newsletter campaign can be a great way to inform your subscribers of all your company’s latest news, products and specials. In this post you will see some great examples of newsletter designs from various online companies. If your in need of some design inspiration, this post just might do the job. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

1527

0 comments

Websites Using Cute Twitter Icons

Have you noticed how many websites have added cute Twitter icons? In this article list the most impressive of them.

design, inspiration

508

0 comments

Excellent Resources Help You Create Your Own Social Networking Site

Ultimate list of resources help you build you own social networking site or community news site.

cms, design, inspiration, trend

513

0 comments

26 Creative and Inspirational Dark Colored Blogs

Mostly webmasters prefer light color combinations in the themes they use and especially white is the most prefered color.But in the last few years,we see

design, inspiration, misc

651

0 comments

2010

14

JAN

Blue Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a blue colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

584

0 comments

Amazing Grunge Artworks by Alex

Amazing Grunge Artworks and Illustrations by Alex Cherry From DA

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

591

0 comments

50 Incredible Asian Vector Portraits

A vector portrait is basically a computer-generated work of art made up of lines. The coordinates of these lines, which contain blocks of colour between them, are plotted with the aid of computer software. Vector images can easily be differentiated from bitmap (raster) images, which are arranged as arrays of individual pixels.

design, graphic, inspiration

576

0 comments

2010

13

JAN

Comic Book Inspired Vector Artwork

Ever since I was a child I have been a fan of comic books. In October of 2009, I wrote a post titled: CG Artwork: Superheroes and Villains. In that post I assembled some amazing examples of superheros and villains created in CG.

design, graphic, inspiration

496

0 comments

20 Stunning YouTube Video Sketches for Design Inspiration

In this post I am sharing 20 famous YouTube video sketches for design inspiration. Two artists Admir Jahic & Comenius Roethlisberger redraw the most famous YouTube videos with colored pencils.

473

0 comments

40 3D wallpapers to spice your desktop

As you all know its Avatar time going on hope you guys having fun watching avatar. So after watching avatar in 3d i thought why not to collect some 3d wallpapers for my desktop and share with you guys.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration

525

0 comments

2010

12

JAN

Guerrilla Advertising - Creative Attention Seeking #4

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

468

0 comments

27 Bold and Beautiful Brochure Designs

A roundup of bold and beautiful brochure designs for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

1094

0 comments

Wet Logos: Showcase of Logo Designs Featuring Water

25 logos that feature characteristics of water. Gushing, rushing, pouring, dripping, raining, sloshing, refreshing. Inspiration from one of the most abundant resources on Earth.

design, inspiration, logo

561

0 comments

54 Most beautiful Waterfalls Photography

54 Most beautiful Waterfalls Photography gathered from Deviant Art by amazing photographers

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

580

0 comments

2010

11

JAN

10 Best Tutorials To Learn CSS3

10 Best tutorials, tips and tricks to learn CSS3 that are worth seeing.

css-html, inspiration, tutorial

863

0 comments

23 Brighter-Than-Sunshine Yellow Websites

23 fantastic yellow websites to inspire your next design. The fifth in a series of posts showcasing color in web design.

design, inspiration, trend

746

0 comments

Cool Computer Animated Videos

The thing that interests me most in the design world is computer animation. It is so interesting to see how these talented artists create stunning designs and put them into motion so they can tell a story. These videos are used in such mediums as advertising, movies and cartoons just to name a few.

design, graphic, inspiration, video

508

0 comments

MopSlider - jQuery-Plugin - The Content-Slider

MopSlider is a jQuery based JavaScript-Plugin that allows you to create slider, which can different type of items ( HTML, Images, Flash ).

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1455

0 comments

jQuery-Plugins and Tutorials - Sliding, fading, scrolling, zooming, ...

jQuery-Plugins and Tutorials for making the web(content) more easy to handle! Check out all that sliding, fading, scrolling and zooming features!

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1245

0 comments

2010

10

JAN

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #35

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

502

0 comments

21 Wonderful Yellow Websites - For Your Inspiration

Well you don't see Yellow in Webdesign every Day. With a wavelength of 570–580... I went on a Big "Find Yellow Websites" Journey.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

966

0 comments

10 Must-Read eBooks for Social Media Lovers

This series is supported by Times Reader 2.0. Learn more about The New York Times’ latest innovation in newspaper delivery here.

cms, design, gadget, graphic, inspiration

626

1 comment

30 must have RSS feed for web designers and developers – OPML file

Today we have collected 30 RSS feed which every web developer and designer should follow. These are niche site in their segments and one should subscribe them for better knowledge and inspirations.

inspiration, misc

727

0 comments

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks

35 Spectacular Cinema 4D Digital Artworks and Illustrations

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

844

1 comment

2010

9

JAN

Avatar movie tutorials and inspirational designs

Very inspiring collection of arts and design created around the internet and the world which are inspired by Avatar movie plus some tutorials to help achieve the effect yourself.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

892

0 comments

2010

8

JAN

20 logos with clever use of imagination

A logo is a uniquely set and arranged typeface that form a trademark or commercial brand. Today we compiled 20 logos from web which will surely boost you up to make one.

inspiration, logo

718

0 comments

80+ Brilliant Photos with Mighty Tiger

It is the beginning of the 2010 and it is year of the Tiger. For this reason, we have collected the best pictures honouring this remarkable creature. Showcase includes 81 photograph of various kinds of tigers.

inspiration, misc, photography

592

1 comment

15 Incredible Photography Roundups

15 Incredible Photography Roundups Related to inspirational photography, macro photography, nature photography etc.

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

619

0 comments

2010

7

JAN

Designer Showcase - Bogielicious

A showcase of brilliant work by the illustrator Bogielicious

design, graphic, inspiration

489

0 comments

Highly detailed Anime Illustrations By Jenny

Highly detailed Anime Illustrations By Jenny Jinya from Blasting Art Inc.

design, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

602

0 comments

6 Ways to Improve Quality in Your Projects and Reduce Stress

Anyone in the web design field has likely experienced the burn of project management before. How do you protect the quality of your work and yourself from the ensuing stress? I've identified a few ways that can help.

design, inspiration, tips

544

0 comments

jsFiddle ( Mootools based Shell-Editor ) - Test your JavaScript-Code

jsFiddle a Tool which is helping with writing (X)HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Load the page or code-snippet, edit the relevant fields and load the result, which can saved for further usage.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

652

0 comments

The 6 Don'ts of Web Development

Over the years i have found (usually the hard way) that there are a lot of guidelines we need to remember whenever we are working with the web. So keep these in mind next time you're building a website!

css-html, inspiration, javascript, tips

737

0 comments

35 Fantastic and ”Awarded” Flash Web Sites You Should See

When it comes to creativity,there is no limit.And i always think that some designers are really unusual and do whatever they can.Especially if you use some tools like Flash,animation programs or videos

design, flash, inspiration

535

0 comments

2010

6

JAN

60+ Fresh Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of December.

design, graphic, inspiration, tutorial

521

0 comments

Interview with Design Master Demen1

You have definitely seen Demen1’s designs scattered across design blogs, t-shirts and posters. There is no missing his unique design style and highly detailed typography. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with my long time friend Steve Goodin to interview him on life, design, and what sets him apart.

design, graphic, inspiration

442

0 comments

40 Beautiful Fairy Illustrations and Manipulations

40 Beautiful Fairy Illustrations and Manipulations gathered from Deviant Art

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

543

0 comments

2010

5

JAN

20 Absolutely Stylish Web Form Design Showcase

A web form is one of the methods for users to interact with the website. We use it to collect user feedback, sign up for a service, comments and as well as entering data. It's crucial to make a clean and usable form layout to ensure it's easy to use and understand. In this showcase, you will be able to get inspired by the creativity from other web designers.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

14000

5 comments

2010

4

JAN

Flash Design Showcase #7

A showcase of the really beautiful flash web design

design, graphic, inspiration

609

0 comments

40 Striking High Resolution Photography Wallpapers From National Geographic

We love desktop wallpapers and a desktop without beautiful wallpaper stinks. Therefore today i have collected 40 striking high resolution photography wallpapers from National Geographic.

inspiration, photography, wallpaper

726

0 comments

4 Simple Design Elements Behind a Good Call to Action

Designing and creating a strong call to action is easier said then done. Take a look at these 4 design elements then reevaluate your call to action to see if it could be dramatically improved.

design, inspiration

letscounthedays

643

0 comments

20 Free Office Stuff Icon Sets For Your Design

We hand-picked from around the web 20 most popular and beautiful office style icon sets that are good for your design. Hopefully, some of them you have not known before.

freebies, graphic, inspiration

618

0 comments

2010

1

JAN

30 Beautiful Black and White Photography

30 Beautiful Black and White Photography gathered from Deviant Art

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

918

0 comments

2009

31

DEC

40 macro Photography of Water Drops

40 macro Photography of Water Drops gathered from Deviant Art. Very inspirational Photography

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

837

0 comments

The Very Best Web Designs Of 2009

A round up of my favourite web designs from 2009, taken from the Weekly web design series

design, graphic, inspiration

847

0 comments

2009

30

DEC

Don't Miss Out Latest 10 jQuery Plugins Before Closing The Year 2009

Enjoy the newest, latest 10 fresh and helpful jQuery plugins in jQuery Plugins series before closing the year 2009.

design, inspiration, javascript, tools

980

0 comments

2009

29

DEC

What Portfolio Designs Would We Continue to See in 2010?

Small preview that works on the new, fresh, and never-seen-before portfolios some web designers prepare for their portfolio in 2010.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

749

0 comments

Beautiful Digital Paintings by Cypherx

Beautiful Digital Paintings and airbrushing illustrations by Cypherx

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

703

0 comments

14 Outstanding jQuery Navigation Menu Tutorials

As a jQuery lover, I always find myself trying to invent something really cool, useful and able to integrate into design easily. This time, I've chosen a few of very useful and helpful navigation menu tutorials. They are comprehensive tutorials, and cover everything with detailed explanations.

css-html, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

65309

20 comments

2009

28

DEC

37 Beautiful Waterscapes Photography

37 Beautiful Waterscapes Photography gathered from deviant art

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

554

0 comments

Stunning 3D Street Art From Kurt Wenner

Kurt Wenner born in Ann Arbor, Michigan is an artist best known for his realistic street painting and chalk murals using a projection called anamorphosis. These 3D chalk drawings on pavement have been featured in many newspapers and on several television shows

design, inspiration, misc

666

0 comments

Inspirational Apple iPhone Artwork

About a month ago, I created a post titled: Inspirational Artwork: Hugo Boss Fragrance. This post featured the famous Hugo Boss fragrance bottle infused with some great artwork. In today’s article we are featuring the ever popular Apple iPhone and the great artwork associated with the marketing behind it.

design, graphic, inspiration

514

0 comments

2009

26

DEC

35 Realistic 3D Robot Illustrations

35 Realistic 3D Robot Illustrations and Character Designs

design, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

860

0 comments

2009

25

DEC

17 Brilliant Examples of Matte Painting

17 Brilliant Examples of Matte Painting and Illustrations gathered from Deviant ARt

graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

789

0 comments

2009

24

DEC

Beautifully Designed Holiday Wallpapers

With the holidays quickly approaching, most of us we are scrambling to decorate our homes and finding that perfect gift for our loved ones. Why not get into the Christmas spirit by decorating your desktops with these beautiful free wallpapers?

design, inspiration, wallpaper

569

0 comments

2009

23

DEC

Use of Character Illustrations in Web Design

Having a unique web design can grab your visitors attention. And if you use some vector characters or illustration on your webpage then it can establish an image in visitors mind. So if you are looking for some inspiration then check this beautifully designed websites using vector character/character illustrations.

design, inspiration

525

0 comments

30 Beautiful Rainbow Photography

30 Beautiful Rainbow Photography gathered from Deviant Art, Natural Photography of beautiful rainbows are always beautiful

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

536

0 comments

2009

22

DEC

Reviewing List Articles Trend: 30 Powerhouse and Prospective Design Blogs

In the numerous hours you've spent surfing the Internet, I'm sure you've come across countless online content with titles that start with numerals and go along the lines of these headings like "40 Most Inspiring...", "65 Incredible...", and "10 Most Popular...".

design, inspiration, misc, trend

413

0 comments

Christmas Themed Websites

A showcase of websites displaying the festive spirit with a Christmas theme

design, graphic, inspiration

687

0 comments

jQuery Plugin Roundabout (- Shapes) - The interactive Image-Gallery

Roundabout is a jQuery plugin that converts a structure of static HTML elements into a highly customizable turntable-like interactive area.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1886

0 comments

40 Creative and Humorous Photography

40 Creative and Humorous Photography gathered from Deviant ARt

inspiration, misc, photography, wallpaper

800

0 comments

2009

21

DEC

Write to Santa Claus – Free CSS Template

Christmas is almost here. And so is Santa. Children want gifts and most of them write to Santa. We come up with a new nice template for you to let your kids send you their whishlist. Please take a look at this template and write your opinion about it.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, template

742

0 comments

Brilliant collection of websites powered by Flash Moto CMS

This is an amazing showcase of flash websites powered by the innovating feature-rich Flash CMS - FlashMoto. Enjoy the powerful flash animation.

cms, design, flash, graphic, inspiration

1274

1 comment

20 Free Photoshop business cards

Your business card is often the first impression people have of your business. A distinctive and unique business card will make you standout, get noticed, be remebered. Here are twenty free business card designs (in PSD file format), to inspire you and improve your skills.

design, freebies, inspiration, tutorial

1188

0 comments

40 Incredible Vintage Websites

Here, you’ll find 40 of the most incredibly well designed vintage web sites. In reality, of course, they’re only vintage at the most superficial of levels. Peel back the vintage veneer and you’ll find cutting edge web development and design processes have been employed.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

14532

4 comments

2009

20

DEC

50 Digital Painting for Design Inspiration

Painting has been done with pencils, water color, canvas, brushes etc. But now digital painters use photoshop, illustrator, mouse and tablet to make paintings, graphic designer use tools of illustrator as brushes to paint the layout.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

731

0 comments

5 New Useful jQuery Plugins For Your Next Projects

The recommendation of 5 new and useful jQuery Plugins that you should consider using for your next projects.

ajax, inspiration, javascript, trend

1126

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #33

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

603

0 comments

2009

19

DEC

35 Fresh and Cool Web Design Interfaces for Inspiration

Enjoy the featured list of 35 fresh and cool web design interfaces from DeviantArt that was hand-picked by me and in my opinion!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

971

1 comment

2009

18

DEC

25 Amazing and Dark Photo Manipulations by Morbidia

25 Amazing and Dark Photo Manipulations by Morbidia Morthel From Deviant Art

graphic, inspiration, misc, photography, photoshop

654

0 comments

jQuery Plugin Meerkat - Fixed Top/Bottom Content

Meerkat, named for its pop up like behavior, is a jQuery plugin and it's used as a simple promotional tool, a roost for advertisements, or even as an alternative to a splash or entry page; Meerkat is unobtrusive, cross-browser compatible, and degrades gracefully if Javascript has been disabled.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1274

0 comments

2009

17

DEC

Top 10 Email Marketing Services For Your Growing Business

In this post I am referring a list of some good Email Marketing Services for your business. This list includes some good services like MailChimp, AWeber, Constant Contact, Silverpop, SimplyCast and GroupMail etc.

512

0 comments

Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs

One of the great things about writing posts on business cards is that there is no shortage of great business card designs. Talented graphic artists are coming up with new brilliant designs every day. In this post you will see business card designs ranging from really creative to very simple and slick.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

585

0 comments

9 Things You Should Be Doing For Your Web Design Projects Over The Holidays

For those who aren’t traveling over the holidays this season, this time represents a rare opportunity to get things done. Clients leave town, email is at a minimum and people don’t really expect much to get done. Use this precious holiday time to get some critical project activities taken care of.

design, inspiration

534

0 comments

Orange Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a orange colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

846

0 comments

Merry Christmas, everyone! – TextMate giveaway

As a huge thank you to everyone who has supported D-Lists through the year, I have arranged for one lucky reader to win themselves a free copy of TextMate

design, graphic, inspiration

535

0 comments

2009

16

DEC

jQuery Features - Best of Showcase

jQuery Showcase of Websites with features like sliding, page-scrolling, lighbox-popups or drag ′n drop-Effects

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1367

0 comments

2009

15

DEC

60+ Amazing Snowboard Designs

With the ski and snowboard season already upon us, we are all anticipating the new designs in ski and snowboard designs. Who can wait to hit the slopes to get a few runs in and show-off their new equipment? In this post I have assembled a great collection of snowboard designs that will catch the eye of everyone on the mountain. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

1695

1 comment

Designer Showcase - Rockfield

An inspirational showcase of the beautiful design from Rockfield

design, graphic, inspiration

502

0 comments

2009

13

DEC

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #32

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

720

0 comments

Creme Egg. Product site & ads

An impressive collection of 18 ads for Cadbury's Creme Egg product, beautiful ads run this year.

inspiration, video

1039

0 comments

Showcase: Beautifully Designed Black Portfolio Websites

Designing a good looking portfolio for any web and graphics designer is very much important, and black colored website gives a decent look to any portfolio. So here we have collected some great looking black colored portfolio websites to take inspiration from it and design one for yourself. Enjoy!

design, inspiration

793

0 comments

2009

12

DEC

Industrial Design: 80+ Awesome Product Designs

One thing that amazes me most about industrial designers is how they can take an idea like a telephone or a watch and enhance it with all kinds of creative elements and bring them to the next level. These designers can make these product designs look like they are straight out of a James Bond movie.

design, inspiration

761

0 comments

2009

11

DEC

Photography by Andreas Bommert

Andreas Bommert is a sydney-based freelance photographer, specialising in still life, people and commercial photography in the asia pacific region.

inspiration, photography

611

0 comments

2009

10

DEC

Collection Of Awesome Christmas Giveaways Around The Web Design Community

Check out the interesting collection of awesome Christmas giveaways around the web design community. This collection will be updated daily.

design, freebies, inspiration

569

0 comments

Purple Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a purple colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

735

0 comments

Top 6 Ugliest Web Design Company Websites

It’s not really hard to find beautiful websites, and it’s even easier to find beautiful websites of web design companies. I searched the web for quite a while and selected the top 6 ugliest web design company websites. You won’t like them, i promise.

css-html, design, inspiration, misc

876

0 comments

10 Hot logo resources, 550+ free logos

A well designed logo, should give your business an impression of proffesionalism, it portrays the company’s aims and objectives and separates you from the competition. On this site you will find listed some interesting brand ideas, which come in many different formats, all are fully editable.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, logo

1292

1 comment

Inspiration: 50 Fabulous Photo Illlustration

Photo illustartion is all about Illustrators that use Photoshop to digitally create collage and montage style illustration.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

674

1 comment

35 Epic and Awesome Inspirational Wallpapers

35 Epic and Awesome Inspirational Wallpapers gathered from Deviant Art

design, inspiration, wallpaper

1191

1 comment

2009

9

DEC

30+ Amazing Examples of Famous Caricatures

One of the great things about Montreal (the city I am from) is all the activities that go on here all year long. If you have ever visited Montreal in the summertime and have gone down by the river to the part of the city called Old Montreal you would have seen that there are lots of artists lined up in the streets waiting to do caricature illustrations of you.

design, graphic, inspiration

656

1 comment

2009

8

DEC

jQuery Masonry - Floating content - The easy way!

Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

2246

1 comment

Marketcircle Giveaway Contest - Free Licenses For Professional Time Billing App

The useful giveaway for freelancers with 3 free licenses for Professional Time Billing App Billings 3.

freebies, inspiration

562

0 comments

60 Humorous Print Advertisements to Tickle Your Bones

The use of humor has become a common practice in advertising. Humor is by no means a guarantee of better ads but its effect can be enhanced with careful consideration of their objectives as well as the audience, situation, and type.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc

764

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Mike Campau

A showcase of brilliant designs from the extremely talented, Mike Campau

design, graphic, inspiration

712

1 comment

27 Incredible Eiffel Tower Photos At Night

Have you ever been to PARIS? Well if you say Yes then no problem but if not then you have to.You know there are many special cities in the world which all have to be visited and of course Paris is one them

inspiration, photography

919

0 comments

2009

7

DEC

Who-Tweet Button: Fancy jQuery Plugin for Twitter

I took the Topsy retweet button and jQuery-fied it, then added the "Who" part to it using the awesome Topsy API. to create this fancy share count button for your stories on twitter.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

884

0 comments

50 Beautiful Web Application Sites

Everything about a web app site needs to reflect the great design and user experience the customer can expect from the actual product. Here's a striking selection of effective web application sites.

design, inspiration

1741

1 comment

40 Mind Blowing Female Vexel Illustrations

40 Mind Blowing Female Vexel Illustrations gathered from Deviant Art

design, inspiration, misc, photoshop

975

0 comments

Great Animations by Pablo Zaramella

Showcase of the excellent work of Pablo Zaramella, an illustrator and animator from Argentina.

inspiration, video

667

0 comments

2009

6

DEC

40+ Examples of Character Illustration

We all like cartoon characters because it makes us happy. Digital artist and painters always create character illustrator to show there imagination. So we have collected some amazing examples of character illustration from behance and devaintart. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

898

1 comment

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #31

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

738

1 comment

2009

4

DEC

20 Amazing Digital Artists You Should Know

Most graphic and web designers have a fairly good knowledge of Photoshop or other image creation tools. However, some people take their expertise and talent by spending countless hours working on it, the result being some stunning digital artworks. The following collection introduces you to twenty amazing digital artists and one of their creations.

design, graphic, inspiration

593

0 comments

Choosing the right freelance Business

When you are considering going freelance, there is a set of decisions that must be made. First, you must decide whether or not working at home is right for you. Next, you need to consider what type of work at home job you will be doing.

freelance4money

549

0 comments

Why Do We Love These 5 Fresh and Awesome jQuery Plugins?

Enjoy the post of 5 fresh and awesome jQuery plugins, then you will find out why we love them by their cool features.

ajax, design, inspiration, javascript

808

0 comments

2009

3

DEC

50 Most Beautiful Tree Photography Ever

50 Most Beautiful Tree Photography Ever seen before, all gathered from Deviant Art

inspiration, photography, photoshop

786

0 comments

Yellow Website Showcase

A showcase of the very best websites using a yellow colour scheme

design, graphic, inspiration

672

1 comment

2009

2

DEC

100 Kickass Photo Manipulation Art Examples

Following 100 Kickass Photo Manipulation Art Examples are a great source for inspiration. “Photo Manipulation” is an art, a combination of photography and graphic design. This art has been used for improved story-telling and self-expression. Blending and mixing a bunch of different photos and creating one kickass photo from it is not an easy task. This require some great skills.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

1009

1 comment

Highcharts - The most interactive Charting JavaScript-Library

Highcharts is a plugin which is focused on the interactive graphical analysis of data and can be operated either by using the JavaScript library jQuery or MooTools, and works on the iPhone, and the IE6.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1308

0 comments

Oldest Design Galleries

CSS galleries have been around for a long time, but just which ones came first?

design, inspiration

626

1 comment

36 Do It Yourself Gift Box Tutorials For Your Christmas Presents

Make this Christmas special by giving it a personal touch. All these tutorials are fairly easy to follow, although there are some harder ones too. Materials should be easily accessible because they are mostly made of paper, card board, and plastic. Whichever gift box you choose to make, we are almost certain that you will succeed.

design, inspiration, tips, tutorial

729

0 comments

30 Spectacular Magical Photo Manipulations

30 Spectacular Magical Photo Manipulations gathered from Deviant Art

inspiration, misc, photography, photoshop

749

0 comments

31 Awesome Examples of Typography Art for Inspiration

In this post I'm presenting some beautiful pieces of Typography Art which I have collected from across the web. These all Typography Arts are for inspiration purpose only to help creative designers.

578

0 comments

2009

1

DEC

Flash Design Showcase #6

A showcase of the very best flash websites for your inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

659

0 comments

2009

30

NOV

30+ Error 404 page designs

A creative person is one who can make a client stick to his/her service despite the fact the service is not provided in your particular arena.

design, inspiration

webanddesigners

742

0 comments

2009

29

NOV

Showcase of 30+ Blog Designs With Awesome Datetime Display

This round up will show you more than 30 web blogs that are doing well with their posts date displaying.

css-html, design, inspiration, trend

726

0 comments

50 Perfect Portfolio Websites - InspirationTime

An effective portfolio site has to make the designer's past work look amazing, as well as expressing their personality and creativity. This is a gallery of portfolio websites that get the balance right.

css-html, design, inspiration

919

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #30

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

2009

27

NOV

Inspirational Web Design: 50+ Beautifully Designed Blogs

If you are in the middle of designing a blog for yourself or a client and need some inspiration, this article is just right for you. In this collection of beautifully designed blogs, you will see some great examples that will get your creative juices flowing. I hope that after viewing these blogs you will complete your project with ease.

design, inspiration, wordpress

675

0 comments

Interactive jQuery Plugins - Shopping-Cart, Fancy-Captcha, Sticky-Note, ...

jQuery Plugins are good and easy possibility to get your users more interactive. This Collection of jQuery-Plugins show you how! Watch a drag & drop based Shopping-Cart, a Fancy-Captcha, movable Sticky-Note, jQSlickWrap, iPhone-like password field and more ...

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

3071

1 comment

How to Use Twitter with Prospects and Clients Before, During and After Web Design Projects

There’s no question that social media has reshaped the way we do business online. Used correctly, Twitter can become an integral part of your projects from client screening to web site integration to ongoing client education and interaction. In this post I will step through some ideas on integrating Twitter with your projects and clients before, during and after the project process.

design, inspiration, tips

530

0 comments

2009

26

NOV

The most stylish Websites of November 2009

Our editor team has chosen the 4 most beautiful websites in NOVEMBER. We congratulate the winners - they get our CSSstyle.me GOLD DESIGN AWARD for good and creative design.

css-html, design, inspiration

1029

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Mike Mitchell

A showcase of stunning illustration from the extremely talented, Mike Mitchell

design, graphic, inspiration

643

1 comment

2009

25

NOV

29 Beautiful HDR Photography by Scorpion Entity

29 Beautiful HDR Photography by Scorpion Entity gathered from deviant art

inspiration, photography

779

0 comments

40 Free Music Themed iPhone Wallpapers

iPhones as we already know, have so many different applications. One of my favorite uses of my iPhone is as a mp3 player. I just love listening to various styles of music while i am working. In this article I have compiled an amazing collection of iphone wallpaper that is music inspired.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

1388

1 comment

2009

24

NOV

T-shirt Design: 50+ Awesome Examples

If you’re like me, you love your tees. It’s all about the comfort and casual style when it comes to the hip t-shirt designs that are out there today. Everyone wants to walk down the street and have peoples’ heads turn and envy their newest tee.

design, graphic, inspiration

1233

1 comment

31 Stunning Futuristic Scifi Illustrations

31 Stunning Futuristic Scifi Illustrations and digital artworks

inspiration, misc, wallpaper

680

0 comments

Weekly Inspiration No. 04

Again we collected some examples for great design and wonderful artwork. Espacially for those who are interested in creative product design this blog should be very inspiring

550

0 comments

Guerrilla Advertising – Creative Attention Seeking #3

A showcase of fantastic guerrilla advertising solutions

design, graphic, inspiration

655

0 comments

2009

23

NOV

5 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins Were Born in November 2009

In November 2009, 5 jQuery plugins were born and most of people believed that they are useful for web designers. Enjoy the 5 fresh jQuery plugins!

ajax, design, inspiration, javascript

1060

0 comments

Top 20 Business Cards

In this article we give you our top 20 business card designs in hopes that you will get inspired by them to create your own masterpiece.

design, graphic, inspiration, seo, tips

833

0 comments

Say it Loud! 60 Websites with Huge Typography

Design is all about communication, and if you want to communicate something loudly and clearly, write it large! Here's a selection of great websites that use big type to convey big messages.

design, inspiration

680

0 comments

2009

22

NOV

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #29

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

603

0 comments

2009

21

NOV

Checking in Hotel Web Design: 50 Cosy Hotel Websites and Trends

Hotels often take great extend in trying to provide the perfect ambiance and atmosphere for their customer. However, most of the hotels overlook the importance of providing a great website which will eventually be the gateway for their business.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1058

0 comments

2009

20

NOV

15 Free Wordpress Themes

Wordpress is blogging software that helps people who normally do not have any programming skills or design skills get their blogs on line with little or no effort. In this article we will showcase top 15 Wordpress designs that are FREE and we think anyone looking to spice up their blog should use.

design, freebies, inspiration, template, wordpress

1002

1 comment

Best Wordpress Themes Websites Every Blogger Should Bookmark | Smashing Share

A blogger always need a professional Wordpress Theme. When started Smashing Share as a Blogger three months back, I went through all wordpress themes website. There are a lot of paid and free wordpress themes available.

freebies, inspiration, template, wordpress

865

0 comments

22 Beautiful and Inspiring Photos You Probably Haven’t Seen Yet

These wonderful collection from photographers around the world uses their imagination to creatively capture these photos

inspiration, photography

629

0 comments

Visual Cheat Sheet: IE 8 and Firefox 3.5 Keyboard Shortcuts

In this post I am sharing a visual cheat sheet that will improve your day-to-day web browsing experience. This cheat sheet created by me and it is divided into two pages, page 1 contains a IE 8 keyboard shortcuts and page 2 contains firefox keyboard shortcuts.

freebies, inspiration

967

0 comments

2009

19

NOV

Inspirational Artwork: Hugo Boss Fragrance

I have always been very interested in fashion and keeping up with the latest trends or what the latest hot fragrance is. Hugo, by Hugo Boss is a fragrance that was very popular in the late 90s and early 2000s among young adults and all though it was introduced almost 15 years ago it has stood the test of time.

design, graphic, inspiration

565

0 comments

30 Amazing Celebrity and Models Pencil Sketches

30 Amazing Celebrity and Models Pencil Sketches artworks and illustrations , worth watching

inspiration, misc

853

0 comments

Interview with Interactive Media and Web Application Developer Derek Entringer

Derek Entringer is a talented Interactive Media/Web Application Developer whose talents include a mixture of multimedia and application development that allows him to create dynamic and engaging projects.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

558

0 comments

Green Website Showcase

An inspirational showcase of green websites

design, graphic, inspiration

693

1 comment

2009

18

NOV

Best Magento Themes

Magento is a eCommerce website engine, just for my input I also think that Magento offers the best FREE cart solution on the market. In this article we give you our top 10 skins or themes that we have run across. All of the themes we list are FREE as of the posting of this article.

design, freebies, inspiration, mysql, php

1737

1 comment

405 Web Design Blogs You Should NOT Read (and 14 you should)

Sure, reading blogs is necessary for inspiration and to improve your web design skills. But have you ever noticed how time-consuming it is? Fortunately, I have a solution!

freebies, inspiration, misc

886

1 comment

2009

17

NOV

30 Premium Quality Free Wordpress Themes

30 Premium Quality Free Wordpress Themes and Templates

design, inspiration, template, wordpress

1068

0 comments

Amazing Website Footers

The newest trend in great website design is the implementation of the site footer. The footer is slowly becoming as important to the layout of the website as the header is. Back in the day this was just blank space with links or some general content, but now there is images and it is visually appealing. In this article we showcase some of the greatest footer designs from around the internet.

design, graphic, inspiration, template, wordpress

1095

1 comment

14 Stunning And Surreal Cityscapes Made With 3D And Painting Software

Yes they are surreal and imagined, but they also can represent futuristic visions at the same time, so we simply can not avoid the following question. As materials, technology, and humans in general, evolve even more in the future, will we ever live in cities that somewhat look like those you are about to see?

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

735

0 comments

2009

16

NOV

15 Spectacular Mythological Beasts Illustrations

15 Spectacular Mythological Beasts Illustrations gathered from deviant art , includes histories and overviews of these creatures

inspiration, misc, photoshop, wallpaper

610

0 comments

Post to TwitterCreative And Clever Single Page Portfolio Websites, 40 Stunning Examples

Single Page Portolios for Your Inspiration. Here you can see a showcase of creative and well-designed websites that could inspire you. Enjoy!

design, inspiration

612

0 comments

7 Great Stories From The Past Week You Should Check Out

As we aim to help the community and provide you with the best possible resources, we’ve put up a list of seven great stories from our colleagues that you probably shouldn’t miss from the past week.

design, graphic, inspiration, misc, photoshop

550

0 comments

Business Card Showcase Sites and more

A business card it`s a very important part of our business, It`s our presentation, usually it`s the first thing our (soon to be) clients se from us, so we have to pay extra attention to it`s design, with this post you`ll learn a couple of things. Here we have a couple sites that showcases, among other design related stuff, business cards, hope you enjoy it.

design, inspiration

679

0 comments

Photoshop - Winter-Tutorials

Photoshop - Step-by-Step Winter-Tutorials, including a Matte-Painting-Tutorial

inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

1236

2 comments

2009

15

NOV

30 Single page portfolio design for design inspiration

Single page portfolio are being used by many designers to present their project or work.

design, graphic, inspiration

webanddesigners

1006

0 comments

30 New and Promising Design Blogs You Should Know

This article presents 30 new and promising design blogs you should know that are worth checking out. Blogs featured here discuss about web design, Photoshop, WordPress, development, graphic design and much more.

design, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial, wordpress

1014

1 comment

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #28

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

602

0 comments

2009

14

NOV

38 Websites Using Horizontal Scrolling

Horizontal websites are quite rare, but when done properly they can really make a website standout. Horizontal scrolling on websites used to be avoided but for some designers, the decision to use horizontal scrolling is as much a part of the design as choosing the colors.

design, inspiration, trend

1406

0 comments

35 Randomly Selected Beautiful Vector Illustrations

35 Randomly Selected Beautiful Vector Illustrations gathered from deviant art . a must see post

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

629

0 comments

21 Awesome Piece of Digital CMYK Art

For those who don’t know what CMYK represents here is a short explanation. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key or Black Well with those basics covered, we can proceed further and see what artists can produce while using those primary colors as their inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

702

0 comments

2009

12

NOV

Freebies: Social Media Icons for Your Blog

If you’ve been visiting your favorite websites or blogs recently, you have probably noticed that almost all websites have social media icons such as digg, delicious, twitter and facebook on many sections of their site. Most web designers today know the importance of using these social networks and incorporating them into their clients designs.

freebies, icon, inspiration

703

0 comments

10 Wordpress Plugins To Boost Up Your Theme You Have Ever Known

This post contains 10 wordpress plugins that help you to boost up your wordpress design. Some of plugins in this collection based on the ideas around the web blog design posts. Enjoy it!

design, inspiration, trend, wordpress

782

0 comments

Flash Design Showcase #5

A showcase of the very best flash websites for your inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

575

0 comments

35 best twitter backgounds theme

Although TWITTER is restricted to personal themes, which is confined to only color and background changes. Designers have been showing off their creativity by designing innovative and creative background adding up with color combination to show their skills or designing knowledge.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

webanddesigners

696

0 comments

Best of High-Dynamic-Range - Fotos, Weblogs, Tutorials, Software, Books

This Article includes some interesting HDR-Fotos and informations to HDR-Weblogs, HDR-Tutorials, HDR-Software and HDR-Books

inspiration, photography, photoshop, tutorial

Webstandard-Team

713

0 comments

Photoshop: Winter-Brushes & -Textures

Winter-ReDesign? The following ressource-collection includes brushes & textures for all the winter stuff - snow, snowflakes, ice, icicle, etc.

inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

1355

1 comment

2009

11

NOV

Website Design: Beautiful Vintage and Retro Inspired Designs

In the last couple of months I have been working on bringing you series of website design inspiration articles. In this post, I would like to concentrate on some really great vintage and retro inspired designs. Although these styles are from two different era’s, they both have an old-fashioned feel to them.

design, inspiration

1263

0 comments

The Characteristics of a Less Conventional Website with Examples

The evolution of web design has changed significantly over the past 50 years. Back then, a Geocity webpage could be as simple as a brochure, using a multi colored background and gaudy text effects.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

649

0 comments

10 Awesome Portfolios from argentinian Freelancers

10 of the best portfolios of argentinian graphic/web designers. If your looking for some inspiration to create your own portfolio I recommend you to read this post and check all the links. I have selected this 10 sites because of the diversity of designs and implementation.

design, inspiration

787

0 comments

35 Most Creative Web Design Interfaces

35 Most Creative Web Design Interfaces gathered from deviant art for inspiration

design, graphic, inspiration

770

0 comments

31 Innovative, unique, and inspiring example of calendar design

As much as they are useful for keeping track of time, calendars can also represent a great addition to successful company or self branding and promotion. They usually come within company packages but they can also be distributed as standalone pieces at fairs, conventions, or other forms of specially organized occasions and events.

design, inspiration

1892

0 comments

Weekly Inspiration No. 03

For artists and artlovers: New illustrations, photographies, businesscard designs and many more.. get inspired!

495

0 comments

111 Sites To Submit Your Design Related Articles

I know you can find some posts about submitting your design related articles to various blogs but i think this is one of the biggest collection

design, freebies, inspiration, tools

645

0 comments

2009

10

NOV

Inspirational Business Cards: 100+ Various Examples

When we first launched designrfix.com, my initial design post was titled: 40+ simple and elegant business card designs. Since then, we have released two other posts about business cards. All three articles have been very useful in inspiring the design community.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

857

0 comments

Designer Showcase - SHORT

A showcase of wonderful illustrations from SHORT

design, graphic, inspiration

515

0 comments

12 Domain Name Auction Sites for Webmasters

In this post I am sharing few good sites to help web masters to auction their old domains at a good value. Following list includes famous sites like Sedo, Afternic, Bido, GoDaddy, DomainAuctions and NameSeek etc.

inspiration, seo, tools

717

0 comments

2009

9

NOV

Dissection of Holy Websites: Modern Church Web Design Trends & 88 Inspiration

Churches website have evolved immensely over recent years with the introduction of social media and advancement of web technologies and standards. Most churches has realized that in order to reach out to the world, they could not neglect the importance of the Internet

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

990

1 comment

30 Icon Design Tutorials in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator

Have you ever thought how those beautiful icons which all of us make use of them in our web designing projects are made? Here are 30 Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials about “how to design most beautiful and fully detailed icons in Photoshop and Illustrator”.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration, photoshop

946

0 comments

Impressive International Webdesign Portfolios - Be inspired!

Small but very interesting and impressive Portfolio-Selection of international Webdesigners from Hungary Croatia, Netherlands, Columbia and many many more!

inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

729

0 comments

2009

8

NOV

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #27

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

766

0 comments

2009

6

NOV

25 inspirational blogs for content and graphics

You have no idea what you want to talk about in the next post, nor have the inspiration to start designing a new project? Just have a look in here. A small collection of websites that gets me inspired.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

703

0 comments

2009

5

NOV

30 Unique and Artistic Website Designs

Being a web designer i am always after inspirational and unique web sites. Now a days there are lots of web site designing trends going on, the most effective is using cool graphics and illustrations or anything else that can make design unique.

design, graphic, inspiration

1087

1 comment

Vector Artwork: 50+ Inspirational Creations

Vector artwork has always intrigued me. When executed correctly, these creations can be simply stunning. In this post, I have assembled an amazing collection of vector artwork design which will truly inspire you. Each artist showcased has their own unique vector style. Hopefully one of these creations will inspire you to create your own amazing design. Enjoy!

design, graphic, inspiration

652

1 comment

Interview with a pro – Whyisbox

An interview with illustrator and creator of NewSugar Magazine, Whyisbox

design, graphic, inspiration

511

0 comments

Top Photoshop Tutorials

Top Photoshop Tutorials: From Homer Simpson as Cartoon-Figure, Icon-Design, Background-Images, ...

inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

527

0 comments

Vintage, HDR, Blur & Co. - Photoshop - Tutorials

Create your own Vintage-, HDR- or Blur-Effects with Photoshop and watch the Screencast "Natural Beauty Retouching with Photoshop".

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

834

1 comment

Photoshop-Actions The easy way to a perfect picture

Awesome collection of Photoshop-Actions + Screencast "How to create a "Photoshop-Action"!

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

649

0 comments

Twitter Fever: 55 Extraordinary Twitter Button & Icon Sets

Twitter fever is upon us and it will definitely stay with us for awhile. Whether you are a web designer, blogger, or developer, you simply cannot ignore the Twitter phenomenon

design, freebies, inspiration, logo

575

0 comments

12 advanced and creative can designs worth watching

Don't miss these 12 examples for creative and advanced packaging design for cans!

design, inspiration

550

0 comments

2009

4

NOV

We Have 30 Beautiful Fat Foots To Respond To The Showcase of Big Heads Guys

This showcase contains 30 beautiful design with the Fat Foot which known as Oversized Footer.

css-html, design, inspiration, trend

689

0 comments

2009

3

NOV

Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design

In the 90s, many areas of design- including fashion, home interiors, garden, and furniture, have evidenced a paring down to simple workable solutions. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in graphic design.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

918

0 comments

Freebies: Apple Inspired iPhone Wallpapers

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about how the Apple iPhone is one of the most popular tech gadgets out there and the extent to which users have the ability to customize the phone to their personal taste. That post was titled: Free iPhone Wallpaper: 70+ Creative 3d Designs.

design, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

763

0 comments

Red Website Showcase

An inspirational showcase of red websites

design, graphic, inspiration

826

1 comment

10 Utile Resources For Web Designers and Developers

In this post I am going to share some very useful resources for web designers and developers. This includes Snipplr, UserCake, MockFlow, JQuery Max Image, Ecsstender and Bestwebframeworks etc.

freebies, inspiration

724

0 comments

2009

2

NOV

Weekly Inspiration No. 02

If you liked our last inspirational blog, you'll love this one, too. Smashing illustrations, stunning designs, gorgeous paintings and much more!

design, inspiration, photography

542

0 comments

40+ Stunning and Creative Graffiti Artworks

Most people have the impression that graffiti was started by young vandals trying to “make a statement”, however graffiti has been known to go as far back as 30 000BC. The Ancient Romans and Ancient Greeks, used to scribble on their walls, descriptions of their current day events.

design, graphic, inspiration

566

0 comments

2009

1

NOV

Smashing Magazine Redesigned, Introducing Smashing Network – With VIDEO!

This Halloween holiday, 18 extraordinary blogs come together with only one absolute goal in mind to form the Smashing Network.

freebies, inspiration, misc, video

764

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #26

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

577

0 comments

2009

31

OCT

40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos

Your source of inspiration plays a very important part of successfully designing you next project. Here at Designrfix.com, we are always in search of ideas to fuel our creativity. In this article you will find a collection of 40+ Beautiful Fish Inspired Logos.

design, graphic, inspiration, logo

775

0 comments

2009

30

OCT

Interactive Webdesign with CSS and jQuery

There excists Animation without JavaScript, but just with CSS3 and Safari 4. Therefore the Webstandardblog presents a small collection of "Moving-Effects" ( toggle, fade (in + out), slide ) for Images, Navigations and Text-Content.

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

1029

0 comments

2009

29

OCT

45 Stunning Wood Textured Websites

Adding a touch of wood textures would make any websites stand out. Here's a huge list of stunning wood textured websites.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

780

0 comments

2009

28

OCT

50 Hot New Tutorials From Around The Web

Tutorials can often be your greatest source of inspiration when trying to design that project you have been putting off. In this post, I have rounded up a collection of very useful tutorials from around the web from the month of October.

icon, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

700

0 comments

26 Captivating Wodpress Comment Form

Need inspiration for your form? Check out these 26 well-designed and beautiful comment forms, I'm sure it will bring you inspiration in form design.

design, graphic, inspiration, wordpress

5986

12 comments

26 Eye-Catching Long Exposure Photographs

Long exposure is really amazing photography technique to capture light and movement. These are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using neutral density filters or specially designed cameras.

inspiration, photography

720

0 comments

2009

27

OCT

Webstandards - The Power of JavaScript (jQuery) and CSS

The following collection with interesting functions is showing you the way of jQuery.

ajax, css-html, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

836

0 comments

Photoshop Grunge Brushes - The ultimate Collection

If your are looking for some Photoshop Grunge Brushes, don't miss "The ultimate Collection of Photoshop Grunge Brushes". Also included 2 Screencasts with "Create your own grunge Brush" & "How to load Brushes into Photoshop"!

design, freebies, inspiration, photoshop

Webstandard-Team

888

0 comments

Designer Showcase - Fernando Volken Togni

Have a look at the amazing graphic design work of Fernando Volken Togni

design, graphic, inspiration

649

0 comments

2009

26

OCT

Showcase of 40+ Woody Textured Websites with Texture Resources

One of the latest trends in web design is combining the use of textures, images, graphics and type. As there are a wide range of texture resources available, catering to any look and feel is not a problem.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

743

0 comments

jQuery - The easy way to navigate

15 different solutions to navigate through websites. The JavaScript-Framework "jQuery" is going to show you "how"!

ajax, inspiration, javascript

Webstandard-Team

967

0 comments

2009

25

OCT

Designer Showcase: Gorgeous Works by Cristiano Siqueira

Cristiano Siqueira is a digital illustrator from Brazil. He is also known as CrisVector. With very little formal training, being mostly self-taught, he has risen to become a truly talented designer. His stunning creations blends 3d characters, vector graphics and amazing uses of vivid colors.

design, graphic, inspiration

735

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #25

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

617

0 comments

2009

24

OCT

60 Breathtaking Smoke Art

Use of smoke in digital art or in graphics design will increase the overall looks of any art. Here we have collected some smoke art photos and creation for design inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration, photography

671

1 comment

30+ Best Firefox Addons for Web Designers and Developers

There is a huge list of Firefox Addons or Extensions available to download but here today we will discuss only 30+ Best Firefox Addons for Web Designers and Developers. You are not required to download or install all Firefox Addons or Extensions. There is a little brief with each Firefox Addon so you can read and decide which Addon suites you.

browser, inspiration, tools

1404

0 comments

2009

23

OCT

Realistic 3D Graffiti Inspiration

Love it or hate it graffiti has been very influential in design. With graffiti pioneers like Daim, realistic 3D graffiti pieces have pushed the limits on what you can do with spraypaint. Check out the detail in the letters, shadows, and colors. You will surely get inspiration for your next typography design your working with.

inspiration, misc

667

0 comments

33+ Digital Art and Photomanipulations by AZRainman

I got inspired from Retired young entrepreneur AZRainman, who’s is now working on his karmic balance sheet.

459

0 comments

2009

22

OCT

Skies The Limit - Websites With A Sky In The Theme

A showcase of web designs featuring the sky in their theme

design, graphic, inspiration

658

0 comments

2009

21

OCT

Website Design: 50+ Photographer Portfolios

I have always found that photography websites have been of a different breed of web design. With their use of Flash technology, unique navigational menus, and clean minimalistic design, these website let the photographer’s pictures do the talking.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

827

0 comments

65 Typography Examples for Inspiration

Typography is an art of collecting and arranging text and characters in three or two dimension view. So here we have collected some stunning examples of typography for design inspiration.

graphic, inspiration

935

0 comments

2009

20

OCT

Designer Showcase - Alex Beltechi

A showcase of the stunning design work from Alex Beltechi

design, graphic, inspiration

574

1 comment

2009

19

OCT

Research of Lingerie Industry Web Design: Trends and 33 Sexy Examples

Most people are visually inclined to beautiful and sexy images. This concept is especially important if you are selling something sexy. What’s better place to start with than the lingerie wear industry?

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1266

0 comments

2009

18

OCT

Compilation of Amazing CG Portraits

Since my last post on CG portraits, I have been collecting other realistic portraits for you to view. These portraits never seize to amaze me. All of these works of art are rendered to perfection, giving the illusion that you are actually looking at a real person.

graphic, inspiration

611

0 comments

Weekly Web Design Inspiration #24

A showcase of the very best web designs from the last week

design, graphic, inspiration

656

0 comments

2009

16

OCT

Upload Robots: Free fast file uploading service

Upload Robots is a cool new service that allows you to upload files free with a slick mac-like interface.

ajax, freebies, inspiration, javascript, tools

808

0 comments

Free iPhone Wallpaper: 70+ Creative 3d Designs

The iPhone has to be the most popular tech gadget that has been released in the past few years. As a telephone, a messaging tool or a multimedia device, the iPhone serves a purpose for everyone. One of the biggest reasons this device has gained so much popularity is because of its ability to be customized to it’s user’s personal taste.

freebies, graphic, inspiration, wallpaper

775

0 comments

52 Beautiful Vector Illustrations and Designs

52 Beautiful Vector Illustrations and Designs

design, graphic, inspiration

704

0 comments

2009

15

OCT

Contact Us Page Best Practices with 22 Fabulous Showcases

In the entire world wide web, most sites, be it large or small, contain the Contact Us page. The purpose of the Contact Us page is to get your clients or customers to talk to you or enquire more about your services, ultimately it is to generate potential businesses for your company.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

994

0 comments

Inspirational Showcase of Sports Websites

Here you can see a showcase of awesome (in my opinion) sport-related websites that could inspire you. Enjoy!

design, inspiration, trend

663

0 comments

25 Stylish and Outstanding Login Forms

This time we will focus on one of the design elements - the Login Form. I have collected a list of login forms that are well styled and decorated and I'm pretty sure it'll inspire you!

design, inspiration

20029

7 comments

2009

14

OCT

CG Artwork: Superheroes and Villains

With the anticipation of movies Iron Man 2 and Spider-Man 4 being released in the near future, I have decided to bring to you some amazing Superhero and villain inspired CG artwork such as Iron Man, Spider-man, Batman and The Joker just to name a few.

design, graphic, inspiration

657

0 comments

2009

13

OCT

60 Marvelous Motion Blur Photos for Inspiration

Motion Blur is used to show the sense of speed and motion. Some designer achieve this using photoshop and photographers use to take this kind of photos using camera with slow shutter speed. So here we have collected some marvelous motion blur photos for inspiration.

inspiration, photography, photoshop

874

0 comments

35 Beautiful Anime Manga Style Art and Illustration

35 Beautiful Anime Manga Style Art and Illustration its way too beautiful

1011

0 comments

Stunning Art Of Digital Artist Kerem Beyit

Kerem Beyit is from Turkey and currently working as a freelancer. He has been in digital area for four years and has been awarded on many CG related sites.

design, graphic, inspiration

568

0 comments

2009

12

OCT

Best of the Web for the Week of October 4, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of October 4, 2009. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

651

0 comments

2009

11

OCT

Designer Showcase: The Unmistakable Creations of Alberto Seveso

Alberto Seveso is both an illustrator and graphic designer from Italy. His creations are simply mind blowing. To achieve his works of art he maximizes the use of Illustrator and Photoshop.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

746

0 comments

2009

9

OCT

70+ Apple Inspired Desktop Wallpapers

It’s that time of month again! Time to change your wallpaper to something new and exciting. I have always found that by updating my wallpaper on a monthly (and sometimes weekly) basis, it gives me a sense of being in a new work space thereby motivating me to get my day to day tasks done easier.

design, freebies, graphic, inspiration, logo

926

0 comments

40+ simple and elegant business card designs

The business card is the first thing that is exchanged when meeting a new potential client or business contact. Even in new world of digital media, the business card is still an important piece of initial exchange in the world of commerce. Lately, I have noticed that many business cards today are being designed with a creative edge.

design, graphic, inspiration

1298

0 comments

2009

7

OCT

60+ Beautiful Websites Showcasing Minimalist Design

Minimalist design means using simple and basic elements only in the design. This article showcase minimalism in web design.

1026

0 comments

2009

5

OCT

Creative Uses of Illustration in Website Design

One thing I love to see in web design is how artists and designers take a certain style of design and incorporate it into their websites.

design, graphic, inspiration

742

0 comments

2009

4

OCT

Typography Showcase: 70+ Amazing Examples

Typography is everywhere! The use of Illustration of text is on every web page and every modern designer's artwork out there. Typography allows every graphic artist to provoke feelings and mood in their designs.

design, graphic, inspiration

1000

0 comments

2009

2

OCT

Creative Photoshop Human Body Photo Manipulation

Photo manipulation is the coolest things to do with Photoshop and its get crazy if designers do experiments on human body.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop

1310

0 comments

2009

1

OCT

30 Gorgeous Horizontal Menus for Inspiration

It never easy to create an unique and attractive website navigation. In this post, I have collected 30 inspiring and beautiful horizontal menu that I'm sure will give you some ideas for your website project.

design, inspiration

17342

5 comments

100++ jQuery Tutorial and Plugin Collections on September

All sort of tutorials and plugins. Tooltips, carousal, image slider, gallery, calendar, clock, rich text editors, tab interface, everything you need in jQuery. This is a roundup post for September and handpick from the community news.

inspiration, javascript, tutorial

26468

5 comments

2009

30

SEP

50+ Brilliantly Rendered Designs of Concept Cars

When I was younger, one of my passions was drawing many different types of cars. I was always intrigued by automotive vehicles, especially the elegant and sporty ones.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop

613

0 comments

2009

29

SEP

A Discovery Into 30 Beautiful And Inspirational Korean Websites Design

Korean Internet Industry has been growing in recent years and more than 80 percent of their households in South Korea are connected with broadband access.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

767

0 comments

40+ Creative Business Card Designs that will Inspire You

Are you at a point where you are having difficulty coming up with your next business card design? Sometimes all you need is a little boost of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing.

graphic, inspiration

946

1 comment

Best of the Web for the Week of September 20, 2009

Today we are showcasing “Best of the Web”. We have scoured the internet in search of other design driven blogs and websites to showcase what they have to offer for the week of September 20, 2009. There is plenty of great stuff out there such as tutorials, freebies, resources and lots of inspirational pieces. I am confident that your designs will benefit from these hot new finds.

graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper, wordpress

657

0 comments

2009

28

SEP

45 Favorite Designers and Developers you must follow on Twitter

In this post I am sharing a list of some popular peoples that every designer and developer must follow. These following list includes categories like art direction, web design, graphic design, illustration, typography etc.

design, inspiration

861

1 comment

Inspiration: Collection of Some Amazing 3d Robots

One of our first post’s was titled: Computer Graphics – 50+ stunning creations of 3d robots. We had some great feedback from our viewers considering it was one of our first articles. Today I have put together another brilliant collection of 3d robots from some talented CG artists that will truly inspire you to create your own. I hope you guys like these ones as much as the others. Enjoy!

graphic, inspiration

626

0 comments

2009

25

SEP

15 Attractive Javascript Carousel Plugins

A lot of websites use Javascript Carousel to showcase its products, portfolio and also as a image gallery. I have collected 14 Javascript Carousel made with jQuery, Mootool, Prototype and Yahoo Framework and I am sure you will be able to find one that suits you.

design, inspiration, javascript

60915

11 comments

30 Beautiful and Inspiring Website Headers

I have compiled a list of websites with beautiful and attractive headers. Most of these websites are featured in many CSS galleries because of its uniqueness and well-designed graphics.

design, inspiration

16262

10 comments

2009

23

SEP

26 Beautiful and Inspiring Website Footers

A well designed website should have a presentable footer. If you have no ideas what you should put in the footer, I have 26 websites with inspiring footer and I believe it will give you inspirations.

design, inspiration

18787

13 comments

2009

21

SEP

PSD To HTML/XHTML & CSS Showcase

Exceptional code makes website accessible, cross browser compatible and of course search engine friendly too.

css-html, design, inspiration, trend

seosemanticxhtml

1182

0 comments

2009

20

SEP

Real Things In Modern Web Design, 30 Stunning And New Examples

In this collection we want to show how many web designers used some “real things” to make precious web-layouts. The websites show stuff that we use in our daily life, without leaving out the contents and holding the right balance between decorative elements and textual contents.

design, inspiration, trend

1089

0 comments

2009

14

SEP

16 Favorite Cheat Sheets for Web Design and Development

In this post I'm sharing some very excellent cheat sheets to help web designers and developers. These cheat sheets includes Photoshop, CSS, HTML, JQuery, PHP, MooTools, MySQL, Ruby on rails, Flash AS and much more.

inspiration, tools

1293

1 comment

28 Interesting Loader of Flash Sites

Here I am going to show some Interesting flash sites which will never bored you in the loading time; in fact, the loading time of these sites will amuse you.

1100

0 comments

2009

10

SEP

Awesome Designer Showcase – 123Klan

A designer showcase of the very talented creative studio working out of France, 123Klan

design, graphic, inspiration

885

0 comments

2009

8

SEP

Tuesday Morning Design Inspiration: I Need Coffee. Now.

It’s absolutely pouring rain right now in Ann Arbor, and as I’m sure you can guess, walking to class in the rain is about the worst thing in the world. It’s going to take a lot of coffee to motivate myself to do it, and I’m sure you all need some motivation and inspiration after the long weekend.

design, inspiration, tips, trend

809

0 comments

2009

7

SEP

August 2009, 50 Bookmarks To Collect the Best Of Web

The Best of Web selected by PV.M Garage. Every month I take a look around and select some of the most interesting readings and resources published on great websites. August was a very strange month. Beach, holidays, beer, travels… but the design community can’t stop, so in this roundup you’ll find very cool and juicy things.

freebies, inspiration, trend

869

0 comments

2009

6

SEP

24 Sites Powered By jQuery

You all know that jQuery has become more popular every day and it’s used to do amazing stuff on websites. I’ve [...]

inspiration, javascript

1522

0 comments

2009

2

SEP

30 Javascript Image and Photo Galleries - Mootool, Prototype, jQuery and Tutorials

I have collected 30 photo, image and thumbnail galleries for inspiration. They all are built with different javascript frameworks such as MooTool, Prototype and jQuery. Also, I have included some tutorials if you want to learn how to build it yourself.

inspiration, javascript, tools, tutorial

63088

11 comments

2009

1

SEP

10 best jQuery gallery and slider plugins

These are the best jquery image gallery and slider plugins i have been able to find. My favorite is SCROLLABLE from jQuery Tools. I hope you like them.

design, inspiration, javascript, usability

3149

1 comment

21 Simple and Useful jQuery Tutorials You Might Have Missed

Collection of menu, gallery, slider, tooltips, dock, modal window, ajax and jQuery turtorials. This is a round up post for all the jQuery tutorials I have created since March 2009.

design, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

36281

16 comments

2009

28

AUG

25 Creative web Designers Work from White Bears Land

When I was studying in Russia specially the time which I spent in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tula and Saransk, I realized that Russian Art is the most complete and expressive manifestation of the Russian creative genius.

design, inspiration, template

656

0 comments

2009

27

AUG

The Keynotes Of Web 2.0 Design Elements With 30 Dazzling Showcases

Web 2.0 culture has indeed change the way on how we look at the design of websites and the Internet.

design, inspiration, trend, usability

870

1 comment

40+ Beautiful And Well Designed Blogs Powered By Wordpress

Unique and beautiful blog design are essential for every blog. This article showcases 40+ beautiful blogs that powered by Wordpress.

design, inspiration, wordpress

2020

3 comments

30 Beautiful Contact Forms

Every now and then, you use a contact form. Maybe to contact your hosting provider, or to contact a designer, it really doesn’t matters. But what matters is the design, the style of that contact form. So I searched the net to find some nice contact forms and the result is below. Remember: this is [...]

2041

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase - Rod Hunt

A showcase of the amazing illustration talents of Rod Hunt

design, graphic, inspiration

677

0 comments

2009

26

AUG

When The Photography Makes Wonderful A Website, 30 Amazing Examples

The art of photography is one of the most communicative mediums of the modern society and it has many uses for business, science and art. Over the last years the development of digital photography has allowed a large use of photos also in Web Design. The last trends in the art of making good websites show a wide use of large photos to improve the harmony of the page.

inspiration, photography

659

0 comments

2009

25

AUG

Inspiring Digital Artists – Elsevilla

What makes him superb among other artist is his skill on minute details as he draw on canvas, for me his art is influenced and somehow similar to well-known master artists like Hyung Yae Kim and Miwa Shirow, but looking at his artwork, he has done nevertheless quite his own unique style, and that it is more inclined to anime-ish plus superb details.

design, graphic, inspiration, photoshop, wallpaper

849

0 comments

2009

24

AUG

50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolios

A great and creative portfolio is essential for every designer. This article showcases 50 beautiful and well designed portfolios for your inspiration.

design, inspiration

744

1 comment

2009

22

AUG

40 Stunning and Creative Web Sites

For designers working on different tools is not only important, they have to get daily dose of inspiration too. So for your inspiration i have arranged really amazing and creative web sites.

design, inspiration

761

0 comments

42 Creative & Excellent Examples Of Illustrations In Web Design

There are lots of styles and techniques to make a beautiful web design and making illustrated layouts is one of them. Adding illustrations to a web design is very easy way to give your site a uniqueness and take it to a whole new level.

design, inspiration

638

0 comments

High Quality Free PSD Templates

PSD files are generally a layered file that is proprietary to Adobe PhotoShop. PSDs are useful in that they can enable the designer to change colors to an image, add image layers, or remove image layers.

freebies, inspiration, photoshop

1385

0 comments

2009

20

AUG

5 Tips and Tricks For An Effective eCommerce Site With 10 Brilliant Examples

Customers appreciate the convenience of ordering online, but if a site is cumbersome, is veiled about its pricing and polices, or does not seem to provide personal benefit, they leave.

inspiration, misc, tips, usability

754

0 comments

2009

19

AUG

32 Extremely Useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress

Here I gathered, 32 useful Twitter Plugins for WordPress users, hope these will help you and make you smile.ould be caused by a misconfiguration, or possibly a malformed request.

inspiration, wordpress

706

0 comments

2009

17

AUG

The Remedies For A Great Designers’ Online Portfolio With 25 Impressive Showcases

Nowadays, it seems like almost every designer has a personal website to showcase their work. The importance of creating an online portfolio is essential in their success.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

650

0 comments

2009

13

AUG

Connecting Through Type And 20 Typography Inspirational Sites

In its most basic form, type is an interface. It communicates an intended message to the user, facilitates communication, and incites a response.

design, font, inspiration, usability

675

0 comments

2009

12

AUG

50+ HD Desktop Wallpapers For Your Inspiration - Abstract and 3D

A beautiful collection of 50+ HD Desktop Wallpapers For Your Inspiration - Abstract and 3D, colors and inspiration everywhere in this list. take a look to these beautiful images.

freebies, inspiration, wallpaper

1238

0 comments

32 Amazing Mini vCard Websites with Slick Javascript Animation

Have a look at these beautifully crafted javascript animated vcard websites. It's simple, beautiful and simply inspiring!

design, inspiration, trend

31448

20 comments

2009

11

AUG

Interview with Soh Tanaka, High-Skilled Web Designer and Front-End Developer

To continue meetings with hard-workers and helpful people in Web Design, I’m pleased to share this quick interview with Soh Tanaka. Soh is a passionate, high-skilled, Web Designer and Front-End Developer. He produces usable and aesthetically pleasing designs using XHTML and CSS structures.

css-html, design, inspiration, usability

1054

0 comments

2009

9

AUG

45 Funny Graphical Presentation of 404 Error Page

Today the error message is not bounded within a simple message, now this message comes with various visual presentations. Here you can see some great examples of this "404 error page" done by great designers.

graphic, inspiration

1070

0 comments

2009

7

AUG

The Analysis Of Great Photography Websites With 40 Talented Photographers’ Portfolios

Photography has not only evolved from a normal pastime to a favorite hobby but also an indispensable living trade for most photographers.

design, flash, inspiration, photography

933

0 comments

2009

6

AUG

24 Experimental Flash Sites For Your Inspiration

Here i have showcased 24 experimental flash sites for your inspiration in which designers used actionscript very well to produce these wonderful sites and tried not to follow usual trends.

design, inspiration

972

0 comments

15 Beautiful Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Desktop

I have handpicked 15 beautiful wallpapers that I like, and I want to share it to all of you.

design, inspiration, wallpaper

15126

7 comments

2009

5

AUG

20+ Amazing Portfolio Websites

When you are trying to show the world your capability in the area of web design, your website design portfolio is your portal to the world. The portfolio is the most essential website a web designer will ever create in his or her career, because its sole purpose is to show their knowledge, scope, talent, and skill.

design, graphic, inspiration

1417

0 comments

8 Tips to Release and Reinforce your Creative Muse

Through my experiences, I have accumulated some useful tips that I have used to get inspired and release my creative muse.....

design, inspiration, tips

780

0 comments

2009

31

JUL

20 Breathtaking Macro Photography Shots

One of the most fascinating forms of photography is the art of capturing the littlest of things and revealing such minute details that are not visible by the naked eye.

design, inspiration, photography

885

0 comments

July 2009, 50+ Bookmarks To Collect the Best Of Web

I hope you'll find useful these bookmarks. July was a very HOT MONTH! Below you can find very cool and juicy things.

design, freebies, inspiration, tutorial

1058

0 comments

2009

30

JUL

The Essence Of About Us Page With 12 Captivating Showcases

About Us are important for establishing trust because they let customers know that there are real people and a real organization behind an otherwise virtual world.

design, inspiration, trend, usability

1194

1 comment

30 Beautiful Raindrops Photography

Before capturing a photo of raindrops in your camera, you need to have an innovative mind, which will find the real beauty of raindrops from any place. For photo shooting of raindrops, you can take inspiration from the following photos.

inspiration, photography

1245

0 comments

30 Excellent Logo Design Galleries For Your Inspiration

Every designer need to know where to find inspiration, and here you have an excellent list of 30 of these such sites that showcases great logo design. If you need inspiration you should visit them.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

1119

0 comments

16 Impressive Flash-Like Javascript Animation Inspirations, Tutorials and Plugins

Create impressive animation with javascript, I have gathred a collection of websites that uses flash-like animation and also tutorials, plugins and frameworks that will definitely blow you away.

design, inspiration, javascript, tutorial

77728

26 comments

2009

29

JUL

25 Awesome Online Store Built with Magento

We can see lots of e-commerce sites which are powered by Magento. Now I’m going to show you some well-designed Magento based websites.

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2 comments

2009

28

JUL

An Exploration Into 25 Artistic And Traditional Japanese Websites

Japanese websites might seem pretty rare on the web and for those who doesn’t understand the Japanese language will have a hard time searching for them.

design, inspiration, photography, trend

840

0 comments

Call To Action, Best Practice

A guide to the best practices to use when designing your web sites call to action

design, graphic, inspiration

783

0 comments

2009

25

JUL

25 Beautiful And Creative Photography Sites

Two months ago i created a showcase of flash e-commerce sites, which was very much liked by my blog readers. Now i have collected 25 beautiful and creative photography sites.

1270

0 comments

2009

24

JUL

20 Awesome Reflection Photos For Your Inspiration

An excellent collection of 20 awesome handpicked reflection pictures for your inspiration.

inspiration, photography, photoshop, wallpaper

1140

0 comments

2009

22

JUL

Get inspired: 70 CSS and Logo galleries

I think there’s no need to tell you that these galleries are for inspirations, right? Anyway, I don’t really know what introduction to make for this post so let’s start the gallery list.

css-html, design, inspiration, wordpress

1065

0 comments

65 Absolutely Cool And Creative Twitter Backgrounds

A well designed and creative Twitter background is able to attract visitor's attention. This article share 65 cool Twitter backgrounds.

design, graphic, inspiration

1179

2 comments

30 Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

30 examples of extreme minimalism in web design, including web apps, portfolios, and other websites

design, inspiration, trend

1386

1 comment

2009

21

JUL

30 Awesome Handpicked Design T-shirts From The 10k Design By Humans Contest

Design by Humans is one of the best places for designer T-shirts so from their 2nd year contest I have hand picked 30 awesome designer t-shirts for your pleasure.

design, graphic, inspiration

1192

1 comment

50 Burning Logos - Amazing Must See!

Below you’ll find a collection of 50 burning logos which will definitely heat up your creativity. Browsing through the showcase, you will get inspired by the creativity and art work shown by designers.

design, inspiration, logo

1414

0 comments

2009

19

JUL

30+ Best Examples of Blog Post Footer Designs

When readers come to your blog they usually come from referring sites or search engines and their interaction with your blog depends upon your content. If they liked the article they will comment and share it.

design, inspiration

1189

1 comment

2009

16

JUL

Amazing Realistic Street Arts

Art on the public place or in the streets is not a new trend. Around the world, here is a few number of street artist and in between them Julian Beever is a popular name. Here I am going to show some of creative, amazing and realistic street arts. I think it will impress our viewers.

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0 comments

2009

15

JUL

7 Things You Don't Learn In Design School

When finishing design school you will learn so many thing your teachers never told you. Here you have some of those things.

design, graphic, inspiration, tips

961

0 comments

25 Best Coming Soon Pages

A Great collection of 25 of the best coming soon pages you can find on internet. A source of inspiration for your ideas when creating expectation on a new website or for the redesign of a site.

design, graphic, inspiration

2745

1 comment

50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages

Have you seen a web site where you have to select your language before actually seeing the site, here is a collection of 50 Best Examples Of Select Your Language Pages you could find on Internet that could inspired you in your next project.

design, flash, graphic, inspiration

1295

0 comments

Smashing Post - Web Design Resources

A place of web development related resources. Smashing Post giving you all kinds of helpful tutorials and resource links to improve your web design skills.

design, inspiration

827

0 comments

2009

14

JUL

The Importance Of Wireframes In Web Design And 9 Tools To Create Wireframes

A designer doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel with each new wire frame diagram, of course. Every page in a site will share some elements, even when the pages don’t follow the same template.

design, inspiration, tips, tools

890

0 comments

105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps

A roundup of 105 examples of clean and minimal Twitter apps, for inspiration, fun, and a minimal use of brain power.

design, inspiration, tools

827

0 comments

2009

13

JUL

105 Fantastic & Beautiful HDR Photography

High dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. 105 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures developed out of usual photos, & not an illustration.

graphic, inspiration, photography, photoshop

956

0 comments

2009

9

JUL

The Ultimate Drupal Showcase

This Ultimate Drupal Showcase contains over 150 Drupal based websites grouped in six major categories: business, media, government, non-profit, university & research and entertainment.

cms, design, inspiration, trend

1359

2 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – Adhemas Batista

A showcase of the stunning work from the mixed media artist, Adhemas Batista

design, graphic, inspiration

1177

0 comments

Awesome Designer Showcase – Catalina Estrada

A showcase of inspirational work from the Barcelona based illustrator, Catalina Estrada

design, graphic, inspiration

809

0 comments

2009

8

JUL

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 08/07/09

A round up of the best web design content from the day

design, inspiration

727

0 comments

10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical

If content is the heart of every website publication, navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design.

design, graphic, inspiration, usability

954

0 comments

12 Navigation Options That Help Users Navigate Through Your Website Effectively

Previously, we have discussed the 10 principles of navigation design and why quality navigation is so critical. Readers think differently about how to find content, depending on their training, profession or habits.

design, inspiration, tips, usability

3072

0 comments

2009

7

JUL

The Best Web Design Links Of The Day 07/07/09

A round up of the best web design content from the day

design, graphic, inspiration

836

1 comment

2009

6

JUL

41 Ultimate Showcase Of Sites That Uses JavaScript Scrolling Navigation Perfectly

JavaScript has so much possibility and it'll only take any individual developer or designer creativeness to fully utilize this exciting language.

ajax, design, inspiration, javascript

1524

0 comments

2009

29

JUN

WaterColored Portfolio Coded, Free CSS Template With PSD to HTML Tutorial

This is the second part of WaterColored Web Portfolio tutorial. In case you missed the first part of this tutorial, read Create a Nice Web Portfolio Design with a Watercolored Background in Photoshop to learn how to make a web layout in PhotoShop. With this post we’ll learn how to realize a valid, standards compliant XHTML and CSS home-page from PSD template. So, now it’s time to write code!

css-html, inspiration, template, tutorial

2164

1 comment

2009

27

JUN

24 Superb Sites That Use Horizontal, Vertical Or Multi-Directional jQuery Scrolling Effect

jQuery JavaScript Framework have fast become an indispensable part of web 2.0 formation and will continue to be use heavily in websites and projects

design, inspiration, javascript, tools

3245

2 comments

2009

25

JUN

15 beautiful Headers

It is a well known fact that it takes an average user 3 seconds to decide if she wants to stay on the current website. Since header is the very first thing which attracts the users’ attention, it must be aesthetically designed. In the showcase below we present 15 beautiful headers. These headers are manually selected after visiting hundreds of websites.

css-html, design, inspiration, photoshop, tutorial

1950

2 comments

2009

24

JUN

Roundup of WaterColor in Web Design: 25+ Amazing Examples, 50+ Resources And Tutorials

Here 25+ examples showcase some of the best watercolored web-site designs on the web. Jointly I’ve colletcted for you 50+ between tutorials and resources to improve your skills in watercolor design.

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0 comments

Beautiful & Stunning Mini World Websites

Have you ever played simcity? Create your own world on a piece of land. I have found these beautiful and stunning websites created based on that concept. They blew me away!

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

18758

9 comments

2009

17

JUN

38 Marvellous Graffiti Art And Street Art That Will Blow You Away

To the untrained eye, graffiti is the defacement of public property, the end product of street-yahoos making their names known to anybody who walks by.

design, graphic, inspiration, trend

931

0 comments

2009

15

JUN

30 High Quality Magento Templates To Spice Up Your E-commerce Projects

Magento has become more and more popular open source ecommerce solution and it is the time to look into its high quality templates, both free and premium.

design, inspiration, template

1519

0 comments

2009

9

JUN

7 fantastic Blog Designs selected by Blogging CSS

Hello to all PV.M. Garage readers, my name is Graziano, I’m the author of a newly-born blog about CSS called Blogging CSS, where I review beautiful CSS-based websites, write CSS tutorials and collect web design resources. The blog is written in the Italian language, but I will soon translate it in English, so stay tuned..

inspiration, wordpress

1668

0 comments

2009

8

JUN

120 CSS Galleries for Web Design Inspirations

A long list of css galleries for your reference.

design, inspiration

1315

0 comments

10 Great Places for Free Twitter Background

In search for a free twitter background? Try out these sites to improve your very own twitter pages.

design, inspiration

897

0 comments

2009

4

JUN

110+ CSS Gallery To Submit Your Design, Part 2

Last week i shared about 55 CSS Galleries to submit your web design, and now i would like to complete the series by sharing another 55+ CSS Galleries.

css-html, design, inspiration

1912

0 comments

2009

29

MAY

15 Essential Sites for Free Stock Images

Stock images is always the important ingredients for web designing. However, not all of them are free. Here I compiled a list of sites for sourcing your favorites images

design, inspiration, photography

1007

0 comments

2009

4

MAY

20 Websites with Beautiful Typography

Good typography is pleasing to look at and easy to read. In this post, I have collected 20 websites in the web that demonstrate good typography.

design, font, inspiration

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19 comments

30 Fresh Excellent Icon Sets

Icons are really useful for web design, application interface and more. Everyone loves good looking icons. In this post you will find 30 fresh new icon packs that you can use for your project. You can also spice up your mac or windows desktop with some if these icons.

design, graphic, icon, inspiration

2414

0 comments

2009

2

MAY

Art universities. Beautifully designed websites showcase

Some really interesting art universities with wonderful websites.

graphic, inspiration, template

2245

0 comments

2009

26

APR

Designers finest freebies, Vectors, Brushes, Shapes

Need Design Inspiration ? Have a look at the most stylish websites, or get some of our fantastic freebies ! A mix of icons, fonts, vectors, brushes, badges, and much more...

design, freebies, icon, inspiration, photoshop

2912

0 comments

2009

22

APR

20 Creative Colorful Logo

This is another edition of logo collection, from previous logo post, it seem like people love to see it. That why this one It will be logo that using color as the way to make it different. It may use three color or more, but the important thing is they all creative and different.

design, inspiration, logo

3880

1 comment

2009

18

APR

The Best Original Freebies by Web/Graphic Designers and Illustrators

There are so many web designer, graphic designer, digital artist, illustrator and more creative professionals/non- professionals, who has a good grip of what design, beauty and creativity is. They come up with some original works,Yet they give these out for free. In this post I am presenting some of the known designers and the underdogs as well.

design, freebies, graphic, icon, inspiration

2791

0 comments

2009

15

APR

50 Sites That Will Help You To Become a Better Designer

I hope you will enjoy these great sites, I’m sure if you are a beginner designers following these site regularly will make you pro designer in no time

design, inspiration

2861

2 comments

2009

14

APR

50 Excellent Corporate Website Designs

Here are 50 corporate website designs that you can use for inspiration in your own corporate designs.

design, inspiration

5497

0 comments

2009

13

APR

30 Beautiful Music Websites for Design Inspiration

In this article, you’ll be able to discover 30 beautiful music websites that stand out from the crowd.

design, inspiration

3115

0 comments

How to Spot Quality within Web Design: Examples & Tips

I’ve put together a few pointers, and collected some examples to explain just how I look for quality within a website design.

inspiration, tips, usability

2752

0 comments

2009

9

APR

CSS and Web Gallery List : Promote and Increase your Website Traffic

Promoting your website in these web css galleries can increase website traffic. Majority of them support do-follow, which can help your website rank better in the search engines. I have found 92 CSS & Web galleries with latest google pagerank, alexarank and submission links, so you can fire up your submission straight away!

css-html, inspiration, seo, tips

16580

38 comments

2009

8

APR

37 Examples of Unique Navigation

This post showcases some unique navigation’s and some well thought out designs.

design, inspiration

2864

1 comment

2009

7

APR

50 Beautiful Websites with Illustrated Landscapes

Here are 50 beautiful websites with landscape illustrations in a variety of styles.

design, inspiration

4370

0 comments

2009

2

APR

10 Simple and Impressive Design Technique

With a “less is more” mentality, we’ve selected 10 very simple and impressive design techniques that can drastically improve the performance and appearance of your designs.

design, inspiration, tips

1828

0 comments

2009

1

APR

14 Most Impressive Photoshop Typography Effects

There are many Photoshop typography effect tutorials out there, but I believe that these are some of the best. Not only are the final results stunning, but contained in each are many techniques that you can add to your bag of design tricks.

font, inspiration, photoshop

3291

0 comments

2009

31

MAR

Backgrounds In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

The background holds the theme of the website, and there are a vast amount of possibilities when designing a website background. This article goes over the best practices and popular trends of backgrounds in the current stage of innovative Web design.

design, graphic, inspiration

1913

0 comments

30 Type Based Logo

Type based logo is logo that only using text as design. There is neither icon nor character, just text or typo. It simple but still can show good message. Here some nice idea of type based logo from logopond.com

font, inspiration, logo

2974

0 comments

2009

27

MAR

25 Incredibly Artistic Websites - Part 5

Highly creative and artistic designs are an excellent source of inspiration. More and more websites are going with this style of design, so I’d like to continue the series of posts that features outstanding design of this style. To older additions are available here:

design, inspiration

1873

0 comments

2009

26

MAR

20 Excellent Blogs for Those Who Love Design

Here are some of my favorite blogs that cover various topics from web design to package design.

design, inspiration

1898

0 comments

Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices

In this article we take a closer look at the nature of drop-down navigation menus, analyze situations in which they should or should not be used, discuss various implementations and finally showcase a couple of bad and good examples of such menus. The article also includes various tips and suggestions to help you work with your drop-down menus.

inspiration, tips, usability

2588

0 comments

Inspiration: Gallery of iPhone-Optimized Websites

For those web design freaks out there (hey, I’m one too!): CSS iPhone, a showcase of websites optimized for the iPhone.

design, gadget, inspiration

3887

1 comment

2009

25

MAR

50 Inspirational Website Introductions

In this article, we list 50 examples of excellent web page introductions used in portfolio websites that you can use as inspiration for your own designs.

design, inspiration

2605

2 comments

40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design

Design concept is also one of the hottest trend right now on the net. In Continuation of showcasing some of the most inspiring web designs, here is a collection of 40+ Beautiful Examples of Paper Websites Design. This list are some of the coolest websites using paper as a part of the design

design, inspiration

2296

0 comments

2009

23

MAR

Beautiful Pictures For Spring Inspiration

we present a showcase of 35 outstanding pictures related to spring. Hopefully, these will give you a new perspective and maybe provide some ideas for your next design.

graphic, inspiration, photography

1865

0 comments

Artistic Web Design Found on deviantART

I actually always used to browse deviantART for inspiration for most things, but not so much anymore. One thing I can tell you without a doubt is that deviantART has plenty of amazing artists, and plenty of amazing web designers.

design, inspiration

2915

1 comment

2009

21

MAR

40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica

helveticaIt’s over fifty years old, it’s the most widely used font ever, and it has recently become the subject of its own movie. We’re talking about the world’s most recognizable font: Helvetica. Its relevance in design through the years and even today seems unbeatable.

design, font, inspiration

2470

0 comments

2009

19

MAR

25 Gorgeous Graphic Designer Folios

Spring is here and now is the perfect time to bring some new life to our graphic designer portfolios. Portfolio websites should be updated regurarly with new work, updated contact information and the overall design style of your site should be kept up-to-date. You may have a more timeless design, but if your website design is more trendy you may want to consider a new look.

design, inspiration

2296

1 comment

25 Beautifully Colorful Websites - Part 4

During the past year or so, I have published 3 collections of colorful websites. Today we’ll take a look at another 25 sites that make exceptional use of color. There is a wide variety of color schemes and design styles represented here, so I hope the work of these designers provides some inspiration for your own work.

design, inspiration

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1 comment

26 Floral Websites in Full Bloom

This website collection explores designs that feature flowers of all kinds, from vector floral designs to images of actual flowers.

design, inspiration

1724

0 comments

23 Design Related Weblog You Should Visit

Before this I make a list of some good resource blog for designer, and this post I gonna put 23 good design related webblog, which is not only for resource but also to know the trend and find inspiration.

inspiration, tips

1700

0 comments

2009

17

MAR

50 Monochromatic Website Designs

Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme......

design, inspiration

3959

0 comments

Breadcrumbs In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices

On websites that have a lot of pages, breadcrumb navigation can greatly enhance the way users find their way around. In terms of usability, breadcrumbs reduce the number of actions a website visitor needs to take in order to get to a higher-level page, and they improve the findability of website sections and pages.

inspiration, usability

3387

1 comment

2009

16

MAR

Finding Inspiration

As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations. That’s why I’ve chosen to talk about this topic in my presentation at the FOWD conference. In this post, I want to do a recap of my keynotes – Finding Inspiration From Your Environment. Read on to find out how my work habits and environment influence my design.

design, inspiration, tips

1922

1 comment

40+ Beautiful Robot Characters Illustration

This time it is a 40+ Beautiful Robot Characters Illustration. These showcase are a different types of Robots Illustration where some of them are cool modernistic and some are cute. Check out this cool illustrations made by some of the talented graphic artist lived.

design, inspiration

1744

0 comments

Inspiration Served: Hand-Drawn Effects In Web Design

I love the look of hand drawn effects in web design, and I don’t think I’m alone in this. I have no idea what gene that’s in us web geeks, but I’d say most of us have it. With that in mind, I’ve compiled this list of the best inspirational sites, resources, freebies and tutorials that utilize hand-drawn effects......

design, inspiration

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0 comments

Creative (Extended) Album Cover Arts

We listen to a lot of music, and chances are we might still remember how most of the album cover artworks look like. b3ta.com had a contest and participants make use of their wildest imagination and creativity to "extend" an album’s cover art, meaning designing what happens beyond the borders of classic album sleeves, how the artwork continues.

design, inspiration

1781

0 comments

2009

14

MAR

Fantastic Typography Blogs For Your Inspiration

Some say that web design without typography is like an orange without its peel, it just isn’t complete. Typography encompasses the reality of effective web design and achieves success in creating web page identity, eye-catching sites, and the enhancement of visual appearance.

design, font, inspiration

1622

0 comments

40 Comics Strips for Web Designers

With the massive exodus towards online publishing, many people hardly reach for the newspaper these days. If there’s one thing I truly miss from the newspaper, it would be reading the comic strips.

design, inspiration

1584

0 comments

2009

12

MAR

25 Nature-Inspired Website Designs

Inspiration or web design can come from anywhere. An increasing number of websites are including elements from nature in the design. Background images, photos, illustrations… nature can be used a number of different ways in web design. In this post we’ll look at 25 excellent examples.

design, inspiration

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0 comments

Showcase of Beautiful Fashion Websites

From a web designer’s perspective, it can be very interesting to look at the top websites from a particular industry to see how they relate to their target audience, the different approaches that are used, and how they compare to websites in other industries....

design, inspiration, trend

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1 comment

45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts

One of the trends in creating site designs right now are in Hand Drawn Concept. And talking about Hand Drawn Design, using a Hand Drawn Fonts is mostly a must to match the design. On this matter I list down 45+ Most Wanted Beautiful Free Hand Drawn Fonts. This are the most popular hand drawn fonts that used on the web and free to download.

font, freebies, inspiration

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1 comment

Beautiful Watercolor Effects in Web Design

Web design trends come and go. You should be very wary not to jump on the latest ones that have no real staying power. An over abundance of glossy-iconed 2.0 sites are sure to look really outdated, real soon. I’d argue they already do. However some trends, can look awesome long after the trend has peaked. I think watercolor designs, when done right, are one of those trends.

design, graphic, inspiration

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0 comments

Essential Qualities of a Home Office

Being able to earn a living working from home is a great privilege, and something in which most freelancers and web workers invest a great deal of effort. Part of being successful in this setting is creating a work space that is conducive to getting things done, and that will help to keep you relaxed and at peace when things can get stressful.

inspiration, tips

1606

0 comments

2009

11

MAR

22 Resource Blog For Web Developer and Designer

Blog like Smashing Magazine very popular among web developer and designer, since they provide with so much quality content and resource. But Smashing Magazine is not the only one that does that there is lot more around the web, some of then have high quality as Smashing Magazine does. Here I listed 22 Resource Blog (of course except Smashing Magazine) -

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0 comments

2009

10

MAR

20 Web Design With Artistic Background

Vector, painting and doodle often been used in web design or blog as it can turn the plain white design into something unique with less effort. It often useb by illustartion designer, graphic designer and also art based blog. There is a lot out there but here I compile 20 that I think you should look and amaze.

design, graphic, inspiration

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0 comments

45+ Excellent Examples of Flash Websites Design

Talking about website design, Flash website could be the most very attractive as it catch every people’s eye for its flashy and animated effect. On this matter I made a list of 45+ Excellent Examples of Flash Websites Design as for more inspirations. These sites are hand picked and a best example of flash websites on the web.

design, flash, inspiration

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Unusual and Creative Glassware Designs

Collection of unusual and creative glassware designs from around the world. Little Heart Wine Glass Beautiful wine glass design by Etienne Meneau features four interconnected glass tubes. [link] Write-On Glassware Feed the cat, take out the trash, mow the lawn; there are so many things to remember and now you can take your to-do list with you!

design, inspiration

2228

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50+ Popular Airline Logos

Every day thousands of people take it to the air… With so many airlines to choose from, branding is extremely important and at its core lies logo design. In this article we’ll take a logo at the logos of over 50 popular airlines. The list is by no means a complete list of all airlines and is just intended for inspiration for your own projects.

design, inspiration, logo

4270

3 comments

2009

9

MAR

11 Non-Traditional Uses of WordPress

"a combination of tutorials, plugins and themes that can help you to use WordPress in non-traditional ways" Nice to see Wordpress used as more than just blogware.

design, inspiration, wordpress

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40 Beautiful Examples of Vintage and Retro in Web Design

Retro and vintage web designs have become increasingly popular. Ironically, the more and more the web progresses, the more designers start to revert back to old retro styles. For your design inspiration, here are 40 beautifully-designed websites that revert back in time to retro and vintage styles.

design, inspiration, trend

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70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility......

ajax, inspiration, javascript

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35 Inspirational Website Designs from the Music Industry

Within the music industry there is a great variety in terms of the quality of websites. Some bands have excellent, creative websites, and others have sites that are not so friendly for visitors. In this post we’ll feature 35 websites from the music industry. Some are band websites and others are involved in the music industry in various ways.

design, inspiration

2009

1 comment

12 Twitterrific Twitter Background Designs

Twitter is quickly becoming a hot spot for people and business of all kinds, including designers. Many designers now have twitter accounts so they can network with other designers on twitter and promote their work to a new audience. What I found interesting is, because of twitter a whole new niche of design has been created and that is Twitter backgrounds.

design, graphic, inspiration

2019

1 comment

2009

6

MAR

Paper + Color + Concept = 40+ Creative & Inspirational Piece of Art

This article presents more than 40 spectacular paper design (using amazing colors & concepts) that need to look good and be informative in order to focus users' attention and effectively convey the message.

design, inspiration

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0 comments

2009

4

MAR

10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1

Without face-to-face interaction it’s easy for major communication issues to develop… often without you knowing until it’s too late. Avoid a major meltdown with these simple tips.

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2009

28

FEB

15 Rediculously Good Graphic Design Portfolios (Plus 1 Bonus)

A collection of 15 amazing graphic design portfolios for inspiration.

design, graphic, inspiration

2229

1 comment

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