Author: Sven Lennartz
Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.
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50 Fantastic Favicons: Episode 9
- March 14th, 2010
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Every now and again we showcase fantastic favicons, those tiny pieces of art that you’ll find in your browser’s address bar or when rifling through your bookmarks. These little gems are important because they serve as visual indicators to help visitors easily identify content in their browser. That aside, favicons ...
Read more...30 Free Photoshop Swirl Brushes
- June 20th, 2009
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Today we are glad to release 30 Swirl Brushes, a set with 30 high-quality swirl Photoshop brushes with an average size 2000px. These brushes were created with Adobe Photoshop CS4 and also work with the version CS, CS2 and CS3. This set was designed by Thomas Béal especially for Smashing ...
Read more...Smashing Highlights 2008
- December 22nd, 2008
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2008 was a successful year for us and for Smashing Magazine. Reviewing what has happened on Smashing Magazine over the last year, we could have told a couple of impressive stories that happened here and there, but we won’t do that. Instead, we would like to take a rather critical ...
Read more...Favicons, Episode 8
- November 20th, 2008
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Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find in your browser’s address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. Favicons are important as they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a ...
Read more...50 Beautiful Blog Designs
- October 23rd, 2008
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There are things one can do a number of times without worrying about becoming boring. For instance, collecting and showcasing excellent blog designs. In this post we do it already the fifth time. Why? Web design lives in blogs; new developments appear there, that’s where the music plays. And that’s ...
Read more...The <hr>-Contest Results – Download your fresh <hr>-line now!
- September 9th, 2008
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Three weeks ago we have encouraged our readers to participate in our <hr>-contest by designing beautiful and creative horizontal lines. It was necessary, since this design-element was slowly disappearing and was often neglected in web design. But it is going to change now. We have received 1290 images and source-files ...
Read more...Smashing Magazine’s 2nd Anniversary
- September 8th, 2008
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It happened again. Today, Smashing Magazine celebrates its second birthday. We are two years old now and we are proud of what we have achieved over these years. To celebrate our anniversary, we could do any number of things. For instance, we could organize a huge giveaway—as we did one ...
Read more...Simplicio: A Free Icon Set
- September 2nd, 2008
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We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. Every release helps to make the Web a ...
Read more...On-Stage: Free Vector PSD Icon Set
- August 27th, 2008
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We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. Every release helps to make the Web a ...
Read more...The <hr /> Contest
- August 22nd, 2008
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What is <hr />? Basically, it is an old HTML-tag which has been used since the very beginning of the Web. hr stands for the horizontal rule and represents exactly what you would expect — a horizontal line or a horizontal divider. By default, web browsers render hr as a ...
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