Author: Sven Lennartz
Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.
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39 Creative Flash Designs
- April 2nd, 2008
- 64 Comments
Flash is powerful. Using it properly, you can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability and accessibility advocates, it has its advantages. With Flash designers can achieve results which simply aren’t possible with (X)HTML and CSS. ...
Read more...Favicon Episode 6: Black, Abstract and Hand-Drawing
- March 21st, 2008
- 33 Comments
Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find only if you are looking for them or search through your bookmarks. Below you’ll find 50 more outstanding little pieces of art. Please notice that these favicons weren’t chosen simply because of their beauty; ...
Read more...The Secrets Of Grunge Design
- March 11th, 2008
- 139 Comments
Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it. In our everyday environment we’re unlikely to find ideal geometric forms or pretty shadow effects as they ...
Read more...Blog Headers For Free Download
- March 5th, 2008
- 329 Comments
One month ago we’ve asked our readers to help us create a gallery of blog header graphics which every designer could use for free and without any restrictions whatsoever. We’ve announced a Header Graphics Contest and now, one month later, it’s time to present the most interesting, creative and beautiful ...
Read more...Gallery Of Date Stamps And Calendars
- February 22nd, 2008
- 54 Comments
Designer’s attention to small details often has a significant impact on how visitors perceive the overall design of a web-site. Although users’ main focus usually lies on finding information, it’s nice to find the content being supported by finest visual details. This holds for favicons, shopping carts, pagination and tag ...
Read more...45 More Excellent Blog Designs
- February 20th, 2008
- 144 Comments
We, designers, are creative folks. And being creative, we permanently strive for inspiration — innovative approaches, crazy ideas, smashing concepts and, in general, unique designs which can help us to observe a given problem from a fresh perspective. This is why we always have some fancy design books laying around ...
Read more...Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices
- February 7th, 2008
- 88 Comments
Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you ...
Read more...Adobe Illustrator Tutorials – Best Of
- February 5th, 2008
- 135 Comments
Over years Adobe Illustrator has become the standard application when it comes to illustration design. Artists, illustrators and graphic designers use Illustrator to create vector-based graphics which — contrary to raster-based editors such as Adobe Photoshop — can be easily rescaled without the loss of quality. E.g., Illustrator is often ...
Read more...Smashing Header Graphics Contest
- February 1st, 2008
- 67 Comments
In many blogs header graphics often takes a prominent position as bloggers try to impress visitors with distinctive and appealing visual elements. In fact, designed properly, header graphics can create an appropriate atmosphere and convey the style the designer has chosen. Well-designed themes can be as useful as templates, particularly ...
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