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  Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons

  Recently we've selected 50 Remarkable Favicons you can inspire yourself from. This follow-up is supposed to give you some more ideas for fresh, inspiring and creative favicon design. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the... More... 44 Comments

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  Inspire Yourself: 58 Creative Logos

  Logotypes stand for Corporate Identity. The better a logo is designed, the greater is the probability that your potential clients will remember your CI and get back to you once your service is needed. Consequence: designers have to be creative and put many... More... 136 Comments

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  Firefox Themes in an Overview

  It's amazing if you think about it. The new generation of web-browsers has become so flexible, so adaptable and so easy to use that you can design and use it according to your personal taste and needs. So if you are a Mozilla Firefox user, you can add almost any... More... 69 Comments

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  More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers

  Wallpapers can be creative, inspiring, gorgeous and hilarious. Recently we've posted an overview of Selected Wallpapers for Desktop and Web Design and Christmas Wallpapers. However, there is more to showcase. And these wallpapers are definitely worth a look. ... More... 107 Comments

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  Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

  As a vector-based drawing program Adobe Illustrator has nowadays become the standard for illustration design. This tendency can be noticed in the Web as well as in Print Design. Few weeks ago we've selected some of the best Adobe Photoshop tutorials we've found... More... 98 Comments

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  Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons

  Actually it's a pity that many designers don't really make use of them. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed... More... 163 Comments

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  Where can I find textures and background images?

  If you are a graphic designer, you probably know that textures and background images are essential for every project which is related to graphics or design. But where to search for quality images if you can't find anything usable on your PC? Web offers many... More... 62 Comments

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  Christmas Wallpapers

  Our recent article on the wallpapers for desktop and web-design has been making rounds for a while, so we decided to make another present for our readers. Christmas themes might not be everyone's favourite themes, but in december they can be found everywhere.... More... 42 Comments

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  Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop & Web-Design

  Creative wallpapers can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Particularly if you are having another creativity block, but don't really have enough time to take a walk or browse through Flickr pools. However, it isn't easy to find some really nice wallpapers -... More... 116 Comments

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  More Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free

  We continue to collect best freeware and stock symbols, buttons and icons. Here are few sets we've stumbled upon over the last few weeks. IconCool collects Icons for Windows XP. There are 16 icon sets, which can be downloaded for free. Most of them include... More... 69 Comments

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  Design Patterns: Download Buttons

  In the era of Web 2.0 download-buttons are becoming more and more important. Grey and simple few years ago, now they’ve become bigger, more colourful and come in dozens of variations. As the name says, download buttons are supposed to motivate visitors... More... 10 Comments

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  Stock Icons: An Overview

  Whether you develop a software application, write an Ajaxified web-app or design a Web 2.0-stylish site, you can’t get away from tiny, small, nice and extremely helpful icons, which make the text more readable and present the information more vividly.... More... 17 Comments

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  Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free

  We’ve all been there: sitting in front of a new design layout, we realize that something doesn’t fit, is even disturbing, but we have no idea what it is and how we should improve the page. Sometimes, line-height can do the job and sometimes... More... 54 Comments

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  Design Patterns: Badges, Tag Clouds, Huge Fonts

  Web 2.0 dominates. Everywhere and all the time. The new design trends are there, in front of you and me, on the blog you’ve come from and on the blog you are going to visit next. Every now and again we find new design elements which somehow manage to... More... 47 Comments

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