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  50 Beautiful Movie Posters

  Movie posters are art and, unfortunately, the forgotten one. In the early years of cinema history, they were used just like advertising material. Displayed in theatres only, movie posters had the same... More... 198 Comments

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  WordPress Developer’s Toolbox

  Web designers and developers are getting an increasing number of requests from clients for custom theme development, and a growing number of designers are also building their own themes to distribute... More... 239 Comments

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  40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box

  Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs often use realistic motifs from our regular life as visuals. However, apart from visual design... More... 137 Comments

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  How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business

  Many e-commerce sites these days tend to be loaded down with too much information on their landing pages. The reasoning for cluttered e-commerce sites is simple: the more information you can cram on the... More... 176 Comments

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  Game Sites Design Survey: Examples and Current Practices

  Game websites are a little bit of a mystery. You won’t find them in the popular CSS-showcases since they are seldom fully CSS-based; however, they also rarely show up in sites that collect best Flash... More... 71 Comments

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  10 Futuristic User Interfaces

  Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn't matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don't manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as... More... 178 Comments

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  Will Horizontal Layouts Return?

  In the 90s, as the Web was just starting to take off, designers used horizontal layouts — rather in an experimental way, just to give users and designers an idea of what HTML was actually capable... More... 81 Comments

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  Top 10 Usability Highs Of Mac OS

  Although I've been a Windows power user for years, the transition to Mac couldn't have been easier and more pleasant. I don't want to turn this article into some endless rambling about how great Mac is,... More... 257 Comments

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  Design and Independence

  Designers are independent. In work, mindset and lifestyle. Yet in this Web age aren't we losing independence? For most designers the first tool to start designing from is the Adobe suite, a quite... More... 80 Comments

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  10 Beautiful Things For A Beautiful Life

  With this post we start to publish finalists of our guest author contest. Over three weeks 12 winning articles will be published — selected top-10-lists and discussion articles. To rate the... More... 94 Comments

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  7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design

  Look at what you've made. Beautiful, isn't it? But does it work? For whom does it work? Of course you can use it, but can anyone else? In short, is it functional? At the heart of every piece of... More... 79 Comments

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  35 Beautiful Music Album Covers

  Album cover art is often considered to be one of the "extincted" fields in modern graphics design. In times when digital copies are cheaper and quicker to get, album covers have somehow lost their... More... 307 Comments

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  A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs

  We are quite curious; particularly when it comes to design and web-development we want to know just everything. Therefore, following our web form design survey, we have decided to take a closer look at... More... 163 Comments

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  Pop Art Is Alive: Classics and Modern Artworks

  As a visual art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s, pop art aims to emphasize the nature of things popular in our daily routine. In pop art, most artists use mechanical means of rendering techniques... More... 76 Comments

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