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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... 118 Comments

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  Beautiful And Original Product Designs

  Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren't likely to spend money on something they... More... 173 Comments

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  More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers

  Desktop wallpapers are always nice to look at and to draw inspiration from. They may provide with some fresh perspective and offer you some eye-candy for tedious coffee breaks. We are regularly hunting... More... 162 Comments

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  Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs

  Designing blogs is easy. Designing blogs in a unique way is hard. Whatever blog engine you are using, there are literally thousands of templates available which you can apply directly, without any... More... 170 Comments

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  Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas

  Web form is often the main communication channel between visitors and site owners. Feedback is always important which is why it's necessary to make sure that web forms are easy to understand and... More... 105 Comments

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  Getting Creative With Transparency in Web Design

  Arm yourself with the knowledge of how different file types of images can be used to achieve transparency on web-pages. It's important to first understand these basics. Then learn how to push the... More... 70 Comments

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  Book Autopsies

  Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures. More... Be the first to comment!

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  Breathtaking Typographic Posters

  You can't design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicate... More... 183 Comments

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  A Brief Message

  ABriefMessage.com features design opinions expressed in short form — 200 words or less. Every "brief message" is illustrated and can be commented — with 200 words or less, of course. More... Be the first to comment!

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  Grunge Style In Modern Web Design

  Most design trends come unexpectedly, evolve over time, become pointless and finally disappear from the design landscape. This holds particularly for web design, which is — just as every other... More... 181 Comments

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  Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of

  When it comes to graphic design, Adobe Photoshop is usually the first option to consider. However, the software itself is a quite tough nut to crack — and definitely extremely hard to master. For... More... 390 Comments

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  Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork

  Since visual elements are easier to remember, they can be used to draw visitors' attention to the brand identity of the site. As visual indicators, favicons can establish the communication with visitors... More... 70 Comments

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  50 Designers x 6 Questions

  Some months ago we’ve selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows... More... 107 Comments

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  Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs

  We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is... More... 192 Comments

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