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  TypeChart: Browse Web Type, Grab CSS

  Typechart lets you flip through, preview and compare web typography while retrieving the CSS. More... 3 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... 119 Comments

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  45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos

  Photos taken with a camera do not represent a single moment of time. Due to technological constraints these shots stand for some scene over a brief period of time. This time frame depends on the... More... 198 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... 169 Comments

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  10 Awesome, Contemporary Character Designs

  Characters live amongst us — in graffiti, as vinyl dolls, as commercial identity icons and almost everywhere. A character communicates content without actually saying a word. We can see the use of... More... 51 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... 92 Comments

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  Design Showcase Of Creative Online-Shops

  Times when online-shops were boring and unattractive are over. To attract customers' attention designers tend to design online-shops according to the atmosphere it has to create. An online-store in... More... 94 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... 70 Comments

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  Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures

  Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties which designers can effectively explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be considered as a... More... 80 Comments

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  Table of Contents: Creative Examples

  Table of contents is often considered to be one of the most unspectacular design elements ever invented. Because of its simple, usual form, table of contents is often not given the attention it may... More... 79 Comments

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  Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: July 2008

  Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That's why we... More... 188 Comments

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  Style Switchers Contest Results

  Three weeks ago we have announced the Style Switchers Design Contest where we've presented some ideas for style switchers design and encouraged our readers to create a style switcher for their own... More... 103 Comments

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  Favicon Episode 7

  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... More... 63 Comments

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  Creative Calendar Designs

  How many creative solutions for calendar design are out there? If you take a look around you'll find out that most calendars are designed in a "standard" linear fashion. Calendar cards usually have the... More... 77 Comments

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