Posts Tagged ‘Inspiration’
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Behind the Design: 5 Stories of Great Inspiration
- October 1st, 2008
- 41 Comments
We grow our creative talents through experience: whether it’s learning from a veteran designer about how things came to be or finding fresh delight in Smashing Magazine posts, no great artist exists without inspiration. Famously declared in reference to scientific progress: “If I have seen further it is by standing ...
Read more...Showcase Of e-Commerce Fall Sales Designs
- September 30th, 2008
- 68 Comments
The Web is changing along with the weather outside the window, adopting bright autumn-inspired makeovers for seasonal fall sales and special offers. The autumn (or fall) season is primarily associated with harvest (most cultures celebrate one of various harvest festivals this season), bright, hot colors (ranging from yellow to red) ...
Read more...40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box
- September 3rd, 2008
- 125 Comments
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 elements one can also get creative with the layout of the site – its structure and the way ...
Read more...10 Futuristic User Interfaces
- August 17th, 2008
- 81 Comments
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 possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or technology, ...
Read more...10 Beautiful Things For A Beautiful Life
- August 10th, 2008
- 83 Comments
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 articles we’ll analyze popularity, users activity, quality of backlinks, traffic etc. You can follow our updates on Twitter ...
Read more...Design Showcase Of Creative Online-Shops
- August 6th, 2008
- 77 Comments
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 which retro-products are offered is designed in a retro-look. And shops which are aiming to attract young customers are designed in ...
Read more...Pop Art Is Alive: Classics and Modern Artworks
- July 21st, 2008
- 76 Comments
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 that downplay the expressive hand of the artist. Being an art movement, it has ...
Read more...Table of Contents: Creative Examples
- July 7th, 2008
- 87 Comments
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 deserve — after all, it is just a list of the parts of a book or ...
Read more...Style Switchers Contest Results
- June 25th, 2008
- 88 Comments
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 web-sites. One of the participants was to be awarded with an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display. ...
Read more...Favicon Episode 7
- June 24th, 2008
- 48 Comments
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 they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a bookmark in their ...
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