25 Beautiful Minimalist Designs
"Simplify, simplify, simplify." It's one of Thoreau's most enduring witticisms, and with good reason. When faced with the ever-increasing barrage of information that is modern life, many people find solace in minimalism.
35+ Free Abstract Background Pattern and Texture Designs
Background pattern designs are pretty useful for web designers as they can really make a website stand out from the crowd. Some websites simply are in need of a neat background pattern, in order to get rid of the simplicity and boredom. A nice texture always adds up an elegant or funky touch to the design of a website and it is a great choice if you are not into too many graphics in order to make your design look good. There are tons of background pattern designs and they come in different colors and textures from simple repetition of some stripes or dots to more complex designs that give that rich look you are looking for. One thing you should take into consideration though is the fact that the background texture shouldn’t be too distracting, and should go with the overall design of the website.
50 New Free High Quality Icons Sets - Smashing Magazine
Advertisement Feel free to make yourself a cup of tea or coffee right now because you’ll be investing an hour or so in today’s post. We’ve published our last icons round-up1 six months ago and since then we’ve collected over 50 new free high quality icon sets that you can use for your projects.
60 Highly Clever Minimal Logo Designs
Depending on the flavor of your business, your logo may appear big and flashy, bold and colorful or just plain simple and clever. In this roundup, I’ve turned the spotlight towards the more simple and clever logo styles that leave a strong impression. As simplistic as they may appear, there is genius behind these 60 highly clever minimal logo designs.
20 Creative iPad Apps For Web Developers And Designers
Now that the iPad has been released, web developers and designers alike want to know which apps are worthy of their fingerprints. To help make the search a bit easier, I’ve compiled a collection of 20 creative iPad apps that should prove quite useful for web designers, graphic designers and anyone with a creative mind. We’ll take a look at applications that will help you get your sketch on, interact with your sites, check stats, brainstorm and even a game or two. Adobe Ideas
Design trends for 2012
Around the end of the year you’ll find in all web design theme oriented blogs and sites countdowns on what trends you should look out for in 2012, you may be thinking that this is just one more of those repetitive listings but you’re wrong! This is not your usual countdown …….it’s THE COUNTDOWN for web design trends 2012, complete with all the information, inquire, showcase, video tutorials and controversy points of view that the other trends listings don’t show you. Yeah, yeah, so our categories in the trend listing can be alike to others seen in the web now days.
Design trends for 2011
Everything inside the design world is permanently changing, evolving and adapting into new ways of expression and communication looking to satisfy the new consuming needs and set innovative exchanging channels. 2010 made a huge closure for the final year of the first XXI century decade, we witnessed the rising of tablets (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tablet among others), the demise of Internet Explorer 6 and the absurd fanaticism towards Flash (though it’s losing a lot of fans), which is going to be slowly replaced by HTML5 (we’re not saying that Flash is dead, only that HTML5 will begin to cover many of its current uses). Editorial disclaimer Of course that the common design elements such as typography, navigability, color and more have also changed and as you will see on this article, these changes must be apprehended by every designer that wants to set his mark during 2011.
Code QR - Trucs et Astuces pour design personnalisés
Un code QR peut être numérisé (« scanné ») par les téléphones mobiles intelligents sert à faire la transition d’une publicité hors-ligne (par exemple, dans un magazine ou sur une carte d’affaires) vers un site web ou autres fonctionnalités telles que SMS, V-Cards, etc. Une critique revient souvent par rapport à leur apparence robotique et ennuyante étant donné leurs couleurs noir et blanc. Heureusement, un code QR est malléable et peut être travaillé graphiquement de plusieurs façons, sans en affecter son habilitée de numérisation. La vérité est que les codes QR n’ont plus à ressembler à une planche de jeu d’échec. Nous entrons dans une nouvelle ère de codes QR très design pouvant être agencés graphiquement à votre prochaine campagne publicitaire. Vous trouverez dans cet article des trucs et techniques pouvant vous aider à améliorer au niveau visuel un code QR.
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