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A Resource For All Things Design

A Resource For All Things Design

Webitect Colorburned | Graphic design resources, tutorials, and more! Marketing Inspiration: 100 Clever and Creative Advertisements In response to our previous Guerrilla Marketing article, we’ve put together 100 more awesome creative advertisements for your marketing inspiration. You’ll see print ads as well as ambient ads that are found in the streets. As a designer & freelancer, you should always be looking for inspiration on how to market your business and I think todays post is going to give you a TON of inspiration! Click an image below to view full size. About the Author James Vincent is a previous owner of MyInkBlog and a full time web developer and designer. More posts by James Vincent

Ginva | Inspire Your Life Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping - Smashing Magazine Advertisement The old adage, “a picture speaks a thousand words” captures what user interface prototyping is all about: using visuals to describe thousands of words’ worth of design and development specifications that detail how a system should behave and look. In an iterative approach to user interface design, rapid prototyping is the process of quickly mocking up the future state of a system, be it a website or application, and validating it with a broader team of users, stakeholders, developers and designers. Doing this rapidly and iteratively generates feedback early and often in the process, improving the final design and reducing the need for changes during development. Prototypes range from rough paper sketches to interactive simulations that look and function like the final product. The Rapid Prototyping Process Rapid prototyping involves multiple iterations of a three-step process: Scoping A Prototype What Needs to Be Prototyped? How Much Should Be Prototyped? Find the Story Do… Don’t…

Melville | A literary theme for WordPress Moby Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville N or was the pulpit itself without a trace of the same sea-taste that had achieved the ladder and the picture. Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship’s bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship’s fiddle-headed beak. What could be more full of meaning?—for the pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God’s quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher. November 1, 2010 2 Comments Birds of America, by John James Audubon October 31, 2010 Comments Off On the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin

N.Design Blog ← Back to the blog Free MiniCards From Moo.com Aug 07, 2012 1 Comment I’ve partnered with Moo.com to offer a free set of 100 MiniCards. It is absolutely free. All you have to pay is the shipping and handling fee. New Illustration: Redesign The Web Jul 12, 2012 7 Comments Below is the latest illustration, Redesign the Web Poster, that I did for Smashing Magazine’s poster design contest: Redesign the Web, Redesign the World. New Pinterest-Like Theme Jun 28, 2012 10 Comments Check out this new Pinterest inspired theme I designed – Pinboard. Cake Based on Phoenix Illustration Jun 01, 2012 16 Comments Check out this awesome cake made by Elena based on my Phoenix illustration. New Ajax Ecommerce Theme Mar 12, 2012 17 Comments Check out my latest WordPress theme, ShopDock, an ecommerce theme that replicates the Ajax features as seen on IconDock. IconDock and Themify Coupon Code Jan 25, 2012 6 Comments If you are interested to buy icons from IconDock or themes from Themify, I have a coupon code for you.

Designers Spin Spidey-Worthy Webs From Packing Tape | Fast Compa Packing tape has gotten MacGyver out of many a jam, but he never managed to make an entire home out of the stuff. So he could probably learn something from Viennese/Croatian design collective For Use/Numen. The team uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore. Installed three times in the past year, the next deployment will be next week from June 9–13 at DMY Berlin's International Design Fair, which is now in its 8th year. The installations, which look like the work of horrifyingly large arachnids, grew in scale and scope as the year progressed, first deployed inside a small Croatian gallery, then an abandoned attic during October’s Vienna Design Week. At the last installation inside Odeon, a former stock exchange building in Vienna, the group used nearly 117,000 feet and 100 pounds of tape.

Shaken and Stirred Themes A Premium Version of Shaken Grid A premium version of Shaken Grid is now available, offering many many more features than the free version. With Shaken Grid Premium’s built-in theme options panel you are able to upload your own logo, customize the look and feel of your site without touching any code, and many more possibilities. The premium theme includes: Smartphone and iPad optimized, 4 unique page templates, 8 color schemes (with the ability to customize these farther), 4 different grid box size options, video support, social networking options built-in, 8 custom widgets (Flickr, Twitter, Popular posts, Category Posts, Share Buttons, Testimonials, Related Posts, Simple Ads), and much more! View the Demo or Purchase today! Blog post with an image This is a blog post with an image as well. Continue Reading → Website Photo II Photo VIII Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Photo VII

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