30 Inspiring and Beautiful Websites from 2012

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2012 saw some interesting trends emerge on the web, and beautiful websites were present as usual. Most notably, mobile began to dominate the expansion of visitors on the web, which forced both designers and developers to rethink how to design for mobile users.

With the emergence of the tablet computing market, it became apparent that making separate designs for each device size would no longer work, so responsiveness began to become more mainstream.

Additionally, more experiments and techniques with HTML5 and CSS3, coupled with jQuery and other technologies were showcased, and adopted by many mainstream websites.

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Best Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials of 2012

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Photoshop is a powerful tool in the hands of a really skilful designer or photographer. It helps to bring your ideas into reality and mostly used for Photo Manipulation. To help you in mastering your flairs we’ve gathered Best Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials of 2012. These tutorials are made for those people who have creative mind and like experimenting with different effects. The tutorials listed below will help you learning various techniques of how to manipulate images using Photoshop.

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Very Intelligent Ads of 2012

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2012 was awesome, the year have been countless of brilliant ads spreaded throughout the print media and web. Let's wrap up intelligent ads of 2012 by some of clever creators to new artists. Though the concept and design is defined to reach the target consumers, Here is a selection of very intelligent advertisements designed last year.

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30 Best Photoshop Tutorials Released in 2012

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2012 is already history and everyone started 2013 having set new goals and milestones to achieve. Willing or not, these are very important because in this manner is much easier to track the progress. Also, the final of the year / the beginning of a new one are the period of review and evaluation.

Of course, this fact couldn’t be ignored here and we are proudly presenting a list of the best tutorials released in 2012. It’s obvious, selecting the best tutorials is a very subjective matter and unfortunately is impossible to satisfy all the tastes. Instead, we tried to offer only the best tutorials from all over the Internet.

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The Best Web Designs of 2012

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As 2012 is wrapping up, it is about time do a sum up of the best sites that I’ve featured from the award websites on the internet. Today, I’ll give you 50 best web design inspiration used this year in creating most websites. For sure, most of these could be seen in existing websites and web designers out there are also thinking of using them in their future designs.

Feel free to comment and let us know what you think, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site. Hope you like this collection.

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10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012

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There are lot of Photoshop web layout design tutorials collections online about web design but most of them lack quality. In this post I am trying to make collection of best photoshop web design tutorials. It would help you to learn advance photoshop web design techniques. If you think I have missed a great thing in this collection please let me know in comments.

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Top 12 Logos of 2012 As Voted By You

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These are the top 12 logo designs of 2012 as voted by you (the awards that won Logo Of The Month) on my other site Logo Of The Day.

What logo do you believe should win the 2012 Logo Of The Year? Let us know in the comments.

And just so you know, we are always accepting new logo submissions. Feel free to suggest a logo for a chance to win the Logo Of The Day award.

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Top Free Vector Graphics Of 2012

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Best Vector Graphics of 2012 for graphic designers. As a designers I’m sure graphic designers always in need of free vector graphics, vector art, vector elements and vector images for illustrations. So here I’ve top free vector graphics of 2012 which you can use as a website background , poster designing, or any other design purpose.

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Top 10 Design Books of 2012

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Books are always never ending travels through imagination. Design books are overloaded stories of imagination…

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50 Best Free Vector Files From 2012

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Vector images have not fix resolution, that means they can be boost up to any dimension without loosing the image quality. Vector Images are best for creating graphic designs, print advertisements or high resolution websites. Designers love vector files because it gives them the flexibility to use them in any kind of design with any size. This post is a part of our best of 2012 series, In which we are compiling the best of design industry from year 2012. This post is a compilation of Best Vector Files from 2012.

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30 Best Print Advertisements Of 2012

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Print Advertisements are the oldest and still most popular way of marketing for products. Print Advertisement designers are really creative people. You need so much creativity to convey a message through a single print. As you all know we are compiling the best of 2012 on our magazine. This post is just another part of this series. In this post you will see the best Print Advertisements of 2012. Each and every advertisement is a classical example of creativity in print designs. Do share this post with your friends to help us spread the creativity.

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Best Adobe Illustrator Tutorials Of 2012

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Adobe Illustrator is the best software for creative vector graphics. Some designers are still using Adobe Photoshop for vector graphics but I believe that illustrator is better than Photoshop when it comes to create pixel perfect vector graphics. This post is the part of our best of 2012 series where we are compiling the best of design industry from the previous year. This post features the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials from 2012.

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Best photos of 2012 from around the Web

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As we count down the final hours toward the new year, let’s look back at the momentous events of 2012 in images. We have rounded up some of the Web’s best collections of photos.

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Top Apps for Graphic Designers 2012

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Out of the many apps I download for my iPad and iPhone, very few end up being used regularly. The following is a list of the apps that survived the year on my devices—the ones that I think most graphic designers will find make their working day a little easier.

The two apps that I wouldn’t want to go without are Evernote and Dropbox. Both have changed the way I work, and organize documents and files. I recently upgraded my Evernote account to premium, and the ability to attach just about any file to a note is well worth the subscription fee. I also pay for a Dropbox Pro account, and the packrat add-on feature that saves your file history indefinitely. Both are indispensable.

Assuming you have both of those—and everyone probably should—here are my other top iOS apps for graphic designers...

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Top Mind-Bending Illusions in 2012

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Let’s wrap up 2012 with some of the most mind-bending photos or artworks we came across this year. Though an illusion is defined in several different ways, we like it when it’s described as something that distorts our senses or changes our perceived reality. From clever companies to creative street artists, these were the top works that really messed with our minds.

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Top 10 Photoshop Disasters of 2012

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As 2012 draws to a close it’s time for PSD to have a look back at some of the best disasters that you submitted. Thanks everyone for a great year!

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2012 Year in tech: A timeline

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While planet Earth has yet to meet its demise, the end of 2012 is nigh. It was a year of lengthy legal battles and shifting power dynamics in the tech industry. It brought with it great advancements and great failures -- and, for some, the promise of the end of days. We've combed our archives to bring you just a few of the stories that made the biggest impact on our reporting this year. Herewith, an abridged look back at the year that was.

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The best under-$20 gaming of 2012

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This final Digital Blend of the year breaks format to bring you our best games in the under-$20 gaming from 2012. There’s little in the way of new releases in this post-Christmas week. And while the news is light, you should definitely take a peek at our interview with American McGee, creator of two Alice in Wonderland-themed games, the episodic series based on the writings of The Brothers Grimm, and the recent browser based game Akaneiro: Demon Hunters. Also take note of the fact that mobile developer Supercell – creator of Clash of Clans and HayDay - has officially overtaken Electronic Arts as the top-grossing iOS developer, thanks almost entirely to the daily $500,000 take that the studio sees from micro-transactions. The final bit of Blend-worthy news for this week: the Wii U will get its first taste of free-to-play in 2013 when Namco Bandai offers up Tank! Tank! Tank! with a free foundation and a pay-per-feature unlock system.

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Google 2012: The Machines Are Getting Smarter

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Google was full of surprises in 2012. It outdid Apple easily in mobile OS features. It rolled out a whole line of Nexus Android devices that are undeniably top notch. And it launched the Knowledge Graph, a watershed moment between the keyword-searching past of the Web and a future Web that understands whole concepts.

2012 was also the year that Google unified its offerings under a single privacy policy, a move that freaked out lots of people, but which was totally rational from Google's perspective. If we're going to have a data-driven future offering pervasive, free technologies in exchange for better targeting of advertisements, we'll have to accept that companies like Google have an eerily accurate, real-time profile of us.

As if to hammer that point home, Google hired futurist and Singularitarian Ray Kurzweil right before the Holiday break. Looking back at 2012, it looks like Google's brave new world is almost upon us.

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Best CSS3 Tutorials Of 2012

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This post is the part of our Best of 2012 series. In this series we are compiling the best of everything from the year 2012. This post features the Best CSS3 Tutorials of 2012. CSS3 is the latest version of this awesome styling language. Unlike CSS 2, which is a large single specification defining various features, CSS 3 is divided into several separate documents called “modules”. Each module adds new capabilities or extends features defined in CSS 2, over preserving backward compatibility. Work on CSS level 3 started around the time of publication of the original CSS 2 recommendation. The earliest CSS 3 drafts were published in June 1999. Do share this post with your web designer friends in order to help us spread the word. Don’t forget to come back for more best stuff from 2012.

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