Wireframing is the most important part of the web designing concept without which the designing of an attractive and purposeful website is impossible. Many web designers do not laid emphasis on this step of web designing and skip this major phase which unbalances overall functionality of a website after the completion of final design. Wireframing is an important concept of web designing which gives an overall view of the proposed web designing model and helps in converting information architecture directly into an appropriate design.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
How To Redesign a Logo
Personally, I think that people use too frequently terms as branding and rebranding, redesign, or brand identity. In this context, each one has an opinion; the multitude of viewpoints is welcomed but these must be based on a solid background which is not the case for the majority of individuals. My idea has at its foundation the huge numbers of clients that misuse the branding and logo design vocabulary. Yep, we should be tolerant and forgive the incorrect use of some terms but we can’t ignore when wrong ideas are strongly advocated. More concrete, a very good friend of mine told me about a client that asked for a logo redesign because it’s more than a year since it wasn’t modified. Well, just because time passes, it isn’t a valid reason to redesign a logo!
50 Remarkable Typefaces for Professional Design
In modern era, Typeface is not interchange with the word Font, in professional typography. Typefaces can help font designers to make more stylish and professional font family for Graphic Designs. Today we are put to gathered a list of 50 Remarkable Typefaces for Professional Design, Take a look at beautiful typefaces for professional design, based upon suggestions from designers and web developers all over the world.
Typography has the great trend last few years. Experimenting with the right choice of font, splashing with bold or plain colors, and designing it in different perspective is elements that work on typography. It uses on logo, poster, and websites. It does not only attract visitors attention but also create a cool look on your website...
Minimalist Star Wars-Themed Art Prints
South Carolina-based artist Christian Petersen has created a fantastic collection of minimalist Star Wars-themed art prints. They are all available to purchase online at Firebox.com.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Efficient Web Design - One Page Websites Inspiration
For one page websites scrolling is the solution to see more content, differently from regular websites where you click on a button that gets you on a page, then another one and if you are not focused and the site is not well structured, you can get lost in all the details that the pages have.
This is different with one page websites. Mostly being landing pages, information is not complex, instead they just have a few blocks of text, even fewer images, maybe a video and that’s it.
But what about designing a site like this? How would you do it? Most of the times, you can make them scroll vertically, but there are designers who decide to make things a little bit more interesting and make the websites scroll horizontally.
50+ Creative Advertising Print Ads
I love print advertising ads, When you need to get a lot of attention for little money, turn to posters. Advertising aren’t only for use on the side of your building; billboards are also considered a form of poster printing.
Humor is one of the most successful ways of print advertising. A funny and clever print ads can be memorable and has a better chance of going viral very quickly. Ad agencies often rely on humor to achieve this. A humorous print ad campaign starts with a funny idea, but must be brought to life with clever art direction and great visuals.
35 Website Layouts using Flat Design Techniques
The minimalist flat design trends have been pouring out onto the Internet in recent months. I have witnessed a large number of new UI kits and website designs full of colorful flat buttons, links, navigation items, and input forms. These are not exclusive UI elements but just a few examples to show how quickly the flat design trend has picked up steam...
Inspiring Examples of Negative Space in Logos
When properly applied, the negative space effect can result in a clever and elegant logo. Negative space is the empty space between the main elements of a design and good designers know how to take advantage of this to create something that is memorable and captures the imagination. So, today we gathered some inspiring examples of negative space in logos to show you.
The Importance Of Good Business Card Design With Examples
A person’s business card can be considered one of the most important marketing tools that he has. With it, you are giving you contact information to potential clients or existing customers to make them loyal. In order for the business card to do its desired job, it must be professional, attractive and memorable.
This can be certainty if you make sure you follow a set of rules. For starters, your logo must be simple and symbolic to your company’s services and the industry that is associated with. Placing your website and email is a must. People will be searching for a website where to look for more information about you and your business and also for an email if they want to contact you. If you’re missing these two, you would better keep the cards to yourself, cause handing them to people would be useless.
30 Creative and Incredible Photo Manipulation works done by Adobe Photoshop
Photo manipulations are fun to create and fun to look at. Using photoshop you can do lots of creative and fun stuff. You can manipulate photos like you imagine and can show others what you have in your creative mind. In this post we have added 30 best and incredible examples of photo manipulation works for you.
Graphic Design by Les Produits de L’épicerie
Great selection of projects by French design studio “Les produits de l’épicerie”
Thursday, April 25, 2013
30 Beautiful Typography T-Shirt Designs
T-shirts are an item of clothing that everyone owns a number of throughout the world and more often than not these t shirts have designs or writing on them. Typography places a big role in the outcome of how a t-shirt design can look, if it uses some clever typography then it can look like statement piece of clothing instead of just another t shirt.
With thousands of t-shirts being created and sold everyday there are some really beautiful examples of how typography can be used to make impressive designs which are very pleasing to the eye. Typography represents simplicity but words can be very powerful in themselves to send messages to people reading them.
Showcase of Impressive and Creative Typography
We think that a lot of our readers are already acquainted with the magical things that can be achieved in design with the help of typography. It’s possible to create many different effects which will suit and complete the style and the vision of the design you are working on. To your attention we present a collection of Creative Typography Designs to bring some inspiration and new ideas.
27 Unconventional Business Card Designs
Standard 3.5 x 2 business cards won’t cut it these days, especially in the design world. I can’t tell you how many business cards I throw away (or just avoid grabbing in the first place) because it’s plain old black ink on a white 3.5 inch by 2 inch piece of paper. It’s almost to the point where it’s an annoyance to see them. Thankful there are a few people in this world who share my same views and have done something to destroy that old standard. Below we’ve gathered 25 unique and unconventional business card designs for your inspiration, hopefully after seeing these you will go burn your current standard/boring business cards to spare us all.
Logo Design With Creative Concepts
Logo of a company is as important as the name. However, when the name is blended within the logo by giving a clear understanding of the company’s service than that makes us say, “Wow! That’s clever”. Below we have compiled a list of more than 30 smartly created logo design with creative concepts.
Designing a logo needs patience, creativity, knowledge and experience. When a designer has all these skills then logos come alive and catches our attention . Logo of Amazon, NBC and FEDEx are the best examples of logos that have clearly conveyed the company’s moto or message.
10 Story-Driven Websites That Will Blow Your Mind
Ever since the fall of Flash and the rise of HTML5, we’ve seen a lot of developers experimenting with the possibilities of HTML5. One trend that has gained popularity is the creation of a story-driven website that takes viewers through a series of pages connected with story elements and creative navigation.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
30 Useful jQuery Tutorials Designers Must Know
Today we have collected some useful jQuery tutorials from around the Web. I am confident that these web design and development tutorials will arm you with all the necessary techniques in-order to achieve those latest web design trends.
From jQuery Website – “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”
80 Inspirational Design Portfolios to Bump Up Your Creativity
The age of information remains fiercely competitive. You have to raise the bar over and over again to keep visitors interested to come back your website. In these efforts, a few designers stood out of the crowd. Some are impressive, others unusual, and a handful have a splot of humor in the designs, these 80 incredible design portfolios gathered from all over the Web showcase the unspoken talents and technical skills of these amazing designers.
40 Creative Party and Club Flyers
Digital or physical, flyers are an important promotional element for your entertainment venue. Letting people know about an upcoming event is essential. Having low attendance and selling less tickets will hurt your bottom line, so being stingy on advertising is never a good idea. Flyer printing isn’t very expensive either. You can get 1,000 full color (front & back) 4″ x 6″ flyers for about $85.
Designing flyers can be a challenging task. If I receive a half-assed flyer, I will throw it in the trash right away. Today we’ve compiled some amazing and well-designed flyers for your inspiration. The following examples will give you an idea of what attractive and effective flyers look like.
Also before you scroll down, let me give you a small tip from my experience...
How to create a great ‘about’ page
Here’s one thing that never made sense to me: people make websites so others can find out more about them, but most “About Us” pages absolutely suck. They’re either really long and boring or really short and mysterious. Not many people understand the best way to go about these pages.