30 Glamorous Fashion Designer Website Designs
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
We’ll be looking now at a great collection featuring the best fashion designers’ sites. The tendency in this kind of sites, much similar with the photographers’ sites that we’ve seen before, is to let the images of the designer’s creation speak for themselves. Therefore, the photos or videos of the fashion collections and fashion shows tend to expand all over the screen and become, again, the main element of the site. The rest of the site graphics is subtle and elegant most of the times in order not to compete with the collection images on display.
Tags: article, bottega-veneta, elegant-website, fashion design, flash, jeremy-scott, Resources, stumbleupon, Tutorials, Web Design
Friday Fresh Free Fonts #64
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
I will be posting some fresh free fonts every Friday, yes I know it’s awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on the FFFF#64 and make sure to comeback for more next week. <!–break–> Click here to view all Friday Fresh Free Fonts Acid by 26plus-zeichen Download Acid Neu Eichmass by Ivan Khmelevsky Download Neu Eichmass Ibarra by Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón Download Ibarra Edelsans by 26plus-zeichen Download Edelsans About the author Hi there! I’m Paulo Canabarro, 24 year old web designer from Brazil currently living in Providence RI, USA.
Tags: daily, ffff, fireworks-tutorials, Fonts, gimp-tutorials, illustrator tutorials, Inspiration, neu-eichmass, Photoshop Tutorials, pixelmator-tutorials, Resources, Tutorials
Creating a Grunge Autumn Themed Calendar for September
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
In this tutorial, we’ll be creating an Autumn themed Calendar for this month of September. The style here is dark and grungy and the final result is appropriately titled the ‘The Fall.’ This being the season of falling leaves from trees. The techniques used to attain the final image are the application of Blend modes, the use of grunge brushes Step 1 First off, open a new document Ctrl+N, and set its document size to 1280 x 768 px and the resolution to 140 dpi . The wood texture below was from www.mega-tex.nl.
Tags: block, clendar, color, css, freebies, layer, layers, leaf, Photoshop, Resources, tools, tutorial, Tutorials
80+ Latest and Inspirational Single Page Website Designs
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It’s kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge. In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.
Tags: Design Inspiration, design trend, Inspiration, official, one page websites, scrolling navigation, showcases, smooth scrolling design, trends, Tutorials, website-designs
Sites of the Week #118 – Ronin Giveaway Winners
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
For this Sites of the Week, we’re announcing the winners for the Ronin giveaway, check it out below! Also we have selected some great sites such as Quipsologies and Relogik. As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than happy to feature your site. <!–break–> About Giveaway Last week we lauched a giveaway from Ronin . And the 3 lifetime premium winners are: @thekevinjones @lloyd Francisco Frutuoso Congratulation guys.
Tags: app-web-app, architecture, Design Inspiration, illustration, Inspiration, pixelmator-tutorials, Tutorials, wallpapers
How to Make a Cheeky Squirrel using Corel DRAW X3
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
This tutorial will provide you with an overview of the basic tools and ways of creating images in Corel DRAW. Using a hand drawn sketch as the basis of the illustration, you will create objects using some special tools and learn different ways to work with color. Step 1 Launch CorelDraw. Import your bitmap image (File > Import), you will then see an options dialogue.
Tags: artistic-media, color, illustration, image, property, source, sprayer, spraylist, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials
Beautiful Houses: Paraty House in Rio de Janeiro
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
The idea in this series is to show beautiful and inspiring houses. Houses that are remarkable for its design, elegance, elements, concept or simply because they are beautiful. So if you like architecture, interior design and beautifully designed houses, you are at the right spot. Check out this week beautiful house and stay tuned for more…
Tags: architecture, digital-art-121, houses, Inspiration, interiors, interview, photography, Photoshop, studiomk27, Typography, wallpaper
Friday Photo Critique #48
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Tutorials
Friday Photo Critique is our weekly community project, where we publish a photograph submitted by one of our wonderful readers, then ask you all to offer constructive feedback on the image. It’s a great way to learn more about photography, express your viewpoint, and have your own image critiqued! Quick Ground Rules Play nice! We’ve deliberately chosen photographs that aren’t perfect , so please be constructive with any criticism. Feel free to offer any type of advice – composition, lighting, post-processing etc. You can also link to photographs that you feel offer a great example of this type of image shot exceptionally well.
Tags: basix, facebook, friday-photo, Lighting, photo-critique, photography fundamentals, phototuts, theory, Tutorials
Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a certain extent — between Web professionals and one of the oldest and most popular board games of all time (counting traditional and digital games). This game is chess .
Tags: ca-fulltime, icons, Inspiration, king, pieces, wallpaper, work, workflow
20 Great Mobile Websites That Beautifully Complement Their Desktop Sites
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The advent of the smartphone has marked an explosive increase of users accessing the internet on the go. With worldwide numbers well above 1% of all internet usage, companies have taken notice and started creating mobile versions of their full websites to cater to mobile users. This showcase highlights some standouts from companies you have heard of like CBS, Disney, and also some you may not have heard of. Each of these mobile websites attempt to make the mobile experience as good as possible even with limited bandwidth and screen space.
Tags: best of the web, business, Design, freebies, graphics, mobile, mobile version, Showcase, templates, tools
