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
Touchscreens and Hover states
Sep 3, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
With the huge popularity of mobile touch devices and the current major drive to make everything web related compatible with these devices, today’s Design Reviver Answers discussion is certainly relevant with current development trends. The question that was asked was “Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past?” You can leave your thoughts and point-of-view below, or you can leave your answer on the original question on Answers here: Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past? Will Touchscreen devices make hover states a thing of the past? This question was originally asked by Mpstud .
Tags: css, Design, designer, developer, illustration, illustrator, Inspiration, past, touchscreen, tutorial, User Interface, vintage, Web Design
Do You Need a Degree to be a Designer? (and more!)
Sep 3, 2010 General, Resources, Tutorials
In this week’s Question Time video post I give some rambling answers about taking on more than you can chew with client projects; things that help me find more freelance clients; whether a degree is important to be a designer; and I show off my fluent Spanish. This week’s questions How do you deal with a client’s needs vs your technical skills – Do you charge less for a job where you have to learn new skills because it might take longer to complete? How did you create the outro at the end of your video clips? How much time do you spend each week divided between client work and blog stuff?
Tags: answers, Design, illustration, image, interview, questions, Resources, time, Tutorials, video, videos, Web Design
Free Book Competition “WordPress 3 Site Blueprints”, Comment to Win
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
It has been a while since we last ran a good web design book giveaway, and if you are a WordPress developer or you are currently learning WP, you will certainly love this competition. What we have on offer is the chance for two of our readers to win one of two PDF ebooks, entitled WordPress 3 Site Blueprints that usual sells for $32. It has been written by Heather R. Wallace and its a book that will show you everything you will ever need to build a varied collection of feature-rich customized WordPress websites.
Tags: competition, design-reviver, facebook, Graphic Design, Inspiration, Photoshop, Tutorials, Typography, vandelay-design, Web Design, worthy-links
Working For A Web Design Agency
Sep 2, 2010 General
The most obvious job for a web designer is working for a web design agency, but if you’ve never done that before… then how do you know what to expect? Is it even the right path for you? Setting foot in an agency for the first time can be daunting. It’s filled with people who have probably worked in the industry longer than you and who probably know a lot more than you.
Tags: business, Design, design-agency, development, naldz-graphics, people, personal, Web Design
Some Amazing Retro Style Illustrations Part 2
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
As we’ve already mentioned in the first part of this article series, we’ll be examining the diversity of styles within the retro trend. There are numerous artists who choose this style and yet, as you can see in this collection, none resembles the other — each one manages to have a unique voice! The characteristic they all have in common, however, is the fact that they all prefer the simple lines and the robust and somewhat naïve style of the illustrations, as they used to be in the 50s-70s. Most of them also choose to make the graphics look as authentically old as possible by using faded tones and adding grazes, grungy textures and crumpled, yellowish paper backgrounds. One cannot avoid having a vague, mixed-up reaction to this kind of graphics, which makes it so great to look at, in fact: there is a sort of nostalgic tinge inexplicably connected to elements that belong to the most contemporary reality! This contradiction is the reason why the visual effect of such an illustration is so vivid and impossible to shake off! This could explain probably why this style is so popular nowadays.
Tags: amazing-retro, article, collection, compilation, creative-logos, Design, illustration, Retro, stumbleupon, Style, Web Design
Amazing Pure CSS3 Experiments
Sep 2, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
The new and revitalized CSS3 properties have not only opened up many, many marvelous development solutions for web designers, it has also allowed talented developers to push the boat out further and showcase there CSS skills by building and styling in ways that were never ever thought possible previously. In today’s news round-up we take a look at some of these amazing experimental pure CSS3 creations… Please note, you will need either the latest version of Safari or the Chrome browser to fully experience these CSS3 experiments. iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS iOS Icons Made in Pure CSS iPhone CSS3 iPhone CSS3 Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale Pure CSS Twitter Fail Whale Pure CSS Animated 3D Super Mario Icon Pure CSS Animated 3D Super Mario Icon By Paul Andrew ( Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter ).
Tags: amazing-pure, browser, css, design-news, flash, Inspiration, photography, Resources, tutorial, vintage, Web Design
There’s a Theme for That – The Best WordPress Templates for iPhone & iPad Related Sites
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration
“Niche WordPress themes” is one of our favorite topics – you know that by now. We had roundups for business , portfolio , shopping or super specialized themes, but this time we’re lining up the coolest 10 WP themes for iEverything – iPhone apps, iPad accessories, appstores and so on. Check out our selection and feel free to suggest new entries in the comments. Fone Deluxe | $27 | Demo | Download My App | $0.86! | Demo | Download Apz | $70 | Demo | Download iPhone App | $65 | Demo | Download my Application | $12 | Demo | Download Inspire | $70 | Demo | Download AppCloud | $35 | Demo | Download AppTheme | $50 | Demo | Download Mee Templates | 39,50 € | Demo | Download PadPressed | $49 | Demo | Download
Tags: 50-demo, articles, demo, download, facebook, Inspiration, ipad, stumbleupon, templates, trend-hunting, Web Design
40 Cool Mascot Style Website Inspirations
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
Mascots are a great way of giving a personality and a natural touch to you site! You can either use them as a logo in themselves, or next with your site logo, but in any case, they are a simple and effective way of suggesting what your site is about and giving it a specific character, connecting it to an image that makes it memorable, in a word, giving it an identity that people can relate to! Compared to the way in which this kind of mascot could be used in print (where there are certain color and complexity restrictions), when you create a mascot that is meant just for the web you have much more creative freedom: you can use as many colors or effects as you wish if you feel that this would be in line with what your site is about, for instance. Of course, you can still use a very simple drawing style as well. It all depends on what you are trying to express through your mascot, what your target audience is and, of course, on keeping in mind that you have to make your mascot blend in with the rest of the site. There are certain tips that you should look at in this respect (and you can find a good tutorial about that on vector.tutsplus.com , for instance).
Tags: Design, download, downloads, illustration, Logo, Photoshop, price, stumbleupon, Tutorials, Web Design
Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In August’10
Sep 1, 2010 General, Inspiration, Resources, Tutorials
A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes to selection of right resources you need to be very careful and specific about needs.
Tags: billboard, css, Design, design-billboard, official-link, photography, psd-to-html, resource, roundup, showcases, trends, Tutorials, vector, Web Design
