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  • Examples of Web Design for Kids

    Examples of Web Design for Kids

    Designing for kids or a younger audience often requires some changes in the style of design that is required. Because children are often more visually oriented and readily make associations between images and concepts as opposed to words and concepts, image or icon based navigation tends to prevail. Additionally, the use of graphics that create…

  • 30 Delicious Food Ad Designs

    30 Delicious Food Ad Designs

    Humans have an abundance of choices when it comes to food in the developed world. It’s hard to drive more than a mile or two without running into a fast food restaurant, and grocery stores often stock multiple brands of each product since consumers all have different opinions on which is best. Food ads are designed…

  • Creative Packaging Designs

    Creative Packaging Designs

    Packaging is one of the ways that marketers can help sell a product. Creative and eye-catching packaging can improve sales for products and catch the eye of new potential buyers. However, packaging also must be easy to use an intuitive, as I’m sure all of us have dealt with packages that were quite stubborn when…

  • Out of this World Art by Fernando Rodrigues
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    Out of this World Art by Fernando Rodrigues

    When most of us think of talented individuals, the talents lie in one specific area, such as photography. It is rare that you find multitalented people who have mastered the crafts for several of their talents and are able to keep up with it. However, there are a few notable exceptions, such as multi-instrumentalist musicians,…

  • Beautiful Examples of Brown in Web Design

    Beautiful Examples of Brown in Web Design

    Brown is a great color for web design, because it is relatively neutral and plays very well with other, more vibrant colors.  Brown often signifies earthiness, rustic, and influenced by nature.  When paired with another color like green or blue, you can create a beautiful visual style that communicates using colors. Check out these beautiful…

  • 10 High Quality Icon Sets from deviantART

    10 High Quality Icon Sets from deviantART

    When designing a website or application, having matching icons can really help create a formal and organized structure to the site, and built a consistency across all pages of the site, and even cross-application. Instead of piecing together high quality icons one by one, it’s usually much easier to just use an icon set. deviantART…

  • Awesome 404 Not Found Page Designs

    Awesome 404 Not Found Page Designs

    Having a custom 404 page for your website is one of the subtle ways that you can create an incredible brand and memorable style for your website. Although ideally a 404 page should not be seen, it can be shown off for great design qualities, and sometimes it is unavoidable that it will be shown…

  • Illustrator Tutorials for Text Effects

    Illustrator Tutorials for Text Effects

    Illustrator is a great tool for creating text effects because it allows for lossless and scalable graphics that work perfectly with text.  Illustrator is great for hand drawn style elements, logo design, and web backgrounds, all of which often involve the use of text effects. Here are some quality Illustrator tutorials for text effects and typography.…

  • 10 Great Free Fonts from 2011

    10 Great Free Fonts from 2011

    Free fonts are the lifeblood when it comes to design, particularly web design or print design, along with logo design as well.  There limitless possibilities when it comes to fonts, including serif, sans-serif, adjusting the kerning and thickness of the letters, as well as style. Here, I’ve gathered up what I think are 10 of…

  • Inspiring HTML5 Website Design

    Inspiring HTML5 Website Design

    HTML5 is the future of web design and development, because it helps improve and deliver web standards, along with improved functionality, user interaction and semantic code. However, there are some significant differences with HTML5, and some of the new features have not even been fully explored yet. Some web designers and developers have taken HTML5…

  • Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials

    Illustrator Icon Design Tutorials

    Icon design is a large niche within graphic design, but it requires some specific skills, such as the ability to create high quality vector graphics that have enough detail to communicate a concept, but not so many details that the icon becomes incomprehensible. Icons are useful as visual representations of a concept, idea or function,…