1. 40 Amazing Minimalist Website Designs For Your Inspiration

Minimalism is beautiful. It truly is. The best part about minimalism in web design is that it comes in many styles, colors and sizes, but they always have the same goal in mind – saying the most while saying the least.

2. Expanding Your Design Empire: 7 Other Careers that Benefit from Design Knowledge

Web design is a field that, while saturated, is very likely to keep expanding in the years to come. More businesses are moving online, more major companies and brands are embracing the internet as a business tool, and far more individuals are adapting their one-person businesses to incorporate the internet into their strategy.

3. 20 Ways to Streamline Your Web Business

If I told you that there are twenty different ways you can streamline your web design business, make more money and work less, would you believe me? What if I showed you – would you believe me then? In this article, you will find twenty different ways you can streamline your web business. Some of which will cover work aspects while others will cover administrative tasks, but all in all, the end goal is the same:  making more money and working less.

4. 10 Tips to Avoid a Creative Block

Creative Blocks are quite common in the industry that we work in especially amongst very busy designers. I can say that it is truly one of the most depressing feelings you can experience as a designer. The usual reason for obtaining such a evil thing is when a designer starts comparing his/her work against someone better than him/her. There are multiple reasons that a creative block can occur, but that is solely the main cause.

5. Seven Tips to Keep Your Clients Coming Back for More

In any business, existing customers are always more profitable than new ones. The same is true for freelancers. If you want to pump up your income, you’ll find it easier to get more business from your existing clients first, rather than looking for new clients. So, you should constantly be working to turn existing clients into repeat clients.

6. Finding and Working With the Right Designer

In the next few sections I will try to shed some light on what a designer is, how we work, and what makes us tick. I’ll also give you some tips on how to find the right designer for your project, and how to best communicate with them.

7. What’s In Your Design Toolbox? Part 4: Jeff Finley

This is part 4 of the Design Toolbox Series where I interview top designers about what tools they use to help them create their art. This series was largely inspired by Grace Smith’s “Show Me Your Dock Series.” It’s my hope that you can gain insight into what other designer’s are using, and hopefully find some new apps/tools to check out.

About Jeff Finley

Jeff Finley is an artist, designer, and creative entrepreneur. He is part owner of the creative agency Go Media and lives in Cleveland, OH with his wife Kim and their bunny Cocoa. He plays drums in Parachute Journalists with Adam Wagner, also of Go Media. He’s also founder of the art, film, and music festival Weapons of Mass Creation Fest taking place in Cleveland this year on May 22 and 23.

8. 21 Wacky Icon Sets You Have to Have

We love icons don’t we? In that case I am presenting 20 Wacky Icon Sets You Have to Have. They are absolutely free if you promise to use them, I’m kidding. The icons were produced by Iconschock and they are for personal and commercial use. Let’s not wait around to long and get you some free icons.

9. 100 Fantastic Design Blogs (and their logos)

Design Blogs with their branding logos. They are shown in alphabetical order (well, mine’s at the top) together with a few words about the nature of the Blog. The blogs are primarily Graphic Design sites, with a few WordPress, Web Design and Inspiration sites thrown-in for a great mix—enjoy!

10. 50 Inspiring Logos you Have to See

Logos are seen everywhere. Every business or company has a logo, even if its just a font or a dot. It’s still their logo that you know them by. I came across some awesome logos that I found inspiring on Behance and thought I would share it with our readers so they can be inspired to.

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1. What’s Brand?

Brand is an important part of any business. So why do some of us claim we brand businesses, when we fall so short on it’s definition and limit ourselves at logo design? There are many factors that affect a brand and these factors can contribute to a unique and long-lasting brand. We often overlook the real meaning of brand and we need to understand it to fully comprehend the field.

2. Winter Olypmic Games Posters from 1924 to 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will begin today on February 12th in Vancouver, Canada. I thought it would be interesting to see how the design trends in Olympic posters have changed during the years.
In this article you will find every official poster from the winter Olympic games from 1924 to 2010.

3. 16+3 Brands You Should Consider For Your Next Startup

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1. Social Media for Graphic Designers – Constructive or Destructive?

With the growing challenges of graphic designing, social media is a becoming a necessity for every graphic designer. Nowadays, every industry is shifting its focus towards social media for its publicity and promotion and the graphic design industry is no exception. But like every other technology that has been invented, social media has its share of boons and banes. Now don’t get me wrong here guys, I am not suggesting that we should not utilize the blessings of social media. What I wish to achieve in my post is to give you a balanced analysis of social media and its impacts on graphic designers.

2. Smashing Your Creative Block – Photoshop Tutorial

The question arises so much nowadays, How do you overcome your Creative Block? I made it simple for everyone today and created a Photoshop Tutorial to smash your creative block. I will use simple and easy techniques to create a smashing composition text tutorial. It won’t take you to long to finish and you will learn that it is pretty easy to create this effect. Have fun.

3. 45 Awesome Free Grunge Fonts

Grunge fonts are very popular within the design world right now. If you are a fan of grunge design style where everything is worn, distorted or eroded looking, my collection of 45 free grunge fonts is just perfect for you.

4. The Lost Principles of Design

In the instant design age many of us often stray away from the basics in design. If you had a professor in college who taught you the fundamentals of design these may be engrained into your skull. For the self-taught, you may have a book on your desk with these very principles that you refer to on a daily basis. However, the more and more people that flood the internet for design content need to learn the basics before trying to make a stellar gradient in Photoshop. While this is cool and amazing right now, there will come a point where this style is left behind and a new style is made. In history, this lesson has repeated itself with movements like the Bauhaus and Swiss Modernism and will soon label our current trends as part of history.

5. 300+ Beautiful Websites For Design Inspiration

Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display excellent design.

6. The History of Television Through the Pages of Popular Science Magazine

The Jetsons promised us flying cars and sentient robots by 2062. 2001: A Space Odyssey promised galactic travel – beyond today’s dinky power wheels stuck in mud up in Mars – that’s now already a decade overdue. And while I’ve jumped into damn near 300 hot tubs since I first saw the trailer for Hot Tub Time Machine, Duran Duran is still socially unacceptable listening. Technology has totally failed us.

7. Why You Can’t Ignore Video

I’ve tried to ignore video as long as possible! I’m not a fan of cameras – they’re too revealing, intimate, and personal. They capture everything. They convey more emotion and carry more impact, and they reveal more flaws. Actually, these are a few of the reasons you can’t afford to ignore video.

8. Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design

Web design has followed a long and windy road from it’s rather modest beginnings. Initially, the term “web designer,” described something much more akin to that of a graphic designer: a designer who concerns themselves with the presentation of text and pictures.

9. Google Stealing Content and Hijacking Traffic? A deeper look.

Recently, a blog post by Michael Gray called “Is Google Stealing Your Content and Hijacking Your Traffic” caught my attention. If you haven’t read it yet, here’s the low down: The blog suggests that Google is “stealing” traffic (and thus revenue) from other companies by providing more information to its searchers upfront, instead of requiring searchers to click through and see the content themselves, among other claims.

10. 404 Error Pages for Your Viewing Pleasure

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1. Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem

It’s the @ symbol on the computer keyboard, which is an essential component of every e-mail address. Millions of us type it each day, usually without thinking about it. Yet the Museum of Modern Art in New York has deemed it to be such an important example of design that the @ has been officially admitted to its architecture and design collection. That’s as good as it gets in the design world, rather like bagging a Tony on Broadway or an Oscar in Hollywood.

2. 70+ Seriously Useful Handwritten Fonts and Inspirational Showcases

For quite some time companies and governments have been working hard to make daily life things available as digital services in whatever way possible to speed processes up and cut costs. At the same time most communication takes place on digital channels by sending emails, chatting, electronic orders, paying online, doing banking online…well almost anything goes on the line today. Sending a good old snail mail letter is still possible but not that popular really. Even on vacations we are not offline and stick to digital channels, keep the blog updated with “near real time images and stories. Just ask yourself – when is the last time you send or received a postcard, a letter…?

3. Learn How to Draw Caricatures!

What about learning how to draw caricatures? We think it’s a timely question because April Fools’ Day is just around the corner and your drawing skills may help you to play a joke with your friends. Imagine being the center of attention by making everyone laugh with your wonderful caricatures.

4. 20 New & Extremely Useful Mac Apps For Web Designers

Whichever type of Mac user you are, today’s post will certainly help you in completing your day-to-day tasks, develop & code projects and make your Mac as fast and clean as possible. For this post we tried to get you the best selection of New Mac Apps that will help you be a more efficient designer. Though, not many applications mentioned here are free, you do receive a good range of features for your money. You should note that the apps listed here are lightweight and are not memory hogs.

5. 30 Amazing Typographic Movie Poster Designs

You must have seen many articles on typographic posters but during my search i wasn’t able to find any post on typographic movie posters. So i thought why not compile a list of typographic movie poster designs for your inspiration.

6. Weekly Web Design Inspiration #45

Week number 45 of the very best web designs. There’s all sorts of different styles for you to gain inspiration from this week.

7. Thinking Outside the Box: Desirable Packaging Collection

Within graphic design there are several disciplines, within these one of the great ways to show uniqueness and style is in packaging design. Whether you become creative with; type, illustrations or the functionality of the packaging, you can really stamp your authority on a product. The packaging can often swing a consumers mind and make one product out-sell its competitors.

8. 30 Logo Designs with Creative Use of Negative Space

One of the great ways to add an impressive style to a logo is to use Negative Space. Negative Space refers to the “white space”, or “paper color” that shows through a design. Negative Space creates an interesting visual effect. It adds a subtle 3rd dimension, giving depth and a layered look to the logo. It is much more interesting to the eye than just a “positive” only object.

10. 40+ Smart and Creative Print Advertisements for Inspiration

Print advertising is one of the best methods to publicize a company’s products and services. A print advertising campaign won’t be a success just because you run the ads. The print ad must be effective and they must engage the reader, speak to the reader’s needs. If the print ad lacks a compelling message, particularly in the noisy and crowded marketplace of a magazine and newspaper, it can turn out to be a costly lesson for any advertising campaign.

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1. Eye Popping Pics of Cyborg Animals from Photoshop Contest

The Internet loves animals, and it loves photoshop. Worth1000.com decided to harness that double love and start a Photoshop contest to see who could create the coolest robotic animals on the web. Artists took pictures of real animals and filled them with images of gears, wires, and electronic gizmos. The results look pretty amazing. There are cybernetic reptiles, android mammals, and even a robot chicken. Take a good look at some of these cool robot-animal pics below; we’ve got tons and there are many more on the Worth1000 website.

2. The iPad paradox: Less is more

The introduction of Apple’s iPad predictably divided gadget fans into “love it” and “hate it” camps.

The haters say iPad lacks multitasking, a webcam, Flash support, a USB port, massive storage, a removable battery, CD and DVD support, RAM upgradability, multiple OS support and other features.

The lovers are less clear about why they want one. So allow me to propose the same list as above. It works just as well. The iPad is desirable for what it doesn’t do — can’t do — as much as for what it can do.

3. 40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

4. The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.

5. 12 Must Have Google Chrome Extensions For Designers

Google Chrome is not a popular browser yet but still it’s growing fast and as a web developer or designer, you must be among the earliest to adopt new browser technologies. What help you a lot are extensions of browsers though Chrome does not offer many extensions but still there are lots of extensions, those can be very handy for designers and developers.

Here, we have compiled a list of 12 useful Chrome extensions for designers. Don’t hesitate to try all of them and if you already have used any of it don’t forget to share your experience with us.

6. 50 Extraordinary Creative Free Fonts for Designers

Fonts always are one of the essential part of Graphic and web designs, when working on design projects weather your designing for the web or for print its always essential to have a good collection of fonts.

7. 10 Reasons your Business needs a Brand Identity

Having a brand identity in today’s competitive business market is no longer an option. It’s required. A brand identity is essentially a promise from businesses to their customers. Depending on the company and the nature of their business, it can be excellent service, exceptional products or affordable prices.

8. 40 Excellent Examples of Black and White Photography

Black and white photography attracts you with its detailed attention to composition, lighting, perspective and the context it is shot in rather than the play of beautiful colors common in other forms of photography. This is the main reason of its impenetrable allure.

9. 15+ Amazing Project Management and Collaboration Tools

Everyone knows about what is project management. It’s nothing but planning, organizing and managing the resources.But how to do? What is the right way to do it. Are there any tools available for project management and collaboration. How these tools can be useful and what are the features. These are the things we are going to analyze in this article. We will see best project collaboration tools available on web to manage projects easily.

10. High Speed Photography : Frozen in Time

In a blink of the eye, a lot can happen. A lot of astonishing things happen in a split of a second, but they are moving too quickly for us to see. High speed photography is the art of photographing a rapidly occurring event. Depending on the event to be photographed, methods range from use of ultra-short time flash exposures to producing lots of exposures in a split-second. Seemingly frozen in time, a lot of photographers have their own special method doing high speed photography. The usual photographic flash component offers a flash that lasts around a thousandth of a second (a millisecond). But photographic flash component used in high speed photography is so much quicker than this, and it creates a flash of light around a microsecond (a millionth of a second). This let you to freeze time through pictures that are happening tremendously fast.

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1. 10 Clever and Effective Series of Advertisements

Companies spend thousands upon thousands of dollars every year in advertisement. Some companies even spend millions of dollars. Print advertisements take up a large portion of those advertising dollars.

There are different types of advertising techniques that these companies use in their campaigns. One such technique is to use a series of advertisements to promote a particular product or brand. Today, we will look at 10 clever and effective series of advertisements as well as the reason why I chose to include each of them.

2. 30 Excellent Tutorials for Create Illustrator Cartoons

Cartoon characters favorite of every age peoples and specially art designers love to draw famous and some time new characters for make new trends, in this article we sharing some great trainings as “30 Excellent Tutorials for Create Illustrator Cartoons” where we presenting some awesome techniques for make cartoon characters.

3. 50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design

Using illustration in web design gives the designer the opportunity to convey there own personal and unique style, and be able to say “this site is mine, and look what I can do”. Very few web design styles give an artist this opportunity.

4. 35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding Of 2009 For Your Inspiration

This is the post dedicated to the logo rebranding in 2009 of few renowned brands. This post will give you an idea in one place for great logo design trends in this age. It helps you to boost up your creative men who are willing to create the new logo for his client or himself. Overall, logos showing in this list are simple, sleek and decent having a look of current web 2.0 trend. The usage of color scheme, font selection and look and feel of presentation is really cool and attractive. This list is not long in numbers, but I promise you that when you start watching them in detail it will must boost your creative logo design ideas professionally and motivate you to design your new logo in a way that people will never forget that you have made it. This is a list of 35 Exceptional Logo Rebranding In 2009 For Your Inspiration and Information.

5. 10 Predictions for 2010

Every December I look forward to compiling a list of predictions for the coming calendar year. I have been doing this for almost 20 years now, and thanks to a combination of heavy research and a little bit of luck, I’ve had a pretty high accuracy rate. Sure, there have been some misses in the past, but the majority have been on the money. Don’t believe me? Check out last year’s list.

6. Stormtrooper-Inspired Art and Design

Arguably the most iconic image to emerge from the multi-billion dollar Star Wars franchise, was that of the Stormtrooper. To this day, the Empire’s elite soldiers continue to influence artwork, product design and fashion. Below is a collection of Stormtrooper-inspired art and design to dazzle and delight your senses.

7.  Google’s Web Design Lead – Michael Lopez Interview

I recently had the tremendous honor of catching up with Michael Lopez, Google’s Web Design Lead, by phone to ask him a few questions about designing the famous Google doodles. Michael is part of a small team of designers who are responsible for changing the Google logo into an exciting work of art. Michael and his team spend their time brainstorming about upcoming doodles, oftentimes getting their ideas down by drawing or writing on a white board or even a scrap of paper.

8. Do UI Patterns Destroy Innovation?

We have been using patterns to solve problems for a long time. Generally people (in our industry) would define a pattern similar to this definition found on wikipedia

In software engineering, a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A design pattern is not a finished design that can be transformed directly into code. It is a description or template for how to solve a problem that can be used in many different situations.

9. Typo Madness #1

Here you are some amazing typography works, enjoy!

10. 35 Realistic 3D Robots Illustrations

Very Stunning and Facinating 3D Robot Characters designs and illustrations. Looks very reall. Robots have always been my favorite things to watch in movies and Artworks.

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1. 16 Cool Cellphone Concepts Which Won’t Be Implemented

When it comes to good design, Apple knows its stuff. The iPhone was able to single-handily change the mobile industry and also how we look at phones. The superb design of the iPhone has inspired many artists out there to come up with their own cellphone concepts that blur the line between design and functionality. Here is the list of some of the most stunning cellphone concepts.

2. 10 Creative Watch Concept Designs

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3. 50 Funny and Creative CG Creatures

While I was browsing the net I found some funny CG 3D creatures that you’ll surely like! Some of them are amusing and some are scary but they are all great! Most of them were created using 3D applications but there are also a few created using other applications like Photoshop. Anyway, they are all created by talented artists so let’s check them!

4. 25 Creative Blog Header Designs

For designers, website and blog headers are frequently areas where creativity is on full display. In this post we’ll feature 25 blogs with unique header designs. For more blog design inspiration please see our blog gallery Blog Design Heroes.

5. 34 Amazing Designer’s Photoshop Work – Bigger is Better

I am really excited about publishing this post because i have collect some amazing images from worth1000.com, these are really awesome.

I have found many categories in worth1000 but i like this one. because this is very different instead of others. Giant people in city and they are doing daily life with big one city, i really love that scene.

That was contest on worth1000.com and now these are best one artworks from the contest. all images are make in photoshop. cropping, shading outstanding.

6. Orange Website Showcase

Color Wheel Pro says:Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

To the human eye, orange is a very hot color, so it gives the sensation of heat. Nevertheless, orange is not as aggressive as red. Orange increases oxygen supply to the brain, produces an invigorating effect, and stimulates mental activity. It is highly accepted among young people. As a citrus color, orange is associated with healthy food and stimulates appetite. Orange is the color of fall and harvest. In heraldry, orange is symbolic of strength and endurance.

7. Content Mosaic: The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs

The other day, Jon and I were talking about different types of articles that are posted on many blogs and sketching out a tentative schedule for my contributions here at SpyreStudios. During that discussion, Jon raised a very interesting point, suggesting that some types of content affect traffic in different ways. Some are more like a sugar rush – you put them out there, do a bit of promotion, and see the traffic come in fast and furious. Others have a more sustained effect – they may not have the same immediate traffic results (though they might do that too), but they do tend to bring in more traffic over the long run, through things like search engines.

8. 35+ Usability Resources for Web Designers

Usability should be a priority for every website. Without usability, even the most beautiful design will be ineffective. In this post we’ll feature a number of resources, tools, software, checklists, articles, and more, that can help you to design and develop highly usable websites.

9. 40 Outstanding Typographic Poster Designs

For typography lovers, posters can be an excellent source of inspiration. Skilled designers can do amazing things with typography and text effects, and in this post we’ll feature 40 outstanding poster designs.

10. World’s Top 10 Most Succesful Logo Designers

Logo designing is an immensely delicate art which can go a long way in making or breaking a brand. Some men and women have conquered such professionalism in this field that they have left a great impact on our society. The designs we come across in our day to day life have been created by these “artists”. Below are the personalities who have achieved fame in this field.

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1. Creative Christmas Advertisements

With Christmas coming up we have selected the most Creative Christmas Advertisements. Besides all the magical moments it is a great opportunity for companies to wish everybody a Merry Christmas or relate those magical moments to their brand.

2. 58 Photos of Faces Where They Shouldn’t Be

Everywhere I look, I see faces. The cabinet is looking at me. The lightswitch is looking at me. The cereal is looking at me. And it’s all because of your submissions to this week’s Anthropomorphism Shooting Challenge.

3. What to do with less than perfect shots

Even the best of photographers have bad days or shots that just don’t make the cut. Do you ever find yourself wishing there was something you could do that would breath new life back into those shots to make them somewhat presentable? I’ve got a quick trick for you to do just that and it requires very little Photoshop work.

4. 10 excellent Illustrator text effect

In this post, we are providing some exceptional and beautiful illustrator text effect those you don’t want to miss.

5. Creative illustrative print ads

Print Ads, a part of everyone’s life, no matter if its a newspaper, magazine, packaging or anything, is always a difficult task for a design agancey or a graphic artist to come out with a creative print ad. The graphic expert needs to be very creative to accomplish the challenging task which can deliver a message across with a single image and can leave a mark in users mind. There are various kind of print ads we see in our daily life some are humours, some real creative, typographic, illustrative and other…

6. Old Christmas Designs of Your Favorite Online Stores

When the holiday season in full swing, let’s mention something that’ll for sure glue your eyes open! This time we’re featuring famous websites and the ways they altered their Christmas custom designs within the years of functioning.

Having searched for Christmas season customizations, we’ve compiled the set of websites that’ll take you to the nature of festive customization options and give the background of the symbolic Christmas imaging.

7. 50+ Creative Logo Designs That Use Letterform Marks As A Symbol

A logo is the most important element of brand as well as essential for creating a great brand identity and evidence of a business’s reliability. When designing a logo, knowing which type of mark would be the most appropriate for the application will help you achieve a stronger solution.

In this collection, we present 50+ creative logo designs that will use Letterform marks as a symbol to convey the brand message that will hopefully inspire you.

8. 25 Most Beautiful Christmas Photoshop Tutorials

The Christmas is approaching and here are some fine Photoshop tutorials related with Christmas.

9. 336 Hours of emotions

Infographic of 336 hours of my emotions throughout the course of 2 weeks. Emotions were averaged out and then plotted on a bar graph.

10. Top 10 Reasons Santa is a Great Designer

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1. What an Animal – Illustrations of Pigs

Pigs have always been used in cartoons and in different forms of media. They have been used to depict slopiness, being fat, and sometimes, they have even been used in advertising due to the fact that their cuteness appeals to some people. They are also known for the” piggy bank.” Most children had one growing up.

2. 35 Fresh and Cool Web Design Interfaces for Inspiration

Everyone knows that DeviantArt is the best place for you to submit your art-works, and web designers like to submit their works to this community art website. Enjoy the featured list of 35 fresh and cool web design interfaces from DeviantArt that was hand-picked by me and in my opinion!

3. The Coolest Blogazine WordPress Themes of 2009

We’re starting the end-of-the-year roundups with the coolest WP themes you should consider when starting a new online-mag-blog or while revamping your old one. Here are our choices. Don’t hesitate to leave some suggestions an opinions in the comments.

4. The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

On Monday past we published the post 49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, a collection of the best artistic tutorials for Photoshop from this year. As a follow up to that post, today we have The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

5. 60+ Superb Ideas of Print and Online Advertisements

Most famous brands using that way in both way of designs like Print Media designs and web banner designing, we always try to present our product in better way and follow exceptional design work which you can seen in whole listed advertisements. Hope you leave your comments and also share if you get help from this listings or somewhere else resource, you can share with our visitors and readers.

6. Stunning Black And White Macro Photography

Close-up photography provides exclusive opportunities to make creative and impressive photographs. This type of photography also referred to as Macro Photography. With macro photography, small and complex features that are impossible to tell apart from a distance are displayed with vivid detail.

In this inspirational post, we’ve collected black and white macro photographs taken with various Cameras, if you enjoyed any of the photographs showcased, please visit the photographer and leave them a comment!

7.  The 15 Best Articles For Designers in 2009

What a great year it has been for design related articles. So many new blogs, new blog writers, great content, great resources, a lot of inspiration, it really has never been a better time to be a designer.

In this round-up we have collected fifteen of the most popular design related articles from 2009. There are great resources for fonts, Photoshop, web design templates, as well as amazing web design and graphic design tutorials.

8. 10 Amazing Typographic Poster Tutorials

Below are 10 amazing tutorials that teach you how to create typographic posters. Some are created in Photoshop and the others in Illustrator so you can improve your skill in new ways with these programs while creating some beautiful posters! I hope you guys find this post useful!

9. The Best and Worst Identities of 2009

2009 has been a great year for Brand New, with a bottomless source of new and redesigned identities from around the world, and we’ve all had good fun critiquing them in sickness and in health. But it all comes down to this: The Best and Worst. I have gone through all the archives and selected the top 12 in each category.

10. Monday Morning Inspiration #25

This Post belongs to our “Monday Morning Inspiration” Series. Every Monday Morning we’re give you a bunch of cool design Inspiration. Do you wanna share your Work, next Monday, in this Post join our Flickr Group!

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1. The “Wow” Factor in Web Design

Everyday, we go through hundreds of different websites. With Twitter and RSS feeds, we are able to see an excessive amount of sites in just a short time. Most of the websites that we visit are forgettable, they don’t leave a lasting impression.

2. 50+ Mac Applications with Great Interface

Having used Mac for quite some time, I discover that I deeply fall in love with smooth and sleek interface offered by most of Mac built-in applications.

And the good news is, there are many third-party applications out there developed with more or less the same design standard as those built-in Mac apps. More than fifty sample screenshots of beautiful Mac applications are ready to amaze you after the jump.

3. 24 Free High-Res Concrete Textures

24 Free High Resolution Concrete Textures for all of you to download. These textures are for personal and commercial use and no credit is required when used. Download this texture pack quick and easy by following the download link below, you will be using these textures in your own designs in no time at all. [...]

4. 50 Mind-Blowing Space Artworks

Space has always fascinated humanity.  The concept of an almost infinitely vast and complex universe stirs the deepest emotions in the viewer.  From movies, TV shows, science, music, and art, outer space has had an incredible influence on our lives.  And whether you’re a NASA scientist, a die hard science fiction fan, or just sitting in a cubicle working, space art can take your breath away.

5. 50+ Useful Mac Applications for Freelancers and Professional Designers

For one reason or another, a lot of freelancers use Macs. As a full-time freelancer and part-time geek, I really like to play around and tweak with applications on my Mac too. There’s little confusion that Mac is a popular platform for web designers and freelancers as it offers an enormous range of software for designing, managing, developing ,publishing websites and tracking, processing, administering your financial things.

6. How to Set Up a Killer WordPress blog

Welcome to part 4 of this series on How to set up a killer wordpress blog (we are almost there guys!!!!). In this part We`ll be choosing our plugins. The first thing you need to know is that there are lots and lots of WordPress plugins, so in some cases, I`ll be listing more than one for the same purpose, just in case you don`t want to use the same as I do, or just want to try something new, it`s you choice!.  There are some plugins that may need template modification, so I`ll let you know as we go along. Well Lets Get Started.

7. 40 Cold Colour Palettes For Winter Inspired Web Designs

Don’t you hate it when you are designing a website, but you just can’t find the “perfect colour set” that makes your website flow? Trying to find nice colours really frustrates me, so that’s why I go and look at colour schemes on many different colour websites. Compiled here is a list of 40 cold colour palettes for winter inspired web designs.

8. 35 Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials For 3D Artwork

Adobe Illustrator is a best vector illustration application. Using illustrator you can create cutting edge graphics and give your artworks 3d effect too. May be illustrator is not the best tool to create 3d objects, as there are lots of 3d tools available, but still you can create realistic-looking 3D artwork.

9. 30 cool 3d and Text Effects Tutorial in Adobe PhotoShop

Today i covered 30+ amazing 3d text , bubbles, glass, Stunning effects on Text. These are high quality adobe Photoshop tutorials from various toped ranked websites.

10. Free Design Resource Roundup

Hundreds of free brushes and icons, loads of holiday giveaways for designers and more goodies! Today’s free resource roundup is totally jam-packed. Download now and help us spread the love this season by bookmarking, tweeting, or sharing this post. Ho ho ho!

11. Create a Zoomed In Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial will walk you through a simple process of giving a zoomed-in effect for your illustrations. This can be used in numerous ways, but primarily for designing instructional visual material.

12. The Evolution of Olympic Torch

Today, the 2010 winter torch relay just passed my city. It is the first time that I have a close look of the torch. It looks more elegant than I thought and just raised my interest of the past torch designs. Back to 1936, torch is only a functional torch, doesn’t have a lot designing element.

13.  12 of The Best Free Website Analytic Tools

To most serious webmasters website analytics are a major part of their life. Knowing who is coming to their website and how they got there is an important factor to building a successful website but being able to make changes because of access to this data is even more important as it will bring both growth and profit.

Without the creation of such informative and helpful software, webmasters would be clueless on how their website is doing and what they can improve on. Obviously, different software supply different features and at the end of the day its down to a webmasters preference to which software they use.

In this post, Designussion are showcasing what we think are the best free website analytic tools available on the Internet.

14. 60+ Creative & Inspirational Newsletter Designs

How about creating an equally good newsletter that matches its company’s standard. Many companies practice sending newsletters periodically/occasionally to their clients. Many do it because their competitors are doing, but some do it purposely. Among many reasons couple of reasons which seems logical to us are: -

• Spreading awareness and giving an insight to the customer/client about what is going on in company.
• To create an impression about themselves as a company, sort of brand building practice.

15. 20+ New Excellent Free WordPress Themes

Today we are going to tell you about 20+ Excellent Free WordPress Themes that you probably haven’t seen. WordPress themes always come in handy either if you are a professional coder or a newbie to the blogging world. WordPress is simply one of the most powerful blogging platforms that the blogosphere has seen and we hope that this article helps you to identify some new themes that you left unnoticed.

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