Inspiredology – Design Inspiration Lab
Dunked, Not Just Another Portfolio Tool
Dunked is a beautifully designed new portfolio creation tool from the amazing Orman Clark. Most important tool for any designer is his/her portfolio, and there are no lack of tools out there for you to build with.In my opinion, there is always room for new projects to surface as it pushes one idea to become a better idea. Dunked wouldn’t … [Link]
Marketing and Design: A Love Hate Relationship
The best advertising is a clean, simple idea that is beautifully executed. But what the best ads will not tend to reflect are the back-room battles that go into making your average ad or campaign. At the heart of the turmoil is arguably the frisson that tends to exist between marketers and designers. While marketers have tangible, measurable objectives, designers … [Link]
9 Inspiring Workplaces
When I first started out freelancing, I was working from my student bedroom. Although being poorly lit, completely disorganised and cluttered, and there being barely enough space for a desk next to my bed, it was my creative workspace for over a year. I researched, tested, and created print and branding solutions from that tiny room, despite the various practical … [Link]
Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers
Greetings!
Hey everyone! I'm a student starting my Fine Art BA next year. Though painting is my main thing, I'm also wanting to do freelance graphic design in my holidays and spare time to broaden my skills and get some income. I don't have a website at the moment, but I'm looking to start up a portfolio and get my work 'out … [Link]
So, i'm new, and i'm driving myself mad!
Hey folks! I'm a new(ish) illustrator and i'm wanting to get some of my work completed digitally. Firstly, i haven't been to university yet, i am on a Foundation Degree in Art and Design. However i have a huge love for anything digital and i have loved doing some small scale stuff with my tablet. However, as i am starting to … [Link]
consumer rights
Hello, I have a friend who created a cookery book for her university project. She went to a digital printers who quoted her X amount, which she accepted. She later got an email saying that it would be now double X amount due to an error with the the binding, and therefore a reprint was needed. Because this error occured she … [Link]
Outlaw Design Blog
Beastly Badges Labels by Joey Ellis
Dribbble – Beastly Badges Labels by Joey Ellis.
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Western Youths
Western Youths.
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Inky Email App
Inky.
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JUST™ Creative
2013 Logo Design Trends & Inspiration
Logo Lounge, for the past ten years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2013 logo design trends report. I would love to hear your thoughts on the showcased trends. Do these identity / branding trends effect you or your process? Do you agree with these suggestions? Have you noticed any other trends? Logo … [Link]
Where is ‘Top of Mind’, and How Do I Get There?
This is a guest article by fatrabbit CREATIVE. – Quick, name a soft drink. Maybe you said Coca-Cola; perhaps it was Dr. Pepper or 7Up. Either way, the soda that you picked obviously has a strong, memorable branding strategy. We don’t have to preach to you about the importance of a strong brand (If we did, we wouldn’t be very … [Link]
The Best Techniques to Add Speed to Your Writing
This is a guest article contributed by Steve Aedy. Time is money. This expression is not new to anyone. We all know how valuable our time is. But pointing out the obvious is sometimes more hurtful than helpful. We are already stressed about how long it takes to write a quality blog post. Imagining each expensive minute tick by, without … [Link]
BittBox
Freebie Friday: Crisp Grunge Brushes – Volume Four
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WordPress Bootcamp: Ending Soon
Advertise here with BSAJust a quick reminder: Registration on LearnWebDevelopment.com’s WordPress Bootcamp is ending this week – May 23, 2013 at midnight. If you want to learn WordPress – and create your first website in just a few days – this is the bootcamp for you! You’ll learn how to build a fully-functioning website using WordPress faster than ever before. Grab … [Link]
iStockphoto Promo Code – Save Over 50%!
Advertise here with BSAToday we have an iStockphoto promo code that is going to knock your socks off! A few weeks ago we shared with you Two Big iStock Promo Codes that we were pretty proud of. We thought they were so big that they were blog worthy and most of our visitors could use them. However, we were wrong. Today … [Link]
Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials
Two Free 2013 FITC Conference Tickets
I've got two FITC Toronto 2013 tickets to give away and all you need to do is send one tweet for your chance to win! For those of you who don't know what FITC Toronto is, it is a design and technology conference that brings together some of the world's best digital creators for three [...] [Link]
CSS: Responsive Navigation Menu
Previously I wrote a tutorial on how to make a mobile navigation for responsive design, now I've discovered a new technique to produce a responsive menu without having to use Javascript. It uses clean and semantic HTML5 markup. The menu can be aligned left, center or right. Unlike the previous tutorial where it is clicked [...] [Link]
Responsive Column Layouts
Typically, to create a column layout, you would need to add the first or last classes to reset the margin space and clear the float. Today I'm going to share a very simple CSS trick to create a responsive column layout using nth-of-type pseudo class. I use this trick to code the WordPress themes at [...] [Link]
Six Revisions
Giveaway: Free Subscriptions to Depositphotos
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Up for grabs in this week’s giveaway are three 30-day subscriptions to Depositphotos — one of the most popular sites for downloading royalty-free files online. The subscriptions being given away are usually worth $99 each. The subscriptions will allow the winners to download up to 300 royalty-free stock photos, illustrations, videos, vector art, etc. Read on to … [Link]
Winners of Interactive HTML5 World Maps from Simplemaps.com
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Last month, we had a giveaway of interactive HTML5 world map licenses from Simplemaps.com. Each license, which lasts a lifetime, is worth $199. In this post, you’ll find out who the five lucky winners are. The Winners Here are the five Six Revisions readers who’ve won a license from Simplemaps.com. Rommel RB Riyadh Al Nur George Avenirer … [Link]
The Winners of Premium WordPress Themes from TemplateMonster
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At the end of last month, we published a giveaway of 3 premium WordPress themes that were kindly provided by TemplateMonster, one of the oldest and most popular companies on the Web where you can purchase and download website templates and CMS themes. In this post, I’d like to let you all know who won this awesome … [Link]
Web Design Ledger
Applying Agile Principles to Design
Advertise here with BSAChances are, you’ve heard about the myriad ways in which the agile development method is changing the face of software development. If you’ve worked in the design world, you may even have given agile a try yourself, or at least found yourself the victim of an overeager manager who wanted to “shake things up” and “think outside the … [Link]
8 jQuery Plugins for Spicing Up Your Forms
Advertise here with BSAForms are certainly a very important part of a website. They should be intuitive, user friendly, and engaging. This is why we’ve gathered 8 jQuery Plugins that will spice up your forms. From options to make select boxes more user friendly, to file uploaders and more. All of the plugins are useful in a different way, so check … [Link]
18 Websites that Take Scrolling to the Next Level
Advertise here with BSAThere was a time when the common practice was to try and place all content above the fold. But now, instead of fearing the scroll, web designers and developers are embracing the need to scroll, and using it as opportunity to engage the user with background reveals, element animations, and other clever effects based on the pages scroll … [Link]
You The Designer
15 Decorative Element Photoshop Brushes
Hello creatives! Our featured freebie for the week is a cool set of decorative elements transformed into Photoshop brushes to help you out in your next creative projects. Perfect for print and web designs, this set of brushes include 15 hand-drawn abstract floral swirls and .EPS file for your vector needs. 
SEE ALSO: Free Vector Download – 22 Floral Elements … [Link]
The History of Typography by Ben Barrett-Forrest
Knowing something about typography is a must for graphic designers. If you really are into typography, you might have a broader idea of how this concept of arranging type really started. If you don’t want to read through the many pages of books or online archives about the history of typography, the recent work of graphic design student Ben Barrett-Forrest … [Link]
Infographic: Mobile Friendly Emails
Most often designers are unable to battle with the rising need of impeccable mobile email design. The significance of mobile email is growing rapidly with the changing times. The key considerations for marketer is to provide the same experience to all the viewers irrespective of the screen sizes of the mobiles and it should not result into sad design views. … [Link]
I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
This Week in Fonts
A deco style numbers font from Joshua Mayfield, a calligraphic text family by District, a ligature packed display face from Nootype, a contemporary stencil by Atlas Font Foundry, a family of contradictions from Typotheque, a flexible gothic digitized for the first time by Hamilton Wood Type, and a single face with 9 fonts within from DSType. Joshua Mayfield: Roloi Designed … [Link]
This Week in Fonts
A no-nonsense sans from Lineto, a layered type system by Latinotype, a charming hand made face from Voltage LTD, delicate and flowing curves courtesy of Typesenses, a contemporary sans by VirusFonts, a classic titling serif from Domahoka, a Swiss inspired sans by Wordshape, and a modern sans from Nootype. Lineto: LL Circular Designed by Laurenz Brunner 
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Making waves with Magasin
I’ve always been fascinated by typefaces based on fluid handwriting, and as an amateur calligrapher of copperplate, I decided to design a display font based on this experience. Origins and background My first approach to this project began with the lettering I designed for BoMo, a graphic design studio, in spring 2011. It’s based on a brief: feminine, professional and … [Link]
Line25
Line25 Sites of the Week for May 24th 2013
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from Justin Aguilar, Ghost, Dunked, Sipp and Paid. Justin Aguilar 
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Showcase of Websites Featuring Full Screen Videos
We’ve all seen videos on websites restricted to a specific frame size, but why not make use of the user’s whole monitor? Once upon a time only Flash was capable of such wizardry, but these days Javascript and HTML5 make it perfectly feasible to stretch your video footage to fill the browser window. This post showcases 15 website that all … [Link]
Line25 Sites of the Week for May 17th 2013
Line25 Sites of the Week is a weekly roundup of the most outstanding website designs that I stumble across during my every day browsing. In this week’s collection, we have designs from WerkPress, FreeAssociation, Bob Galmarini, Escape Flight and ps.design. WerkPress 
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View the website Escape Flight 
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Webdesigner Depot
Deal of the week: Responsive parallax templates
Most sites have too much information; users are overwhelmed as CEOs wax lyrical on everything from their favorite charity to the dimensions of their first office. In today’s increasingly information-saturated world, what studies find users often prefer is a simple, straight-to-the point, presentation of key facts. One of the best ways to deliver that is a compact, single-page website. For this … [Link]
Flat UI Kit (free download!)
Trends start everyday: an idea is adopted, passed on and before you know it it’s being discussed on design blogs. However, most trends vanish as quickly as they appeared. To paraphrase Andy Warhol, everything will be trendy for 15 minutes. Once in a while, an idea is found to have something so fundamental about it that it thrives, even after the … [Link]
Design = emotions + usability
While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make people feel a certain way and take a certain action. In this article I’d like to share Gravity Switch’s web design principles and our thinking behind them. Those rules are: define goals first; focus on users second; design for emotion; follow … [Link]
Blog.SpoonGraphics
Art & Design Inspiration Fix for May 24th 2013
The Art & Design Inspiration Fix pulls together a collection of my favourite graphical images that I’ve come across over the past week to give you a fix of creative inspiration. This week we have designs from Aaron von Freter, Rogier de Boevé, Yu Ping Chuang, Pavel Fuksa and Issam Erraya.Widow Maker by Aaron von Freter 
Reconstruct by Rogier de Boevé … [Link]
Create a Trendy Vintage Style Barber Logo in Illustrator
Sometimes it’s fun to create a logo design for a fictional client. Just pick a design style and play around with a concept of your choice without the hassle of the client approval process. This also gives you the chance to experiment with styles and trends you’ve seen around but never had the opportunity to try yourself. In this tutorial … [Link]
10 Photoshop Ink Brushes for Premium Members
The folks at Fan Extra have supplied some amazing goodies for Access All Areas members in the past, and today another super useful resource is being donated. Members can download this detailed set of ink brushes for Photoshop. They’re high resolution and perfect for creating edgy designs or roughing up your artwork. 
Fan Extra members can gain access to 2000+ design … [Link]
Web Design Dev
200 Awesome FREE Metro Icons Set From Freepik
Today we have an amazing FREE 200 icons set from Freepik, available in both AI and PNG and in 3 sizes: 32 px, 64 px and 128 px. Freepik is a search engine tool that tracks and locates free illustrations, vectors, photos and psd to help designers in their work, saving time and money. Freepik’s robot looks at a dozen … [Link]
20 High Quality Retro Web Elements
This collection of free PSDs contains some really cool vintage and retro web elements, for you to use in your website designs. You’ll find everything from icons to patterns and badges! Add them in your resources collection andif you’re looking for more vintage inspiration, don’t forget to check out these 10 Vintage Photoshop Tutorials and 10 Must Have Free Retro … [Link]
20 Fantastic Free Forms PSDs
Designing forms and fields in Photoshop may be boring, especially when you have a whole website to think about and to finish it fast. That is the reason why we handpicked the best forms and fields in PSD formats, which are free to use by you in your projects. You’ll find everything you need in this list from login and … [Link]
Abduzeedo Design Inspiration & Tutorials
Daily Inspiration #1456
This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo's writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don't forget to send your Abduzeedo username; or via Twitter sending to http://twitter.com/abduzeedo. Do … [Link]
Sites of the Week: Enjoythis, Impress, New Flickr and more
Have you seen the seen the new Flickr? I think you will "kinda" like it! Also we're featuring other nice and usefull services such as Impress, Framer and Postable. Check out these and other sites in the whole selection, share with us what you think and stay tuned for the next week!
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