Graphic Design

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Mobile/tablet game application survey

Wednesday 9 April 18:42:30 UTC 2014

Hi guys, Could you please take a couple minutes of your time to fill out this survey. There are 10 questions. All except one, are multiple choice, so you'll whizz through them: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JCZ6~ It's purely for research purposes. Thank you very much 🙂 [Link]

WebDesignDev » 20 Professional Business Blog Templates for Your Company

Wednesday 9 April 18:40:18 UTC 2014

Every company should have their own blog! This is a great content marketing strategy and it will also increase your website traffic, thus increasing your clients! To make things easier for you, we selected 20 professional business blog templates for your company! Here they are! All of these business blog templates have premium designs and great features. Business Strategy Blog … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Greetings from Liverpool

Wednesday 9 April 16:47:56 UTC 2014

Hello! I'm Marty – I work at a digital marketing and design agency at the Royal Liver Building in Liverpool. I look forward to getting to know many of you over the coming months and, hopefully even years. Great to be amongst so many designers! [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Typography Mania #231

Wednesday 9 April 14:31:15 UTC 2014

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around once a week with the best of Typography design submitted by our users at typography-mania.com, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Submit your typography designs too and be part of this post. Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Submit … [Link]

PSD: Photoshop Disasters » Special K: Running Through The Beach

Wednesday 9 April 13:57:15 UTC 2014

Buy three boxes of this cereal product, get a free tote bag that is so large, you could crawl right inside and take a nap. After all, you’ll need a nap after running through thigh-deep sand. That must be exhausting. Thanks, Manuel, for spotting this disaster while grocery shopping. The post Special K: Running Through The Beach appeared first on … [Link]

You The Designer » Graphic Design Sins

Wednesday 9 April 13:00:24 UTC 2014

First of all, what is wrong with that banner?! Have you ever wondered how to piss off your designer friends (or anyone who actually understands design) and make their eyes bleed? Well this photo sums it up pretty much. This poster made by Shahir Zag that features Helvetica Bold, messed up leading, kerning and text alignment is surely an excruciating … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Cool Robot Designs by Steve Talkowski

Wednesday 9 April 12:30:13 UTC 2014

Robot design is something that I really like seeing. From badass, complicated robots like the Transformers to more simpler concepts, like these by American designer Steve Talkowski. His designs are really cool! These tiny robots doing mundane things are just adorable. Of course, this is a brief selection of his pieces. For more robots, please visit his portfolio at Behance! Also, … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Weekly Apps: Snaptee, Medium, NY NOW and more

Wednesday 9 April 12:04:37 UTC 2014

Most of the apps we're selecting today are available for iOS and Android, such as Snaptee, Moves and Medium, so it's up to you to choose yours. Hope you guys like all the whole selection, and stay tuned for the next week! You can keep sending me your suggestions via Twitter twitter.com/FabianoMe and include #abdz_apps in the message. Snaptee – snaptee.co … [Link]

Web Design – WebFX Blog » 5 CSS Effects Libraries for Supercharging Your Designs

Wednesday 9 April 11:30:14 UTC 2014

CSS3 gives designers many new properties and modules (like the CSS Animations and CSS Transitions modules) that allow them to add fascinating interactivity onto their work. If you want to take advantage of these modern CSS capabilities, one quick way to do that would be to use (or study) CSS effects libraries. Let me talk about a few open source … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Printed Stationery: Colour query

Wednesday 9 April 11:28:06 UTC 2014

Please could someone advise. I have rebranded a company and designed and ordered to print their business stationery etc.. this is something I have done many times. I use a PC and Adobe InDesign – The links I have used for all stationery belong to the same logo which is a tiff and everything is CYMK and I also exported all … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Building The Web App For Unicef’s Tap Campaign: A Case Study

Wednesday 9 April 10:42:09 UTC 2014

Since a smartphone landed in almost everyone’s pocket, developers have been faced with the question of whether to go with a mobile website or a native app. Native applications offer the smoothest and most feature-rich user experience in almost every case. They have direct access to the GPU, making layer compositions and pixel movements buttery-smooth. Native applications also provide native … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » 25+ free WordPress themes for April 2014

Wednesday 9 April 8:45:35 UTC 2014

It’s been a busy month for theme designers & developers as a large number of new themes were released, making this a great time to update your site if it is in need of a new look. Some of the overall trends in web design are showing through in theme design as well: flat design and big photos rule. Every month … [Link]

DesignM.ag – Web Design & Development » 6 Free Tools for Testing Website Speed

Wednesday 9 April 5:24:53 UTC 2014

Advertise here with BSAWebsite speed is something crucial to any page, specially if you consider that users don’t like slow sites and don’t want to wait more than a couple seconds for a page to load. From regular users to high-end ones, no one like to wait too much to see the content they are looking for. And from niche blogs … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Inspiring Illustrations by Yeaaah! Studio

Wednesday 9 April 4:36:55 UTC 2014

If there's something I really regret was not have practice my drawing skills that much. That hurts even more when I see some work like the projects Bukowski, Bear, Dawn Of The Maya and Black Bones Club by Yeaaah! Studio. The level of details and quality is simply mind-blowing. It definitely makes me want to go back to my sketchbook. T-shirt … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » A Beginner’s Guide to UX & UI Design

Wednesday 9 April 2:30:15 UTC 2014

This article has been contributed by Saha William. User experience (UX) is the end result of User Interface design (UI)… If that’s what you wanted to hear, there you have it. Take it and leave it! However, if you landed on this post with a resolve to understand what UX and UI design truly mean and what makes them apart, … [Link]

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