Graphic Design

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Beautiful Houses: Chalet Lac Champlain

Friday 17 October 21:22:08 UTC 2014

Today we will show you a beautiful chalet in Quebec, Canada, a project by BOOM TOWN. This place looks amazing. Not only the house is modern and elegant, but the surroundings are breathtaking. The way they mixed wood, white elements and glass in the project created a cozy and unique environment.They certainly took advantage of the landscape and created a place … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » Hidden Symbolism in Logo Design: 40 Creative Examples

Friday 17 October 17:39:37 UTC 2014

Personally, I strive to put as much meaning into the logo designs I create for my clients – sometimes overtly, sometimes subtly and there are some great logos out there that do just that. Below is a compilation of 40 creative examples of logos that portray some sort of “hidden message” or symbolism if you will. Have you spotted any … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 20 Premium Infographic Elements for Designers

Friday 17 October 16:41:11 UTC 2014

Infographics are graphic visual representations of data and information and are very useful when you need to explain complex information in quick and effective manner. They can be pretty difficult to design, that’s why you many need some design tools or free PSD/vector infographic elements to get you started and help you in your design process. There are lots of … [Link]

You The Designer » 5 Things We Learned About Creative Briefs From Briefly

Friday 17 October 16:35:07 UTC 2014

Every designer has had a problem dealing with a client’s requests. Some clients give too many details while others give too little to work with. Designers need guidelines to help them with their commissioned works. That’s why before a project starts, the client is asked to fill out a creative brief. “Briefly”, a short film on creative briefs by Tom … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Splendid Illustrations by Megan Lara

Friday 17 October 15:47:36 UTC 2014

Yet another weekend is here and to celebrate it nothing better than checking out some super beautiful illustrations like these by American artist Megan Lara. She's got a super amazing style, with impressive shadings and colors. Of course these are only a handful of Megan's pieces. For more of it, please visit her portfolio at DeviantART. She'll definitely like your visits, … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Friday Fresh Free Fonts – Frinco, Les Sensations, The Wahhabi Script

Friday 17 October 15:47:35 UTC 2014

Friday fresh free fonts is a series of free fonts posted every Friday, yes I know it's awesome. I will look forward to bring a lot of great fonts that will sure help you improve your typography work. Check out what I selected for you on this FFFF post and make sure to comeback for more next week. View all FFFF … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Sites of the Week: The Grid, Dragone, Create5 and more

Friday 17 October 15:45:54 UTC 2014

Services, apps and portfolios are dominating our post today! Take a special look at The Grid, The Swat App and Create5. Check out these sites and the whole selection, share with us what you think and stay tuned for the next week! Take a look on all the other sites we're featuring today. Also you can keep sending me your suggestions … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Freebie: Touristic Icons (100 Icons, PNG, SVG)

Friday 17 October 14:40:13 UTC 2014

Icons are a lot like real monuments — they can both be easily recognized. Today’s icon set consists of a set of vector icons that represent monuments across the globe, so they can be literally used anywhere. This colorful set was carefully designed by Freepik141 and is completely free to use for commercial as well as your personal projects, including … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Yosemite update – wondering what Apps work?

Friday 17 October 13:35:27 UTC 2014

Application compatibility table – RoaringApps Enjoy – works on Safari and Chrome only – apparently [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Junior Graphic Designers in London wanted!!

Friday 17 October 13:07:02 UTC 2014

Discovering Arts Music Group currently have a fantastic opportunity for a cutting edge budding creative designer to come and join our head office team, based in London. You will be working as part of a young friendly and fast paced team and will gain valuable experience working alongside the core music team. You need to be able to commit to the … [Link]

PSD: Photoshop Disasters » Toyota Service Center: Flat Tires Are Our Specialty

Friday 17 October 12:43:01 UTC 2014

Come on in to Toyota Service Center, and your tires can look like this too! Uhhh… thanks? Thanks for sending this in, Kevin. We agree that this image “does not inspire confidence.” The post Toyota Service Center: Flat Tires Are Our Specialty appeared first on PSD : Photoshop Disasters . [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Be A Better Designer By Eating An Elephant

Friday 17 October 11:42:20 UTC 2014

I can’t imagine any other industry in which so much change happens so quickly. If you stop paying attention for a week, it can feel like you’ve not been listening for a year. There’s so much to learn. Falling behind is easy, too. We might be in the middle of a major project, so we put off learning about this … [Link]

Web Design – WebFX Blog » A Close Look at CSS Box Shadow

Friday 17 October 10:00:08 UTC 2014

The CSS box-shadow property can be used to give block elements a drop shadow or an inner shadow. Let’s take a close look at this CSS property. Examples Below are three different examples of applying the CSS box-shadow property on a div. Example 1: Simple Drop Shadow Here’s how you could give a div a subtle gray drop shadow. box-shadow: … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » 3 fundamentals of responsive design you have to master

Friday 17 October 8:15:03 UTC 2014

A few years ago, it was relatively easy to design and build websites. Websites were simpler, and were viewed on desktops and laptops with little variation in screen sizes. Today with mobile devices taking over viewers’ browsing time, a website can be viewed on a 4.8” smartphone screen, a 5” phablet, a 7” tablet or any size in between. So how … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Infographic Template Vector Kit for Premium Members

Friday 17 October 6:30:47 UTC 2014

Access All Areas members had a taste of Mats-Peter Forss’ Infographic Template Shop last month with his kind donation of a Vector Infographic Tools Kit for members. Mats is back again with more excellent resources for premium members, this time with a User Experience themed vector Infographic template kit featuring loads of individual resources including graphs, charts & icons. All … [Link]

Line25.com » Line25 Sites of the Week for October 17th 2014

Friday 17 October 6:30:02 UTC 2014

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 Woodsly, Atmospheric, Final, Degordian Academy and Agigen. Woodsly Lookbook Summer 2014 View the website Atmospheric View the website Final View the website Degordian Academy View the website Agigen … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Teenage Wasteland Illustrations

Friday 17 October 5:29:07 UTC 2014

Goni Montes shared some really cool illustrations on his Behance profile, the title of the project is Teenage Wasteland. I love how he illustrated some iconic situations that mostly every teenager go through. The style of the illustrations also are just beautiful, with muted tones combines with saturated accent colors. For more information about Goni, check out his website at http://www.goniart.com/ … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #1898

Friday 17 October 2:55:30 UTC 2014

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 AoiroStudio … [Link]

You The Designer » Whimsical Sculptures Created Out of Everyday Objects by French Artist Gilbert Legrand

Friday 17 October 1:00:13 UTC 2014

Childhood was a time when our imaginations were simply limitless. Back then, we saw things in a manner that adults just can’t seem to appreciate. We created this little world of ours where everything seemed to be possible. Fancied by the thought of fantasies being real, surely it left our childhood memories much more happier. The creative adult is the … [Link]

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