abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2121
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]
Smashing Magazine » Beyond The Boring: The Hunt For The Web’s Lost Soul
Has web design lost its soul? And is responsive design to blame? These questions, posed by my friend and colleague Noah Stokes, are provocative to say the least. After all, the responsive web has made browsing on our ever increasing collection of Internet-connected screens not only possible, but enjoyable.
Our priority as designers must be to solve problems; perhaps more than … [Link]
JUST™ Creative » 6 Lessons I Learned in Design School That I Still Use Today
This article has been contributed by Daniel TImiraos, a multi-disciplinary creative with over 17 years of agency experience creating design solutions for traditional and interactive media. Enjoy! 
It feels like eons ago that I started my art/design education – back before Friends were friends and grunge rock was getting it’s foothold on the main stream. The Apple Macintosh had gotten … [Link]
WebDesignDev » 20 New Free Fonts Every Designer Should Use
As a designer, you must constantly stay updated with the latest design trends and new free fonts on the web! A great font can help you create awesome projects, whether you design webites, apps, prints, or anything else. Take a look at these awesome new free fonts you can instantly download with just a few clicks. They come in various … [Link]
Line25.com » 25 Web Development Company Designs That Scream “Hire Me!”
Many designers are also web developers and own a web development company. If you are one of those people, or you simply want some inspiration for your design portfolio website, we’ve got you covered with the perfect inspiration piece. In this roundup, you will find a total of 25 web development company designs that scream “Hire Me!”. Having a website … [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Beautifully Designed Posters
These posters bring back the essence of design, with a really strong use of shapes, typography, and color to deliver a message. In a world full of visual noise I hope these simple designs will inspire you. Enjoy! 
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abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Interactive Motion Design by John Schlemmer
John Schlemmer is a motion designer currently working at Google as the Lead Motion Designer for Apps. Based in Mountain View, California; John had the opportunity to work on Google's High-Profile apps such as Inbox by Gmail, Google Calendar, Gmail, Drive and more. Check him out! 
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All Rights by John … [Link]
Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Fit to Artboard in Illustrator
Is there a way to fit Artwork to Artboard in Illustrator? Have searched Google but only found mentions of fit Artboard to Artwork. Thanks! [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » The Perfect Office – Urban Pack, Bowers & Wilkins P5 and Office Ideas
We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we'll assemble a perfect office, and we'd like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have? This week we've picked some awesome little items for y'all, like the Urban Pack, a versatile bag for … [Link]
Web Designer Depot » 7 secrets for enhancing UX with micro-interactions
Knowing that we all judge a book by its cover, smart designers create catchy and practical interfaces. Potential users may be hooked, but how do you reel them all the way in? In trying to answer this question, all roads lead to a human-centered design approach, where the user is the prime focus. Be human: your application should speak the … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Freebie: Smashicons Icon Set (500 Icons, 4 Styles, AI, PSD, Sketch)
Today, we’re happy to release a very large icon set: the freebie contains 500 icons in four editable variants: outlined, solid, webby and flat, covering all sorts of various categories. The icons allow you to customize the stroke width and style, not to mention that you can change the color of the elements. They’re carefully crafted on a 60px grid … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Think Fast! Using Heuristics To Increase Use Of Your Product
People have many tough decisions to make; whether they should use your application or website to accomplish a task shouldn’t be one of them. Your design team can take advantage of our knowledge of the human mind and human behavior by accounting for a number of heuristics, or mental shortcuts, that researchers have identified. You might be familiar with the … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: July 2015
We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork, and as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a matter of fact, we’ve discovered the best one — desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Design Principles: Compositional Balance, Symmetry And Asymmetry
A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. While some of its elements might be focal points and attract your eye, no one area of the composition draws your eye so much that you can’t see the other areas. Balancing a composition1 involves arranging both positive elements and negative space in such a way that no one … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Rapid Front-End Prototyping With WordPress
Prototyping is one of the best things that can happen within a project, yet it is extremely underutilized. Prototyping makes a project better suited to users, elevates user experience, increases the quality of your final code, and keeps clients happy. The problem is that developers often see prototyping as a waste of time, since high-quality prototypes take considerable effort to … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Efficient Image Resizing With ImageMagick
Responsive1 images2 have been keeping us on our toes for quite some time, and now that they are getting traction in browsers, they come with a scary problem: the need to efficiently resize all our image assets. The way responsive images work is that an appropriately sized image is sent to each user — small versions for users on small … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Effective Logo Design, Part 3: How Geometry Influences Logo Design
Galileo knew it. Every ancient culture that left traces of knowledge in their art knew it. Basic shapes compose the fundamental geometry of the universe. We can take credit for a lot of things, but human beings did not invent geometric shapes. We discovered them through the observation of nature1. Understanding basic shapes and their functions have taught us to … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Qualities Of Good Flux Implementations
It has been an exciting year for my team. Last year we kicked off a project using React31, and over the course of the project we’ve learned a lot about React and Flux2 — Facebook’s recommended architectural principles for React apps. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the key lessons we’ve learned. Whether you’re new to … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » A Detailed Guide To WordPress Custom Page Templates
I like to think of WordPress as the gateway drug of web development. Many people who get started using the platform are initially merely looking for a comfortable (and free) way to create a simple website. Some Googling and consultation of the WordPress Codex1 later, it’s done and that should be it. Kind of like “I’m just going to try … [Link]
Smashing Magazine » Beyond The Boring: The Hunt For The Web’s Lost Soul
Has web design lost its soul? And is responsive design to blame? These questions, posed by my friend and colleague Noah Stokes1, are provocative to say the least. After all, the responsive web has made browsing on our ever increasing collection of Internet-connected screens not only possible, but enjoyable. Our priority as designers must be to solve problems; perhaps more … [Link]
Spoon Graphics » Inspiration Showcase of Double Exposure Photography
Double exposure photography is the name of the original process where two photographs are exposed onto the same piece of film, resulting in interesting and surreal pictures. While this style is rooted in analog photography, it’s also popular with digital photographers and artists/designers who can replicate the effect in Photoshop, as I recently described in my video tutorial. Both the … [Link]
abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Geometric Glimpses
I love simple and geometric illustrations, especially when the illustrator is capable of adding depth by using hard shadows. Lino Russo, shared some quite cool work that shows that quite well. The project title is Geometric Glimpses and we highly recommend you to check it out. We picked some illustrations to share with you here today. Geometric glimpses is a series … [Link]
example » Trends & Examples of SVG Animation in Web Design
Animation on the web has transformed radically over the past 5 years. SVG animation is one of the newest techniques to manipulate graphics on a webpage. Although SVG has been supported for a long… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog.
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abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Best of the Week: Illustrations, Photography, Tech News and more
It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there! We want to give a big thanks … [Link]
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