Graphic Design

Web Design Ledger » A Free Open Source Node.js & MongoDB CMS

Friday 2 October 19:15:18 UTC 2015

Hundreds of free open source CMS engines have flooded the market with new releases every year. Advancements in development have allowed for greater support among CMS devs that go far beyond general Rails or PHP. Notably the Node.js library allows devs to write frontend + backend code strictly in JavaScript – something that’s seemingly quite revolutionary for the time. This has … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Curated Videos for UI Designers and Digital Artists

Friday 2 October 18:35:34 UTC 2015

Designers love to hear other designers share their knowledge and tidbits of advice regarding the design indusry. You can hear this stuff at conferences, but those cost a lot of money and travel time. The natural alternative would be videos posted online. But who has time to search through YouTube or Vimeo for an inspirational video on design. Well some people … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » 36 Days of Type 2015

Friday 2 October 17:53:37 UTC 2015

Belgian designer Mario de Meyer has taken part on a project called 36 Days of Type in which he would come up with awesome pieces for the alphabet and numbers. We've already seen some of his works here at Abduzeedo, but these were too good not to be shared with you guys. Check it out! These are only a few images … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Huffington Post gets a Redesign courtesy of Code and Theory

Friday 2 October 16:54:23 UTC 2015

The popular online magazine Huffington Post is prepping to release a brand new redesign in early Q1 2016. The project has been a collaboration between the Huffington Post team along with the creative agency Code and Theory. So far the design looks incredible and has caught the attention of many web design publications. This news first broke at an Advertising Week … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Student Graphic Design Competition

Friday 2 October 16:53:14 UTC 2015

Hi, Our exhibition stand design/print company is running a new competition for students and have had some success contacting graphic design course tutors directly. My question is, where do tutors find live briefs & competitions normally? Obviously contacting tutors directly is fine, but sometimes I feel it is a bit of a hassle for them when they have such busy schedules … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Custom-Built Digital Style Guides with Frontify

Friday 2 October 16:15:45 UTC 2015

Designing a brand-heavy digital style guide is no easy task. This requires a bit of research and common sense into matching colors, fonts, logos/icons, and proportions. Most designers are capable of such a task but it’s also very time-intensive. But companies that just need quick guides can now rely on Frontify Style Guide to generate their digital guides. Frontify is a … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » New API for Pulling Website Screenshots Programmatically

Friday 2 October 16:05:02 UTC 2015

Have you ever needed to pull a fullscreen website photo without grabbing a screenshot manually? Dynamic libraries do exist, although they’re few and far between. Custom coding is another option but requires a lot more time. http2pic is a free open source API for pulling images via HTTP. It works from any website URL and can be set to deliver a … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Paper Kit UI brings Color to Bootstrap

Friday 2 October 14:42:46 UTC 2015

Bootstrap is one the most popular frontend HTML/CSS/JS dev frameworks on the market. It’s completely free and was originally based on Twitter’s UI design style. Over the years new features have been added to the library, yet it still follows a similar tone as the original design. Many sites created with Bootstrap function exceptionally well – but they also look rather … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Friday Fresh Free Fonts – Horticulture, Zhafira

Friday 2 October 14:39:57 UTC 2015

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]

Web Design Ledger » 30 Examples of Website Search Interface Design

Friday 2 October 13:34:12 UTC 2015

Not many designers place enough focus on the benefits of creative search fields. For content-heavy websites most users will be prepared to search for what they’re looking for. If the search interface sucks then people will be forced to leave and hit Google, or worse… Ask Jeeves. Instead of driving people away like a repugnant foul pot roast, why not spice … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Codeply Playground for Responsive Frontend Development

Friday 2 October 13:05:45 UTC 2015

The concept of frontend development in the browser would’ve seemed crazy just a decade ago. But now with apps like CodePen, jsFiddle, and Thimble, this almost seems like the norm. Codeply is another editor which covers a niche area of browser-based development: responsive design. Mobile responsive websites were also completely irrelevant(or nonexistent) 10 years ago. Now it seems like every website … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Graphic Design Alien

Friday 2 October 12:57:39 UTC 2015

Greetings! :tea: (i thought this emoji was fist bumping but tea is even better) I am new to the UK and am struggling to find work in my field. I have sent my CV out to numerous listings and haven't had a single response yet (over a month). I'm not sure why this is… Is it imperative that one has a … [Link]

Line25.com » 25 WordPress Themes with Awesome Grid Layouts

Friday 2 October 12:48:17 UTC 2015

If you found our WordPress themes for blogs post useful, then you’ll definitely like this one too! This time, we selected 25 WordPress themes with grid layouts. These great WordPress themes can be used as portfolios, blogs, online magazines, corporate websites and more! These grid-based website themes have different styles and color palettes, from lighter to darker ones, from flat … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » 50+ fresh resources for designers, October 2015

Friday 2 October 12:45:35 UTC 2015

Hello there! Here we are again with this amazing bunch of resources for your web and graphic design projects. Come and have a scuba dive around this ocean of unique fonts, delicious icons, cool mockups and wireframes, print and web templates, powerful development and designing tools, and stacks more. Go ahead and dive in! 15 touch gesture AI & PSD … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 25 Best Shopify Online Stores To Inspire You

Friday 2 October 12:45:07 UTC 2015

Did you know you can easily build your beautiful online store with Shopify’s ecommerce platform! With an available free 14 day trial (no credit card required), Shopify is a no-brainer for anyone looking to start an online business. We selected 25 best Shopify online stores that use this great eCommerce platform, in order to show you how much you can … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » A Directory of Animated Animals with Pure CSS

Friday 2 October 12:15:56 UTC 2015

A brand new website called CSS Animals just launched online. It’s part pet store, part webdev resource, & all-parts awesome(and/or strange). The site is a growing collection of animals built purely with CSS3 code. Each animal is made up of shapes rendered in the browser + animated using CSS3 transitions or keyframes. Some examples can be found on sites for free … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Web Development Reading List #106

Friday 2 October 11:56:11 UTC 2015

What’s happening in the industry? What important techniques have emerged recently? What about new case studies, insights, techniques and tools? Our dear friend Anselm Hannemann is keeping track of everything in the web development reading list so you don't have to. The result is a carefully collected list of articles that popped up over the last week and which might interest … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » ComponentHub can build Reusable Ps, Ai, and Sketch Elements

Friday 2 October 8:45:18 UTC 2015

How many times have you needed to copy elements from an existing document to recreate a design? Vector shapes are easy, but cross-platform shapes don’t play as nice. How do you edit anchor points from an Illustrator vector when it’s ported into Photoshop or Sketch? This may not be a huge problem but it’s always produced a slight clogging in my … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Introducing RAIL: A User-Centric Model For Performance

Friday 2 October 8:40:10 UTC 2015

There’s no shortage of performance advice, is there? The elephant in the room is the fact that it’s challenging to interpret: Everything comes with caveats and disclaimers, and sometimes one piece of advice can seem to actively contradict another. Phrases like “The DOM is slow” or “Always use CSS animations” make for great headlines, but the truth is often far more … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Cross Processing Actions for Access All Areas Members

Friday 2 October 7:30:30 UTC 2015

This week’s premium design resource for Access All Areas members is a set of cross processing Photoshop Actions courtesy of Shutter Pulse. The set includes 18 different actions for instantly applying cross processing effects to your images with varying degrees of strength. There’s a range of colour filters and toning adjustments to enhance your photos with a retro style appearance. … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2196

Friday 2 October 4:24:40 UTC 2015

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]

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