Graphic Design

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2199

Monday 5 October 21:50:04 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]

Web Design Ledger » LaunchDarkly Tracks & Measures UI Features with Split Testing

Monday 5 October 21:01:55 UTC 2015

Pushing out updates to a new website or mobile app can be intimidating. For larger sites it often takes a team of people to get the project moving and to fix any potential bugs. But a new service called LaunchDarkly hopes to expedite release times and put nauseating anxiety at bay. LaunchDarkly is a delivery platform with various features meant for … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Retalk Catalogs the best Talks on Design & Development

Monday 5 October 20:15:22 UTC 2015

It can take 15-20 minutes of browsing YouTube to find a good video on the topic you’re looking for. Conferences around the world often record their presentations and set the up on video sharing websites for free. Sometimes you’ll even find playlists of these videos, but who has the time to keep up on the latest releases? Thankfully a new project … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Adobe unveils a revolutionary UX design application at MAX

Monday 5 October 19:36:35 UTC 2015

Debuted today at their own MAX conference, Adobe have just unveiled a brand new design system that could revolutionize the way we work over the next few years. Codenamed “Project Comet”, it’s an end-to-end UX design solution flagshipped by a dedicated desktop app, and a companion mobile app. Project Comet combines wireframing, design, prototyping, and live previews all packaged in … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » October: A Free PHP Laravel-Based CMS Platform

Monday 5 October 18:05:33 UTC 2015

Over the past few years Laravel has become one of the most beloved PHP frameworks of the entire industry. It offers a solution for every situation with plenty of room for extending your own libraries. Most CMS engines are built on top of their own libraries but a newcomer named October CMS does just the opposite. October is a platform meant … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Lessons Learned from Medium.com’s Typography

Monday 5 October 18:02:36 UTC 2015

It’s been said that web design is 95% typography. So as a web designer, getting the typography right is over half the battle. Today with the growing popularity of web fonts and modern CSS techniques this task has become easier, but it’s always good to learn more with something so critical. Medium has changed their body copy to Freight Text Pro … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » SassDoc is your local built-in Documentation Creator

Monday 5 October 18:00:03 UTC 2015

If you work in Sass then you know it’s an incredible language with many benefits. One of the most confusing aspects tends to be a management of things like variables, mixins, and other Sass-related things. Well SassDoc offers a free open source solution to this problem. Now you can compile your own custom-built Sass documentation for any local project right from … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » JavaScript Library for Copying Text & Clipboard Management

Monday 5 October 16:55:11 UTC 2015

Users often rely on copy/paste to fill out form fields or rearrange content on a dynamic website. Clipboard.js is a brand new library that’s completely free for any web project. Some developers use the auto-copy feature which copies text whenever a user selects a field. This can be useful for copying generated links or blocks of code from a tutorial. The … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » 11 Personality Traits of a Successful Freelance Designer

Monday 5 October 16:30:15 UTC 2015

This article was contributed by Vincent Burkhead, aka Your Creative Junkie. What type of person does it take to thrive as a successful Freelance Graphic Designer? It’s an interesting personality mix: fiercely independent, yet collaborative, extremely confident, yet vulnerable and open-minded, firm, but flexible. After over 20 years in the design industry and 15 years running my own design studio … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Takeaways From Mobile Web Behavior

Monday 5 October 16:02:42 UTC 2015

According to Ian Carrington, Google’s mobile and social advertising sales director, speaking at Mobile Marketing Live back in 2012, more people in the world have access to a smartphone than a toothbrush. With that in mind, it’s perhaps not very surprising that there’s no shortage of information about how people interact with websites on mobile. From specific usability testing and scrutiny … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » The Perfect Office – Aeon GoPro Stabilizer, Glowforge 3D Printer and Office Ideas

Monday 5 October 14:50:05 UTC 2015

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? There are some super nice additions to the row of awesome gadgets here this week! Extend the use … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Cycle Tab switches between your Chrome New Tab Extensions

Monday 5 October 14:41:24 UTC 2015

Many extensions have been developed for Google Chrome that allow users to add special data into their new tabs. Rather than leaving them blank or setting a homepage, each new tab can instead be customized with add-ons like Momentum or Giphy Tabs. But what if you like a few of these different extensions? Well Cycle Tab completely solves that problem by … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » The Art of Richie Mason

Monday 5 October 14:28:21 UTC 2015

Richie Mason is a Visual 3D Artist located in United Kingdom. His art, world is surrounded of robots, creatures, monsters and from the near future. Among his tools of trade, Richie will be working with ZBrush, Cinema 4D, Keyshot and more. Impressive creativity, check him out. All Rights to Richie Mason All Rights to Richie Mason All Rights to Richie Mason All Rights to Richie … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Plone Conference 2015 to be hosted in Bucharest

Monday 5 October 14:22:36 UTC 2015

Between the many popular open source platforms it’s tough to make time for new additions. Plone CMS is an open source Python framework that’s been around for years. It has a growing community and a whole bunch of support. There’s also a big annual conference named Plone Conf which will reemerge in 2015. It’ll kick up on October 12th and run … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Where brands meet people

Monday 5 October 14:08:33 UTC 2015

Another awesome project by Charis Tsevis, the mosaic master this time strikes with an amazing project where he illustrate people using only logos from global brands. Check it out! The Advertising campaign for the world leader in outdoor advertising in Switzerland Clear Channel is one of the leading marketing companies of outdoor advertising worldwide. For their latest advertising campaign in Switzerland … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Junior/Graduate Graphic Designers temp contract West London

Monday 5 October 13:47:05 UTC 2015

ABOUT US Printerpix is a highly dynamic, fast paced and aggressively focused organisation. We are an ambitious, start-up cultured, progressive company with lots of scope for growth. With Double digit growth year on year, this accelerated pace is only for the highly organised and meticulous person. This is a brilliant opportunity for an ambitious graduate or an enthusiastic Junior Graphic Designer … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Contracts?

Monday 5 October 13:33:25 UTC 2015

A new client has asked me to 'send over the contract'… only problem is I don't have a contract to send. Can anyone recommend a source for creative project contracts? [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Chris Spooner Interview on SpoonGraphics & Advice for Web Designers

Monday 5 October 13:05:32 UTC 2015

The online blogosphere is full of websites talking about how to make websites. But there are also many niche topics like vector art, pattern design, and pixel-perfect icons. Chris Spooner has risen to fame through his popular digital design blog SpoonGraphics. He’s a very skilled designer with a focus on vector art and some interface design. This interview delves into Chris’ … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Freebie: Office And Business Icon Pack (92 Icons, AI, EPS, PSD, PDF, PNG, SVG)

Monday 5 October 11:51:28 UTC 2015

Everyone loves a great icon set. Today, we're honored to present to you two sets of office and business icons that can come in handy when designing apps, websites as well as for print. Designed by Manuella Langella, this icon set is completely free to use for commercial and personal projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. All icons are … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 25 User Interface Designs That Rock!

Monday 5 October 11:46:08 UTC 2015

Take a look at these 25 user interface designs and be amazed! These are some very functional, user-friendly and very well designed user interfaces which will make navigating through apps or websites an easy and pleasant activity! Be inspired! If you want to learn how you can create beautiful user interface designs yourself, you should take a look at these … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Typekit adds new Fonts to their growing Library

Monday 5 October 11:44:22 UTC 2015

The Typekit team just published a new blog post detailing some brand new fonts added into their collection. It seems Q4 2015 users and beyond will have access to some grand new font families, along with additional styles to previously-existing families. Many new additions come from the foundries of Delve Fonts and Phil’s Fonts. District Pro typekit font All of the updates are fully available … [Link]

Line25.com » 22 Useful Bootstrap Skins for Web Developers

Monday 5 October 11:40:16 UTC 2015

Bootstrap is a very popular framework with powerful features and an intuitive interface. Its goal is to help web designers and developers to create functional responsive websites. Today, we selected 22 very useful Bootstrap skins web developers can use. These premium-coded Bootstrap skins will save developers and designers a lot of time. You will find in this list Bootstrap skins … [Link]

Web Design – WebFX Blog » Lessons Learned from an Unsuccessful Kickstarter

Monday 5 October 10:00:46 UTC 2015

About a year ago, I launched my first Kickstarter called Habitat, a smart home automation platform that takes everyday items in your home and connects them to the Internet and your mobile devices. A couple of Habitat prototypes. We only raised 24.6% of Habitat’s funding goal (which was $80,000 CAD), so it was not successfully funded. Here are some lessons I … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » 40 Free High Resolution Vibrant Blurred Backgrounds

Monday 5 October 7:30:04 UTC 2015

Blurred backgrounds have become a popular resource in the design community. They’re useful images to base your design on, providing a vibrant foundation to place a logo, typography and other elements to construct beautiful brochure covers, website headers and more! Rather than produce these blurred images digitally with gradients or a Gaussian blur, I used a macro camera lens to … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Cali Lifestyle Paper Craft

Monday 5 October 7:28:45 UTC 2015

Paper crafted artwork is probably my favorite style. I believe the reason is simply because I would never be able to create something nice with this technique, at least not as nice, or I'd say amazing as the work that my fellow Brazilian Arthur Régis put together titled Cali Lifestyle. What really fascinates me is the depth that the composition gets … [Link]

example » Psychology Of Color To Improve Site Conversion

Monday 5 October 5:31:18 UTC 2015

Studying the psychology of color is crucial for maximizing your site's web design. Using the right colors can help put your customers in the frame of mind that compels them to take action. Color has… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Best of the Week: Gadgets, Offices, Illustrations and more

Monday 5 October 0:13:33 UTC 2015

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! You can keep sending me your suggestions … [Link]

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