Graphic Design

Web Design Ledger » EmpireNode 2015 to be hosted in NYC on October 23rd

Friday 9 October 23:05:36 UTC 2015

Node.js developers work eagerly to organize meetups and conferences about this fascinating new library. Now the empire state New York has its own conference aptly named EmpireNode. The 2015 conference kicks off in NYC for a single day on October 23rd. It’ll feature lots of talks and plenty of breaks for food/mingling. While the event does place a heavy focus on … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Simple & Readable iOS Design Guidelines

Friday 9 October 22:30:41 UTC 2015

Apple’s HIG documentation has all the info a designer could ever need. Too bad it’s mostly scattered between pages of not-so-intuitive links and complex nav menus. Ivo Mynttinen created a much better alternative named The iOS Design Guidelines. These are self-hosted on his blog and ordered in a way so that everything is crystal clear. You’ll find exact device widths for … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Build Custom Vector Visualizations from d3.js with Raw

Friday 9 October 19:55:27 UTC 2015

The folks at DensityDesign Research Lab created an interesting web tool for generating vectors straight from documents & spreadsheets. This tool was created to fill a certain void with transferring information into the visual field without having to do so manually via InkScape or Adobe Illustrator. Raw is a free open source tool that connects into the D3.js library. It’s a … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » An Organized List of Dev Conferences from Around the World

Friday 9 October 18:33:42 UTC 2015

We’re constantly writing about the latest design/dev conferences because they’ve grown into such a powerhouse industry unto themselves. There’s always something to learn at one of these conferences, but not everyone is able to make it. Some people don’t even know where to find them! A brand new webapp named Dev Conferences features a complete list of development conferences including frontend, … [Link]

Line25.com » 25 Inspirational Dark Website Designs

Friday 9 October 15:53:26 UTC 2015

Check out these dark website designs! No white space is needed if you want to create a clean and modern website. You can opt for a dark color palette and let black be your main color! Here are 25 inspirational dark website designs which use black as a base color. You’ll love how clean, modern and professional these look. The … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Please help me critique my custom PC Specialist laptop specs!

Friday 9 October 15:51:13 UTC 2015

Hi all, first post. :icon_smile: Sorry to add another of these to the pile, but I'd appreciate any help before I splurge the cash! Over the last year or so, I've progressed from teaching myself the Adobe Creative Suite to designing book covers, marketing material, logos and web graphics within my role at a publishing house. Unfortunately, the laptop I'm currently … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Adobe Illustrator – Creating a certain number of dots???

Friday 9 October 15:23:20 UTC 2015

Is it possible to create a certain number of circles/dots in illustrator? I am familiar with the pattern tool and how you can multiply the pattern by a percentage, although what if you need to create a certain amount? Basically, I need to create precisely (if possible) 676,880,876 dots? Probably sounds crazy but it is for a project at uni. Even … [Link]

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

Friday 9 October 14:59:40 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]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Beautiful Houses: Ishibe House

Friday 9 October 14:37:42 UTC 2015

Today we will show you a simple and cozy house in Japan, a project by ALTS Design Office. We couldn't find details about this house but we believe the images communicate a lot. The house is simple and beautiful. A cube from the outside and a lot of open space inside. The wood, stylish floor and stairs give the house a … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 22 Futuristic Designs That Will Teleport You to the Future

Friday 9 October 14:31:33 UTC 2015

The future is NOW! We’re seeing more and more futuristic designs each day, from user interfaces, to apps, websites, product designs and more! Today we selected some great futuristic designs that will teleport you to the future! These great ultra-modern designs belong to different types of niches, from motion graphics, websites, apps, interfaces, prints and more. Check them out! Do … [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Tutorial on photoshop reflections?

Friday 9 October 13:35:30 UTC 2015

Hi All, I have been looking online for tutorials on creating realistic reflections in photoshop with no success. I have no problem with creating reflections of an object that is facing straight on, this is fairly simple. I mostly work with packaging visuals or food products and was wondering if anyone has some good techniques for creating reflections from a different … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » 8 web industry surprises no one warns you about

Friday 9 October 13:28:14 UTC 2015

For the past 5+ years, I’ve been in web development marketing in some shape or form. From the customers to the travel, it’s been an interesting journey, to say the least. I’ve done it all: sales, digital marketing, paid, organic, trade shows, content curation/creation, etc. I’m now at the stage in my career when the next generation of marketers are … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » The European AngularConnect Conference 2015 runs in London

Friday 9 October 13:15:20 UTC 2015

A two-day Angular.js conference is coming to Exel, London on October 20th and 21st. The AngularConnect conference is popular across all of Europe and brings guests from many of the western countries. Many people from the core Angular team show up to discuss new updates, best practices, and the future of Angular. The 2015 conference will feature over 30 speakers including … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Zurb releases Motion UI Sass Library as Open Source

Friday 9 October 12:30:11 UTC 2015

Zurb has built an impeccable reputation from their Foundation framework which is soon to see a Foundation 6 release. The team has been busy as they also recently open sourced a Sass animation library that was previously apart of Foundation for Apps. It’s called Motion UI and now it’s completely available for free to all developers for any project. You can … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Behind the Scenes at ustwo Studios designing Android Wear

Friday 9 October 12:15:03 UTC 2015

A very large digital studio ustwo is world-renowned for their incredible work and attention to detail. The studio has offices in many locations and works with some of the largest brands and companies. One project they built was the Android Wear watch faces that were built in conjunction with Google. They put together a large project page detailing the process. It … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Web Development Reading List #107

Friday 9 October 8:26:36 UTC 2015

Lately, web development has become very complex. People being full-stack developers often complain to me that they can’t care about all these cool things in front-end development. People doing front-end still complain about having too few things to control the website, make it faster, more reliable. This growing gap worries me about the future of usual websites. For big web applications … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Rivina Brush Font & 30 Bonus Textures for Members

Friday 9 October 7:30:16 UTC 2015

Talented hand letterer Tom Chalky is back with another donation of one of his premium fonts for Access All Areas members. Rivina Brush is a neat hand lettered font that looks great when combined with watercolor textures. To help you achieve this popular style, this fonts comes with 30 bonus watercolor textures in PNG and Photoshop Brush format, allowing you … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Stunning Star Wars Artworks by Kurt Miller

Friday 9 October 7:20:16 UTC 2015

This will be really outdated someday, but I'm really pumped for next December, when Star Wars Episode VII will hit the silver screen. I bet every geek out there is pretty excited about this, and whenever I get to see the Millennium Falcon flying, I tend to smile. Kurt Miller, an American artist, comes up with astonishing illustrations showing air and … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daily Inspiration #2202

Friday 9 October 4:42:57 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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