Graphic Design

Web Design Ledger » Web Designers, Are You Seeking or Setting A Trend?

Wednesday 25 November 22:00:39 UTC 2015

Web design is a process of conceptualizing and planning, using a set of HTML codes and JavaScript, to determine the layout, colours, style of text, images, graphic designs etc. Basically, it is creating the structure of a web page. Current web design trends include: Video backgrounds: major non-banking virtual wallets like PayPal and Squarespace (theirs is seriously great!) are making this … [Link]

example » Top 25 Amazing Sketches for Creative Inspiration

Wednesday 25 November 22:00:00 UTC 2015

Browsing the work of other artists and designers can be a great exercise for finding inspiration for your own work. You can find inspiring examples in web design, photography, art, and all different… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Design Inspiration: Data & Dashboard UI Design

Wednesday 25 November 19:17:23 UTC 2015

The increasing popularity of wearable technology like the Apple Watch, and activity trackers, think Fitbit and UP by Jawbone, has us thinking about design in a whole different way. These devices all make data readily available to wearers of the technology and with that comes a whole new opportunity for designing data. This goes beyond numbers and charts. Designing data and … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Einstein's Theory of General Relativity turns 100 – Video

Wednesday 25 November 17:34:09 UTC 2015

Today, November 25th, the world celebrates 100 years of Einstein's theory of General Relativity. As a fan of science and having Einstein as one of my personal heroes I couldn't let this date pass in vain. After reading several books, biographies and articles about Einsteins contributions to the understanding of our universe, still today it blows my mind to think what … [Link]

JUST™ Creative » How to Optimize Your Facebook Posts for Maximum Shareability

Wednesday 25 November 17:28:22 UTC 2015

Below is a practical guide for writing a shareable facebook post, considering algorithms & structure for maximum share-ability. As a business or organization employing Facebook for social reach, the ultimate objective of your efforts is to create shareable posts. Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms have evolved quite rapidly since their birth in 2006. Understanding how these changes affect post visibility, coupled with … [Link]

Smashing Magazine » Technical SEO 2015: Wiring Websites for Organic Search

Wednesday 25 November 16:52:57 UTC 2015

Ask ten people what SEO is, and you’re likely to get ten different answers. Given the industry’s unsavoury past, this is hardly surprising. Keyword stuffing, gateway pages, and comment spam earned the first search engine optimisers a deservedly poor reputation within the web community. Snake oil salesmen continue to peddle these harmful techniques to unsuspecting website owners today, perpetuating the myth … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Twitter kills-off social proof

Wednesday 25 November 16:19:20 UTC 2015

You might have noticed in the last few days, that social share buttons on Webdesigner Depot, and across the Web, look a little different. Twitter has finally implemented its planned changes to both update the look of its buttons, and remove the accompanying shares counter. The updated share buttons are white on Twitter-brand blue and modern looking. But they may … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Responsive vs. Adaptive, What’s Best for Designers?

Wednesday 25 November 16:00:30 UTC 2015

Mobile devices can not be ignored. People are using them to visit websites instead of their desktop computers. If your site isn’t easy to view on a mobile device, you are decreasing your chances to get more visitors and increase usage of your site. What’s the difference? Responsive is fluid and adapts to the size of the screen no matter what … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » La Forêt Oubliée Characters by Jordi Villaverde

Wednesday 25 November 15:38:33 UTC 2015

Jordi Villaverde is a 2D Artist, Character Designer, Illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain. I really do enjoyed his style, how colorful it is and it's always insightful that he shares his process from the sketches to the final result. All Rights to Jordi Villaverde All Rights to Jordi Villaverde All Rights to Jordi Villaverde All Rights to Jordi Villaverde All Rights to Jordi Villaverde All Rights to … [Link]

WebDesignDev » 22 Funny Office Jokes Designers Will Understand

Wednesday 25 November 15:23:40 UTC 2015

Let’s loosen up and take a break from work! Check out these 22 funny office jokes designers will understand! Brighten up your day and have a good laugh by looking at the designer jokes below. Which ones of these funny jokes were your favorite? If you want more, you can get your daily dose of fun from these too: Hilarious … [Link]

Line25.com » 22 Inspiring Travel Website Designs You’ll Love

Wednesday 25 November 15:17:01 UTC 2015

Are you looking for web design inspiration for a future travel-related project? You’re in the right place! Whether you’re looking for design inspiration for a large, magazine travel website or you want to design a site for a travel agency or a travel blog, this list has it all. We selected 22 inspiring travel website designs we’re sure you’ll love. … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Typography Mania #316

Wednesday 25 November 14:49:28 UTC 2015

Typography Mania is a weekly post series that comes around once a week with the best of Typography design submitted by our users at typography-mania.com, from type videos to images everything is full of great design and typography inspiration. Submit your typography designs too and be part of this post. Click here to check out all the previous Typography Mania Submit … [Link]

example » Quirky (and Creative) Gifts that Every Designer will Love

Wednesday 25 November 14:00:52 UTC 2015

Designers often enjoy creative tools and little trinkets that can enhance their workflow. So if you wanted to buy something creative for a designer (or yourself), how would you know what to get? Take… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

Graphic Design Forums: A friendly forum for UK designers » Online Design Competition with a Grand Prize worth £3000

Wednesday 25 November 12:47:07 UTC 2015

吉祥物-012.jpg Attention attention !! Are you the chosen one who win the £3000 Grand Prize We are proud to announce and invite you to participate in the UK Art Lantern Festival (UKALF) Online design contest. This contest, which will begin on November 20th and the end of December 31st 2015 www.facebook.com/ukalf UK Art Lantern Festival is the very first event in … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Google is Getting Up To Speed With Accelerated Mobile Pages

Wednesday 25 November 12:00:03 UTC 2015

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is Google’s answer to Facebook’s Instant Articles. There is a sudden race to bring responsive content, in the most scalable manner, as quickly as possible to mobile. Publishers, developers, and now Google are jumping on board the quick-to-mobile bandwagon. With AMP, pages are set to load much faster than existing mobile web pages. According to Google’s blog, … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Video Tutorial: Sci-Fi Space Scene in Adobe Photoshop

Wednesday 25 November 8:30:45 UTC 2015

Today we’re going to have some fun in Adobe Photoshop creating a cool sci-fi space scene with planets, moons, nebulas and colourful cosmic space dust. We’ll start by making a vast black universe full of tiny stars, then begin building up the scene with a large alien planet and its moon. To give the scene a cool sci-fi vibe, we’ll … [Link]

example » Desert Photography: Crisp HQ Showcase

Wednesday 25 November 6:01:00 UTC 2015

In the past we have showcased examples of landscape photography, which includes photos of mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, coast lines, and a variety of other types of landscapes. Deserts may not… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Adobe Creative Suite Identity by Tolleson Design

Wednesday 25 November 4:21:51 UTC 2015

This is an awesome example of creative thinking! Tolleson Design, a company based in San Francisco collaborated with Adobe to create some beautiful imagery for the launch of Adobe CC. Check it out! When Adobe launched CS6, it embraced a web-based delivery model to expand access to its Creative Suite. In our fifth CS collaboration, Tolleson and Adobe prepared for the … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Daliy Inspiration #2242

Wednesday 25 November 4:20:42 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 » Background Music is Still A Thing on Hospitality Websites

Wednesday 25 November 3:00:30 UTC 2015

We are going way back to when background music was a popular thing that plagued the internet, even before Myspace profiles pages blasted theme music. Even though it reflected “personality” and set a scene, background music was considered more of a nuisance. Mostly because it was really inconvenient to have music unexpectedly blasting out of your computer speakers in a quiet … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Best Design Advice for 2016 from Computer Arts Is. 248

Wednesday 25 November 1:30:16 UTC 2015

The Latest issue of Computer Arts, 248, is to be released before end-of-year and it will be filled with a forecast for 2016. The magazine has a variety of great advice for designers and the latest trends and concepts to look for in the new year. Inside issue 248, interviews with leading designers and employers share the best ways develop your … [Link]

John Gordon Ross

A Man for All Reasons