Graphic Design

Web Design Ledger » A Showcase of Website Navigations with Serious Click Appeal

Wednesday 20 April 20:58:50 UTC 2016

A while back we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel. The website navigations is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on the page, but yet still matches the overall style of the design. Here is … [Link]

example » Night Photography Showcase

Wednesday 20 April 20:30:00 UTC 2016

Browsing through high-quality photographs can be a great source of inspiration for designers. Getting inspiration from a variety of different sources, as opposed to only from web design galleries,… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

Web Design Ledger » 14 Web Development Tools That Work Better Than Anything

Wednesday 20 April 20:24:00 UTC 2016

There are so many web development projects on the market that we literary don’t have enough time to read the info. To get more time and win as many projects as we can, we have to carefully select tools that work better than anything. We tested and compared many tools and services and we concluded that these 14 work awesome. BeTheme … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Environment Design Concepts by Wojtek Fus

Wednesday 20 April 19:22:24 UTC 2016

To me, it's always fascinating to see what artists create with the tools we all (somewhat) share nowadays. Especially for the case of Environment Design, How artists see our world and imagine a complete different world. The tone, the atmosphere they put our minds into. Either it's for of a movie, a game or a concept, they control what we … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Pinterest Launches New Design For Its iOS App

Wednesday 20 April 19:09:05 UTC 2016

Pinterest, the popular social network, has recently revamped the design of its iOS app. The new version claims to be extra fast and extra clean, and focuses more on functionality and usability. To quote the official blog post: With so many people using our app, it’s more important than ever to make sure it works great for everyone—no matter where you … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » UI Inspiration: Site Interactions

Wednesday 20 April 17:30:20 UTC 2016

As part of the design process, figuring interactions (to me) is the fun and best part. Some of the developers might hate me for saying this but it's a great way to make your site more alive than just a flat UI. But it's also not an easy task! It's not just about making it pretty with light interactions but … [Link]

Web Design Ledger » Website Navigation Design Examples Of Professional Companies

Wednesday 20 April 17:09:07 UTC 2016

Keeping your users engaged over a company website is more of a technical job that could easily be performed with excellently designed website navigation menu. Providing an ideal navigation to the users is like paving their way towards the right direction. Such menus over a website act like the signs on the road that help anonymous users get going towards the … [Link]

example » Best Free WordPress Plugins for Theme Development

Wednesday 20 April 16:30:00 UTC 2016

One of the great things about using WordPress as a content management system is the huge community of users and all of the resources that are available. While all plugins could be used by theme… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

JUST™ Creative » 8 Steps to Create a Booming Niche Community Using Facebook Groups

Wednesday 20 April 14:20:05 UTC 2016

This article was contributed by Kaitlin Patrick. Facebook with its 1.44 billion monthly active users has become the most popular social network all across the globe, but did you know that any individual user can create a group to connect with other users such as family, friends, classmates, teammates, coworkers or people with common interests, either privately or publicly. As … [Link]

example » 16 Niche WordPress Themes

Wednesday 20 April 14:10:00 UTC 2016

As you know, WordPress is an incredibly popular CMS for a number of reasons. It's free, open source, powerful, and it can be used for a wide variety of different purposes aside from a traditional… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

WebDesignDev » 25 Brilliant Vector Art Projects You’ll Be Inspired By

Wednesday 20 April 13:04:09 UTC 2016

Vector graphics represent the use of polygons to create images in computer graphics. These are based on vectors, made of different control points or nodes. Each of these points has a definite position on the XY axis of a work plane and determines the direction of the path. The path can have a stroke color, shape, curve, thickness, and fill. … [Link]

Web Designer Depot » Using Atomic Design in modern web development

Wednesday 20 April 12:41:15 UTC 2016

If there’s anything I’ve learned working for a tech company, it’s that in order to build a website—a really amazing, beautiful and high-functioning website—a multitude of different talents and elements have to come together and work in harmony. Sometimes it can feel like working on the Tower of Babel: one person is sifting through a palette of hex codes, the … [Link]

Spoon Graphics » Video Tutorial: How to Create an Animated Cinemagraph Image

Wednesday 20 April 7:00:01 UTC 2016

Today’s video tutorial is all about Cinemagraphs, which are cool animated GIFs where the motion is restricted to a specific area of the image. You can make Cinemagraphs from any video footage as long as there’s a combination of stationary objects and looping elements. Ideally it will have been filmed using a tripod to eliminate shaking or moving too. Clips … [Link]

abdz.do – Have you given up on being inspired? » Hand Lettering Overdose

Wednesday 20 April 5:23:22 UTC 2016

If there's one thing I suck big time at is hand writing. Despite calligraphy classes, a lot of work I never got to a point that I felt comfortable. That is not that case of Mateusz Witczak. He shared some incredible pieces from work he has done last year and this year. The intricate details and craft is quite amazing … [Link]

example » Fragile but Prominent: Ghost Buttons Still Adorn Front Pages

Wednesday 20 April 5:01:08 UTC 2016

Ghost buttons created a furor several years ago. These ghoulish boxes were the talk of the town. However, at present, they are just a standard solution that is used to shape links and make them look… Click through to read the rest of the story on the Vandelay Design Blog. [Link]

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