In Freebies

10 Free Textures from Dribbble

Posted by on May 18, 2012 | 8 Comments

Dribbble is definitely a great source of inspiration, and is also a good source of high quality free material. From PSD Files to icons and many other things, you can find a lot of nice free stuff over there. It’s really nice to check out how many good designers share their creations for free at Dribbble. It’s definitely a network to keep an eye on. Today we gathered a few free textures from Dribble to show you, so make sure to check out each designer’s page to download some goodies. (more…)

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Maximize Energy, Boost Creativity, & Never Burnout Again

Posted by on May 17, 2012 | 17 Comments

What if I told you that it is possible to work fewer hours per day, have more free time for fun and leisure, produce more work at a higher quality than ever before and never burn out? If you are anything like me then you would probably say that sounds like a nice infomercial – but you’re not buying. And I wouldn’t blame you because like many of you, I’ve always had a very industrial mindset when it comes to work. Meaning, if the demand is high then you roll up your sleeves and put in the extra time to get the job done. It doesn’t always leave you feeling rejuvenated and sometimes you have to miss out on a bit of fun, but that’s life. There’s no getting around the fact that work takes time and more work takes more time. Right? Wrong. (more…)

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9 New Free Fonts for Your Designs

Posted by on May 16, 2012 | 6 Comments

Finding the perfect font for a project can be a real challenge, so there’s nothing better than having a huge amount of fonts readily available in your own library to count on. And it’s always good to have websites to count on when you need to look for fonts. That’s why today we gathered 9 new free fonts for your designs. (more…)

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Setting the Bottom Line for your Web Projects

Posted by on May 15, 2012 | 4 Comments

Working as a freelance web designer you’ll find yourself naturally jumping from project-to-project. This quick pace comes with the lifestyle and requires some serious dedication. You cannot get lost in the royalties of extra touch-ups and recoloring textures. (more…)

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In Inspiration

21 Fantastic Examples of Sliders in Web Design

Posted by on May 14, 2012 | 13 Comments

Sliders are an excellent way to organize and highlight important content on a site. They can also be used to display a good amount of content within a limited amount of screen real estate. The most popular way to add a slider or slideshow to a website is still jQuery, which seems to have a new plugin released every day. In order to give you some inspiration, we’ve gathered 21 very good examples of how sliders are being used today. (more…)

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Inspiration: Packaging Design

Posted by on May 11, 2012 | 9 Comments

Package design can be a good alternative place for finding inspiration. From textures to color schemes and typography, we can get a lot of references from packaging designs. A good place to browse – other than your local shops and/or supermarket – if you are also a package lover is lovelypackage.com, a nice website that curates the best of the package world. Today we gathered a few examples of inspiring packaging design from their website to showcase here. Check out each one of them and click on the images to find out more about each design and their designers. (more…)

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20 Fresh CSS3 Tutorials

Posted by on May 10, 2012 | 8 Comments

The design industry is probably one of the fastest changing and growing. Designers have to keep their eyes on everything, including new trends in visual design, as well as interaction technologies like jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Designers are using these technologies to express more creativity in design production and make user experience richer. (more…)

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How To Begin Your Creative Dream Job – Today

Posted by on May 9, 2012 | 19 Comments

Maybe this scenario sounds familiar to you: A few years ago I found myself working an office job that was ok. It paid ok, I liked the work ok, I liked the people I worked with ok, and I was pretty ok at what I did. Like I said, it was ok. But I didn’t love it. I didn’t wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose that drove me to excel at my job. It wasn’t what I really wanted to do, but for the longest time I put up with it because I’d done the math. What I really wanted to do was go into digital publishing, which in my mind required a new computer that would cost at least $3,000, software that my current laptop couldn’t handle, at least one or two creative/business partners, and a camera/other gear I couldn’t afford. (more…)

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50 Amazing Free Icon Sets

Posted by on May 8, 2012 | 13 Comments

Every web designer loves to have high-quality icons at their disposal. While creating your own custom icons for your projects is an option, it’s rarely practical. There are plenty of quality icon sets available for purchase, but fortunately, there are also some free icon sets out there with professional quality. These free icons sets are some of the most useful and helpful resources because of the time they can save and because of the impact they can have on the sites that you are desigining. (more…)

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20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

Posted by on May 7, 2012 | 15 Comments

One way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minmal approach with other aspects of the design. Not doing so could result in a website that is far too busy, cluttered, and difficult to navigate. So for your inspiration, here are 20 examples of how to effectively use big background images in web design. (more…)

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