Here’s a high-quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members. The 80s Vector Pack is a beautiful theme pack dedicated to one of the most innovative decades in recent history. The pack has all sort of vectors to spice up your designs. (more…)
Social web 2.0 trends have taken over many of our modern static websites. Nowadays it’s difficult to find a company who isn’t on Facebook or Twitter or Foursquare, or any of the other increasingly popular social networks. It’s important to consider this experience and how you can portray social connection in the eyes of your visitors. (more…)
White is known to be the sum of all colors, the combination of all the colors of light. And in web design white is not only a color but a strategy, a way for designers to give a layout a minimal, classy or bright look. From white backgrounds to nice white spaces and minimal approaches, today we will show you inspiring examples of white usage in web design.
This week for our WDL Premium Members, we have a set of minimal icons from Vandelay Premier. The icon set includes 33 general use icons with a minimalist design that will give your project a sleek visual, check it out! (more…)
The basic idea of minimalism that less is more can also be applied to your workstation, and the result is really inspiring. Clean, minimal and beautiful stations with exactly those things you need to work, nothing more, nothing less. The spaces are simple: desks, a nice chair, your computer and something to give the space a nice personality, it’s all about keeping the space clean, really inspiring. (more…)
It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash page, I’m talking about you.) But trends are a necessity in the development and growth of our craft. Trends are born, improved upon, and often spawn other trends. So as a web designer, when you apply trends to your projects, challenge yourself to expand upon them and make them your own. (more…)
Trends in web design come and go, with some hanging around longer than others. One trend that seems to be withstanding the tests of time is the use of ribbon style graphics or design elements. Web designers have been using ribbons for a few years now to add emphasis to certain aspects of a design, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. So for this post, we’ve gathered some excellent examples to inspire you in case you’re considering using ribbons in your next design. (more…)
So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We saw plenty of these types of UI files being released in 2011, so it was very difficult to sift through them and find the ones that really stood out. (more…)
For our WDL Premium members, we’ve got an awesome bundle of Photoshop actions for professional quality photo enhancements. This collection is called Photo Designer and it’s from Union Actions. There’s over 30 actions in this suite, and they’ll give you the power to change the entire mood, color, and focus of your images. (more…)
Here at WDL we like to provide our readers with as much inspiration as we can. And from logos to print and web, we like to show you beautifully designed pieces to keep your creative juices flowing. Since logos are always a good source of inspiration, today we gathered some beautiful logos to inspire you. From beautiful typography to nice illustrate elements, colors and textures, here are some nice logos for your delight. (more…)
