Interview with Drew Melton – Graphic Designer and Typographer
Drew lives by the words of the dear Chuck Close who said “Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.” This mindset has led him through in taking action and becoming a well-known designer within our community. His typography, illustration and overall sense of design are beyond impressive and inspire many designer, new and veteran. I’ve...
Circular Elements in Website Design – Best Practice
Despite of being one of the basic geometric shapes, circle is not such a frequent guest in website design; of course, I do not consider social media icons. There are a lot of reasons why designers resort to commonly used elements of polyhedral shape such as squares or rectangles. Whether it depends on grid structure and form of a web page that historically has right angles;...
Designing Mobile Apps, Where to Start?
Mobile Design is an area of design that started to develop and evolve a couple of years ago. With the launch of the iPhone and the App Store in 2008, the development of mobile applications started to become a more interesting market, since there was finally good mobile hardware and ecosystem. With the development of more and more mobile apps, the design of such apps started to...
Explicit Grid-based Website Designs: Showcase and Practice
Nowadays, majority of website designs are based on grids; days of chaotic layouts are gone, and today is the era of ordering and structuring, although it is invisible to the naked eye. Such layouts are well-balanced, and, as a rule, aesthetic and neat. Grid frameworks that are the basis of all modern sites do all the work, providing the end-user with perfect undistorted...
Using the Parallax Trend to Create Visual Interest and Surprise
Cool scroll effects are begging to pop up on more and more site designs. The most popular and trendy of these effects is parallax scrolling. The technique – in which website screens or panels seem to flip with a quick scroll, or objects animate or move – can add an extra level of interest to a site and generate increased user interaction. But you need a solid...
How to Obtain the Right Color in Adobe Illustrator
Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes In this tutorial we will discuss a couple of ways in how to obtain the right color in Adobe Illustrator. Then we will select the most optimal one, which will let us work on professional level. Color Models First, that you need to know is in what color mode you need to work. Some beginners...
How to Choose a Typeface
Something I hear from a lot of people is that, when choosing typefaces, they go straight to the popular ones because it’s a lot simpler for them. It’s possible that the process of choosing typefaces is complicated and frustrating for a lot of people, so I figure it might be helpful to write up a guide on the best way to do it without exploding. Let us start. You already...
Flat Web Design: Beautiful Examples of Websites
Flat Design is a new trend labeled by the community as an interface striking similar to Microsoft’s Metro UI because it leaves drop shadows, embossing, subtle textures and gradients behind, while favoring clean layouts, sharp typography and solid colors. The new Google design and Microsoft’s come-up with Windows 8 is actually based on an older trend called Flat Design,...
10 Wireframing and Prototyping Tools for 2013
Creating a website or application is not limited to deciding what to put on the homepage or what photos to use to match the site’s subject. Visual designs are necessary to attract searchers and be user friendly. Therefore, project developers must first be able to visualize a good output and see how it could get the interest of people. Well, this requires lots of creativity...
Use of Ribbons and Tags in Web Design – Inspiring Examples
It was not long before creative layouts become popular not only for portfolios or online design agencies but also for any other regular website. Creative approach and high attention to details dictate modern criteria of creating website outward, from year to year updating the list of current trends. Something disappears without a trace, something becomes habitual so it’s...
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