Interview with Designer: Fred Nerby

InterviewsPaula Borowska • May 01, 2013

Fred is another one of the well known faces within our industry thanks to a few of his projects getting very popular on online communities especially Behance. He is a great inspiration for many – including myself – as his …

Use of Blur Backgrounds in Website Design: Beautiful Examples

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • April 29, 2013

Together with wide screen photo backgrounds which are frequently used tools for website decorations, blur backgrounds have thoroughly settled and found their niche in modern website design. Although, at first glance, it is rather difficult to understand what could be …

Making it Work: Flat Design and Color Trends

Website DesignCarrie Cousins • April 26, 2013

We’ve talked a lot here about the flat design trend here at Designmodo. We’ve raved about it, showed you plenty of cool examples and even developed a free user interface kit for you to download and use for projects. But …

How to Control Gradient Fills in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe ToolsIaroslav Lazunov • April 22, 2013

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Gradient fills are used to create transitions between colors. Most often they are used to add volume to flat vector objects, creating light and shadow. Today we’ll learn how to …

Beautiful Examples of Flat Icons Design

Website Design, Website ExamplesChristian Vasile • April 17, 2013

Flat Design is one of the newest approaches in web design, aiming for simplicity and powerful visual impact and using shapes as patterns and backgrounds. Microsoft’s Metro user interface is probably the most popular Flat Design example. We already discussed …

Circular Elements in Website Design – Best Practice

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • April 14, 2013

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 …

Explicit Grid-based Website Designs: Showcase and Practice

Website ExamplesNataly Birch • April 10, 2013

Nowadays, the 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 …

Using the Parallax Trend to Create Visual Interest and Surprise

Design, Website DesignCarrie Cousins • April 09, 2013

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 …

How to Obtain the Right Color in Adobe Illustrator

Adobe ToolsIaroslav Lazunov • April 08, 2013

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 …

Flat Web Design: Beautiful Examples of Websites

Website ExamplesChristian Vasile • April 02, 2013

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 …