Skillfully Crafted Event Website Designs

Skillfully Crafted Event Website Designs

For many organizations that stay behind different kinds of events or exhibitions, including festivals or conferences, there comes a time when simple flyers, forums and traditional banner advertisements stop effectively working. Whether event becomes widely popular and it has to …

Interview with Patrick Rogan and James Fletcher, The SmorrsCast Founders

Interview with Patrick Rogan and James Fletcher, The SmorrsCast Founders

We started with a simple idea: What drives our community of creators? We wanted to get to know the community and get a glimpse into the minds of designers, developers, and pioneers while recreating the personal experience that one gets …

Trending Now: Designing With Video Backgrounds

Trending Now: Designing With Video Backgrounds

Looking for a new approach to website design? Why not try video? Done right, using a video background can create a jaw-dropping design that will stop users and encourage them to watch. (Just look that the popularity of Vine, the …

How to Control Gradient Fills in Adobe Illustrator

How to Control Gradient Fills in Adobe Illustrator

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 …

Typography in Mobile Design: Important Aspects and Examples

Typography in Mobile Design: Important Aspects and Examples

What makes mobile typography special is the restrictive nature of mobile screens; they are small and used in brightly lit areas so that it is difficult to see anything. Therefore, when it comes to typography for mobile devices you have …

Use of Huge Sliders in Website Design: Best Practice

Use of Huge Sliders in Website Design: Best Practice

Being one of the main conditions of creating website designs, multi-device support is a definitely hot trend and must-have nowadays. But when we are speaking about responsiveness we usually mean adaptation for mobiles and tabs, and only at the end …

Beautiful Examples of Flat Icons Design

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Beautiful Flat Icons Design Examples

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 …

Interview with Drew Melton – Graphic Designer and Typographer

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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 …

Circular Elements in Website Design – Best Practice

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 …

Designing Mobile Apps, Where to Start?

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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 …