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Showcase of Cool Hand Drawn, Doodle & Sketch Logos

Logos don’t always have to feature perfectly designed abstract icons or devices, sometimes a basic hand drawn sketch or doodle can express the casual or fun values a brand is aiming for. This post rounds up a huge collection of over 50 cool logos all based on a hand drawn style. Piccolo by Matt Vergotis [...]

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April 16, 2012 at 6:00 am Comments (0)

We have 10 Shock Bundles (value $129 each) to giveaway – Comment to Enter

For this weeks giveaway we have 10 Premium Shock Bundles, courtesy of the guys behind Theme Nation. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win this bundle. The Shock Bundle The bundle (usual cost $129) includes a whopping 107 Premium WordPress Themes, 30,000 Iconshock icons, 28,577 additional icons (14,000 icons for Android, 14,000 iPhone icons, 427 credit card icons and 150 [...]

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March 25, 2012 at 9:20 am Comments (0)

The Curious Link Between Icon Design and Candies

Do you like candies? Come on, even if your outer adult doesn’t want to admit it, your inner child is reaching with its palms out! Do you remember when you were a kid with how much attention you paid when you were selecting which candies to buy in the local candy shop? Because you couldn’t taste the sweets without buying them first, you wouldn’t know how delicious the candy was. The only way to choose was to pick a candy [...]

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March 20, 2012 at 5:40 pm Comments (0)

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.123)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. Our Weekly Design News has been sponsored by MediaLoot. Check them out for some seriously useful resources [...]

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March 13, 2012 at 6:19 pm Comments (0)

7 Winning Facebook Page Strategies Every Company Should Know

By now you’re probably well aware of social media’s power to grow your business. Odds are you went ahead and tossed up a few social media profiles. Twitter, Google+, and probably a Facebook page. Once they’re up, how do you make the most of them though? How do you draw users back to your page again and again? How do you use social media to draw in all those new leads you’ve been hearing about, or to turn new client [...]

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February 24, 2012 at 11:35 am Comments (0)

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.121)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. Our Weekly Design News has been sponsored by MediaLoot. Check them out for some seriously useful resources [...]

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February 21, 2012 at 8:49 am Comments (0)

How to Build a Custom Login Page Design for WordPress

If you are a heavy WordPress user then it’s likely you’re interested in deep customizations. There are a slew of plug-ins available, but some tasks are just easier to perform yourself. As an example, the login/register forms are often unfitting to match the template of most websites. But thanks to a few genius developers there are simple guidelines to including your own custom styles. In this guide I’ll walk you through the process of designing a totally customized WordPress login [...]

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February 19, 2012 at 8:58 am Comments (0)

55 Creative Typographic Logo Designs for Your Inspiration

Logo design is the crucial aspect of corporate identity and plays an important role in the identification of the company and its goods and services on the market. Logo designs vary enormously from text based logos to icon based logos. Text based logo designs are also called as Typographic logos and they are of various [...]

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February 18, 2012 at 10:17 am Comments (0)

30 Beautiful Logo Designs With A Color In Its Name

Designers are always seeking for creative ideas and inspiration. No matter what the medium is, they need to constantly seek for the perfect and most fascinating eye candy so as to keep the innovation and creativity in motion. This is quite definitely t…

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February 12, 2012 at 11:00 am Comments (0)

30 Wonderful Designs of Flower Logo

Nature has long been a source of inspiration for a number of designers. Applying nature as an element in a design is an excellent concept. We come across a lot of illustrations of arts that make use of nature elements like foliage, grass, plants and ma…

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February 10, 2012 at 10:00 am Comments (0)

40 Fresh Highly Creative Illustrator Tutorials

In this post, we’ll be sharing with you a collection of useful tutorials that will help you to to use Adobe Illustrator in a variety of new ways. Whether you are a pro or a budding novice, you are bound to find something that will help you. Below we present a collection of some of the latest, most useful and highly creative tutorials for Adobe Illustrator. Realistic, Vector Bubbles In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create colorful, realistic bubbles. [...]

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February 9, 2012 at 8:04 am Comments (0)

Getting Started Building iPhone Apps in Xcode 4.2

The newest version of Xcode comes packaged with a few noticeable interface changes. For beginners and intermediate users it can be difficult figuring out even the most basic functionality. And although Apple’s online documentation is well-written, it’s certainly not friendly for the average user. So in this guide I’d like to put together some basic steps for building any iOS app. I’ll be focusing exclusively on iPhone & iPod Touch devices since iPad opens up a whole new chapter of [...]

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February 6, 2012 at 8:53 am Comments (0)

32 Brilliant Design Examples of Book Logo

A perfectly planned logo design is able to efficiently make use of a simplistic symbol to give a strong impact to the people. The design of a logo performs a big aspect in the growth of the company. Since logos are designed to symbolize the company&#82…

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February 2, 2012 at 11:30 am Comments (0)

30 Incredibly Good Examples of Dragon Logo

Because 2012 is the year of the dragon, we are featuring right now several designs of dragon logo. A dragon is a fantasy creature that is popular in several civilizations around the world. It is depicted to be a big lizard-like creature that has scaly …

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January 31, 2012 at 11:30 am Comments (0)

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.118)

This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) If you would like to receive our daily updates and keep up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. HTML5 Please – Use the new and shiny responsibly WPCandy's Completely Unofficial Guide to Plugin UI Responsive [...]

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January 31, 2012 at 8:48 am Comments (0)

Colour Combination Makes a Better Impact in Logo Designing

It’s undeniable. Branding is the life blood of any business. Even for small businesses, you’ve gotta build brand identity, or be ready for your company to go belly up. A big part of many company’s brand identity is the logo. It’s like the face of your company. You need one that’s good looking and instantly recognizable. To that end, colour can make a big impact on not just how your logo looks, but as a result how your company’s perceived. [...]

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January 29, 2012 at 8:38 am Comments (0)

40 Examples of Furniture Logo Design

In today’s logo design inspiration post, we are showcasing a couple examples of electrifying furniture logo which are perfectly suitable for our appliance industry. Furniture is truly an inseparable element of a person’s household and busin…

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January 22, 2012 at 12:42 pm Comments (0)

The Sound of Music: 40 Creative, Clever and Music Logos

Logo design is quite challenging. With a limited space and palette you’re trying to design something that is recognizable and usable. Making a good-looking design requires skills and creativity. In this article we’ve handpicked some logos that all are related to music. We find these examples clever and creative ones, and hope you’ll draw some [...]

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January 19, 2012 at 7:46 am Comments (0)

20 Things You Didn’t Know About Pop Art & Graphic Design

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The advent of the Pop Art movement in the 50′s didn’t just impress the wealthy, it changed the culture. So iconic and profound were the inspirations and meanings behind this movement that it’s art is still featured, studied and produced to this day. In this article, Adriana Marinica shares some of the history and details surrounding the rise of Pop Art, as well as bringing attention to some of the more interesting pieces the movement has produced over the years. [...]

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January 16, 2012 at 8:10 am Comments (0)

HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

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In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point. Grab the code from Github The Brilliante Layout project source code for this theme is available on Github, including the dummy content for posts, pages and such. We won’t start from scratch, we’re building it using our static version base. I suggest you to follow along snippet by snippet, but, if you happen [...]

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January 11, 2012 at 9:01 am Comments (0)

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