Filed under Articles, CSS, Inspiration, roundup, showcase, Trends, Video, Web Design by Chris Spooner
Remember when websites used to feature Flash intro videos as part of a splash page? These days video use in Web Design is much more creative (and UX friendly!) with many sites using video to provide an introduction or a tour of their product or service. This post rounds up 20 great examples of video [...]
Continue Reading "20 Creative Examples of Intro Videos in Web Design"Filed under Articles, Design, Inspiration, roundup, showcase, Trends, Typography, Web Design by Chris Spooner
With websites being built from digital code it’s difficult to imagine them being crafted by hand, but this post showcases a bunch of websites that feature custom hand lettering in traditional mediums. In place of fonts these websites boast hand crafted typography to add a real artistic touch to the design. G’nosh Austin Eastciders The [...]
Continue Reading "Showcase of Artistic Hand Lettering in Web Design"Filed under adobe illustrator, Articles, custom, Design, Graphic design, Inspiration, lettering, logo design, logos, showcase, Typography, Vector by Chris Spooner
One way to create an absolutely unique logo design is to craft the lettering by hand, as opposed to selecting an existing font. This allows the designer to create the perfect logo with their own custom ligatures, tails and loops. This post showcases 20 inspiring examples of custom lettering logos, each featuring the designer’s initial [...]
Continue Reading "Inspiring Examples of Custom Lettering Logo Designs"Filed under Articles, backgrounds, clean, Inspiration, minimal, pure, roundup, showcase, Trends, Web Design, white by Chris Spooner
Whenever we start work designing a website one of the first things we always do is throw a bunch of colours and textures onto the canvas, but sometimes a design will benefit from the clean and crisp appearance of a pure white background. This showcase rounds up 20 minimal website designs that prove that sometimes [...]
Continue Reading "20 Pure Websites with Clean White Backgrounds"Filed under Articles, Inspiration, interactive, interface, javascript, jQuery, layouts, links, roundup, showcase, Trends, Web Design by Chris Spooner
Whenever we think of interactive websites Flash immediately springs to mind, but nowadays we’re seeing websites featuring all that cool interactivity and animation that are based purely on HTML and CSS. This post rounds up some of the coolest websites powered by Javascript (particularly the jQuery framework) that all offer a rich browsing experience. Hard [...]
Continue Reading "Showcase of Interactive Websites Powered by jQuery"Filed under Articles, Inspiration, interactive, interface, javascript, jQuery, layouts, links, roundup, showcase, Trends, Web Design by Chris Spooner
Whenever we think of interactive websites Flash immediately springs to mind, but nowadays we’re seeing websites featuring all that cool interactivity and animation that are based purely on HTML and CSS. This post rounds up some of the coolest websites powered by Javascript (particularly the jQuery framework) that all offer a rich browsing experience. Hard [...]
Continue Reading "Showcase of Interactive Websites Powered by jQuery"Filed under app, Application, Button, buttons, CSS, Design, dev, development, flash, forms, HTML, icon, Icons, iOS, iphone, mobile, Resource, Resources, showcase, Template, web by Jake Rocheleau
There are a lot of factors to consider before building and submitting a mobile application. Developers have plenty of resources on the web for consulting official documentation. But there are some traits you should consider about the overall process. Whether you are building for Apple or Android-powered devices will make all the difference. Some developers have the confidence to build for both platforms which is staggering. I’ll try to mesh ideas together so they apply in both development environments equally. [...]
Filed under app, Application, book, Design, dev, development, font, forms, icon, Icons, Inspiration, iOS, iphone, Logo, mobile, showcase by Denis Pakhaliuk
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 [...]
Filed under Articles, Design, interface, landscapes, links, roundup, showcase, Trends, Web Design by Chris Spooner
Despite being confined to the Internet some website designs reflect the awe and freedom of the vast outdoors through their design. This post showcases 20 awe-inspiring websites based on a landscape theme, each one featuring a beautiful landscape image in the form of a large photograph or a hand drawn illustration. Dave Gamache momentum Lake [...]
Continue Reading "20 Examples of Landscape Themed Web Designs"Filed under book, Design, dev, development, Inspiration, showcase, web, Weekly Web Design Inspiration by Speckyboy Editors
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. [...]
Filed under app, book, CSS, Design, dev, font, Graphic, icon, Icons, jQuery, Logo, minimal, mobile, photoshop, Resource, Resources, showcase, theme, Tutorial, Twitter, Vector, web, Weekly News by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy 
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Filed under app, CSS, Design, dev, development, effects, font, Graphic, icon, Inspiration, javascript, Resource, Resources, showcase, Template, Text, Typography, web, Web Design by Jake Rocheleau
Modern web designers are incorporating innovative new concepts for digital type. In the previous decade we have witnessed the Internet transform into a powerful tool for sharing media all around the world. More specifically digital designers have adapted and web trends continue to change over time. Text on a page will always be the most uniform way of communication. It’s up to web designers to mold this text in a tasteful and easy-to-read manner. In this guide I’ll share a [...]
Filed under Design, dev, development, Inspiration, showcase, web, Weekly Web Design Inspiration by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. [...]
Filed under Design, dev, development, Inspiration, showcase, web, Weekly Web Design Inspiration by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. [...]
Filed under app, CMS (Content Management), CSS, Design, flash, javascript, showcase, theme, Twitter, Web Design, Wordpress by Visual Idiot
I’m going to make a bold assumption here, but I bet you’ve got a blog. If you do, then you join a crowd of millions, all penning their deepest thoughts and documenting their life. It really is hard to stand out from the crowd though. Anchor aims to fix that. Based on the technology behind my blog, Anchor’s a super-tiny content management system, built especially in mind for art-directed posts; that is, a blog where every article is designed (and [...]
Filed under Articles, font-face, Fonts, links, Resources, roundup, showcase, Typography, Web Design, web fonts by Chris Spooner
Remember back when @font-face and Google Fonts were first introduced? We only had the choice of a handful of custom fonts we could use. Nowadays it’s quite the opposite, we’re spoilt for choice with hundreds of cool fonts licensed for free @font-face embedding. This post rounds up a collection of 20 stylish sans-serif fonts, all [...]
Continue Reading "20 Free Sans-Serif Fonts Licensed for @Font-Face"Filed under advertising, app, Design, Inspiration, showcase, Typography, web by Jameel Khan
Everyody needs some inspiration to help unlock those creative ideas. Now, vintage posters might not be your first port-of-call when seeking inspiration. Then you have missed out. Of course, the vintage posters we have for you haven’t aged very well. But the truth is they are all in their own way both enchanting and visually alluring. Just have a look for your self. We hope you enjoy and appreciate these vintage ad posters, and do let us know your thoughts [...]
Filed under Design, dev, development, Inspiration, magazine, showcase, web, Weekly Web Design Inspiration by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. [...]
Filed under Articles, Design, Inspiration, interface, layouts, roundup, showcase, Trends, Web Design by Chris Spooner
We often assume the more detail we put into our website designs the better they will be, but great design doesn’t always have to include all the bells and whistles. This post showcases a variety of sites that are based on solid colour backgrounds. You won’t see a gradient, texture or pattern but all these [...]
Continue Reading "Showcase of Solid Color Backgrounds in Web Design"Filed under app, Design, dev, development, Inspiration, showcase, web, Weekly Web Design Inspiration by Paul Andrew
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. [...]