Illustrations are a nice way to give to your site a less formal style. With hand drawings, the style gets even less formal and also it gives to the site a super unique feel, allowing the designer to show off his/her skills. This type of element can be used for small details or even for the whole site layout. One thing is almost certainty, hand drawings will make your site looks more friendly, however it's very important to find the balance and make sure that they fit with the theme and subject of your site.
Yesterday I was looking for some icons for a project I am doing lately, and it's just great how DeviantART got some awesome free icons! It is a great place to find just the right icon to pimp your designs, so I've selected a few!
These are pretty cool, and the best thing about them is that it's all free. So hurry up and go catch these great sets of icons... So, I hope you all enjoy my selection! Cheers. ;)
Next week the famous Carsonified Event "Future of Web Design" takes place in New York City and here you will see what to expect from this great event. The best web designers in the world will take place to talk about different topics that will bring up your web game to the next level. Check it out!
First you need to visit the event page http://events.carsonified.com/ to get a good felling of what's going on.
The newly released Pixelmator includes a very important feature: the Slice Tool. Now we can slice and save pieces of the layout to create Web sites. That is really handy! Because of that, I decided to create a tutorial showing how to create a Web site design using Pixelmator.
Step 1
After almost a year, we have a new design! As web designers we’re always thinking about what to change in order to make the site more friendly for those who are looking for inspiration and tutorials.
I'm designing my new portfolio, and lately I've been checking many sites to get somekind of reference for inspiration. One of the main style that I've check as a cool trend is the Grain Texture, that can be done really easily in Fireworks. So I've made a list of sites that use this simple, yet awesome texture!
Also, do you guys know anymore sites that "wear" this texture? If you do, tell us! Leave a comment! I hope you enjoy these! Cheers! ;)
And continuing the series 'Beautiful Layouts in Web Design', today is all about green! As any other color, green has tons of beautiful shades... sometimes it's even a bit hard being sure that it's green that we are looking at. But anyways, here is a great selection of Green Layouts for you to enjoy and get inspired about.
One of the things that I like most about web design is its results... yeap, I love to see great designed websites, and for sure we can find a bunch of those out there. Today we will show some beautiful blue layouts in web design. At this selection you will find a bit of everything: flash, html, drupal, etc.
Web design has its own limitation, and us, web designers, have been working and learning how to overcome these constraints to create better solutions. Typography is our most important asset and we're seeing that designers are applying old concepts that they've learned from print design and applying to web design, in the right way. That's why we've been seeing more and more big contrasts in font sizes.
In this post we selected some pages that we have for inspiration to show you that.
It's been a time since we had a web design post. There's one trend that I find really awesome and I enjoy very much everytime I find a site featuring this style. Magazine style sites are usually very beautiful and well design, and here are some examples.
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