Category: Creative

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?

You show a prospective client your portfolio. They like it, hire you and the project starts. You deliver sketches and then, after everything is approved, the finished design. The client then informs you the solution didn’t meet his/her “vision” and refuses all offers to adjust the work to meet his/her vision. Final payment and further… Continue reading Design Dilemma: Are You the Right Person for the Right Job?

25 Fun Web Designs Featuring Creative Illustrations

Photography is often used to set the mood in a website design, but illustrations are what really add character to a site. Today’s web design showcase features 25 fun websites that all boast colourful and bold illustration work in various styles, including flat landscapes, cute characters and detailed cartoons. IWillChangeIt Stuff & Nonsense Fixate Polecat… Continue reading 25 Fun Web Designs Featuring Creative Illustrations

20 Powerful Red Color Websites

Designer Ledger – A web design blog for designers by designers Colors can have a very powerful effect. When different colors are used according to their significance they elicit favorable response and can move an audience deeply. Red is a very powerful color depicting strong emotions and it can definitely grab the desired attention. Whenever… Continue reading 20 Powerful Red Color Websites

45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

If you didn’t know by now, gig poster collecting started out in the 60′s and the tradition is still going strong today. In fact, the community is bigger that ever. Indie music fanatics around the world have turned into collectors. This isn’t some small fad or trend, there are entire online communities/marketplaces solely dedicated to buying and… Continue reading 45 Creative Gig Poster Designs

New Generation of Presentation Tools

Open Source, Embeddable, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 These tools clearly show the power of Open Source and the new freemium SaaS business model. All you need is a browser. Any browser, any operating system will do. No vendor lock, as the enterprise guy would say. You can download your results as PDF, but the main use… Continue reading New Generation of Presentation Tools

9 Sketch Features You Should be Using

Sketch is a graphics application for designers, lending itself very nicely to the world of web design. If you’re new to it, you may not be aware of some of the tricks Sketch has, hidden under the surface. Today I’d like to run through some top tips to speed up your design workflow.

Stock Agencies That We Love Around Valentine’s Day

Designers, bloggers, publishers and advertisers are all faced with a unique opportunity to attract plenty of new customers whenever a big holiday approaches. In the proximity of Valentine’s Day, this can be achieved by using images of happy couples and other familiar imagery that we are very receptive to right now. Since you may be… Continue reading Stock Agencies That We Love Around Valentine’s Day

Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

Whenever we start any new design project, we’ll usually sit down with the client and discuss all the relevant project details with the client. If you’re lucky, your client will have a relatively clear idea of what they want to achieve and perhaps even the functions and features they want for the site. However clients… Continue reading Using Color Psychology to Create an Effective Price Table

11 Free Useful & Responsive Templates

Hi guys, here’s another episode of our resources series in which we’ll handpick latest, unique and useful resources for our designer community. Being a designer/developer myself I perfectly know how these resources save us a lot of trouble with some very tight deadlines. So, today I’ve selected 11 very useful and creative Responsive Templates and… Continue reading 11 Free Useful & Responsive Templates

Examples of Mobile Design Pattern: Part 2

Introduction In the first article of this mini-series dedicated to Mobile Design Patterns, I gave a brief overview of what they are and the importance of their implementation in any well designed mobile application. Besides, I tried to show, through the study of one of the best known and most downloaded applications available in the… Continue reading Examples of Mobile Design Pattern: Part 2

Useful Tips for Building a Brand Identity with a Business Card

Brand design is never easy; in fact, it’s such a delicate task that you never know when you got the right thing and your career depends on it. Business cards are a means of presentation taken for granted these days. If having no social media makes you non-existent, how can you exist in the real… Continue reading Useful Tips for Building a Brand Identity with a Business Card

Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

Long shadow a new trend after the flat design. The trend is impacting UI elements and icons the strongest, and designers also start using into other parts of website design and mobile user interface. Long shadow design has been mostly used in icons and logos. Shadows live within the element canvas and often extend outside an… Continue reading Long Shadow in Flat Design: 50 Beautiful Examples

Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

Typography has become a hot topic, often used referring illustrative typography or custom lettering. At its core, however, typography is simply the skill of setting type. Several centuries ago, this meant composing every paragraph by hand, character by character, before locking it into a form and printing it on a letterpress machine. For much of… Continue reading Dashes, Quotes and Ligatures: Typographic Best Practices

A Showcase of Creative Redesign Concepts

It’s always interesting to see another designer’s take on a famous website, app or even physical product. Different designers add their own personality and style, and often when designing a concept come up with novel and interesting ideas. To help give your inspiration a boost, we’ve brought together a showcase of some of our favourite… Continue reading A Showcase of Creative Redesign Concepts

New Features of Adobe Muse CC

Adobe Muse CC software allows designers to create professional websites for desktop and mobile devices without writing code. Using Adobe Muse CC you can plan, design, and publish HTML pages according to the latest web standards using familiar Adobe tools the same as in Illustrator or InDesign. You will be able to work quickly with… Continue reading New Features of Adobe Muse CC

50 Awesome Resume Designs That Will Bag The Job

A recruiter just spends about six seconds on a resume – the length of a Vine video. Thus it is important to find a way to make your resume stand out of tons of other resumes, particularly when you are in design. Impressive resume designs show your potential employer that you’re full of outstanding ideas,… Continue reading 50 Awesome Resume Designs That Will Bag The Job

15 Social Networks and Websites Where Any Designer Should Be Present

For the most of us, social media websites is equivalent to Facebook, chat with friends or liking and sharing images and statuses. In spite of that, some people said that for them social media brought clients and implicitly money. Unfortunately, they are a small minority and most of us make money when don’t use social… Continue reading 15 Social Networks and Websites Where Any Designer Should Be Present

Polishing up Your Creative Process

Today we’ll focus on increasing your creative capabilities through an introduction to a couple of creativity techniques. An important key issue to understand is that creativity techniques are not magic tools to increase your creativity as skill. Rather, they act as guides to help you find possible creative solutions for the problem you’re up against.… Continue reading Polishing up Your Creative Process

Collection OF Exquisite Rose Flower Pictures

Roses are undeniably beautiful and are a sign of love and peace. Their fresh fragrance and loveliness make them the most loved flower in the world. This sign of love is a flower that has sparked the imagination and touched the hearts of so many people. Today we are going to share “Collection OF Exquisite… Continue reading Collection OF Exquisite Rose Flower Pictures