At FHOKE we’ve managed hundreds of projects in many ways. With our team’s industry experience, running, or working within studios, we’ve seen it all; ways that have worked and others that have failed. Over the years we’ve refined our process and found a great staged approach that works well for all our clients. It saves… Continue reading Take Control and Save Time When Designing for Clients
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Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original
Originality can be hard to find, which is surprising since each one of us are creative individuals. Why don’t we embrace that individuality more often? It seems like it should be such an easy question to answer, but nonetheless, it doesn’t seem to be. Being a designer is a constant battle between embracing our own… Continue reading Finding Design Inspiration in Others’ Work While Still Being Original
Interactive Infographic with SVG and CSS Animations
One of the less talked about features of newer browsers is increasing support for the SVG file format. If you are unfamiliar with SVG, it stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. Unlike raster image formats like PNG, JPG or GIF, the vector graphics contained within SVG files are completely scalable to any size and will display… Continue reading Interactive Infographic with SVG and CSS Animations
Planning Your Web Design with Sketches
There are plenty of foundational courses taught in design school. And it’s no surprise that big agencies and startups are taking a back-to-basics approach to their design processes. Whether you’ve been a lifelong doodler or have serious sketch ‘chops,’ being able to use paper to explore new ideas is an important skill in the design… Continue reading Planning Your Web Design with Sketches
Design an Appealing Print-Ready Restaurant Menu in Illustrator
If you’ve ever seen a “food designer” fuss over every last detail of a delicious food item, you’d understand how exquisitely visual the food marketing process can be. The visual evaluation of food has been ingrained in the human psyche for thousands of years, and the right imagery can still elicit strong, visceral reactions (mostly… Continue reading Design an Appealing Print-Ready Restaurant Menu in Illustrator
Top 10 Best Logo Designing Tutorials
The importance of logo designing nowadays for any company cannot be underestimated. It is one of the greatest ways in which you can market your brand and therefore many companies are indulging in excessive logo designing. If you have a great logo then your business will be able to have an impact on the consumer.… Continue reading Top 10 Best Logo Designing Tutorials
Essential design events, vector art and much more!
Essential design events for 2013 Covering graphic design, typography, web design, 3D and more, here’s a list of essential design events around the world over the next 12 months. The pro’s guide to CSS layouts CSS’s next big challenge is to make flexible, dynamic page layouts that work across our ever-broadening range of devices. With… Continue reading Essential design events, vector art and much more!
Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation
Take some time out this weekend and listen to Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer at Etsy.com. In this talk he describes the processes undertaken whenever a redesign is carried out – and he knows what he’s taking about, having been at the helm of five redesigns in Etsy’s eight short years.. Watch live streaming video from… Continue reading Weekend Inspiration: Design for Continuous Experimentation
Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up
Congratulations! Web design can be one of the most useful skills to acquire in your professional career. Your first 30 days of learning are crucial because many people simply give up after a week or two. In this article, we’ll go through some useful tips and tricks to help you get started with web design… Continue reading Your First 30 Days of Learning Web Design: How to Get Started and Not Give Up
UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design
The web development community has come up with endless solutions, best practices, and tools for coding a responsive design with ease. While the vast majority of websites can be made responsive now, it’s time to push the envelope further. It’s easy to pay attention to great coding best practices, but sometimes the best design practices… Continue reading UI Design Guidelines for Responsive Design
Crowdsourcing Your Logo Design Work – Pros and Cons
Crowdsouring, though a new term and a very few people are aware of what this term means or signifies, the concept however has existed in our society since time immemorial and was often used for translation related purposes. So, first let us learn what is crowdsourcing and then we would proceed to learn about its… Continue reading Crowdsourcing Your Logo Design Work – Pros and Cons
Top 20 PSD To HTML Services To Code Your Design
In this Internet world full of business opportunities, having a semantic and user-friendly website is important to the next Internet entrepreneur, aka you. But alas, not everyone can be an HTML/CSS ninja, since it requires a truckload of learning spirit, good karma (best practice), and years of experience to produce a functional website that actually… Continue reading Top 20 PSD To HTML Services To Code Your Design
Facebook – New Design and Concept by Fred Nerby
Facebook, as one of the biggest online social network has been a part of people’s lives for the past years and for more years to come. That is why every single change on the site from now and then will either freak us out or praise Facebook for making things cooler and easier. But how… Continue reading Facebook – New Design and Concept by Fred Nerby
Easy Online Printing and Custom Design Services
If you have a business and you want to increase your potential and clients then you will need to invest in printed material so that you can market yourself. You can either go for business card printing or you can also offer for leaflet printing. There are many options available in other printing materials however… Continue reading Easy Online Printing and Custom Design Services
Tips To Avoid Great Responsive Web Design Problems
Responsive web designs have been around since the last two years. However, designers have been facing numerous challenges especially when it comes to developing framework for the code, script and developing a process of managing the responsive web designs. Avoiding the responsive web designs problems is possible and a range of solutions are available for… Continue reading Tips To Avoid Great Responsive Web Design Problems
20 of the Highest Quality & Free WordPress Themes January 2013
Happy New Year to all of our Readers! I thought we would kick of 2013 with a roundup of all the best of the free themes released since our last update in November. We have a good mix of some quality themes including nice clean ones from WPExplorer, some news ones from Web2Feel and Site5Hosting… Continue reading 20 of the Highest Quality & Free WordPress Themes January 2013
Future trends in web design: predictions for 2013
Another year has passed, which means it’s time for our annual instalment of design predictions for the coming year. In technology, one year can make a world of difference, and the changes can shape the way we design, test and market our websites. As we all know, technology changes faster than we can keep up… Continue reading Future trends in web design: predictions for 2013
Supporting the Design Community
It has been a while since I entered the design community and I’m very glad I did that. As a lot of you may know I’m not a designer, but I do write about web design and design related subjects. As a writer I really like to research/browse several different websites to deliver you nice… Continue reading Supporting the Design Community
Design a Contemporary Poster
Create this simple poster created with layers of photos and shapes. In this Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to use a combination of Photoshop brushes, images, and custom shapes to create this contemporary poster. What you will need Architectural ornaments brush set A few splatter brushes Step 1 Create a new document with… Continue reading Design a Contemporary Poster