Tag: Flat

Free Long Shadow Flat Icons

Looking for long shadow style icons? Good, then you came to the right place! Flat design has been continuing virtually unchallenged for some time now, and it’s started to develop sub-styles. One of the most popular new trends is long shadow design, and you’d have to have been living under a rock not to have… Continue reading Free Long Shadow Flat Icons

Pros and Cons of Flat Design

There’s not denying that flat design is the big thing in design these days. It’s everywhere. And not just flat design, but now with almost flat design as well. The arguments about the validity and application of the style are raging. The super-trendy design style elicits an opinion from almost everyone. So let’s take a step back… Continue reading Pros and Cons of Flat Design

10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download

Sometimes designing your own graphics from scratch can be a timely and daunting task, and going to the professionals can be very costly. In this post I have assembled an amazing collection of well designed free graphic elements that we do think are worth mentioning…for example; Flat icons, Flat design UI Kit, PSD website template… Continue reading 10 Wicked Freebies That Every Designer Should Download

My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013

I regularly post links to interesting design tutorials and articles over on my Twitter and Facebook accounts, but in case you missed them here’s a roundup of my top pickings from my recent browsing of the web. This week we have some great content from Vectips, PSDFan, Vectortuts+ and Codrops.   The Fundamentals of Shape… Continue reading My Top Links of the Week for August 2nd 2013

45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Flat web design is a real trend buster right now, and this comes with good reason! Not that long ago the use of 3D effects, textured surfaces, light and gradient effects were trending elements in web design. However, with the changing times so comes new trends within web design. The tendency right now leans towards… Continue reading 45+ Flat Web Design Examples For Your Inspiration

Long Shadow Flat Icon Set by Simon Rahm

Time for another freebie! We recently published a post about the emergence of a new trend called Long Shadow Design. As a follow up to that, this freebie contains a long shadow flat icon set as designed by one of our readers Simon Rahm. Simon, a 16-year old student from Austria, emailed us that he… Continue reading Long Shadow Flat Icon Set by Simon Rahm

Free 12 Flat SEO icons

Free 12 Flat SEO icons, this set of 12 flat SEO icons is perfect for adding a light-hearted and playful tone to sites. The flat aesthetic is set off beautifully by the modern color palette and the addition of the long shadow technique is a sophisticated touch. Playful and approachable, the icons are useful for… Continue reading Free 12 Flat SEO icons

Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

With this tutorial I would like to show you a few tricks on creating clean lines and edges when working with the flat design trend, in Adobe Illustrator. Simple layered styles and reusing Graphic Styles to help your workflow are most efficient, so you should be able to create a set of matching icons in… Continue reading Create a Set of “Almost Flat” Modern Icons in Adobe Illustrator

30+ Latest Free Flat Icon Sets For Your Use

In this post I’ve gathered a collection of 30+ free flat icon sets for your use. All are free to use.   Ultimate Social Icon Set 24 Flat Icons (PSD) Flat File Icons (PSD) 200 Handcrafted Micro Icons (PSD) 80 Mini Icons (PSD + Icon Font) Brightmix Mini icon set Black ToolBar Icons Helveticons Social… Continue reading 30+ Latest Free Flat Icon Sets For Your Use

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

Create a Flat Countdown Timer in Photoshop – iOS 7 Inspired

In this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a simple countdown timer, iOS 7 inspired! Flat design is dominating the web and I’m sure you all know that Apple created a new look and feel for their OS. I’m really happy seeing the minimal look of the user interface and I know Apple… Continue reading Create a Flat Countdown Timer in Photoshop – iOS 7 Inspired

Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples

Emphasis on typography, roomy widgets, muted color palette, one-colored or blurred background, grid or horizontal stripe layout, inornate graphics, 2d illustrations – all these can be easily attributed to flat style, that recently got its second rebirth. Microsoft’s “Metro” aesthetic has captured the minds of a great deal of designers, pushing them on eschewing shadows,… Continue reading Use of Flat Design in Mobile App Interfaces, Best Examples

20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

Every year in the design community, new trends come out of the woodwork — some simply being reworks of old ideas while others are completely new. Among the design trends like infinite scrolling, minimally-​​designed landing pages, and large photographic backgrounds, there is the design trend of flat design that is currently making the rounds. What is flat… Continue reading 20 Beautiful Flat Web and Mobile Designs

A Look at Flat Design and Why It’s Significant

There has been a growing tidal wave of flat designs on the web, and recent trend reports have confirmed that they’re only increasing in popularity. Of course it’s easy to dismiss flat design as yet another fleeting aesthetic trend. But further investigation into this new philosophy reveals that flat design is a lot more than… Continue reading A Look at Flat Design and Why It’s Significant

40 Beautiful Flat Icon Sets For Web UI Design

This simple design school does not employ any three dimensional effects. This means no embossing, bevels, drop shadows, gradients or such tools that create a sense of depth. It is straight to the point and fresh. But flat design is not completely devoid of any effects. It adds some extras to create a sense of artificial… Continue reading 40 Beautiful Flat Icon Sets For Web UI Design

40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs

Doing a great and realistic presentation is extremely important if you are selling creative products and services such as apps and website design, themes for WordPress. One of the popular ways to serve the goodies is to make some great quality in action screenshots of the design and functionality. This helps potential customers get an… Continue reading 40+ Cool Minimalistic Photoshop Device PSDs

23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

Flat design is becoming increasingly popular in the design and development space. When we say “flat” we are referring to the minimalist approach to design. We remove borders, shadows, variants, 3d elements to come up with a very clean simple and yes flat design. Minimal design has been popular for a while and it seems… Continue reading 23 Flat Design iPhone Apps

35+ Photoshop Flat UI Interface PSD Gems

One of the hot trends right now in web designs is minimalistic metro style and it is seen used on more and more websites and App UIs. With Photoshop flat UI PSDs you can quickly start up metro design projects and as you will see below there are many cool resources available as free download.… Continue reading 35+ Photoshop Flat UI Interface PSD Gems

34 Flat Website Layouts for Design Inspiration

The flat metro-style design trend has only been active within the community for a couple of years. The original designs started with Microsoft and have grown in complexity ever since. Specifically I have noticed a lot of designers working with flat CSS3 buttons, links, icons, and other UI features. I want to dedicate this showcase… Continue reading 34 Flat Website Layouts for Design Inspiration