For this article in the international artist series, we turn to South Africa, featuring five illustrators and designers who create fantastic work, from lettering to illustration and more! I asked each artist how their country and culture inspired their work, and they delivered fantastic answers. Enjoy! Pearly Yon Pearly Yon is illustrator Simone Hodgskiss, who runs… Continue reading International Artist Feature: South Africa
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Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
There are more ways than ever to get yourself (and your work) seen online. Whether yours is a design, illustration, photography, code, or product portfolio, take a look at some of these tools for getting it out there. Dunked Brainchild of Orman Clark and chums, dunked is a platform offering an account where you can upload… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: 15+ Portfolio Building Tools
20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
As a developer, your design skills may not be that great. But you want your applications to look great. Right? In this quick tip, I list 20 graphic resources for iOS you can find on GraphicRiver. Not only will they save you time, they will make your applications look great. 1. Application Icons The application… Continue reading 20 Useful iOS Icon & App Template Resources
10 High Quality Apple Device Mockup PSDs
ADVERTISEMENT Mockups are designated to give a demonstration of actual full-scale output before it has been created to let clients check over the output. It is commonly used in automotive designing, system and software engineering, and consumer goods. Mockups not only save designers’ time but also let them communicate their ideas more effectively with the… Continue reading 10 High Quality Apple Device Mockup PSDs
20 Useful WordPress Forms Available on CodeCanyon
Just about every WordPress-based website has some kind of online form. They range from the most basic—contact forms, polls, and email subscriber submissions—to more advanced forms like payment, calculator, and user-submitted content. WordPress users often use free plugins like Contact Form 7 or those included in Jetpack, while others may even take the plunge for a Gravity… Continue reading 20 Useful WordPress Forms Available on CodeCanyon
Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients
Gradients are making a sneaky comeback. For a while they belonged to the world of Miami Vice and Tequila Sunrise, then they added depth to 1980’s magazines, then there was Geocities–ok, let’s not dwell on the past. Nowadays gradients are being used on the web in bold fashion; mixing highly saturated colors for extremely rich… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Good Golly, Gradients
How to Work With Excel Documents Using Python
I believe you have used Microsoft Excel on some occasion. It is very powerful when it comes to working with spreadsheets, tables, charts, etc. But what does Python have to do with that? Python is a game changer when it comes to Excel files because it can automate daunting stuff you might encounter in some… Continue reading How to Work With Excel Documents Using Python
Top 20 Most Usable Content Management Systems
There are plenty of options when picking a content management system for a development project. Depending on how advanced you need the CMS to be, what language it’s built in, and who is going to be using it, it can be a nightmare trying to find the “perfect” CMS for a project. However, some CMSs… Continue reading Top 20 Most Usable Content Management Systems
7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer
Last year I posted a roundup of the best Photoshop alternatives aimed at casual designers or hobbyists who wants to fulfill their creative passion, but don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars on expensive industry standard software. I’m a big Illustrator fan myself and I post loads of Illustrator tutorials here on my blog, but… Continue reading 7 Adobe Illustrator Alternatives for the Casual Designer
15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes
In this round up, we are showcasing some fresh and awesome free responsive WordPress themes. WordPress is very well-accepted and well-known blogging platform that’s why millions of people are using it. With these WordPress themes, you will be provided with wonderful features which are very useful for your work. Furthermore, all these WordPress themes are… Continue reading 15 Free And Awesome Responsive WordPress Themes
Rawr! How to Draw an Anatomically Correct Dragon
Dragon anatomy is a problematic topic, mainly due to the fact that they’re mythical creatures. However I can show you how to design a believable body for this mythical creature based on basic anatomy theory. In this tutorial you’ll learn about dragon skeleton, muscles and movement. If you want your dragons to look real, this… Continue reading Rawr! How to Draw an Anatomically Correct Dragon
45 Free Photoshop Brushes
Brushes can save you some serious time when it comes to adding design flourishes, so we’ve rounded up our favourite free Photoshop brushes. The web is absolutely full of free Photoshop brushes – there are thousands of sites offering free brushes just a click away, but this makes it incredibly difficult to find good quality,… Continue reading 45 Free Photoshop Brushes
How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI
Looking at the HTML5 range input element you can see a number of advancements. Forms are able to take in restricted information from users sliding between number segments. But unfortunately these HTML5 inputs are only supported in modern browsers. So although there are a few limitations we can try to work around them. I want… Continue reading How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI
10 Best of HTML5 Tools for Web Designers
Want to build a website without needing to write any code? We select the 10 best website builders to choose from. Looking for a website builder? There are a multitude to choose from, so which is the best? Well, for a start, you’ll be looking for a website builder that can create your website in… Continue reading 10 Best of HTML5 Tools for Web Designers
Collection Of Free Responsive HTML & CSS Website Templates
In digital designing, production should have two crucial potentials, quality and quantity. Your work should be exceptional and so should be your speed. Web development and designing are extensively challenging jobs in both concerns as they require skills and aesthetics to work in perfect coordination which sometimes, can be time consuming and painstaking. There are… Continue reading Collection Of Free Responsive HTML & CSS Website Templates
Magazine Flat UI Kit (PSD)
GraphicBurger has released Blog/Magazine Flat UI Kit (PSD), this UI Kit includes a wide range of components which can be used to create clean, colorful websites. Photos used for presentation are not included in the download, but everything else inside PSD is editable! Format: Layered PSD Vector Shapes: Yes
11 Useful And Free CSS UI Kits
We have previously presented many user interface (UI) kits for our designers fellows but rarely have compiled UI kits that have been exclusively built with CSS. This is something that many designers are looking for. So, look no further as here we are presenting 11 free CSS UI Kits for you. All of these 11… Continue reading 11 Useful And Free CSS UI Kits
Make Pretty Charts For Your App with jQuery and xCharts
Charts are a great visual aid when presenting data. You can’t build a professional admin panel without them. They are also tricky to set up. However, there is a new library that makes things easier – xCharts. Today, we are going to use it along with the daterange picker for Twitter Bootstrap, to build a… Continue reading Make Pretty Charts For Your App with jQuery and xCharts
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