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25 Glorious Charity and Non-Profit Web Designs

Igor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:53:23 +0000

Today I would like to discuss the importance of design of charity websites. If you are a charity organization, having a good looking website should be a priority. A poorly designed site could scare away contributions. You main goal is to help the needy, not to fail them… If you’re an organization, I strongly suggest hiring a professional designer. Going the extra mile will help you in the long run, and who know, maybe they would be willing to give you a discount based on your situation.

Showcase of E-Commerce/Sport Website Designs

Igor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:34:28 +0000

Most people are either athletes or are sports fans. To sell to athletes and fans you have a good website design to grab the attention of these buyers. Most importantly, the landing page needs a good design to attract the buyer so that they do not leave your site. If you are searching for an e-commerce/sport website design, or are looking for inspiration for one, stop here and take a look at the collection that I have been hunting.

40 Beautiful 8-Bit Artworks

Igor — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:38:19 +0000

8 Bit Art can refer to a style of synthesized electronic music called “chiptunes”, as well as a form of digital art called “pixel art”. Both chiptunes and Pixel Art can be more than 8-bits. Chiptunes, also referred to as “chip music”, are often made using sound hardware from old video game consoles or computer systems.

Inspiring Minimal Poster Designs

David — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:39:28 +0000

Posters are a perfect marketing tool for putting up around in public places for people to see, everywhere you travel you are almost always going to pass some form of advertisement or billboard, the problem with a majority of posters and billboards is the design work can be pretty unappealing. I have collected some truly awesome designed posters for your inspiration, if these were used in public spaces think how many extra customers and attention your brand would get.

30 Inspiring Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

DesignWoop — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:17:12 +0000

One of the most important aspect of modern and effective web and graphic design these days is typography. Good selection of font type, size and color can make your website look more interesting and attractive for your website visitors. Using large typography you will easily grab an attention of website visitors and it will be easy to impress them and send the message at the same time. You will see that huge typography is being used everywhere in the website, starting from header and finishing with footer.

Best of koikoikoi 2011

koikoikoi — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:57:37 +0000

The best of koikoikoi 2011 is a comprehensive summary of selected top 30 articles from KOIKOIKOI in the year 2011. A mix of photography, design, illustrator, art, etc..
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Conceptual Tattoos by Amanda Wachob

Ben Grasso, “Apocalyptic” paintings

Water Sculptures by Shinichi Maruyama

3D Painting by Shaka

30 awesome wine label designs

Tattoos by Peter Aurisch

Drawing by Joe Fenton

Map Collages by Matthew Cusick

52 bad dudes by Adam Sidwell

Jeff Gogue Impressive Tattoo

Mariel Clayton and Barbie killed Ken

Dream Big by Peter Fecteau

Andrew Myers’ Screw Portraits

Stunning watercolors by Marion Bolognesi

Tattooed Arms By Guy le Tatooer

20+ awesome beer packages

Stencil art by Sr.X

35 Free Fonts for Designers

Gang Life by Robert Yager

Portraits and illustrations by Alexey Kurbatov

Miniature Urban Sculpture by lan Wolfson

Ruben Ireland

Light painting with the iPad by Dentsu

Craziest tattoos ever by Yourmeatismine

Yosuke Goda

Xoïl Tattoos

Audrey Kawasaki

Yanni Floros Charcoal Drawings

Charlotte Mann’s murals

Buena Vista Tattoo Club

Retro Style Robots by Cris Rose

20 Pixel Perfect Travel Website Designs

DesignWoop — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:35:34 +0000

Travel websites should be inspirational to the user, featuring large images, videos and written content selling the travel bug to the user. In this post I am looking at 20 perfectly designed travel related websites, some of these travel websites are destination specific, others are blogs and some are accommodation focused travel websites.

45 Typography Focused Logo Designs

DesignWoop — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:58:06 +0000

A logo design is the face and representation of your company, at DesignWoop I like all things minimal and typographic and so have put together a collection of typographic logo designs that focus primarily on minimal and typographic design.

Single Page Web Design Inspiration

David — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:15:34 +0000

Single page website design is a great way to allow users to navigate their way through the content fast and easily without the hassle of having to reload unnecessary content and bloated CMS pages. Single page web designs can allow for a more interesting user experience, you can create awesome navigation affects, such as parallax scrolling and present your content in a more creative layout compared to a traditional content landing page within a CMS.

Single page designs are also great if you prefer a more stylish minimalistic web design or if you want to quickly and easily focus the users attention on a specific product or call to action, check out these fantastic single page web designs I have collected.

15 Useful Tools for Web Designers Per Zero Cost

Igor — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:21:18 +0000

Here is a collection of tools, which from my point of view, are the must have for designers and web-developers. Hope that you may add some of them to your ¨check list¨. These tools may help you to validate the site code, develop websites, optimize the images, work with the text and fonts, track your time, and last but not least manage your projects. Here you may find the tools to download, to use online or to work directly from your iPhone, depending the way you like to work.