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Vitaly Friedman - Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different real

Showcases , Retro , Inspiration , Vintage , Paintings

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Vitaly Friedman - Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to

Covers , Print , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - Footers In Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas

According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site element

Footers , Navigation , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Handwriting Styles, Lettering and Calligraphy

Handwriting styles seems to have lost some of its attraction over the last years. Nobody writes beautiful handwritten letters, and uses digital means of communication with smileys, abbreviations and

Handwriting , Calligraphy , Lettering , Typography , Inspiration

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Sean Hodge - Photoshop Rainbow, Light, and Glow Effect Tutorials

Lighting and glow effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Vitaly Friedman - Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS Feed Icons

Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are

Graphics , RSS , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Slick Laptop Designs and Concepts

Laptop design doesn’t have to be boring. Although often laptops look exactly as we expect them to look like, there is a number of design solutions and approaches which are completely different — unu

Gadgets , Inspiration

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Sean Hodge - Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating

Techniques , Grids , Layouts , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 60 Brilliant Corporate Fonts

Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users

Typography , fonts , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers

Sometimes laptop is more than just a device. Using laptops over years, some of us tend to develop a genuine affection toward their little (or not so little) companions. We take care of them, putting

Covers , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - The Secrets Of Grunge Design

Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it.

Grunge , Trends , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 35 Fantastic HDR Images

Applied carefully, High Dynamic Range-technique (HDR) can create incredibly beautiful pictures which blur our sense of the difference between reality and illusion. In graphics HDR imaging is a set o

Photography , Inspiration , Pictures

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Sven Lennartz - Blog Headers For Free Download

This post presents the results of a contest — 45 beautiful blog header designs you can use for free. Below the designers have described their themes, intentions and shown us some examples of how hea

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Sean Hodge - Creating A Successful Online Portfolio

Your portfolio is the showcase of your work, your skills and your potential for your future employers. The more time and effort you dedicate for a usable and nice-looking design, the higher are your

Portfolios , Principles , Web Design , Design

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David Knoll - 25 Brilliant Animated Short Movies

Beautiful animated short movies are excellent for tedious coffee breaks and uninspiring monday mornings. To put some beautiful story in a short 2-5 minutes sequence isn’t easy, but even in this case

Videos , animation , Movies , Cartoons , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

Navigation is the most significant element in web design. Since web-layouts don’t have any physical representation a user can stick to, consistent navigation menu is one of the few design elements w

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Breathtaking Typographic Posters

You can’t design without type. However, yon can use only type (or mostly only type) to create breath-taking designs. In fact, many graphic designers and artists take exactly this route to communicat

Art , Graphics , Typography , Posters , Illustrations

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Vitaly Friedman - Powerful CSS-Techniques For Effective Coding

Sometimes being a web-developer is just damn hard. Particularly coding is often responsible for slowing down our workflow, reducing the quality of our work and sleepless nights with pizza and coffee

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Sven Lennartz - 45 More Excellent Blog Designs

We, designers, are creative folks. And being creative, we permanently strive for inspiration — innovative approaches, crazy ideas, smashing concepts and, in general, unique designs which can help us

Showcases , Layouts , Inspiration , Blogging

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Vitaly Friedman - 25 Mind-Blowing Gadgets

Few weeks ago we’ve presented a number of innovative gadgets, devices, designs and concepts. Unless explicitly specified, none of them has been officially released or produced yet, and none of them

Gadgets , Devices , Inspiration , Innovation

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Sergio Ordonez Suanez - Drunken Monkey Photoshop Tutorial

This Adobe Photoshop tutorial is a guest article written by Sergio Ordóñez, 29 years old Spanish designer and illustrator who is working as a freelancer in SOSFactory since 2004. The article focuses

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics , Illustrations

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Vitaly Friedman - Award-Winning Newspaper Designs

Print and Web are different. Traditional layout techniques from print, particularly an advanced formatting, aren’t applicable to the Web as CSS doesn’t offer sophisticated instruments to design such

Newspapers , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 15 Stunning Cutting-Edge Gadgets and Technologies

We live in a spectacular time. The pace of technology steadily increases, new fields of science are heavily explored and innovative concepts emerge almost every day, resulting in stunning and overwh

Gadgets , Devices , Inspiration , Technology , Innovation

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Vitaly Friedman - 10 Principles Of Good Web Design

This article has been kindly supported by our dear friends at CreativeWeb who focus on creating bespoke and interactive web experiences for aspiring and established businesses and enterprises. Th

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