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Vitaly Friedman - Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures

Although light is considered to be rather a practical than an artistic tool, it has some properties that designers can explore in their works. Indeed, light can also be seen as a medium for more pow

Photography , Art , Graphics , Paintings

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Georgeous Nature Wallpapers

When it comes to beauty nothing can beat the beauty of nature. Although we, designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything, nature often manages to provide us with beautiful, eye-catching

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Sven Lennartz - Textures and Patterns Design Showcase

Textures and patterns are used more often than one may think. The reason we don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background, supporting the overall design, replacing a standard backg

Showcases , Backgrounds , Inspiration , textures

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms, Part 2

Last week we have presented first findings of our web forms survey. The main objective of the survey was to provide designers and developers with some intuition of how effective web forms are design

CAPTCHA , Forms , Studies , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Table of Contents: Creative Examples

Table of contents is often considered to be one of the most unspectacular design elements ever invented. Because of its simple, usual form, table of contents is often not given the attention it may

Inspiration , Content

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Vitaly Friedman - Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms

If you want to maximize the revenue of your service you need to maximize completion rates of your web forms. Unless you have some revolutionary ideas to impress your visitors at first glance, it is

User Research , Forms , ux , Studies , Usability

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Sven Lennartz - 55 High Quality Sets With Free Desktop Icons

We love free icons and icon sets. In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Should Links Open In New Windows?

Visitors to the sites with heavy linking are more willing to have links opened in new windows then open dozens of links in new windows manually. Visitors of less-heavy-linkage-sites are more likely

ux , Tabs , Usability , Javascript

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Dirk Jesse - Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future

This article is a guest post written by Dirk Jesse, the developer of YAML (Yet Another Multicolumn Layout), an (X)HTMLCSS framework which explains his motivation for YAML in the last paragraph of th

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Vitaly Friedman - Creative Calendar Designs

How many creative solutions for calendar design are out there? If you take a look around you’ll find out that most calendars are designed in a “standard” linear fashion. Calendar cards usually have

Calendars , Inspiration , Visualizations

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Sven Lennartz - Hand-Drawing Style In Web Design

When it comes to web design too often perfect, colorful and boxy designs make the cut; however, the reality is different as it is hard to find objects with a perfect shape and a perfect color in our

Showcases , Drawing , Inspiration , Web Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Brochures and Booklets

In corporate design brochures and booklets are a standard tool for promotion and advertising. They are little books or magazines which lay around in conference halls, offices and waiting rooms. Some

Magazines , Print , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices

This post presents creative examples and best practices for design of pull quotes. We’ve tried to identify some common solutions and interesting approaches you may want to use or develop further in

Showcases , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Black and White Photography

If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to

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Min Tran - Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon

Nowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces. H

Tutorials , Graphics , Drawing , Icons

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Jon Gosier - 10 Places For Design Inspiration

When Leonardo Da Vinci attempted to build the world’s first robot in 1495, his inspiration had come from the ancient Greek texts of Ctesibus and Vitruvius. Likewise, Auguste Rodin cited Lorenzo Ghib

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful and Expressive Packaging Design

Packaging design has the primary goal to attract customers’ attention. For this purpose, package designs can not simply inform the customers, but also provoke feelings and communicate emotions. An e

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Vitaly Friedman - Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs

Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can y

Mathematics , Layouts , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful And Original Product Designs

Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they

Packaging , Devices , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 40 Professional Icon Packs For Free Download

When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon pack is a per

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips

Buttons, badges and pins stand for a medium which is often underestimated and not taken seriously. That’s a pity, because designed properly, badges and buttons can effectively communicate ideas to y

Buttons , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography

Sometimes typography is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively. Graphics can support the type or type can support the graphics, but to deliver the message precisely, you need to make sur

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Sven Lennartz - 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed

To edit HTML- and CSS-code you only need a simple plaintext-editor — the rest depends on your skills and your creativity. However, to make your life a little bit easier, you can use some more comfor

Software , Tools , Open Source , coding , Reviews , Editors , Subversion

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Sven Lennartz - 20 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed

When it comes to coding editors, it’s damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it’s im

Software , Tools , Downloads , coding , Reviews , Dreamweaver , Development

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