Oct 06 2008

György Fekete - 7 Ingredients Of Good Corporate Design

It’s hard to define design. We have a broad range of definitions to choose from: design refers not only to graphic design, but to design strategy, too. It is used in a variety of industries, such as

Principles , Graphics , Corporate , Web Design , Logo Design

Apr 19 2011

Sarah & Adrienne Kahn - Showcase Of Creative Navigation Menus: Good And Bad Examples

Good navigation is the main cornerstone of an effective website. In practice, however, it’s often a tough challenge to come up with a meaningful, unambiguous way to organize, arrange, and display co

Showcases , Navigation , Web Design , Design

Oct 04 2010

Julia May - The Art Of Film Title Design Throughout Cinema History

Have you ever thought of what makes you remember a certain movie or TV show? Of course, it’s the story being told, you’ll say. But what about movies such as Goldfinger, Seven and Snatch? What’s the

Graphic Design , Art , Inspiration , Design

Nov 17 2025

Frederick O’Brien - What Leonardo Da Vinci Can Teach Us About Web Design

Exhaustive, sometimes bizarre notes… wireframes… mind-bending blends of art and science. Is it a GitHub repository? No, it’s the life of a Renaissance genius. With the right lessons, we can all writ

ux , Inspiration , Web Design , Design

Apr 07 2009

Lee Munroe - The Website Launch Checklist – 15 Essential Checks Before You Go Live

Your website is designed, the CMS works, content has been added and the client is happy. It’s time to take the website live. Or is it? When launching a website, you can often forget a number of thin

Launch , Checklists , Validation , Web Design , Design

Apr 03 2008

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

Feb 11 2009

Paul Boag - 10 Harsh Truths About Corporate Websites

We all make mistakes running our websites. However, the nature of those mistakes varies depending on the size of your company. As your organization grows, the mistakes change. This post addresses co

Web Design , Design , Business

Jan 04 2009

Jacob Gube - 35 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard when it comes to the creation of vector graphics. Though a very robust tool - the learning curve involved in mastering it can be high. Thankfully, there ar

Videos , adobe , Illustrator , Tutorials , Graphics

Feb 04 2009

Matt Cronin - The Web Design Navigation Menu - Articles And A Beautiful Showcase

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine’s articles related to Web Design navigation and published here over all the years. The

Showcases , Navigation , Inspiration , Web Design

Dec 06 2010

Dmitry Fadeyev - How To Use The LESS CSS Preprocessor For Smarter Style Sheets

Enter the LESS CSS preprocessor. You see, while the simple design of CSS makes it very accessible to beginners, it also poses limitations on what you can do with it. These limitations, like the ina

less , coding , Css