Public awareness print ads are presented to maintain or improve the understanding of a community. They can persuade people to either contribute a dollar or change lifestyles altogether. For most organizations, raising consciousness is one of the most difficult tasks. Therefore, imaginative minds, who can come up with intriguing concepts, are always in demand. You might also like: 39 Creative and Sometimes Controversial Examples of Playstation Advertising → 55 Inspiring, Creative and Potent Ads from the WWF → 39 Creative [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Whether you’re a small business owner or just someone with a steadily growing site, choosing the right CMS can mean the difference between flourishing or floundering. Rather than rate individual CMS’s, this article will highlight areas in which your chosen CMS must excel.

Every web developer should have in their toolbox a collection of CSS tools and resources like the ones outlined in this article. A set of techniques that you rely on and that are always at the ready to cover any possible eventuality. You will find not a selection of the latest innovative CSS techniques (there are some) in this article, merely a collection of tools, resources and downloads that can be used by web designers for solutions to everyday CSS [...]

Yogile.com is a new photo sharing service that makes it incredibly easy to share images privately and within groups. While established photo sharing sites already exist, Yogile is different because it lets multiple people contribute with ease. Each album features a customizable URL and email address you can share with anyone you want to contribute. There’s no need for these users to register, keeping the process simple and hassle-free. Take any design project where you work together with multiple contributors [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered and have been recommended by our readers. Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like this selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

Lets be honest, CSS would typically not be the first technology you would go to for building a visually effective interactive graph or chart, certainly not without at least a touch of Javascript. There are quite a few technologies you would think, Flash comes to mind first, followed by Javascript (thousands of jQuery plugins), you may even go for an SVG chart, or you may even like to use a graphic editor with interactive capabilities like Fireworks or Photoshop. Having [...]

This competition has now ended, you can view the winner information here: 700 Uber-Cool Minicards Competition Winner Information. For this weeks competition we have 700 uber-cool MiniCards from Moo to give away to our readers. The winning split will be 400 cards for first place, 200 for second and finally 100 for third place. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below telling us what you plan to do with the cards. Just in case you [...]

The field of web design has grown in huge proportions over the years. Kids in high school or even younger are starting to master basic HTML and CSS techniques to build their own websites. This is in no small part accountable because of how easy it is to master and develop these skills, and this is especially the case with so much information freely available through the Internet. What many designers don’t consider is launching their own freelance shop. Working [...]

The classification of fonts is still unclear, even with the various classes and categories that have been created by some of great type lovers of the years. Some may consider categorizing fonts separately, others may think of it is a common division… I honestly believe that this debate will go on forever. The classification is not what is the most important aspect, the way designers work with each individual and unique font should be. The Structure of a Letter Let’s [...]

Last weeks we published the really cool competition 3 x $30 Threadless Vouchers Competition, it has now closed and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to Threadless for allowing us to run this competition, and a big thank you to all of our readers who left a comment. Sadly we could only pick (at random) only three lucky winners. And to everyone that hasn’t won, all we can say is that better luck next time, and good [...]

This is our weekly column were we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed.

A great color scheme can really make your visual design stand out. Often times the difference between an eye-grabbing design and a bland one is the color combination. The same layout of shapes and text, when paired with the right color scheme, can go from drab to fab (wow that was corny). There are certain trusted color combinations that many designers go to: red and blue, yellow and green, black and white. They work, but they’re overused. If you want [...]