This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them 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. Paul Bennett Veer.com Creative Arts Initiative relogik.com BHX2 Ah&Oh Studio ALL IN MY HEAD Tokyo Illustrators Society (TIS) Temperature Conversion, [...]

This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week or so, some sites we discovered, but the most of them 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. MailChimp 5.2 Min Tran's Journal thomas.matthews Kevin Richardson (encourage others) markenfaktur Chicago L-Shirts MSTRPLN Mikael Cedergren The Beehive Market SabotagePKG [...]

Construction businesses, building companies and architects may target consumers (B2C) or businesses (B2B) – in both cases, trust/reputation is important and the sale size is often large so building a brand and investing in a good logo makes sense. Below are 30+ strong examples of construction/architecture/building related logos, categorized by color. We found bold colors (particularly red, brown, blacks, yellow) are particularly popular with construction companies while there’s a trend towards blues and greens for companies trying to position themselves [...]

Photography, like design, is a creative profession and photographers provide a great subject for talented logo designers. Photograph businesses and photography companies, as with other businesses, require a corporate identity and logo. In addition to this, professional photographers (often freelance individuals) will often create an identity for themselves as handing out business cards, networking, websites and word-of-mouth marketing are important sources of new work. You may also like… 30 Inspirational Asian/Oriental Themed Logo Designs → 30 Construction Logos for Inspiration [...]

We live in a complex world, with complex ideas, concepts and issues. As such, sometimes a complex issue can be better understood with the use of creatively designed infographics rather than using the written word or spoken language. The most popular type of infographic is the simple flat image, I am sure you have seen them, they allow the user to follow and soak up the graphical information in an easy and formulaic manner. Other designers have taken things a [...]

While most artists may use similar techniques for vector art and portraits, individual artists develop wildly differing styles in the images they create. Some produce photo-realistic images, while others opt for cute cartoon graphics or far-out sci-fi and psychedelic aesthetics. This post brings together 18 of the best examples of vector portraits, and at the bottom of the post you will find a selective collection of vector portrait tutorials. 1. Til I Get Over You Artist Tash25 renders this portrait [...]

Typography is the Jan Brady of graphic design – it doesn’t generate the rabid excitement of color nor cooing over flashy images. But typography can’t be ignored – in its basic form it’s what spells out a message, in its true and full form it can be used for optimum readability, impact, or even an artistic statement. Its this full form that elevates it to an art-form. The design community has tons of typography tutorials to help you brush up [...]

Film poster art in general, is a combination of a carefully selected layout, beautiful typography, imaginative illustration, creative photography and precise color selection. They do not only give you an insight or a glimpse into the film they are promoting, throughout the decades, they allow a keyholes view into the social values, political views and cultural movements of there times. And nothing more epitomizes this than looking at movie posters from the social revolution and design defining time that was [...]

Good color choices should never be taken for granted in web design. A bad color selection or combination can have the same negative effective as poorly layed-out content or can create the same frustration as an excessively slow loading page. So, underestimate the power of color at your own peril. Even with a myriad of colors, the chances of stumbling into good a eye-pleasing color by mixing two or more together are very very slim. To help make a good [...]

There are now only eight weeks left until the kick-off of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. This is the first time the greatest sporting event in the world is being held on the African continent, and promises to be an exciting exploration, of not only football, but of African culture, heritage and art. As a celebration of this event, visual designer Charis Tsevis has designed, as a personal experiment, a series of posters that have been greatly inspired [...]

A common misconception is that black is thought of as a color in the same way that red, blue, purple or even green are. In actual fact, black is the complete absence of all color and light, essentially making it the ultimate non-color. And as such, a certain element of caution needs to be taken when using black as the main color of your web design. Black will absorb and dilute all colors that surround it, so your secondary color [...]

With all the cool things that surround Javascript (especially with jQuery) its easy to forget that it’s possible to push pure CSS (with a touch of HTML) into an all singing and all dancing interactive site, with absolutely no scripting at all. The pure CSS techniques, outlined in this article, are neither new nor are they ground-breaking. What they do offer is CSS solutions to what would typically and traditionally be associated with Javascript, and as a demonstration that they [...]

The first thing that springs to mind when thinking about large photography backgrounds within web design are of simple photographers portfolio website or even that of a design company. Upon researching this article, the surprising thing was that this type of background does not seem to have any limitations, it is equally suited to e-commerce sites, restaurant sites, web design agencies.. basically all types of web sites, as you will see from the collection below.