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34 Retro Posters that’ll Work in Any Era
No matter how many innovations technology brings, people will always love retro.
Like retro clothing, retro-inspired photography and even old school music, retro posters are stylistically inspired by trends of the past. These posters however are made with modern designing and poster printing tools that enhance their quality and durability. Some notable techniques used on these retro posters are the application of color palettes with relatively low saturation resulting into faded colors, the use of texture to give the print a vintage feel, and the insertion of distinct typography that originated in past decades.
30 Beautiful Geometry Based Graphic Design Illustrations
Many students in schools and colleges have been tormented by geometry subject but this is one of the oldest mathematical sciences that has now adopted as a form of art. Geometry is a subject that has its purposes. One of the most outstanding functions of Geometry is in art and that can be observed throughout history on the work of different painters or sculptors.
Today, we decided to present some cool examples of Geometry Based graphic design illustrations that will surely inspire you. You will notice in this collection that geometry is still a cause, a theme or an addendum and it is used even if modern art is developed a lot from its predecessors. Cheerfully for us, the “art supporters”, these digital artworks are a result of every designer’s mind’s eye and they don’t look analogous to each other.
Learn How To Create A GUI Volume Dial/Knob
In this photoshop tutorial I’ll be explaining how to build a brushed aluminum knob for a graphical user interface (GUI). The tutorial is quite simple but the outcome is something shiny and new.
Stavrolino Magazine Free WordPress Theme
Free personal/blog wordpress theme, with content slider built in, adjustable via theme options. Theme is fixed width, with right sidebar, automatic image resizing, additional options for featured and popular posts, spots for banners, page navigation built in, google analytics ready… Read me included with usage instructions and PSD logo.
Adobe Muse and Adobe Edge: Clash Between Revolution and Rebellion
It has been an eventful quarter for website designers as they barely survived the sudden upheavals brought forth none other than by Adobe itself. In the last couple of months Adobe
45 Beautiful Minimalist Desktop Wallpapers
Minimalist style is known for its simplicity and clean look. Many designers create awesome graphics by following this trend, even photographers have adopted this particular style.
Using JavaScript Objects for storing data
Some experiments and ideas about using the JavaScript Object like data-storage. We are not fully using the new browsers JavaScript engines. We can explore new ways and do the heavy lifting in the browser using the server just like permanent data storage.
Soko – A FREE Minimalistic Photography HTML Template
After a new website template for displaying photos? Soko is a FREE clean and minimalistic photography HTML template that comes with four individual page templates and an animated photo gallery.
35 Inspiring Grid Based Web Design
Grid based layout now becoming a very popular approach in modern web design. As we know that grids are very helpful for building a websites. So in this roundup we have compiled some creative and inspiring examples of grid based layout web design for inspiration which gives you an idea how to use grid effectively to build a websites. Enjoy!!
Numeric Slider (PSD)
PSD freebie A Sweet Numeric Slider (PSD)
Included in the zip is the original psd & screenshot of the Numeric Slider (PSD)
The Numeric Slider comes in a layered & editable PSD and is completely free for you to use however you wish!
60+ Examples of Creative Typographic Layouts and Other Examples
Creative Typography can produce an effect of image and can attract a huge audience. Typography is nothing, only dealing text with creativity. Sensible use of colors can add new values in creative work. The essential point is to get a huge creative collection of font
Simplico – Free PSD blog template
Almost every website template includes blog section. Almost every professional designer or web developer have personal blog. Moreover almost every self-respecting company should have blog.
Since 60 percent of Americans use social media, and of those, 59 percent interact with companies on social media web sites it`s imperative to communicate with your potential clients by means of blog.
That`s why it`s not surprising that a great deal of web designers create psd blog templates every month.
40+ Examples of Outstanding One-Page Website Designs
With all the heavy content websites out there, it’s nice to run into a single-page website. The thing I love most about one-page websites is that you can quickly get to where you want to, you have all the important content in a single page and they have a great impact on the viewer.
10 Essential Differences Between HTML4 and HTML5
HTML5 is the new version of the HTML standard and sooner or later every web developer will find themselves working with this newer standard and many of us may find it easier to build a site from scratch than to migrate the code from HTML4 to HTML5 because of all the differences between the two versions.Actually, HTML5 isn’t a major revamp of HTML4 there are many similarities between the two.
Responsive Web Design, The most complete Guide
Full responsive web design review: a new trend in web design. Good practices, pros and contras, great examples and tons of useful tools and articles.