Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.49
July 10, 2010 - 9 Comments.
Web Apps,Web Design,Weekly Web Design Inspiration

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 [...]

30 Construction Logos for Inspiration
July 9, 2010 - 17 Comments.
Inspiration,Logo

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 [...]

7 Brilliant Minimalist Tumblr Themes
July 8, 2010 - 10 Comments.
Blogging Platforms,Web Apps,Web Design

When I sat down to write this post, my first intention was to write about minimal design and how popular they have become over the last few years. Of course, I couldn’t do that without listing some clever examples. But while I was on the hunt for what to include in that list I got [...]

Inspiring Collection of Creative Photographer Logo Designs
July 6, 2010 - 14 Comments.
Inspiration,Logo

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 [...]

Freestyle and Square, Two Free Social Media Icon Sets
July 6, 2010 - 27 Comments.
Free Icons

The two beautiful social media icon sets we have on offer today have been designed by the talented Helen Gizi, from pinkmoustache.com, exclusively for the readers of Speckyboy Design Magazine. Both of the icon sets contain 28 icons that cover all of the major social media services and applications, they are all in .PNG format [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.44)
July 6, 2010 - 2 Comments.
Graphic Design,Twitter News,Web Design

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all 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 [...]

25 Completely Free Fonts Perfect for @fontface
July 4, 2010 - 51 Comments.
Fonts,Web Design

The recent web design trend of not using web safe fonts for headlines and titles has opened up a whole new resource category for designers: The search for the perfect headline grabbing font. In this post we have collected 25 of the best completely FREE headline fonts that could be easily used with @fontface property [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.48
July 2, 2010 - 7 Comments.
Web Design,Weekly Web Design Inspiration

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 [...]

25 Free Color Tools, Apps and Palette Generators
July 2, 2010 - 33 Comments.
Color,Graphic Design,Web Apps,Web Design

The marvelous thing about color within design is you have the choice from an infinite number of possibilities and combinations. On the flip side of that, having infinite color possibilities makes it very difficult to lock down on the perfect color scheme or palette for your project. This is were the post will hopefully help [...]

Top 10 Content Slider Plugins for WordPress
June 30, 2010 - 39 Comments.
Web Design,Wordpress,Wordpress Plugins

No web design trend has become as wide-spread and as popular recently as the content slider, they are everywhere! And rightly so, not only do they offer a marvelous method for displaying a lot of content in such a minimal space, they are also a great way to highlight your best and most popular articles [...]

Tips and Thoughts on Cross-Cultural Global Web Design
June 30, 2010 - 9 Comments.
Darn Good Read,Web Design

The internet is global by its very nature. The second a website is launched online, it’s accessible to anyone from Patagonia to Poland. And a recent development to the way the Web works has been described as one of the most significant changes since the dawn of the modern internet era.

Win a Copy of The Story of Graphic Design by Patrick Cramsie
June 29, 2010 - 44 Comments.
Competition,Graphic Design

For this months book giveaway we have a copy of The Story of Graphic Design, written by Patrick Cramsie, a beautifully written and detailed book that focuses on the evolution of graphic styles through the years. This book is a must for any professional and serious graphic designer. All you have to do to win [...]

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.43)
June 28, 2010 - 4 Comments.
Graphic Design,Tutorial,Web Apps,Web Design

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all 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 [...]

The Complete Web Design Style Series (700 Designs in 14 Categories)
June 27, 2010 - 35 Comments.
CSS,Color,Design Style Series,Illustrator,Photography,Showcase,Web Apps,Web Design

Over the past year or so we have periodically published web design collections and inspirational showcases from the most popular and important design categories. In total there are 14 different and varied categories or styles and within each category there are 50 carefully chosen web designs (that is a total of 700 web designs). We [...]

Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.47
June 26, 2010 - 3 Comments.
Web Design,Weekly Web Design Inspiration

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 [...]

10 Effective Video Examples of Paper Prototyping
June 24, 2010 - 6 Comments.
Top 10,Web Design

Paper prototyping is a commonly used low cost usability method for testing and evaluating web designs and applications. This method lets developers conduct tests before a single line of code has been written, and allows you to identify and fix any potential issues early on in development. “Paper prototyping is a variation of usability testing [...]

Build a Free and Viabile Basecamp Alternative with Joomla
June 23, 2010 - 10 Comments.
Joomla,Web Design

The era of Open-Source CMS software such as Joomla! and mass adoption by large and small businesses alike. More and more business are moving to Joomla! for its low associated cost and access to many powerful extensions. One such Joomla! extension is Projectfork, a free Open-Source project management solution.