This gallery highlights 30 of the finest examples of typography in advertising. They all communicate in wonderful and innovative ways, and work very hard to draw the eye. To the average person, an advertisement is…
Focusing on Usability with an Enhanced Pagination Design in WordPress Entries
WordPress has supported basic pagination in both entries and in lists of posted entries for quite some time, although this method is not the most intuitive way to navigate content. Because the developers behind this…
From Zero to Thriving Career: Getting Clients as a New Designer
Success as a freelance designer depends on the designer’s ability to build up a reputation for quality work and a long stream of loyal clients. A central tenet to landing more clients is to put…
35 Typographic Book Covers – Judging a Book by it’s Cover
Often, a potential reader judges a book as harshly on how the title looks, as they do what the title is. The font, color, spacing, size, imagery, and other factors all have strong impact on…
Speed, Consistency, Harmony, Creativity & Certainty with The Golden Grid
As most will know, grid-based systems can improve your website’s aesthetic, and Italian designer Carlo Poso has taken that sense of aesthetic even further by creating a grid system inspired by the golden ratio.
Utilizing jQuery UI Animations for Neat Page Effects
If you’re familiar developing in JavaScript then you must know about jQuery. It’s an extremely powerful library allowing you to write much simpler code and express the same end result. This trend has split off…
Five Alternative Careers for Designers
All these alternative careers for designers are Web-related and presumably it will be easier for you to make the switch but of course, if you are totally fed up with HTML, CSS, .PNG, and the…
Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.135)
This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :) HTML5 Rubik's Cube Tutorial Design Process In The Responsive Age There is…
Bing & Google Recommend Responsive Web Design
With so many conflicting views in the SEO community as to whether it is best to design a separate mobile site or make your site responsive, I thought I should take a look at what…
An In-Depth Understanding of WordPress Hooks
Say the phrase “WordPress hooks,” and any novice developer will almost invariably balk and begin fretting over how difficult it is to understand implement these advanced pieces of code in independent plugins and theme-specific functions.php…
50 Creative Typographic Portraits
A picture is worth a thousand words. But what’s a picture of words worth? In the hands of some, far more still. Typographic Portraits combine the specifics of an image with the communicative power of…
