Watercolor effect is one of the most popular design styles in both web and graphic design. Using various combinations of pastel and neutral colors, this subtle technique gives designers the ability to give a natural,…
Inspiring Product Packaging Design Ideas
Packaging design is one of the most important aspects of product marketing and the marketing mix for physical goods. When consumers go to a supermarket or a store, they do not see an innovative product…
20 Essential Firefox 4 Addons/Extensions for Web Developers
Firefox is a widely-used browser – not just by users but web developers. Simply put, Firefox and its addons can make developing for the web easier and simpler. And with the release of Firefox 4,…
Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.84)
This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh…
Exclusive Free Multimedia Icon Set – 14 Icons in PNG and AI Formats
Its been a while, but today we have another exclusive free icon-set for you. Yet again, our friends from Iconshock.com have exclusively designed this set for Speckyboy readers. The set is called the ‘Multimedia Icon…
Guide to HTML5′s New Media Tags – Audio and Video
HTML5 aims to standardize elements on a page and reduce the use of plugins to get the leverage more from the browser. With HTML4 you would always need a plugin, such as Flash or Quicktime,…
MOJO Themes Anniversary Competition – Winners Announced
Last week we published a competition to win one of five MOJO Themes Anniversary Bundles, it has now expired, and we will now announce the winners.
Musical Poster Designs – The Old, the New, the Good and the Bad
Musical theater is a pretty old art form. As time has moved on, so has the graphic design of their posters. For some musicals the changes are highly dramatic (no pun intended), others are so…
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.86
This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
Stop Thinking in Pages: A Web Developer’s Perspective
In the early days of the web, when it consisted mostly of academic papers and newsletters, it made sense to call the things we built “pages”. It was a much simpler time, but those days are long past and, frankly, that’s outdated thinking. Today’s web is much more dynamic than the big online filing cabinet envisioned twenty years ago.
