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Paul Andrew (601 Articles)

Paul is the founder and editor of Speckyboy Design Magazine. He has many years experience within the web design industry and a passion for the latest web technologies and design trends. He lives in the small town of Inverness in the north of Scotland. Follow him on Twitter.
How to Make Use of Psychology in Web Design

How to Make Use of Psychology in Web Design

The color blue can make you feel calm while a vibrant shade of red can make you feel hungry or threatened. We all perceive the world through our own individual…

25 Creative Pictogram Recreations of Popular Movie Posters

25 Creative Pictogram Recreations of Popular Movie Posters

A movie poster plays an important role in movie marketing. Sometimes, all it takes is a mesmerizing photo, the right mix of colors, and an attention-worthy font to grab our…

What is Responsive Design?

What is Responsive Design?

It wasn’t too long ago that designers didn’t really need to worry about how websites looked on mobile phones and tablets. Phones weren’t yet really practical for web viewing, and…

50 Perfect Examples of Flat Web Design for Inspiration

50 Perfect Examples of Flat Web Design for Inspiration

Usabilia asked 100 web professionals for their opinion on the future of flat web design, and a huge 68% said that it is here to stay and not just another…

The Rise of the Hand-Written Typography Trend in Web Design

The Rise of the Hand-Written Typography Trend in Web Design

First impressions are often lasting ones. This applies to the world of web design just as much as it does to our “real” world. A hero image on a homepage…

20 Beautifully Designed Free Web Fonts

20 Beautifully Designed Free Web Fonts

We have been seeing a great increase in flexibility among web designers. The community has opened up to new standards and allowed these methods to infiltrate our way of designing….

The 10 Best Free Responsive Joomla Templates

The 10 Best Free Responsive Joomla Templates

Joomla is known as the second most popular content management system after WordPress. Users of different skill levels choose this open-source solution, as it provides usability, multilingual support, built-in SEO…

10 Useful Snippets for Improving WordPress Search

10 Useful Snippets for Improving WordPress Search

It is no secret that the standard search within WordPress is not the greatest. The problem is that WordPress takes your search term far too literally. In this post, we…

Fantastic Movie Posters with Simple Geometric Layouts

Fantastic Movie Posters with Simple Geometric Layouts

Calum Rolland, a graphic designer from Kirkcaldy, Scotland, has recently created a fantastic and unique series of Swiss Style influenced movie posters, using only simple geometric shapes and layouts. The…

20 Inspiring Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

20 Inspiring Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

At the moment it does seem that every newly launched site or app has adopted the flat design trend. What started just over a year ago as merely a unique…

The Beautiful Biro Pen Portraits from Mark Powell

The Beautiful Biro Pen Portraits from Mark Powell

Mark Powell, is an artist known for his work with old, tattered, and stamped envelopes that serve as his canvas for Bic Biro drawings.

20 Inspiring Examples of Web and Mobile Wireframe Sketches

20 Inspiring Examples of Web and Mobile Wireframe Sketches