13
Aug

Inspirational Showcase Of 50 Famous Album Covers

If an artist’s name brings images into your head when you hear it, odds are you’re remembering an iconic image of that artist and these album covers are, in my opinion, some of the most iconic covers in history.

Inspirational Showcase Of 50 Famous Album Covers

Today, I have been looking over some of the most famous album covers of all time and I want to share what I found. I’m sure you’ve seen most of those before. I think that for each music style, even cross-genre audiences would be able to pick out the artist from each of these covers even if they didn’t have the name or picture of the artist on the cover. Enjoy! ;)

10
Aug

BundleHunt Giveaway – Over $1400 Worth Of Design Resources

Some time ago Noura Yehia (founder of Noupe.com) contacted me about a new project called BundleHunt, a site that offers a ton of design resources for a ridiculously low price of $49.

BundleHunt Giveaway - Over $1400 Worth Of Design Resources

Today we’re giving away bundles to 5 lucky readers of SpyreStudios! Read this post to find out how to enter :)

9
Aug

5 Effective & Creative Ways to Prevent Spam

Spam is a widespread issue with many and all websites that accept user input. Whether be it a contact form, a comment system, a forum, or any other type of service, you are subject to spam. Ever since the fight against spam begun, hundreds of prevention tools have arisen, with some failing and some succeeding to a certain level.

How To Prevent Spam

Since spam is a problem with small or large websites, applying prevention systems is a definite must. We discuss five prevention methods that can help you fight spam whether your website just contains a contact form or whether it is any other service.

6
Aug

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 5: Playing With Styles

Getting To Grips With InDesign Part 5

This article/tutorial is the fifth in the series. In this part of the Getting To Grips Series we will be covering the following topics:

  • Creating Paragraph Styles
  • Applying Paragraph Styles
  • Creating Character Styles
  • Applying Character Styles
  • Nesting Character Styles within Paragraph Styles
  • Creating Object Styles
  • Applying Object Styles
5
Aug

Capturing Customer Data on the Web

Data – for some reason when I hear the term, I still tend to think of the almost, but not quite human android from Star Trek: The Next Generation. As cool as good old, white-skinned Data might have been, though, in the real world data is a much more immediate entity that drives much of what goes on in our everyday lives.

Capturing Customer Data on the Web

In fact, this whole thing that we call the internet has been constructed on data of some type. HTML is a type of content data. CSS is data that is parsed by the browser to control the way a page is actually rendered. A mySQL database is comprised of tables, which essentially organize bits of data into manageable and accessible units. As such, if you are designing or (more specifically) developing for the web, you’re probably dealing with data of some sort all the time.

2
Aug

40 Minimalist Icon, Symbol & Pictogram Sets

Minimalism is always a hot topic in web-design and there are many well-crafted minimalist websites and interfaces out there.

While searching for some icons for a recent project I came across some great minimalist icon and symbol sets and thought I’d expand my search and share my findings here with you.

40 Minimalist Icon, Symbol & Pictogram Sets

Please note that some of those sets are not free and of course make sure you read the license before using them.