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25 Must-Read Books For Designers, Typography Lovers, And Freelancers

August 18, 2020 by Jon 31 Comments

UPDATED AUGUST 2020 You may already know that I read a lot and of course, being a designer and a blogger there are many design blogs that I follow and read on a regular basis, but there’s also a lot of books about design, usability, typography, CSS, freelancing and a boatload of other related topics […]

Filed Under: Books, Business, CSS, Design, Typography Tagged With: books

20 Big and Highly Detailed Icon Sets

April 19, 2011 by Jon 6 Comments

Icons come in all shapes and sizes. While the clean and minimalist style is better suited for applications and navigation menus, those highly detailed icons can sure add some eye-candy to your designs.

In fact, a lot of the icons in this post are so detailed that they could be used as feature rather than to complement say an interface or an application menu. I hope you enjoy the showcase. Feel free to chime in and leave a comment at the end of this post.

Filed Under: Icons, Inspirational, Resources, Showcase

30 Beautiful Single Page Website Designs

April 13, 2011 by Jon 29 Comments

With all the content-heavy and CMS-powered websites out there these days, I find it refreshing to browse a single-page website where all the content is accessible without loading or refreshing a page.

The sites in this post make great use of things like sliders, carousels, Ajax and auto-scroll scripts to display content in a way that doesn’t hinder the user experience but rather improves it. I hope you enjoy this showcase, and of course feel free to chime in and leave a comment at the end of the post.

Filed Under: Design, Inspirational, Showcase

25 More Books For Designers, Developers And Web Workers

March 23, 2011 by Jon 8 Comments

A while ago we shared 25 great web-design and development books and since this earlier post got a great response (and we’ve read a lot more books since), we’ve now gathered another 25.

In this list you’ll find books about design, theory, development, css, html and a lot more. I hope you enjoy the post!

Filed Under: Books, CSS, Design, Development, Resources

Enter to Win A Design Cocktail 5 Bundle from Designious

March 14, 2011 by Jon 28 Comments

A while ago Designious started releasing their Design Cocktail bundles and it quickly became very popular. Today they’re back with Design Cocktail 5, with $729 worth of design resources still for the very low price of $29.

We’ve partnered with them again to give away a bundle to 3 lucky readers of SpyreStudios. All the products included in this pack were created by Designious.com and WPwizz.com.

Filed Under: Giveaway

Collection Of 600+ Free Ink & Paint Photoshop Brushes

March 7, 2011 by Jon 6 Comments

We’ve featured Photoshop brushes sets a couple of times before on SpyreStudios and this time we’ve collected over 600 ink, paint, watercolor and splatter brushes from various sources.

Most of the sets featured in this post are of high-enough quality that they can be used for both web and print projects. I hope you enjoy the collection.

Filed Under: Art, Design, Photoshop, Resources, Showcase

25 Essential Android Apps For Web-Workers And Designers

March 2, 2011 by Jon 5 Comments

The Android platform is growing in popularity every day, and for good reasons. Obviously being an open-source project and having Google behind it makes it a great choice for developers. Unfortunately the Android Market can’t really compete against the Apple App Store (in my opinion).

So I’ve chosen 25 Android apps that I think can be very useful to designers, developers and web-workers. You’ll find editors, reference guides, blogging tools, image editing tools and more. If you have your Android device handy you can scan the QR Codes next to each item in the list using the Barcode Scanner application.

Filed Under: Android, Apps, Business, Mobile, Resources, Tools

15 Community & Networking Sites For Designers And Creative Types

February 23, 2011 by Jon 29 Comments

There’s probably hundreds of community and networking sites out there but only a few focus on the design and creative community. We went ahead and selected 15 of the best sites for designers and creative types.

Obviously there are some sites we might not be aware of, so make sure you leave a comment if your favorite design community/networking site wasn’t included in this post.

Filed Under: Design, Inspirational, Resources

How To Create a Slick Navigation Bar In Adobe Fireworks

February 21, 2011 by Jon 7 Comments

I love Photoshop. I guess we all do. But I believe Fireworks is better suited for web-design work and I usually prefer it over Photoshop. After all Fireworks was created with web-designers in mind and it allows us to quickly prototype and design for the web, so let’s see what it can do.

I’ve created this simple yet modern navigation bar in Fireworks, and I’ll walk you through the steps necessary to create something like that. In the event there are some windows and panels you don’t see opened on your computer, simply go to the ‘Windows‘ menu and open them.

Filed Under: Design, Fireworks, Tutorial

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