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Where to Get Free Sound Effects in 2021

February 22, 2021 by Sangalang Kristine

Any content creator or designer must have a few free sound effects website on-hand and ready for every need. Video blogs, commercials, ads, and the like would be dull and lifeless without sound or sound effects. Even minor changes in background music can create a vast range of reactions to whatever it is that users […]

Filed Under: Design, Music Tagged With: freebie, sound

Royalty-Free Music for Your Projects

November 23, 2020 by Noemi

royalty-free music

Behind every great video game is just as great music. If you are a video game developer, or you are handling some projects which require accompanying music, then this royalty-free music bundle is what you need.

Filed Under: Development, Music Tagged With: Humble Bundle, music

20 Best Designed Album Covers for Inspiration

June 5, 2011 by Oleg Mokhov 10 Comments

Album covers are a great source of fresh inspiration for your graphic design work. Not only are well-designed album covers artistic, but they’re effective at marketing as well.

The best designed album covers:

  1. Give you a clear representation of what the content will be
  2. Sell you on the content by looking great itself

In other words, what a great visual design should be.

Think about it: how many times were you intrigued by fantastic artwork, and when you put the music on, it was how you’d imagine it would be like? That was a well-designed album cover at work.

So next time you need a fresh source of inspiration for your design work, take a look at well-designed album covers. And the following list of the 20 best designed album covers will get you started.

Filed Under: Art, Design, Inspirational, Music, Showcase

Bands and Artists Websites – Showcase and Best Practices

December 8, 2010 by Jon 14 Comments

I think web-design is an art just as much as music is. Being a musician myself there are some things I personally like and want to see on a band website and there are some things that really bug me.

Things like landing pages, splash pages, music that starts automatically, all-Flash sites and cluttered interfaces often make me wonder who’s in charge and why record labels and artists still do those things when they clearly get in the way of a great user experience.

Filed Under: Article, Design, Inspirational, Music, Showcase

The Daft Punk Guide to Bold and Memorable Designs

November 30, 2010 by Oleg Mokhov 9 Comments

Want to create bold and memorable designs? Find unlikely inspiration from one of the most iconic electronic artists of our time: Daft Punk. This article is a 3-step Daft Punk guide to bold and memorable designs.

Daft Punk is a very popular and influential music duo, especially when you consider they come from the relatively underground genre of electronic music. But this humans-turned-robots duo who create irresistible and inventive dance music didn’t become that way by accident. They had key ingredients to their success as bold and memorable music artists.

Filed Under: Article, Design, Music

5 Things The Beatles Can Teach You About Design

November 8, 2010 by Oleg Mokhov 14 Comments

The Beatles are probably one of the most iconic popular music groups of our time. They were considered the best and most popular at what they did, and they deservingly secured their spot in our history books.

Their influence and mastery of creativity extends even beyond music. In fact, there are actually 5 things the Beatles can teach you about design.

Filed Under: Article, Business, Design, Music

5 Things Musicians Can Teach Designers

October 29, 2010 by Oleg Mokhov 12 Comments

Oftentimes, the best inspiration comes when you look outside of your circle or industry. You see a fresh perspective and gain new insights for your own field. The reason this works is a lot of fields are creative.

So even though, say, music and design don’t have much in common on the surface, the creative parallels are pretty clear. And sure enough, there are 5 things musicians can teach designers.

Filed Under: Article, Business, Design, Music

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