There’s nothing that can make a designer happier than a good deal on graphic design resources. Despite the wide spectrum of excellent freebies out there, there’s a certain joy of purchasing your little own crisp texture or spending your last pocket money on a fresh icon set. Creating a quality design is all about being stylish […]
Shades of Gray in Web Design Inspiration
A symbolism for dim bluntness, gray has always been considered an inconvenient choice for а prevailing color in web and print design. Gray is a color emerging on the borderline between two highly contrast colors. It’s achromatic entity takes a neutral position among other color palettes being considered as a sign of absence. Gray is the color with no […]
Free App UI Templates For The Mobile Designer
With the growing popularity of pocket-size devices among web users, mobile design has become one of the fastest growing industries. It comprises not only the creation of website templates, shrunken to a convenient size, but most importantly, turn its attention to the new, cooler kid in town – mobile applications. They come in all styles […]
Mock-up PSD Templates For Better Product Presentation
You’ve created that really awesome logo design that matches the company’s spirit and style, but your clients keeps feeling unsure about it? Or maybe design is your little hobby and you want to show that off on an interview, but you just don’t know a good way to present your projects? Mock-ups will do that […]
21 Free Design Resource Websites For Commercial Use That You’ll Really Love
Diving deep into the realms of design requires true passion, inspiration and a strong skill base. Yet, there is another factor which plays a leading role in the battle between time efficiency and quality work. The designers’ resource base has become one of the main determinants for their success. Premade designs aid for a swift […]
38 Amazingly Well-Designed Emoji Iconsets
Emoticons have a long history on the world wide web. They got started back in the day of chatrooms and AOL Instant Messenger but have since grown to all chat programs. Even smartphones in the form of emojis. The purpose of an emoticon is to display an emotion or facial expression using a smiley face […]
Best Online Tools & Resources for Creative Freelancers
Featured image source Joining the army of freelancers in any creative field is always a challenge. Your chops really need to be up-to-par with the growing market of artists and designers. Although freelancing is a difficult career path you can save a lot of time with online tools and webapps. Plenty of resources are available […]
Simple Ideas to Improve Web Design Mockups
The process of designing a full website layout comes in many stages. First is sometimes procrastination followed by sketching or writing down ideas. Then after getting frustrated and trashing all those ideas the process will repeat until a usable concept is born. At this point most designers will move on to actually designing a full […]
7 Great Web Designs For “Un-Sexy” Products
Editor’s note: This post was written by Scott Huntington, a graphic designer and blogger from Pennsylvania. Follow him on Twitter: @SMHuntington. Not every product on the market can be glamorous, sexy and frequently shared on Pinterest. However, these products are still very necessary and important to millions of people. These industries exist to help companies or every […]
40 Brilliant Android Mobile App User Interfaces
In the past we have put together galleries for iOS app interfaces which have been very popular. However Android app developers are often overlooked for their Apple counterpart. But I have noticed an increasing volume of apps within the Google Play library which target tablets and smartphones. For as many apps being created there is […]