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30 Scholastic College & University Website Layouts

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Modern education has become much more advanced with a larger Internet presence than ever before. Colleges and universities basically need a website to promote tuition fees, academics, campus life, and plenty of similar resources. But unfortunately not every college website has been designed with elegance or grace. I’ve organized 30 gorgeous website layouts created for […]

32 Photoshop Tutorials for Beautiful Logo Design Techniques

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The process of designing a logo is arduous and time-consuming. Illustrator is typically most common when first crafting a typeface, but Photoshop is much more handy during the finishing stages for adding brilliant text effects. In the past I’ve covered new Photoshop tutorials focused on general design for print graphics & websites. But in this […]

33 Amazing Frontend Design Patterns using CSS3 and jQuery

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Website layouts are typically seen as a combination of design and development meshed together. UI design can be performed using graphics software, code, or in most cases both. This subject offers an interesting combination of skills that work hand-in-hand with each other. Frontend inspiration can offer a lot of great ideas for anyone who builds […]

40 Official Government Agency Websites for Design Inspiration

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If there’s one area of web design that could use a few exemplary models it would be worldwide government websites. Most countries and cities around the world launch websites that are difficult to use or just plain ugly(or both!). These projects do not always garner necessary attention because of budget constraints and micro-managing creative directors. […]

32 Easy-to-Follow Photoshop Print Design Tutorials

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The world of print design is long and expansive covering many different areas of focus. Adobe has many programs which cater to the print artists including InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. A professional designer should learn as many programs as needed to create whatever they wish to achieve. While InDesign may be perfect for a magazine […]

35 Free Social Media Icon Sets for Web Designers

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Almost every website design should include some link out to social media account(s). Nowadays almost everyone has an account on a social network, often many networks, and it is crucial to a website’s success that people can find you on such networks. One of the simplest methods would be linking to individual profiles with a […]

42 Examples of Clean Graphic Design for Print Marketing

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The umbrella term “graphic design” might include numerous industries from product packaging to digital interfaces. The field of design has been around for years and graphics have always been apart of this ideology. Modern graphic design projects often focus on popular products like smartphones or video games. But the print design world is just as […]