18 Sep 2010

30 Logo Designs with Creative Use of Negative Space

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One of the great ways to add an impressive style to a logo is to use Negative Space. Negative Space refers to the “white space”, or “paper colour” that shows through a design. Negative Space creates an interesting visual effect.

10 Sep 2010

Google Features No Longer Available in Instant Search

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Google Instant Search is a very interesting experiment that could change the way you find information on the Web, but the new interface comes with a lot of unpleasant side effects.

09 Sep 2010

Bring on the Trumpets…

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Cadbury is launching sweets from Australian Natural Confectionery Company in the UK with a television and online advertising campaign in which sweets come to life to chat about their naturalness. The Contemplative Sweets campaign builds on Australia’s heritage of lighthearted playfulness by developing a “kidult” tone of voice, which is at once charming and edgy.

08 Sep 2010

13 Things worth knowing about Super Mario

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On September 13th Mario will be 25 years old. Put a little extra happiness in your day with a dose of Mario! First a landlord, then a carpenter, then a plumber, and now a video game hero! Wait …a landlord? How did that happen?

27 Aug 2010

13 tips for better HTML emails

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Friday is here and most emails will get sent today before the weekend. So I wanted to talk about designing and sending HTML newsletters. They can be a little tacky sometimes. The output of HTML in email apps is still much more limited than in web browsers

25 Aug 2010

17 Methods for Upping Your Current Web Design Skills

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In this post we’re looking into 17 different ways a web designer can improve their skills at any time. They involve everything from learning new abilities, to changing focus

21 Aug 2010

Evernote: File Your Life

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www.evernote.com Functional and useful, Evernote goes beyond its architecture and is also interesting. It’s a true three-platform play: it works very well, and somewhat differently, on desktop computers, mobile phones, and over the Web.

20 Aug 2010

Color Stream: a Free iPhone App For Web Designers

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Color Stream is a free iPhone App, created by Sahil Lavingia (@slavingia on Twitter) and released for Smashing Magazine. Color stream lets you create and store color palettes that are either created from scratch

19 Aug 2010

Lego Star Wars

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Mike Stimpson Photography Mike Stimpson is a programmer by day and a photographer by night. He has been doing a lot of photography with Lego , and has come up with some gems.

19 Aug 2010

Clients from Hell

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I bet every designer or developer that have contact with clients or interact with them have had a day they wanted to kill a client. Ever heard of Clients from Hell? Sure you have.