Design

40 Excellent Web Design Tutorials for Busy Web Designers

March 30, 2010 Web Design

With hundreds of million web sites online today it is nearly impossible to create a 100% unique design. And why even struggle to do it? Visitors fell welcome and comfortable if the design is familiar, if basic navigation and how to find content is similar to something they have seen before. Trends come and go [...]

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Interview with Allan Szacher from Zupi Magazine and Awesome Cover Showcase

March 21, 2010 Inspiration

A few weeks ago I learned about Zupi, an art magazine with really awesome covers. I honestly didn’t know a lot about Zupi but I was curious and decided to learn more and see if I could be showcasing some of the covers here on tripwire magazine. Allan Szacher the editor at Zupi and also [...]

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10 Interesting wall decorations by Wallys Paper

March 6, 2010 Design

Wall decoration is an interesting subject and there are many possibilities. Lately wall stickers have invaded walls in private homes and in official buildings and they really help creating unique rooms and Individual impressions. I want to share some really great walls from the DGI City in Copenhagen some time ago. Decorated with paint and [...]

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Stunning Blogs Having Unique Designs on Each Post

February 24, 2010 Design

There are many design related blogs at the moment and every day new players show up. The main strategy for the vast majority of design related blogs is to publish many articles with great content to attract readers, quantity seams more important than quality. Some of them have a creative and unique design but it [...]

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25 Beautiful Website Showcase to be Inspired and get New Ideas

February 19, 2010 Web Design

If you’re a web designer you know how important it is to pick up fresh inspiration and new ideas. This post showcase 25 hand picked Beautiful Websites with excellent visual artistry, integrated sound, ease of use, and pure uniqueness. Enjoy, be inspires and please leave a comment to share links to your own favorite web [...]

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35+ Stunning Photoshop Smoke Effect Tutorials and Brushes

February 2, 2010 Photoshop

This Article provides a collection of high-quality Photoshop smoke effect tutorials and brushes. Smoke effects can be useful in different types of design and artwork. Please drop a comment if you know a tutorial or brush set I have not listed.

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25 Website Designs with Great use of Textures

January 29, 2010 Web Design

Using textures in web design have become quite popular. Textures are great for giving the design a more realistic look and feel but should be used with caution. Adding too much texture risk making the design too messy and it easily becomes a bit grunge’ish. I personally like simple textures or simply noise that break [...]

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45+ Useful Air Applications for Web Design and Development Freelancers

January 17, 2010 Tools

Abobe Air may not get a lot of attention but maybe it should. The amount of good free applications available is rather surprising. Generally the applications are light weight, are easy to use and have good and intuitive user interfaces. This article list a very broad selection of useful tools based in Abobe Air. You [...]

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40+ Absolutely Stunning Use of Light Effects in Webdesign

January 12, 2010 Web Design

Lighting effects are often used in modern web design to give a site an interesting and different look and feel. There is something about strong lights and colours – used right the combination will catch our attention and affect our emotions in certain ways. Skilled designers know this and use it. Light effects are typically [...]

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20+ Awesome Non-Blogging Websites Using WordPress as CMS

January 9, 2010 Wordpress

The features, maturity,  and huge active community making WordPress so popular for bloggers actually makes WordPress a serious candidate for a quite large segment of traditional business websites. If you’re not already aware of it I can tell you that WordPress is silently serving a lot of websites that I would not categorize as blogs. [...]

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