Inspiration

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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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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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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40+ Stunning and Inspiring Website and Blog Footers

January 3, 2010 Web Design

Most websites and blogs follow same overall structure in their design. At the top there’s a header section with a logo and in some case a few ads and some kind af navigation. At the bottom there’s some kind of footer. Between the header and footer there are one or more column with content. Traditionally [...]

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190+ Stunning Typography Showcases

December 13, 2009 Typography

There are indeed many ways in which designers can use typography to deliver a message and even though humans use many years in school learning to read and write images are still making larger and more instant impact on us and affect our emotions easier than plain text. As you know “A picture is worth [...]

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Are These Images Really 3D Animations?

November 24, 2009 3d

This is a follow-up on 16 Scaringly Realistic 3D Animations – WOW where I promised more 3D goodies soon. 3D animators produce loads of truly stunning 3D images to satisfy our endless demands for better and more realistic 3D effects in games and films. Luckily 3D animators share and collaborate to get ideas, feedback etc. [...]

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16 Scaringly Realistic 3D Animations – WOW

November 15, 2009 3d

With the great tools we have available today (Maya, ZBrush, 3ds max etx.) talented and creative 3D animators can create more stunning and realistic 3D images than you may know. We have know for some time that the large film studios like fx pixar can turn the most far out and funny creatures into “living [...]

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30+ Experimental Human Photo Manipulations

October 28, 2009 Photoshop

Manipulating images and photos has become common praxis these days and it is hard to know what is real and what is fake if professionals have created the manipulation. Just as example we can be sure that people in ads for perfume or on the front page of large magazines in reality never looked the [...]

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