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Vitaly Friedman - Imperial Porcelain: Free Icon Set

Today we are glad to release Imperial Porcelain Icons Set, a set with 5 beautiful original icons in .png (160×160px). This set was designed by Roman Khramov and released especially for Smashing Maga

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Brett Davis - The Basics of Business Card Design

A business card in some cases is the most important marketing piece that a company will have. It has the potential to make or break business deals, and is just as important as the way you present yo

workflow , Inspiration , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Kari Patila - The Sad State Of The Web Design Community

Editor’s Note This article is the first in our new series of “opinion columns,” in which we give people in the Web design community a platform to raise their voice and present their opinion on some

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Christian Heilmann - Progressive Enhancement And Standards Do Not Limit Web Design

Lately I have been getting bored and annoyed with people getting up in arms against Web standards and the ideas of progressive enhancement, claiming that they hold us back from creating a rich, beau

Process , Web Design , Discussions , Opinion Column , Design

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Inayaili de Leon - CSS Specificity And Inheritance

CSS’ barrier to entry is extremely low, mainly due to the nature of its syntax. Being clear and easy to understand, the syntax makes sense even to the inexperienced Web designer. It’s so simple, in

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Zach Dunn - Maps In Modern Web Design: Showcase and Examples

The Fundamentals Of Online Maps When most people think of maps on the Internet, Google, MapQuest and TomTom might come to mind. These are the giants in the industry, but they are far from the most

Showcases , Maps , Inspiration , Web Design

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Elizabeth Gast - What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Freelancing

I’ve been freelancing as a brand identity artist for about a year now and there are some things I have learned along the way. I researched a lot of articles about freelancing but all of them tended

Clients , Career , Business

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Shay Howe - Banner Advertising for Beginners: Everything I Wish I Knew When I Started

Banner ads, also known as display ads or image ads, are image-based advertisements that are widely popular online. Why are banner ads so popular? They are a cost-effective way to allow advertisers t

Marketing , Advertising , Inspiration , Design , Business

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Vitaly Friedman - 50 Stunning Free High-Quality Icon Sets

Please notice that we do know that round-ups of icon sets are getting old; but because these round-ups are always useful and handy, we are keeping doing them. Most of the icons featured below are a

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

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Joshua Johnson - The Ultimate Guide To Clone Tools In Photoshop

Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal resu

Photoshop , Graphics

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Paul Andrew - Free Printable Sketching, Wireframing and Note-Taking PDF Templates

Sketch and wireframe paper is essentially drawing paper that is designed specifically for this purpose. You could use it for web page design, web app design, architectural or structural design, grap

Sketching , Downloads , Prototyping , templates , Wireframing , Design

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Louis Lazaris - CSS Sprites: Useful Technique, or Potential Nuisance?

Ah, the ubiquitous CSS sprites — one of the few web design techniques that was able to bypass “trend” status almost instantly, planting itself firmly into the category of best practice CSS. Although

Sprites , coding , Css

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Kat Neville - What Makes A Great Cover Letter, According To Companies?

Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunate

Graphic Design , Clients , Interviews , Career , Design , Business

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Cameron Chapman - A Short Guide To Open Source Licenses

But many developers and designers don’t have a clear picture of what the different open-source licenses really mean. What rights are they relinquishing when they choose an open-source license? Witho

Open Source , Copyright , Resources , Design

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Cameron Chapman - Best Practices In Modern Web Design: The Ultimate Round-Up

Web design has evolved at such an extreme rate over the past ten to twenty years that it’s often hard to keep up with current trends and best practices. It wasn’t that long ago that table-based desi

Design Patterns , Showcases , Web Design , Design

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Steven Bradley - Form Follows Function?

You’ve likely heard the phrase “form follows function,” but have you really thought about what it means or what it implies about Web design? On the surface, “form follows function” seems to make a l

Graphic Design , Web Design , Design

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Cameron Chapman - Showcase of Academic and Higher Education Websites

College and university websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students (both new and transfer), parents of students and prospective students, current

Showcases , Inspiration

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Cameron Chapman - Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design

Niche social networks are popping up online all the time, with many designers and developers taking advantage of pre-built social network platforms and making little modification. It makes sense, af

Community , Design

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Kristin Wemmer - Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way

Sometimes called information architecture” or “IA planning”, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that l

Clients , cms , Web Design , Content Strategy

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Jad Limcaco - What Every Designer Should Do Right Now

While trying to balance the different areas of our life, there are things that we often forget and neglect to do. With today’s fast-paced society and the busyness of our every day, we tend to overlo

workflow , Inspiration , Skills

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Dan Redding - How to Create a Promotional Snail Mail Campaign

It’s important to promote your design business. This is especially true when economic times are challenging, you’ve got news to announce, or you’re simply hungry for growth. Many forms of promotion

Marketing , Advertising , Business Cards , Design , Business

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Kejun Xu - Showcase Of Web Design In China: From Imitation To Innovation

China is a country with five thousand years of civilization. It is a multi-national entity extending over a large area of East Asia. China’s cultural influence extends across the continent, with cus

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Sven Lennartz - 50 Fantastic Favicons – Best Of

Every now and again we showcase fantastic favicons, those tiny pieces of art that you’ll find in your browser’s address bar or when rifling through your bookmarks. These little gems are important be

Showcases , Favicons , Icons , Inspiration

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SM Guest Author - Graphics Package Standards and Practices

By Melinda Rainsberger The term “graphics package” stands for the animated logos, text backgrounds, idents, screen bugs and lower thirds that make up the branding of a television show, television s

Showcases , Graphics

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