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Vitaly Friedman - Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs

Effective web design doesn’t have to be pretty and colorful — it has to be clear and intuitive; in fact, we have analyzed the principles of effective design in our previous posts. However, how can y

Mathematics , Layouts , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful And Original Product Designs

Successful product design manages to reveal useful functionality beyond its appealing form. No matter how excellent a design looks like, most customers aren’t likely to spend money on something they

Packaging , Devices , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - 40 Professional Icon Packs For Free Download

When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon pack is a per

Graphics , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips

Buttons, badges and pins stand for a medium which is often underestimated and not taken seriously. That’s a pity, because designed properly, badges and buttons can effectively communicate ideas to y

Buttons , Inspiration

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Vitaly Friedman - Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography

Sometimes typography is all you need to communicate your ideas effectively. Graphics can support the type or type can support the graphics, but to deliver the message precisely, you need to make sur

Showcases , Typography , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed

To edit HTML- and CSS-code you only need a simple plaintext-editor — the rest depends on your skills and your creativity. However, to make your life a little bit easier, you can use some more comfor

Software , Tools , Open Source , coding , Reviews , Editors , Subversion

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Sven Lennartz - 20 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed

When it comes to coding editors, it’s damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it’s im

Software , Tools , Downloads , coding , Reviews , Dreamweaver , Development

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Vitaly Friedman - Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides

Once your latest project is finished, you are very likely to forget the structure of the project’s layout, with all its numerous classes, color schemes and type setting. To understand your code year

workflow , Programming , coding , Style Guides , Css , Essentials

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Henry Hoffman - How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop

This tutorial will go through how you can create the Firefox logo in a scalable Photoshop format. The World Firstly create a new document at 1024px x 970px and start off with selecting the

Photoshop , Graphics , Logo Design

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Sean Hodge - Professional Web Design Forums

Web design-related forums are a place where you interact with other designers, exchange ideas or discuss your first drafts. When you have a problem, you can post the issue, and then receive feedback

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Vitaly Friedman - (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos

Photography is a very powerful medium and a very difficult craft. Excellent photos don’t only display some facts — they tell stories, awake feelings and manage to share with the audience the emotion

Photography , Graphics , Pictures

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Vitaly Friedman - Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design

Web design has significantly improved over the last years. It’s more user-friendly and more appealing today — and there is a good reason behind it: over the years we’ve found out that design with fo

Principles , ux , Usability

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Sean Hodge - 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web

There are many ways to approach Web typography in order to create effective and expressive results. Let’s take a closer look at some principles, rules and ideas for approaching Web typography decisi

Principles , Typography , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Celebration Of Vintage and Retro Design

Retro and vintage designs are often considered as being outdated, looking old, unattractive and dull. That’s not true. Although compared to modern design, retro is mostly a completely different real

Showcases , Retro , Inspiration , Vintage , Paintings

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Vitaly Friedman - Excellent Book Covers and Paperbacks

Book covers are hard to design and nice to look at. An effective book cover manages to catch human’s eye and convey the idea behind the book on one single page. However, it’s getting even harder: to

Covers , Print , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - Footers In Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas

According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn’t that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site element

Footers , Navigation , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Beautiful Handwriting Styles, Lettering and Calligraphy

Handwriting styles seems to have lost some of its attraction over the last years. Nobody writes beautiful handwritten letters, and uses digital means of communication with smileys, abbreviations and

Handwriting , Calligraphy , Lettering , Typography , Inspiration

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Sean Hodge - Photoshop Rainbow, Light, and Glow Effect Tutorials

Lighting and glow effects in Adobe Photoshop are used to add flare and polish to images. They communicate feelings of creativity, technology, magic, and fantasy. Creating beams, glows, motion trails

Photoshop , Tutorials , Graphics

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Vitaly Friedman - Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS Feed Icons

Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are

Graphics , RSS , Downloads , Icons , Freebies

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Vitaly Friedman - Slick Laptop Designs and Concepts

Laptop design doesn’t have to be boring. Although often laptops look exactly as we expect them to look like, there is a number of design solutions and approaches which are completely different — unu

Gadgets , Inspiration

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Sean Hodge - Grid-Based Design: Six Creative Column Techniques

Grid systems bring visual structure and balance to site design. As a tool grids are useful for organizing and presenting information. Used properly, they can enhance the user experience by creating

Techniques , Grids , Layouts , Web Design , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - 60 Brilliant Corporate Fonts

Typography is more than being legible and looking good. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve two important objectives: a) to create an appropriate atmosphere and enable users

Typography , fonts , Design

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Vitaly Friedman - Laptop Sleeves, Skins and Stickers

Sometimes laptop is more than just a device. Using laptops over years, some of us tend to develop a genuine affection toward their little (or not so little) companions. We take care of them, putting

Covers , Inspiration

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Sven Lennartz - The Secrets Of Grunge Design

Shiny and glossy design elements are now officially outdated. Just like retro is becoming trendy again, grungy look appears to rapidly gain on popularity. And there is a damn good reason behind it.

Grunge , Trends , Web Design , Design

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