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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

Aygul Zagidullina - Showcase Of Web Design In Germany

German design is certainly worthy of respect and a delight to the eye of anyone who takes the time to observe it. For years, we have accumulated knowledge, upheld eternal principles of style, simpli

Showcases , Inspiration , Web Design

Luis Ouriach - Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1)

Design systems are on the tip of every designer’s tongue, but the narrative in the industry mainly focuses on why you need a design system and its importance rather than the reality of endless maint

Design System , Figma , Design

Natalie Sklobovskaya - The Process Behind Good Illustration (Part 3)

Good Process and Good Design (Continued) In Part II I started a list of some personal process-oriented thoughts on illustration—more specifically about some ways to help broaden the creative proces

Tutorials , workflow , Inspiration

Aquil Akhter - The Beauty Of Watercolor Painting In 43 Examples

We have showcased different media of art and the different routes that you can take to express your creativity. We covered vexel artworks, graffiti, light paintings, handcraft, Moleskine art and man

Art , Graphics , Colors , Paintings

Andrew Gibson - 30 Amazing Online Photography Magazines

Whatever country we live in, we’re probably all familiar with the well-known photography magazines available in our newsagents and bookstores. The UK has Practical Photography, France has Photo, the

Photography , Magazines , Graphics , Inspiration

Vailancio Rodrigues - Beautiful Examples of Kinetic Photography

When you hear the word ‘kinetic’ for the first time, probably the first thing that comes to your mind is motion. Kinetic Photography, also known as ‘camera tossing’, is a technique of shooting photo

Photography , Graphics

Callum Chapman - The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials

If you have yet to design for apparel goods, today is your lucky day! Below, we present over 20 useful t-shirt graphic tutorials written by fellow designers, followed by a selection of great resourc

Tutorials , CMYK , Graphics , Drawing , T-shirts

Andrew Lindstrom - 50 Stunning Asian Movie Posters

It’s fascinating what information can be learned about a movie simply from taking a glance at the movie poster. Skipping past the obvious such as the title and cast, what is really interesting is de

Movies , Graphics , Inspiration , Posters

Dan Redding - Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary

Marcin Wichary’s fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video ga

workflow , Interviews , ux , Inspiration , Opinion Column

Robert Bowen - 60 Concert Posters From Ten Amazing Artists

When scouring the design field, searching for stand-out artistic expression and fluid composition, one area that should always catch the eye, is poster design. Moreover, concert poster design, which

Art , Graphics , Posters , Illustrations

Cosima Mielke - Jump Into July (2022 Desktop Wallpapers Edition)

Starting off the new month with a little inspiration boost — that’s the motivation behind our monthly wallpapers series that we’ve been running for more then eleven years now. Every month, we invite

Wallpapers

Frederick O’Brien - Web Design Done Well: Perfectly Pointless

Amid the KPIs and e-commerce and seemingly endless analytics, there are still plenty of sites embracing frivolity. Doesn’t it take the edge off to just have a little fun? The web can feel like a ve

Inspiration , User Experience , Content Strategy , Design

Louis Lazaris - !important CSS Declarations: How and When to Use Them

When the CSS1 specification was drafted in the mid-to-late 90s, it introduced !important declarations that would help developers and users easily override normal specificity when making changes to t

coding , Css , Essentials

Vitaly Friedman - Women In Web Design: Group Interview

A couple of weeks ago we published the article Expert Advice for Students and Young Web Designers, in which we presented a group interview with professional designers and developers. We tried to fin

Community , Interviews , Diversity , Design

Jacob Gube - Photoshop Actions – The Ultimate Collection

Saving repetitive tasks as Photoshop actions can save you a lot of time, allowing you to automate your work and improve workflow efficiency. An action is a recording of a sequence of commands and op

Photoshop , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Sven Lennartz - Smashing Highlights 2007

Although Smashing Magazine is quite young, a number of things happened in 2007. Aside from dozens of articles, we’ve organized few contests, re-designed our weblog and we also have released two Word

Highlights , Events , Smashing