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Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: June 2011

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow

Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using

Photoshop , CMYK , Scripting , Graphics , Tools , PSD

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: May 2011

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Smashing Book 2: Why We Love It And Why You’ll Love It, Too

Two and a half months ago, the Smashing Book 2 was released. For us, a small independent publisher, it was a big deal, because this ambitious project on which we had been working since July 2010 was

Events , Smashing , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Powerful New CSS Techniques And Tools

The hard work of front-end designers never ceases to amaze us. Over the last months, we’ve seen Web designers creating and presenting a plethora of truly remarkable CSS techniques and tools. We have

Techniques , Tools , coding , Css , Resources

Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Cartoons

Smashing Cartoons was a regular section on Smashing Magazine in which we used to publish a new cartoon every Friday illustrated by the one and only Ricardo Gimenes. We all have our favorite client

Cartoons

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration. This post features 35 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe for April 2011. Both versions with a calendar and wi

Wallpapers , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?

Our established set of design and coding practices is more comprehensive than it has ever been before. Our designs are becoming more usable, our code more scalable, our layouts more responsive. In f

Community , Web Design , Communication , Opinion Column , Design

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: March 2011

We continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration for the next 12 months. Created by artists across the globe for March 2011. Both versions with a calendar and without a calendar can b

Wallpapers , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions

Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time.

Techniques , coding , Css , Resources

Vitaly Friedman - Useful Web Services, Tools and Resources For Web Designers

You might have seen some of these tools in our Twitter stream or on our Facebook page, but certainly not all of them. We’ve prepared the most useful ones (yet not necessarily the most beautiful ones

Tools , coding , Resources

Vitaly Friedman - The Smashing Book 2 Is Available: Get Yours Now!

What didn’t work the first time with the Smashing Book 1 has been hopefully accomplished this time. We’ve worked very hard to produce a high quality, valuable book for you, guys. So here it is, the

Events , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: February 2011

We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative artwork. And as designers we usually turn to different sources of inspiration. As a m

Wallpapers , Graphics , Downloads , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Free Minimal, Swiss Design WordPress Themes (4 Themes)

In this post we release yet another freebie: an original set of four exclusive minimal, clean WordPress themes designed by Marios Lublinski and released for web design community. As usual, the theme

wordpress , Freebies , Themes

Vitaly Friedman - Educational Resources For Web Designers

Web design community is strong and hard-working. We have plenty of useful resources, tools and services created, developed and released every single day: apart from goodies such as free fonts or ico

Education , Tools , Design , Time Savers

Vitaly Friedman - Responsive Web Design: What It Is And How To Use It

Almost every new client these days wants a mobile version of their website. It’s practically essential after all: one design for the BlackBerry, another for the iPhone, the iPad, netbook, Kindle — a

Responsive Design , Media Queries , coding , Css

Vitaly Friedman - New Year, New Book: Smashing Book 2 Is Coming: Pre-Order Now!

Like its predecessor, the Smashing Book 2 is a printed book about best practices in modern Web design. This book shares valuable practical insight into design, usability and coding. It provides prof

Events , Smashing Books

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: January 2011

As the new year begins, we will continue to nourish you with a monthly spoon of inspiration for the next 12 months. This post features 65 free desktop wallpapers created by artists across the globe

Wallpapers , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - 25 Impressive Free High-Quality Fonts

In this selection, we’re pleased to present Pompadour Numeral Set, Lato, Crimson Text, Espinosa Nova, Musa Ornata, Spatha Sans, ColorLines, Roke1984, Neuton, Avro, Baurete and other fonts. Please no

Typography , fonts , Free Fonts

Vitaly Friedman - Why We Should Start Using CSS3 And HTML5 Today

Just like the elusive character from Beckett’s classic play, this day of full cross-browser support is not ever truly going to find its dawn and deliver us this wonderful new Web where our work look

css3 , coding , Css , HTML , html5

Vitaly Friedman - Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: December 2010

Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use a specific wallpaper for a longer period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it. That’s why

Wallpapers , Christmas , Graphics

Vitaly Friedman - Web Typography: Educational Resources, Tools and Techniques

In this post we present an extensive overview of educational resources, tools, articles, techniques and showcases all related to web typography. Please notice that the overview presents resources wh

Techniques , Typography , Tools , fonts , Resources , Design

Vitaly Friedman - 50 Free High Quality Icons Sets

Please always read the disclaimers carefully before using the icons — they do change from time to time. We truly respect and appreciate the efforts and the hard work of designers of the icons featur

Graphics , Icons , Freebies

Vitaly Friedman - Free Fonts of the Week - Best of

We continue to collect most beautiful high quality freefonts, which can be used for both private and professional projects without any restrictions whatsoever. They are hard to find, but the search

Typography , Downloads , Freebies , fonts , Free Fonts , Design