Post pobrano z: Typography and lettering inspiration collection

A round-up of inspiring typographic designs by various designers.

Above: an ambigram with the word USA, designed by Sergey Yakovenko.

A stunning illustrated poster for the Wizard of Oz, a project by Kyle Letendre.

SevenSeven, a gorgeous typographic logo by Miklos Kiss.

A nice digital sketch by Jordan Metcalf.

Wahoo’s Fish Taco, mosaic typography by Sean O’Connor.

Misery Loves Company.

Zaha Hadid, a cool typographic paper cutout by Patrick Cabral.

A Cage of Roots, a book cover with deep rooted typography by Matt Griffin.

Typographic poster by Kingdom Industry.

Trust your Gut, a typographic layout with roads for a magazine, design by Lorena G.

Post pobrano z: The Role of Web Hosting in a Visitor’s Experience with your Website

Each website element has a specific role to create a good user experience. It is important that you give equal dedication to each. However, most articles will talk about design, SEO, user experience that leaves readers feeling these are somewhat technical. As a result, businesses continue to focus on design and underestimate the role of the backend.

Perhaps, the only eye opener was when Google announced that it would take speed as one of the bases for search ranking. This might have happened way back in 2009 but as relevant as ever. In independent researches by Google, Bing, AOL, and Shopzilla:

• A 2-second slowdown changed queries by -1.8% and revenue/user by -4.3% – Bing
• A 400-millisecond delay resulted in -0.59% change in searches/user – Google
• Even after the delay was rectified, these users still had a -0.21% fewer searches, indicating that their slow experience affects long term behaviour.
• A year-long performance redesign resulted in 5 second speed up, which eventually led to a 25% in page views, 7-12% increase in revenue, and a 50% reduction in hardware costs.

The key takeaway here is that a faster website loading experience results in a significant positive experience, both for users/prospects and website owners or businesses.

Speed and the User’s Experience

There are quite a few reasons why your site is slow, some of which can be rectified quick, such as resizing images & utilizing a CDN, rechecking your codes, text graphics, unnecessary plugins, and the lot. However, a good web design plan always considers the backend, such as your servers.

When a browser pings your website for all the information and data, your site should be able to respond fast. In a user’s experience, the expectation is 2 seconds or less. Some pressure this is! This might be troublesome back in 2009, when web hosting providers had the opportunity to jack up prices and cheap means less in quality. But nowadays, you can find competent and yet still, affordable web hosting. The upsurge in the number of hosting providers, has caused a drop off in prices. LCN for example, offers a cheap web hosting package with just $3.33 a month for a 5GB webspace setup, including a £75 Adwords voucher to boot.

Source: LCN.com

Platform specific hosting, such as WordPress-centric hosting services, have also seen a certain price reduction, with lots of widely available coupons for many WordPress hosting providers. Picking out a hosting service shouldn’t be a split second decision, and yet it shouldn’t take much work to find a reasonable priced hosting solution for your site/brand.

Given the percentages in drop-offs, user expectations, and industry standards, these can all be met as long as you give ample attention to your backend as well. In addition, future-proofing your website by following some webhosting advice on security and performance is also a wise move.

More often than not, visitors go to your website because they think you can help them accomplish their goals. This might be a query about your products/services, research for information, buy a product, and many more. All in all, think about what you want your users/prospects/customers to experience when they are on your website. This does not necessarily mean just the aesthetics. The most important experience is when you help them accomplish their goals, their reason for going to your website. The faster you help them complete their goals, the better the experience. And with luck (and proper design and web performance), they will be back to your site in no time!

Web Hosting and its Crucial Role

While some would downplay the role of web hosting, it’s one of the most crucial factors of an exceptional website. Other than load time, security, caching, and email are just some of the important factors that affect user experience, overall website performance, and business results.

In an age where online presence is a non-negotiable part of a business, it is even more imperative that your website represents your business in the best way possible by aiming to help users, prospects and customers. Your brand should aim not just to create a good first impression, but more importantly, a lasting one.

Post pobrano z: Design deals for the week

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.

30+ Professional Font Families

Here’s a chance to instantly beef up your typeface toolbox. With this Mighty Deal, you’ll get more than 30 professional full font families at one crazy low price. That’s a wide variety of styles to work with, meaning you can deliver pure success to any of your clients, as well as attract plenty of new ones.

$18 instead of $90 – Get it now!

250+ Smoke Effects Including Shapes, Brushes, Patterns and More

There’s nothing like a misty, smoky effect to set the mood. With this Smoke Toolkit from Cruzine, you’ll get everything you could possibly need to set the tone! Smoke shapes, brushes, patterns, effects, backgrounds and more, are all at your fingertips. That’s more than 250 smoky tools, provided in fully customizable, layered PSD files. Remember, where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And where there’s fire… there’s a red hot deal!

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109 in 1 Best Font Bundle

A value of $1800+ Now get 109 fonts with super low price for $18 only. Do not miss, get today! Also includes many alternative characters.Is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all the extra characters without having special designing software. Mac users can use Font Book. Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the extra characters to paste into your favourite text editor. For folks who have opentype capable software : The alternates are accessible by turning on “Stylistic Alternates” and “Ligatures” buttons on in Photoshop’s Character panel, or via any software with a glyphs panel, e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop CC, Inkscape.

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The Mila Script Pro Font Family: Script, Sans & Ornaments

It’s time to meet the Mila Script Pro Font Family! This amazing collection of handmade script and sans typefaces includes a handmade brush script with round and soft letterforms, as well as a sans style for easy reading. Besides a slew of helpful OpenType features to really create flexibility in your work, you’ll get an Ornaments style of more than 50 useful swashes and symbols to tie it all together.

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Post pobrano z: Solar Powered Lights For The Yard

When you are lighting your patio the exact opposite thing you need to do is to be stumbling over electrical lines and attempting to put lights close to an outlet to connect them to. Assuming, notwithstanding, you ran with solar lights you wouldn’t have this issue.

Solar lights take their power from the sun, store it in inside batteries and afterward sparkle splendidly all through the dull night. With such a large number of choices, you can have solar lights for security and to decorate your home, all in the meantime and all with bring down power costs while being ecologically inviting. It’s a win.

On the off chance that you have ventures in the yard you might need to utilize lights that will enlighten those means when its dull. This will wipe out searching for the means and lessen mischances. They are pretty accents to your means as well and obviously arrive in an assortment of shapes and hues.

Similarly for a pathway. Enlightening it during the evening removes the mystery from the condition and takes into consideration a beautiful sparkle other than. Way lights can be low to the ground or can be on sticks to make a lovely emphasize to the sides of the way itself. They too arrive in an assortment of shapes and hues to be the ideal expansion to your arranging.

Did you realize that the banner code proposes that you light your banner around evening time? Never fear, there is a solar light only for that reason and now the banner will never look better against the dull sky.

You invest a great deal of energy and cash on your finishing so why not indicate it off around evening time too? There are a wide range of solar spotlights available that will consequently sparkle on your ideal arranging or delightful tree around evening time. You can likewise actualize arranging lights into the finishing itself for complements consistently, day or night.

Decks look so happy and summery when they have lights on them. Presently you can get solar string lights to give your deck that awesome light and comfortable feel, and they likewise come in all the prominent shapes and hues.

Post pobrano z: Sono Motors Introduces The SION Solar Powered Car

The fantasy of having the capacity to drive to work in a solar-powered car is at last turning into a reality. Sono Motors simply uncovered the SION solar-powered electric car gives you the ability to travel up to 18 miles utilizing only energy from the sun. Best of all, the SION isn’t only for the whealthy, since it just costs 16,000 Euros (around $18,600) in addition to the cost of the battery, and it is pressed with unbelievable components like built-in moss filtration, bi-directional charging and integrated solar panels.

Sono Motors Sion Solar Powered Car

A year ago, Sono Motors, a German startup raised over $200,000 create the SION. Utilizing 300 photovoltaic panels, the SION can store enough energy from the sun to give you the ability to travel up to 18 miles, however in the event that you have to travel further, the SION can likewise be energized utilizing a standard outlet, similar to a regular electric auto. Depending on the amount you want to spend, you can rent the battery month to month, or buy outright.

Post pobrano z: Design deals for the week

Every week, we’ll give you an overview of the best deals for designers, make sure you don’t miss any by subscribing to our deals feed. You can also follow the recently launched website Type Deals if you are looking for free fonts or font deals.

The Summer Time Font Bundle

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere Summer has arrived. For everybody in the Southern Hemisphere…. Here are some fonts to warm you through the winter months. Packed with 27 Summer Style Fonts from 19 Different Font Families, you can save a HUGE 92% off the RRP.

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Trenda Font Family

Based on the uppercase of the popular typeface Trend, from 2013, Trenda is a geometric sans-serif typeface that sports a wider character set and complete family of uppercase and lowercase letters available in different weights. This versatile and easy-to-use functional font is perfect for both display and text sizes.

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The Splendid Design Bundle

Take a look at the wonderful graphics packs, mock ups, illustrations, textures, fonts and more available below. This bundle is perfect for Designers and Crafters alike with something for everybody included!

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3,000 Artistic Vectors, Watercolors, Flower Decorations & More

This amazing mega-packed Artistic Bundle is overstuffed with more than 3,000 beautiful designer assets. You’ll find loads of hand-drawn vector illustrations, seamless patterns, watercolors, brushes, symbols, layer styles and so much more. Your latest projects won’t know what hit ’em!

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Post pobrano z: SOLID GRAY aluminium edition: an incredible backpack made of aluminium composite material

Solid Gray’s latest bag has a wonderful futuristic look and an innovative design. It was designed to protect your prized possession by using layered aluminium polymer composite material only.

It comes with a prize, but it’s unique and even has a laser engraved serial number to prove it.

Post pobrano z: Why You Need a Mobile Friendly Website More Than Ever

Smartphones have revolutionized how we use and understand web design. Websites these days need to be mobile-friendly, or else there’s a risk of losing readers, or customers, or clients – whatever your website is looking to garner. There are even some households that entirely forego the use of laptop or desktop computers, since the start up price of purchasing a mobile phone and the ability to pay it off in increments every month with their cell phone bill, dwarfs in comparison to the price of a laptop or desktop computer.

In fact, the use of mobile devices is so prevalent outside of laptop or desktop computers, that some homes even install a mobile repeater, because that is their only access to the internet. Homes in rural areas especially would use a GSM repeater, as it’s customary in France, etc., as in many areas the mobile phone signal is weak. The main goal of this is to make sure that their access to the internet is never disrupted – and you, too, should make sure your mobile website is always accessible, even to those who can’t access a computer.

Catering to mobile users in your web design is the way of the future. Creating a mobile website that’s user-friendly and completely accessible is almost required now that the internet is at your fingertips. People are using their mobile devices to apply for jobs, order items, browse the internet, read the news – everything that you can do on a browser, people are starting to do on their cell phones. A website that doesn’t have an accessible or user-friendly mobile website will immediately lose followership, by virtue of excluding those people who have only access to the internet happens to be their smartphone, thanks to devices found on online store of cell phone boosters.

Though, not just useful for those who have only access to their smartphones, websites with mobile-friendly interface are perfect for people who are also always traveling, especially for business. Being able to do business on their smartphones and tablets allows people a great ease of access. A mobile-friendly website will ensure that clients, business people, or just anyone who travels and needs quick and easy access to your site will be able to do so. Everyone wins when your website completely translates between desktop and laptop browsers, and mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets.

User-friendly is a must when it comes to translating your website into a mobile website! You don’t want to have your website just become a squished, smaller version of web browser site. Do away with the flashy graphics and rotating pictures. Simple, user-friendly and accessible is the key here! You’ll also want to make sure that all the information that can be found on your desktop site is also available on the mobile version as well.

Smartphones are making everyone’s lives easier, with nearly instant access to all kinds of information and websites. Making sure that your website keeps up with the times is key – and making sure that it doesn’t make someone’s life harder is important, too! Do your best to make sure your mobile website does your web content, business or client justice.

Post pobrano z: Vintage movie and fashion posters by Raymond Gid

Raymond Gid is a French graphic designer who specialized in posters and typography. He started working as early as the 1930s, but his most prominent work was done in the 60s and 70s.

Gid created posters for many famous French movies of his time and could be compared a bit to Saul Bass for the relationship he had with directors. He also designed for more commercial work, like the one he did for fashion companies.

Post pobrano z: Solar Trees Powering The Park Of South Florida

Joining South Florida’s lush, green canopy of real trees are a new crop of solar trees. These “trees” have blue trunks and bear no fruit, but supply clean energy to whoever needs it.

If you’re at the beach and your phone starts to die, you can charge it right here using Solar Power.

Here’s how the solar trees work: Each solar tree comes with 2 solar powered panels up top. Some of that energy collected is powering the grid of the community, and to a nearby box that send electricity to plugs where phones or compuers can be charged.