Post pobrano z: This advertising campaign shows you the bottom half of famous portraits
In these award-winning ads, Ogilvy Chicago created the bottom part of several famous art portraits. These complements to the artworks were designed to promote a shoes brand, Kiwi.
Post pobrano z: The Constructivist: play with architecture
When you think of the ugly architecture that thrived in Soviet-era Eastern Europe, “playful” is probably not the first word that comes to mind.
Zupagrafika decided that commie blocks could be fun, and released a book, “The Constructivist”, that lets you play with cutouts of Eastern blocks. The Polish design studio sells the book on its online shop.
Post pobrano z: 10 gorgeous business cards for your inspiration
A collection of great business cards that could inspire you when designing your next card.
A square-shaped business card with recycled paper and good use of textures. Designed by Jana Neil.
A folded business card that took a lot of time and effort. Totally worth it though. Design by Jorge Alvarez.
Business cards made with duplexed wood veneer + letterpressed metallic ink on paper with laser etching on both sides. Design by Mackey Saturday.
Business cards that look like playing cards. Design by Tom Lane.
A nice card with a custom shape and a powerful message. Designed by Andrew Power.
A business card designed to look like the main item required to go do yoga in a gym. Designer unknown.
A very creative business card for a football coach. One side of the card looks like a football field plan and allows to scribble some strategy. Design by Bravo Company.
A cool business card designed to look like a bag tag. Designed for Promptt.
A businn card that mixes many fonts and does it well. Design by Nothing Something.
What would be better than a beer shape for a sports bar business card?
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.
Give your latest design project a shot in the arm with this retro Art Deco Bundle! Themed around the Art Deco/Steampunk style, you’ll get yourself a bevvy of fonts, logo templates, borders, vectors and backgrounds. Basically everything you need to push the past forward!
$17 instead of $104 – Get it now!
More than 600 unique design elements in 1 super-discounted deal. You’ll get everything you need to create gorgeous designs including logos, graphics, papers, fonts, backgrounds, Photoshop tools, marketing sets and more! It’s the perfect package for every project from wedding invitations to company branding.
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Made up of 3 unique font families – Port, Port Vintage and Bohema – this luxury-themed font bundle sports 36 unique typefaces, more than 1000 glyphs and a wide array of OpenType Features to help make your latest projects luxurious.
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Get 100 high-quality party and event flyers covering everything from jazz concerts to worship services. Fully editable PSD files let you easily change up colors, text, images and more.
$9 instead of $600 – Get it now!
In 20 different sections, this online video tutorial covers everything from teaching you the latest scripting languages to walking you through the installation and administration of everything from LAMP stack to test servers. Best of all, you’ll learn at your own pace with a lifetime to soak it all in.
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Post pobrano z: A neo-retro motorbike concept by Local Motors
Arizona-based transportation company Local Motors works on beautiful and innovative solutions to improve mobility. On their website, you’ll find some cool car and buses concepts.
They also worked on bikes and released two prototypes. These concepts were the winners of a design contest won by Romanian designer Ianis Vasilatos.
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.
Add some real class and elegance to your latest project with this mini-bundle of 5 Calligraphy typefaces. Packed with loads of extra glyphs, alternate Stylistic Sets, support for Upper and Lowercase letters and more, you’ll have the perfect tools to design a variety of creative objects from invitations to logos to letterhead.
$12 instead of $71 – Get it now!
In 20 different sections, this online video tutorial covers everything from teaching you the latest scripting languages to walking you through the installation and administration of everything from LAMP stack to test servers.
$17 instead of $299 – Get it now!
Is your typeface toolbox constantly screaming for something new? Well then feast your eyes on the Cartel Deux Font Family! This magnificent Mighty Deal is packed with 5 unique fonts in a variety of styles from Black to Sharp, as well as Script and Bold Typefaces. Additionally, you’ll get a fabulous set of professional premade logos to make your latest project even easier to whip in to shape.
$9 instead of $75 – Get it now!
Post pobrano z: Graphic design work by Everyday Practice
The Korean design studio, founded by Kwon Joonho, Kim Kyung-chul and Kim Eojin, regularly works for Cultural institutions and has a collaborative approach to design. They work primarily in the field of graphic design, but also like to experiment with other types of design. You can discover more of their work on their portfolio website.
Post pobrano z: TOP 5 Services to Make a Well-Designed Business Website
A business website is one of the most effective marketing tools. It performs several crucial functions at a time. It can help you drive traffic, increase the amount of sales, expand your business popularity and help achieve lots of other business goals depending upon the niche you specialize in.
There are two options you can choose from to build a business website today. This task can be effectively completed by a professional web designer, whose services, however, are not that cheap. This is not to mention the fact that the entire process may take several months before you manage to gain the expected result. The second option is using small business website builders. These services consider all the UI and UX nuances and make it possible to create websites, the design of which is not worse (or even better) than that of custom made websites. Let’s have a look at the most obvious benefits of website builders now:
Top 5 Website Builders to Design a Business Website
SITE123 is a cloud website builder that comes with a WYSIWYG editor. This feature makes it possible to design website structure in a hassle-free and quick way. All the changes a user makes at the website are immediately reflected at the screen, which makes the process of designing a website simple and intuitive. It’s also possible to make use of SITE123 multilingual tool to create as many language website versions as you need for your business or personal use.
The system offers an extensive collection of responsive templates and powerful customization tools to give the chosen template unique design. SITE123 is a module-based system. To get the desired website design, a user has to select the required modules and adjust them at the page as needed. This esnures convenient and quick web design process.
uKit is a website builder that is known for its functionality and business website focus. The service can be used to create any types of websites, but it especially works great with business websites. The service offers a rich collection of templates, all of which are responsive, thematic-based and can be customized with regard to the needs of a user.
Design customization options provided by uKit cannot but attract the attention of users willing to create impressive websites. You just need to select the template and choose those design customization tools you consider appropriate. That’s it.
Ucraft is a cloud website builder that makes it possible to design visually appealing and functional business websites. It has a stunning collection of pre-designed templates, which are responsive and can make a website viewable on any mobile device or desktop computer. What’s more, the system offers an opportunity to create multilingual websites, which also contributes to their functionality and design appeal.
Ucraft offers users white labeling options. Just choose a template you wish, add your own brand and customize it to your liking. This is a great feature for freelancers, businessmen and people with creative professions.
uCoz is rightfully considered a universal website builder, which can be used to create different types of websites. It’s quite easy to use the system due to the intuitive dashboard and powerful website customization tools it offers.
uCoz has two types of templates: standard and responsive. The latter are paid and have to be chosen in advance. All templates can be customized based on the requirements and preferences of users. What’s interesting, it’s possible to design unique websites with uCoz, if you have certain coding skills and experience. This is a surefire way to gain decent and high quality result.
Mobirise is a website builder that differs from all the systems discussed above. This is downloadable software users need to install before using. The system implies the use of blocks that are randomly arranged to form the required website structure and create unique design. To develop outstanding designs, Mobirise users have to choose responsive templates they like and customize them with regard to their personal or business needs.
Mobirise is an offline website builder, which is absolutely free granted that you make use of the standard feature set. Having created a website, you can choose any hosting to publish it. If you need more advanced design features, you can upgrade to one of the paid plans the system offer.
Bottom Line
There are different ways to create outstanding website design nowadays. If you need a complex large-scale project, you won’t go without the professional assistance of an experienced and skilled web designer. However, get ready to pay a lot for these services. In case you need a simple business website, you can use website builders that will allow you to design a quality, functional and visually appealing website with no hassle and considerable investment of effort and money. Fortunately, the choice of these services is versatile today to meet any needs and preferences.
Author: Howard Steele, SuperbWebsiteBuilders.com
Post pobrano z: Splendid photos of Patagonian and Icelandic Glaciers by Jonathan Smith
British photographer Jonathan Smith traveled to Patagonia and Iceland to take photos of the glaciers glaciers, revealing the beauty of the cold elements. A series that could have been titled “A song of water and ice”.
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.
This amazing bundle from Moriztype Studio features a gorgeous set of 25 professional modern script fonts at one ginormous discount. With the included extended license, you can create as many invitations, signs or note cards as you like for yourself or your business.
$9 instead of $274 – Get it now!
40 Spectacular and diverse fonts for all your design and crafting needs.
$32 instead of $526 – Get it now!
15 unique infographic sets in 1 low-priced mega bundle! You’ll have loads of infographic elements to play with including pie charts, arrows, maps, clocks and more, for just about any industry out there. These elements are all fully customizable too, so the sky’s the limit with what you can put together.
$24 instead of $162 – Get it now!
Made up of 3 different families (Lakes, Lakes Condensed, Lakes Compressed), you’ll take home 54 unique typefaces chock full of features such as fractions, ordinals, numerals, superscripts, case sensitive forms and support of more than 70 languages.
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Creating animations is easier than you think! With The Escapers amazing Mac app Lucid 3, you can now whip up stunning CSS3 animations for your Web pages. Create your own or work with a number of pre-built animations, all of which are highly customizable and easy to use.
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