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 Font Deck

Stylish educational playing cards for designers.

$15 instead of $20 – Get it now!

Didonesque Font Family with 16 Beautiful & Elegant Fonts

Give your typeface toolbox a luxurious makeover with the Didonesque Font Family! You’ll get 16 beautiful, elegant typefaces that were all inspired by the classic Didone fonts. With a variety of OpenType features and multilingual support, Didonesque is a great choice for your next branded project.

$19 instead of $160 – Get it now!

The Mythical Design Bundle

The Mythical Design Bundle is here! Packed with historic mythical creatures and beings including Mermaids, Fairies, Unicorns and more.

$15 instead of $233 – Get it now!

Hi-Res Xmas Mockup Scene Generator

It’s the season to start generating mockups! Now you can easily show off your logo, branding or designs in a variety of Xmas Mockup Scenes. With this scene generator, you can easily slot in your designs to realistic mockups, along with a variety of Christmas-themed elements.

$14 instead of $24 – Get it now!

90 Stylish and Elegant Flyers and Trifolds

Looking to whip up some take-out menus or sales flyers? Then cast your eyes on this Mighty Deal featuring 90 stylish and elegant flyers and trifold templates. Fully customizable, these hi-res files are ready to print and start sharing with the public.

$19 instead of $500 – Get it now!

26 Fabulous Scripts Fonts

Make room in your typeface toolbox, because with this fontastic deal you’ll take home 26 professional script fonts. Take advantage of the OpenType features, multilingual characters and more as you put your latest designs to good use on everything from greeting cards to art prints.

$9 instead of $312 – Get it now!

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 Font Deck

Stylish educational playing cards for designers.

$15 instead of $20 – Get it now!

Didonesque Font Family with 16 Beautiful & Elegant Fonts

Give your typeface toolbox a luxurious makeover with the Didonesque Font Family! You’ll get 16 beautiful, elegant typefaces that were all inspired by the classic Didone fonts. With a variety of OpenType features and multilingual support, Didonesque is a great choice for your next branded project.

$19 instead of $160 – Get it now!

The Mythical Design Bundle

The Mythical Design Bundle is here! Packed with historic mythical creatures and beings including Mermaids, Fairies, Unicorns and more.

$15 instead of $233 – Get it now!

Hi-Res Xmas Mockup Scene Generator

It’s the season to start generating mockups! Now you can easily show off your logo, branding or designs in a variety of Xmas Mockup Scenes. With this scene generator, you can easily slot in your designs to realistic mockups, along with a variety of Christmas-themed elements.

$14 instead of $24 – Get it now!

90 Stylish and Elegant Flyers and Trifolds

Looking to whip up some take-out menus or sales flyers? Then cast your eyes on this Mighty Deal featuring 90 stylish and elegant flyers and trifold templates. Fully customizable, these hi-res files are ready to print and start sharing with the public.

$19 instead of $500 – Get it now!

26 Fabulous Scripts Fonts

Make room in your typeface toolbox, because with this fontastic deal you’ll take home 26 professional script fonts. Take advantage of the OpenType features, multilingual characters and more as you put your latest designs to good use on everything from greeting cards to art prints.

$9 instead of $312 – Get it now!

Post pobrano z: How to find the right landing page template when working with a free website builder

Using a free website builder has become very common even among design professional. The ease-of-use and professionalism of a platform like Wix is unmatched by any other way to build a website. Of course, you may miss on some advanced customization, but the type of things you can achieve with Wix is more than enough for 99% of website creators.

In this article, we will examine one specific aspect of efficient web design: landing pages. If you set goals for your website, it is important to improve its conversion rate, no matter if the conversion goal is a newsletter sign-up or a sale.

What are landing pages and why you need them?

Technically, a landing page is just an entry page to your website. However, it is in fact much more than that. In the world of online marketing, landing pages are key entry points that have been specifically designed for visitors to do a specific task. The most common landing pages are the click-through landing pages or the lead-generation landing pages:

1. Click-through landing pages are designed to guide you to click towards a specific web page. These are very common on e-commerce websites.
2. Lead-generation landing pages are built to make the visitors achieve a specific task. The goals of this type of page can be as diverse as making you download an ebook, fill in a request form, or sign-up to a newsletter, among other examples.

Now that online marketing is very common, landing pages are often created from the very beginning to make you act. It can also be just improvements to a page that is very popular on your website.

How to set up a landing page with Wix

As usual, Wix makes things simple for that as well. It provides you with excellent free landing page templates to make it easier for you to build a high-performance website. To set up an efficient landing page, you will need to do the following:

1. Set your goals for the landing page. If you don’t know where you are going, you will not be able to find the way. Think about how visitors will access it, will they come from search engines or will you send this landing page as a newsletter,
2. Find a landing page template that speaks your visual language. Wix offers you a wide range of templates to choose from, make sure that it goes well with your website and your message.
3. Optimize the page. You can customize anything you create with Wix, it goes for landing page templates as well. Make sure to work on te texts and images included in the template to make them yours.
4. Launch and tweak. Things change quickly on the Internet, don’t be a perfectionist and launch quickly. Monitor the results and tweak the landing page until you have the expected results.

Inspiration: amazing examples of landing pages created with Wix

The advantage of mentioning a product like Wix is that, thanks to its gigantic user base, it’s very easy to find good examples of people who have done it right. In a variety of fields and industries, the following examples are the best display to showcase the flexibility and the power of Wix templates. These examples are also a perfect illustration of the versatility of these templates, as they show it can be used for any type of product or service.

A writer’s website

Here the focus is on the books, with a presentation of the author and his previous books. A very efficient landing page with an elegant layout.

Food stylist website

Another kind of service that need strong visual identity to distinguish itself. Services are very clearly indicated and the global visual identity is strongly influenced by the powerful and tasty background photos of food.

Website for a street artist

A gorgeous showcase of a street artist’s work. The grey photography of the building helps to feel the colors of the artist’s creations even more strongly. The navigation menu is self-explanatory and simple to go straight to the point.

Graphic designer and art director

This website is meant as a portfolio, so the work of this graphic designer and art director is displayed right away.

Actor and model website

For actors and models, the product they are selling is themselves, so they need a landing page that makes them look good. This template gives you every info you need with style.

Poster shop landing page

A stylish and well layed out template for a poster shop. The products are at the center of the theme in this efficient template.

Vegetarian restaurant website template

For restaurant websites, it’s fairly easy to judge whether they are good or not by checking if they are making you want to go there or not. In this case, it’s mostly the good photography and the elegant layout that make it so successful.

Post pobrano z: How to find the right landing page template when working with a free website builder

Using a free website builder has become very common even among design professional. The ease-of-use and professionalism of a platform like Wix is unmatched by any other way to build a website. Of course, you may miss on some advanced customization, but the type of things you can achieve with Wix is more than enough for 99% of website creators.

In this article, we will examine one specific aspect of efficient web design: landing pages. If you set goals for your website, it is important to improve its conversion rate, no matter if the conversion goal is a newsletter sign-up or a sale.

What are landing pages and why you need them?

Technically, a landing page is just an entry page to your website. However, it is in fact much more than that. In the world of online marketing, landing pages are key entry points that have been specifically designed for visitors to do a specific task. The most common landing pages are the click-through landing pages or the lead-generation landing pages:

1. Click-through landing pages are designed to guide you to click towards a specific web page. These are very common on e-commerce websites.
2. Lead-generation landing pages are built to make the visitors achieve a specific task. The goals of this type of page can be as diverse as making you download an ebook, fill in a request form, or sign-up to a newsletter, among other examples.

Now that online marketing is very common, landing pages are often created from the very beginning to make you act. It can also be just improvements to a page that is very popular on your website.

How to set up a landing page with Wix

As usual, Wix makes things simple for that as well. It provides you with excellent free landing page templates to make it easier for you to build a high-performance website. To set up an efficient landing page, you will need to do the following:

1. Set your goals for the landing page. If you don’t know where you are going, you will not be able to find the way. Think about how visitors will access it, will they come from search engines or will you send this landing page as a newsletter,
2. Find a landing page template that speaks your visual language. Wix offers you a wide range of templates to choose from, make sure that it goes well with your website and your message.
3. Optimize the page. You can customize anything you create with Wix, it goes for landing page templates as well. Make sure to work on te texts and images included in the template to make them yours.
4. Launch and tweak. Things change quickly on the Internet, don’t be a perfectionist and launch quickly. Monitor the results and tweak the landing page until you have the expected results.

Inspiration: amazing examples of landing pages created with Wix

The advantage of mentioning a product like Wix is that, thanks to its gigantic user base, it’s very easy to find good examples of people who have done it right. In a variety of fields and industries, the following examples are the best display to showcase the flexibility and the power of Wix templates. These examples are also a perfect illustration of the versatility of these templates, as they show it can be used for any type of product or service.

A writer’s website

Here the focus is on the books, with a presentation of the author and his previous books. A very efficient landing page with an elegant layout.

Food stylist website

Another kind of service that need strong visual identity to distinguish itself. Services are very clearly indicated and the global visual identity is strongly influenced by the powerful and tasty background photos of food.

Website for a street artist

A gorgeous showcase of a street artist’s work. The grey photography of the building helps to feel the colors of the artist’s creations even more strongly. The navigation menu is self-explanatory and simple to go straight to the point.

Graphic designer and art director

This website is meant as a portfolio, so the work of this graphic designer and art director is displayed right away.

Actor and model website

For actors and models, the product they are selling is themselves, so they need a landing page that makes them look good. This template gives you every info you need with style.

Poster shop landing page

A stylish and well layed out template for a poster shop. The products are at the center of the theme in this efficient template.

Vegetarian restaurant website template

For restaurant websites, it’s fairly easy to judge whether they are good or not by checking if they are making you want to go there or not. In this case, it’s mostly the good photography and the elegant layout that make it so successful.

Post pobrano z: Heavenly City: an Art Project by Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai. He has a background of traditional Chinese art, such as calligraphy or painting, that started from a very early age. He pursued further art education at Hong-Kong Chinese  and Shaghai Fine Arts Institute. He turned this knowledge into something new using modern digital art techniques. His work has been exhibited all around the world.

Yongliang’s project Heavenly City is one of his recent works, it uses digital techniques and photography to create scenes that look like traditional Chinese paintings with a twist. Entire cities seem built upon clouds of destruction, making it look ephemeral scenes doomed to disappear quickly.

Post pobrano z: When design goes wrong: 10 wonderful design fails

The easiest way to demonstrate the purpose of design is maybe the absurd way. Good design isn’t always spectacular, while bad design will show you exactly what parts of the work the designer is paid for. Here are 10 examples of design fails that will make you smile.

1. Fashion Fart

When using a capital letter in a big format, make sure that people understand which word it belongs too. With poor positioning, it can take a whole new meaning.

2. Congratulations you have cancer

This is not the right way to announce a baby to new parents, even if she or he is born between June 21 or July 22.

3. M&Ms sticker placement

Not a mistake at first, but the label placement makes this packaging illustration very ambiguous. Not sure if I would remove it.

4. Failed price tag

Certainly, the worst possible way to add a price tag to clothes.

5. Nothing is possible

This doormat was designed with good intention, it was supposed to send a motivational message to cheer you up. Poor contrast and text placement turned it into a depressing way to welcome people.

6. This advertisement for a job

It’s either a poor URL choice or a genius way to test applicants’ dedication to get the job. If you can apply to this, you really displayed a certain focus ability.

7. This newspaper title

Yes, adding a reflection to a text that is integrated into the water makes sense, but you should be careful with any potential changes to the meaning.

8. Quit school

This anti-smoking advertisement was placed on a school bus, it totally changed the message.

9. Pregnancy test advertisement

Apparently, even after 7 months of pregnancy, you can have some doubt. Take the test!

10. Disabled elderly pregnant children

Yes, commas matter when it comes to sending a message.

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.

10+ Best-Selling Premium Fonts

Make room in your typeface toolbox! It’s time to grab this sweet deal full of more than 10 premium best-selling font families. From Charlie to Sweetie to Sharpeye Type, you’ll get a wonderful variety of fun, curvy fonts that will work perfectly with your latest designs. Use them on everything from T-shirts to logos.

$14 instead of $114 – Get it now!

Create Amazing Hero Images with WuHoo! Scene Generator

Attract attention to your website with powerful Hero Images. Thanks to the WuHoo! Scene Generator, you can now easily whip up colorful, fun professional Hero Images in no time flat. It couldn’t be easier too, thanks to a simple drag-and-drop feature, along with a variety of text editing tools.

$15 instead of $39 – Get it now!

120+ Unique, Premium Typefaces – 31 Font Families

It’s time to fall into a fantastic font sale! This Autumn Font Sale is overloaded with more than 120 gorgeous typefaces, culled from 31 different font families. You’ll be privy to a wide variety of styles ranging from vintage to cartoony, not to mention a slew of extras like alternates. No matter your latest project, you’re bound to find the perfect font in this collection.

$9 instead of $1550 – Get it now!

Laura Worthington’s Industrial Typeface Voltage

Reach back to the Industrial Age, full of big, bold words and cars! The Voltage Font Family by Laura Worthington offers up a practical typeface that’s both assertive yet down to earth. Loaded with hundreds of OpenType Features from swashes to ligatures, this is one charged-up font family that you won’t want to miss out on.

$9 instead of $35 – Get it now!

80 Beautiful, Liquid Style Brushes

Want to add a bit of motion to your designs? Consider a Fast Style approach using this collection of 80 Liquid Style Brushes. These brushes feature a modern-yet-retro digital style that creates round-ended lines giving off an almost dripping appearance. Use the handy reference guide to quickly choose the right brush to whip up a clean illustration or icon.

$9 instead of $15 – Get it now!

Post pobrano z: Essential design subreddits you have to check out

When working in the world of design, you often need to call upon a pool of different resources. Whether it’s to find the correct tool or maybe for some inspiration, the internet is a wonderful place to find these resources. However, given the breadth and depth of everything that’s out there on the web, finding what you’re looking for can be a challenge, to say the least. A salvation and a massive time saver can be found within the subsections of Reddit – called subreddits to those who lurk its pages daily. These subreddits are filled with thousands of active users who either work within or admire the design industry.

Whether you’re designing a logo or laying out a user interface, there exists within a specific subreddit those with the knowledge and wherewithal to help you out or put you in the correct direction. Don’t end up on one of these lists, instead, peruse some of the best subreddits for designers.

/r/design

The granddaddy of everything to do with design, /r/design boasts almost 200,000 users. The content features everything from graphic design to comic book sketching all the way to furniture and architecture. It’s a very general subreddit that is a good starting point if you’re looking for more niche design-related content, and if you can’t find what you’re looking for, merely create your own post and wait for someone in the know to correct your course.

/r/graphic_design

For anything and everything related to graphic design. It’s the perfect subreddit for those who are looking for news, theory, resources and inspirations for their respective projects. This includes anything that has to do with quality design such as logos, magazines, posters and illustrations.

/r/photoshopbattles

The place where the internet dukes it out, not with words or bullets, but with Photoshop edits. A lot of people prefer using other programs in lieu of Adobe’s popular software, but the concept remains the same: make something funny and sharable. You’ll need to have a good sense of humor and an eye for the uncanny and ridiculous, but when people start commenting, liking and sharing your work, you know you’ve hit the big time.

/r/designthought

For more in-depth academic posts that delve into the how and why of design, /r/designthoughts is the place for you. It’s a much smaller community than the other subreddits listed here, but the topics discussed tend to be much deeper, more thoughtful conversations than you would find listed elsewhere. Expect links to longer articles discussing the context of design, the societies that it reflects and how terminology can be used to shape the culture surrounding design.

Post pobrano z: 14 free Android apps for designers

Android devices may not be as trendy as iPhones, but they are very popular too. If you are looking for buying latest android mobiles, you can check out Theandroidportal.com to find your dream smartphones. Developers enjoy creating apps for Android too and the market gets tons of free applications to choose from. If you are a designer with a phone or a tablet with the Android OS, you may be interested by the following cool (and free) apps.

1. Sketchbook Mobile Express

Drawing and painting application that allows you to create quick sketches from your mobile device.

2. Fontest

A typography tool for developpers that lets you preview how fonts display on Android devices.

3. Adobe Photoshop Express

Of course this version of Photoshop is not exhaustive, but it can be a practical tool for editing your images.

4. AndFTP

Very complete FTP client for Android devices, supports FTP, SFTP, SCP and FTPS. Lets you manage several FTP servers.

5. Thinking space

One task that you can easily work on from pretty much anywhere is looking for ideas. Mind mapping helps you to organize those ideas, Thinking space is perfect if you get an Android device.

6. Magic Color picker

Color selection tool suitable for designers, artists and programmers for selecting colors using different color models. Supports 7 different modes and RGB, HSV, HSL and YUV color models.

7. SilverEdit

Web files editor for Android with syntax highlighting, a simple FTP client and more functionalities.

8. Typography Junkies

Stay up to date with the very latest in typography and font news on your Android Phone.

9. Color Dictionary

A reference of colors, provides RGB/HEX/CMYK/Lab values and detailed color analysis.

10. View web source

Check out the source of any web page, you will also be able to select text, search for text as well as copy and paste the HTML.

11. Evernote

Take notes of everything and in every format: photo, text, audio,…

12. Pocket color chart

A Pantone reference in your Android app.

13. Photo enhance

Enhance and correct your photos, crop it or adjust it with this great little app.

14. Astrid

For the productive designer, a great to-do list and task management application.

Post pobrano z: Notebooks covers with amazing embroidery

Fabulous Cat Papers is an Etsy shop with tons of amazing notebook covers, some of which include gorgeous embroidery that enhance the drawings. We have also found some of the best blouse embroidery designs from embdesigntube.