40 Vintage Retro Style Website Design Inspiration
We’ve looked previously at retro illustrations, now let’s see one of the ways you can use them: retro or vintage-style web design. It is a very effective way of creating a striking design for your site, precisely because of the huge contrast between a style that makes you relate to the past perspective on things and the extremely modern and newly technological nature of a web-site. The very phrase retro/vintage site hints to a paradox: one couldn’t have even imagined this kind of technology in the past! Therefore, using a very authentically retro theme for your site would help your visitors see all these daily realities that they’re so used to from a new, unexpected perspective.
If you use successfully the retro design you’ll have great user-experience guaranteed! It’s always going to provoke you a strangely pleasant feeling to see things from our day to day, seemingly ordinary reality, like Youtube, RSS, Twitter, or the email dressed in this crumpled, slightly rusty coat of the past. As you’ll see in all the sites displayed here, the secret is obtaining a special atmosphere for your site, making all the retro elements that you choose come together in an authentic and original way.
10 Popular Free Plugins And Shareware for Adobe Illustrator
For over a decade, Illustrator has been the leading program when it comes to vector editing and let’s admit it still is right this very moment. Initially the Adobe developers had no idea what the user wanted but fortunately they made a plug-in platform so that anybody could build plug-ins either for Photoshop or for llustrator.
As a consequence, there has been hundreds of plug-ins build for those two programs. Nowadays, in this new version of Adobe Illustrator (CS5 or even CS4), one can find almost all the functions that plug-ins had offered in the early days: the Adobe team made the best of this system.
10 Clever Ways to Improve Your Photoshop Skills
Adobe Photoshop is one of the must have software for most web and graphic designers. If you are beginner, you have many things to learn. If you are an expert, you always have more to learn specially the advanced techniques. In this article I want to share untechnical tips to improve your Photoshop skills.
As shown below, at least there are 10 ways to effectively improve your Photoshop skills using resources that are available around us.
Amazingly Unbelievable Pixel Art of eBoy
This time we’ll be looking at some absolutely amazing example of pixel art: the work of eBoy from Berlin, which is actually a group of artists that collaborate for their extraordinary pixel art projects: Kai Vermehr, Steffen Sauerteig and Svend Smital. We should start by discussing what pixel art represents: it is a special type of digital illustration, because it is created using a raster graphics software and it actually means painstaking detail-work for every image- it must be edited at pixel level!
This type of graphics is usually used in computer and video games, or mobile phone games. However, we are going to look at a group of artists who have managed to create extremely detailed compositions using pixel art and have deservedly broken into the fields of advertising or magazine illustrations as well. The works in this collection are first of all the result of a long and elaborate creation process. As you can see, their compositions can be printed on huge posters and billboards! It’s hard to imagine that all this was actually drawn all pixel level but that is the fact, actually.
Of course, the graphic designers also re-create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build their complex artwork. The artists were fascinated by the digital media and decided to make the most of it and they have surely managed! Their pixel illustrations are true works of art!
6 Important Job Search Tips for Programmers and Software Developers
The demand for programmers has been on a constant rise even when people have lost jobs in many other professions. It is expected that the demand for programmers will increase by as much as 21 percent between 2008 and 2018. Hence, as a programmer, one really does not worry about getting a job.
But programming also has its own thrills. There are some drab jobs and then there are those challenging and interesting jobs. As a programmer, you would definitely want a job that falls in the latter category. But in order to land that challenging and interesting job, you still need to put in an effort even you have a major in Computer Science.
38 Pop Art Minimalist Style Film Poster Designs
This time we will be trying to see some sources of influence and inspiration for minimalist graphics. As we all know, minimalism was originally an art trend from which general design, and graphic design as well, derived. It is more than natural, therefore, for graphic designers to look at some excellent examples o abstract art for inspiration. We mean to prove in this article that art and graphics are not two completely isolated fields and that many inter-relations are possible.
A second point that we want to make is that simply placing a simple-lined image or a shape on a colored background and adding a title in a corner does not make a good minimalist poster. There are some very subtle compositional rules that one should keep in mind when designing such a poster and finding the perfect rapport between the elements is even more difficult because they are just a few. I have compared some film posters to some abstract paintings they might have been influenced by (more or less directly) in order to make a point about the importance of finding compositional balance between graphic elements.
5 Important Tips for Festival Photography
Festivals are a great time to photograph people, with loads of activity and people not so self conscious. When festival time is close at hand wherever you live, why not try your hand at some festival photography?
WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. Which One is The Best?
After so many years, it was expected that the bloggers worldwide would come out with their comparison of the three most well known Content Management Systems (CMS) – WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Bloggers everywhere are now coming up with their individual inputs about these three CMS. However, it still feels that something is missing. Hence, we have decided to take the bull by the horn to let you know about them and help you choose the one that suits you the best.
It has only been just over few years that WordPress has started making its presence in the CMS domain. Drupal and Joomla seem to have been fighting for the top space for what seems like ages. Both have always been open source and have allowed their thousands of users to help develop them and extend the possibilities available through them. WordPress, since the past year or so, has definitely managed to create the biggest market in this war.
20 Websites With High Level of User Experiences
User experience (UX) is subjective. It’s all about how a specific user experiences a particular website, the content it contains, how easy it is to navigate, how fast it loads and generally how enjoyable and satisfying it is to use. One man’s dream site is another man’s nightmare, so please forgive me if the 20 sites I highlight below are at odds with your perception of superlative UX.
The sites I have chosen, some that you’ll know, others that you won’t, all look great, perform a specific function better than any of their competitors, and do so with style and technical finesse. Shops, browser-based apps, social networking tools, search engines, online magazines and much more, I’ve covered all the bases here. If you’ve got any more suggestions, leave a comment and let me know.
30 Amazing Corporate Website Designs
This post shows corporate pages, pages with simple yet elegant designs. It is considered as a corporate trend, to look smart. The layout, as well as the text, expresses very suggestive and clear ideas: a company has a mission and through the immediate image they try to expose if not the whole concept of their mission, at least an attractive key point which best describes their activity, a distinctive plus. Usually the appearance of this distinctive note is quite discreet, by taking the shape of a more simple design than what we’ve exploited in our previous articles.
In fact, the message has to be clear and a minimal, stylish web design is the best approach; a very colorful or crowded home page would make the visitor focus on other aspects, rather than the corporation itself (and its mission).
