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10 Best and Worst Looking Sites From The Web

April 18th, 2008 5 Comments

You always find inspiration in lists of best-looking sites, but what about the worst ever? I know, I know that would be harder, to decide among the countless horrendous sites from geocities or angel fire lol - it’s way easier to hand pick the cream of the crop of websdeign.
According to commandshift3.com - Like “hot [...]

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21 Chiyogami Seamless Backgrounds

March 24th, 2008 1 Comment

Chiyogami: A highly decorative type of Washi paper (和紙, Washi or Wagami? literally, “Japanese paper”) printed paper used for craft purposes. It was originally printed with wood blocks but now other printing methods such as silk screen are used. Many of the traditional designs can be traced back to the Edo period.
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Design Inspiration: 3rd Edge Portfolio

February 7th, 2008 No Comments

3rd Edge is a comunication firm locate in USA since 1996. They aproach in design is quite clean and clever and you can tell that just to enter to they online portfolio.
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11 Images you might want to avoid in your designs.

December 13th, 2007 38 Comments

We have been talking about avoiding clichés lately, and also trying to reflect the unique personality of every business. That way our design will stand out among millions.
Sometimes the harder situations come when our client asks us to implement some not so unique elements and it seems almost impossible to convince him that it would [...]

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Next Friday: Interview with Elliot Jay Stock

December 3rd, 2007 1 Comment

Elliot Jay Stocks is a senior Designer at Carson Systemst, a regular writer for industry-leading publications such as .net, a speaker at conferences and events (in his last one he told us to “destroy the Web 2.0 look”) and also a copious blogger at his own blog and at Carsonified.
He gave [...]

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16 Beautiful, Simple and Cliché-free Websites

November 23rd, 2007 4 Comments

In my last post “How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look” based on Elliot Jay Stocks’ proposal I showed some sites that illustrate an opposite trend to the current style, with its rich textures and organics feel. The whole idea with this is to present different web designs approaches and to try to build up [...]

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How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look

November 20th, 2007 120 Comments

A trend always appears as the result of the opposition with another. The once full of detail Gothic art was replaced with pure straight lines from the Greek temples in the Renaissance. The tons of hair spray, glitter and multicolor spandex 80’s were demolished by the black & white minimalism from the 90’s.
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10 Inspirational Music Videos

September 6th, 2007 2 Comments

Video killed the radio star and brought a whole new way to inspire us. Music videos and the environment generated by MTV has expanded the visual innovation and creativity to further limits where creativity, art, design and music collide in the most splendid, eye-catching and absurd ways.
It would certainly be impossible to talk about hundreds [...]

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Hunting inspiration? What about provocation?

June 29th, 2007 2 Comments

Inspiration Inspiration INSPIRATION! It can be elusive, sometimes mean and many times just blocked! And you start to wonder: where are those infamous muses? And you spend hours trying to catch them, watching with puppy eyes other guy’s work.
And then two feelings fill your heart: despair and the can’t-keep-your-mouth-closed (or jaw [...]

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What Graphic Design has to thanks to Fidel Castro.

June 13th, 2007 5 Comments

Back in 1958 Fidel Castro with a modest rebel army gains the power over Cuba.
Despite of his efforts to have an independent line he must conceal with the Russian influence on the new order. The Political posters from those years testifies that.
By 1965, in a time with tense relations with the Soviet Union, [...]

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