From the basic need for protection to pieces of art, shoes aren’t the same. We are going to see the application of graphic design to add concepts and values to shoes. They are more than clothing pieces, they are ways to express yourself, your own style. Get inspired by these we present you. Nike Nike [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Inspiration'
52 Inspirational T-shirts
November 19th, 2008 11 Comments
We bring to you today a collection of T-shirt designs for your inspiration. It’s interesting to see so many good talents and different styles. Beautiful T-shirts are good sources of references for us. We selected nice tees from 3 different sites. The first one is the Threadless. They have tees from $9.00 (on sale) to [...]
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Design Inspiration: Beautiful Sites Inside-out
May 26th, 2008 2 Comments
Normally when an inspirational post is presented, it is focused on aesthetics. This time I would like to present a PSD to HTML service that has for its slogan “Code is art” – and the pages coded by them are surely beautiful hmtl pieces of code. Here are some examples. Among them, the acclaimed SmashingMagazine. [...]
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10 Best and Worst Looking Sites From The Web
April 18th, 2008 17 Comments
You can 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 Angelfire, lol – it’s way easier to hand pick the cream of the crop of webdesign. According to commandshift3.com – Like [...]
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21 Chiyogami Seamless Backgrounds
March 24th, 2008 11 Comments
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 screening are used. Many of the traditional designs can be traced back to the Edo period. Here are 21 [...]
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Design Inspiration: 3rd Edge Portfolio
February 7th, 2008 No Comments
3rd Edge is a communication firm located in the USA since 1996. Their approach to design is quite clean and clever, and you can tell that as soon as you enter their online portfolio. document.getElementById(“post-227-blankimage”).onload();
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11 Images you might want to avoid in your designs.
December 13th, 2007 60 Comments
We have been talking about avoiding clichés lately, instead trying to reflect the unique personality of every business. That way our design will stand out among millions. Sometimes the hardest situations come when our clients ask us to implement some not-so-unique elements and it seems almost impossible to convince him that it would be better [...]
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Next Friday: Interview with Elliot Jay Stock
December 3rd, 2007 5 Comments
Elliot Jay Stocks is a senior Designer at Carson Systems, 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 an interview to [...]
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16 Beautiful, Simple and Cliché-free Websites
November 23rd, 2007 6 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 opposing trend to the current popular style. This new look has rich textures and an organic feel. The purpose behind these designs is to come up with different web design approaches [...]
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How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
November 20th, 2007 172 Comments
A trend always appears as opposition to another. Detailed Gothic art was replaced with the pure straight lines from 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. The web is no exception. In the beginning, there was [...]
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