It’s pretty simple to get a great-looking design with silhouettes: just add gradient to simulate a sundown, some palm trees and there you are – a warm, yet trendy design. That’s why I bring 30 Free tree silhouette vectors to enrich your designs. Enjoy!
Next Friday: Interview with Elliot Jay Stock
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 […]
93 Butterflies Vector & Png Clipart Pack
Organic designs are always beautiful and butterflies definitely don’t escape from trendy works. These 23 butterflies that I personally caught on Flickr under the creative commons license can help you to achieve that dreamy look. The pack consists of transparent .png isolated objects, silhouettes, b/w and color vector traced vector files in .eps and .svg […]
How Can Webdesigners On Linux Survive Without Adobe?
We all heard about Linux OS. There are a lot of myths about it, not very many people are using it (all Linux freaks won’t agree with me on this – but let’s face the truth – the Linux users are niche community). In this short article I would like to show you what’s Linux […]
16 Beautiful, Simple and Cliché-free Websites
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 […]
How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
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 […]
10 Free Web 2.0 Fonts
These are a selection of 10 fonts from the urban fonts top 100, that I think fit with the Web 2.0 font trends. Please click on the image of each font to go to the download page on urbanfont.com.
30 Free Vector Skylines: Vector Pack 03
The time has come for skylines A.K.A cityscapes. I have selected 30 city profiles, from Sydney to New York, and have vectorized them using the acclaimed online vectorization tool vectormagic. Please feel free to use these vectors in your designs. There will be more themed vector packs to come. Preview **Update 12/22/08** Added to the […]
Design Trend: Light Graffiti
PS3 New interface for the firmware 2.0 Yesterday, PS3 got a new firmware update to 2.0. And also its interface, sporting a dark background with neon color shapes as if painted with light. So when I saw that nifty interface I joined the dots and identified a design trend I have been noticing since I […]
Why should your site have “personality”?
The idea for this post came to me when I was redesigning our company site. I’ve made few different ideas – but they were all dull, and I’ve rejected them after some time.I wanted to figure out what was wrong with those designs – and finally I got it. The problem was that I wasn’t […]
