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Creating a Brand Identity: 20 Questions You MUST Ask BEFORE You Start
“No. This just doesn’t look right”. What do you do when a client says that? Especially if it’s about the design you just sent in after a whole week of loving labour. For a designer, the worst clients...
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10 Quality Free Flat Icon Sets for Your Designs
Flat design has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. This is hardly surprising because flat design has a lot of artistic and even technical advantages. If you have embraced flat design as a...
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14 Hand-Picked, Free Social Icon Packs
Of the thousands of icons you can find online, social network icons would have to be among the most numerous. This is hardly surprising, considering the amount of time people dedicate to social sites...
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Open Source Presentation Tools: Are We There Yet?
In recent months I have been attempting to make as much of my work and creative output as open and collaborative as possible. With most of my output being code and markdown this has been simple. I give...
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6 Free Online Tools to Make Your Life Easier
We're all on the lookout for ways to do things better. In this article, I'm going to take you through a roundup of some of the less well known tools that almost any web designer can benefit from. Each...
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Taking the Guesswork out of Typography on the Web
Too many designers guess their way through typography. Books and articles from all over are guilty of presenting typography in an overly arty “you have to just know” style. In actual fact there is a...
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7 Tips to Taking the Guess Work Out of Choosing Stock Imagery
This article was sponsored by Adobe. Thank you for supporting the sponsors who make SitePoint possible. Stock imagery has become a huge part of the design process for graphic designers. The old adage...
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Why Do We Love Scratchy Records, Halftone Dots & Other Flaws?
It's funny how it's almost always the imperfections in a technology that become its signature - the bit that we celebrate. What am I talking about? The hiss and crackle of a vinyl record The sprocket...
View ArticleAdobe Stock Will Change the Way You Work
Depending on how long you've been around, you probably use stock photography every day. It doesn't matter if you are a print designer or a website design, or you create mockups, stock photos are an...
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Generating a Useful Style Guide with Sketch App
When it comes to designing large multi-artboard websites in Sketch App, Shared Styles, Text Styles and Symbols are your biggest allies. Nobody wants to keep recreating those call-to-action buttons over...
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Getting Random with David Bowie and Fractals
A small Jean Genie snuck off to the city, Strung out on lasers and slash-back blazers, Ate all your razors while pulling the waiters Last week I saw the 'Bowie Is' Exhibition at ACMI, and the lyric...
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Saving Bandwidth by Using Images the Smart Way
Images are the native language of our brains. While it takes us years to learn to talk, read and write, we're processing images from the day we're born. This allows images to convey complex ideas much...
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7 Fantastic Plugins to Level-up Your Sketch App Powers
Some days I find myself wondering whether the core fundamentals of Sketch App can even be improved by plugin functionality. Sketch App is a breeze to use because its features are minimal. As true as...
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Using Brandisty to Host your Brand Assets
As designers, it's easy to forget that not everyone is able to easily convert/resize logos with a blink of the eye. Having to bother your designer for access to your own logo assets is an irritation...
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Web Trends 2015: Brush up on the Watercolor Design Trend
[caption id="attachment_116244" align="aligncenter" width="667"] http://aurorawienhold.deviantart.com/art/STOCK-Watercolor-Texture-Frost-344909569[/caption] We’ve gathered together some of our favorite...
View ArticleHow to Create a Web Style Guide You’ll Be Proud Of
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan” — Eliel Saarinen The quote above...
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What Do Super High-Res Displays Mean for Your Website?
When retina displays hit the market, web design experts and web developers gasped at the thought of having to deal with a new resolution. From a web design standpoint, it was a nightmare. Responsive...
View Article4 Expert Tips for Getting the Most Out of Google Fonts
Google fonts has been with us for almost five years now. If you work with web front-ends, there is every chance that you have used the service in at least one of the websites that you developed. While...
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Sketch App: 10 New Enhancements that Will Make You Giddy
Despite the fact that the latest updates to Sketch don't include any new major features releases, they are otherwise a brilliant string of improvements that I thought it was worth pulling together a...
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Top 9 Animation Libraries to Use in 2016
The modern web is filled with amazing, eyeball-capturing elements. In simple terms, the more time a user spends on a website, the more is the net worth of the application. Web developers use a wide...
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