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Home. Dragon Interactive. TypoJungle. Chris Meisner. Hyperakt » Meaningful Design for the Common Good. Here design. Les Avignons - communications & design. Beautiful illustrated posters by Mads Berg. Web Inspire - Burciaga. 55 Hi's | A Greetings Collective. The Best Things | 55 Hi's | A Greetings Collective. The Anatomy Of An Infographic: 5 Steps To Create A Powerful Visual. Information is very powerful but for the most bit it is bland and unimaginative. Infographics channel information in a visually pleasing, instantly understandable manner, making it not only powerful, but extremely beautiful. Once used predominantly to make maps more approachable, scientific charts less daunting and as key learning tools for children, inforgraphics have now permeated all aspects of the modern world.

I designed a couple of infographics back in college, the need arising especially around the time Soccer World Cup fever spiked. It was a fun process representing the different groups, predicting winners in each group at each stage and creating a mock pairing of teams that would clash all the way leading upto the finals. Infographics can appear daunting to some with the sheer amount of data they present, but designed in the right manner and step by step, they can actually be one of the most fun things you will ever create.

Anatomy Of An Infographic 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Cool Infographics - Blog. Dale Harris - Creative Branding & Graphic Design Bendigo Victoria Australia. Design Inspiration + Visual Art Inspiration | Designflavr | Carrot Creative. CreamScoop / Front-end Web Development. SEO & Web | Memphis Website Design & Development by Deluge Studios. Veerle's blog 3.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS | Graphic Design. Website Anatomy Class | Build Internet! Five Minute Upgrade | Build Internet! Add a Mobile Landing Page to Your Site Give mobile visitors a way to quickly access your company phone number, email, or just directions to the office.

Five Minute Upgrade – Make Your Workstation (More) Ergonomic If you pile on hour after hour in front of a screen, maybe you should take the time to make sure you’re as comfortable as you could possibly be – which is where ergonomics comes in. Five Minute Upgrade – Writing Blog Post Titles That Grab Attention How are you going to make the perfect elevator pitch for your article? Five Minute Upgrade – Making Your Design Pop Don’t get hung up on a dull design, before jumping ship take a minute to get versed in how to add some extra flair. Five Minute Upgrade – Increase Scannability The average visitor is not going to take the time to read everything you have written, they will glance over it. Five Minute Upgrade – Variety in Title and Body Fonts Are you a one font wonder? Five Minute Upgrade – Header Hierarchy Headings can be tricky business. Pricing Bootcamp | Build Internet! CU3ER - 3D image slider!

Musa Dzine. Inspiredology - Design inspiration lab. WellMedicated - Inspiration Overdose. 50 Amazing Gig Posters Sure to Inspire. The gig poster scene isn’t exactly the best kept secret among music fiends like myself. It is a tradition that started in the 60′s and is still going strong. Nowadays, the majority of indie bands have a growing collection of poster art that is just too incredible to simply throw away once the show has ended. Not surprisingly, this has led to the gig poster being something of a collectors item for music fanatics everywhere. The following are 50 hand picked gig posters whose creativity and imagination blew me away.

Rilo Kiley Designer: Lure Design Inc Les Savy Fav Designer: Cody Fennell Devendra Banhart Designer: Spike Press The National Broken Social Scene Designer: The Small Stakes My Morning Jacket Designer: Andrio Abero Mates Of State Andrew Bird Designer: Gina Kelly The Decemberists Designer: Little Jacket Animal Collective Designer: Delicious Design League Deerhoof The Shins Designer: Kevin Tong …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead Designer: Dave Conrey We Are Scientists Designer: Jonathan Schmitt Stars.

Forty Design and Marketing | Forty. Portrait | kelsey foster photography. Business Card Design | Unique Business Cards by Card Observer. Simon Lunt. Graphic Designer. London - WELCOME. Signing on the dotted line... I often get email requests regarding my graphic design contract. First of all, I refer to mine as a "project agreement" - the term sounds a bit friendlier than "contract," but still shows that I mean business. I have found that my agreement has become a great "pre-qualifier" of clients.

When sending out one of my promotional packets to potential clients I always include a copy of the document. Just including the agreement will show potential clients there is a seriousness to the possible business relationship. My project agreement is created in a way that I can adapt it to the the specific requirements of a particular project. The basic document is below. Client contact name: Business name: Address: City/State/Country/Postal Code: Phone/Email/Fax: (Insert your itemized description of the project here) __ Labor fees (design, art direction, production, copywriting, client services, etc.) are estimated at a total of $_________ or ____ see attached estimate sheet for specifications.

Date: 55 Examples of Beautifully Integrated Social Media Links in Web Design. I believe that everybody already understands the importance of social media, and incorporating it into a web design. To get the attention of your viewers to your social media links you need to use both strategy and good taste. To design a good call-to-action social media icon/link you need to think about its positioning, its color, approach, style, size, everything. You also need to keep in mind that you want to get the attention of your viewers to the social side of your website without distracting from what’s important, such as the content. In my opinion, a good social media link is one that you have no trouble to finding and when you find it, you like what you see.

To give you some ideas of how you might integrate social media links in your next project, I’ve put together a collection of 55 Examples of Well Integrated Social Media Icons in Web Design. There should be plenty here to inspire you. What’s Up Cupcake? Jason Howmans Brett Chaney dConstruct2010 The Waiting Room Sky’s veerle’s blog. Timothy Smith. 24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent.

Print: Design for Curious Minds. Behance.com :: We design products and services that empower the creative world to make ideas happen. We Love Webdesign. HeyIndy.com. Mint: design, art, fashion, and wedding blog by ellie snow. A selection of graphic projects. Site storyboarding and design | Web Designer - Defining the internet through beautiful design. CREATING A DESIGN for a website that successfully represents the subject matter or business in question is more than chance. When we embark on a new web design project it’s always very tempting to jump straight into creating visual mockups, defining navigation placement and colour schemes. This can work occasionally, and definitely adds a freshness to the final design, but as an approach it’s full of risks. As a professional web designer it’s better to take a structured, measured approach where you build a design solution after examining business objectives, user requirements and defining the informational layout; that is, how the information contained within the website will hang together.

There are many different ways to approach a design project. In this short tutorial we will look at just one way to improve your workflow, reduce risks to meeting business goals and end up with a meaningful design that meets users’ needs. Author: Sam Hampton-Smith | Originally appeared in Issue 156. EightHourDay. Splashnology - Web Design and Web Technology Community. MIX Online. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! ::: CMYK Magazine Online ::: The art-design magazine featuring a quarterly art school design contest for emerging artists in art direction, copywriting, design, photography and illustration. ::: Art School Portfolio Competition-Showcase, Aspiring Creative.