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25 Examples of Perfect Color Combinations. Today we will show you some examples of websites that are using beautiful and inspiring color combinations that match perfectly and create an eye candy result. From delicate and smooth colors to strong duos and super colorful pages, we have several styles to show you. Color is definitely a very important element of web design, and if you are familiar with the Color Theory used in visual arts, you may know that even with a lot of studies, the reaction to colors is pretty subjective and people react differently.

Some reactions are based on background, others are based on personal taste and even psychological feelings. The color theory is actually a science that helps us design our projects, and it’s certainly something to consider when creating a website. In case you are interested, here are some nice color related tools: COLOURLovers, Kuler Adobe, Color Scheme Designer and remember you can sometimes use Firebug to discover which colors people are using in a design.

Decode Gimme Delivery. Minimalilistique, le flou est tout un art. On voit de plus en plus passé dans nos flux des séries de photos avec une photo (floue ou pas) avec un rond et une typographie light. Alors avec mon collègue Marco (@marcothe3rd), nous sommes parti de cette idée afin de sortir le projet Minimalilistique©, le concept des photos floues, un petit logo, et une typographie light (Bryant Light) Voila ce que ça donne pour un premier jet, qu’en pensez vous les amis. Minimaliste » Web Design Inspiration. Bureaux minimalistes pour productivité assurée! Le billet d’hier parlait du fait qu’avoir une station de travail minimaliste et bien structurée aidait grandement à la productivité au travail. Pour continuer dans cette optique, voici une liste de 30 stations de travail minimalistes pour vous inspirer dans la décoration de votre bureau.

N’hésitez pas à écrire quels ont été vos bureaux minimalistes préférés et pourquoi! « Billet original paru sur le site web Webdesignerdepot.com et a été écrit par Andy Johnson . Soemone. Tyrsa. FubizDesignrfix | GD Inspiration, Tutorials & WD Resources. Portfolio Websites. 50 Excellent Designer Portfolio Sites. Designers and developers are growing in numbers and plenty of these folks have outstanding portfolios. The common advantage of the Internet is that anybody from anywhere in the world can check out your projects during any time of the day!

If you wish to land more freelance work then I would recommend taking a peek at your current portfolio to see if anything could be updated. And to help with building ideas for your own website, I have collected 200 various portfolios of graphics designers, developers, writers, and other digital creatives. This is a massive showcase gallery full of design inspiration for unique portfolio layouts.

I strived to include only designs which really change things up from the typical portfolio website templates. Plus in addition to these design examples, I would love to read other people’s thoughts on how to build a great portfolio site in the comments section. If you like this post you might also like our post 35 mobile responsive portfolio layouts Mathew Helme. 50 Beautiful & Creative Portfolio Designs. Advertisement Design portfolios come in various forms.

Traditionally, they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Today, many designers take advantage of the Internet to publish and showcase their work via their online portfolios. Having your work displayed online removes the geographical restraints that traditional portfolios impose on you. With many portfolios online, it’s often hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of beautiful, unique and highly creative portfolio designs. You may also want to take a look at the following related articles: Creating A Successful Online Portfolio1031 In this article, we review five pitfalls that commonly plague portfolio design. 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolios Pikaboo2 This portfolio showcases a creative navigation scheme; use the scroll button on the mouse to navigate up and down the showcase. 32 Amazing Graphic Designer’s Portfolio Sites.

Learn how to earn $125 or more per hour as a freelancer - Click Here Looking for hosting?. We recommend MediaTemple for web hosting. Use Code MTLOVESDESIGN for 20% off In this article we’ll be checking out some truly inspiring graphic designer’s portfolio sites. In all cases, the site structure seems to have been playfully dismantled and then put together again in a new, extremely creative and astonishing way! Interactive Partners Taua Design Simple Art Yodabaz Krasimir Tsonev Joonas Paloheimo Nisgia – John Panagiotou This Is Real Art Guillaume Pacheco Disturb Media InsidePiet Thibaud MetaLab Design Bcandullo Tomas Pojeta Foxie Graphics Martian Design Web Leed Design Marc Dahmen 2serious Gummisig K4 Laboratory I am Docto Francesco Mugnai Gouka Design Nalin Design James Widegren Kidd 81 Damian Herrington Saizen Media WM Team Section Seven About brantwilson Brant Wilson is a staff writer for the DesignMag network. 40 Beautiful Web Design Portfolios. It’s funny that a web designer’s portfolio – arguably their most valuable marketing tool – is usually neglected and horribly out of date.

I know mine is. I’ve been really itching to overhaul my portfolio website for months now. Though I don’t mind the current layout, it was always meant to be temporary. As is usually the case, it’s just a matter of having the time to do it right. To get the ball rolling I’ve collected 40 beautiful web design portfolios that for one reason or another blew me away.

Some are for larger companies while others are for individual freelancers like myself. Sofa C-Graphics Ayush Saran Shannon Moeller Vitor Lourenco Giant Creative 0at WP Coder Tomas Pojeta Lataka AdaptD Ten 24 Media Jeff Sarmiento Simple Art Kavoon Zendiko Gareth Dickey Henry Jones Fortyseven Media Design Disease The Old State Function Nofrks Zee The Designer Dean Oakley Fran Boot Kubca Jason Reed Contrast Just Dot Popmatik Andrew Bayley Rawkes Paul Wallas Drawn To Pixels Alexandru Cohaniuc Mike Precious Komodo Media Junaid Hanif. 16 WebDesign Galleries for Inspiration. Web design galleries offer designers and developers creative inspiration on their own designs. By aggregating the top web designs on the web, a gallery serves as a prime spot for getting those creative juices flowing. In this article you’ll find 16 of the best and most popular web design galleries ranked in order by the number of votes they garnered on a poll that was published earlier this month.

On instances where there was a tie, the site with the higher Alexa rank received a higher ranking. 16. Web Creme Nearing almost 4 years of operation, Web Creme is one of the more matured website showcases on the web. The websites are displayed with large thumbnails so you don’t have to be 2 inches away from the monitor to see them. FAVEUP is a design inspiration gallery that has a CSS Websites, Flash Websites, Business Cards, and Logo section. 13. Design Shack currently features over 1,800 websites in their CSS Gallery. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. cssheaven.com 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. siteInspire A Poll. How To Create A Great WD CV and Résumé? Advertisement The economy is bad. No one’s job is really 100% safe, so it’s time we all bucked up and got our recession bags packed (just in case!).

Your portfolio is already gorgeous, but have you created a drool-worthy résumé? This flimsy one-page document is more important than many people think: the résumé is the first portfolio piece that potential employers see, and if they’re not impressed, chances are they won’t look at the rest of your portfolio. The Steve Stevenson Challenge Everyone likes a competition. Steven Stevenson, a fictional Web designer, doesn’t have a résumé. And in no particular order, here are the contestants’ entries! Contest Entries Sam Brown made a real effort to distinguish between the three main components of Steve Stevenson’s life and adds a touch of personality with some handwritten text and highlighting. Ali Felski‘s design is beautiful and simple, but manages to convey Steve Stevenson’s strong design skills. 10 Useful Tips For A Great Résumé Design 1. 2. 3.

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