Side project: Coloradore
Coloradore is the side project of graphic designer Anna Kövecses in which her aim is to create a collection of…
Design = emotions + usability
While fine art is a subjective field, graphic design is more formulaic in its fundamentals. An effective design should make…
Flat UI Kit (free download!)
Trends start everyday: an idea is adopted, passed on and before you know it it’s being discussed on design blogs….
The designer’s secret weapon: an account handler
I’m a lucky person. Every day I get to do what I love, which is helping clients work out what…
Do’s and don’ts of typography
As so much of the content available on the web is text it’s essential for web designers to understand the…
Designing the new, fully responsive wired.co.uk article pages
Recently, Condé Nast Digital undertook a complete redesign of the articles published on wired.co.uk. The aim was to provide a…
Side project: The Phraseology Project
The Phraseology Project was originally setup by Drew Melton as a way for him to hone his typography skills. The…
Our favorite tweets of the week: May 13, 2013 – May 19, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
How I learned to be REALLY creative
As I grew up, being a “creative child,” which was the description my school psychologist used to explain why I…
Learn to count with CSS
Hidden away in the depths of the CSS specification you’ll find CSS counters. As the name suggests they allows you…
The SEO sanity check part 2: gray hat techniques
In the last post, we took an in-depth look at Google’s Panda and Penguin updates and how they have impacted…
Deal of the week: Inspiring book offer from Smashing Magazine
Almost every business has a web presence these days; from single page ‘business card’ style sites, to million+ product e-commerce…
How to use the flexbox layout method (part 2)
In part one, we touched on how to harness the power of display: flex in your website layouts, and how…
What’s new for designers, May 2013
The May edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, jQuery plugins and JavaScript resources,…
Side project: Type Fight
The side project series is a series of posts in which we’ll be taking a look at the best of…
Our favorite tweets of the week: May 6, 2013 – May 12, 2013
Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can…
SEO sanity check part 1: Google’s Penguin and Panda updates
SEO has always been a tricky business, not only do experts have to spend time on researching keywords and following…
No more Creative Suite: what does it mean?
Adobe has just announced that Creative Suite will cease to exist after CS6 (in name at least), and be replaced…