Everyone is always looking for interesting and effective ways to organize their website and allow users to move about and find things. But there’s a fine line between unexpected and unusable. Three points to consider in any navigation scheme are consistency, user expectations and contextual clues.
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Bokeh effect is the blurred or out of focus part of the image. This effect has become very popular recently, and is normally seen in photography mostly around the light sources. Many designers have made use of this effect in web design to bring the object into sharper focus while making the background visually appealing.
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They say the first bite is taken with the eye. If so, these appetizing restaurant websites succeed in whetting our appetites, inviting us to a savoury next bite. In these designs, color scheme and introductory copy show vastly different aspects of the restaurant experience. Moody warm tones create atmosphere, vibrant greens underscore freshness, and earthy colors communicate a relaxed, friendly attitude.
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New website for the prestigious & extravagant french champagne brand. Animated random transitions in video and illustration which display the brand universe before accessing to contents.
A while ago, we showcased a list of 50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs which featured a collection of portfolio websites belonging mainly to individual designers. Today, along those same lines, we’re presenting a collection of design agency websites. We want to show you how some of the talented design studios out there are presenting their work and attracting new clients. Enjoy, and get inspired!
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Just as there are a variety of designers out there, there are respectfully just as many web design styles. Some are good, some are bad – many are just experimental. However, there are those few styles in web design that we see all the time. They are the design styles that work, and that we’ve grown to know best.
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Twist is the smallest Blood Clucose Meter in the world. With Salah, the biggest popper, enjoy a journey through many dimensions.
Fantasy-like design is not only about mysterious creatures and landscapes, it is also always about adventure and struggle. That is why, some of the interface design samples, listed below, feature really strong influence of military, gothic, and cosmic styles. Anyway, it is better to watch the graphics than to read about it, so that will do with the words, just open your mind, activate your imagination and enjoy these interface designs.
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Typography is one of the most difficult trends to tackle which is why it will remain fresh in 2010. With all the cries for usability, web designers are afraid of using new and different fonts. We realize that nowadays, knowledge in typography can be applied into various forms in almost all of media fields, including graphic design and the publishing world.
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BILDMACHT believes in the power of the image, in using picture to touch people, in developing new images in people’s minds, in releasing emotions, in pinpointing complex concepts using pictures…
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Web layouts are crucial for every web design. Whether it is a simple design or an advanced one, Photoshop can often come handy in creating such layouts. We have collected some really creative and helpful recent tutorials that display the process behind creating web layouts in Photoshop.
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0 to OMG in 4.4 Seconds. Mercedes AMG introduces the world to its lateset creation, the 571Hp Bi-Turbo V8. Join us as we take a deep look at a perfect combination of performance and efficiency.
A selection of illustrations created by artist Redjuice999. Click the image above to check out the flash site.
This is a promotion movie of a Shochu, “Shiro” by Takahashi shuzo. http://cheers-system.jp/
When we say “Cheer!”, the happiness is born between two people. And it spreads to others like a chain reaction and grows bigger and bigger. We hope the Japanese Shochu “SHIRO” can bring people bit closer and happy by making them “Cheers!”. If you feel like to say “Cheers!” with friends even a little after watching this movie, we are pleasure to hear so.
Sharing as the melting point of the big ideas. The school allows to discover the next generation of digital talkers that will seed the next status quo of their agencies and brands.
llen Solly was founded in 1744 by a company called William Hollin and Co Ltd. The brand was purchased some time in the 90′s by a new company called Madura Garments which was a part of Madura Coats. Madura Coats was a big producer of threads. Click here to check out his online store website.
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Dark layouts tend to be full of style and really classy. It’s cool because you may use neon colors with it, and make just the right thing glow in that layout. For me, the possibilities are numerous, but I wonder how do you like it. Tell us! Here I’ve selected some great examples of dark layouts I’ve seen lately.
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Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for using color is to use only shades of a color, which is known as a monochromatic color scheme.
Of all the color schemes, the monochromatic is one of the easiest to pull off successfully. This reason for such ease is that one shade of a color will naturally almost always work with another shade of the same color.
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