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Showcase Of Typography Prints – The Best New Ones

Typography fascinates us because it produces incredible artwork that can transmit powerful messages. If you are not into typography you must think typography is an easy art. However, just choosing a typeface is not typography. Any person can use typefaces, some can even choose good typefaces, but only few master typography.

Typography is a really old discipline that asks the designer to study a lot, to make concentrated efforts and looking at printed materials as well as inspirational items. In the end, typography is not about choosing or making fonts, but about shaping text to transmit a certain message.

In this article you will see examples of typography inspiration which I hope will be useful to you in the process of building an image of how typography should be done for print. Inspiration is not enough so I’m advising you to also read a few typography books if you want to master this beautiful and powerful art.

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Dashboards Inspiration For Mobile User Interfaces – 34 Examples

Smartphone and tablet statistics are showing an incredible adoption rate, putting the spotlight on the mobile web and forcing web developers and designers to adapt to the new environment. This means that there must be created a whole new way of imagining and thinking a website or app.

When doing work for a product that will work on the mobile platform you have to concentrate on things that you usually ignore on websites or apps destined for desktop monitors.

For starters, designing buttons does have its creative freedom, but there are also limitations and guidelines. You can’t put in a dashboard, for example, small buttons of the app’s features because the app will be difficult to use and the whole idea behind deigning mobile apps and websites is making things easier, not harder.

Besides buttons, the location of the User Interface is also an important aspect about designing for mobile. Its ideal placement should be in the bottom right or left corners where users can navigate with their thumb, depending if they’re left or right handed. This, though, creates quite a buzz between designers so we can reduce the placement to just bottom of the screen to avoid comments.

However, not all people navigate with their thumb, others preferring the index finger, especially those who have bigger devices, like a Galaxy Note, for example. What you have to remember is that you need to design for the majority and even if you start from this basic idea, you will see that you will make exceptions along the way.

A few of these exceptions are made in dashboard designs, where you will see that the previously mentioned navigation rules don’t necessarily apply. In a dashboard, the buttons are placed on the whole screen. Placing them all at the bottom of the screen and leaving a lot of space is pointless so you know understand the importance of making exceptions from some rules.

This article features 34 examples of dashboards from various apps, designed either for Android or for iOS. I hope these will help you with designing the app that you are working on or the ones that you will work on in the future.

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The Importance Of Good Business Card Design With Examples

A person’s business card can be considered one of the most important marketing tools that he has. With it, you are giving you contact information to potential clients or existing customers to make them loyal. In order for the business card to do its desired job, it must be professional, attractive and memorable.

This can be certainty if you make sure you follow a set of rules. For starters, your logo must be simple and symbolic to your company’s services and the industry that is associated with. Placing your website and email is a must. People will be searching for a website where to look for more information about you and your business and also for an email if they want to contact you. If you’re missing these two, you would better keep the cards to yourself, cause handing them to people would be useless.

It is important for your card to be attractive and memorable. Try to think about the fact that some people receive hundreds of business cards from various individuals and they rarely remember any of them. Making your business card memorable is really important. The first few business cards showcased in this article are a really good example of how to make your card stand out.

Another thing that I’ve noticed people tend to appreciate in business cards is their quality. Your image is reflected by your business card and if you have one with a good paper quality and colors, the first impression of a possible client will be far better than from a regular business card.

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Website Showcase Of Modern Design – 39 Examples

Every year there are new trends in web design layouts due to the advancement in web technologies. Since CSS3 and HTML5, website design has changed significantly and with the help of various jQuery and minification tools, websites have become incredibly fast considering the amount of code that they are handling.

I used modern a lot in web design articles, but as time goes by, the modern that was a few months ago is not so modern anymore. This year, modern is represented mostly by responsive design, retina support, large photo backgrounds, CSS transparency, flat design or minimalist, infinite scrolling, fullscreen typography, CSS3 animations and a few other.

Of course, a website can’t have all these, but if you are a designer who uses wisely the latest web technologies there’s a big possibility that you’ll create a clean website that will check a few of the 2013 trends that I mentioned in the previous paragraph.

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Funny Vector Illustrations To Amuse You – 29 Prints

Get ready for killer images that are trendy and unique. Some of the images made by Letter-Q are fantastic already. Vector t-shirt design is the choice of a hot shirt slick enough for the club or casual enough for a day around the home relaxing.

Whatever it may be with vector illustrations you will be ready at any time or place to make a fun and bold statement with one of these shirts made by this talented designer. So if you are looking for some great vector illustrations to inspire your style or to buy a print or t-shirt, these funny designs are what you are looking for. Trendy, old school and comical pictures are what were all about.

There are various places where you can buy this designer’s artwork, mostly in T-shirt version, but if you are looking for posters instead of T-shirt designs, you can go to his Society6 page and grab them from there.