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24 Oct
50 Graphic tributes to Steve Jobs
Apple, Best Of, Design
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With the passing of Steve Jobs this month, designers around the world are creating tributes.
Considering the impact Jobs had on the technology and design fields, it’s not surprising to see the number of creative designs created to pay homage to his legacy.
A great collection of these tributes have been recently posted to Behance.net.
Below, we’ve collected fifty of these designs, all inspired by the life of Jobs and the impact he had on the world.
Feel free to share other designs that we may have missed and let us know which ones you like best in the comments…. Read more
23 Oct
Our favorite tweets of the week
Oct 17-Oct 23, 2011
Best Of, Compilation, Twitter
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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.
The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.
Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.
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22 Oct
Comics of the week #100
Comics, Funny, Humor
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Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.
The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.
These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.
So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons.
Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions below as well as any related stories of your own… Read more
21 Oct
2011 Graphic Designer Survey (enter for a chance to win a Macbook Pro)
Graphic Design, Surveys, Web Designers
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In partnership with Uprinting, today we’re posting a 3 minute short survey to collect data about graphic designers and an awesome chance to win a brand new 13″ Apple Macbook Pro! (includes free shipping).

The survey will be used to learn more about the design community and create several posts and infographics about it.
The results will keep designers up-to-date with the latest graphic design practices, trends and technology by collecting relevant data from who else but actual designers like you!
See this page for all terms and conditions, FAQs and more information. You can fill out the survey after the jump. Thanks! Read more
20 Oct
A round-up of great vlogs and podcasts for designers
Graphic Design, Resources, Web Design
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Being a designer is not your average job: your work is constantly evolving, giving you new tools to either become more productive or to simply create better work. For that, we all do our best to read books, brush up our skills following some tutorials, subscribe to blogs or attend design conferences. However, we often overlook one medium: the podcast.
If you are a seasoned multitasker, you can listen to podcasts while working. Otherwise, the other big advantage of podcasts is that you can take it anywhere and listen to it whenever you want, while riding the bus to work or doing the dishes.
To find the perfect podcast is hard, but there are many good shows out there, especially for designers. Good podcasts usually have the following: a great host that chooses good topics and quality guests, good sound quality and jingles, show notes and links.
The following shows usually combine all those properties, check them out! Read more
19 Oct
20 websites that engage users with social media icons and links
Compilation, Social Media, Web Design
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The topic of social media is all over the web, and it is important to consider it when designing a website.
The way you display social media icons or links has a direct effect on user engagement.
You have to consider many details when laying out a page, including the layout, the flow of content and the main area of rest on the page.
Whether you end up with typographic links in the header or icons in the footer, you should test out colors, shapes, typography and iconography to ensure that your social links are thoughtfully combined, engaging and well designed.
Here, we’ll show you some examples of how websites display their social links so that you can see the variety of options out there. Check them out, and let us know what you think.
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18 Oct
A web of lies
Ethics, Information, Internet
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I recently added to my top ten most embarrassing moments of my professional life. No, I won’t be listing the top ten but this one was extremely disturbing because it affected a lot of people and basically went unnoticed and pushed out the truth and replaced if with a falsehood that had become the truth. I’m referring to an article I wrote about a famous designer but the images of the fantastic work weren’t actually his.
It was not my intention to prank or scam readers but I used the wonderful World Wide Web to gather my information and that was a blunder I should have seen coming. It wasn’t until a reader pointed out that the designer did not do the work, that I scrambled to find out the truth. At first, I thought, by the way the comment was worded, it was just a spam scam for a website and this was glomming onto the popularity of the article.
I started searching via Google to see if the work did truly belong to the designer, as I had found them on there. It seems my article had replaced most sources on this designer. Both a power trip and a frightening realization–I had rewritten history as far as the web was concerned.
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