Breaking The Design Cycle: Get Creative To Be Creative

Designers, we have a problem. It seems we have forgotten how to be creative. It is true, the very nature of what we do…

30 Funny Twitter Comics

As you probably already know, Twitter is hotter than ever. Everyone seems to be tweeting these days about anything and…

15 Online Financial Tools for Freelance Designers

Efficiency and organization are critical for freelance web designers. Managing finances and tracking down payments is…

Intro to Git for Web Designers

Unless you're a one person web shop with no team to collaborate with, you've experienced the frustration that goes…

50 Inspirational Website Introductions

In portfolio web pages, especially in the field of design, one of the first things that you will notice is an…

30 Useful Web Design Books for 2009

To keep up with the fast-paced web design industry you must seek out self education sources as often as possible, such…

40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica

It's over fifty years old, it's the most widely used font ever, and it has recently become the subject of its own…

5 Things Your Clients Should Know

Do you ever feel like you are endlessly repeating the same day? I do, every time I attend a kickoff meeting with a new…

Microsoft Announces SuperPreview for IE Browser Testing

Browser testing is a hot and frustrating issue among web designers and developers alike. In most cases, developers…

50 Monochromatic Website Designs

Color choice is a key element to the success of any design. It invokes an atmosphere and sets the mood. One method for…

Best Practices for Designing a Social News Website

How do you get your daily news these days? Well... you may be visiting your favorite sites and blogs, but that's…

40 Comics Strips for Web Designers

With the massive exodus towards online publishing, many people hardly reach for the newspaper these days. If there's…

10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 2

When you’re working with clients remotely it can sometimes be difficult to keep everyone happy and your project on…

Operating System Interface Design Between 1981-2009

A Graphical User Interface (GUI for short) allows users to interact with the computer hardware in a user friendly…

50+ Popular Airline Logos

Every day thousands of people take it to the air... With so many airlines to choose from, branding is extremely…

5 Simple Ways to Improve Web Typography

Type is one of the most-used elements of the web. Think about it. Unless you are YouTube or Flickr, chances are your…

20 Beautiful Photoshop Montage Tutorials

Photomontage is a technique widely used by graphic designers and consists of cutting and joining multiple photographs…

8 Tips to Design a Charity Website

A lot of charities rely on voluntary funding. This funding is carefully distributed and there are often more important…

10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1

Collaborating with clients you never meet face-to-face has become normal for most web workers. Ours is an industry…

39 Olympic Logos From 1924 to 2012

Living in Vancouver, Canada, I've been seeing the logo of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games more and more around…

A Life Guide for the Anti-Social Freelancer

In the workplace, we hear a lot about work-life balance and the need to be a well-rounded person. For many freelancers…

50 Beautiful Snowboard Designs

In this post, we feature 50 outstanding and beautiful snowboard designs. The vertical space creates unique design…

7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces

What is simplicity? Simplicity is the quality of being natural, plain and easy to understand. It is not surprising then…

Breaking Apart - Photoshop Tutorial

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to create a breaking apart effect using some simple, but effective,…