Rob Bowen
Rob Bowen is an emerging filmmaker, celebrated author/podcaster and poet, and most recently the co-founder and imaginative co-contributor of the creative design and blogging duo at the Arbenting and Dead Wings Designs.
How to use circles in website design
Circles are a relatively new development in web design. From the boxy days of web design’s youth, our contemporary…
By Rob Bowen
5 essential elements of a successful 404 error page
404 pages are one of the most overlooked aspects of any website design, and when they're not overlooked, the tendency…
By Rob Bowen
The secrets to using large, expressive type on websites
When designing a website we have to strike a balance between the visual elements and the text elements of the site.…
By Rob Bowen
21 free tools for perfecting your portfolio
One of the tasks, that as designers, we are constantly being asked to tackle is to build impressive and fitting…
By Rob Bowen
The key to modern blog design: promote UX by retiring your sidebar
Let us take a look at and discuss the often aesthetic bane of the blog design, sidebars. Sidebars have been with us for…
By Rob Bowen
More is less: Not so minimal, minimalist websites
When you think of minimalism in design, whitespace usually comes to mind. When the designer is strips a piece down to…
By Rob Bowen
What's wrong with being creative?
The web is full of people discussing the finer points of the design field. Many who are focused on figuring out exactly…
By Rob Bowen
Perfection in a portfolio; a web design showcase
Web design is a subtle science that is lost to most who are not in the field. The amount of choices that go into…
By Rob Bowen
How to launch a startup
We all know that there are a few differences between small businesses and larger corporations, especially when they…
By Rob Bowen
Review: the mobile web is Smashing!
Since the dawn of the mobile web, the design and development landscape has changed drastically. Today, no one working…
By Rob Bowen
How to get started with Sass
There is one persistent problem with CSS; it doesn't support variables. Each time you specify a color, for a block of…
By Rob Bowen
How to make design decisions
This post examines an important part of the design process that, for some reason or other, is often omitted from…
By Rob Bowen
Four freelance lessons learned the hard way
An interesting thing about working as a freelancer, while the area of expertise may vary, is that many of us will share…
By Rob Bowen
Land your dream design job with the perfect résumé
In the densely populated design field, we are always looking for ways to make ourselves stand out from the crowd.
Never…
By Rob Bowen