“Everything needs time” — These words were said by Oleg Rogoznev, an outstanding Russian illustrator, working in the genre of photo realistic vectors. Read more about him in this interview.
Interview with Oleg Rogoznev – Outstanding Illustrator
10 Graphic Designer Resources to Find Online Work
As a professional designer you want to fatten up your portfolio and reach new clients. As a designer hobbyist, you wish to improve your skills, possibly put your works-of-art on display and even turn your hobby into a profitable business.
Works of Russian Illustrators
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Creative Mimimalist Watches Design
minimal = beautiful.
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30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins
WordPress is a great and free CMS. It is also very expandable – thanks to it’s community that keeps creating new plugins and themes. Here is a list of 30+ AJAX Powered plugins for WordPress.
Building a Pattern Library
Design patterns and modular components are effective techniques for designing and building long-lasting, consistent experiences. › Read More
11 Trends in Web Logo Design
Article from Mashable on trends in web logo design. “11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad and the Overused“
FRESH Collection of jQuery Plugins
Here is a fresh collection of jQuery plugins @ SmashingApps.com.
Really great to see that jQuery community is like a train that you can’t stop.
Twitter design is based on golden ratio
Collection of Infographics (creative juice for information designers)
jQuery Quicksand
WOW. If I had to pick the best jQuery plugin for 2010 – jQuery Quicksand would take the first and second place right away. Not only is it animated really smooth – it also happens to be a great way to filter information. A++
› Visit jQuery Quicksand Plugin (& Demo) page.
Google makes push to standardize new web picture format (.WebP)
As the top online search engine in the world, Google, hopes to make the web more efficient, the company has announced a new ambitious strategy that could see most of the web switching over to a new image format.
FREE PSD Resources
Here are a bunch of free PSD goodies and resources you can download and use right away!
› 71+ Free PSD Files (PresidiaCreative)
› 25+ Free PSD Files (Greepit)
› PSDGraphics.com – A good resource not only for PSD files, but tuts and templates as well.
Infographics (GOOD, BAD, and UGLY)
If you look at an infographic strictly from a design perspective, without the information that it’s trying to feed, you should still be able to tell what it’s all about and evaluate if it works or not. This is my personal opinion, you can judge for yourself.
THE GOOD:
Economic and Sales Productivity During the World Cup
THE BAD:
Why Do Men Drink Beer?
THE UGLY:
What’s in that box of COCOA PUFFS?
DIY LED Turn Signal Jacket
PIXASTIC – JavaScript Image Processing Library
I basically found this library because I was looking into image saturation using JavaScript. Jacob Seidelin (blog.nihilogic.dk) did an amazing job here. I guess you could even call this a miniature JS version of Photoshop 
Everything you need to know about Designing an Inforgaphic
Information graphics orinfographics are visual representations of information, data or knowledge.
Miller High Life Redesigned
Standing Toothbrush – So Simple, Yet Brilliant
It’s like one of those things, where you wonder – how come no one thought of this earlier?
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Ben Heine
Ben Heine is a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer.
You can find his impressive portfolio at benheine.com
Fantastically Realistic Paintings
I can’t imagine the process behind creating some of these paintings. › Check it out
Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture
Furniture that is designed to fit into smallest of apartments (think NYC), or has double purpose. Can a desk transform into bed? Yes!
Really amazing. Check it out over at walyou.com or just a youtube video
(TED) Robert Lang folds way-new origami
Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
He also talks about folding a space telescope lens.. really puts origami into perspective.
I Got 99 Problems, but Developing Ain’t One
A Web developer’s life is hard enough without having to go on the hunt for good developing resources. To help you take a load off, editors over at focus.com compiled a list of some of the best tools available. After using these resources, you may still have 99 problems, but they guarantee that developing ain’t gonna be one of them.
50 Free Graffiti Fonts
(TED) Philippe Starck thinks deep on design
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not. › TED Talk
Nathan Sawaya – The Brick Artist
Forget the LEGOs you used to play with when you were a kid. This man, Nathan Sawaya, fuses bricks and art to create stunning sculptures.
creative.discovery.com
Discovery Channel is cool. But apart from programming, they have something even cooler – a great & in-house creative department.
40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials
Here is a collection of Web Layout Tutorials from a while back – but still highly relevant. A collection of tutorials that shows you how to create a versatile and modern web layouts. Great practice for rookies, and perhaps some inspiration for a seasoned designer.
From: SixRevisions.com
jQuery Parallax – Demos
I am sure a lot of people already know what “jQuery Parallax” is. Here are a bunch of really great examples that show you what this plugin can be capable of and how people get creative using it.
From: kremalicious.com
The State of Web Development 2010
Here is a 1 page infographic showing what is going on today in the web development world.
“Call to Action” Buttons
Here is an article and showcase, talking about Guidelines, Best Practices and Examples when designing “call to action” buttons
From HONGKIAT.com | Read here »
20 Impressive jQuery Button Plugins
Buttons are no longer rectangular and limited to grey and black. Thanks to jQuery, now you can paint your UI with colorful, glowing and animated buttons. Style the good old buttons to bring out impressive effects with these wonderful jQuery button design plugins
read at: jQuery Wisdom Blog
Firefox 4: fast, powerful and empowering
Fresh from “The Mozilla Blog“. Here is a slideshow presentation about a vision for FF4.
- Fast: making Firefox super-duper fast
- Powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond!),
- Empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience.
Automatically update copyright year with JS
Early this year (just like every year), I again remembered to update all my sites and my client’s sites with a current year for copyright in the footer. And just now it hit me. Why not just have it automatically update itself with JavaScript?
document.write( new Date().getFullYear() );
Current year is:
jQuery TOOLS 1.2 is here!
jQuery TOOLS is a great UI libary from guys at flowplayer.org, and tools 1.2 is here. With smaller code, more great tools and features. Pure awesomeness.
Visit flowplayer.org/tools/
APNG – Animated PNG format
Why? I am not sure why. But I know this much – PNG is a much neater format than GIF. Maybe that’s why…
P.S.: It only works in FF 3.0+ or Opera 9.5+ so far.
Demo Here | visit animatedpng.com
Quake II GWT Port
Really goes to show you the possibilities of today’s technologies paired with capabilities of modern browsers.
Here is a video of Quake II being played within the Safari browser.
See the whole project here
SEOmoz – web’s best SEO Resources
Today, search engines account for bringing in roughly 70% of traffic to sites. Here are some great tools from SEOMOZ.org that can help you with all your SEO needs.
Checkout ‘em out here: seomoz.org/tools