Tag Archives: design

Wallpaper of the Week #5: Low Poly

Most of us spend majority of our working day regularly engaged with our fancy monitors, and it is a good idea to update and change how our virtual working environment look. The most basic that we can do is to change wallpaper, some people love to this to reflect their personality and also it drives the creativeness. Grab this low poly desktop, laptop, tablet and phone wallpaper by Francesco Saverio Nocerino.    

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10 WordPress Themes For Minimalism Fans

There are some truly complex WordPress themes out there these days. While they have their charm, there is just something about the clean lines and simple tones of a minimalist design. Luckily, there are plenty of those out there, as well. If you are one of the many fans of minimalism in web design, here are ten free WordPress themes for you to try. 1. Feijoa Despite being very minimalist in its overall design, this one is perhaps a little more interesting than others. It puts everything into groups on the same page that doesn’t use the traditional grid system …

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Bespoke website design – becoming increasingly popular

There is common consensus among web masters that website design has to be user friendly. They ensure that the sites they create reflect that thinking. However, some among them go the extra mile and turn to bespoke website design practices to make their sites truly stand out and make it much easier for visitors as well as for search engines. With competition in cyber space becoming more and more intense and site ranking becoming such an important element for popularity, the bespoke website design professionals are in high demand. They are also making good money turning ordinary sites into ones …

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5 Design Elements Hitting Their Stride in 2013

Web design trends come and go, with some successes, such as flexible frameworks, and some flops, such as full flash sites with unskippable intros. 2013 has seen quite a few Web design elements that improve user experience, expand interesting features for Web developers, and start pushing the capabilities of HTML 5 to its limit. Here are a few up and coming Web design elements that you should consider the next time you’re building a website: Designing for Small Screens 56 percent of mobile phone users have smartphones and the number of people browsing websites on their phones continues to rise, …

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The Dilemma of Underpaid Advertising Design

Outsourcing design jobs is well embraced during this era. This is one way to cost-cut and to have a better result where in a certain advertiser can choose from the pool of talented designer worldwide. But what happen when the client take the freelancer as the least important from the whole project? Some says that they will no longer continue the project and dump those client from hell, others also gives what is worth based from payment received. Kode Logic came up with a campaign entitled Underpaid, Undermade where in it shows how  advertising design are supposed to be done when designers are …

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Freebie: Flat Social Icons EPS

Flat designs is the new trend and it is now visible from website and mobile phones, from user interface to web design, from app design to detailed icons. If you are looking for something to boost your working time and make things easy rather than spending much time to design your own flat icons. Here is free stuff that you can download and utilize to your next or current project. This flat icon bundle includes rounded and square social media icons provided by Jorge Calvo García And if you missed the previous freebie, you can check out Freebie: iOS 7 Home …

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Negative Space and 10 Clever Animal Masterpieces

Negative Space is also called white space. These are spaces without content although they are called white space, “Negative Space” doesn’t have to be white. Negative space forms another shape out of the left space between the objects. The first shape is obvious but the second is often very difficult to see. It can be any color, it just doesn’t have any content. It is an art where it evolve in print design, logo, and web design, it is a good way to balance placement of web elements. When properly applied, the negative space effect can result in a clever and elegant shape. Good …

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WordPress Design Considerations for the Mobile World

At this point, most WordPress templates are set up so that they can accommodate users on mobile devices. This involves having a mobile version of the site, which has simplified features and an interface that is friendlier to the smaller screens on mobile devices. At the same time that themes that can accommodate mobile devices have become very popular, those mobile devices have undergone a continuous evolution from devices that were characteristically small to devices that come in a variety of sizes, including some that are quite large. Examples of larger devices would include the iPad, Kindle Fire HD and …

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