Design Inspiration: 3rd Edge Portfolio
3rd Edge is a communication firm located in the USA since 1996. Their approach to design is quite clean and clever, and you can tell that as soon as you enter their online portfolio.
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11 Images you might want to avoid in your designs.
We have been talking about avoiding clichés lately, instead trying to reflect the unique personality of every business. That way our design will stand out among millions. Sometimes the hardest situations come when our clients ask us to implement some not-so-unique elements and it seems almost impossible to convince him that it would be better …
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Next Friday: Interview with Elliot Jay Stock
Elliot Jay Stocks is a senior Designer at Carson Systems, a regular writer for industry-leading publications such as .net, a speaker at conferences and events (in his last one he told us to “destroy the Web 2.0 look”), and also a copious blogger at his own blog and at Carsonified. He gave an interview to …
16 Beautiful, Simple and Cliché-free Websites
In my last post, “How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look” based on Elliot Jay Stocks’ proposal, I showed some sites that illustrate an opposing trend to the current popular style. This new look has rich textures and an organic feel. The purpose behind these designs is to come up with different web design approaches …
How To Destroy The Web 2.0 Look
A trend always appears as opposition to another. Detailed Gothic art was replaced with the pure straight lines from Greek temples in the Renaissance. The tons of hair spray, glitter and multicolor spandex 80’s were demolished by the black & white minimalism from the 90’s. The web is no exception. In the beginning, there was …
10 Inspirational Music Videos
Video killed the radio star and brought a whole new way to inspire us. Music videos and the environment generated by MTV has expanded the visual innovation and creativity to further limits where creativity, art, design and music collide in the most splendid, eye-catching and absurd ways. It would certainly be impossible to talk about …
Hunting inspiration? What about provocation?
Inspiration Inspiration INSPIRATION! It can be elusive, sometimes mean and many times just blocked! And you start to wonder: where are those infamous muses? And you spend hours trying to catch them, watching with puppy eyes other guy’s work. And then two feelings fill your heart: despair and the can’t-keep-your-mouth-closed (or jaw dropped) feeling. The …
What Graphic Design has to thanks to Fidel Castro.
Back in 1958 Fidel Castro with a modest rebel army gains the power over Cuba. Despite of his efforts to have an independent line he must conceal with the Russian influence on the new order. The Political posters from those years testifies that. By 1965, in a time with tense relations with the Soviet Union, …
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Let Vintage Wallpaper Spice Up Your Designs
You are looking at some new trendy webpage and get impressed by those rich floral textures and backgrounds, and wonder: where does that inspiration come from? Inspiration is everywhere Just have look around you and you will find precious sources. This time, it comes from the walls. Antique wallpaper is an impressive source of inspiration. …