Design Examples
Fonts! There are just so many of them. Where do you even start with narrowing down the thousands and thousands to a more manageable top 100? Luckily, a German magazine has done the legwork for you.
But how did they do that? Rating aesthetics isn’t the same as a baseball stat or something. It’s all in ...
Why be afraid of the dark? Sure, simple white/light backgrounds have been a mainstay of websites since Al Gore was tinkering on his Apple 2e, but dark designs can be surprisingly effective. If used correctly, it can really make your site stand out from the pack. However, knowing how to use dark backgrounds is not ...
The force known as jQuery keeps gaining more and more e-steam. To go along with the growth, a bevy of plugins and tutorials are starting to pop up a well. One helpful plugin is known as a content slider.
Content sliders are a great way to show large amount of content on a smaller area of ...
Logos aren’t always what they seem. Some contain hidden information about the brand, or iconic imagery, or even just fun and kooky stuff. Some can even be downright mysterious. Join us on a journey into the surreal world of branding as we go over 23 brilliant logos with hidden messages:
Big Ten
The Big Ten founded ...
Are you ready to get retro? The Beatles! Key parties! The Great Depression. Retro is cool, and using the right retro brush on your Photoshop project can make all the difference in the world. But there are so many out there, and let’s face it, some look like a Lifetime movie set in the 1960s ...
Typography is the best, isn’t it? But it’s a field that is always growing, always changing. In short, we need apps! Apps! Apps! Luckily, the web is filled with tons of helpful typography and font apps that are just a hop, skip and a jump away. Here are 21 of the absolute greatest:
Typechart -T ypechart ...
It’s easy to get logo design writer’s block. It all starts to look the same and nothing captures that “oomph” that you are looking for. Am I right? Well, don’t worry. WebRulon is here to help. Here are twenty websites that will give you so much design inspiration, you may just become an insomniac. That’s ...
Flash galleries. Who needs em? You! They are free applications that allow you to create a slideshow on your website quickly and with ease. Just embed it in your website and let the Flash do the rest. The script will automatically form a slideshow from a specified folder or an XML files or from Flickr ...
Planning on bringing something into the real world by sending it through a printer? You had better read this. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has switched the default font for its emails from Arial to Century Gothic. The institution reported that the new font requires about 30% less ink, which costs up to $10,000 per ...
The king is dead! Long live the king! As 2009 fades into nostalgic glory, and 2010 begins it’s slow crawl towards infamy, web designers can’t help but wonder what the year will hold for their favorite profession/hobby/whatever. Here is a list of five web design trends to look out for in 2010. None of this ...
