Redesigning Personal Projects – A Critical Analysis
Kristy Anne Ligones
Illustrator and graphic designer
The Secret History of Kubrick …
… the Blog Theme That Changed the Internet
Service that Scales: Pricing Guidelines, Tips, and Strategies for Freelancers | Spyre Studios
Take a look around any online marketplace and you’ll see the labor of designers, writers, and digital artists severely undervalued.
UI with fewer images
(about CSS performance)
Ignorance Is Bliss
Andrew Clarke shares a case study highlighting the benefits of progressively enhanced web design. Ever wondered how to convince your clients to let you use cutting edge web techniques? It may be simpler than you think.
Make Your Mockup in Markup
»We aren’t designing copies of web pages, we’re designing web pages.«
My Website Design Was Stolen! Now What?
Designers spend hours perfecting websites, whether their own or their clients’.
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3
In our last article about CSS3, ["Pushing Your Buttons With Practical CSS3](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/02/pushing-your-buttons-with-practical-css3/), we talked about using new CSS3 techniques like gradients, border-radius and drop-shadows to create compelling, flexible and (in some cases) hilarious buttons.
35 Ultimate Useful CSS Cheats to Streamline Web Development
Working With RGBA Colour
Drew McLellan kicks off our 2009 season with a look at some of the tools CSS3 provides for applying levels of transparency to colour values, enabling you to avoid weighing down a site design with heavy PNG images.
Effekte mit der CSS-Eigenschaft text-shadow
23 Pure CSS Effects/Solutions to Make JavaScript Angry
Kommunikationsdesign in Deutschland
Jetzt im Magazin des Goethe-Instituts: Porträts, Interviews und Bildergalerien zu Trends im Mode-, Produkt-, Möbel-, Grafik-Design in Deutschland
130+ New Tools to Make You a Better and Faster Designer
Strategic Design: 6 Steps For Building Successful Websites
[…] There is a Japanese philosophy called “Kaizen,” which focuses on continuous improvement using small steps.
10 CSS Tips for a Web Design that Sucks!
Does your Web design suck? Do you use too many default design elements? Is it dated? Try these 10 CSS tricks to improve your Web site design and usability.
The design session
The design session - an article about collaborative workflow
Dear Lulu, The New Standards
a book of … self-produced tests … send to print … using the online print-on-demand system Lulu. The book project will therefore act as a colour/type/pattern test of the very system with which it is produced.
designfragen.de
... beantwortet die gängigsten Einsteigerfragen und richtet sich an Unternehmen und Personen, die bisher noch keine Erfahrung mit Design haben und nun ein Logo, eine Webseite oder ähnliche Designarbeiten in Auftrag geben möchten.
11 Parts of a Business Card
Most business cards will have at least a name of a person or company but there are other essential and useful elements of a good business card.
OTTO espresso maker (article)
A modern interpretation of a design classic, this stove top espresso maker combines classic Italian style with unprecedented functionality. The OTTO espresso maker is designed Read More
Grid Layout (ctrl+shift+g)
The Grid Layout Javascript enables web-developers to stick to a Grid Layout quickly and simply by including the Grid Layouts Javascript file and simple XHTML code. Currently, the Grid Layouts Javascript relies on jQuery.
Josh Spear
NOTCOT.ORG
NOTCOT.org was launched May 2006 to fill our need for a place to collect and share fascinating images/links [With a global team, we missed having a "studio bulletin board" to post everything from comics to design research]
Tastespotting
Tastespotting = A Visual Filtration of Great Taste = Image + Link + Thought
Corporate Identity Portal
The Art of Business: Finally, a Design Contract for the Little Guy
Client contracts are essential, but if you're a small to mid-sized business, hiring a lawyer to create them may be beyond your means. The new "Standard Form of Agreement for Graphic Design Services" published by the American Institute of Graphic Arts can
Creative Latitude: Figuring your houlry rate | Neil's Newbies
How do you Rate? — Figuring your real hourly rate.
Designers: How much to charge & how to get paid
One of the most often asked questions by new designers, part-time freelancers and those wishing to make a go at freelancing full time is what to charge. […]