using a drop shadow to create a simple one-pixel offset to be a flexible and quick way to achieve an effect of depth

Protecting your passwords, photos, contacts and other sensitive stuff on your iPhone or iPod touch.

… are hand letter-pressed business cards with a greeting on the front and 3 blank spaces on the back ready for your personal details.

… that will save your day

Logo design is often seen as a quick and easy job; you create a small graphic, stick it next to some text and the job is done! In reality there’s a lot more to it, which makes the whole process of creating a logo or identity a challenging task. Let’s take a look at some […]

… css layouts, visual effects and forms

The email newsletter is a powerful marketing and communication tool that has various useful functions. It reminds your users about you; it informs users about your products; it tells them what you have been up to; and it helps you build a unique relationship with them. Users like email newsletters if the newsletters bring them value.

Planning and communication are two key elements in the development of any successful website or application. And that is exactly what the wireframing process offers: a quick and simple method to plan the layout and a cost-effective, time-saving tool to easily communicate your ideas to others.

Bring inspiring, insightful and thought provoking design quotes to your workplace, home or anywhere you have a computer.

Alex Giron's Personal Website

… customize your SIGG water bottle with your personal style

… and a preview of what’s to come

Linktree. Make your link do more.

The gallery of the most prestigious websites in the world created with CSS. An international jury of the top designers, agencies, and bloggers will award prizes to the best CSS websites.

Le blog des systèmes d'impression

a bookmarklet for typographically obsessed web designers. It enables rapid checking of fonts and font styles directly in the browser without editing code and refreshing pages. 2.0’s killer feature is instant drag-and-drop font previewing right in the browser (Firefox 3.6+ only), in any document you’re currently viewing.

Here, you’ll find 40 of the most incredibly well designed vintage web sites. In reality, of course, they’re only vintage at the most superficial of levels. Peel back the vintage veneer and you’ll find cutting edge web development and design processes have been employed.

Designers spend hours perfecting websites, whether their own or their clients’.

Round-ups of beautiful and useful **icons** are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying "list"-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.