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Retro iPhone dock

opper.hoofd — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:56:41 +0000

http://www.keeutility.com/KEE_Desk_Phone_Dock_for_iPhone/Desk_Phone_Dock.html

Vintage chinese book covers

opper.hoofd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:41:11 +0000

China is as a country the third largest book publisher in the world, and some of these books have wonderful covers. Ephemera Assemblyman has a post with a great list of cool vintage chinese books covers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60584010@N00/sets/72157623667919530/

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80+ iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Your Inspiration

opper.hoofd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:31:39 +0000

It’s not a secret that for years, Apple has had a huge impact on designers across the globe. Apple has always able to found an extremely effective way to deliver its message via their products to a wide audience and their design is often a key source of inspiration for everyone who is related to design field. It’s very easy to find that many designers often use the key design elements of apple’s product in their artwork which are simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility. So no wonder that no other company has managed to come up with such a brilliant appearance on the web via their products.

http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/19/80-iphone-inspired-website-designs-for-your-inspiration/

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50 Beautifully Brown Web Designs

opper.hoofd — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:54:09 +0000

Brown is an earthy color that represents simplicity, friendliness, and dependability. Maybe it was these characteristics that caused UPS to build their entire brand around brown.

Here are 50 beautiful brown web designs that will inspire you. You will see that brown makes a great base color for a design and works well with many other colors.

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/50-beautifully-brown-web-designs

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30 examples of clean and minimal website navigation

opper.hoofd — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:51:12 +0000

Navigation is one of the most important aspects of a web design, but this doesn’t mean it needs to be overly complicated or over designed. In fact, when it comes to navigating a website, simplicity is a good thing.

Some navigations make use of design elements like 3D bars, buttons, and tabs to appear clickable, which works great for certain web designs. However, clickability can be achieved with a focus on typography, placement, and maybe some subtle line work. For this article, we’ve rounded up 30 clean and minimal website navigations that will inspire you and prove that navigations don’t always have to look like 3D buttons to be effective.

http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/30-examples-of-clean-and-minimal-website-navigation

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12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books

opper.hoofd — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:46:29 +0000

here are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge.
In this post rather than offer all of my favorite web design books, I have listed 12 books that I have either downloaded and read (or at least scanned through), or I have bookmarked with the whole-hearted intention of eventually reading it (Ruby Best Practices), and the best thing of all? All of these books are completely FREE, in digital format anyway (PDF or HTML).

http://speckyboy.com/2010/03/19/12-must-have-free-downloadable-web-design-books/

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great free techno fonts

opper.hoofd — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:09:28 +0000

Looking for some really great free techno fonts? Go check this site

http://www.monom.ch/

40 rhino inspired logo designs

opper.hoofd — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:54:13 +0000

List of some nice rhinoceros designs used in branding. Companies from flooring to marketing, sound to design, transport to foundation, all have in common one of most greatest animal shape.
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Even the rhinos are in danger of worldwide extinction, they are more then ever present in corporate identity business and public image control. That is because is really hard to find another animal to have such a perfect combination of power, strength and gentle. The body shape of rhinoceros is unique and easy to be used in so many design styles. Most used rhinos in branding are white and black rhinoceros. The following list is concentrated on the rhino shape and style. Few designs are really great logos, other suffer on typo or are more close to illustration / mascot design.

http://www.readactor.com/design/40-rhino-inspired-logo-designs/

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14 most impressive photoshop typography effects

opper.hoofd — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:51:36 +0000

In web design, there are often times that you will have text to which you want to draw extra attention. We all know the power of Photoshop. So why not use it to add an impressive effect to that text that will be sure to get peoples attention.

There are many Photoshop typography effect tutorials out there, but I believe that these are some of the best. Not only are the final results stunning, but contained in each are many techniques that you can add to your bag of design tricks.

http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/14-most-impressive-photoshop-typography-effects

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40 smart creative print advertisements

opper.hoofd — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:33:23 +0000

Print advertising is one of the best methods to publicize a company’s products and services. A print advertising campaign won’t be a success just because you run the ads. The print ad must be effective and they must engage the reader, speak to the reader’s needs. If the print ad lacks a compelling message, particularly in the noisy and crowded marketplace of a magazine and newspaper, it can turn out to be a costly lesson for any advertising campaign.

http://tutzone.net/2010/03/40-smart-creative-print-advertisements.html

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