10 Excellent Tools for Creating Web Design Wireframes

When starting a new web design project, it’s always a good idea to begin with a wireframe. The purpose of a wireframe is to communicate the layout of a page without getting caught up in color and design elements.

The Ultimate Guide To Cloning In Photoshop

Photoshop’s wide array of cloning tools is the cause of many of the absolute best and worst works created with the application. In a skilled and experienced hand, these tools lead to phenomenal results. In the hands of a careless artist, Photoshop cloning can be disastrous to the credibility of the result.

Where the fold is

Where is the fold? Also try Google Browser Size, a visualization of browser window sizes.

Spin The Wheel On Reel Roulette

Reel Roulette, a simple and fun way to get your reel to the masses. When you choose to spin the wheel you are shown a random reel, a short creator bio with website and the options to vote for the reel or move on to the next one. via fuel

ad age history of advertising

From the Great Depression Through the Great Recession: A Brief History of Marketing

Photoshop Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek

Photoshop is now using magic and pixie dust to fix imaes.

Curtis CSS Typeface

Curtis is the name David DeSandro has given for a family of geometric sans-serif fonts currently in development. This version takes form in CSS. All shapes are rendered by the browser, using a combination of background color, border width, border radius, and a heavily reliance on absolute/relative positioning.

50 Stunning Typography Wallpapers For Inspiration

noupe.com has brought you some amazing wallpapers from the web about design, ideas, emotions, typefaces and typography itself.

10 Essential Design Tools for Social Media Pros

Good design is a critical part of any web or social media presence. Like the clothes you wear to a job interview or a business meeting, a sharp looking social profile or website is the first step toward being taken seriously online.

April 1st

For your April 1st fun, use this in your office.

LookTel

LookTel combines the power of a Smartphone with advanced "artificial vision" software to create a helpful electronic assistant for anyone who is visually impaired or blind.

typographyapp.com

Are you a graphic designer? Do you know the difference between a font and a typeface? Do your eyes light up when conversations turn to ems, kerning, and baseline grids? If you answered yes to these questions, then The Typography Manual for the iPhone and iPod Touch is for you!

Smashing Magazine Needs Your Help Today

Smashing Magazine needs need your financial support. Please help them by buying their new eBook “Professional Web Design”.

I am not an artist, animated gif

I am not an artist - an animated gif paranoia about nonstop design workers

Tiffin New York

New York’s first professional Indian meal delivery service...The dabbawallas of Mumbai have for decades delivered Indian home cooked meals to office workers all over the city. Now this same concept comes to New York -- Authentic home style cooked Indian food delivered to your home, office or school for lunch or dinner. Yummmmm

35 Best Inspirational Websites For Logo Design

These 35 Websites do have some of the finest collections of Logo Designs that can give you some new and fresh ideas that are being used by Logo Designers all around the globe.

Inspiring Minimalistic Photography

fuelyourcreativity.com has some examples of minimalistic photography.

97 Best Practices of Pricing Page Designs

Pricing pages are one of the new important elements of web design for businesses, service and applications. splashnology has compiled a list of the best pricing page designs out there that use these principles.

scottwaddellfinearts.com

Scott Waddell has a new site, and a blog.

Animal Photography

27 Photos: Animal Photography At its Finest

typographic photobooth

A font that looks just like you: a typographic photobooth

HTML5 experiment

Browser Ball attempts, with only moderate success, to allow the configuration of a seemingly endless array of continuous spaces using multiple overlapping browser windows. Within this multivariate space, users are invited to toss a beach ball both hither and yon. If this sounds like a ridiculous use of everyone's time, that's only because it is.

Telling Friends Where You Are (or Not)

The New York Times’s Jenna Wortham examines Mobile services like Foursquare.

HTML5 Rocks My Socks Off

HTML5 and CSS3 are now able to be used in most modern browsers. You might be thinking to yourself why should I use such new technologies that don’t have complete cross browser compatibility? The answer to that is simple.

Redesigning the hundred dollar bill

In an illustration piece for Wired Magazine for their US edition’s cover story, The Future of Money, Aegir Hallmundur redesigned the hundred dollar bill.

24 Beautiful Web Designs Across the Color Spectrum

Each week Chris Thurman looked at some inspiring website designs that primarily utilized a certain color. Today, he examines the best of the bunch and highlight 3-4 of his favorites in each color.

Rhodes

Rhodes is an open source framework to rapidly build native apps for all major smartphone operating systems (iPhone, Windows Mobile, RIM, Symbian and Android). These are true native device applications (NOT mobile web apps) which work with synchronized local data and take advantage of device capabilities such as GPS, PIM contacts and camera. The Rhodes framework offers the following major benefits to developers

Helpful Photography Cheat Sheets to Make Your Life Easier

Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional, sometimes we all need our memory jogged. It’s never a bad idea to have some convenient references handy just in case. I have listed what I think are some helpful cheat sheets to keep in your camera bag.

5 second films

These are the top 20 5 Second Videos Presented by UPROXX.com and 5secondfilms.com. (mildly inappropriate for work)

informationarchitects.jp

Using the time difference between Tokyo and Zurich to our advantage, iA built some of the biggest web sites in Europe. With seven people.

40 Romantic Photographs Shot in the Rain

After preparing all the equipment for an outdoor shoot but suddenly a heavy rain came. Most photographers will feel uncomfortable and choose to stay home then. Pictures taken in the rain can actually look very soft and romantic. Let us admire these beautiful images taken by the skillful photographers.

jQuery.spritely

jQuery.spritely is a jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. It's a simple, light-weight plugin with a few simple methods for creating animated sprites such as the birds you see on this page, and dynamic scrolling backgrounds.

apple boy

Hipólito Giménez Blanco decided to go to New Zealand. His goal: continue developing his professional career at the digital advertising industry. While he was trying to find a job in an agency at Auckland, he received a particular offer: begin his stage at New Zealand working as an apple picker. This followig project was triggered by a call with his creative partner in Buenos Aires, Pablo Suárez Martínez. via Netdiver.

How to Increase Conversions on any Website

6 revisions article explains how in 45 minutes, you can have a dramatic (and measurable) increase of conversions on your website.

stickybits

stickybits, tag your world

Trailers

The new trailer of Tron Legacy has been leaked! And the new ironman 2 trailer is out.

Cool & Useful Dingbat Fonts

thinkdesignblog has compiled a list of 46 Dingbat fonts that can be used for all sorts of things.

A Look into Color Theory in Web Design

Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.

Robo plow!

Robo plow is awesome!

BBDO Digital Lab

BBDOs Digital Lab is the marketplace’s first complete world-class education and innovation-centered seminar series designed to fully prepare today’s business managers to recognize and exploit the sweeping forces of interactive marketing and digital change.

Holi 2010

March 1st was Holi 2010

PaTTeRN: Transparency Made Meaningful

TRANSPARENCY MADE MEANINGFUL is another interesting article of IDEO's pattern series. Patterns are thought provoking trends that designers of the innovation consultancy see across projects and out in the world.

Creative resumes

A collection of creative resumes from hongkiat.

Famous logo designers and their creations

10 of the most famous and prominent logo designers behind the finest corporate brands. Some of them are not among us today but their masterpieces are eternal, compelling us to salute these masterminds.

2010 Interactive Annual Winners Now Online

Communication Arts announces the winners of its 2010 interactive competition. Now in its 16th year, the prestigious competition selected 39 projects representing the work of 34 firms. The winning projects and a list of the award-winning design firms can be viewed at: www.commarts.com/interactive/cai10

movieclips.com

movieclips.com has over 12,000 movie clips that you can search, find, view, discuss and share scenes from your favorite movies.

thebrandquiz.com

How strongly do you associate colour and imagery with the world's biggest and best brands? Time to find out!

Must have free apps for the mac

makeuseof has compiled a list of applications that every mac user should have installed, regardless of what you use your Mac for.

OK go new Viral

OK Go has done it again with one really insane rube goldberg machine in their latest viral video.

iPad GUI PSD

Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we can start designing for it.

And then there was salsa.

Extremely well done full page take over for Tostitos