Often, when designing website, I need to use specific icon fast, because they are important (explained in this post). The usual suspects are social media icons (Facebook, Twitter LinkedIn), email icon, login icon, country flag, phone icon, document icon). There’s no way to use the same resource in my personal folder collection for over and over again, for every single project. My favorit resource to find them are from: What I really like about them is the ability to search “free for commercial use” license icons.
Awesome website designer has to make every project unique. One of the way to achieve that, is by unique logo treatment. The traditional, safe, and familiar place to put logo is of course on the left side of the screen. But, why not putting it on center, or maybe on the right, or maybe still on left but spice it a bit? We all know it’s not that easy to get client approval for those unorthodox treatment, even though it’s looking great. Let’s see some samples shall we?
iOS applications are hot and beautifully executed and eye pleasing. They really follow the Apple’s way to do things perfect in its iOS and hardware. But these thousands of apps are competing each other in blood bath, dying to get us notice. So how they get stand out? The answer is cool website design for showcasing their apps. To get their customer hit the “Available now on the App Store” button, they usually show: big and cool application icon, one page format, price, video or animated screenshots that shows how the application are used, awesome illustration. Below are my favorite list:
The current state of web design trend are fancy fonts and icons. Icons (or in this case: glyph) are usually enlarged, and colored by less than 3 tones. Usual suspects are: social media icons and company services. I can’t imagine a web design without icons, because to me they really add spices, and visual impact to the design.
I just submitted a theme for the Skype Mac Chat Style competition. It’s called Fish and Chips. The name came from one of my favorite food (yummy!) To demo the skin, look for this button in the above link: Please cast your vote and support us by clicking the blue Vote button in here (you have to register first – you can not login using Skype ID). And help retweet this post Tweet Several screenshots to convince you (click to enlarge):
We submitted a WordPress theme named GlassWorks intended for web designer, photographer, graphic designer, and related fields to Wordspop. Wordspop has been known for their flagship & delicious theme: Fotofolio (version 1 and 2). Currently GlassWorks is in slicing progress and I’m still designing the mobile version. Here’s the preview:
