Searching for design inspiration? Here’s 97 of the best places too look

Searching for design inspiration? Here’s 97 of the best places too look Creativity will never be an exact science. Sometimes the juices flow, but other times it’s easy to feel all dried up. And while changing your workspace and rethinking your process are simple ways to see things differently, sometimes all you need to do…

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM

A New Front-End Methodology: BEM his article is the sixth in our new series that introduces the latest, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework; the third presented Sisyphus.js, a library for Gmail-like client-side drafts,…

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D

Beercamp: An Experiment With CSS 3D This year’s experiment: a 3D pop-up book á la Dr. Seuss. If you’ve not seen it, hop on over and take a look. The website was a test to see how far SVG and CSS 3D transforms could be pushed. I learned a lot in the process and wanted to share…

2012 D&AD Awards Packaging Design Winners

2012 D&AD Awards Packaging Design Winners The day started out with 200 entires from around the world, and over the course of  10 hours we culled that down to 12 In-book awards and 4 Nominations. The Nominations were then voted on to decide if they would receive the industry’s coveted Yellow Pencil. The quality of work was…

Early to Rise: 10 Beautiful Modern Beds

Early to Rise: 10 Beautiful Modern Beds Few things in life are more heavenly than the perfect bed.  Today’s roundup of beautiful modern beds most definitely leans toward the more masculine side, but that’s not to say they can’t be balanced out with some divinely fluffy white linens and topped off with a luxuriant fur…

Everything You Never Knew About CSS Floats

Everything You Never Knew About CSS Floats What do floats really do anyway? How do they affect the box model of the elements involved? How do floated elements differ from inline elements? What are the specific rules governing the position of floated elements? How does the clear property work and what is it for? Floats…

When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words

When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words Clever graphic designers love to use typography to explore the interaction between the look of type and what type actually says. In communicating a message, a balance has to be achieved between the visual and the verbal aspects of a design.

Visual Direction in Web Design

Visual Direction in Web Design One of the big secrets of design is learning how to guide the visual direction of viewers; This principle is often overlooked by even the most experienced designers, so today we’re going to take a deeper look at how it works. Visual direction is controlling the eye movement of the…