Articles & Inspiration
A muted palette could be described as a selection of subdued or restrained colours which appear quite soft and easy on the eye. Compared with the bright and brash colour schemes of many modern web designs, these muted palettes give the impression of sophistication and modesty. Often using browns or subtle greys along with pastels and subtle highlights they make a great collection of inspiring designs. Check out these 25 hand picked examples from across the web.
Web design conferences are fantastic for keeping up to date with the industry changes and for gaining useful advice from big name contributors. Unfortunately with there being conferences held around the world from Brighton to New York and beyond visiting just one (never mind all of them!) can be a challenge. Thankfully, some of the design conference organisers embrace the social aspect of the modern web and provide videos of the conference sets online, here are my top five web design conference speeches for 2008.
The whole lifestyle and adrenaline packed action of extreme sports flows into the design and marketing that's involved with the sport making for some fantastic inspiration for designers. In the modern world this unique style is spread onto the web making for some distinctive website designs, let's take a look at a collection of mainstream examples and pick out the common trends of the industry.
Just like the use of paper in web design, the use of doodles and hand drawn illustrations give an informal, friendly and accessible value to the website as well as giving a fantastic visual addition to the design. Check out this roundup of 30 stylish examples of doodles in web design for your inspiration, and don’t forget the recent hand drawn doodle icons for use in your own projects.
Designer toys are a common love between many graphic designer and illustrators, as well as the collectable limited edition runs from producers such as Qee and Kidrobot there are many great examples of customised urban vinyl toys. Here's a collection of 60 fantastic examples of how designers have added their personal mark to their own custom toy!
The term speed painting has evolved to become the popular phrase often referring to the technique of recording time-lapse screencasts of the subject of digital painting in Adobe Photoshop. These ten awesome speed painting videos showcase a collection of extremely realistic superhero inspired artworks.
