Web Design Articles: Inspiration

Inspiration Web Design Articles

Inspiration from Print Ads

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It’s really good to have different types of media to count on when you need to look for inspiration. You can find inspiration browsing through typography galleries, videos, packages, ads and much more. Today we will show you some inspiring print ads we found on Ads of the World so you can check out some [...]

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:39:08 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Inspiring Minimalistic Web Designs

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Here at WDL, we really like minimalism and we believe that the “less is more” principal can result in amazing websites. Minimalism, explained as the essence of something, is when we reduce something to its necessary elements. What is the right amount of elements to compose a minimal design is a polemic subject, but we [...]

Mon, 21 May 2012 04:02:06 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Fantastic Examples of Sliders in Web Design

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Sliders are an excellent way to organize and highlight important content on a site. They can also be used to display a good amount of content within a limited amount of screen real estate. The most popular way to add a slider or slideshow to a website is still jQuery, which seems to have a [...]

Mon, 14 May 2012 04:18:40 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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Our favorite tweets of the weekMay 7-May 13, 2012

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of [...]

Sun, 13 May 2012 09:32:42 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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Inspiration: Packaging Design

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Package design can be a good alternative place for finding inspiration. From textures to color schemes and typography, we can get a lot of references from packaging designs. A good place to browse – other than your local shops and/or supermarket – if you are also a package lover is lovelypackage.com, a nice website that curates the [...]

Fri, 11 May 2012 12:55:16 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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30+ Examples of Facebook timelines

Over 500 million people use Facebook worldwide. It’s no wonder companies and brands are keen to make an impact using the social networking site with their respective pages. The new Facebook Timeline feature has been rolled out over the last few months for both profiles and pages. New features include space for a large photo [...]

Thu, 10 May 2012 09:30:42 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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20 Inspiring Examples of Big Backgrounds in Web Design

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One way to easily define the tone and mood of a website is to use a big background image. However, when doing this, you need to consider that big images often have a lot going on, so it’s important to take a minmal approach with other aspects of the design. Not doing so could result [...]

Mon, 07 May 2012 04:24:52 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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20 Simple, Yet Clever Logos

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When it comes to design, things don’t have to be complicated in order to be effective. Although, it can be tempting to over design and try to work in lots of detail, it’s not always the best way. This is especially true when it comes to logo design. Usually, the best are the ones that [...]

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:08:37 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Beautiful Examples of Typography in Web Design

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Here at WDL we love typography and we never get tired of gathering good typography inspiration for our readers. From free fonts to type usage in signs and typography videos, we like to give you as many resources as we can on everything surrounding type. Today we decided to gather some examples of beautiful typography [...]

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:31:41 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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23 Inspiring Examples of Contact Pages

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When designing a website we need to think about every aspect, from header to footer, from landing page to about us page, and even the contact page. It’s important to make sure the design is great all the way through. So today we decided to gather a few examples of how websites are displaying their [...]

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:27:08 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Inspiring Examples of About Pages

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About pages are important because they are the place where the user goes to discover more about who/what is behind the site they are visiting. From design studios to apps and online shops, users like to browse a page to find the good old who, where, what, how information about you. And of course there’s [...]

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:02:48 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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30 Logos of Professional Designers

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It is no a secret that a logo is one of the most important elementa of identity design. People might not remember you, but they will definitely remember your logo. That’s why every company should have a well planned identity design in order to send the appropriate message to their clients, and build the awareness [...]

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:04:58 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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23 Fantastic Examples of Dark Colors in Web Design

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Back in January we published a list showcasing dark colors in web design and it became very popular. Since a lot of readers asked for more, we decided to put together a new post of similar sites to give you some fresh examples. Choosing to use a dark color scheme in your web design is [...]

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:01:23 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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Inspiration: Type, Colors & Textures from Signs

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I was browsing throughout Flickr looking for some inspiring typography when I found a really cool collection called signs+type. The collection is filled with great photography of signs, and the images are super colorful and inspiring. From great colors and textures to amazing typography and neons, here are a few images to keep you inspired.

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:07:54 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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30 inspiring calligraphy works

Calligraphic fonts have been popular in the design world for a long time. But we don’t see hand-lettered calligraphy nearly as often, outside of wedding invitations. Hand-lettered calligraphy is beautiful and has an organic feel to it that’s often lacking in digital designs. Even hand-lettering or sketching your designs prior to digitizing them can add [...]

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:03:15 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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18 Beautiful Examples of Parallax Scrolling in Web Design

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The parallax effect in web design is something that has gained popularity over the past couple of years. When used properly, it can result in a rich and engaging user experience with seamless navigation. When used poorly, it can result in just a page with a lot of elements moving around and a terrible UX. [...]

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:51:24 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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20 Inspiring Examples of Textures in Web Design

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Here at WDL we love textures, specially because they can add personality, depth and style to websites, print, apps and everything else you can think of. From gathering free textures to showcasing examples of textures in action, we like to keep our readers up to date with the theme and also want to show how [...]

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:00:52 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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Beautiful and Inspiring Logos

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Browsing beautiful logos is always inspiring. Logos are actually a very good way to check out how designers put together colors, typography, textures and several other design elements. Today we gathered a few beautiful and inspiring logos to show you. From colorful, bold and textured logos to clean and monochromatic ones, here are 15 logos [...]

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:12:28 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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23 Fantastic Examples of Illustrated Elements in Web Design

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Illustration and hand drawn elements can give a lot personality to a layout, specially if used properly. From small illustrated icons to complete illustrated backgrounds, or hand drawn typography, it’s always a nice approach to insert illustrations in your design. Today we gathered a few examples of websites using illustrated elements to inspire you. Second [...]

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:08:53 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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30 Examples of Creative Wooden Office Interior Design

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Organized and clean workspaces are one of the vital factors in any sort of work. While working as creative professionals, we spend most of the time in offices – doesn’t matter if it’s a home office or corporate one, we should take into consideration and make them as useful and nice as possible. In my [...]

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:27:44 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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Fantastic Examples of Package Design

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What a better way to end the work week than with a healthy dose of inspiration. And as we’ve mentioned before there’s nothing wrong with looking at other mediums to get inspired. So today we’re showing you some fantastic examples of package design, where beauty and functionality are both equally important. In this collection you [...]

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:43:35 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Examples of Big Photography in Web Design

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Using big photographs in a web design, either as the background or part of the content, is a great way to easily set the overall mood of a site. However, when doing this, you run the risk of creating a site that it visually too busy. That’s why most site’s that you see making use [...]

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:05:06 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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45 Mind-Blowing Dribbble Illustrations

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The designers on Dribbble are some of the most talented people from all around the world. I have found some insanely great works of art in dozens of areas including web, print, branding, and logo design. But one of my favorite artistic categories is illustration work. In the gallery below I’ve put together 45 fresh [...]

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:09:47 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Inspiring Design Agency Websites

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From time to time we like to check out how design agencies (studios, firms, etc.) showcase their design skills in their websites. It’s always nice to see how designers and other creative professionals are presenting themselves to us, so today we gathered a few inspiring examples from places around the world to show you. From [...]

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:31:14 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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21 Examples of Fixed Position Menus in Web Design

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A fixed position menu is that one that is fixed relative to the browser window, not only to the page, which means that if you scroll up and down the fixed menu will remain in the same position – so the user can quickly access the navigation no matter where they are in the site. [...]

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 05:18:00 GMT | Tagged: Inspiration

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