Friday Freebies – Free PSD Files For Designers #14
Friday Freebies Free PSD Files for Designers, The name of our weekly post, Free PSD files are very useful for every designer you should save your time. This weekly post is a collection of some high quality and fully layered. Today we share a small but truly awesome and beautiful collection of free PSD files.
Celebrity Portraits by Amanda Friedman
Photographer Amanda Friedman grew up in Motown, a fine city of perennially disappointing sports franchises and deteriorating industry. As a child, Amanda choreographed keenly tweaked air guitar solos to some of D-Town’s finest musical offerings: from Was (Not Was) to The Nuge, to Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, (and much later) Uncle Kracker and Insane Clown Posse.
Spice Up Your Website with Parallax Scrolling Plugins and Tutorials
You might have enjoyed playing Mario with your friends. The way he runs and jumps and saves the princess is what we have grown up with. However, did you ever imagine how exactly does the background and foreground work to produce something that changes with the angle of viewing? This is exactly what parallax scrolling is all about.
Parallax scrolling is an interesting technique that allows you to scroll. And when you scroll, the background images make you feel that the objects in the background or the background itself changes due to the shift in perspective. The background images actually move slower than the foreground images making an illusion of depth in 2D. In short, parallax is used to gain depth perception. To give you a basic example of parallax, you can find it in your car speedometer. The needle style speedometer shows speed 60 kmps when viewed from the driver’s seat. On the other hand it would show slightly different speed when viewed from a different angle. This is what we refer to angle of viewing or perspective view.
The Unbelievable Photos Taken by the Crazy Russians
So, a group of Russians went to Egypt and climbed the Great Pyramide. According to their story, they arrived there early while the complex was open, then waited in shadows till the visitor hours are over and the night came down, so later they climbed on the top and made photos. “There are lots of signs on the top of the pyramide on different languages, including Russian, and they say somewhere among them there is a signature of last Russian Tsar who climbed it too sometime long ago”.
The security didn’t notice them, they got back down uncaught, keeping in mind that according to Egypt’s laws there is a possible couple of years sentence for such kind of things.
Top 10 Email Design Best Practices – Infographic
Marketers have understood the importance of email marketing. With the increase in number of emails sent per day (almost 300 billion), there is also a need to occupy the top of the mind space of the subscribers. Email Marketing is yet not dead. It is imperative that a good user friendly email is designed and delivered to subscriber. For this, there is an interesting infographic I would like to share with designers and marketers eyeing on ‘Email Design Best Practices’ including, useful design best practices from around the Email world depicted in very engaging yet effective way.
Here are the best practices pertaining to the Envelop design, Pre-header and Header design, Email layout, Copy & Body Content, Footer design and Mobile Optimized Emails.
Mr. Burglar Whiskey Packaging design
The idea: I wanted to tell the real story behind the brand through the packaging design itself. Thus, Mr. Burglar is born, a brand with an attractive packaging meant to highlight an intrinsic peculiarity of high quality spirits. The central element is Mr. Burglar himself, a gentleman whose style matches the essence of the brand.
To further enhance the concept I used thermo-sensitive paper. Once buyer touches the label, their fingerprints become visible, creating a tactile connection with the product.” Continue reading »
Weekly Web Design Inspiration #24
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When you are creating a new website you may be inspired by seeing other sites that are beautifully designed. As a web designer, it’s a must to know the current trend, particularly in web designs there’s always new trends emerging quite often. We have seen a lot of trends passed us in a couple of years like web2.0 styles to grunge, hand drawn, big fonts, illustration designs, eCommerce Etc. Now in this Series we collected a different web design like Responsive web design, Retro web design, Minimal web design, Photography, Typography, Infinite Scroll, Single page, Full screen, Clean,
Bring Your Photography to Life
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Commercial advertising photographer Tom Hussey photographed an award winning campaign for Novartis’ Exelon Patch, a prescription medicine for the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s dementia. The highly conceptual photographs depicted an older person looking at the reflection of their younger self in a mirror.
Weekly Logo Design Inspiration # 23
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A logo design is understood to be the foremost economical promotional tools and is used by several firms. It also, could be a valuable business strategy and with a brand any company or whole is able to do recognition within the market. Except being the visual illustration of your product or company, a brand is additionally trademark of your values, aims and achievements and it determines your believability within the market.
20 Single-Page Websites with Great Design
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‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ – says the common phrase. The same concerns website design. Lately it has been quite a popular concept to create one-pagers – websites containing a single page with all the necessary content in it, utilizing dynamic scrolling animations. Such one-page layouts are especially common among mobile applications and landing pages which require showing only a limited part of corresponding information. It also makes sense to combine a website into a single page when there is a reasonable amount of closely related content, or there are certain stylistic elements that work best exclusively on a one-pager.
