Brown is the color of the soil, of wood and of course chocolate. Quite apart from its use as a prominent color in branding cafes and chocolate brands, brown is also used as a focal color in a diverse range of websites. Based in popular beliefs, brown, being the color of the soil, is associated and simplicity, humility and being down to earth. Because of which it was adopted as color of
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Computer workstation setups speak well of the place or environment in which geeks and other computer bound office workers perform their tasks. Depending on the kind of devices used, how they are arranged and how the auxiliary accessories are laid will definitely affect the productivity and even the mindset of the user. This is true whether you are using mac or PC. To give you some inspiration, we are sharing with you
The concept of water bottling has been around for a long time already, and companies engaged in such kind of business know the importance of effective water bottle designs. Just like any packaging, a water bottle does not only have to act as a container of the product but also as a marketing tool. It should be able to impress and inform people of the greatness of the product. That is, it
How a website appears plays a very important role to its success. Indeed, before anything else, it is the design or the layout that gets noticed by the audience when they visit a website. If they don’t like the look of the website at the outset, they will go away without bothering to read any of its content. To ensure that your website looks great, it is important that you follow the best practices in web design and part of it deals
There are a lot of gray websites around and their appearance vary from being grunge and informal to clean, classy and businesslike. Also, the color sometimes appear dull and boring while in some cases it evokes homey, nostalgic and calming feel. To have a better grasp on how to use the color Gray, it is advisable to learn how it is used in different kind of artworks and designs and how it
Typography in web design is an indispensable element. When creating a website, the designer has to take into consideration not only the layout and color that he will employ but also the font that he will use on the design. A typography can either ruin or enhance not only a website’s look and feel but also its usability. In choosing a font to use on a website, the designer has to decide
Hand drawn elements are used extensively in websites owned by creative individuals. A hasty digging of the web would indicate that a handful of websites owned by designers contain some of form of hand crafted elements as embellishments of their web presence. Basically, this practice is a product of their own creative imagination. Designers always have a drive to be unique and to stand out from his peers and one way of
Minimalist portfolio websites are popular among creative professionals but what is the essence of minimalism in personal portfolios? Or why make a portfolio in the first place. A designer’s online portfolio is a single most effective tool in marketing his services to the world at large. Without a portfolio, a designer or even a photographer would not have the success in terms of getting clients on board compared to his peers who
We have known Facebook emoticons to be around for quite some time but they tend to be too bland and simple to dazzle your friends and leave them momentarily stunned. Or so they seem. Even Facebook admits this and so it wants to reinvent its emoticons with the help of Matt Jones, a Pixar story illustrator. According to Buzzfeed, the social media behemoth gave orders to Jones to come up with emoticons
Photoshop is one of the most popular graphic software of used by designers and it is because of a good reason. Originally designed for photo editing, Photoshop has evolved into a powerful application that can be used to create complex graphic designs and artworks. In this post, you will find tutorials that once again demonstrate the amazing capabilities of Photoshop at the hands of skillful designers. These are focused in using the
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