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Casper: Website design inspiration

James — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:00:19 +0000

Jonnie Hallman shared his experience and thoughts behind designing the Casper website homepage.

I found it an inspirational read. I love the simplicity of the presentation, but after reading the article I really appreciated the complex thinking behind it.

Font use inspiration

James — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:00:03 +0000

Have a look at FontsInUse for some great font inspiration for your next design job. The examples are large images, complete with the names of the fonts used in the piece. There’s some really great work here, definitely worth checking out.

Create color themes for use in all your Adobe CC apps

James — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:30:59 +0000

The Adobe Creative Cloud apps have a (fairly) new panel called Adobe Color Themes, which allows you to browse, create, save and use color themes in all your Adobe apps. Formerly known as Kuler, Color Themes allows you to browse a wide selection of pre-made color themes, or create your own using the Panel’s color mixer. Once you’re happy with your color theme, you can save it to your Creative Cloud account so the theme is available in InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop.

You can find the Adobe Color Themes Panel under the Window menu. It’s fairly easy to figure out how to use just by playing around with it, so I won’t bother going into details here. It’s much more fun to just play around with it, but if you feel the need you can view a video tutorial here.

I don’t know how I missed this feature when it was introduced, but I’ve been using it for a while now and it’s a real time saver, and a great color inspiration tool.

Resume/CV design inspiration

James — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:30:24 +0000

Some really nice designs to draw inspiration from.

Brand identity inspiration

James — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:30:42 +0000

25 examples of simple and elegant brand identity design. Ranging from print to digital, these different brands will give you a better idea of what you need to do to get it right.

Logo design inspiration

James — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:30:50 +0000

170+ logo designs for your creative inspiration. Some of these are quite nice, others made me yawn because I’ve seen so many similar ones before. But all serve to inspire.

Cool and creepy design inspiration

James — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:00:23 +0000

German design firm, Foreal, has posted images of their alphabet sculpting project. Images of each letter of the alphabet, created in Cinema4D—some of the letter are ultra cool. Some are downright creepy. All are inspirational.

25 Great sports-themed website designs

James — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:00:06 +0000

You can never find too much inspiration. If you’re working on a sports-themed website design, you’ll find plenty of inspiration in this list of 25 Inspirational examples of Sports Website Designs from Designer Ledger, which includes the awesome RIT Team site pictured above.

Package design inspiration

James — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:00:43 +0000

An effective packaging design can attract more customers and persuade them buy your products. Here’s a collection of package designs for your inspiration.

Design inspiration: Creativity in packaging

James — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:00:01 +0000

The Dieline offers a plethora of package design inspiration