In 2011, the movie industry made a whopping $87 billion worldwide. With that much cash up for grabs, film studios and corner-office execs are all clamoring for their piece of the pie; and that means branding and marketing a given release is anything but child’s play. It’s interesting, then, that one approach to attracting film-goers has stood the test of time: the typographic movie poster. Artwork

[“ <\/p>\r\n If you’re asking me to share with you some of the best web designs in the world, chances are I’m going to point you in the direction of something that’s pretty minimal. In fact, if you ask most designers, they’ll point you to sites that are equally sparse. Myself and others tend to believe that less is more. Plus, we’re entering an age where audiences want less fluff and more informat

[“ <\/p>\r\n How do we live without food? It’s our sustenance. It’s the reason why we live and can be the reason for the opposite. Many events, conferences and groups surround themselves around the idea of being a ​‘foodie’ and submerge themselves in the culture of cooking.<\/p>\r\n While food is good, it’s a well known fact that going into business in the food industry is often the hardest. Those

[“ The purpose of any website is to get people from your target audience interested in what you’re offering. Whether it be a product or service, 9 times out of 10, someone is going to want to communicate with you further. Because of this, in almost any industry, you’re going to want to create a contact page.<\/p>\r\n For some, this is that last page on the site map where you just throw a bunch of

The popularity of shopping for items online is greatly increasing. If you ask me why I like to shop online, it's because I have pretty solid control over my purchase. I get to have time to open up another tab and read up on reviews from other folks. I don't have to be forced by sales people to just try it on and see how I like it. And 9 times out of ten, I'm shopping online because I know exactly

As a writer, I’m particularly drawn to typographic art. Perhaps it’s because the combination of word and art speaks to both the left brain and the right brain — and therein lies the magic. Designer Ji Lee’s book entitled Word as Image brilliantly illustrates the power of “picturing words”. Currently Facebook’s Creative Strategist and formerly a Creative Director at Google, the Seoul-born artistic

It's a well known fact that a sport is not just pleasure: it's a business (without a doubt a big business) that can bring fantastic fortunes to those who know the rules of the game. So as long as sport is business, every sport project, event, person or team needs an impressive website. Here you'll find the main design features that matter in current sport web design. When it comes to sport website

Have you ever looked at a beautiful website but thought, “I hate those colors?” No? Of course, not. That’s because colo…

With over 9 billion indexed sites on the web and counting, sites are having to do more to get noticed and encourage users to spend time on them. With more websites competing for users' attention, color is becoming more and more important in making your page stand out. Here are some sites that do just that: use interesting colors in unusual combinations to stand out from the billions of standard co

Have you ever looked at a beautiful website but thought, “I hate those colors?” No? Of course, not. That’s because colo…

Whether you're a WordPress theme creator or just a consumer, it's important to stay abreast of what's going on in the wild world of WP theme development. One of the best ways to do just that is to follow trends in new theme designs from some of the leading theme designers out there. Checking out both free and premium themes is invaluable. If you follow both long enough, you may start to notice tha

Have you ever looked at a beautiful website but thought, “I hate those colors?” No? Of course, not. That’s because colo…

With the right fonts, we can do anything, and create anything. Fonts help portray a mood or emotion. Your font choice can make or break your designs, so you must careful in choosing the right one. Typography matters not just because it looks good, but because what's being said is extremely important. Typography in web design is becoming huge. We can now embed and show all sorts of fonts on our web

We’re back with another great exclusive freebie for you. This one is a Photoshop pattern file (.PAT) which contains 40 beautiful textures that you can apply to your designs. A detailed step by step instruction is provided inside the file to help you use them. You can use these as textures for your websites or any background. Thanks to Rayz Ong from LemonGraphic for creating this awesome freebie fo

I'm a WordPress themes junky, as I'm sure a lot of the rest of you are. I love checking out new themes, both for ideas and inspiration, as well as to keep up to date on what's happening in the world of WP theme design. The great thing is that new themes are released on practically a daily basis. There are thousands of themes out there, a lot of which are truly awesome. And they just keep getting b

As web designers, we spend most of our time praising web designs for their sleek interfaces and their awesome typography or even just the random design work, but truly, the unsung hero of design is the pattern. The pattern is popular, not just online, but offline too—we love a good pattern because it's design in its purest form. Patterns allow us the ability to interpret good designs and rely on a

Today we bring you a great icon set from Inventicons! It includes 200 free icons that you can use for personal and commercial uses. If you love these icons as much as we do, you can get this deal which includes another 198 vector icons and 9 useful photoshop actions (for only $11). Want more? See this Mighty Deal where you can get the entire Inventicons collection of 1,000 vector icons for only $2

We'll be starting a regular series of roundups of the best free Photoshop brushes, in various themes; this week's Photoshop brush roundup is on the Grunge theme. Grunge is a very bold style choice, and is characterized by its gritty style, dark, washed-out colors, and irregular shapes. Grunge textures can be so varied, from wood to metallic surfaces, fabric, paper and more as far as textures go, b

As you probably know, we love great icons and we always like to give away some great sets. Today we have a set of 60 exclusive free icons that we call “Childish”. As the name implies, these are ideal for children’s websites or for websites that are more relaxed, with a fun feeling. They’re definitely not suitable for a serious corporate website. The set contains all of the icons in 4 different siz