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The Perfect User Interface: GoodUI Equips Web Designers with Solid Marketing Knowledge

Dieter Petereit — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:03:16 +0000

Jakub Linowski, UI designer from Toronto, Canada, is used to be working for the bigger brands. He obviously possesses knowledge not only in the field of webdesign craftsmanship but also in the field of marketing. The latter is what he conveys through his side project GoodUI.org. If you are a web designer interested in maximum conversion aka massive sales, you should definitely care for obeying what Linowski teaches you. Not each and every tip will be a fit to every project, though. Just as it is in real life, if the shoe fits, wear it. If not, don't...

To Eat With Your Eyes: 40+ Delicious Food Typography Designs

Tara Hornor — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:21 +0000

Delicatessen and fabulous fonts are two sources of inspiration for me, and when they are combined, even better! In fact, it's really very clever to create beautiful typographical designs with food. Designers then have the chance to trigger cravings with the food, which viewers then associate with the typography. Of course, most food typography is purely for artistic purposes, but every once in a while you may come across a title font that would be perfect for that restaurant website you are building. At the very least, the following collection of food typography designs will give you some great inspiration, whether your project is a cooking contest or the creation of a new font.

Maximum Quality: 44 Free Fonts for Creative Designers

Dirk Metzmacher — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:34:34 +0000

We did it again. We curated more than 40 high-grade fonts for your designing pleasure. Each one is equipped with additional info as to whether the font is private and commercially usable and in which format it will be delivered. Most fonts contain special characters from several languages, but as our audience is international, we did not check that for each and every charset possibly demanded. You will need to do that by yourself. As you are on it, you should as well double-check whether the license has probably been changed and what kind of usage it allows. Have fun with these high-quality fontsets from all over the world.

Book of Wisdom: 7 Things Web Designers Can Learn from Print

Noupe Editorial Team — Mon, 20 May 2013 09:30:03 +0000

Although the knowledge in effective web marketing has increased over the last decade or two, there is still a great deal that web designers can learn from print designers. After all, print marketing has been around since the invention of the printing press and roughly five-hundred years of successful designs can’t be wrong.

CSS3: InDesign-Like Text Formatting with Exclusions and Regions

Denis Potschien — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:30:53 +0000

It's Adobe again. They made two proposals to a coming standard, which would lead to the possibility to format and present texts on websites just as we already know it from DTP software such as InDesign. With Exclusions we will be able to let text flow in any shapes and forms, while Regions will allow us to split texts between two or more HTML elements.

Back from the Shoe Box: Audio Cassette Revival Art Work by Benoit Jammes

Dieter Petereit — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:15 +0000

Children of the Seventies and the Eighties are likely to be particularly interested in what we want to show you today. French artist Benoit Jammes found a bunch of audio cassettes in his basement, yet did no longer own the appropriate player hardware. So he went ahead and sculptured the former sound sources to something more visual. We had a little talk with Benoit...