Time to impress you with a new collection of photos, this time from a single artist, Andrew (aka Cuba Gallery). I found him on Flickr looking for different themes and I have to say that his work is amazing. Take a look!

What a great source of inspiration, don’t you think?

Hi dear friends, I just realized it’s Friday so  it’s time for a post full of nice links. How are you? How was your week?

To start, let me share with you a beautiful collection of photos and artworks from around the web. Diversity, color and interesting perspective. What do you think?

I have one little question: do you like coffee? What’s your favorite? If your answer is yes, I think you might like this showcase of delicious coffee websites. For your inspiration.

For all the designers out there looking for new great fonts, here is a fresh article from Smashing Magazine who collected 30 new free quality fonts. Hope you’ll find this resource useful for your future projects.

Before I close let me show you a list of 12 Photoshop tutorials geared toward beginners. Learn the basics, the most important tools, about layers and filters, brushes and actions.

Wish you an awesome weekend!

***image credits Dardan Ibrahimi

The photo slide show was made with PhotoSnack, as all the slideshows featured on this blog. I used Pixelate wipe, a premium template, size 500 x 400px.

For a little inspiration, here is a showcase of fresh texture-based web designs. As Noupe wrote, textured images were a big trend this year and sometimes they were used heavily, perhaps a little to much. But used in a subtle way, as the examples posted in his article can make a website look very good.

Need a Twitter bird for your blog or website? Or perhaps you’re tired if the old one and want to change it. Then this might help you, 10 free and fun bird icons. Number 10 is my favorite.

To end this blog post I want to share with you an article that I found very interesting, related to marketing: Techniques from Gilt.com, one of the most popular ecommerce websites around. Use amazing imagery, create a sense of exclusivity for your members, create a story and customize for multiple platforms are just four of the 10 lessons you can learn.

Hope you’ll have a beautiful weekend, see you next week!

Template picked: Vertical Flip (this is a premium template), same size as ever 500 x  400px because this is the one that fits the blog perfectly.

Hi dear friends, time to leave you with with some great links and wish you a wonderful weekend.

I want to start this post with something beautiful, a showcase of macro images. “There is so much detail around us that goes unnoticed by the naked eye, but thanks to this type of photography, we get to see and appreciate all that detail”, I think Henry Jones, the author of the article is right.

There’s always place for a little inspiration and whether your interested in design or want to start your own business,  a collection of colorful logos might be interesting for you. I’d like to know if you found this useful or not.

Here is a very handy article for people owning a business or people involved in the process of promoting one on the internet: How to enhance your online presence with video. Video’s can be a great way to show customers or potential customers what you do, how you do it and why, to show your personality and to be closer to them.

This is all for today nice guys, see you next week.

*** image credits Christophe Kiciak

See what Anthony Feint, the smart guy who developed this product (also Task.fm) has to say about it “I really focused on ease of use with this app – there are hardly any elements on the page and the only action required by the user is to start typing.   There is no need to “save” as its all done automatically”. More on his blog.

You have to try it. What do you think?

Image credits are inside the photo slide show. Template used: Thumbnail wall (this is a premium template).

Wish you a fresh day and a gorgeous summer!

Time for a new collection of useful links to end well this week. How are you my friends? Did you make plans for this summer? I’d like to know if you’d like to share.

Learn how to create recognizable article thumbnails, with a great showcase of examples. I’ve learned that there are large thumbnails below title and introduction to make visual impact and square thumbnails right beside paragraphs just to give a hint about what you’ll read. There are also different techniques to make your article thumbnails, like related photo or a screenshot of the article and many more. I think it’s a good read for people interested in blogging.

Staying in the same area, design, here is a great collection of 40 examples of excellent single page websites.

Interested in fonts? Do you know what are the best calligraphy fonts that designers use in their projects? Here they are.

To end this blog post, I’ll let view these stunning black and white images. Happy, sad, funny, intriguing and fresh…

Enjoy your weekend!

*** image credits Dan

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