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Design Inspiration: The Art of the Résumé

A résumé or CV (the longer of the two) is a summary of all your work, gathered together onto a single sheet of paper, PDF or site. It’s a traditionally mind-numbing…

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The Hack Battle at The Next Web 2012

For those of you attending the TNW2012 conference, the 25th of April will probably mark a day of travelling, checking in to your hotel, getting in the mood at the…

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Great Design is All About the Details

When first starting out on a project, major aspects of a site like color, form, shape and whitespace get all the attention. Of course, these traits are extremely important, but it’s…

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Think You Can Design A Better Windows Logo?

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the redesigned logo for the upcoming release of Windows 8. Although Microsoft routinely adjusts its Windows logo every few releases, the latest redesign…

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Saul Bass' Rare Children's Book is Back In Print

Saul Bass was one of the greatest designers of the 20th century. His legendary poster and film title design helped propel giants like Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese into the stratosphere, all…

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TypoFlat: Wild Vector Typefaces for Free

Nearly every designer shares a strong love for typography. Many will never become type designers, or even dedicated typographers, but you’d be hard-pressed to find a designer that didn’t lust…

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Designers: Share Mockups with MockVault

The effort designers go through to create the perfect site in Photoshop / Fireworks / Pixelmator is tough enough. If the entire process is a breeze for you, you probably aren’t doing…

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Dropmark: Gorgeous, Dead Simple Collaboration

Every once in a while, there’s an app or product that comes out and blows everybody’s minds. Not long ago, Dropbox opened our eyes to how simple sharing and storing…

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This Typeface Was Made Via Figurerunning

Sweatyfeet is an experimental typeface drawn via GPS in a process known to some as Figurerunning. The concept of Figurerunning has existed for a while now, dubbed as art meets exercise, and…

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5 Awesome Experimental Typefaces

Nearly every designer shares a strong love for typography. Many will never become type designers, or even dedicated typographers, but somehow we all lust for the details of gorgeous type treatments, display and…

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No, Graphic Design Isn't Ruining the Web

At twenty years old, the World Wide Web isn’t exactly new any more, but it’s still at an early stage of what it will develop into. Yet, amazingly, we already…

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Apple Posts Guide to 'Getting Started Developing iOS Apps'

If there is one aspect of Apple’s iDevice ecosystem that deserves a ton of credit for both growing and cementing its user base, it has to be the way developers…

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The Windows Logo Gets A Massive Redesign

The rumors that surfaced earlier this week were true: Windows has a new logo. If you take a look at Windows’ logo designs on a timeline, you’ll see that a…

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Photo Picker+ Could Help Fuel Photo Sharing in Apps

If you’re an iOS or Android app developer and have built something that you’d like people to share photos on, you know how plain and vanilla the default photo sharing…

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37Signals' New Basecamp UI is Hot

Basecamp, the highly popular Web app for collaborating on projects, is undergoing an UI overhaul and the team has decided to share its progress on Vimeo. Basecamp creator 37Signals specifically shows off the…