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8 websites to look for infographics inspiration

16 Jul 11

infographic inspiration

Information graphics or in short, infographics, are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. With visual aids, complex data can be presented in graphical way and is easier to remember and more enjoyable when reading it. Currently, there are a lot of educational articles are presented in infographic on the Internet, and I found 8 useful websites that showcase the inspirational infographics.

While majority of the infographics are designed and presented in a form of image, but there are also animated one, as well as interactive. I personally really like infographics because it is entertaining and creative. Without further elaborating, below are some websites that you should visit for infographic inspiration.

Websites and Designers that influence me when started out as Web Designer

26 Jun 11

. Web Design

Websites and designers that influence me when started out as Web Designer

Lets rewind back the time to 2006, exactly five years ago when I just graduated in college and started my career as Web Designer. That time, I was fresh, ready for challenges but inexperience. Back in my school, the course didn’t teach much but just the basics of the Web Design skills, and I’m the only designer in the company that I joined after graduation.

With no senior that I can refer to for Web Design skills, and the school taught me the old style web development skill like building a website using Table and lacking CSS skills, I decided to look for learning materials online. Soon, I found out some really useful websites and great designers that influenced me during my early career as Web Designer. Without their help, perhaps today I still cannot build a Table-less website! Read on to find out the websites and designers that influence me when started out as Web Designer.

Media Queries – a Responsive Web Design Gallery

12 Jun 11

. Web Design

Media Queries - a Responsive Web Design Gallery

Responsive Web Design has become really popular nowadays. As in the world today with the desktop screen getting much wider, while on the other hand the rising of mobile devices with smaller screen and resolutions. Now it is very essential to create a website that can be viewed with various screen resolutions. With the help of CSS3’s Media Queries, designers are able to design websites that are responsive and adaptive to what screen resolutions that the users have.

Media Queries has been existed quite some time already and there are quite a number of websites that use Media Queries. Recently I found a web gallery called Media Queries, which showcase the good examples of responsive web designs.

High Quality Subtle Pattern Resources at SubtlePatterns

28 May 11

. Resources

High Quality Subtle Pattern Resources

Texture and pattern has become one of the most commonly used elements in Web Design. If browsing through major web design galleries, you will found that many featured websites has really nice subtle textures and patterns in the design like body background or design elements. This small subtle textures might not really eye popping, but it makes your design richer in depth and much classier too. Recently I stumbled on this website called Subtle Patterns which has the growing collection of really nice subtle texture pattern!

The patterns in Subtle Patterns are high quality and tile-able too, ranging from fabric, leather to paper textures. You can download these goodies for free, by either download each pattern individually or download the Photoshop pattern file at the bottom of the page to use it directly in Photoshop. I think this website is really useful and will definitely use some of the patterns on the future design projects.

Flickr Gallery Showcase #4

17 May 11

. Flickr

Flickr Gallery Showcase #4

It’s Flickr gallery showcase again! Welcome to the fourth edition of this series. As usual, five awesome photo galleries will be showcased in this post. Continue read on to check out the inspirational galleries! If you want to check out the previous series, here are the link to first, second and third of this series.

toshiya watanabe

Great photo gallery showing the beauty of Japan. Link to toshiya watanabe’s photo slideshow.

iOS Fabric Texture in Web Design

08 May 11

. Inspiration, Web Design

iOS Fabric Texture in Web Design

Apple is very popular for its innovative and cutting edge hardwares and softwares, and somehow they are the trend setter in terms of design. For example back in the days, the rising of the glossy button was inspired by Apple and now, the fabric texture in the Apple iOS.

The fabric texture was seen as the background for the app folders, as well as in the Maps app, when you click the page flip button at the bottom right corner. The texture is classy and subtle, and really fits well as background. Besides app, on the web world I started to see the fabric texture featured in some websites. Here I will show you 5 websites that uses iOS fabric texture as background.

Levitating Self-Portraits by Yowayowa Camera Woman

03 May 11

. Inspiration

Photography is a very interesting creative form of art. People can capture many things with their camera and one of it is taking self-portraits. Recently I found a set of really interesting self-portraits where in every shot, the photographer is hanging in the air. Entering the levitating self-portraits by Natsumi a.k.a. Yowayowa Camera Woman.

According to Natsumi, “Yowayowa” means weak or feeble. In the levitating self-portraits series, the photos have lots of varieties. Some shots are taken close to the photographer, some are further away. Some shots with simple jumping, while some are action-packed. But overall, the levitating photos are really cleverly well interacted with the surroundings.

Sakura 2011

30 Apr 11

. Japan

Sakura 2011

I had been quite occupied with works lately and was a little late to post this article about cherry blossom. As many people know, cherry blossom or sakura blossoms during Spring season and it is really beautiful when fully bloomed. Two years ago, I when to Japan and witnessed the beauty of cherry blossom.

There are many places to look for beautiful cherry blossom photos on the Internet, I posted an article last year which contains some pretty cherry blossom photos, or you can also go to SAKURA SELECTION to check out more sakura flowers around Tokyo area.

Where to look for quality free fonts and web fonts?

12 Apr 11

. Resources, Typography

Where to look for quality free fonts and web fonts?

As a designer, we deal with types everyday and it is very natural that to look for free fonts on the web that is suitable for the design and brings out the right feeling. And with the modern web design, web fonts are getting more popular too. There are many ways and websites to look for free fonts but in this post, I will show you some tips and sites to look for quality free fonts and web fonts.

With these websites, you can find many free fonts quickly that might just suitable for your next project. Without further elaborating, please read on to check the sites out!

Turn Your Traffic Into Aid

03 Apr 11

. Japan

Turn Your Traffic Into Aid

It’s almost a month since the great Tohoku earthquake that struck in Japan. Many lives had lost and the recovery process could take years. Japan now really need helping hands from people around the world. As a blogger and site owner, you can put these donate banner at your website to increase the awareness, to teach your visitors on how they can help and contribute.

This nifty service was provided by Another Bookmark, and you just need to choose whether to use the vertical or horizontal version, specify the width, language and color scheme option and you can grab the code and paste it on your blog.

Besides putting banners, many parties and organizations are organizing charity events and sales. YOUR ACTION provides useful information on these charity events and sales. Besides that, you can also check out OPERATION TOMODACHI to check out on how to donate for Japan Earthquake.

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