This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world.  Not so long ago ornament in architecture was a crime – just like tattooed people were potential murderers. Is ornament making a comeback? From the psychedelic Arab World Institute of Jean Nouvel to the fashion [...]

As a designer, you know the tools of your trade: you’ve got apps like Photoshop and DreamWeaver and specialty tools like FontLab installed and ready to go. But what about the business and administration apps? What do you use to deal with tasks involved with bookkeeping and client collaboration? Marketing your services and lead generation? [...]

Like most designers and developers you want kick ass skills. You want jaws to drop. Eyes to pop. It’s not easy. You need vitamins. Think Vitamins! Well, I know I do! Anyway, I’m a long time subscriber of the Think Vitamin membership program (soon to be renamed as Treehouse) and I’m super hyped to announce this [...]

It’s the million dollar question. How long does it take to build a website? Whether you are a business owner who needs a website or a web designer the real answer is probably a little longer than you think. So whichever end you are on make sure you are being realistic when calculating your time [...]

The art of the typeface, from the typographer who creates them down to the designer who meticulously meddles with settings to get them just right in their designs — from the size to the letter spacing to the line length — is a complicated one. Many designers get overwhelmed just trying to get the typography [...]

We asked the CSS Awards team to create a selection with the greatest submissions from the last week. Check them out below and suggest other entries in the comments! Also, feel free to submit here other cool finds or your own creations. Toomas Tartes Design Chichester Music Academy Yurbuds TMdesign Reverse Büro Cappuccino Digital Smokey [...]

This is a guest post from Tony Shin – with a double major in Economics and Management from the University of Washington, this Seattle native regularly contributes his work to several other publications. He has moved into social media and creative design in hopes to help lead and innovate the future of information with others. [...]

Well that’s something, ha!? For this edition of the Freebie Friday series we teamed up with Mailerlite – a fresh tool that took the newsletter world by storm offering just this – simple and effective email marketing. We’re offering full one-year subscriptions (worth $99 each) for 10 lucky readers! That means you’ll send unlimited newsletters [...]

Howdy. Seems like only yesterday did our WordPress Weekly Roundup air, yet a whole week has rushed by delivering lots of interesting content and ideas revolving around WordPress and its communities.

This is a guest post from Antonina of OpenBuildings - a community-driven and openly editable encyclopaedia of buildings from around the world.  It happens so everybody needs to visit them once in a while. For many of us in Europe and the US there is nothing public about the programme they accommodate so these inescapably important amenities [...]

As a typographer you have a distinct advantage. Inspiration is everywhere, as text is a regular part of our every day lives: on billboards and posters, TV commercials and boxes of rice, and on our computer screens, phones and other devices. We are always confronted with new ideas and old ones that have been reused [...]