Thank you guys for yet an amazing year in the web design & development community and prepare for an extremely innovative & surprising 2012!! Happy New Year everybody!!

It is an undeniable fact – highlighted in 2004 ‘Content’ by Rem Koolhaas too – that ‘shape is easy’. It is recognisable; works with our subconscious; and in the case of Platonic solids like cubes shape is also a philosophical notion with numerous connotations – starting from symmetry and regularity; stretching as far as our [...]

Tumblr themes have evolved along numerous, sometimes mutually exclusive paths. Text-oriented themes for writers, for instance, have revolutionized the mutli-panel template, with innumerable design houses offering unique takes on the blog-in-a-blog concept (among myriad others). But photography and photojournalism have always pushed developers to reinvent wheels faster than other creative fields. While a still image persists [...]

For years I’ve been asked “how can you not be an Apple guy? Don’t you do web design…?” Yup, and nope, I’m not (or wasn’t) a “Mac/Apple” guy. My History With Apple Mac Let me go back 15 years. My first computer was a Mac. I couldn’t even tell you what model it was. I’m [...]

We invited our friends from Geefts – the gifts for geeks bible – to start a regular column on Inspired Mag, recommending the hottest (self) gift ideas for geeks, including cool gadgets, must have books, movies and all sorts of awe-inspiring products. This is a special “after Christmas” edition – if you didn’t received enough [...]

Clearly, the design and creation of man-made Christmas trees started long before the more versatile and multi-disciplinarily minded architects of recent generations got involved. The debate of the environmental impact of both cutting natural trees for the celebrations and using their artificial replicas that became popular in the 90s is ongoing. The best solution to avoiding the [...]

Freebie Friday again here @ Inspired Mag – a special Christmas edition brought to you by our friends from Solo – an all-in-one Project Management tool for freelancers that integrates basic financial business stats, time-tracking and invoicing, with a twist. Solo combines great functionality with beautiful design and focuses on maximizing your use of time [...]

Before you go any further and jump to the 5 places to find a job in web design I would like to preface this post with a tip from someone that has hired dozens of web designers and web developers over the years: Put yourself in your (future) bosses shoes.  It’s that simple. From the [...]

This is a guest post by Vadim – one of the curators of the Stylish iPad apps tumblog. They post the most visually stunning apps in App store on a daily basis. Today, Vadim will introduce us to a list of 10 most stylish RSS readers for iPad. Sync your Google reader account, Tweeter profile [...]

Since launching their theme store in April 2010, Shopify‘s hosted some solid (albeit sometimes underwhelming) storefronts. But October saw a bumper crop of new premium designs, and if yours is one of the 15,000+ stores running on the site–or if you’re simply looking to open a new shop–it’s a great time to upgrade your aesthetics. [...]

Our colleagues from Geefts put together a pretty neat Christmas geefts guide for all you geeks out there. Download the pdf and let us know what you think. Happy holidays!