This is a guest post by Jan Rajtoral AKA Gonzo the Great, founder of gonzodesign, who provides design services across the full spectrum of Brand Identity, Graphic Design, Print and Advertising Design & Website Design. In this new series of posts we’re going to take a look at what has been published last month in [...]

I have very mixed feelings about social media. And that’s why it’s almost taken until now to really start to work with these tools in a business capacity. For all the benefits that it provides, I have had some serious hang-ups when joining, and participating in, social media. And, I’ll tell you why. Loss of [...]

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. Ascension Latorre ala We are Royale Planilandia Agencia Creativa Phil Martinez Design AGENCE [...]

For those of you who have been waiting expectantly on the edge of your seats for my next article to inspire your imagination and spark you to even greater heights (okay, that’s enough of the soaring rhetoric, I won’t be running for office any time soon!), this article is about what I consider to be [...]

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. Life in my Shoes 2Fly Comunicação adevby.me Swift Sport Atomic United / Creative [...]

A while back our team launched the Boosted platform, a series of fun social media-focused games on behalf of Samsung and Intel. The first was Tweetwrap, which is fairly self explanatory, the second, Tweetcracker, allowed you to discover clues to a secret combination and eventually crack a real safe with a laser. The encore took a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

When it comes to design trends and patterns it can be easy to focus on the overall styles and limit our consideration to the home page. With this in mind Monster Meltdown seeks to provide inspiration on specific topics in a much more comprehensive way. This sample chapter from our collection focused exclusively on e-commerce [...]