Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Ive been looking around the web to try and find some examples of clean well structured sites, this maybe a unique layout or just simply presented well with some good typography, spacing or an initial great first impression of the site, here are jsut a few of what im liking.

Some examples of how people use light effects to enhance their web designs either by giving it more colour or by giving it more depth, check out my selction from around the web for some inspiration.

I’ve collected some great examples of space and lighting effects that are quite commonly used in web design these days as inspiration, usually accompanied by vivid colours and streaks of light, which is currently one of my favourite styles.

Big Cartel offers an excellent resource for indie t-shirt lines looking for a quick and easy social online store. However, as of this posting, there were well over 4,000 shops at Big Cartel. The majority of these serve up some t-shirts and we wanted to share 12 of our faves?

This is a collection of baroque style (ornamental) design, this style originates from baroque styles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the word baroque can also simply mean that something is elaborate with many details.

Floral and ornamental type dates back to medieval times when scribes were writing manuscripts, they would use the large ornamental lettering as initials and smaller plainer fonts for the body text. Take a look at these great examples of style.

Yes this is the first showcase from the design shard flickr group and hopefully not the last in a long line to come.

Now we've got the Photoshop basics which enable us to use any type of tutorials in the most friendly manner. It's time to pull out the creativity and realize our own creations.

A mixed collection of illustration artists some using 3D programs, oil paints, Illustrator and Photoshop to produce there creations, I have place a piece of text about each illustrator where possible as well as slightly explaining what they incorporate in to there work.

I have just started my own flickr group here on design shard to showcase work and peoples inspirations. come and join it.

Who doesn’t like a little Tees action? Personally, original t-shirt designs catch my eye more than most graphic art that I see. Mainly because I can wear it Functional art, oh baby!