Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

When it comes to color rules, there are no rules. It’s true that some color combinations are more difficult to work with than others, and some look so great together that they seem to be made for each other. But if you develop a sensitivity to the properties of colors, you’ll find that your options are limitless.

This post has come about since the death of Director Tony Scott, He directed one of my favourite films of all time, that I had no idea he had directed until today! - True Romance.

I stumbled across these very clever and creative alternate disney movie posters over at TQS Magazine and thought I'd share them over here on Design Shard.

The London 2012 Olympics is not only about the sport and athleticism but also about the art, listed are the promotional posters that have been designed and created by some of Britains iconic desingers for the Olympics 2012 and the Paralympics 2012.

Today we feature the amazing works of James White who mainly focuses on retro futuristic designs. His style is very distinctive and great to gain inspiration, as I'm sure you will all agree.

Today we present to you 20 logos from around the web, hopefully you havent seen any of them! These have been hand picked for their simplicity and general design awesomeness.

Here we feature an artist who goes by the name of "ROAN", for the design savvy amongst you will remember him from the PSD Tuts post about South American Artists in which he was featured - This is truly awesome design and illustration.

Whilst looking through Behance I discovered a female illustrator called Irina Vinnik from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

This week we bring a concept car design from the Jaguar design team . This is a fantastic look into how a concept car is created from initial sketch to augmented reality hologram.

Today we decided to give you some inspiration; business cards are an important and also fun aspect to branding oneself or company, especially when you’re in the business of design.

This week we bring you 19 well crafted and functional websites. These all have a simple and yet eye catching design ranging from CSS to Flash based. Hopefully they will give you a little boost to your creativity.

Summer is finally here (for the Northern Hemisphere which inspired me to gather together some stunning nature inspired wallpapers. Hopefully these will bring you as much inspiration as they did me.

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.