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Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.

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Designer vs Illustrator

marvellyous:

Do you define yourself as a graphic designer or an illustrator? Whichever one it is, why do you define yourself as such?

Olly Moss:

What’s the difference? Honestly, I don’t know. If I knew the answer I might feel comfortable defining what I do one way or the other. 

Is it necessary that there be a significant difference? 

I suppose that if I absolutely had to answer, I would do so like this: I treat each job individually, and take whichever approach seems best to me at the time. Some pieces will involve more illustrative elements while others might benefit from a more graphic, idea-led treatment. I try not to think about what I would usually do or what the client is expecting of me, but what the best possible solution to any given problem is. If that solution requires a skill that I don’t have, I either try and learn it or get somebody else to help me out. 

I’ve always considered illustration and graphic design (along with photography, animation or any other creative discipline for that matter) as tools in a toolbox. The more tools you have, the more versatile you are and the more things you can build. Why bother trying to confine yourself to one specific tool? You’ll only hobble yourself with limitations.  

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Dochub

Documentation for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, all in once nice easy to use place.

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In the services business, sometimes “no” is the most powerful, effective and beneficial tool that you have.

Khoi Vinh looking back on starting his design studio 10 years later.

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Web & iPhone mockup design resources.

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26 Beautiful Free Retro Fonts

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Super simple App site. Do you ever really need more than this for an App site?

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Brand new responsive website from Heydays. Try resizing the page and behold the super smooth image scaling. The drop down search is a nice touch as well.

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Beautiful film site that has a lot of personality while still being structured and cleanly designed.

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Clean portfolio site, balanced tone, double axis navigation scheme, large screenshots and photos, and keyboard navigation, tablet friendly layout.

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The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping

Multi-page document with background page

Inter-page linkings!

On-screen text editing with rich-text supports

Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF.

Undo/redo supports

Installing user-defined stencils and templates

Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...

Cross-platforms

Adding external objects

Personal Collection

Clipart Browser

Object snapping

Sketchy Stencil

And much more...

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Clean design (ignore the ads) with monochromatic typography.

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A columns, rows and midpoints panel for Photoshop CS4 & CS5.

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Page Layers

Page Layers saves your web site as layered Photoshop image. The app is unique in its capability to export pixel-perfect web site screenshots featuring a masked layer for every page element. And it can capture traditional website screenshots, too.

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Stock avatars for designing social UIs.