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Hedcuts Technique for Celebrity Portraits by Noli Novak

Hedcuts Technique for Celebrity Portraits by Noli Novak

Hedcut is a term referring to a style of drawing, associated with The Wall Street Journal. They use the stipple method of many small dots and the hatching method of small lines to create an image, and are designed to emulate the look of woodcuts from old-style newspapers, and engravings on certificates and currency. The phonetic spelling of “hed” may be based on newspapers’ use of the term hed…

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Get a Closer Look at 10 Outstanding Examples Of Website Navigation

Get a Closer Look at 10 Outstanding Examples Of Website Navigation

Navigation is also known as button bar, which is an essential component of a website. The success of a website is directly related to its navigation. Website navigation is like a gateway into the different sections of content. Some general rules are mentioned below to design it effectively:

Navigation should be easy and simple

It should be consistent

Less is more

Remind the user of their location

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Free Icon Set: Weather Icons

Free Icon Set: Weather Icons

This free set of 188 clean, professional weather icons comes in PNG and SVG image formats. This icon set was created by the Freepik.com team. Preview

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File format: PNG and SVG

Number of items: 188

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Free Icon Set: Weather Icons [1.82 MB]

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The Best Free Creative Apps for Your iPhone

The Best Free Creative Apps for Your iPhone

Apple’s Appstore has over 1,000,000 apps. That’s a lot of apps to sift through. Therefore, to make your lives easier, I’ve compiled a list of free apps that every creative can appreciate. Taking Notes

Taking notes and writing down your ideas is one of the best habits to have as a creative. Moments of inspiration and motivation can strike at any time and so you’ll need a great note-taking app to…

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12 Photography Websites That Will Inspire You

12 Photography Websites That Will Inspire You

Photography is, without a doubt, one of the most accessible creative disciplines one can pursue. While it may seem like all you really need is a camera to get started, it’s really the photographer’s eye and his ideas that truly make a great photo.For those of you looking to get inspired for your next photography session, I decided to compile a list of some of the best websites devoted to…

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PencilApp is a Minimalist Online Drawing Tool

PencilApp is a Minimalist Online Drawing Tool

PencilApp is a bare-bones online drawing tool designed for your tablet and your computer’s Web browser. Don’t expect a massive array of features. In fact, expect the exact opposite.Unfortunately, this is my best attempt at “drawing” using PencilApp.

Unlike other similar online drawing tools — such as draw.io, QueekyPaint or Sketchpad, for example — PencilApp just has a pencil, an eraser and a…

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Interesting UI Concept: Navicon Transformicons

Interesting UI Concept: Navicon Transformicons

By now, you’ve probably seen the navicon — an icon with three stacked lines representing a navigation drawer menu that can be shown or hidden.The transformicons design concept — which I’ll talk about in just a bit — adds to the navicon by smoothly transitioning it to another icon after it’s clicked. Navicon Examples

Here’s the navicon on YouTube (mobile version):

Here’s the navicon on Squarespa…

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7 Design Websites That Give Back: Designing For a Cause

7 Design Websites That Give Back: Designing For a Cause

As creatives, we often see our work as “for-the-client” or “for-the-company.” We work towards what the client wants, their goals, and their needs. However, sometimes, designers and artists get a chance to also work for causes that touch the lives of thousands, if not millions, of people all over the world. Read on to learn more.This round-up of websites is a little different than what we usually…

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15 Essential Tools for Content Creators

15 Essential Tools for Content Creators

It is easy to sell your product if you could sell your story. It is not possible to put your content before millions of targeted customers without the use of the right tools for the job. Since content is practically free for the consumers, the content creator has to think and act like a journalist and marketer to create a successful content marketing campaign. Here are some of the essential…

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Jaw dropping 80s style neon artwork designs

Jaw dropping 80s style neon artwork designs

This post is a flash back to 80’s looking at ever so popular design trend then neon style movie poster designs. We have decided to showcase in this article our personal favorite designs inspired this design trend, which first started in the 90’s. Please your thoughts, and feedback in the comments section below.  Alien killer 80s dream

The Expendables – 80s Look

Disco

DJ ten zion

Rad…

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Beautiful Free Icon Sets

Beautiful Free Icon Sets

As a developer, it can be remarkably useful to get anything that you build out there and in production quickly – provided that you’re happy with it. One of the things that take the most amount of time is adding polish to all of the tiny, intricate details that make up the UI. For me – the icons are the biggest time sink. I could spend days fine-tuning the icons to be pixel perfect – after all,…

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Picjumbo Gives Out Totally Free Stock Photos to Use in Your Designs

Picjumbo Gives Out Totally Free Stock Photos to Use in Your Designs

Web designer Viktor Hanacek knows just how tough it is to find great-quality stock photos. So he decided to offer his own photos to his fellow creatives on his site Picjumbo.

You can use the stock photos on Picjumbo in your commercial and personal works. Attribution is not required (but appreciated).

The photos on Picjumbo are very high-quality and usable. And the photos are big, with most of…

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Miki Mottes Decorated the Walls of Ebay Lab in Israel

Miki Mottes Decorated the Walls of Ebay Lab in Israel

Miki Mottes was born in 1978 in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Over the years he drew comics and cartoons on the kindergarden walls, on schoolbooks, on A4 and secret military documents and on anything possible. He has been doing animations and illustrations full time.

Recently, he has decorated the new startups hub for ebay lab in israel. The drawings were printed onto high quality vinyl stickers,…

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Tattooed Leather Ferrari F430 by Phillipe Pasqua

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Free InDesign Magazine Template: Teen Beats Magazine

Teen Beats Magazineis a free 2-page magazine InDesign template. It’s a fresh, energetic, modern…

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Matching Movies Scenes with Real Life Locations

Christopher Moloney is a Canadian photographer who has has created an ongoing art project that…

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25 Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

Using big typographyon websites is continuing to be a popular design trend. The featured web…

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