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Web Typography for the Lonely is a website that creates awesome typography using web standards (such as SVG, Html5 canvas and CSS3) and JavaScript.

There are both static and interactive examples and all of them are documented in detail.

It is possible to download the sources of the experiments and also find the related articles/resources that inspired or helped completing the experiments.

P.S. Some of the depend on various other libraries like jQuery or Raphael.js, however, the developer targets to make them standalone.

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As the popularity of Android rises and more applications are being built for the platform every day, the number of development-related questions increase as well.

Android Patterns is a website which aims to bring a solution to the design-related questions by sharing widely-accepted answers (patterns) for them.

The patterns are demonstrated in a wireframe and provided with descriptions of when and when not to use them, the pros/cons and screenshot examples.

There are main categories like "Dealing With Data" or "Navigation" and many sub-categories (questions under each).

P.S. If you have patterns that you want to share with others, it is possible to submit them as well.

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Desktopography is a website which shares a collection of impressive wallpapers to beautify desktops.

They are created by designers invited by the website and it can be clearly seen that "a serious effort is spent on each of them".

Wallpapers are published since 2005 and items are categorized as years.

They are provided in multiple sizes and besides using them, Desktopography is a good source of design inspiration.

Personally, I'm not a wallpaper fan and my desktop has only a black background, but now, considering to give wallpapers another chance : ).

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A smart and good-looking logo is a must for every company but, probably, a design company needs something better than that.

If you were a coffee shop or a restaurant, it is pretty easy to guess "the ingredients of the logo". For a web & design studio, what is the shape of creativity?

While browsing for beautiful logos, we have realized few trends that design studios use to represent themselves like using a pencil, light bulb, animals or many colors to show the creative power inside.

Here are 45 inspirational logos of web & design studios:

Pencil In Logos

Amiri Web and Graphic Designer

Siah Design

Design Tent

Creation

Pencil Coders

Matias

Designeer

Light Bulb In Logos

LCA Creative

Click.Inspire

Grupa Kreatywna

Catalyst Logo Design

Animals In Logos

White fox

Mothman

Studio Giraffe

NiteOwl Visuals

Apetive

Blue Baboon Creative

Illusion Studio

Mojito Creative

Little Bird

Fruit In Logos

PearDesign

Slick Orange Web Design

Cherry Design

Orange Ink Studio

Water Lemon Media

Multicolour or Palette Logos

Vision Creativa Multimedia

H Creative

Leandro Digital Designer

Apokalypse

HKDI

freshweb

Star Creative

Quan Vu (Freelance designer)

Jeigh Hall

Combination

Grafffix (Animal + Multi-color)

Chili Con Color Software (Fruit + Multi-color)

Limewheel Creative Inc. (Fruit + Multi-color)

BlackStachio Design (Animal + Light bulb)

Movius (Light bulb + Multi-color)

Limelight Group (Fruit + Light bulb)

These are definitely not the only or best ways to represent a creative studio but some successful ones to help getting inspired.

Which one is your favorite?

Author: Alex Lynch

Alec Lynch is the founder of DesignCrowd.com, a website for freelance web design and freelance logo designers.

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Creativity, no matter you're a designer, developer, photographer or .. can help you get inspired easily.

To see the talent in "many different areas together" (graphic design, copywriting, packaging, etc.), advertisement are great.

Creative Ad Awards is an impressive showcase of beautiful advertisements with over 1500+ items that's growing regularly.

They are very well-categorized with the sector, creative director, agency, client and location.

Tip: Under the "Articles" menu, it is possible to find collections of attractive thematic advertisements.

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Ember, a service for sharing screenshots, illustrations, etc. with the world, has a well-categorized library of screenshots for getting inspired.

The categories include graphic, web and UI design with sub-categories like typography, web apps., iphone apps., sign-up forms and more.

It is not a pattern library and doesn't discuss the methodology of each category but shares beautiful, well-picked screenshots which is great when searching for inspiration on a specific subject/module.

Once logged in (there are free and paid plans), you can add designs to your favorites, comment to them or upload new ones.

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Visual or not, there are lots of factors that define a brand. And within the visual ones, logo is probably the most important element.

It can be a logotype, a symbol or a combination where none is better than other & can define too many things like strength, sincerity, quality, speed, etc.

If you're looking for inspiration to create an awesome logo, here is a collection of 20+ frequently updated websites that present beautiful logos around the world which will definitely help you:

LogoPond

Logo Faves

LogoHeroes>

LogoSpire

LogoLounge

LogoSauce

Logo Of The Day

Wolda

LogoFury

Creattica > Logos

Logo From Dreams Awards

LogoGala

Logobliss

LogoGalleria

LogoMoose

Typebased

LogotalkZ

Logo Inspirations

Logomix

Logofi

LogoTwo

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A good way to be more creative is interacting with other people who share the same interests.

Anyone can easily make full use of the communities which are available today to boost creativity. Also, interaction with others in the community, collaborating and getting feedback can become a motivating factor.

Author: Rony John

I am a 21 yr. old web developer and student living in Baltimore. I run Appsheriff which is a blog about latest and useful web applications for designers, developers and photographers.

Feel free to visit anytime and subscribe to keep in touch. You can also follow me on Twitter.

Once you are in one of these communities, you will be both criticized and supported which will improve your skills at the end.

Let's look at 10 great creative communities available which will help you to show-off your talent in design and art.

DeviantArt

deviantART is amongst the largest internet art community. It is a place where artists from every part of the world come together.

This is a perfect site for both professional and amateur artists since anyone can browse through countless works of other artists or sign-up and post their creations.

There are large number of free features including free thumbnailed art galleries, comment system, user page, journal, and more.

Behance Network

Behance Network is a platform for creative professionals to gather, collaborate on different projects and connect with companies/agencies who are looking for creative talents.

The major focus of the site is to assist creative persons/companies to boost their productivity and demonstrate themselves professionally. It has creative tools + a great search engine to navigate through the network and come across fresh talent and opportunities.

Boost-Art

Boost-Art is one of the latest popular online galleries and an ideal place where each and every art maker + art lover can find/purchase creativity.

It is possible to exchange and purchase the art directly. You can create your own personal gallery with all your details and comment on each other's works that are published.

Carbonmade

This site is a very simple and uncomplicated way to display/manage a creative portfolio.

Carbonmade is a very user-friendly website and doesn’t require any HTML experience. The site has a set of straightforward and easy to use management tools to manage images, add flash or video and more.

RedBubble

It is both an open place for artists to showcase their talents, works and designs. Through RedBubble, an artist can easily receive encouragement and positive feedback about the designs created.

It is also possible to sell works and creations online with efficient customer service (or purchase them).

DESIGNSPOTTER

It is a design magazine devoted to everything associated to young modern contemporary design including: accessories, books, design-contests, exhibitions, fashion, furniture, hotels, lighting, new materials, residential architecture, interior design and prototypes. The online magazine is published by CEO Markus Gogolin and his group.

Threadless

It is a funky and trendy website containing millions of attractive T-shirts designed by the community.

As a designer, you can create new t-shirt designs, upload them, get feedback and sell them.

Graphic-ExchanGE

Graphic-ExchanGE shows its users a selection of work directly uploaded on this site. It mainly focuses on original works and creations rather than digital ones.

Computerluv

The Computerluv Newsfeed is a blog that comprises advertising, design and art. It is managed by 80 well-known artists, bloggers and journalists.

TalentTrove

TalentTrove is a place where an artist can prove their talent by creating, uploading and broadcasting what they are good at.

This community is free for both the professional and the amateur. There are many useful sub-tools in TalentTrove and here are two:

    * CollabLab, a live collaboration tool which calls upon the TalentTrove community to assist each other out. For example, a model may require a photographer for the portfolio. Broadcast it here and somebody will step ahead.
    * Forums, a community-powered place to exchange queries and suggestions.

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Footers of websites are being used more & more effectively everyday to provide a better navigation and more information.

Footerama is a fresh design gallery which presents inspiring footers of beautiful websites.

From Footerama:

footer became an area where the web designers had the maximum opportunity to show their creativity, craziness and umm..personality, individuality.

The footers presented are well-categorized with their themes/colors & new items are added regularly.

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CSS galleries are great resources for inspiration as they list beautiful websites.

The Css Awards is an exciting gallery that follows a different system of valoration compared to others when deciding which sites to be presented.

Websites submitted are evaluated with an international jury of designers, agencies & bloggers (they were kind enough to ask me too) on different topics like design, creativity, content & usability.

And each day, a website is choosen the winner of the day where other quality websites are mentioned in the " Honorable Mention Gallery".

There is also an inspiration mode to view the entries easier & better.

It will help promoting your website

Besides inspiration, CSS galleries are unique places to promote a website. They forward traffic continiously as visitors generally digg the older entries too.

The Css Awards is one of the most popular galleries around, they advertise on several web design blogs & has a serious traffic to forward to the websites listed.

Also, they offer a professional submission where your website is submitted to 50 other popular CSS galleries which is useful for anyone that doesn't want to spend too much time on various submissions.

The discount

The Css Awards is offering a special discount code to WRD readers that saves you 50% while submitting with any of the options.

The code is: WRDcode and it is valid until 31 December 2009.

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