Best of Design Art, Inspirational Ideas for Designers and The Rest of Us

Street artist Ernest Zacharevic has just unveiled his latest piece that he created for Nuart, the annual international festival that brings the biggest heavyw…

In AIA’s Inspirational Gallery - Street Art, we present to you a pretty awesome collection of amazing & inspirational Street Art & Graffiti examples from incredible artists from all throughout the world.

The Lebowski Series: Illustrations by Bubble Gun

South African illustrator Bubble Gun created this awesome series of posters celebrating the Coen Brothers’ brilliant cult film – The Big Lebowski.

Each poster is dedicated to a favorite character from the movie. You can pick up a t-shirt or print on Society6.

Any design purist will tell you: there is no such thing as "flat design". It is simply minimal design, with a flat look and feel.

Flat web design relies heavily on the concept of minimalism. Geometric shapes will lose their value if your page is cluttered. Thus, white space is extremely important, and it serves as a form of breathing space for your viewers’ eyes. Unrequired elements and extravagant design has no room here — remember, best design is actually no design at all.

HTML5 and CSS3 techniques start the new standard with endless possibilities and with a responsive design it is easily usable with any device (Desktop, tablet, mobile phone), without removing any content! Mostly professional business or portfolio websites are know using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 trends for development.

HTML5 and CSS3 is popular language amongst web designers because it is being supported by the most of the modern browsers. The popularity of HTML5 is going higher and higher, so we are presenting big list of HTML5 and CSS3 web design examples in this article. This is a collection of beautiful and inspiring web designs that featured only HTML5/CSS3 websites for your inspiration.

Here is another infographic for UX Designers and Web Designers.The infographic mentions some basic differences between a UX Designer and a Web Designer.What do you think?

Street art is any form of art created in public spaces.

Millions of images across the web have been manipulated in applications like Photoshop to fit a style — one of the current trends is the vintage look inspired by mobile apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic. But what happens when the trend ends, as all trends inevitably do? We’re left scratching around for our original .tiff files so we can restyle them. That’s a particularly large problem for blogs, where a single site might be hosting thousands of images.

More importantly, separating data from style means the same data can be presented in different ways depending on context. A single image file can be cropped, re-toned or sharpened for one purpose, and enlarged, blurred or desaturated for another.

The ubiquitous nature of CSS is testament to web design’s core-philosophy of separating style from content. But until recently, there were very few options when it came to separating image style from image content.

Amongst the new structure, the new tags and the AV capabilities a tantalizing glimpse of the future crept into the HTML5 specification: a drawing option for JavaScript named Canvas. Despite its recent arrival and relatively few features, canvas is already an extremely powerful option for styling images.

In this tutorial I’ll walk you through the process for manipulating photographs, compositing 3D elements using Cinema 4D, establishing perspective grids, and using elements of the existing photo to create an accurate illustration.

Last Friday (March, 26th), Henry posted an article with 30 Fonts Perfect for Vintage and Retro Style Design and I simply loved the first font of the list, the matchbook typefaces.

As part of the George Town festival, a month-long celebration of art going on in Penang, Malaysia, Lithuanian artist Ernest Zacharevic is beautifying the city…

Fonts and typography are an important part of any web design, and in recent years the possibilities have increased dramatically for web designers. There are a number of great tools and resources out there that can help you in various ways related to web design and typography. In this post we’ll showcase 10 resources that can prove to be useful in your own work. Some of them are free and others are commercial.

Gorgeous Android apps.

...Google's Abhilash Kuduvalli created Android Niceties, a Tumblr page where he curates the Android apps with the best design. He hopes it can cause "inspiration and insight into Android UI conventions" for those looking at developing on the platform. We decided to follow his lead and picked out what we think are his best examples.

Flat design focuses on simple shapes, colors and typography to emphasize clarity and usability. These flat design UI kits will help you with your own projects.

On Saturday morning Apple's newest retail store opened at the Stanford (Calif.) Shopping Center, revealing a brand new architecture and interior layout that simplifies and improves the visual appearance for passersby.

Infographic: The Web Design Trends Of 2013 - DesignTAXI.com

In this edition of Creative Advertising Ideas we are going to check out recent advertisements that made use of amazing edgy and catchy illustrations.

In this edition of Creative Advertising Ideas we are going to check out recent advertisements that made use of amazing edgy and catchy illustrations.

We have featured a ton of creative advertising ideas that made use of amazing illustrations before but this time we are going to go full on illustrations in this edition of Creative Advertising Ideas.

Advertising is a business of getting someone’s attention and making an impression in order to sell a product or an idea. Using images such as illustrations and photographs, advertisers are able to create a lasting impression to the viewers. Nowadays with people’s attention span getting shorter and shorter, one must create something eye-catchy in order to be noticed. While there are many ways to get attention making use of an amazing illustration is one proven and trusted way for an advert to be noticed.

Vintage-inspired designs, when done well, can end up looking even more current and relevant than an entirely new and modern design. Whether it’s only taking inspiration for your typography, color scheme, or other elements, or whether you create a design that would feel entirely at home in the 1950s, 1920s, or any point before, using vintage and retro styles can be fun and challenging.