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Web designers have a very stressful job, although admittedly an enjoyable one. Because, hey, you guys are doing what you love and you're earning dollars by the hour! So, how do you combat stress in the office, or home office? Well, let your geek side go out and expand your " creativity" into your office.

Good landing pages are indispensable from a marketing point of view. They are the entry points for valuable visitors, and every business wants pages that can funnel users in the right direction. A lot is riding on landing pages - they have to be perfect. As a graphic designer working on a corporate landing page, I felt a trifle stifled at first. We had to do a conversion-centered design and there were a dozen components that had to be there: USP headline and sub header, a section detailing the benefits, a picture representing our services, a prominent call-to-action, social and other contact points, etc. Designing a successful and attractive page was not difficult. After all, the structure of the page was driven by the different elements that had to be accommodated. The wireframe I created for the page looked too much like an infographic - it served its purpose, but there wasn't anything special or creative about it. In order to find inspiration for creating innovative and graphical landing pages, I trawled hundreds of pages on the web. Here are fifteen of the most innovative landing pages on the Internet.

It's been quite a while since we last published an article in our series of iPad apps for the creative professional. As we all know there is no shortage of apps for the Apple tablet in general. Hundreds of thousands can be downloaded. All in all more than 50 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store since its inception, which allows us to roughly estimate, that each human being walking this earth must own 8 apps on average. Hey, the numbers never lie. The app we want to introduce to you today is called Tayasui Sketches and at first sight it will remind you of Paper by FiftyThree, closely. At second, too…

How're you all doing mates? In this post we will be featuring a little bit of Graffiti Art. Technically, Graffiti is defined as any writings or drawings that are usually sprayed, illegitimately, on public places. Although detested for its unapproved activities, graffiti artists find this kind of art as a way to show their artistic expression for their emotion, opinions, and personal messages. It is said that graffiti originated way back the ancient times and with no doubt, is still alive and sprayin' until today. To share to you some cool works, we have gathered 30 Awesome and Creatively Expressive Graffiti Artworks. Have a glimpse on some of the amazing artworks made by different graffiti artists around the world. You might want to have a pair of artistic eyes and open mindedness to appreciate these daring works of art. Come, take a peek, and your mind be sprayed. Enjoy!

Breads are one of the most popular stomach-filler and is considered as the basic food until now. Having a lot of styles, techniques and proportions of ingredients, it can come in a huge variations of tastes, sizes, shapes, appearances, colors, etc. It's no wonder why there are millions of bakeries operating around the globe. However, for these bakeries to stand out from the others, aside from having a tasty bread, it is just as important for them to have the logo design that would amplify their branding and in turn would make them easier to be recognized by the market. Today, we will be showcasing 26 Yummy and Creative Examples of Bread Logo Designs. Scroll down and observe this compilation that includes some of the most artistic bread logo designs and maybe get some idea and inspiration on how you want your own logo design to look like. Come, take a peek, and enjoy.

Semi Permanent was started in Sydney in 2003 by Australians Andrew Johnstone and Murray Bell and has since become an international annual conference, spanning across 5 counties and 9 cities including London, Los Angeles and Stockholm. Semi Permanent is now synonymous with assembling industry leaders from all creative fields to present their work, inspirations, processes, insights and to simply share their creative journey with fellow peers over two jam-packed days. As always, there was an impressive showcase of amazing work that spanned across Graphic Design, Film, Animation, Motion Graphics, Architecture and Visual Effects. Illustration, Photography and Graffiti. Photographer Max Doyle showcased his diverse talent by entertaining us with a live jam of one of his songs. And of course it wouldn't be a design conference without the guys from Stab Magazine firing t-shirts into the crowd from a canon.

Online games are undeniably becoming more epic as they improve in terms of gameplay, characters and graphics. One of these online games is called Rift which was released a few years ago. In this game, there are several 'rifts' which are divided into six elements (earth, fire, air, water, life, and death) and it is where monsters emerge to destroy anything in its path. For this moment we will be focusing in air element wherein these monsters are able to control the wind, clouds, and air at their will.

Final Product What You'll Be Creating The new version of Photoshop is finally here! Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) was finally announced at the Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles. In the keynote address, Adobe announced several new features including Camera Shake Reduction, Camera RAW improvements, Image Upsampling, Properties Panel Improvements, Behance Integration, Sync Settings, and many more useful features.

Once again, it's time to join in on a Smashing Magazine photography contest. You might remember or took part in our popular Coffee Mug Contest in 2011, which drew over 470 entries. This time, we are not interested in the vessel that holds your daily intake of caffeine, but rather in the object that fuels your creativity and inspiration.

With the massive growth in technology and increase in the number of platforms, there is a huge increase in the number of people starting technology and internet based businesses . One thing that has been common to all businesses is the need for a creative and responsive web developer - someone who understands exactly what they need and how they need it. And someone who delivers on time............

WordPress themes have become popular across the world, as it is best suited for building websites with attractive themes and templates. To make WordPress even more lucrative and user friendly, Bootstrap framework is utilized which helps in developing innovative and creative applications and websites. With different bootstrap frameworks, it has become easy to create a website, which is responsive and comprehensive in every manner. Amidst different bootstrap frameworks, twitter bootstrap framework has become quite popular.

The thing about design patterns is that there is a wide variety of them and it would be near impossible to do justice to each of the patterns in a series here on the blog. Nonetheless, hopefully taking a look at these three have helped kickstart your interest in using design patterns in your work.

Ecommerce designs are great sources of design inspiration, because they have to capture both creative styles of design and core UX principles, and mix them together for a successful result.

Packaging is always inspirational. It's one of our favorite subjects, perhaps because it's about real materials, something web designers don't get to enjoy so often. Packaging selections didn't used to be a regular feature on our blog, but we've decided to make a monthly selection thanks to the number of visually outstanding projects that are out there. The creativity to be found in this area is admirable, with such unexpected, aesthetically strong and practical solutions constantly being invented to improve the quotidian objects that surround us.

The week is coming to an end and that means it is time for us to look back on the week that passed, the best design news, resources and other goodies. This week we look Adobe programs, how to optimize your website, as well as how to make you app design stand out and much more. 6 Creative Ways to Use Evernote There's a reason the Evernote logo is an elephant. Because when used correctly, this helpful, versatile, free app will make sure you never forget anything ever. Just like an elephant. If you're unfamiliar with Evernote, the app utilizes "notebooks" - basically a system of folders and subfolders that become increasingly helpful as you create more. Greater organization makes it easier to recall exactly what you need at a later date, across any platform.

Landing page is considered to be the most viewed page of any website. It usually serves as an intro section that consists of brief information about your business, including such essential stuff as logo, menu, welcoming photo-based or illustration-driven mascotes and, last but not least, tagline. The latter is mainly associated with opening headline which duty is to: Clarify what your agency does; emphasize difference between you and your competitors; encourage users to explore your website further; give a glimpse of your brand; promote your potential; show benefits; build emotions; establish proper atmosphere; add creativity. It's also imperative to take into account psychological side of the issue while choosing emotional background of your headline, since funny and serious statements can reflect on users differently.

Everyone is going green and the vast number of log texture backgrounds on different websites and graphic artworks such as business cards, posters and others are proof enough of that. Web and graphic designers seem to love log texture backgrounds a lot because it helps tone down the atmosphere, even if the content has aggressive and extremely opinionated posts. With its ability to relax and make people more open-minded and receptive, log texture backgrounds are becoming more popular. Log textures are preferred by artists over plain backgrounds because it will let their designs look more realistic. It can be used on its own, or the texture can be draped over other artworks - all its takes is some creativity. A simple picture combined with a log texture can make it seem like the picture is etched in wood. It's simple, yet the result is very artistic and looks unique every time.