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This article showcases five books that offer access to the creative processes of leading artists, designers, and scientists through their notebooks and sketchbooks, spanning disciplines from graphic design and street art to field science, advertising, and fine art. Each book—including Steven Heller's survey of 110 graphic designers, Tristan Manco's collection of graffiti artists' work, and Julia Rothman's peek into 44 visual creators—reveals how accomplished minds approach ideation and problem-solving through sketches, doodles, and marginalia. The piece positions these personal creative documents as the closest we can get to understanding how innovation actually happens across multiple fields.
This piece showcases five books that reveal the creative process across different disciplines by publishing the private notebooks and sketchbooks of accomplished creators—designers, street artists, scientists, advertisers, and fine artists. Rather than theorizing about creativity, these collections offer direct windows into how working professionals actually think and generate ideas, from Milton Glaser's design sketches to field scientists' handwritten observations to advertising creatives' process drawings. The selection spans domains from graphic design to graffiti art, demonstrating that creativity operates similarly across radically different fields.
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A gallery and showcase of the most beautiful, cool, and unique business card designs on the net. Get inspired & submit your card designs.
This is a collection of downloadable pattern designs from various creators, including traditional Japanese patterns like seigaiha (concentric wave arches symbolizing good fortune) and asanoha, as well as contemporary textile and decorative patterns. Each pattern is credited to its designer and dated, with brief descriptions explaining the inspiration or style—ranging from fabric textures to weather-themed designs to colorful waves.
Glyphish is a collection of carefully designed icons available in multiple formats (PNG, SVG, PSD, AI) and sizes optimized for iOS, Android, and web applications, with vector source files that allow developers and designers to scale and customize them while maintaining crisp resolution on any device. The full icon sets are available for purchase without attribution requirements, while a free 50-icon sample set requires attribution under Creative Commons licensing. The service includes Sketch source files for easy color customization and supports user requests for additional icons.
An online generator tool for creating favicon images for websites.
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This article presents ten versatile, tried-and-tested webpage layout templates—ranging from simple three-box designs to complex power grids—that designers can adapt when facing creative block. The author emphasizes that while each layout appears in countless websites, their styling (colors, fonts, graphics) can be made unique, and the layouts themselves should be modified rather than used as-is to suit individual project needs. The piece includes silhouettes, real-world examples, and template recommendations for each layout to demonstrate practical applications across portfolios, e-commerce sites, blogs, and corporate pages.
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This is a marketing page for Tiki-Toki, a browser-based timeline creation tool that distinguishes itself through 3D visualization, multimedia integration (YouTube and Vimeo), color-coding by category, and collaborative editing features. The page outlines various use cases from personal diaries to corporate histories and legal presentations, and offers tiered pricing from a free single-timeline account to premium options supporting up to 25 timelines with embedding capabilities.
A tutorial on creating speech bubble UI elements using pure CSS techniques without images or extra markup.
A clean, minimal Keynote template perfect for personal, business & corporate use. Subtle animations throughout. Very easy to edit content & change colours. Files Included KEY (Keynote 5.1) ...
This collection appears to be a curated list of blog post summaries covering ecommerce design and business topics. The pieces span practical guides on platform selection (Shopify and WooCommerce themes), design principles for online stores, mobile optimization, and business models like dropshipping and logo design sales. The content emphasizes that effective ecommerce success depends heavily on thoughtful website design, mobile responsiveness, and choosing the right tools and suppliers for your business model.
The `scoped` attribute on HTML5's `<style>` element limits CSS rules to only the parent element's subtree, enabling styled content to be syndicated across different pages or embedded as widgets without affecting the receiving document's styles. Although no browser supported it at the time of writing (with Chrome Canary beginning experimental support), the feature faced a significant adoption barrier because non-supporting browsers would apply scoped styles globally rather than ignoring them gracefully, making widespread use impractical until cross-browser support materialized. A jQuery polyfill existed as a workaround for most browsers, though the author questioned why the spec didn't create a new element type instead of an attribute for better backwards compatibility.