35 Creative Twitter User Profile Designs

October 21st, 2009 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 68 Comments

One of the most important aspects of attracting followers on Twitter, in addition to quality tweets, is your Twitter page profile design; it has to be creative and attractive to show that you take tweeting seriously. This collection of Twitter user profile designs follows up on an earlier showcase that we published called 50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs.

In this collection, you’ll find some of the great Twitter user profile designs out there.

1. @Doubleolee

@Doubleolee

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Beautiful Gradient Typography in Web Design

October 19th, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 14 Comments

Using color gradients as a type treatment is a very popular technique for creating captivating text in a web design. They’re used in many situations: for site logos, introductory text, visual elements, and more. But be cautious: the only thing that separates stylish and tacky is a few mistakes in your Photoshop settings.

If you’re looking for inspiration and great examples of gradient text treatments in web designs, here are a few to check out.

1. Bainbridge Studios

Bainbridge Studios

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30 Impressive vCard Web Designs

October 12th, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 55 Comments

A vCard is an electronic business card that uses a standard format. Some individuals have taken to creating simple, typically one-page, sites that center around their vCard. These sites contain minimal content, usually just basic information about the individual (i.e. job title) and contact information (i.e. mailing addresses and links to social media profiles). Designer and Blogger, Tim Van Damme, started this web design trend, and for a lack of a better term, I’ll call them vCard sites.

In this collection, you’ll find some impressive vCard sites for inspiration.

Aref JDEY

Aref JDEY

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30 Beautiful Custom PC Case Designs

October 1st, 2009 by Tomas Laurinavicius | 37 Comments

Have you ever dreamed of having a beautifully designed computer? If you answered "yes", we invite you to view this collection of striking and unique custom desktop PC cases that may just inspire you into modifying or building your own rig.

1. Lian Li PC-A01

Lian Li PC-A01

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35 Beautiful Water-themed Web Designs for Inspiration

September 18th, 2009 by Hakan Nural | 19 Comments

The most crucial source of the human life is water. It is water for which wars are fought and blood is spilt. This life source keeps inspiring artists and designers from around the world.

In this collection, we present to you over 30 web designs that use water and seas as the central theme.

1. Bustin Down The Door

Bustin Down The Door

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Beautiful Examples of Inset Typography in Web Design

September 15th, 2009 by Jacob Gube | 28 Comments

Inset typography, or letterpress typography, is a type treatment trend where text is made to look impressed into a surface. When used correctly and creatively, it leads to a captivating and engaging reading experience, able to bring attention to key textual content.

In this collection, you’ll see a great number of examples (23 of them to be exact) that utilize the inset typography/letterpress typography style in web design for a variety of situations.

If you’d like to learn how to make inset type, check out the tutorial on how to create inset typography in Photoshop.

1. Epic Event

Epic Event

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20 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters

August 23rd, 2009 by Lilian Ostropel | 19 Comments

Character illustrations and digital paintings can inspire you greatly in your own works. Working with digital art means that you have a greater creative license to great stunning pieces of artwork. In this collection, you will see some fantastic illustrations of dudes.

If you like this collection, you may also wish to see a previous collection that features surreal illustrations of female characters.

1. Gangsta game character by Bernardo Barbi

Gangsta game character by Bernardo Barbi

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