When you’re looking to redesign your website, it’s a good idea to know what you want before you dive into the process. I find that it’s helpful to figure out what you want by checking out what others do. You can look at what others in your area are doing as well as your industry, and other great sites. It’s a good way to see what’s out there, and think of how you can do it better or even differently. I’m a visual learner so this is the method that helps me best. But I’ve found that my clients (even if they aren’t visual learners) know what they like and don’t like when they see it on someone else’s site, so it usually works out well for everyone.
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Minimalist website designs can be elegant and professional, and even have lots of personality through the use of colors, typography, a fun layout, or photography. A minimalist style allows for text to be more readable, the navigation easier to spot and use, and an overall great user experience if executed tastefully and professionally.
Check out these great minimalist website designs that are anything but boring. They are full of character and style, communicating powerfully and effectively to their audiences.
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Color choice is very important in a logo because it’s such a small piece. The colors you choose communicate just as much as the layout, typography, and name of your company itself. If you’re wanting to make a big impact, bright colors can be a good choice for you, although it’s certainly not for everyone.
Bright colors tend to be cheerful and positive, or powerful and regal. We’ve found some great logos to show you today that communicate very different ideas, but they all make a bold statement through bright color choices. Check them out below!
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Great photography can make your site really stand out and appeal to your audience in a powerful way. However, there’s been a trend lately with great large photography taking center stage and making a bold statement on websites in different genres.
We see this trend applied in different ways, in large rotating banners, as great rich backgrounds, in full and powerful headers, etc. The application can be unique but the impact is unmistakable. Photography is powerful and it makes you stand out among your competition.
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A new post I wrote for WDL came out today:
As a professional designer, it’s important to push ourselves daily to be the best that we can in order to create outstanding work. To be successful in our industry, we must continually grow and try new things that will enhance our design skills, and just as important, our leadership abilities. There are tons of ideas on the internet on how to become a better designer through Photoshop tutorials, HTML best practices, and new jQuery techniques. There aren’t as many about becoming a better leader in the design community, although it’s an important trait to have as a professional and a necessary skill to possess in our competitive industry.
See the full post at WebDesignLedger.com
We love inspirational quotations at Snoack Studios and have come across tons of good ones over the years. Today we wanted to share some good ones with you that are all about design. We hope you enjoy!
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.
JEFFREY ZELDMAN
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Typography can be stunning and beautiful all on its own, creating a style and delivering a message that is very powerful and doesn’t need any other graphics to support it. The image to the left is simple but a little bit of texture and some great layout skills add a lot of visual effect to the final package.
Today we’ll take a look at some great typography posters that all have powerful messages and very striking looks. Check them out and let us know what you think! Sources can be found by clicking on the image itself.
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At Snoack Studios we love all types of design: website design, print design, branding, etc. Packaging design has always had a special place in my heart though. I love wandering down the aisles of different stores holding bottles and boxes and admiring the color and layout choices designers have made. Today, we’ll feature wine labels, bottles and boxes and showcase a bunch of unique and fun packaging designs that are worthy of our roundup. There is so much room to be creative with wine packaging and these designers have really stepped up and created some truly awesome pieces. Enjoy.
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Dale Chihuly is a great artist that creates beautiful glass art that is displayed all over the world. His creations are quite unique and fun and his ambition and leadership has been revolutionary for the glassblowing field.
Chihuly graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Interior Design in 1965. He received a Masters in Sculpture before he studied glass in Venice in 1968. In 1971, he founded the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington. Holsten Galleries talks about what makes Chihuly so special:
Throughout the 1970′s , influenced by the great glassblowing tradition of Murano, Chihuly experimented with the team approach to glassblowing. Working with a team of master glassblowers and assistants has enabled him to produce architectural glass art of a scale and quantity unimaginable working alone or with only one assistant.
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Design inspiration can be found in many places and other forms of art like photography, architecture and even sidewalk chalk. Sidewalk chalk isn’t just for kids anymore, many of these pieces pictured below are gorgeous works of art that took a knowledgeable artist to compete. Inspiration is all around us as designers, look anywhere you can to find it.
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