5 great new fonts
Some people dream about winning the lottery, or finding the perfect partner, or landing the killer job. Me, I dream about designing the perfect font. It would be sans serif, and have applications for...
View ArticleSome great design blog and e-zine articles
It seems Design Drops wasn’t the only blog thinking about fonts and typography in the past week. A quick read around the blogiverse come up with some fantastic font and typography-related posts at some...
View ArticleGood design vs good SEO
Once upon a time, website designers only had to think about design – was the website functional? Did it meet design principles? Was it user-friendly? Then, a few years back, someone cottoned on to the...
View ArticleCreating your own iPhone app
Reading one of my favourite online magazines last week, Smashing Magazine, I came across this article on how to create an iPhone app. A great reference for anyone thinking about stepping up into the...
View ArticleHow to find the perfect color palette
Being a cartoonist at heart, colour has always been something I have struggled with. Finding the right colour combination for the right situation is so important. It can really make or break your...
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10 unique business card designs
A business card says a lot about a person. It can tell a potential client or business partner whether your approach is likely to be corporate or whimsical, modern or retro. And for you, the graphic...
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Working at a creative agency. Is it for you?
A few posts ago, I gave some hints to help you decide if you were best suited to freelance or inhouse work. It’s now time to take a peak into the working lives of designers whose office is a creative...
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Top 10 logo designs 2010
So, we’re a little late with this one, it being nearly the end of February 2011, but we’ve been taking our time mulling over some fantastic logos created worldwide during 2010. It was a tough...
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Design links to amuse and inspire
Here at Design Drops, we realise that this is not the only thing online that designers enjoy, so we thought we’d share some links that we have been reading lately. It’s hard to go past...
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Dribbble. Inspiring or incestuous?
It’s been about a year since Dribbble left beta and entered the real (online) world. According to its own PR, Dribble is “show and tell for creatives”. It’s a place for designers to post small shots...
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Iconic designs. Can website design be “Iconic”?
I have been pondering lately whether website designs can become iconic designs. Where’s the next online version of the Coca-Cola bottle (and logo) or the Eames chair? In order the come to a decision,...
View ArticleFlexbox – aligning buttons in grid
The problem: You have two or three (or more) boxes in a row, each containing text above a button. Because each block of text is a slightly different length, depending on the screen width, the buttons...
View ArticleBlank HTML document
This is the blank HTML doc I use for creating simple pages, usually for testing. Just copy to a text document and save it with .html as the extension. <!doctype html> <html lang="en">...
View ArticleVery Simple Flex Layout
This is a very simple flex layout based on some examples from a recent smashingmagazine article. This example was used to show how “flex” fails to created a true grid, because the lower blocks will not...
View ArticleCreate an array of all the numbers between start and end input
This was required for a project I am working on, and the solution I found turned out to be pretty simple. It just required creating a variable for each of the form input fields, “lowEnd” and “highEnd”...
View ArticleSource sets for responsive and retina display images
This is a very cool trick that I learnt recently building a WordPress template. It’s called a “source set” and it allows you to define a set of images, rather than just one. You can define which screen...
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