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Archive: Inspiration


14 places to find free quality fonts

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

A special font is a great way to make your website, poster, CD cover etc. stand out. There’s a lot of free fonts on the web, most of them are quite bad, so you have to go through a lot of site to find the good ones so I thought I would save you some [...]

5 things to learn from print designers

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Print designers struggle, when they have to make a web layout. And with good reason, websites don’t have the same dimension constraints and a web page calls for a more fluid layout. Some things are not easy, nor smart, to do on the web. Drop caps, Image wraps, large images just to mention some. But [...]

8 places to start learning jQuery

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Okay, right off the bat. I’m no jQuery expert and I’m by no means a coding expert. I can code CSS/HTML in my sleep of course, but I have not worked a lot javascript. I have been learning it a bit at the time as I’ve had the need for it. And then along came [...]

20 Inspirational DVD Covers

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

I always judge a book by it’s cover and the same goes for DVDs if I don’t know the movie, so I had a look at our DVD shelf to see if I could find some inspiration. I was surprised by how different the quality of the work was. I’ve collected 20 of the best [...]

11 Great CD Covers – Get Inspired

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

All webdesigners need inspiration to do their job, I’m no exception. One of the things I’ve been using lately, besides other websites of course, is CD Covers. CD covers gives me a great deal of new ideas because there’s no rules for Covers. They need to grab people’s attention and capture what the music is [...]