Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs

Design Inspiration: A Look Into iOS7 Icon Designs
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Love it or hate it, the initial iOS7 release is out and causing quite the stir. Regardless of opinions relating to the design, functionality and direction of iOS7 there is some rather eye catching iOS7 icon design work going on behind the scenes.

In this little inspiration roundup I wanted to showcase some of the recent icon designs that have been specifically made to suite the iOS7 direction.

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Ten Useful jQuery Plugins For Fullscreen Images

Ten Useful jQuery Plugins For Fullscreen Images
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On a recent project I needed to serve an image as a full size background on both a page and a block level element, the image had to be scaled correctly and also be responsive on small devices.

Serving fullsized images onto backgrounds or block level elements can pretty much be done with pure CSS3, however I wanted to explore what possibilities and improvements jQuery offered in terms of serving a better quality image and handling different device sizes.

Here are ten jQuery plugins that are perfect for serving fullwidth image backgrounds, I personally chose to use the Backstretch plugin.

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Inspiration: Typography Use In Business Card Design

Inspiration: Typography Use In Business Card Design
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I love looking over a good, well printed set of business cards. Its something that always makes me super envious, some of my favourite business card  printing techniques are the combination of letterpressing and edge painting onto a thick stock.

Today I wanted to put a focus on the use of typography work used on these collected business cards, some of my favourites in this collection is the Solis card and the Jake Brandford card, which uses a minimal monogram.

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