Jason Bayless on 2013-05-13 Today I wanted to share with you a little inspiration piece that is focused on the use of vintage design within the business card niche.
Using the vintage design style can work great on business card designs as the combination of classic vintage typography, dirty textures and geometric patterns can really help create a unique business card that is reminiscent of the design of a bygone era.
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Jason Bayless on 2013-05-07 Today I wanted to share with you a collection of over 100+ subtle brush sets you can use in Photoshop to help give your designs a little extra depth and feel.
Using these subtle textures is a great way to create grunge backgrounds for your websites, vintage logos and type treatment or provide a useful backdrop to your design mock-ups if you are looking to upload them to Dribbble or Behance.
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Jason Bayless on 2013-04-29 There are so many JavaScript image slideshow plugins out on the Internet, it can be difficult pinpointing what you need. Developers who are not looking to start from scratch often search the web targeting the perfect solution. And although each technique has its drawbacks, the wide assortment of choices will offer plenty of rewards and something to fit your layout.
In this tutorial I want to focus on using a library called Flux Slider which was created by Joe Lambert. This image slideshow plugin is unique in that it defaults to using CSS3 transitions with JavaScript-controlled alternatives. All modern CSS3-compliant browsers will support the native features which can be set using jQuery or Zepto.js as the core library. Catch a glimpse of the demo we are building in my live example below.
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Jason Bayless on 2013-04-25 Choosing a color scheme when designing a web or mobile app can often present a difficult challenge. The importance of selecting the right color palette must not be overlooked as it helps to set the tone and feel of your site or product.
When creating a new web design, I often spend a fair amount of time swapping in and out various different color combinations, hopefully these color palette tools will help you to save some of your time on your next design.
I know there are many color combination apps available for designers, today I really wanted to present you with a selection of slightly alternative web based color palette tools you can try out if you have not yet come across them.
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Jason Bayless on 2013-04-15 Another great addition to your font collection, today I wanted to bring you a collection of slab serif fonts. Slab serif fonts are ideal to use in both web and print design and are often used to create large, high impact headings and create contrast between headlines and body text.
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