Last weekend I went to a big comic/sci fi convention in Atlanta called Dragon Con. This convention has an entire are dedicated to pop and comic artists. I usually end up spending most of my money in this area of the convention. I am sucker for cool art. This year I was exposed to a new artist who I was really taken by, her name is Tara McPherson. Her style is surreal and dream like to say the least. It is so unique, that I wanted to share it with you. What do you think?
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Maybe I’m lazy, or maybe I’m just not talented enough, but designing web banners is beyond me. I just can never seem to design anything that small and make it look good. Lucky for me, GraphicRiver has plenty of web banner templates in the marketplace. Here are 10 of my favorite web banner templates from the marketplace.
FYI: Many of these banner sets sell pretty well…
20 web Banner, 4 Styles Font Used: Myriad
Easy to modify, change size, colors. PSD organized in layers. Ready to use!
Check my portfolio for more stuff!
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We have been getting a LOT of requests from buyers wanting a licence to use files in products for resale, so we’ve made one!
The licence is called the Single Use Conditional Resale Permitted Licence ["Conditional Resale"]. You can read about it here:
http://activeden.net/legal/licences
Right now every author is automatically opted-out, so you will need to opt in if you wish to sell your files under this licence. Read on for full instructions. (more…)
I have been looking for some retro web site design inspiration lately. While I was looking for some creative designs, I cam across a number of designs that were part retro and part cartoon. I thought these website designs were all pretty unique and added them to my favorite designs bookmark folder.
What do you think?
Mister Aero
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Ever since I started working with Graphic River I haven’t had a chance to keep up with what was going on over at all of the other market places. I recently made my way over to Theme Forest and was excited at what I saw. There is a lot of really great stuff popping up over there. This isn’t a shameless Envato promotion piece, I just wanted to do some cross promotion to promote some of the really creative PSD website templates.
Check these out!
Blue Commerce Complete E-Commerce Theme
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Designer Daily wrote a nice round up style posts of useful jQuery scripts that can be used to help spice up your portfolio site. This list only has about 18 suggested scripts, but all of them offer something unique that could really help add that special touch to your portfolio site.
Read the full post here: 18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio
I have been very much into landing page optimization here lately. I find it very interesting how the human brain and eye interact on these sorts of pages. As a result of learning so much about good landing pages, I am always on the lookout for sites that feature a good landing page design. I recently came across a good landing page design over at Show and Tell: Consignment Sale.
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As part of my daily routine I was browsing the CSS galleries. I often find and bookmark inspiring sites that I don’t share here on Graphic River, but today is an exception. I wanted to share the intern recruitment page for a web design firm called Element Fusions. Aside from the obvious aesthetics, I was impressed by the creative one page layout. It isn’t often you find one page layouts that are creative and not over/under packed with information.
Check out the site here
I am a firm believer that the issue of creating a better user experience by creating links that are more senseable is something that is vastly under utilized on the web. For the most part, the only exposure people have to this is when we see double underlined links in blogs that are actually affiliate links. While this is a good use of making links more user friendly, this is only a fraction of what could be done.
Apparently Designer Daily agrees with me on this one.
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Having a background in a magazine layout, I think that all images should have a caption associated with them. I am guily of not doing this on my own blog, but for the simple reason that I haven’t found a stylish way to do so. Sure, you could always add a simple line of text under the picture, but that’s just not any fun.
What is fun, is the Captify script by Master Fidgiter.
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