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Guest Author Post: 45+ Amazingly Creative Papercut Artwork

Ari Krzyzek — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:08:01 +0000

Derives from the Greek term for the ancient Egyptian writing material, paper as we call it today is being used for many purposes. From writing a simple note to advertising media, the paper it self become very important in our life. Furthermore, paper can also be used as decorations.

Papercut for example, is a simple paper decoration. Though, when it comes to creative ideas they will no longer look simple. Instead, these stunning papercut artwork will leave you with praise. In today’s post, we have selected 45+ amazingly creative papercut artwork for your inspiration. Make sure to check them all and be amazed on how amazing one paper could be on the full article here.

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Guest Author Post: Designer Quotes – Mindsets and Inspiration

Ari Krzyzek — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:18:53 +0000

There are many ways to get inspired these days. For designers, looking through design pieces around the internet help them grow their ideas for current or future projects. Though sometimes when you’re down, it doesn’t matter if you are designers or not some quotes or phrase can inspire you to move forward and think creatively.

In this article, we have selected various design quotes. Some you will recognize coming from the great artist like Pablo Picasso. Others are inspiring quotes created by designers across the world based on their mindset. Read the quotes here.

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Guest Author Post: Tips and Inspiration on Creating a Great Website Footer

Ari Krzyzek — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:59:06 +0000

As most of us know, there are three important parts of a website’s design: the header, the content, and the footer. None of these should be ignored when creating a web design. Sadly it happens in most cases, and many web designers ignore the footer design. Over time the footer evolved from just a line of text with the copyright, legal notice, or navigation into a mini repeated area which is filled with navigation, comments, recent posts, copyright, etc.

In this post, not only are we giving you samples of website footers for your inspiration, but also guiding you 5 important steps to remember whenever you are designing the footer.

Read the basic steps into great website footer creation with examples for your inspiration

Here.

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Guest Author Post: 35+ Warm VS Cool Color Website Designs

Ari Krzyzek — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:50:13 +0000

A website resembles the identity of a company, a certain community, or even a person. Thousands of websites live out there on the internet these days, and their number increase every single second. Many of us realize how important a website can be, therefore the design for every website has to be unique, and more importantly has to have the right feel to it.

As a designer, we know how to play around with illustrations, typeface, and colors. I’m not going to get in too deep with illustrations or typeface, in this post but color. Some people classify websites from dark to bright website designs. Others classify them into minimalist and content heavy designs. But now let’s see website designs in the new perspective, in warm and cool colors.

See the selected 35+ Warm VS Cool Color Website Designs for your inspiration and the full post

Here.

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Guest Author Post: 35+ Beautiful Examples of Creative Collage

Ari Krzyzek — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:45:07 +0000

With numerous graphic design software these days, creating aesthetic artworks is just a matter of artist’s or designer’s ideas, creativity, and concepts. The basic idea of design is to unite the concept and to visualize it in order to attract people’s attention and deliver the message and information. Collages are a perfect example for this. A collage may include pieces of related images, several different type of fonts, and a well-organized layout. This design technique made a dramatic reappearance in the early 20th century.

See the selected 35+ Beautiful Examples of Creative Collage for your inspiration and the full post

Here.

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Guest Author Post: 40 Creative Twitter Status Designs for Your Inspiration

Ari Krzyzek — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:18:13 +0000

This is my first post as a guest author for 1stWebDesigner.com. For you who is not familiar with the 1stWebDesigner.com yet, here a little bit about who they are.

1stwebdesigner is a design blog dedicated to bloggers, freelancers, web-developers and designers. Topics focus on web design,graphic design, tutorials and inspirational articles.

My first post, just like what the title is saying here, it’s about Twitter Status Design. Twitter has become one of the most popular social media sites by playing a major role in marketing and business for the past few years. People use Twitter for many purposes ranging from product marketing, spreading discount info, sharing interesting news to bizarre photos they found around the internet.

See the selected Twitter Status Design for your inspiration and the full post

here.

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