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The WORST on ReBranding
Re-branding your company after a few years of being on the market, when it has reached a solid costumer background, is the best strategy to boost the market placement that you have achieved, and it gives you the possibility to place your product amongst younger generations of customers with a more modern approach to your corporative identity.
But Re-Branding is not something to be taken lightly, because you might just be “fixing what isn’t broken”, in changing a solid corporative image into something that doesn’t click amongst your audience or that they just simply hate! … Or even worse you could fail to reach a younger costumer and loose the brand followers you’ve assured over the years all for a lousy new corporate image. Read more
Create an Unforgettable Logo Design
For many companies, the New Year means time for a new logo. Successful companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks, Pepsi, and Yahoo! took several tries before getting their logo right because creating a logo can be tricky. The company logo should encompass the message you want your company to convey—fun personality, unique products, quick delivery—and therefore takes a lot of effort. You want your logo to be something consumers recognize right away, and unless you’re dealing with a company like Google or IBM, there is still plenty of time to find the right logo. Read more
Design Trends 2012!
Around the end of the year you’ll find in all web design theme oriented blogs and sites countdowns on what trends you should look out for in 2012, you may be thinking that this is just one more of those repetitive listings but you’re wrong! This is not your usual countdown …….it’s THE COUNTDOWN for web design trends 2012, complete with all the information, inquire, showcase, video tutorials and controversy points of view that the other trends listings don’t show you.
Yeah, yeah, so our categories in the trend listing can be alike to others seen in the web now days. But here at webdesignshock.com we’ve looked to make the difference by giving you a much more thorough guide to web design in 2012, that besides providing a general description of each trend and two or three examples, it also brings you detailed information concerning each trend!
Behind a gifted hand: Interview and work’s showcase with Ramón Plá
While surfing to copy (just kidding) take some inspiration for our next project (keep posted, it’s going to be really useful), we found the works from this great artist called Ramon Pla, he is an Spanish artist with an amazing quality on his illustrations, and well, we wanted to start our “featured interviews” section with this (also) friendly guy… here we go starting this new section, hope you enjoy the words behind a great designer and love the design work behind a gifted hand. Read more
Web Design inspiration, all resources you could need !
Have you ever had to deliver a website and you get the feeling you have no ideas left? Time runs out and you’ve searched everywhere to get ideas for this project? Well, we’ve been there, and that’s not great. So we decided to search for websites which were beautifully designed and, as you know, the best way to do this is by looking into galleries. Then we say “Why don’t we organize a full range of categories within each gallery?” So we did, and now we like to present to you 40 awesome galleries with categorized websites featuring the coolest minimal, colorful, animated, business, ecommerce, entertainment, kids, retro, illustration, cartoon and typography websites we found. So let’s get inspired! every image has a link to the website so don’t hesitate to check it! Read more
175+ free vintage and retro psd web design elements
In the design trends for 2011 article published by WebDesignShock, we mentioned that vintage was dead and only retro fonts will survive the New Year. However, as it was back then, vintage still has a great impact on web design. That’s why today we present an incredible collection with more than 175 vintage and retro elements featuring icon sets, fonts, themes, templates, textures, patterns, backgrounds and brushes, all of them fully downloadable in PSD or AI formats for you to implement in your websites.. So, without further ado, let’s go back to the past! Read more
Steve Jobs VS Bill Gates
Due to Steve Jobs’ recent resignation as Apple CEO on August 24th 2011, and Bill Gates’ efforts with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we wanted to do a tribute for these great men in technology, presenting an amazing infographic created by our designers, showing the most relevant aspects in the lives of these great guys.
It also gives us an insight of their work through representative brands and products which have been part of their careers and have inspired us all! Read more
50 Vintage web icons, an amazing freebie by Iconshock
What’s up friends?, today we have a brand new freebie to share with you, an incredible vintage web icon set ready for download. The set features 50 different vintage elements ready for download and that can be implemented in your apps and designs to add them a really nice retro look.
Cinemagraphs: Worthy animated GIF’s
Cinemagraphs, those animated photographs that you can find almost every blogging or image showcase site, they make you laugh or they surprise you, for me those are like a movie inside a photograph or a photo that wanted to be a movie. A image that has a slight movement or, suddenly claims a breath of life. Interesting, uh? wanna learn how to make your own living picture? Just click on “More” and let the magic begin.
CSS and CSS3 buttons, 110 best sets !
Tired of turning upside down the internet and not finding what you’re looking for? Well, here we’re providing you the best of our CSS buttons search. Here you’ll find over 100 buttons, among pure CSS and image + CSS made. All of them great looking, with neat effects and really easy to include them in your code.
Best jQuery blogs to keep in your RSS
For those who are not very much into web development, jQuery is a popular cross-browser JavaScript library designed specifically to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery was released in January 2006 by John Resig and is currently being utilized by over 31% of the 10 K most visited websites, thus jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library nowadays.
One of the best things about jQuery is its OpenSource condition and the fact that is dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License V2, thanks to these two aspects, every developer can generate their own jQuery plugins and send them directly to the JavaScript library. Now that we have exposed blatantly our love towards jQuery, we like to offer you a grand compilation of blogs and websites where you can find a lot of information about jQuery, including new plugins, good practices and reviews, let’s see what you think about these places.
Helvetica free download… with Google Web Fonts
We can’t deny the quality work and support that you acquire by purchasing commercial items, like commercial fonts like the lovely Helvetica.
However, Now that we have amazing tools like Google Web Fonts, it’s not totally necessary to use commercial fonts unless you need the premium support or your application license demands it. But what happens if you want to make a flyer for your best friend and you consider that Helvetica is the best choice?, you know that your friend is not going to pay you for purchasing that font and he will expect you to do something. We know about this problem and that’s why we decided to drive a fun experiment where by using Google Fonts we will try to recreate some of the popular (commercial) Helvetica variations in the most similar way possible.
Say hello to our new Dribbble account and the first freebie
For those who are not familiar with this website, Dribbble is a premium design community featuring the best graphic designers and artists from all over the world, to join the network you need an invitation from someone that is already in the site. Recently we were honored with an invitation to join Dribbble and today we’ve taken our first shot featuring our famous vintage typewriter.
200 best 404 error page designs for inspiration
One common term for web designers is the 404 or “Not Found” error message, which is a standard response that indicates to the person that the client was actually able to establish communication with the server but this one was not able to find the requested page. It’s important to state that these 404 pages are not another way to say “server not found” and similar errors, because in those cases the problem relies on connection.
Many designers make custom 404 pages that can be considered small little secrets that not all the people is going to discover and on this huge compilation, we have gathered some of the greatest and more creative 404 designs on the internet, maybe yours has been featured, it’s time to grasp some inspiring designs.
Realistic vintage vector tutorial
Hello friends, did you guys enjoyed our programming tutorial on how to make a nice typewriter contact form?, well if you nailed that one now you’re probably wondering about the design itself, because it’s useless to have the code if you can’t apply it to a truly brilliant design. Don’t panic because now the second part of the tutorial has arrived and we’re about to show you how to make a great realistic typewriter with Adobe Illustrator, so fasten your seat belts and let’s go.