Never ending patterns!

August 3rd, 2010 - Design, Patterns - No Comments

In this new, well-designed website you’ll find some packs of  100% Completely Tileable Seamless Patterns, with their source files included just in case you are in the mood of spicing them up!

Right now there are 4 packs of patterns including lines, paper, rust effect and fabric but they promise to add more packs in the future.

Those cool patterns can be used for Personal and Commercial projects and are free!

Design by the law.

July 28th, 2010 - Design - No Comments

Every designer knows that design (and especially web design) has rules and that’s one of the things that separates it  from art.

Here are 10 great laws to follow and design by, written by Mr. Ross Johnson on 3.7 designs blog.

Of course the best and most innovative designers are they who break the laws by expanding them or bring something new and better, but in order to rich this level you have to master them first!

Read the full article

cssigniter.com – Premium WordPress themes. Different

July 19th, 2010 - Design, News - 3 Comments

Last year, i had an idea of launching a small premium WordPress themes shop. So, slowly but steadily i designed a series of templates and integrated them to WordPress. Thing is that as there many really great premium WordPress theme shops out there i had to figure a way and offer, well, something more, something different. And i think, i found it. In September cssigniter.com will see the light of the day. Every month i’ll be providing at least 2 new themes in more than one versions. What do i mean? Well subscribe to the newsletter, follow @cssigniter on Twitter and you’ ll get more and more info about it.

120 new icons!

May 12th, 2010 - Design, Icon Sets - 3 Comments

My partner Helen, released a really cool new icon set of 120 amazing icons. In the zip file you will find 2 versions of the icons (48×48 – 68×68) and a vector version (AI – EPS files). Cool eh?

The State of web development 2010 survey results

April 27th, 2010 - Design, News - No Comments

The results from “The state of web development 2010″ survery conducted by webdirections.org are now available. I can’t really find any surprises in there. Firefox is by far the browser of choice for many web professionals although Google Chrome climbs up to 3rd position behind Safari. jQuery seems to be an industry standard with an 78% of the people who participated using it as their primary javascript framework. HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are the new kids around and transitional doctypes are still popular. Apache, PHP and mySQL are the most popular Server-side technologies as well.