How To Create Your Own Hand-Sketched Vector Icons
If you're looking to add a personal touch to one of your projects, then hand-drawn icons and buttons are a perfect choice, let's face it if you break away from the run of the mill, high-gloss, pixel-perfect stock icons for a moment, and use a somewhat more traditional t...Read more
What is the Perfect Web Design Application?
As designers we spend huge portions of our days staring into screens, looking at the same buttons and dialogs and essentially repeating the same processes over and over again, so hopefully it's not unjustified to sometimes question the tools of our trade that essentiall...Read more
5 Creative Places to Find Textures
If you want to add a unique, authentic feel to your designs, textures are a great way to spruce up your designs. Textures are all around us in every day life, so not only do we all instantly associate feelings with textures we recognize but as designers we have an incre...Read more
A Hand-Coded Designer CSS UI Kit
Web UI sets have been around for ages, but this takes things a step further. This free UI Kit is coded by hand using HTML5 and CSS3 so you can easily drop these elements into any project you're working on. This code is made to take advantage of modern browsers and to de...Read more
The MediaLoot HTML5 Compendium
Let's face it, it's difficult to keep up with all of the new coding languages. Despite that difficulty, and the fact that some of these standards aren't even finalized, there's still a lot of pressure for designers to start using HTML5. The purpose of this compendium is...Read more
How To Design Your Business Card, A Guide for Web Designers
Everybody knows how important business cards are, they're the first impression people get of your company and they're how people will remember you, a well designed card will leave a positive impression and can mean that potential clients or business partners will hang o...Read more
How to Create a Sleek Oversized Search Bar in Fireworks
In this tutorial we will explore shape and layer style techniques to create an oversized search bar in Adobe Fireworks....Read more
The Future of Web Design
The year is 2011 and we have again found ourselves at dawn of a changing web. Emerging technologies like smartphones and web-enabled tablets have left us unsure of how users are browsing our websites, and new coding standards like HTML5 and CSS3 are turning web design i...Read more