Halloween free vector Icon set contains 12 high-quality elegant raster and vector icons. Halloween icon set is a new and sparkling icon collection containing 256×256 pixels PNG, AI (Adobe Illustrator CS) and SVG file formats. That allows you rescale icons to any size without details or quality loss.
All the icons included in the set have a clean, modern look and have consistency in color and details. Continue Reading →
Project management books that are truly worth reading by every project manager are included in this review. These books is a great starting point for a new project manager, source of inspiration as well as tips and tricks for experienced PM, great help for project manager who’d like to refresh some topics and get some new ideas and best practices or to pass PMP exam. Some of these project management books can also help your stakeholders understand better basics of project management. If you have a favorite book on project management not included in this review please add it in the comments. Continue Reading →
To start with modern business card design, I’d say that business cards are obsolete. The role of paper business cards decreased drastically with the appearance of social networks, and virtual business cards. So business card design should change as well. I don’t know about you but I don’t keep business cards anymore. I use them to add the person I met to LinkedIn or my Google contacts. I want to see the person picture, his background, not just email address or phone number. After I used business cards to put someone in my database it goes straight to the Recycle bin. Is there sense to spend a lot of time on creative design, expensive materials or ways of printing? Continue Reading →
What are the current trends in using web design elements? How far modern web design trends went from the past? I looked through hundreds of both very popular and niche blogs, corporate websites, start ups. I handpicked web design elements dominating at the moment. They look even more interesting in comparison with the past web design trends. Please add in the comments your examples and elements you think should be included in this list. Continue Reading →
Optimizing images for web you’re making your web site load faster. Visitors don’t want to wait much. In addition you reduce bandwidth usage and consequently your bills. The more visitors your site or blog gets the more important is to optimize and reduce image size. Understanding basics of image compression and which formats to choose lets you not only significantly cut down on image size but even improve image quality. In addition, interactive flash projects (especially banners limited in Kb size) are where image optimization could have the most immediate and practical impact. Continue Reading →
Most stupid, bad and controversial ads and commercials are handpicked for this review. Most of them either produced a lot of buzz and went viral or were banned. Lack of creativity, bad implementation or just awful idea, there’s tens of reasons why these ads and commercials have appeared. While there’s tons of post for people looking for inspiration, I decided to do completely opposite. Sometimes the best way to learn is to see how NOT to do something. If I missed your favorite stupid or bad ad, please add it in the comments. Enjoy! Continue Reading →
Topaz Adjust is a Photoshop plugin that lets you make gorgeous looking HDR photos just from one image. Besides HDR look Topaz Adjust lets you create high contrast, ultra sharp looking images similar to Dave Hill look photo effect. In general, Topaz Adjust provides powerful control over image exposure, detail (or better say microcontrast), and color which you can use either in creative way (create from original image something completely different looking) or use it slightly to correct your photo and make it pop. Continue Reading →