The History of Typeface
Typeface and their history is obviously an unappreciated evolution. However, the typeface from the first days of print until now is an ever changing medium, with more to it than there could ever seem to be. Typography is the study of typefaces and the evolution of printed letters. Early printers, were also typographers and the first registered one was a man named Claude Garamond. Garamond didn't invent type,...

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Why I Love Anime - My Top 10 Studio Ghibli Films
8th December 2010 - I love animation and I have a vast collection of animation on display on my media shelves at home but on there you won’t find the sugary sweet world of Disney Cinema (apart from Pixar collaborations!) but a huge collection of Japanese anime. I’ve been hooked on anime since I was very young. I think the first experience of anime was Castle in the Sky and Akira. In this post I wanted to show ...

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Awesome Artwork Inspired by Children's Drawings
I've often visited my family and friends homes and admired the many galleries of children's artwork that get pinned on the fridge or kitchen notice boards. I know that when I was younger I was really proud that my mum had pinned my drawings on the fridge door and my dad even took them to work. Art is one of my many passions. Today I am still always sketching or doodling ideas on my notepad, iPad and even post-it...

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30 Gorgeous Examples of Anime Artworks
Being an art student myself I really like anything which shows creativity, imagination and talent. One of the types of art I am really digging at the moment is Anime/Manga style. I like the look, the fantasy, the sexiness and the cuteness. I know that Web Design Mash has featured anime many times (See the list at the bottom of the post for more), but I wanted to feature some new artworks that I personally have...

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Why a Top Quality Logo isn’t Enough to be Successful
A logo is a small graphical element that has as main scope the representation of someone/something. This attempt of definition is preferable to the one provided by the Oxford Dictionary or Wikipedia because the main essence is synthesized. It’s simple: you instantly recognize an Apple product after the worldwide notorious logo. In the beginning, nobody figured out the importance of logo and many people consider i...

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Awesome Interior Design Part 1 - Stunning Home & Office Wallpaper
Welcome to our new Awesome Interior Design series where each month we bring you a collection of stunning designs created for the home or office. In this first instalment we present a gallery of stunning wallpaper designs which would look absolutely brilliant hanging on your living room or office wall. Wallpaper has been around for many centuries and is a kind of material used to cover and decorate the...

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Common Mistakes Made by Starting Freelance Graphic Designers
Whether you’re interested in designing logos, building websites, or helping clients to create incredible PowerPoint presentations, you may find that working as a freelance graphic designer appeals to your professional sensibilities and your distaste for traditional job markets. There certainly are a lot of benefits to working for yourself; no annoying bosses or coworkers to contend with, no frustrating commute, ...

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Stunning Showcase of 3D Street Art
While I was visiting London the other month I came across some truly amazing 3D street art. 3D street art although drawn in 2D gives a 3-dimensional illusion when viewed from a specific standpoint. Some of the artworks are visually stunning and you can almost believe that what you are viewing is real. A lot of the street art you may see is actually clever advertising commissioned from a variety of the big...

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20 Gorgeous Examples of HDR Photography by Trey Ratcliff
If you have been fortunate enough to be using Google+ recently you may have seen one of Trey Ratcliff's stunning photographs being shared in your streams. Trey is best known for his blog StuckinCustoms.com which is the No.1 Travel Photography Blog on the web and had the honour of having the first HDR photo ever to hang in the Smithsonian. Trey's background is in computer science and math, so he brings an...

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20 Awesome Facebook Timeline Cover Photos
Well unless you have been hiding under a rock for the last several years then there must be some time in your life you have heard of or come across the No.1 social networking juggernaut that is Facebook. Love it or hate it and with more than 800 million users (real and bogus!) on there and companies and brands favouring promoting their Facebook page over their own websites it is hard to avoid these days. I have...

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55 FREE Awesome High Quality Wood Textures
If you are a Photoshop fan then you must know about the importance of textures in Photoshop. Online Photoshop community is awesome enough to provide huge number of free textures and brushes to fellow Photoshoppers. Wood textures among those which bring awesome background look to any design instantly. Especially when you create any model portfolio then these textures helps you to create a really cool wooden...

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Delicious Food Landscapes of Carl Warner
I love art, I love photography and I love food. What if all these were combined? What are the chances? Well I need look no further because having checked out these truly delicious food landscapes created by the very creative Carl Warner then all my dreams have come true. Carl says that the food landscapes are taken in stages because this is to stop the food from wilting during the process and then put...

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Amazing Living Architecture - Root Bridges of Cherrapunji
You may be mistaken for thinking that these are photos taken from the set of one the Lord of the Rings movies but in actual fact these are real examples of living architecture. The bridges you see are from Cherrapunji, India which is one of the wettest places on Earth and are actually made by tree roots. These bridges are very much alive! The amazing War-Khasis tribe in Meghalaya have been harnessing the...

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A Showcase of Grunge in Web Design
Web design has become more hand tooled, organic and versatile. Classic retro and vintage typography with authentic textures and withered paper backgrounds have helped bring back the grunge web design trend. Grunge gives web design more style and less uniform, there is no structure only worn out and faded graphic elements, these look beautiful and creative. The trend is inspired by the vintage and retro design...

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Life in Miniature - 38 Stunning Shots of Tilt-Shift Photography
You may think you are viewing photos of miniature villages but these are in fact photos of real life. These photographs have been taken using the special art of tilt-shift photography. The effects can be produced by the use of camera movements on small and medium cameras. The name originates from the tilt-shift lens which is normally required to produce this effect optically. The tilt refers to the rotation of ...

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World in Close-up - Amazing Macrophotography Collection
Macrophotography is close-up photography, usually of very small subjects. Classically a macrophotograph is one in which the size of the subject on the negative is greater than life size. However in modern use it refers to a finished photograph of a subject at greater than life size. Source Source The ratio of the subject size on the film plane (or image sensor plane) to the actual...

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Spectacular Fireworks Photography
I've always loved fireworks. They paint the dark sky in bright neon colours and can make a huge bang that gets your heart racing. No doubt this year in November I will be standing in the cold on Guy Fawkes Night which is a celebration in my country. I will probably be holding a nice hot chocolate in one hand and a toffee apple in the other going "ooohh" and "ahhh" at the many fireworks being let off into the sky...

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More Amazing Hypnotic Animations by Davidope
Well over a year ago we featured a very talented digital artist called Davidope in the post Truly Amazing Hypnotic Animations. Davidope (dvdp) is the creative director and founder of the design atelier volll and Fredlig. He currently lives in Budapest with his Dachshund Susie and loves the danger with drinking 2 litres of Coke and smoking 40 Camels a day! You can find a daily dose of inspiration at his ...

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Design After Dark - 90's Rave Flyer Designs
The 90's isn't the one of those decades that sticks out for memorable design but one thing I do remember from the early 90's is the bright, trippy, euphoric design of UK rave flyers. If you can remember dancing your ass off all night to trippy repetitive beats from DJs like Sasha, Carl Cox and Grooverider whether it be in a club or field then some of these flyers you might recognize from back in the day. Let's...

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The Beautiful Anime Art of DestinyBlue
DestinyBlue (a.k.a Alice de ste Croix) is a professional anime artist from London, England and she has exhibited for over 40 anime and comic events. Alice has also run courses with the BBC on how to draw manga and has a range of bath goodies, lip-balms and candles branded with her unique style. Alice states that Final Fantasy has been her biggest inspiration for her amazing artwork. Take a look at some of ...

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Natsumi Hayashi - A Life in Levitation
There are some inspiring photographers out there but there are non-more inspiring than the gravity-defying Natsumi Hayashi. Natsumi is a photographer from Tokyo, Japan and can be spotted jumping up and down around the city armed with her SLR and amazing self-timing which capture these truly amazing shots. The photos which are taken at exactly the right moment show Natsumi simply levitating in her...

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Gorgeous Collection of Cute Artisan Food Miniatures
A soon as I clapped eyes on these cute little artisan food miniatures I fell in love. The painstaking work that the artists have put into creating these great tiny masterpieces is just amazing. An artisan if you didn't know or craftsperson is a skilled manual worker who makes items that may be functional or strictly decorative, including furniture, clothing, jewellery, household items, and tools. An artisan is...

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30 Delicious Examples of Latte Art
Art is all around us wherever we look and even in your local coffee shop, but I'm not talking about the paintings they may have on the wall, I am referring to Latte Art. Latte art if you haven’t seen it before is a method of preparing coffee which is created by pouring steamed milk into a shot of espresso and resulting in a pattern or design on the surface of the resulting latte. The art can also be created or e...

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Awesome Light Painting Skeletons by Janne Parviainen
I saw these photos the other day and was totally blown away. I have seen light painting before but these eerie skeletons by the fantastic Helsinki photographer Janne Parviainen are the best I have ever seen. Light painting is a special technique in photography when exposures are made at night or a dark room by moving the camera or a form of hand held light. In many cases the light source itself does not ...

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The Life of a Geisha in Art and Photography
Geisha (芸者?), Geiko (芸子) or Geigi (芸妓) are traditional, female Japanese entertainers whose skills include performing various Japanese arts such as classical music and dance. The word consists of two kanji, 芸 (gei) meaning "art" and 者 (sha) meaning "person" or "doer". The most literal translation of geisha into English would be "artist" or "performing artist". Another name for geisha used in Japan is geiko (芸子)...

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40 Excellent 'Draw Something' Drawings
My latest iPhone app addiction at the moment is the social drawing game Draw Something. When I have a spare 5 mins I have a quick blast against numerous friends and family no matter where they are in the world. If you've never played Draw Something then it's like having a mini game of Pictionary where you can draw on your mobile touchscreen devices and the other person has to guess the word from your drawings....

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20 FREE New Business Card Templates for 2012
Although we are now near to the end of February it is still time to get yourself a brand new business card design for 2012. I have searched around the web and found some great FREE templates for you to use and customise from Own Business Cards and Fresh Business Cards. Whether you are a designer, hairdresser or sales representative there is a neat collection to choose from. Get downloading today! I hope you...

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Creative 90's Music Videos
Continuing on from our previous post Creative 80’s Music Videos here is a superb collection from the 90’s. A decade where I think the music video really came alive. Aphex Twin – Window Licker Love it or hate it this video by Chris Cunningham and Richard James which mocks the bling of hip-hop videos of old. The video starts with a particular lengthy intro and features a very long limo. The ...

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Amazing Photography Shots Capturing Star Trails
Capturing star trails can be a lengthy process but the end result is definitely worth it. How is it done? Well, it's done when the line of light which is recorded on a photographic medium and a time exposure is made of a star in the night time sky and using a camera on a fixed mount, and the trails are caused by the rotation of the earth during the period of time when the camera's shutter is held...

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51 Awesome Album Cover Designs
The album cover plays an important part in the world of music. It's used as a marketing tool and also an expression of artist intent and over the last 50 years or so the album covers just keep getting more and more creative. In this mixed collection of album covers ranging from The Beatles to Daft Punk you can see some amazing works of art and they clearly they do their job of getting peoples attention. Although...

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The 10 Best Apps to Organize Your Life

Apr 23rd

Modern life can be chaotic. In between work, volunteering, family schedules, studying, doing chores, meeting friends and simply trying to survive, we all need things to help us stay organised. Often, however, the things we use to organize our lives only add to the chaos. App developers have been working hard to tackle this problem, and they have come up with some amazing solutions. Below is a list of some of the best apps to help you organize your life.

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April Giveaway: Enter for a Chance to Win One of Three Premium WordPress Themes

Apr 10th

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Once again, we’re bringing you another big giveaway. We’ve partnered with our friends at ThemeFuse to bring you a chance to win one of three premium WordPress themes.

Three lucky winners will be able to download a free ThemeFuse premium WordPress theme.

To see the rules for entering the contest, simply ‘unlock’ the content by tweeting, FB liking, or G+ recommending this post.

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Here are just a few samples of WordPress templates that ThemeFuse has developed:

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Christmas Giveaway! $250 in Office Supplies from 123Print.com

Dec 13th

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Once again we at Web Design Mash bring you another amazing give away! This time we’ve teamed up with 123Print.com to bring you a chance to win $250 worth of office supplies. Unfortunately, this contest is only open to US residents.

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New Giveaway – 3 Free Web Hosting Accounts Up For Grabs from Zyma.com

Nov 30th

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Today we at Web Design Mash bring you another amazing giveaway. Once again, we’ve partnered with the folks at Zyma.com to bring you a chance to win one of three free web hosting accounts.

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35 FREE Vector Flourishes and Swirls for Inspiration

Sep 13th

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If you’re looking for wonderful vectors for your design here we have some nice wonderful mix of vintage elements, floral ornaments, swirly design mixes. We have collected vectors that are available for free download and in .AI and .EPS Files.

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Winners Announced – 1 Years Unlimited Web Hosting Package from Zyma.com

Aug 16th

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At the start of the month we ran an awesome giveaway in partnership with those great folks over at Zyma.com. Well today we announce the 3 lucky winners of this competition.

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63 FREE Retro Styled Fonts for Download

Aug 14th

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It’s been a while since we featured any fonts for you to download but today we have a huge collection for you to make up for it. There is 63 in total and the best thing is that all these fonts are all free for you to download and get creative today. This collection is all about retro styled fonts. Hope you find these useful.

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30 Amazing FREE Flyer Templates from Flyerheroes.com + Extras

Aug 3rd

Posted by Jamie in Advertising

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As designers, one of the most popular requests from our clients is to design them a flyer. Flyers for business, for clubs, for bars – the list is pretty much infinite – why? Because flyers are universally one of the most popular and most efficient promotion methods for pretty much any business. More >

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A Collection of FREE Dual-Monitor Wallpapers for Download

Aug 2nd

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For all those designers, developers and tech workers like myself that use 2 monitors side by side which makes our lives a lot easier for getting our work done then here is a neat collection of dual-monitor wallpapers that stretch over 2 and even 3 screens. All free to download and brighten up those desktops today. More >

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