The Various Meaning of Colors
The concept of good design represents the sum of several elements, all of them realized in a professional manner and then blended together. The final result is beautiful and functional at the same time. From this perspective, it is simple to comprehend that the quality of a design depends on more than just the components on their own. A very important factor that contributes to the overall aspect of a website in...

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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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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 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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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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Liu Bolin - Self-Portrait of an Invisible Man
Liu Bolin a.k.a the 'Invisible Man' is an exceptional artist from Beijing who has the ability to blend in with his surroundings by painting himself to appear almost chameleon-like in his series of work "Hiding in the City". Liu Bolin says that his work his inspired by feeling uncared for and a sense of unnecessary in the world and also as a protest against the Chinese government who shut his studio down in 2005. ...

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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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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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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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30 Awesome & Different Web Contact Forms for Inspiration
Every business needs a website and every website needs a contact form. Contact page should be visible and accessible on websites; it should be eye cache and error free. It should be with possible fewer numbers of fields and security code enabled to stop spammers. You must have seen different contact forms online with titles ping me, awake me, stay in touch, get in touch, etc... Yes, designers showing...

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Amazing 'Pencil Vs Camera!' Series by Ben Heine
Today’s post is all about some of the great work by Ben Heine and his exciting series titled “Pen Vs Camera”. Ben states - "Pencil Vs Camera" is nothing but the result of a long graphic exploration and a logic consequence of my artistic evolution. It's a new concept. My primary intention was to create a "battle field" between 2 disciplines: drawing and photography, mixing imagination and reality. The onl...

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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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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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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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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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Japan in Photography
Japan 日本 is one of my favourite countries. I love the culture, the food and technology. Located in the Pacific Ocean, Japan is an archipelago that comprises 6,852 islands and has the world’s tenth largest population with over 127 million people. The Greater Tokyo Area is the largest metropolitan area in the world with over 30 million residents. The characters that make up Japan’s name mean “sun origin” and is ...

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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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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No.26

Apr 15th

What an amazing collection of fab web designs we have found this week. It’s been hard to cut the galleries down to just 10 per week as there is some truly inspired designs out there from the truly awesome portfolio of Ryan Scherf to the amazing creativity of Get My Boss to the North Cape. which are all absolute classics! So without further ado I present our fave top 10 websites of this week.

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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No.25

Apr 6th

Posted by Jamie in Web Galleries

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Welcome once again to our favourite 10 website designs of the week. We did find a lot of amazing sites this week and it was hard to narrow it down to just 10, but I think we chose an excellent batch of designs for you and I hope you agree. Thanks to all the sites, their owners and designers for inspiring us this week. More >

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Free Downloadable FireFox & IE Themes From ThunderThemes.com

Apr 1st

Posted by Gabriella in Web

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It’s been a while since we featured a post on browser themes but this time we have teamed up with ThunderThemes.com to showcase a small collection of great themes that they offer for free for Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox and soon thye will also be available on Google Chrome. So without futher ado why not customize your broswer today with a great theme? More >

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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No. 24

Mar 31st

Posted by Jamie in Web Galleries

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It’s that time once again for our Fave Design Sites of the week and we have some spectacular designs in this showcase. Starting off with a few sites which are for some really good causes I think you will agree and ending up with some really delicious looking cakes from Moo’s Cupcakes. Thank you to all the sites and designers featured in this weeks post for inspiring us.

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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No. 23

Mar 16th

Posted by Jamie in Inspiration

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We’ve been scouring the web for some brilliantly designed websites again and we’ve found some absolute crackers this week. It’s really too hard to choose a number one fave for this week. Have a look and see what you think and thanks to all the designers and sites featured in this post that have inspired us this week.

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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No.22

Mar 9th

Posted by Jamie in Web Galleries

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It is time for our weekly roundup of favourite web designs we have spotted this week. There are some truly classic designs in the top 10 this week with my personal fave being Phase 2 Design Studio which you can see first in the list. Thanks goes out to all the great sites and the designers for inspiring us this week.

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Our Fave Web Designs of the Week No. 21

Mar 2nd

Posted by Jamie in Inspiration

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It has been a long time since we ran our weekly top web designs of the week series but it is now back! In this weekly post we showcase our favourite 10 web designs of the week. If you wish to submit your site or recommend a site then please use our contact page or message us via Twitter. Many thanks to the websites and designers who have inspired us this week. More >

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Wishing Everyone a Very Merry Christmas

Dec 24th

Posted by Jamie in Blog

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This is just a big Thank You going out to all the readers, visitors, sponsors and supporters of Web Design Mash. Without you then it would have all been for nothing. Web Design Mash is still in its first year and we have bigger and better things planned for 2011. More >

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Most Popular Design Links of the Week 24 – 30 October 2010

Oct 30th

Posted by Anjelica in Art

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Here at Web Design Mash we are huge fans of Twitter and on this weekly post you will find the most popular links tweeted by our Twitter Account throughout the week. These are not the top links chosen by us but chosen by you and the amount of clicks and retweets they received.

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