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As you may have noticed I’ve stopped reblogging design links I’ve found to the Most Inspired blog, they were drowning the original articles we’ve been posting.

Don’t fret if you miss all those cool links hop on over to Uberlook, where I’ve started posting all those great links. I’ll be adding the recent posts from Uberlook to the sidebar in the blog to make it easier to find those cool links.

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As a designer I’m always trying to optimize my creative process. Since I started, lots of things have changed in my workflow, some things got simpler while others got a little bit more complicated. With these changes came the experience of learning from the mistakes but also from the successes.

Designers of all kinds rely on inspiration for their work in order to achieve their best results. Inspiration can come from just about anywhere, but for web designers who are online virtually all day it frequently comes from gallery sites, design blogs, or just websites that you come across in other ways. The amount of inspiration of this kind that is available can be a huge help when you are struggling with a project of your own, but one challenge that designers face is how to put that inspiration into practice while still creating something unique and of quality.

Forums are important for web designers and web developers. Web Design companies, freelance web designers as well as website owners themselves rely on forums for a number of reasons such as finding solution to web design or technical issues, to research new areas or simply to participate in discussion with other designers.

Having another designer’s PSD file is as good as owning a chef’s recipe book. The only difference is – we designers are willing share and sometimes we even distribute them ourselves so others can download and learn from our techniques.

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more.

Appearance is crucial for obvious reasons in the fashion industry. With that in mind, many fashion e-commerce sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration.

In this post we’ll feature 35 inspirational fashion website designs that represent a variety of styles that are sure to inspire you.

Remember when you designed your first logo, illustration or poster? Yeah… try not to cringe. I recently found some of my old design work and had a hilarious walk through memory lane. I thought I’d share some of my design gems from the past give you the chance to share yours as well!

Style switchers can be used to give visitors more options according to their preferences, or they can be used simply to add something dynamic and interesting to the site. The potential uses are nearly limitless but some common approaches include using style switchers to give choices in terms of background images, color schemes, font sizes, and layout.

Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.