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Going Meta With Circuit-Inspired Design

October 5, 2016 By Andy Clarke

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There are many thematic approaches to web design, and it’s always been important to match the look and feel of a website with its intended purpose and audience. Some website owners enjoy rich colors over natural patterns and backgrounds, like wood grains or filtered photos. Others prefer the stark, clean look of flat design, which highlights bold colors and crisp illustrations.

Design inspired by circuit boards can be a fantastic way to immediately give a high-tech feel to a website, and can be a great option for websites relating to tech topics or industries. From an IT blog to a PCB design website, highlighting this iconic element in your web design 

We’re going to give great insights, tips, and tricks on using both rich or flat design to achieve great circuit board visuals on your website.

Flat Design Options

If you’ve opted for a flat design for your website, your job will likely be a little bit simpler! Circuit and PCB looks are a bit easier to generate when you don’t need to hunt for high-quality imagery or match colors and filters. In fact, there’s a fantastic source for free flat stock images and tools to help complete the look.

Head to Canva

Canva.com is a free graphic design tool which can help you create fantastic graphics for all kinds of purposes. Not only are there free stock photos and hundreds of pre-set layouts, but there’s also a massive library of free shapes, icons, illustrations, and more. To start making a wide variety of header and body graphics to complete your look, head to Canva.

Once there, select the canvas size you’d like to work with. You can use one of the pre-set layouts if you’re wanting to highlight text in your graphic, or with a blank canvas go straightaway to the lines option under the elements tab. Scroll down enough and you can find several pre-made circuit designs which you can mix and match to create your own completed graphic, easily changing colors to match the primary color from your website. You can create circuit paths into the body from your header and footer, or simple circuit elements to pepper through the body of your pages. You can even use this tool to grab easy graphic content separators, or to make unique drop cap graphics.

Rich Design Options

Rich design options are much trickier, and will generally require access to high-quality photos, and if you really want to knock the ball out of the park, some good Photoshop and CSS skills. 

CSS Glow Effect

One great way to highlight the circuit-board tech aesthetic is to work with electric blues or yellows, and incorporate a glow effect on hover for menu items or major areas. You can use the following css option for graphics and images:

-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px 6px #035096;

-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px 6px #035096;

-box-shadow: 0px 0px 3px 6px #035096;

This can be used to fantastic effect with the website logo and/or your menu items.

Finding Fantastic Imagery

When you’re using rich design, if you’re not wanting to fabricate rich graphics, you’re going to be leaning on high-quality photos. To avoid paying fees and messing with rights-management, you can find a few fantastic high-resolution circuit board images at cc0 stock photo websites like Pexels and Stocksnap.

Making Great Graphics

If you’re an illustrator pro, it should be relatively simple to create a circuit-look just using line tools and applying shadow functions. If you’re working with Photoshop, you can simply snag a high-quality photo, use the magic wand to select the circuit paths, and transfer them over to a blank canvas to begin touching them up for use as a background or to accompany page elements like headers, spacers, and so forth. Layer effects can help you incorporate your primary colors.

The Takeaway

Whether you’re designing a website meant to have high-impact rich visuals or crisp clean design, you can use a circuit-based aesthetic to achieve a great emphasis on technology and tech-related fields. These tips and tricks can help you up the wow factor of these designs using simple and free tools.

Vectr: a free graphics editor on your desktop and in the browser

September 20, 2016 By Andy Clarke

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As its name suggests, Vectr is a vector-editing tool that lets you draw shapes, doodle freehand, insert text, and add images to design graphics and prototype interfaces. You can use it right away from the web browser, or with its desktop app (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook) for the fantastic price of free.

The app sports a dark user interface and is laid out into three main sections: a left sidebar that with panes for layers, pages, dimensions, and the main toolbar; the canvas in the middle; and a right sidebar with style options and file controls.

Editing is straightforward and familiar: you pick a function from the left-hand toolbar and draw away. Once the element is created, style options for opacity, shadow, border, and background appear for you to customize. For the background fill, you can choose between a solid color, an image, a linear gradient, and a radial gradient. Gradients use only two color stops, but you can change the orientation using the handles that appear on the object your working on. You can disable these styles using a checkbox beside each one, or by dragging it outside the panel until a tooltip “Remove” appears, at which you can let go.

Also while editing an object, a couple of buttons appear right above it that let you flip its orientation or bring its layer position forward or backward. Hover just outside its bounds and it lets you rotate. Resizing is also there of course, but for the rounded rectangles their curves get distorted. This is pretty common behavior for most graphics editors, except those that are also oriented to interface design and prototyping. On the other hand, its stock of custom shapes include a few items that could be useful for wireframing work.

vectr-iceberg

The pen tool for creating custom shapes is simple to use. You add one point and then the next, and to draw a curve, hold down and drag. The handles on a curve always mirror each other, so without advanced options it takes a bit of wrangling to get how you want a shape to look like.

For text, there’s a wide selection of fonts to choose from, although only being able to scroll is a bit of a hassle. Like the other object types, text can have custom fills, shadows, and borders.

There’s no “hand” tool to drag the canvas around, but you can scroll vertically and horizontally. There are no visible buttons for other standard actions like undo, redo, or paste, but they are available in a right-click menu, or through the built-in system keyboard shortcuts.

One important thing to remember especially while using the web app is to log in or create an account so you can save your work. Once done, you can either print, download, copy the link, or share on Facebook and Twitter. If you decide to make further changes, your friends can actually see you make them as it happens.

vectr-exports

If you’re looking to a quick, lightweight way to create designs or spruce up some photos, Vectr can be a great choice for you.

How to Personalize Forms with CaptainForm

April 6, 2016 By Devlounge

CaptainForm is a WordPress form plugin that makes web development virtually effortless. Unlike other form builders, it offers revolutionary features that can save you a lot of time when building your website. It’s also very easy to use and integrate with any WordPress blog. [Read more…]

21 Fabulous Print Designs To Inspire You This Week

November 24, 2015 By Veronika

Print design is a specific niche which manages to intertwine both visual and tactile elements in the creation of an appealing product. What differentiates print design from other graphic design fields is the product’s ability to affect the viewer through physical sensation. Different types of paper and printing techniques can improve the appearance of the print design. Glossy and matte paper are often combined highlight different elements of the design. By giving graphic elements a specific tactile feature, the various paper types can enhance the viewer’s experience.

This collection of print design inspiration reveals 21 of the most compelling and memorable print design projects which can be found over the Internet.

1 | Brownbook Magazine

Browbook magazine cover

Brownbook magazine

Creator: Cultural Engineering

This print and editorial project by Cultural Engineering creatively entangles photography and illustration into a striking minimalist design. The design smartly combines various Pantone palettes to create a reference to the beauty of Eastern culture.

2 |Intro

Intro cover design

Intro magazine

Creator: Peter & Paul

Source: http://theinspirationgrid.com/branding-graphic-design-by-peter-paul/

By successfully intertwining natural textures and minimalist typography, the creative duo, Peter & Paul, has created some of the most compelling print materials that can be found on the Web.

3 |GIST

GIST cover

GIST design Creator: Anagrama

Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/GIST/13712111

The editorial design, created by Anagrama, is a triumph of contemporary graphic design which embraces and celebrates minimalism. The use of different texture and colour for each magazine issue creates a memorable front page design.

4 |Golden Moments III

We are Golden

Golden - design collection

Creator: Golden

Source: http://www.aa13.fr/design-graphique/golden-moments-iii-we-are-golden-51209

This unconventional print collection of design works belongs to the UK-based multidisciplinary design studio Golden. The print design is a creative showcase of some of the company’s most popular design projects.

5 | Pom Pom Branding

POM POM branding

POM POM design

Creator: Reynolds & Reyner

Source: http://reynoldsandreyner.com

The Pom Pom branding, created by Reynolds & Reyner, brings texture and minimalism to another level by presenting an imposing and visually provocative print design.

6 |Le Quartanier: Série Nova

Book cover design

Creator: http://pointbarre.ca/

https://www.behance.net/pointbarre

Catherine D’Amours, a graphic designer and illustrator from Montreal, has created a collection of ten book cover designs for the tenth anniversary of Le Quartanier. The project relies on the use of a minimalist grid and a vintage-inspired color palette to create a visually compelling design.

7 | Only Connect Festival of Sound

Festival of Sound

Identity for the Festival of Sound

Creator: Non-Format

Created by the Norwegian studio Non-Format, this print design project reflects the spirit of the Only Connect Festival of Sound by combining texture and symbolism into a memorable design.

8 | Savanna Annual Report 09/10

Savannah

Savannah Annual Report - cover design

Creator: Jake Lim

This impressive design project, created by the Canadian designer Jake Lim, combines bold colors, clean typography and multiple photography elements to provoke visual interest and induce inspiration.

9 | Posters for Teatro de La Abadía

Brochure and poster design

Poster design for a play

Creator: Tres Tipos Gráficos

The poster designs of Tres Tipos Graficos use a grid-based designing technique and raw photography which reflects the play’s general atmosphere and provide a unique perspective of the plot.

10 | Sanrun Mining Co.

Mining company identity

Sanrun Mining Co

Creator: Necron

The stationery design of Sanrun Mining Co. is a collaborative project which combines the use of various  design elements. The project is focused on bold colors and materials with different tactile features which provoke interest with its unusual appearance.

11 | Where Do I End And The World Begins

Exhibition identity design

Art exhibition identity design

Creator: Hubert & Fisher

This editorial design for the solo exhibition of Michael Fliri’s reflects the general idea of the artworks. The book cover is inspired by the shapes and appearance of the sculptures.

12 | Mobile Design Gallery

Industrial print design

Editorial print design with industrial lookCreator: Marta Gawin

Created by the Polish multidisciplinary graphic designer Marta Gawin, the identity of the Mobile Design Gallery is an inspiring minimalist artwork which aims for an industrial style while maintaining a clean, contemporary look.

13 | Pizza Hut – Behind Every Box

Pizza Hut design project

Pizza Hut - Design project

Creator: Gavin Simpson

This inspiring projects by Gavin Simpson use a combination of print design and mixed media to create a provoking and compelling art.

14 | Feel The Real

Feel The Real - ads design

Feel The Real - advertisement design

Creator: DIA

Feel the Real is a creative outdoor print design project which emphasises on different features of outdoor advertisement. It uses humor and has a clean style which immediately makes an impression on the viewers.

15 | Briolo

Posters fir Briolo - school of arts

Creator: Diana Dubina

The posters for Briolo, a modern school of arts, are created with the viewer in mind. They are a wonderful example how monochromatic design can be entangled with minimalist elements and artistic photography to create an excellent outdoor advertisement campaign.

16 | Urban – Think Tank

Minimalist brochure design

Urban Think Tank - identity design

Creator: Mayra Monobe

The new identity for the interdisciplinary design practice Urban Think Tank is a gorgeous example of how a bold title and clean, grid-based layout can be mixed together to create a visually appealing design.

17 | LUZIA Arte Festa

Luzia - identity design

Luzia Arte Festa

Creator: DPIGS Design Studio

This identity design project for Santa Luzia has an unconventional approach towards creating a compelling print design by using abstract minimalist to depict the cultural integrity of the Portuguese temple.

18 | Balkans Magazine

Balkans magazine design

Editorial design for the Balkans magazine

Creator: Tadas Bujanauskas

The design of the Balkans Magazine aims at showcasing the beauty of the Balkan region with the use of striking landscape photography and a clean typography layout.

19 | Drygate

Drygate packaging design

Design for Drygate

Creator: D8

The eccentric look of the Drygate print and packaging design is a creation of the UK-based agency D8. The project relies on abstract elements and a colorful palette to create a memorable product design.

20 | Studio South

Identity for Studio South

Creative identity designCreator: Studio South

The brand identity of Studio South is a brilliant example how the use of symbolism and unconventional materials can create an extraordinary design.

21 | Think in Colour

Think in Colour - book cover

Think in Colour

Creator: Dimitri Jeannottat

The book cover of Think In Colour features the use of a unique temperature-sensitive material. When exposed to heat, the black surface reveals a gorgeous gradient image.

Which Are Your Favourite Print Design Projects?

Be it stationery design, banner printing or poster design, the print design sector is recognised as one of the most popular design fields and it suits a wide array purpose. This collection barely scratches the surface of the industry’s top print design projects. So, we’re interested to know which are your favorite print design projects.

 

How to Ace your Next Web Developer Interview

July 31, 2015 By Devlounge

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You don’t need anyone to tell you that web development is a crowded industry. This is especially true when you’re forced to go head-to-head with cheap overseas labor and other online entrepreneurs. However, there are still plenty of jobs for you – you just can’t afford to mess up the interview process. In fact, you need to ace it. [Read more…]

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