Our featured designs this week have a nice little effect where you uncover content that seems to be under another.

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I like the brightly colored twist on the traditional coat of arms and other elements like the arrows.

Another growing trend: combining vertical scrolling with horizontal scrolling or sliders to maximize the amount of information you can consume in a screenful. The changing fixed backgrounds is also a simple but eye-catching effect especially if you switch between light and dark colors.

This one does the vertical then horizontal browsing thing too, but it instead of for slider items it’s for each article in the magazine. I also like how each section layered under the previous one don’t have the same heights, they all stretch according to the requirements of the content.

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