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Gloss V2.0 Sweeps In?

By Andrew Faulkner on November 14th, 2006.

A nice old skool article on one of the loveliest of trends: Gloss. Glass. Aqua.

Whatever you call the shiny trend you can’t deny its popularity. One could say Apple pioneered the look some years ago now. But as of late I’ve seen designers go to more effort to produce a …

Designers are becoming big-headed

By Andrew Faulkner on April 20th, 2006.

After visiting a bunch of unrelated sites recently, it came to me that they all shared a common design element – huge header areas above the content. Don’t believe me? Then try these out for size:

http://www.ploink-brothers.com/
http://www.catchlight.co.nz/
http://www.danrooddesign.com/
http://en.helldesign.pl/
http://www.attitudedesign.co.uk/

See what I mean? Before …

Worn Out , Grunge, Vintage…

By Marc Bernstein on October 17th, 2005.

Worn Out, Grunge, Vintage… Call it what you want the idea is the same: take a design and few custom made photoshop brushes and go wild. The result is a design that looks vintage and worn out.

(Check out the well written tutorial by Cameron Moll to achieve this …

Break Out the Earth Tones

By Phil Renaud on September 30th, 2005.

It’s nearing the end of September, and the change of season to Autumn hardly goes unnoticed. ‘Tis the season where we leave the patios and beaches behind and yield our afternoons to raking leaves off the front lawn.

At the car dealership down the street, all the display models are a …