A great icon that uses the iconic typeface and illustrative style of Fight Club. I really like the attention to detail and the depth of perspective that helps the icon stand out. This design was featured on the Tuesday 17th of January 2012. It falls under the category of Other, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Since October 2011, the Internet all over the world is buzzing with the recent issue of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill. Millions of Internet users and Internet entrepreneurs are protesting against the newly proposed law. On the other hand there is a strong opposition of politically influential people towards these protestors who favor this law by continuously highlighting its usefulness. The situation of the SOPA bill issue is getting closer to its destination with every passing second. (Image source: Shutterstock)< ... Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Over the past 2-3 years we’ve seen a tremendous growth in browser and OS support for mobile websites. Most notably Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android platforms come to mind. But others such as PalmOS and Blackberry are still in the mix. Up until recently it was very difficult to match a single mobile theme into all of these platforms. JavaScript was a start, but there hasn’t been any truly unified library until now. jQuery Mobile takes all the best features … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Here’s our first freebie of the year and we think it’s a great one. Folks at Artbees has created a set of high quality social network icons exclusively for Hongkiat’s readers. If you are looking for some icons to get your visitors more engaged, this is a post you should not miss. So what are we looking at? We have a total of 27 social networks (Bebo, Badoo, Blogger, Delicious, Mylife Classmates, Digg, Netlog, MyOpera, Facebok, Ning, Orkit, Flixster, Zorpia, Youtube, Google+, Scribd, Technorati, Hi5, LastFM, Fot … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Advertise here with BSA This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and resources from the design community, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed. Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

As creatives, most times we feel like we can do it all, or we are put in a position to do it all. We typically take on a ‘Jack-of-all-trades’ mentality, that can either help or harm us. For some odd reason, there seems to be a discrepancy of sorts when it comes to doing the work for ourselves. Some designers feel like of course we should take on that Jack-of-all-trades mindset, while others just feel like it makes sense to pass the work off and let someone else do it. The truth is, they’re both great ideas but vary depending on your situation. How creative are you? What is your skill set? What kind of things stress you out? All these questions should be taken into consideration when determining whether or not designers should do their own personal projects. Keep in mind, that for … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Advertise here with BSA There are many ways a website owner can choose to communicate with visitors: e-mail, contact forms, forums are the widely used ones. ClickDesk is a live-help application that enables website owners to be in contact with visitors much tighter. They are giving away 5*annual Lite Plans/1 agent (0/each) to WRD readers and details of joining [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

With a new year always comes new branding attempts. Organizations want a fresh face to signal progress and ongoing evolution and branding is the vehicle that designers use to achieve this goal. As we all know quite well, this is a risky venture with large entities. If it goes well, your customers (or fans in this case) love you for it. If it doesn’t, you’re setting yourself up for plenty of public ridicule. Today we’re going to venture into the world of sports and check out three new Major League Baseball team logo designs. Which teams are updating their look for the new year? Were they su … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

With a new year always comes new branding attempts. Organizations want a fresh face to signal progress and ongoing evolution and branding is the vehicle that designers use to achieve this goal. As we all know quite well, this is a risky venture with large entities. If it goes well, your customers (or fans in this case) love you for it. If it doesn’t, you’re setting yourself up for plenty of public ridicule. Today we’re going to venture into the world of sports and check out three new Major League Baseball team logo designs. Which teams are updating their look for the new year? Were they su … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Advertise here with BSA There are various PNG optimizer apps for Mac OS X (check this WRD article for them) but only a few for Windows. PNGGauntlet is a free Windows application for squeezing each and every byte in PNG files. With a very nice drag 'n' drop enabled user interface, the application can optimize any given number of [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot