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Jun 11, 2024

100 Best Free Fonts for Designers in 2024
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awwwards.
Typography is currently playing a central role in web design, with progressive improvements like Variable Fonts, CSS Shapes, FlexBox

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May 8, 2023

Starting a Career in Web Design: Mauricio Tonon
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awwwards.
It's no secret: Awwwards Masterclasses believe that mentorship is essential and invaluable for creatives. In fact, our courses were explicitly...

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Aug 14, 2020

A Round-up of The Best Loading Animations
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awwwards.
Preloaders allow us to manipulate “psychological time” managing to make the user perceive the waiting time as much shorter than it really is....

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Jun 14, 2016

Font Pairing when Working for an Agency
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sebasribas
One of the most difficult tasks as a designer is choosing the appropriate font pairing. It is never an easy undertaking, whether you face many...

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Apr 5, 2016

Designing With Color Contrast for Improved Usability
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Marc Schenker
Colors add appeal to websites—the more vibrant and stunning, the better. Even so, web design done correctly should consider the utility of adding...

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Feb 23, 2016

Now is the Time to Design for Wearables
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EllaCooper
Technology is a tour de force and has captured the market after the sincere efforts of people who possessed the prudence to foresee the coming...

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Nov 2, 2015

Enjoy up to 140 downloads of high-quality royalty-free...
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Oct 28, 2015

Four tips for getting work in a design studio
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Barny Collis
Over the years I have received many thousands of CVs and emails enquiring about work, from designers of all levels, especially over the last...

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Oct 20, 2015

Wireframe Basics for Beginners: An Agency Perspective
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John Isaac
Wireframing is one of the most effective and valuable exercises during the project lifecycle.

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Oct 19, 2015

Free Vector Icons Set exclusively for Awwwards Users
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sliceberry
This beautiful set of “Illustricons” are free to download for Awwwards readers courtesy of Sliceberry.

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Aug 3, 2015

99 Creative Logo Designs for Inspiration
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awwwards.
Making a well designed logo is not a simple task, and being up-to-date with the latest trends in design will always help. Your logo can communicate...

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Feb 9, 2015

Freebie: Universal Icon Set for Web and Mobile
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awwwards.
Today we have a cool collection of useful, universal icons from Freevectors.net shared with CreativeCommons Attribution. This exclusive vec

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Dec 15, 2014

New Design Bundle by Creative Market Worth in 1000+...
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awwwards.
As I imagine you all know Creative Market, which is a reference site in terms of web resources. Today we are very pleased to anno

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Sep 18, 2013

Grand Designs for Small Workspaces: The freelancer’s...
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awwwards.
Nowadays you don’t need to be a huge agency with a state-of-the-art, no-expense-spared office to show off your creative side. These days we...

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Jul 15, 2013

Lettering Process on Video: Nairone's Visual Identity...
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awwwards.
Nairone is a young but talented graphic designer and freelance illustrator based in Paris. He created the visual identity for the bar rest

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Jun 3, 2013

Inspirational Packaging for Web Designers
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awwwards.
Packaging is always inspirational. It's one of our favorite subjects, perhaps because it's about real materials, something web designers don't...

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Apr 12, 2013

Digital Dinner Amsterdam Write-up
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Georgios Athanassiadis
On May 20 I attended the second edition of Digital Dinner Amsterdam. It's an annual event where 100 people within the creative and d

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Mar 25, 2013

Cool Gifts and Office Products for Web Designers &...
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awwwards.
Tired of working? Tired of design? Give yourself a gift! You deserve it, don’t you? It's all too common to see selections of inspiring design...

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Feb 27, 2013

10 Web Design Trends for 2013
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awwwards.
For starters, we’d like to say thank you for the amazing reception our free eBook Web design

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Feb 21, 2013

Female Pop Singers Pin-up Poster Series by Brazilian...
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awwwards.
The "Pinups Posters" series by Renato Cunha was inspired by the pin-ups of

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