Bookmarked! Best readings of the week #10
Every week the design community releases a lot of interesting articles, tutorials and showcases that can charge your creativity in different ways. With this series we want to share high-quality contents from the community to provide interesting information for our readers. It's just a small selection, but we are sure that it can help you to find cool stuff that covers a wide variety of topics. Enjoy it!
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Below a collection of awesome articles and resources that we have found in the last week. We suggest you to bookmark and read them. Take your time, get inspired!
Prolific Orlando-based designer Hydro74 talks through the process of producing high-quality vinyl stickers and prints.
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In this tutorial you will be creating a very tasty and Vintage Style 11×17 print ready poster.
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In this tutorial, you?ll learn how to combine a nature peace and harmony feel with an urban and cosmic lighting style to create Flower Power, a digital artwork by Polish designer Wojciech Magierski. You?ll see how to start with base colors to establish the feel and mood of a piece, and then how to build it up using a variety of techniques.
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Gradients are a great way to add lifelike lighting and shading to surfaces. When built with gradient layers and layer styles, they also ensure UI elements can be scaled and reused easily.
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Today we will create a news previewer that let?s you show your latest articles or news in a compact way. The news previewer will show some list of articles on the left side and the preview of the article with a longer description on the right. Once a news on the left is clicked, the preview will slide in.
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This week we are creating a useful set of animated buttons with the power of CSS3's multiple backgrounds and animations. With this button pack, you can easily turn any link on your page into an animated button by just assigning a class name. No JavaScript necessary. Four color themes and three sizes are also available by assigning additional class names.
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The trouble with the word 2template" is that its meaning depends on one's point of view.
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Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry?s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience.
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Guerrilla marketing ?works because it?s simple to understand, easy to implement and outrageously inexpensive,? says Jay Conrad Levinson, the man who coined the phrase.
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Producing high-quality vinyl stickers and prints
- written by Hydro74
- topics: printing
- computerarts.co.uk
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/vinil_best.jpg)
Create a vintage style poster
- written by Jonden Jackson
- topics: Photoshop, tutorial
- ectomachine.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/vintage_poster.jpg)
Create a Flowery Natural Peace and Harmony Composition
- written by Wojciech Magierski
- topics: Photoshop, tutorial
- design.creativefan.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/flower_power_best.jpg)
Gradients
- written by bjango
- topics: Photoshop, gradients
- bjango.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/gradients.jpg)
Slider Gallery with jQuery
- written by Mary Lou
- topics: web design, jquery, css
- tympanus.net/codrops
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/slider_jquery.jpg)
CSS3 Animated Bubble Buttons
- written by Martin Angelov
- topics: buttons, css3
- tutorialzine.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/buttons.jpg)
The design process vs. design-as-product
- written by Ben Gremillion
- topics: design
- webdesignerdepot.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/design_process.jpg)
What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources
- written by Jacob Gube
- topics: design, UX
- smashingmagazine.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/user_experience.jpg)
10 Excellent Examples of Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns [VIDEOS]
- written by Amy-Mae Elliott
- topics: advertising, guerrilla marketing
- mashable.com
![best of the week](https://s3.medialoot.com/blog-images/wegraphics/guerrilla.jpg)