Digg the Design: Portfolio that says “Look at me”

Kawsar Ali — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:28:38 +0000

Hey everybody! Today is very exciting day for me. First of all, as you can the site has been redesigned. Also, two weeks ago I asked people to submit their wonderful Portfolio. I held off this post because I wanted to post it today. So you can enjoy DT’s new design and portfolio that I chose from the submitted list. I always enjoy creative design and there are so many talented web designers out there. I also, asked the designer about their inspiration behind their wonderful work. This way people can get better idea/inspirations when they are designing their sites.

I could not choose all the sites. The way I chose the sites is by their usability, clean interface and minimality. It is best idea to follow this web designers on twitter so can get more info about web design and more.

Great work guys!

Spicydesign

Name: Alex ElChehimi

Location: Montreal-Canada

Website/ About: I’m a web/graphic designer .Spicydesign is my online portfolio, the Idea behind the design came when I was thinking about a catchy name and the result was spicy lol…

Advice : A tip for other designers, hmmm, be yourselves it’s good to get inspired by others but not to copy them.

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Designmovesme

Name: Roy Vergara

Location: Houston, TX

Website/About: Design Moves Me is my portfolio and design blog that is a resource for design inspiration and news. The design approach I took was to have a colorful artsy brushstroke appearance. I achieved this textured look by using paint, paper, and grunge brushes in Photoshop. Detailed tutorial coming soon I promise!

Advice: Always strive to keep learning as much as you can. Once you’re no longer motivated, is when this competitive fast paced industry passes you by.

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Startahed

Name and: Jan Caals

Location: Antwerp (Belgium)

Website/About : I wanted to create a design that would also fit as a WordPress theme, highly customizable with custom WordPress options (eg. for Twitter and feedburner links). The design is clean with some subtle textures.

Advice: Keep practicing you will get where you want to get!

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MyRule

Name: Jelle Pingen.

Location: I’m from the Netherlands.

Website/About : Nature, you’re always in it and you see it every day. And most of the time I get my inspiration from it. That’s why I chose a nature-theme for my website, using grass and leaves. The original design had more foliage in it, but it was a little overkill so I scrapped most of it.

Advice: Look at the world around you! For inspiration, don’t sit behind your computer, it comes from everywhere

Indivisualconcepts

Name: Nick Hammonds.

Location: San Clemente, CA

Website/About: I’ve just always been a fan of real clean and minimalistic designs. And also wood textures. I think they give it a little more life than the usual plain background.Favorite Qute: “The man who has no imagination, has no wings.” – Muhammad Ali

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Digg the Design : Web Design Site You Should Know/Follow

Kawsar Ali — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:41:33 +0000

This weeks web site share is focused on web design sites. The reason for choosing these sites, they have awesome design that distinguishes them from any other sites on the web. Moreover, these sites are inspiration for web designers and they have tutorials, tips and freebie release section that are really helpful.

Inspiredology

Inspiredology.com comes form Chad Mueller, who is a freelance designer.

“Inspiredology is a new resource that covers everything that inspires us. Most sites show Best of galleries and massive databases of thumbnail sized screen shots of css sites. We are here to give you what our name says, we are here to inspire”

This site has nice notebook looking design for background that resembles my portfolio site. The navigation, footer and rss button has a grungy texture. The site has very artistic yet simple design. Also, the site has a blog that publishes many design inspiration from magazines to ads to web sites.

1stwebdesigner

1st web designer should be in every web designer’s bookmark. This site publishes really good articles about web designs tutorials, and freebies. 1stwebdesigner has a sleek sexy design. The wooden background and transparent navigation and well designed logo makes 1stwebdesigner a designer useful resource.

The sidebar features the most important post making the site easy to navigate.

Webdesinger Deopt

I usually do not prefer red or brownish color . However, Webdesinger Depot proved me wrong. The header, footer and the balloon comment meta makes the site an eye candy.

The bottom of the page has a nice navigation that makes browsing between pages easy. As well as, it gives lots of freebies ans tips useful for web designers. Webdesignerdepot mostly focus on tools that is essential to web designers, developer and programmers. I visit the site daily dose design tips.

Cult-F

Lets me start just by saying, Cult-f has one of the coolest, illustrious and notable web site I have seen. It is because the top navigation of the site is tag menu instead of regular menu and it does not scroll with the rest of the page. That gives access to everything you need even if you are end of the page. If you visit the site you will see what I mean. The header is really well designed illustration.

“Cult-foo is a daily website dedicated to everything related to outstanding WEB design and technologies. We want to spotlight your creativity! Here you will find not only bright designs, but also useful materials for javascript, css, php and other popular web branches.”

Another good thing, about the site if you have well designed site, portfolio and want your site too be featured the have submit section where you can enter your site. Like the other sites mentioned, this site also provides css,php, javascript tips and tricks.

That’s all, bookmark this site as you might find useful tips, icons, freebies for use.

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