Articles by Design Modo from April 2013

Together with wide screen photo backgrounds which are frequently used tools for website decorations, blur backgrounds have thoroughly settled and found their niche in modern website design. Although, ...

Weve talked a lot here about the flat design trend here at Designmodo. Weve raved about it, showed you plenty of cool examples and even developed a free user interface kit for you to download and use ...

For many organizations that stay behind different kinds of events or exhibitions, including festivals or conferences, there comes a time when simple flyers, forums and traditional banner advertisement...

We started with a simple idea: What drives our community of creators? We wanted to get to know the community and get a glimpse into the minds of designers, developers, and pioneers, while recreating t...

Looking for a new approach to website design? Why not try video? Done right, using a video background can create a jaw-dropping design that will stop users and encourage them to watch. (Just look that...

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes Gradient fills are used to create transitions between colors. Most often they are used to add volume to flat vector ...

What makes mobile typography special is the restrictive nature of mobile screens; they are small and used in brightly lit areas so that it is difficult to see anything. Therefore, when it comes to typ...

Being one of the main conditions of creating website designs, multi-device support is a definitely hot trend and must-have nowadays. But when we are speaking about responsiveness we usually mean adapt...

Flat Design is one of the newest approaches in web design, aiming for simplicity and powerful visual impact and using shapes as patterns and backgrounds. Microsofts Metro user interface is probably th...

Admit it, as a designer you are always looking for cool new tips, tools and tricks to enhance your projects and make your life a little easier. Thankfully, new tools, products, apps and even great use...

Drew lives by the words of the dear Chuck Close who said Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. This mindset has led him through in taking action and becoming a well...

Despite of being one of the basic geometric shapes, circle is not such a frequent guest in website design; of course, I do not consider social media icons. There are a lot of reasons why designers res...

Mobile Design is an area of design that started to develop and evolve a couple of years ago. With the launch of the iPhone and the App Store in 2008, the development of mobile applications started to ...

Nowadays, majority of website designs are based on grids; days of chaotic layouts are gone, and today is the era of ordering and structuring, although it is invisible to the naked eye. Such layouts ar...

Cool scroll effects are begging to pop up on more and more site designs. The most popular and trendy of these effects is parallax scrolling. The technique – in which website screens or panels se...

Topic: Adobe Illustrator Difficulty: beginner Estimated completion time: 15 minutes In this tutorial we will discuss a couple of ways in how to obtain the right color in Adobe Illustrator. Then we wil...

Something I hear from a lot of people is that, when choosing typefaces, they go straight to the popular ones because its a lot simpler for them. Its possible that the process of choosing typefaces is ...

Flat Design is a new trend labeled by the community as an interface striking similar to Microsofts Metro UI because it leaves drop shadows, embossing, subtle textures and gradients behind, while favor...

Creating a website or application is not limited to deciding what to put on the homepage or what photos to use to match the sites subject. Visual designs are necessary to attract searchers and be user...

It was not long before creative layouts become popular not only for portfolios or online design agencies but also for any other regular website. Creative approach and high attention to details dictate...