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Sol LeWitt!! His work is exciting and innovative and still so fresh! He’s one of my all-time favourite artists, someone I often go to for inspiration. His work explores geometry, colour modularity, repetition and organic shapes, it is deceptively simple looking but it takes a genius to produce work that is so immediately iconic! I [...]

The exciting realm of typography has opened up to web designers in a big way recently with the advent of @font-face support in our browsers. However, there is a slight restraint on the selection of typefaces available for use with @font-face and that’s the tricky subject of licencing. Fortunately, there are quite a few licenced [...]

A collection of icon resources for e-commerce design. Plenty of cart, basket and credit card icons and more in these icon sets.

Miss Van is a widely known, respected and sometimes controversial graffiti artist. She hails from France and enjoys a high profile across Europe owing to both prolific exhibitions and graffiti. I first came across her work in final year of college and loved her curvy, sexy, attitude-laden women and her provocative style of painting. They [...]

Typography on the web has been a trend which has been building slowly and steadily but it is set to take centre stage in 2011 as the technology and resources are finally here to support it. With the battle of @font-face finally settled and the advent of web typography finally upon us, web designers now [...]

Undoubtedly we’ll be seeing more of these coming along based on the new W3C logos/icons which were released last month. But to get the ball rolling, here are the early-bird offerings: The official logos, of course: http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ Interesting 3D interpretation of the html5 icons – a vector icon set from IconShock: http://www.iconshock.com/html5-icons/ HTML5 Geek Character [...]

We recently featured the new HTML5 logo on our site but we forgot to mention the 8 other logos created by the W3C to highlight the new functionality HTML5 is bringing to the table. The new logos follow the same striking, bold, almost cartoony nature of the HTML5 logo released but once you give them [...]

Every month Stuff4Designers compiles the best showcases of work from around the web to help inspire and bring out your creative side. Enjoy! CSS3 only tool tips This is a great example of using CSS3 to control tool tips without using JavaScript. CSS3 only toggle switch Keeping with ‘CSS3 only tricks’ take a look at this [...]

Vintage is en vogue! Our collective taste for all things retro is showing up everywhere these days. With Boardwalk Empire to Mad Men on TV and with the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s inspiring fashion trends, it’s no surprise that the Retro & Vintage trend is still going strong in web design in 2011.

I always find it difficult to get inspired when making a new logo. For me, the best way to come up with  a new design is to check out what’s hot out there on the web. spyrestudios.com has a great collection of new and creative logos that would help any artist feel inspired. Below is [...]