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Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas & Awesome Designs

Feeling stuck, and the next web design conference is all too long from now? Our profiles of awesome web design projects and graphic design inspiration will replenish your stock of web design ideas. We regularly feature in-depth looks at amazing designs, website relaunches and redesigns, and we create collections of contemporary web design trends you need to know about.

Inside the Design: Second Story’s Relaunch

April 19, 2012 | Second Story | Comments: 0
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Designing for yourself can be a daunting prospect. But Second Story’s new website is easier to navigate and tells its story more elegantly than ever. Read more

Inside the Design: Integrity and Imo’s Pizza

March 19, 2012 | Ed Morrissey | Comments: 0
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What happens when people who want pizza can’t get it? Integrity designed and developed an appealing and effective new website for Imo’s Pizza, one of the largest and oldest pizza chains in the Midwest. Read more

5 Great Examples of Simple Web Animations

March 14, 2012 | Patrick McNeil | Comments: 1
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Used in moderation, animation can work in just about any web design and really bring it to life. I’ve found five great examples of animation in web design that are subtle, classy and effective. Read more

2012 HOW Interactive Design Awards Outstanding Awards

February 29, 2012 | Grace Dobush | Comments: 0
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In the 2012 Interactive Design Awards, the competition was tough. Along with the Best of Show winner, these five entries stood out as being among the best of 2012. Read more

2012 HOW Interactive Design Awards Best of Show

February 29, 2012 | Grace Dobush | Comments: 0
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Learn how Critical Mass built a revolutionary interactive campaign for a revolutionary car.
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Inside the Design: Bluecadet and the McNulty Prize

February 1, 2012 | Cecilia Razak | Comments: 0
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Bluecadet’s incisive, nested site for the McNulty Prize houses deep, diverse content in a non-traditional user interface. But the site didn’t emerge full-blown: The designs required careful planning and research. Read more

One-Page Web Designs: The New Poster?

December 15, 2011 | Patrick McNeil | Comments: 5
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Single-page web designs, perfect for laser focus and fast communication, have evolved into an art form all their own. See how designers are putting twists on one-page sites. Read more

The New Jukebox: @Roqbot Lets You Be the DJ at @Gap

December 9, 2011 | Grace Dobush | Comments: 1
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Roqbot is an app that lets you help select the music at any hotspot with the subscription service via an app for your iPhone or Android. A Gap store in San Francisco is among the first retailers to let its customers play DJ. Read more

#HOWIDC Challenge Winner: Design Lab by Carly Rounds

December 7, 2011 | Grace Dobush | Comments: 0
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Attendees at the HOW Interactive Design Conference got a challenge from David Sherwin, and the stakes were big. See the winning project and meet the designer here. Read more

Web Trends: Wood in Web Design

November 9, 2011 | Patrick McNeil | Comments: 0
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Though I’ve observed the trend of wood in web design for years, somehow I never grow tired of it. I think the reason is simple: We connect with wood in an organic, tangible way that takes us outside the digital world. Read more