There are a lot of questions which must be answered before making your website public, therefore I strongly suggest to make a list and check them all. You can impress a visitor using many methods but make sure that you picked the best solution for your line of work. When creating a website for an artistic category of work, usually the homepages are more daring and creative than, let’s say, a lawyer’s portfolio. Since we are on a design blog, everybody knows that we love things which are creative and which doesn’t follow the classic patterns, therefore I want to show you examples of homepages which are extremely interesting. Check them out and let me know what you think.

Life is a parade

Diesel Home

Mahedine Yahia

ONY agency

Kick My Habits

Sketchin

herrlich media

Le Rockwood · Rock With Us

Adam Hartwig

Gramercy Park Hotel

House

Art Copy & Code

Lois Jeans

CO3

Numero10

Kilfish

Tweetflight

Rosebud

82nd & Fifth

The Brooklyn Soap Company

Michelbergers Fountain of Youth

Gozu

What We Learned

inTacto

The Trip

Madwell

The Kitchen Project

Get Going Today

Mes États*Nordiques

Visit Bruges

So, if you are a photographer, you have to be good at marketing. This is actually important because in that way you will be able to do whatever it takes just to accomplish your needs and requirements, rather than relying on someone else. Now you must be thinking about getting inspiration for creating unique and attractive business cards so you don’t need to go anywhere else as we have arranged it over here. Yes here are some cool photography business cards that you might want to check out – they have been chosen carefully, so take a look at them and get inspired to create your own photography business cards Now!

Also visitors can be easily impressed by your 404 page error design and could come back on your website.

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A stamp design includes several elements required for it to accomplish its purpose satisfactorily. Most important is the denomination indicating its monetary value, while international agreements require a country name on almost all types of stamps. A graphic design is very nearly universal; in addition to making counterfeits harder to produce and aiding clerks in quick recognition of appropriate postage, postal customers simply expect stamps to carry a design.

Enjoy watching this collection of 35 memorable postage stamp designs !

CoverTimes is an excellent site that displays newspaper front pages from all over the world. Everyone knows that the front page of a newspaper is meant to sell you on the contents inside, usually with a splashy headline. CoverTimes collates newspaper headlines from around the world, creating a great collage.

Read your favorite publications from cover-to-cover, just as you would in-print. With CoverTimes you will enjoy reading complete digital replicas of your favorite publications, often before the printed editions hit the newsstands! Every article, advertisement, crossword puzzle and cartoon is presented in its original context.

This is more of an interest tool than anything that will radically affect your productivity, given that all CoverTimes hosts are images of the front pages of just about any newspaper you’d care to mention. It’s possible to filter by country or publication, so you can check what’s being pitched as important across the nation.

This is a great tool for catching breaking news around the world, also you can register and use interestintg tools (follow newspapers, save favorites, download covers, full newspaper reader) that allow you to be informed instantly and free.

Some of the features (for registered users)

- Follow newspapers: Follow your favorite newspapers and get the covers in your email if you want.

- Save favorites: Save in your profile your favorites front pages, you can access them whenever you want.

- CoverTimes Reader: Thousands of local, national and international newspapers and magazines at your fingertips!, Not only can you search, share and discuss articles from thousands of titles, the publications you access via CoverTimes are enhanced with interactive features.

You can also use CoverTimes on your mobile phone for free:

- iOs (iPhone and Ipad): https://itunes.apple.com/es/app/cover-times-portadas-prensa/id598586203?mt=8
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rf.covertimes.android

Here are a few screenshots from inside the website:

Visual balance is the key aspect of web design and if it is not done properly, it creates tension for the viewer who looks at the page.
Figuratively speaking, a parallel can be drawn with the physical balance depicted by a seesaw to explain the idea of visual balance in web design. Like physical objects, every element in a layout has a certain amount of weight. For example, elements with darker colors are heavier than elements with lighter colors and elements with stronger borders are heavier than elements with thin borders or no borders. A layout without proper visual balance makes a viewer feel that the page is about to tip over. Visual balance is achieved in a layout by putting elements of equal weight on either end of an axis drawn through the center of the page. There are two different systems of controlling visual balance, known as symmetrical and asymmetrical.

Symmetrical balance, which is sometimes referred to as formal balance, happens when the composition on a side of an axis line is a reflection of the other. There are three forms of symmetrical balance: horizontal, bilateral and radial. Horizontal symmetry is best depicted in the David Lanham digital painting called the Contemplation. The painting shows a male figure on the left and a female figure on the right and both the figures are facing each other and they are very much alike in position and proportion. Everything, including the shaded area around the figures exactly mirrors one another.

To apply horizontal symmetry to website layouts, you need to center and balance the content between columns. Bilateral and radial symmetry are not as prevalent in website design and are typically used for logo and print design. Bilateral symmetry is a form of symmetry that uses more than one axis is to balance a composition. When a central point is used to equally space elements of a composition, it is called radial symmetry.

Visually more interesting, asymmetrical balance, also known as informal balance, is a lot more abstract. Asymmetrically balanced layouts take a lot of planning to make sure that the layout is free of the tip over effect. Objects in an asymmetrical balance composition are of different sizes, shapes and tones. Even though the objects on each side of the axis are not mirror images, they are arranged in a manner as to equalize the weight on either side. For example, a large object on one side of a composition is balanced out by placing several smaller objects on the other side. Asymmetrical layouts are more common in web design than symmetrical layouts as this type of design is much more versatile. You’ll notice the following in most asymmetrical two-column web site layout with one column much wider than the other. The color of the wider column is generally light whereas the color of the smaller navigational column is dark. The smaller column is also generally enclosed within a border of some kind to add more weight, create balance and to make it stand out in contrast to the wider column.

The key to a harmonious asymmetrical balance is the principles of unity. The principles of unity are proximity, repetition, placement and proportion. Elements in proximity make your composition feel put together and cohesive. Create a focal point for the eye by putting elements close together in groups within the website layout and use margin and padding CSS style rules for elements to form these groups in practice. The next principle, repetition, unifies elements, such as a bulleted list: the preceding bullet of each item in a list makes a seemingly unrelated list of elements part of a group.

Another way to achieve asymmetrical balance is through the use of repeated patterns and texture because they are adding weight to the elements. For example, a textured small element adds more weight to the layout than a non-textured large element. Regardless of size, the eye is drawn to the textured element, and for example, consider repeated thumbnails used to display an image gallery with each thumbnail showing a completely different image. The repeated texture and equal height, width and border of the thumbnails make all the images in the gallery part of a whole.

Users typically look at the direct center of a layout first, so elements that are farther away from the center usually go unnoticed by most of them. The top-left corner of a layout also tends to have a big impact on users who read from left to right, while the top-right corner of layout garners more attention from users who read languages such as Hebrew and Arabic that are read from right to left. A page is also generally traversed from top to bottom, so this is where the placement principle of unity comes in to picture. Keep these tendencies of users in mind and place the content of maximum emphasis in the center of the page, then concentrate on the top left corner or the top-right corner, whichever is relevant to the particular website layout. Next, place content with decreasing order of importance from top to bottom.

Proportion, defined as the scale of the elements used, has much to do with emphasizing and element within a layout. Use the proportion principle of unity to display content that needs to be emphasized, such as headings, advertisements and announcements. Take the example of image thumbnails: no one image stands out within the thumbnails as they are of similar proportions. When one of the thumbnails is clicked to enlarge an image, the viewer’s attention is drawn to the image as the scale of the image is much larger than the proportions of the layout and it stands out in context. Web design is more of a creative art and not a mathematical formula, so there is no specific set of rules and your ability to create harmonious designs improve with experience. Most of the principles of visual balance are obvious and designers are usually aware of it naturally. Learning these principles though, makes you able to control your layout consciously.

For an advertising to be great it must be bold, easy to read and memorable therefore if you want to hit the jackpot, you need to impress the viewer. The main mistake made by numerous either advertising agencies or clients is that they want to play safe: they don’t want their ad to be atypical or crazy, but rather fit in the stereotypes. Doing this could mean that your commercial will be immediately ignored by the viewers because they are tired of seeing the same things, hearing the same motto and wasting their time watching an ugly ad. You need to think outside the box, to improvise and to be unique if you want to make your product known.

In this article you can see 30 extremely well made advertisements which I’m sure you will like.

Dreft

Motto: Colors & clothes are meant to be together. Dreft

Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R

Motto: 0-100 in 2.5

Volkswagen Genuine Parts

Motto: Just because it fits doesn’t mean it’ll work. Choose Volkswagen Genuine Parts.

Mira Guide Dog Association

Hino Trucks 500 FG Series

Motto: Passengers wanted. 500 FG Series. The longest in its category

GQ

Motto: If you’re that rapper, just don’t. GQ teaching style to men.

Volkswagen

Motto: Don’t Text and Drive

Johnson & Johnson

Motto: Kids cry, but it’s not the shampoo’s fault.

Chez Bonbon

Motto: A secret for a chocolate.

Neo Rheumacyl Forte

Motto: For unbearable joint pain.

Land Rover

Motto: Visit landscapes that doesn’t need any app.

Aspirin

Motto: For workache

Toy Donation

Motto: Every toy can live again. Donate your old toys

Passa Fácil

Motto: Tames even the unruliest fabrics

Corona

Motto: Tiananmen Square happens every day on our beaches.

Earth 911

Motto: Recycling saves more than trees

Don Pion flowers delivery

Motto: Make an impression. Like Van Gogh did it.

Vital Kids Multivitamins

Motto: Delicious gets the good in. Introducing the great tasting range of Vital Kids multivitamins.

Total

Motto: Clean laundry, even with cold wash.

Mylanta antacid

Motto: Relieves indigestion & wind fast.

Havana Bar & Restaurant

Hishgad Scratch & Win

Motto: It’s not millions. But it’s a lot of money.

SEL Limousine

Motto: Jaw-dropping. Make an adventure power packed

GNC Burn 60

Motto: Fit lives longer.

Lavanderia Wash

Motto: Deep cleaning for fine clothes

Mitsubishi Pajero

Motto: Mitsubishi Pajero Full -When luxury meets the 4×4 technology.

Gulaylar.com

Motto: One click changes the story

Bike My World safe driving program

Motto: It’s not about self confidence

SeanceRadio.com: DeLorean

Motto: The online Radio about cinema.

Electrolux

Motto: Colors don’t mix. Steam System Electrolux. Keeps the color in your clothes

In this article you can see 5 extremely awesome digital illustrations made by a very talented illustrator, Peter Stapleton.