As time moves on you tend to expect the styles and trends to move with them. In most cases, this is true. But a core list of trends in the world of graphic design and art have managed to hold on consistently. These lead to plenty of tools to help keep them alive, most made [...]

If you have an iPad or Kindle the best thing to do is to start searching for a case or cover to protect it. We invited our friends from Geefts – the gifts for geeks bible – to recommend the hottest cases, covers and jackets designed to keep your precious tablet or e-readear safe. Fossil [...]

If you’re like a lot of people, there are likely a number of standard text snippets you use on a regular basis. TextExpander is the most popular Mac typing shortcut utility that saves you time and keystrokes. Just assign abbreviations to frequently-used snippets of text, code or images. Then, when you type the abbreviations they expand to [...]

Last week was a great week for interaction design in Dublin as IxDA - a global network dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design – organized their latest event there. Check out 9 amazing presentations that blown.my.mind! Aristotle’s Storytelling Framework for the Web A step-by-step approach, using Aristotle’s view on Greek tragedy as it’s core, that [...]

It’s Freebie Friday time again folks! Here’s a new special edition brought to you by our friends from Launch Effect - a free WordPress theme that lets you create a viral landing page in minutes. We’re giving away 3 premium yearly plans! Scroll down to see how to grab the theme! Here’s how Launch Effect works visitors [...]

A follow up to Love Triangle by Alexa Lash – a writer, editor, and on-the-spot poet. Former Floridian and resident Bostonian, she has written for the Seminole Chronicle, Momslikeme, and the Central Florida Future, and is currently working in the Journalism Department of Emerson College. We found the body, dressed in the newest line from [...]

Check out the hottest web design goods curated by our pals at WebDesignGoodies - this time with a Valentine twist! Here’s a neat collection of recent freebies, themes, graphic elements and other goodies. Feel free to contribute in the comments as well! All You Need Is Love Vintage Poster/Flyer Template (only $6) 100% original lettering composition (calligramme) [...]

This is a guest post by Alex Mathers, founder of Red Lemon Club, a self-taught illustrator and writer who believes that any freelancer passionate about work they are good at deserves to create a successful and thriving career from it. Alex recently released an extremely useful online course titled The Freelancer’s Guide to Winning Incredible Clients through [...]

It seems these days that many designers automatically settle on the main color in their website’s palette automatically: white. Every other color is just an accent to that. Today, we look at 40 websites that used a bolder color to base their design on — in this case, blue. It’s harder to pull off a [...]

As you may know by now, Inspired Magazine is a sucker for data visualization. That’s why we invited Tony Shin – a social media ninja and creative design samurai – to curate the weekly dose of infographics. If you like them as much as we do check out some of the older editions and follow [...]

Joe Childress & Jonathan Combs have been creating visual projects together since 2008. They have collaborated on commercials, animated shorts, viral videos and several other forms of visual stimulation. They both currently reside in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and find anytime they can to create. Step 1. Find a previous American Idol contestant who made [...]