Monthly Archives: May 2011

YouTube: 6 Years and Counting [Infographic]

YouTube: 6 Years and Counting [Infographic]

By | May 16, 2011 | Articles , Web Design | 19 Comments

Video giant YouTube has been around just over 6 years, and to date 35 hours of content is uploaded every minute. Talk about some serious adoption of their software! Everyone from music stars, to broadcast channels, corporations to small mom and pop shops,

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Tumblr, not Posterous.

Tumblr, not Posterous.

By | May 13, 2011 | Articles , Web Design | 5 Comments

This is a guest post by Liam Sarsfield. He manages Pixel Union, and a whole legion of super talented designers, for MetaLab. He has Tumblr, Twitter and a poetry blog. In order for a platform to be viable, it’s got to appeal to more than just the design or tech communities. It’s pretty easy to [...]

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WP MADNESS: Win 11 Amazing WordPress Themes With a Tweet!

WP MADNESS: Win 11 Amazing WordPress Themes With a Tweet!

By | May 12, 2011 | Articles | 12 Comments

Update: The winner is @rutiso  (Max R. Scheer) Freebie Friday simply can’t get any better than this: first of all it starts a day earlier, plus it’s a huge treat for any WordPress fan(atic): the super fresh WP shop called ThemeFuse is celebrating its final match in the WPMadness contest by giving away a pack [...]

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36 illustrators & Artists who Breathe Light into Their Subjects

36 illustrators & Artists who Breathe Light into Their Subjects

By | May 11, 2011 | Articles | 2 Comments

The word “illustration” comes from the Latin “to make vivid”. The illustrator is more than just a decorator whose job its to ad flavor to an article, website, or other project. An illustrator shows the world a subject in a whole new light. It is no coincidence that a synonym for illustrator is illuminator.

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Wood Type Revival

Wood Type Revival

By | May 10, 2011 | Articles , Web Design | 8 Comments

Matt Griffin and Matt Braun have started a Kickstarter project to revive historic letterpress wood type as digital opentype fonts for designers. I should tell you one thing at the outset: I’m a type nerd. I can spend hours mooning over the beauty and minutiae of letterforms, and nowhere is this proclivity more pronounced than [...]

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Pub and Marriage: A Noir Short Story in Publishing Terms

Pub and Marriage: A Noir Short Story in Publishing Terms

By | May 9, 2011 | Articles | 1 Comment

A follow up to Kern, Baby, Kern 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 studying Publishing at Emerson College. Featured illustration by Anton Voytenkov. Article illustrations: Noir series by Cristiano Siqueira. [...]

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Win 10 “1 Year Subscriptions” For Dessign WordPress Themes

Win 10 “1 Year Subscriptions” For Dessign WordPress Themes

By | May 6, 2011 | Freebies | 12 Comments

It’s Freebie Friday people so we’re giving away cool stuff for our readers as usual! This Friday 10 lucky winners will get a 1 year Free Membership to All Premium WordPress Themes from Dessign.net. Most of the Themes have modern and minimal style, which is perfect for any graphic designer, illustrator or photographer to showcase [...]

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Inspired Campaigns: KLM Wants To Put Your Face On A Plane

Inspired Campaigns: KLM Wants To Put Your Face On A Plane

A few weeks ago we started to feature the most innovative and creative advertising & PR campaigns out there so we reviewed quite a few interesting campaigns, most of them trying to embed social media in the mix. But the new Tile Inspire campaign from KLM really stands out because it’s very simple and super [...]

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Today Only: Get 4 ThemeFuse WP Themes for Only $59 (75% OFF)

Today Only: Get 4 ThemeFuse WP Themes for Only $59 (75% OFF)

By | May 5, 2011 | Articles , Freebies | No Comments

If you are on a hunt for a new WP theme for your business or blog, this is the time to get one! Actually you can get 4 original wp themes for the price of one (only $59). ThemeFuse – our favorite WP themes shop – teamed up with AppSumo to launch this amazing deal [...]

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Innovative Campaigns: Gucci Guilty by Frank Miller

Innovative Campaigns: Gucci Guilty by Frank Miller

By | May 4, 2011 | Articles , Freebies | 2 Comments

Last autumn, the House of Gucci introduced Gucci Guilty for Her, a fragrance for an iconoclast who lives life at full throttle – potent, spirited, unrepentant. The Gucci Guilty heroine is a 21st Century beauty who holds all in her thrall, her scent an audacious contemporary creation. Now we meet her partner-in-crime… Gucci Guilty Pour [...]

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How to Choose a Proper Internet Hosting Service

How to Choose a Proper Internet Hosting Service

By | May 3, 2011 | Articles | 5 Comments

There are many factors to consider when choosing the best hosting service for your site, including: Storage space Bandwidth Cost Uptime Security Scalability Supported web programming languages, and other technical considerations What Are You Looking For in a Web Host? Before choosing an Internet hosting service, it’s important to assess your company’s needs. Security and [...]

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