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Oct/10

45 Creative Typography and Mosaic Portraits

by Iris Kopic under Design, Feeds, Web Design

in 45 Creative Typography and Mosaic Portraits

By Nousheen Akhter

Typography is an integral part of any design. Therefore, an attractive web design or logo is incomplete without the adequate typography. In today’s post we have collected some artworks which demonstrate the use of typography in a totally different perspective. You must want to have a look at this one!

Here is the stunning collection of some very beautiful typographic and mosaic portraits which will surely inspire you. We hope you enjoy this collection and will feel free to leave a comment to let us know which one is your favorite!

Typography Portraits

Typographic self portraits

Self Portrait

Mother Teresa in Type

Mahatma Gandhi in Type

John Lennon in Type

Let us all dream together

Reznor type portrait + gig poster

Bono Type

Typography Self Portrait

Typographic Self Portrait

Typographic Portraits

Typography Portrait

Technologic-Daft Punk

Ze Frank Layout in Type

Type Face

Mosiac Portraits

IKEA: Long Live Diversity

Britney Spears: A life mosaic

Eyes of Fubuki, #2

IKEA: Long Live Diversity

Barack Obama: A mosaic of people

Psychedelic DJ – Fractal Mosaic Portrait, v.2

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Oct/10

Three Fresh CSS Frameworks

by speckyboy under CSS, Feeds, General, Web Design

CSS Frameworks are those marvelous and innovative tools that will speed up your web development process by taking care of the multitude of repetitive processes you would have to cover for every project, and on top of that, they (mostly) take care of any cross-browser compatibility issues. They have also never been as popular, with new frameworks cropping out from week-to-week. As such, in this design news round-up we have selected our favorites from recent months.

The Square Grid

The Square Grid is a simple CSS framework for designers and developers, based on 35 equal-width columns. The grid is equiped with a 28px baseline-grid for a smooth vertical rhythm with each block (DIV) defined with a margin of 1 square (28px) from the next block.
The Square Grid

FEM CSS Framework

The FEM CSS Framework is a 960px width 12 column grid system. It is based on the 960 Grid System, but with a twist in its philosophy, making it more flexible and faster to play with boxes.
FEM CSS Framework

Formalize CSS

Formalize CSS is a useful framework for giving your forms a cross-browser uniformity.
Formalize CSS

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

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Oct/10

How to make IE9 beta work with Parallels Desktop

by Roger Johansson under Feeds, Web Design

Hereâ€™s a quick tip for other Mac users who use Parallels Desktop for their Internet Explorer testing needs: To make IE9 (in beta at the time of this writing) work in Parallels you may need to disable GPU rendering.

If youâ€™re having problems with IE 9 crashing, not redrawing the viewport, showing nothing but a black background or otherwise behaving strangely when running in a virtual machine under Parallels Desktop, this may help:

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Oct/10

Tips to Finding More Clientele Quickly

by Joel Reyes under Feeds

In the freelancing industry, we often find ourselves at the top with so many potential clients requesting us rather than the other way around. However, there is also many times where we find ourselves in a struggle to pay our bills at the end of the month. In such situations, we usually tend to contract with anyone who we can nab. With that all said, we discuss several key points or strategies to be able to quickly find contracts and begin working again.

Partner Up

The freelancing industry is definitely a stressful option in the web industry that we choose to take upon. This includes every ups and downs that we have to go through, and every night and weekend we spend up working. A great way to better divide up work is to collaborate with other businesses or freelancers. By using such a collaboration method, you can monetize on many benefits such as better work security, easier workloads, and others.

First and foremost, when you collaborate or partner up with others, you increase the chances of finding work during the times of need. The reason for this is, the freelancer or business you may be partnered up with might have quite a few clients they do not have time to work with, and transfer them to you. The same applies when you are at the peak of your freelancing career where you have way to many client requests than you can handle, you can easily transfer them to your partner who can help take the load off for you until you finish up some projects. This method also relates to a saying “you scratch my back, I scratch yours”.

Secondly, by collaborating or partnering up with someone or an entity, you gain more exposure, decreasing the chances of a fall for you and your partner. Which means you can feel more secure with your freelancing career than any other sole freelancer out there.

Consider your partner as your backup plan, when your primary plan fails, you have something to fall back upon and vice versa.

Contact Former Clients

A quick and easy way to gain work again is to contact former clientele who you have done work for once before, and offer them a limited time discount that they cannot resist. This usually tends to work, as former clientele know they cannot get work done for as inexpensive as you are offering them with the discount, and they usually tend to find work for you to do for them. Even if your former clientele offer you small paying jobs, accepting them is better than declining them and not receiving any income.

Freelance Job Boards

This option has to be one of the more obvious routes to choose as we often resort to freelance job boards to find new jobs and clientele. However, because the freelance job board you may often frequent to find work may not be sufficing for a certain month, it is always good to branch out and locate other freelance job boards similar to those you use.

This helps expand on your portfolio as well as increase your chances to locating clientele quicker, and often, when you search for new freelance job boards, you may find a job board that suits you better than the previous ones you may have frequented.

Refer a Friend Program

An addition to contacting former clientele, you can also setup a refer a friend program where former clientele can refer clientele to you and receive a discount on work they need done next. This often helps increase your clientele base rather quickly, and causes a bit of a chain reaction or domino affect client after client. It is also a great method to be using whether you are in a “drought” or not as it helps decreases the chances of falling again.

Local Business Listings

When in need, it is a great opportunity to search through your local classified job boards to find locals in your area who may need some freelance work done. This not only helps boost your image within your local community, but it often guarantees quick income as you can work with the client directly without hassle.

Do note however, many may condone this method of finding quick clientele, as often many seem to find themselves with clientele that they want to get rid of, as they may have been a nuisance. Therefore, it is a great resource to tackle, but leaving it as one of your last options could be more ideal for you, depending on your situation.

Advertising

One unique method to get yourself known to the world is to use advertising networks on sites such as Google, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and others. This helps provide you quick exposure to the global market you may have not touched. It also additionally allows you to focus on other mediums in search for clientele while clientele come to you via this method.

If you have heard of the saying “two birds one stone”, it exactly applies to this method, as it is running in the background for you automatically while you do something else to double up on the effort of reaching potential clientele. However, do not just solely rely on this medium or method to reach clientele quickly, as money is constantly being put out to a medium that cannot relatively guarantee that you will receive clientele from, so it is a costly hit or miss.

To conclude, when you are in a time of need, use creative methods that work for you, and try out new methods to receive clientele when you have contracts and projects going. This allows you to experiment with many different great methods at no cost or affect to you or your business. Additionally, always work on new methods and apply them in times you are not desperately in need, so that you can constantly keep clientele moving in, rather than fall hard when times become tough. This is usually a great idea to put together, as a backup plan is better than no plan at all.

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Oct/10

Halloween Special: 40 Spooky Wallpapers

by Noupe under Feeds, Web Design

in Halloween Special: 40 Spooky Wallpapers

Halloween is just around the corner and so is the eve of All Hallows Day. It’s HALLOWEEN season again – the time when ghost stories, horror movies, extrasensory phenomena and the supernatural, mystical prevalence everywhere. Keeping this festivity in mind, we have come up with a roundup of forty mysterious looking wallpapers to give you the actual feel of Halloween.

May it be pumpkins, spirits, ghosts, trick or treat, lanterns â€” scroll through and find your favourite in a jiffy! Enjoy the new look of your desktop and freshen up your mind. Feel free to leave comments below.

Exclusive Halloween Wallpaper
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Halloween
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Halloween
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Halloween Cinderella
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Halloween In The Midnight Forest
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Halloween Wallpaper
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Halloween
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Glowing Halloween
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Halloween Wallpaper 1.0
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Scarecrow
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Halloween Ghost
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Halloween feast desktop wallpapers download
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Halloween With Taz Wallpaper
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Pumpkin desktop wallpaper
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The Red Arrows
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Jack-o’-lantern picture
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Trick-or-Treat!
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Halloween Digital Illustration
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Halloween Pumpkin
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Halloween Haunts
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Ghosts
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Ghostly Escape
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A Cheshire Kitten (Halloween Night)
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Halloween Witches
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Halloween Wallpaper
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Jack-o’-Lantern Picture- Halloween Illustration
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Halloween: Trick or Treat? (Pac-Man Edition)
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Halloween
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Halloween Illustration Wallpaper
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Halloween
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