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Many artists, whether digital or traditional find much inspiration in music. It often serves as a great mind opener for large amounts of creativity and style to be ushered in. Some artists believe music helps them to see shapes and colors, and often offers up feelings and emotions to help them execute their work more proficiently. Which is why it’s best to try to listen to music that you know will get your mind going.

Sometimes this inspiration becomes the work. Music based design projects can be extremely fun and creative projects. Whether you are dealing with a musical artist or a music studio, the possibilities can really be endless. Music is such a big, ever-evolving entity that sometimes it requires that extra bit of design work to take it to the next level.

Today, we are sharing some of the best, creative and wonderfully designed logos that are musically inspired. We hope the next time you are on a music based design project, these logos help to inspire you to create something great. If not, turn on some even greater music!

Music Inspired Logos

Go Music
It’s easy to want to refer to ‘stop’ and ‘go’ when you have a company named ‘Go Music’, but what the designer did here was extremely clever and well executed.

MyDJSpace
Simplicity is often key when designing a really good and strong logo–sometimes keeping your logo close to home really makes sense. Here, we have two iconic things associated with DJ’s, the vinyl record and headphones.

Zuim
This logo was created for a podcast that dove heavily into music by offerring critiques and holding open discussions with their audience. The emphasis here was obviously on the music, as the staff and notes are extremely important here.

Radio
Another simple, ‘makes sense’ logo concept that really meshes two things you really think about (or see) when you think of radios. This is a very strong, easy to get logo.

Rockit NightClub
The great thing about this logo is it took two completely different topics (rock music and rockets) and seamlessly put them together. At first glance you see an overly decorated guitar, then you see a rocket launch, leaving lots of smoke behind. Very brilliant.

Jazzcuzzi
The reason this logo is so great is because it really captures the essence of what people believe jazz is; calm, smooth and relaxed. The designer chose to represent this by referencing some sort of beautiful horn.

Cafe Melody
Another extremely clever logo design where the designer meshes two different concepts. The idea of the cafe with a coffee and plate is quickly noticed. However, the designer also see’s a volume knob, used to control the melody. One can also see a person with headphones on.

Installer
Though a strong typographic logo, the designer squeezed in a note of musicality. Why not, when the guitar is one of the key things people associate with rock and roll music.

SwanSongs
This is an extremely beautiful logo that uses a treble clef to serve as the beginnings of a swan. With this logo, many would assume the music or services offered here are extremely beautiful, elegant and tender.

Mind Dead
Again, while this logo is typographically strong, the musical reference cannot be missed. The headphones plugged into the word is a really simple yet effective way of saying this group is worth listening to.

Minerva Music Machine
Much like the previous logo design that referenced piano keys, this designer realized the comparison between the ‘m’ and the piano keys. What stands out is how the longer white keys kind of adds that ‘machine’ like repetition to the logo.

Corpse Music
This is another extremely clever logo. The great thing is that the designer recognized the coffin shape looks a lot like the head of a guitar, and used that to great effect.

Crescendo Music Entertainment
The designer here gets props for skillfully turning the company’s initials into a simplified guitar. Nice imaginative flair at play.

Music Delicacy
At first glance you may see a pot with a big spoon in it, but if you happen to look closer, the concoction in the pot is really in the shape of the vinyl record. It really makes you believe you may have a chance to taste the music.

Music Poet
This is a creatively fashioned logo design. The music note serves as the fountain for the pen, properly and easily creating a relationship between ‘music’ and ‘poet.’

Homegrown Music
This logo makes perfect sense, and will be easy to recognize. No need in fancying up a concept that doesn’t need it.

Sun Music
This logo is absolutely beautiful. While it references the shape of a note, it creates this beautiful movement along the stem while the circle seems to represent the ‘sun.’ Really well executed work here.

Sound Bite
A part of making a great logo is knowing whether to focus on a piece of the concept or the whole concept. The designer here chose to focus on the ‘d’ and ‘b’ in this logo, transforming them into a pair of headphones.

Daily Jazz
Not only do you think of smooth sophistication when you think of ‘jazz’ but you almost always think of saxophones. This designer found a way to marry the idea of jazz and paper (writing) to create this logo.

Vinopiano
This is one of those logos where you may see one thing, such as three wine glasses, or you may see another thing, the black and white keys on the piano. This is another clever, simple and well executed design.

Rhythm Magical
Though not exclusively about music, the designer snuck a bit of it in this logo design. Yes, magic and rabbits in hats go hand in hand, but the designer threw in a music note that is concealed as the inside of the rabbits ear. It also could look a bit like the rabbit has on headphones; either way it’s a nice subtle addition.

Campusounds
This logo, again, very simply refers to the music behind this company’s purpose. Campusounds is about hearing the music around different campuses, which is evident by the border which creates a bit of a ’round and round’ movement.

Music Fashion
While the focus on the logo again is typographic, it is overall greatly executed. The typeface used does remind you a bit of ‘fashion’ and the way everything is styled it actually makes you believe in the idea that one can fashion the sound of music.

Rock Stock Festival
When you think of rock and roll, you think of this little ‘devil horn’ sign folks throw up at the concerts. The great thing about this logo is that the fingers seem to double as rock.

Music Books
Here, we have a logo that, again, plays with the piano keys, but this time makes a great comparison between the keys and books on a shelf.

Sounderated
This logo is a bit of a play on words where you can see it saying ‘so underrated’. The logo captures that perfectly by having upside down sound waves.

Plug & Play
More typography play here and just a wonderful idea that makes sense. Everything is connected in some way much like the cords musicians use to plug in and play.

Finishline Studio
This designer chose to play off notes, which is an easy task, but here they completed the look and purpose by making the bar look like that of a finishline.

40
This designer should be commended on their eye, as they created the ’40′ out of shadows, but also completed this look by adding eighth notes to the shadows in places that really make it pop.

Music to My Eyes
This one make take a while to see but the piano keys actually make the longer part of a pencil (thus the triangle at the bottom). It makes sense with regards to writing music.

Mixtape Attack
A mixtape, often associated in previous years with cassette tapes, would be an obvious choice for this logo. However, the designer went a step further by creating a little ‘monster’ out of the cassette tape, adding in the idea of ‘attack.’

Passionato
Another rendition of a note, but the movement and elegance in this execution is extremely…passionate. Really beautiful logo.

Devil’s Music
If there was no name on this logo, we’d all pretty much be able to figure out what it was called ‘Devil’s Music.’ Excellent finished product.

Music Snail
This designer used a treble clef and a double eighth note to help create the look of a snail. This simple yet clever execution is genius and extremely inspiring.

Walking Alone
This simple logo takes the idea of walking on a sidewalk and creates a saxophone out of it. Again, this designers eye should definitely be commended.

Music Gym
Simplicity is really key when you are doing logo design and this is one of the logos that just gets that and still makes perfect sense. The connection is clear, the message is clear and the finished product is excellent.

Shanghai Voices
It’s almost second nature to hear that a musical group wants a logo and to immediately want to fire up something that has musical notes or a treble clef in it. The best way to counter that is to revision it, and that’s exactly what this designer did by adding a silhouette of a famous building in Shanghai. The movement is great here, as well.

Duncan & Noel Acoustic Duet
This logo is a bit more like a graphic, but the execution is pretty awesome. It gives the sense that this duet, would have a nice acoustic guitar and a really folky or down to earth sound, judging by the design.

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Developing a website can sometimes be a dry process, but that doesn’t mean the finished site can’t make a splash. As the lead designer at a studio called “The Deep End”, it’s always interesting to see what others have done with the underwater web design theme, and it turns out there are quite a few sites out there. Pay close attention to the different styles that are utilized, as there are many different ways to bring the allure of the sea to the web.

Below is a showcase of beautiful websites that have used the underwater landscape and the creatures who reside there as either a backdrop, or to tell a compelling story. From cartoonish and quirky to stunningly photographic, these aquatic websites have a lot of range. So dive in to this showcase of underwater web design and find the inspiration you are looking for to turn your next web project into something truly deep.

Websites of the Deep

iZenius uses subtle animation, texture and a fun retro aesthetic to bring a stylized ocean to life.

Family of Fish uses beautiful fullscreen photography in multiple layers to create an amazing parallax effect as you scroll down to the ocean floor.

The site for the fictitious Atlantis World’s Fair has the look and feel of a children’s book from the 1960s. Mostly baby blue with several pops of color, it follows the journey from the water’s surface down to the lost city.

Fishy has a quirky and colorful interface that makes great use of pop art illustrations and HTML5 animations to showcase their work.

Goodbye Elliott is a Hawaiian boy band that uses the natural underwater beauty of their home state to gorgeous effect.

Liquid Torch gives the illusion of being underwater through simulated beams of light, as well as splashes of water on and behind the hero image.

Squid Chef‘s coming soon page plays with lighting effects and a colorful, simplistic illustration of their mascot.

Iceberg brings us a somewhat chilled version of the oceanscape. Using gradients and subtle glow effects, Iceberg shows us that there really is more under the surface.

Dedoce utilizes a beautifully textured watercolor-esque illustration as a backdrop, and the result is quite dramatic.

Iutopi is a fantastic example of using parallax to tell a story. As you scroll down from the surface, you encounter many of the creatures which call the ocean home, and they only get stranger the deeper you go.

Ocean’s Discovery uses the requisite ocean blue in the hero photo, but sets it off with a pop of vivid yellow on the navigation bar and to highlight some of the copy.

Tomas Projeta‘s portfolio site has a very atypical and interesting navigation. Rather than starting at the top, it starts in the center of the vertical space, allowing visitors to scroll up to the sky, or down into the sea. The wonderfully detailed illustrations make both directions worth the trip.

We Think suggests a deep sea dive through the clever use of their heroes’ image: Two guys in their pajamas and old-school diver helmets. Their header also includes a repeating wave pattern to add to the effect.

Ukranian Design Studio includes many environments in addition to the beautiful coral reef. You can easily navigate toward space, dry land, as well as the center of the earth.

Sendoushi uses a fish as a metaphor for the different stages that stand between a client’s problem and their solution. Now that’s deep.

Deeper is a WordPress theme that combines gorgeous fullscreen photography and some slick jQuery scrolling. It is meant to be used by scuba diving businesses.

OPResume integrates the scenery into almost every aspect of the design, including navigation items and calls to action. So what if they put toucans underwater? This site has a lot of fun with the illustrations and animations, and it all works.

Flotation Web Hosting uses semi-transparent wave graphics and a lifesaver to bring their otter mascot to the top of the page. Subtle texture and cool hues let the bright calls to action really stand out.

Brad Colbow‘s portfolio site has a cool, somewhat grungy illustration of a swing set being swallowed up by the sea as its background.

Thanks to a shot of water out of his blowhole, ReadWhale‘s whale mascot blends in seamlessly with their logo. Ultra simple, in various shades and gradients of blue, this site really conveys an arctic mood.

Visual Harbor puts its employees into the scene as deep sea divers loaded into a mini submersible, before popping out for a quick swim. There is also a really great illustration of their “underwater headquarters.” I doubt they get much work done there, but its cool nonetheless.

Voll‘s site is the second on our list to start in the center of the horizontal space, allowing visitors to either scroll up or down. If you choose the downward path, you will be greeted by brightly colored octopi and a landscape that looks more lunar than aquatic. Snaps for artistic license!

Get Me Fast has a very colorful, cartoony vibe that goes well with their mission of making web development simple.

Discovery Cove‘s main content area serves as a slideshow for images of the underwater activities the park offers, intercut with animated images of brilliant, sparkling underwater light.

The site for Lonely Sock Games’ Coral City App uses fun, colorful underwater illustrations of the game’s central characters, as well as underwater structures. Some retro design elements give the site even more visual interest.

Bluefish Training uses an angelfish silhouette and a ultra clean waterline to give the content a sense of space.

Icebrrg‘s tagline reads: “web forms made chillingly simple.” The same can be said for the website itself. Using only simulated light in cool hues, you get the sense that the water is pretty cold down here.

Feel and Live gets the subtlety award for this list. Their site has a very pale blue background with a faint wave pattern running across the header. The overall effect is very light and refreshing, and it lets the three main accent colors make a more powerful statement.

End of the Line

That finishes off this end of the showcase, but we know that there are plenty of other fish in this sea. So now we turn the post over to you, the reader. Take a moment and leave us your thoughts on the sites collected here, or a particular favorite of yours that wasn’t on the list.

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Sometimes the most appealing products are not those that are priced the most reasonably, but the ones whose packaging goes beyond functionality and crosses over to the artistic. Alberto Alessi said it best when he described his reason for his own aesthetic designs:

“More and more people buy objects for intellectual and spiritual nourishment. People do not buy my coffee makers, kettles and lemon squeezers because they need to make coffee, to boil water, or to squeeze lemons, but for other reasons.”

Some of the most aestheically pleasing packages and products rely heavily on excellent typography. At times, the perfect font is all that is needed to take a design beyond the ordinary, and very often a great font can stand alone with no other graphics or design gimmicks added to it.

The following collection of products and packages all have one design element in common: they all boast the use of fantastic typography. Take a look at some of the methods and reasoning behind these designer’s packaging projects and let each one inspire you to excellence in your own product and packaging designs.

Bzzz (Custom Font)

This packaging for Natural Armenian Honey not only includes a box shaped like a honeycomb, but the custom-made font for the title stunningly combines the flight of bees and a honey dipper. Bzzz packaging was designed by Backbone Creative, a design company from Armenia.

Indian Stretchable Time, the “Ish Watch”

Designed by Hyphen Brands from India, this packaging for the “Ish Watch” was designed with the Indian culture’s view of time. In India, when someone says to arrive at 3:00pm, they expect the arrival at any time after 3:00, hence “3-ish.” The typography includes several different Italic font versions. In another humorous twist, the three hour marks are listed as “12-ish”, “3-ish”, and so on with no other numbers included.

Acushla Organic Olive Oil

The custom-made font used for the title of this olive oil package at the same time matches and contrasts the logo graphic. Like the graphic, the letters have an organic flow to them, which fits nicely with an organic brand. The green color of the font is reminiscent of green vines as well. Yet unlike the graphic which flows together seamlessly, the tags and flags of the letters point in different directions, almost like wild branches of vines that someone attempted somewhat unsuccessfully to prune into perfection.

Parish Brewing Co.

The idea behind this captivating package design by Cargo Collective was to capture the southern feel of the Louisiana start-up brand. The custom font gives the bottles an authentic vintage look and feel. Notice how the text on the box and labels appears partially faded, imitating painted letters on a weathered wooden sign.

Proof – Scotch complimentary kit

This label for the complimentary kit of the scotch tasting app were each hand-stamped (both the label and the app were designed by Zeus Jones). The fonts are a blend of the custom designed Proof typography as well as a script logo taken from the Zeus Jones cycling jerseys. The % on the lids were created by hand-dipping each one in wax and stamping the wax using the stamp from the Proof typography.

Adams & Harlow

Designers Anonymous created the identity, website, and packaging for the Adams & Harlow brand of pork pies. Adams and Harlow is owned by two sisters and they named the company in keeping with the rivalry between their grandfathers’ pork pie companies in the early 1900s. The typography is based on a sans-serif font from the 1900s with some unique touches added in. For instance, the designers created the “S” to look like a butcher’s hook.

The Cloud Factory

This whimsical wine label designed by Alastair Duckworth and Ross Hamilton, both of Biles Inc., needed to stand out on shelves while also representing the unique story of this New Zealand brand. To create a look that reflected the “land of the long white cloud,” the designers created a hand-rendered typography with cleverly original lettering. The “T”, “C”, and “F” have a very old-fashioned feel to them, and almost remind one of the typography from the posters for the World’s Fair events in the early 1900s.

Selva Pasta

Kayhan Baspinar created an entire font design specifically for this brand. The lettering is both sophisticated and indicative of the shape of pasta at the same time. The extended lines of the letters and the dramatic shape of the upper curves of a few of the letters, such as the “C” and lowercase “m” and “n” are just a few of the unique touches that make this font stand out.

The Manual Co.

If you peruse the popular package design submission sites, then you may remember this one from the past. Created by Peter Gregson, this packaging for boots, bags, and other accessories has custom white hand-lettering set on a black background. The unique typography looks a bit like artistic chalk typography on a chalkboard and really gives it a high-end, artistic look and feel.

Jacques Prevert, CHOSES ET AUTRES

This beautiful font was created specifically for the cover of Jacques Prevert’s book, CHOSES ET AUTRES. Marijana Zaric did an excellent job of designing this typeface full of bold lettering and rounded edges. The hand-colored look gives it even more depth and character.

Fizzy Lizzy

The custom font designed for these fruit flavored carbonated beverages looks “fizzy” and fun, and leaps off of the label. The bubbles rising from the two “i”s in the logo and the evaporating lettering makes it appear as if the text is floating underwater.

Melt

This custom designed font seems like a cross between the Ark Doomsday Light font and the Priori Sans OT Regular font. The best part of this font design? Along with the dripping chocolate graphics , it looks delicious enough to make anyone crave chocolate, even if chocolate isn’t your forte.

Askul Garbage Bag

An amazingly creative design for such a common household item, this garbage bag packaging was designed by Stockholm Design Lab. The letters falling into a “trash pile” at the bottom of the box are all from the good ole’ font family Helvetica.

Peter Wetzer Wines

Wetzer commissioned designer Laszlo Mihaly Naske to create a calligraphic label for his wine collection, in keeping with a “homemade” theme. Naske explains that his original idea was to go with a more bold approach in the design of the hand-crafted letters, but Wetzer wanted something more simple, traditional, and straightforward. The winemaker chose well – the handwritten font is quite stunning alone and may have been overlooked if too much more was included in the design.

Billington’s Sugar

This redesign by jkr of Billington’s sugar packaging adds much more personality than the previous design. The colorful font graphic front and center capture attention quickly, and the faded font used for the company name adds to the traditional look and feel, an element of the design that was very important to the client. The main font used looks similar to Bebas Neae or a popular Gothic font family.

Fyne Ale

Look closely and you’ll see that Good Creative designed the headlines/titles of the different types of ales each with a different font that matches the name. The Maverick font includes only flags and tags on certain letters – the “A”, “R”, and “K”. In contrast, the Piper’s Gold font is very fancy with a decidedly western look and feel.

IQ

Another great design by Good Creative, this redesign for IQ, a hair product brand, is quite staggering when you see the before and after pictures together. The idea from the brand letters came from strands of hair, especially on the hook of the “Q”.

Before

After

Backyard

This illustrated font was created by Fabien Barral, a phenomenal illustrator and graphic designer. The shape of the font looks similar to Helvetica or another type of simple sans serif font, which gave Barral lots of room for creativity within the illustrations themselves.

Nagging Doubt

Designed by Brand Ever with the label illustrated by Dana Tanamachi, this wine brand was started by a corporate man with a long-time dream he never could ignore, hence the name Nagging Doubt. Tanamachi drew the entire label by hand on a chalkboard, in a font style similar to grape vines for the Voigner label. The Pull label still resembles branches a bit with the “pulled” lines of the letters “N” and “G” but is much more crisp and clean of a font. Each label comes with a QR code that leads to the Nagging Doubt website on which visiters can view a stop motion film of Tanamachi’s illustration process.

Stave and Hoop

Force & Form created the labels for this brand of strong wines, keeping in mind that this wine is intended to be a gentleman’s alternative to whiskey or beer. The typography layout and fonts look similar to the labels found on tonics from the days of the wild west.

Typocolate

This simply delicious typographical project was created by Dynamo to use as Christmas gifts for clients, friends, and family. Each chocolate bar is engraved with a different daily mantra written with a completely original font design. Decorative font styles grace the face of most of the bars, but one also includes a light sans serif font design.

Princess Bride Custom Wine for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

Every year, the Helms Workshop creates a new design for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s wine collection, always with a certain movie in mind. This year, they chose The Princess Bride in honor of the film’s 25th anniversary. The brand name is Bottle of Wits done appropriately in a bold sans serif font. On the side of the box packaging are phrases from the movie on which various font styles (all sans serif) are combined with graphics to illustrate the term. In this design, a more plain font was certainly the better choice as it allowed for more creativity with graphics, font layout, and other stylistic features that illustrate favorites from the film.

Angioletta

This simple yet elegant design for a sweet, white wine from Wein-Bauer, Inc was created by Kaleidoscope. Obviously, the target audience is younger women, and the font certainly portrays this focus. The light, script font similar to a Vivaldi or Edwardian Style Script typeface is airy, flowing, and feminine.

Sepp Moser

Each one of these quite original wine labels were created by Hans Renzler along with Brace.at on an actual typewriter. Each wine bottle number is handwritten by the winemaker himself, giving these wine bottles a very “collector’s item” sense.

Artisan

The typography on these wine bottles created by Public Creative look like the font stamps from an old letterpress printing press. The title of the wine is in silver while the rest of the letters are charcoal black, which makes the title stand out but also gives the “stamps” for the title a never-been-used appearance.

Tucumen

This Argentinian wine from Budeguer was designed by Guillo Milia. The designers tried to keep the wide variety of cultures in mind in this design, blending a variation of bright colors and font styles to give this impression. The main heading font style is similar to a calligraphic font such as Zocalo. In fact, various script fonts are used but so is a plain serif font, along with a very stylized, medieval-like font used for the brand name.

Cuboid

The font style of the brand name fits perfectly for this boxed wine aimed at millenials and designed by Force & Form. The packages have a video game look with the 8-bit characters, limited colors, cubed font, and tagline “Surrender your corkscrew.” One side of the box invites interaction with a list on which customers can write their favorite wines, done with a mixture of a clean sans serif font and a script font to emphasize a single word in each line of text.

All For Now

But that doesn’t mean that the discussion is done. Quite the opposite, it is just getting started. Now it is your turn. What were some of your favorites from the showcase? Do you know any other products and packages that have that fantastic typography touch? Take a moment and tell us about them in the comment section.

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A problem that has always existed but has become more common lately as more people – thanks to the popularity of responsive web design – make their layouts adapt to narrow viewports, is the lack of automatic hyphenation in web browsers.

As columns of text become narrower, the risk of a single word being longer than the column width increases. When that happens, the text normally extends outside the column (unless the column element’s overflow property has been given a different value than the default visible). The effect can be anything from just a slight visual glitch to unreadable text. Either way it’s something you don’t want to happen.

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Originally a fork of Mambo, Joomla has grown into the second most popular Content Management System (CMS) on the web behind WordPress. In January 2012 Joomla was upgraded from 1.7 to version 2.5. It brought a lot of great new features such as notifications for easier updates, multi database support and improved search functionality.

Today we would like to show you a collection of 30 beautiful Joomla templates that showcase what this powerful and popular script can do.

The Collection

1. Momentum
Regular License: $50

A stylish template that comes with 6 preset styles, 78 module positions and 58 module variations. It also includes a colour chooser and a background slideshow option. The drop down navigation menu at the top of the page looks beautiful and it includes a lot of pre defined typography settings build in (most of which can be used using shortcodes).

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2. Ionosphere
Regular License: $50

Ionosphere is a versatile template that comes with 12 colour schemes. It has a whopping 84 module positions and support for viewing on iPhones and Android devices. RocketTheme exclusives such as the Fusion Menu and RokSprocket extension for styling are also included.

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3. Modulus
Regular License: $50

Another versatile theme from RocketTheme that comes with a colour chooser, 12 colour schemes and 68 module positions to choose from. 16 unique RocketTheme extensions are also included such as the comment extension RokComments, content rotator RokNewsFlash and Twitter module RokTwittie.

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4. MissionControl
FREE

A free admin template that was developed for Joomla 2.5 to make administrating a Joomla website more user friendly. It’s fast loading and has features such as custom logo uploading, user statistics and an editor switcher.

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5. Pixellove
Personal License: €40, Business License: €65, Lifetime License: €99, Developer License: €199,

A beautiful dark blog template that has portfolio options for showcasing your work. A light version of the theme is also included and support for 3rd party extensions such as the K2 component and News Show Pro.

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6. Game Magazine
Personal License: €40, Business License: €65, Lifetime License: €99, Developer License: €199,

Designed for multimedia topics like gaming, movies and music. Game Magazine has a great looking home page slider that can show featured, recent and popular posts. It works with a lot of 3rd party extensions and has beautiful typography as well.

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7. League News
Personal License: €40, Business License: €65, Lifetime License: €99, Developer License: €199,

A professional looking news portal that was created for sports websites. Developed using HTML5 and the latest Gavern Framework, League News is arguably the best magazine style design available for Joomla at the moment. It includes a news rotator, support for many popular extensions and great social media integration.

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8. Kallos
Regular License: $33

A business style Joomla template that can display content in 1, 2 or 3 columns. There are 17 module positions and 16 advertising positions to choose from and it comes with 5 colour schemes. Fixed and fluid layouts can be used and a layered Photoshop PSD file is included with the template too.

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9. Mad Chicken
Regular License: $33

Designed for fast food businesses, Mad Chicken is a simple design that was setup to promote your menu. It comes with two colour schemes: red, orange and yellow and red, green and light brown. Powered by the Gantry Framework, the same framework that is used to power all RocketTheme designs, it includes a colour picker for choosing theme colours and has support for the iPhone and Android devices.

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10. Slate
Regular License: $35

A corporate design that comes with 5 pre-defined colour schemes. The home page features a great looking featured slider and content can be displayed using portfolio, gallery and blog templates. It works with JoomShopping Cart so it can be used to build an online store too.

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11. JTAG TV
Regular License: $40

JTAG TV was designed specifically for movie, video and TV websites and blogs. It works with most video services such as YouTube and Vimeo and includes the latest clips video slider.

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12. N6
Regular License: $57

A one page template design that comes with 12 colour schemes and a fixed or fluid layout. Designed using the Wright Framework, Transitions between different sections are smooth and the typography used in the design is beautiful.

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13. Joy
Regular License: $57

A versatile Joomla template that comes with 6 colour schemes. The design is clean and professional looking with box images used throughout the design to promote pages and posts.

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14. Collective
Regular License: $53

A business design that uses a 960 grid layout. There are 12 module positions to choose from and you can use 1, 2 or 3 column layouts to display your content. 10 colour schemes are included though only the header and link colours are different in each skin.

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15. Orion
Regular License: $47

A professional corporate style that has a great featured post slider on the home page and 14 module positions. 4 colour schemes are included and it has a cool drop down navigation menu at the top of each page.

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16. Bensroben
Regular License: $45

A beautiful clean responsive Joomla template that changes the number of posts displayed depending on width of the browser being used. The transition from 2 to 3 to 4 columns is smooth and when a visitor hovers over a post the other post images on the page fade to highlight the post being selected. 8 colour schemes are included as well as a slideshow module and portfolio template.

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17. Meltas
Regular License: $40

A clean minimal Joomla template that is suitable for business, blogs and portfolio websites. The home page features a large featured slider that has 27 animation styles. 7 colour schemes are available and there is a built in testimonial template too.

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18. QT
Regular License: $35

A feature rich Gantry Framework powered design that has 11 different types of home page sliders and 65 module positions to choose from. Google web fonts are supported and there are 4 colour schemes included with the template. Alternatively, theme colours can be changed using the colour chooser.

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19. Asareng
Regular License: $40

An elegant template that comes with a number of different dark and light skins (16 variations in total). 4 different home page layouts are included together with a testimonials template. A good choice for a business website, blog or portfolio.

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20. Supremacy
Regular License: $35

A creative corporate design that comes with 50 colour variations. The colour variations are quite small though with the dark colour scheme retained at the top of the design and the content area changing colours. There are 11 different versions of the slide that is displayed on the home page (on an iMac no less!) and one or two sidebars can be used on content pages.

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21. James
Regular License: $30

A simple yet stylish personal Joomla template that was created for resumes and simple information websites. Despite the simplicity of the template, it offers 67 different module positions and 36 different layout combinations.

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22. JF Chrome
Regular License: $35

JF Chrome is a flexible Joomla template that could be used for businesses, blogs, portfolios and communities. There are two different versions of the beautiful home page slider available, 4 colour variations and 4 menu options. It supports Google fonts too and comes with 40 module positions, a pricing table and custom error pages.

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23. Technik
Regular License: $40

A futuristic technology template for Joomla that has a gorgeous Javascript based slider on the home page. It comes with 5 colour variations with light and dark backgrounds, 28 module positions and lots of short codes for styling content. A good choice for a business website or tech magazine.

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24. Superb
Regular License: $40

Superb is a creative Joomla template that comes with 16 colour schemes (8 variations of light and dark). It comes with a beautiful blog template, a 1, 2 or 3 column portfolio template and a 2, 3 or 4 column gallery template. 3 different home page layouts can also be chosen with each layout showing a different sized feature slider.

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25. Ammon
Regular License: $40

A clean professional looking template that could be used for any kind of website. One of the themes biggest selling points is its 12 different sliders. These allow you to use rotating image backgrounds, a nivo slider or even a video background.

The theme has 70 different module positions and numerous page templates including a blog template, portfolio template, photo gallery and FAQ template. Google fonts are supported as well and there are lots of shortcodes for styling content. You need to check out the theme demo to appreciate the quality of this template.

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26. BlackStudios
Regular License: $40

BlackStudios is a dark and clean corporate design that comes with 5 colour variations. It has support for Google fonts, looks great on mobile devices and there are over 60 module positions to choose from.

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27. Aeon
Regular License: $45

A futuristic design that uses an impressive slider on the home page and a smooth drop down navigation menu at the top of the page. It has support for Facebook comments and has great typography for styling your content.

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28. AMOS
Regular License: $40

AMOS is a versatile design that lets you use a one page scrolling template for the home page or a regular home page that links to sections as different pages. It includes 7 different sliders, 60 different module positions, 2 different portfolio layouts and lots of unique templates and shortcodes for styling content.

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29. Sunrise
Regular License: $40

A clean business template that features a nivo slider on the home page. It comes with a light and dark skin though colours can be customised how you want using the theme style editor. Portfolio, gallery and blog templates are also included with the template.

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30. Depeche
Regular License: €25

Named after the British band Depeche Mode, Depeche is a grungy design that is perfect for blogs. It includes a regular slider, full page slider and article slider and the tableless design allows modules to be collapsed.

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That’s a Wrap

We hope you have enjoyed this list of professional Joomla templates. As always, if your favourite design didn’t make the list, please feel free to share it in the comment section.

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