A landing page is most important if you are promoting your product or selling your services online. To have a best landing page design for your product you should follow the trends and check numerous examples available on Internet. There are different ways to get it done properly, either you hire a designer or buy the premium landing page templates and customize them according to your needs.

If you are looking for a designer, you can crowd source your landing page design project on 99designs. But i have an easy solution for you, just go through the following landing page designs, select the best one which suites your business, buy, download and customize. Isn’t easy?

Oneland Landing page

Conversion – Premium Landing Page

Landing

PixoreLander – Premium xHTML/CSS Landing Page

Detroit Lean – Landing Page

Korporate – Landing page 220 variation

App Attack — Professional Landing Page

Delicious Landing

Landing Page for Christmas Offer or Portfolio

Simpler Landing

Kibou – Landing page for business

Apper – App Presentation Template

Lista Landing Page

Clickr Landing Page

X-Tech Landing Page

Oceanic Landing Page

Qloud Landing Page

Klix Landing Page

Kozuka Landing Page

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Kate MccGwire lives and works in London. She has done MA Sculpture from Royal College of Art, here i am showcasing her project Brood. In which she has created beautiful white spiral of roughly 23,000 chicken wishbones.

MccGwire’s installation provides a wall of evenly aligned wishbones, each one symbolizing a dead soul. In the work’s statement, it says: “For ‘Brood’, MccGwire selected only the remains of battery-farmed chickens, the unnatural GM uniformity of the bones is shocking: transferring the ancient practices of witchcraft to a much more contemporary and scary one.”

Source: Kate MccGwire

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You have Photoshop, you know how to use it and you are prepared to go all out. We have all been there, especially in the beginning. But whether you are a professional or an amateur, there are plenty of common mistakes people make that you will want to make sure you avoid. Some are common sense, some are easy to spot and others you might not even know you are doing.

Here are five things you should always make sure you never do:

Overuse of Photoshop

Guess what? People can tell when something has been too obviously Photoshopped. Go online and you will inevitably find the "It looks shopped, I can tell by the pixels" joke. This AIDS charity unfortunately didn’t get the memo. The first thing you will notice is the overdone sunflower background. But look closer at the bike itself. The background was so overdone that it broke into the main image and left the bike with half a wheel and pedal.

You see this all the time, with designers who want something busy in the background to catch your eye. Keeping the subject on a plain background would not only have been more visually appealing, but it would have been easier for them to spot their mistake.

Missing Limbs

It is amazing how much time magazine editors will spend airbrushing their models into impossibly perfect specimens, and then remove whole limbs from their bodies. For example, this Stuff model was sitting there innocently posing in front of a pool when someone stole her leg! Her leg is in every other picture, but appears to have been tragically eaten by passing sharks. Not one to be unprofessional for a moment, she apparently continued on with the shoot without a flinch.

Alternately, there might be too many limbs. Here we see a woman walking along a beach alone. Already, she seems awkward by the way she is moving like an extra person is there, but invisible. Looking closer, we see that is exactly what happened…there is an extra hand from the person who was shopped out of the photo.

Tiny Details

The little things are noticeable. If you screw up an angle, it might not be that big of a deal. But what about those much more obvious tiny details that will make the viewer do a double take?

For example, this picture of a Playboy model from Brazil appears to have no belly button. Here is another woman who has apparently been built in a lab rather than born. This one has a middle so small that her organs much be in mini size.

Perhaps by favorite example is this one. The man’s hand is really a woman’s, with long nails and all. The woman’s arm is backward with the elbow facing in. Even her knee is off kilter.

Reflections

When there are too many reflections – or not enough – it is a subtle problem that still manages to look very unprofessional when caught. But it is perhaps the most common mistake made with Photoshopped images. Look at these clouds in the water…most of them are not in the sky to begin with.

Floating Objects

I should say right now that I could have this one all wrong. It might not be a Photoshop mistake at all…she might be part of the X-Men. Her power is being able to levitate and mentally toss plates at her enemies. Her name could be Dishtosso. But if that isn’t the case, the designer fell into the common mistake of leaving an item unfixed and so flloating in midair.

Conclusion

These are all such stupid mistakes to make, and some are very obvious. Don’t do it yourself, and remember that Photoshop is a tool, not a toy.

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Ji Lee is a graphic disgner and creative director at the Google Creative Lab, was born in Korean and currently living in New York. Here i am showcasing some of his work in which he created an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.

Source: Please Enjoy

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An avertising agency, DDB from Spain, creatively executed “Make your CV stronger” campaign for Lectiva.com.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Barcelona, Spain
General Creative Director: Josep Maria Roca de Vinyals
Executive Creative Director: Fernando Barbella
Creative Directors: Alejandro Arriagada, Jaume Badia
Art Director: Aldo Ferretto
Copywriter: Jordi Mitjans

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Ad agency Moma Propaganda of Sao Paulo created a wondeful series of retro future ads for Facebook, YouTube and Skype as part of the “Everything Ages Fast” ad campaign for Maximidia Seminars.

Advertising Agency: Moma, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Rodolfo Sampaio
Art Director: Marco Martins
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Recently i started using Pinterest for inspiration and to build a PelFusion community. It’s easy to build a community on any social networking site when you know the user demographics and you will share the stuff accordingly. According to the infographic below, 68.2% of Pinterest users are female and average time spent on the site is 15.8 minutes.

Check out more facts about Pinterest users in the following infographic and let us know in the comments where you spend more time, Facebook or Pinterest?

Source: Mashable

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This infographic illustrates the latest statistics on Twitter with a few projections for the future as well. You can learn about top 5 popular users on twitter by number of followers, the busiest times in twitter history, a brief history of twitter, what makes you tweet? And a lot more from this infographic.

Source Infographiclabs

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When you make a portfolio to feature your work, especially online, you want something that is going to really stand out. It has to be user-friendly, be easy to view and show off your talent and creativity. Ultimately, an online portfolio is an additional means of selling yourself, providing the potential client with a look at what you can create that both catches the eye and serves a function.

Some of them manage to do something really special. Here are 10 examples of the best and most creative portfolios online.

1. Jan Ploch

This excellent portfolio design from German designer Jan Ploch shows a great deal of ingenuity. The whole thing is based on the idea that the creative process is like a bottle, and he proposes the means of filling it. Even the website itself has a bottle design with an old fashioned touch, and everything is done in beige and brown shades. Despite this, it is extremely dynamic.

2. Tiny Big Studios

A fun and interactive portfolio design, there are plenty of little features to discover in this quirky design. If you touch the cursor to the logo in the corner the ant spins, and there is an arrow to the ant itself stating that it was not responsible for the creation of the site design. This leads to a link that takes you down to another section of the same page to introduce the branding company that did build it. You get a look at what they do, who they are and what they have done in the past, all on one page that manages to present a ton of information without looking messy or cluttered.

3. iLussori

This sleek website shows us what can be done with a fast-paced design aimed at providing an immediate look at the company’s capabilities. As a multimedia business, they gave us plenty to look at. There is a slideshow in the background that has been subdued with black and white and slight blurring. Then, you get a choice of a few examples on the front page, along with a link to a wide portfolio. Simple flash at its best.

4. Lois Jeans

You start off being brought to a home page that gives you three language options. When you select your own, you are then given two other options: Utopic or Dystopic, meaning your vision of the future. Each one gives you a series of bubbles with both images and videos, creating a marketing campaign based on either a perfect world of harmony, or one of miserable living conditions and dangers. Very cool, very modern and it taps into the current trend of expanding on both of these ideals in fiction.

5. FS Designs

A beautiful woman and an animated car on fire make up the logo design for this company. The overall website is dark and trendy, with a simple thumbnail look at some choice projects. It shows how you can make simple portfolio design look extremely complex and cool.

6. Scotch & Soda

Not technically a portfolio design site, this is a shop that shows off a lot of their work so I figure it applies. They have regularly changing ideas, and they are all pretty cool. Right now you can watch a slideshow, or play with the moving snowflakes that switch direction when you move your cursor.

7. Dan123

Meet Dan. He is a very friendly-seeming front end developer who has created this website to show us all the things he can do. His website is fun and cartoonish, with a kind of retro sci fi look. He even has a postcard motif for the contact page, which is a nice touch. He has a collection of thumbnails to see his work in the center, and they are nice and evenly space without a lot of frill.

8. Indubitablee

Formerly operating under the name Cornerd, they used a unique and interesting grid design for their site. They put an emphasis on communication, with a large portion of the home page dedicated to the contact link, their RSS feed and their Twitter profile. That is something unique that you will probably begin to see more often as freelancers and small business owners continue to see the link between their portfolio and social networking.

9. Otterball

When you first go to this link you will see an animation of a bunch of messed up thumbnails. They move in a circle pattern and then slide onto one side, aligning on the left hand of the page. This is a simple thumbnail presentation of their past work. They also have an About Us and Contact page, but everything is very simply made.

10. TauaDesign

This site is even better when you say the name out loud and hear the "tada!" sound it makes. They went completely minimalist, with nothing but a white page with a couple of gray sections on the side that takes you to different parts of the site. This includes a portfolio page, which is brought up with a flash animation of black boxes that turn into thumbnails.

Conclusion

If these portfolio design don’t inspire you, nothing will. What are some of your own favorites? Show us in the comments.

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What you think Graphic Design is? If you ask this question to some person who is not designer, he or she may reply by saying “I don’t know” but every graphic designer will answer this question with his own definition. Here i have collected some posters in which designers have answered this question in a visual form.

If you are a designer too, do tell us what is a graphic design?

What Is Design by gravitymachine

Graphic Design Poster by Juanma Teixidó

Graphic Design is Love by benspopshop

Graphic Design is Masking Your Ideas by Gage Batubara

Graphic Design Poster by riz0

The Art of Speaking Without Making a Sound by piotr.delawski

Graphic Design is a Mindtrip by pullemuts

What is graphic design? by Ancient Wisdom Productions

Graphic deisgn is About by Two Fish 77

Design is
to make a synthesis by Juanma Teixidó

Thinking Made Visual by ck/ck

Design is Capturing by tonyxprice

what is graphic design 2 by morfeusz

Graphic design may be extensive use of symbols by piotr, the flaneur

The Brainiest Heart by increibleignatz

Graphic design is… by sursly

down through the centuries by w.i.n

pix by bryancastro777

design is more than a sassy typeface by Trev Stair

Design is lighting up by DeaPeaJay

100% Intentional by Juanma Teixidó

What is Graphic Design? by ale.pixel

graphic design is drawing the line by fiveIron

graphic design is… by my way home

What is Graphic Design Poster by batco

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There is nothing quite like a grid, is there? Clean, functional and simple to use, it is a basic tool in the designer’s arsenal. That is why there are so many resources available on the web to assist you with creating, using or sharing grids.

Here is a list of 10 brilliant resources to put into your own little grid-based design box.

Boilerplates

If you feel like doing it without having to create your own CSS framework (I can already see a bunch of you nodding your heads with great enthusiasm), you can check out these boilerplates.

HTML5 Boilerplate

HTML5 is fast becoming the No. 1 used, experimented on and recommended format for just about any project. The versatility provided by the update to the old classic is a big reason for that, and there have been some amazing experiments that show what it is really capable of.

Gridless

Compatible with both HTML5 and CSS3, this boilerplate makes it easier to create websites viewable on multiple browsers, with design specifics like layout and typography as a main focus.

Traditional Frameworks

If you want to go with what is affectionately referred to as "old" frameworks – showing how quickly new technology truly is released – you can try out these dinosaurs that are still just as good as the day they were released.

960 Grid System

This is one of the original sites dedicated to existing framework and design. A great deal of new designs originated from this source. You can find a lot here to get you along.

YAML

Standing for "Yet Another Multicolumn Layout," this framework describes its products as "bulletproof and flexible." That is a promise it is able to keep, as it gives you the tools you need for simple and rapid CSS framework development. It has everything you need, so YAML is a must to check out.

Brand Spankin’ New Frames

Sometimes you want something new and cutting edge. These websites offer that, though most of them take bits here and there from the old classics to keep them relevant to the original grid we have all come to know and love.

Columnal

This grid system is a really nice one. It was created by taking a number of CSS layouts and combining their elements. Then, custom coding was thrown in the mix to provide a unique style. Each piece for the new system was taken from both 960GS and CSSGrid, based on their elastic grid design.

Skeleton

If your main concern is having a boilerplate that is mobile friendly, this might be the choice for you. The CSS/JS mixed files are made to allow for development that works at any screen size. The flexibility makes it easy to create one site that will work on mobile screens as well as standard laptop or computer screens.

G5 Framework

For front-end framework compatible with the standard CSS3 – as well as HTML5, jQuery and PHP – your best bet is G5. It is a great starter for any basic website, made specifically for fostering efficiency in web development. It has a great list of features.

Easy Percentage Grid System With HTML5

The name is a bit of a mouthful. But the layout is clean and simple, working on a six-column grid. If you are a beginner who doesn’t know that much coding, you will want to stick with this one. It has a full tutorial on how to change things like the column titles and content. It also shows you how to add or remove columns without disrupting the design.

jQuery Masonry

This is a jQuery-specific plug-in that creates a unique layout with a great image-heavy design. The whole build is based on a grid that is different from many of the standard column designs you see today. It pushes it all into a much more compact and well-organized design than the CSS floats standard.

Less Framework 4

Less Framework is extremely simple. It takes a single grid and gives you four layout options and three typography presets in one package. The idea is that you have a more basic layout, allowing for a more adaptive website without the need for future framework. Whether it is viewed on a PC, laptop, tablet or mobile device, it will fit properly.

Conclusion

Whether you are a fan of frameworks or not, you will find what you need to take advantage of simple grids for web designs on these 10 sites. They give you amazing resources, and they are only a few of what is out there.

Leave your suggestions for other great tools to put into your grid-based design resource box in the comment section below.

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Stock photography is the supply of photographs licensed for specific uses. It is used to fulfill the needs of creative assignments instead of hiring a photographer. Today, stock images can be presented in search able online databases. They can be purchased and delivered online. Often, they are produced in studios using a wide variety of models posing as professionals, stereotypes, expressing stereotypical emotions and gesticulations or involving pets.

As more and more stock images are being evolved, more options are becoming available for the photographer and photo buyer. Image licensing is an important aspect which the buyer as well as the photographer must know.

Royalty Free

Royalty Free stock photography gives the image buyer the option to use the image in as many ways as desired while only paying one fee. License pricing are generally lower with Royalty Free. This license is cost effective because the buyer is choosing not to protect against competitive usage. The images are easy to use because the buyer doesn’t need to determine or track usage and is free to use in the images in multiple ways. Of course, there are also disadvantages. For the buyer, there is no protection against conflicting use by competitors and photographs offered in the Royalty Free domain are generally of lower content quality.

Rights Protected

Rights Protected license prices are generally higher then Royalty Free. In this case the buyer has control of the license and there is protection against having the photo used by a direct competitor for a competing use. Records of every use of a photo or image are kept to avoid conflicting rights between competing end users. Usually, images tend to be higher quality in content and subject matter for Rights Protected license. Rights protected images are licensed for a specific period of time and for a specific application which is negotiated in advance. The reason one would use rights protected imagery is to prevent competitors from using the same image in the same marketplace.

Rights Managed

Rights Managed is a license type similar to Rights Protected but does not guarantee exclusiveness unless an additional fee is paid. Usually, license prices with Rights Managed are somewhere in between Rights Managed and Royalty Free. Rights Managed means that the buyer pays for a license to use the stock photo for a specific use for a defined time period. Usually, the licensing is not transferable. They are only granted to the person or company who purchased them. The buyer may not sell, rent, loan, give, sub-license, or otherwise transfer the photograph or the right to reproduce the photo to someone else.

Use of stock images must be appropriate to your design and content. There are certain points you must keep in mind while using the stock imagery:

a – Don’t use a stock photo when you can easily illustrate or get a photo shoot yourself.

b – Don’t use Cliché or over used images.

c – Avoid using images that have been masked or have bad paths clipping. Instead you can do it yourself if you are really good at cropping the backgrounds.

(Image Source: hand with clipping paths)

d – Never use pictures that do not relate to your concept or content.

(Image Source: nature photography)

Don’t use the image just for decorating the page or the element you thought was nice, but use image that is in reference to your content.

a – If you buy the low resolution version of the image just because it is cheap, you’re going to ruin your effort and the whole design.

b – Do not use images that look out dated or non professional.

c – Using pictures in which the model has over posed will not look good.

(Image Source: Man with happy facial)

d – If you want to use the image that is extended better use the professional ones instead of using the image that has poor cloning.

(Image Source: Cloned dog)

e – Placing the selling product directly over the image looks really retard and non professional.

(Image Source: boy with hand)

Stock images are found in wide variety and it has become so easy to find almost any image on the internet through certain specified sites. E.g. ShuuterStock, Corbis, Gettyimages or masterfile. These images are available on low resolution so since they have the copyrights issues, therefore cannot be copied directly to be used in print ads. Either the client buys them or orders similar images. Use of stock images is hassle free, you don’t have to hire a photographer or create backgrounds or pay lot of money for the photo shoot. Stock image sites get all the information, how much is the viewership determines the price, in which region the image will be used and whether royalties are due to the image creator or owner. Sometimes you just have to pay once to use the multiple images or pay in a bundle and use a series of 3 or 4 images annually. Use of stock images in ads can be as creative as possible. Do you really want to use the image just as it is or should you be thinking more on conceptual basis? One important question….

Use of simple stock images without tempering.

(Image Source: Sweet couple of red fresh)

Now this is an example of treated stock images using the creativity and not just placing the image as it is. Use of different colors in the back ground have been treated.

Stock images have copyrights, you just can’t pick up any image from internet and use it, you either buy it or order it. On the other hand many ad agencies use stock images to present the concept to the client and on approval later arrange the photography in the same atmosphere and replicate the images with their own models. E.g. if you are selling shoes obviously you will not use the images of shoes of some other company, rather will present the concept and then use your own shoes in the photos. The appealing look of the product or the appetizing appeal of any food item is just through the right image. Stylists, experts and photographers put in their best efforts to make the product look amazing so the audience is compelled to buy it. This is the art of stock imagery not achievable by any layman.

(Image Source: Food Passionate)

Tempting…isn’t it? This is the art of stock images.

When we use an image that we’ve bought, begged or borrowed from someone else, we are implying (to potential customers) that it is our work because it’s showing the service we are selling. This is breaking the law…lying to your clients is not just good. Take reference from images, think and then re establish the images yourself. You may use a part of an image or just the background but selling somebody else’s product is not just good. In this way only you will be able to develop the trust and confidence of your clients who might not know at a later stage that you have actually stole somebody else’s images.

(Image Source: Bungalow Interior)

This is not your work so just use this image for reference.

This is not your product but you can use it to refer to the concept, can replace with your own imagery but leading to the same concept.

Treatment of images as discussed above can be a very creative thing. Use of different softwares can make the process easy but just treating the image for the sake of treatment won’t work, you have to give it a certain character.

You will be able to see lots of images being used in this poster. All these images represent glamor and glitz though even without treatment those would have worked, but giving them a distinct character make the whole image look more vulnerable and appealing. Not necessarily you have to pick an image and treat it, even a simple dot can say a lot. But stock images make life easy…you believe it or not, without them in today’s world, half of advertising wouldn’t even be possible.

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With the Web.2 era upon us, the Internet has got shiny, 3-D and glossy. Ironically, the more advanced we get in terms of design and browser capabilities, the more we appreciate the bright trends of retro and pop-art designs.

Vintage elements, fonts, and textures bring back feelings of nostalgia; but what’s more important, they let a creative designer breathe a new shiny life into a website look and feel.

Here are 9 modern day tutorials to recreate an amazing design era.

1. 1960s Psychedelic Style Concert Poster

The ’60′s were the kaleidoscope world that saw swirling patterns of colors and wavy typography. This tutorial shows how the use of the Warp Tool and applying texture can achieve a realistic psychedelic graphic design.

2. Wicked-Worn Vintage Pop-Art Design

This is a basic to intermediate tutorial that calls for real-life elements such as an old and dirty piece of paper. This tutorial shows how to achieve a "wear and tear" style that shouts vintage without having to ride a time machine.

3. Retro Pop Art

Back in the day, half-tone dots and Ben-Day dots were heavily used to economically print comic books. This tutorial recreates the retro comic book style by implementing half-tone effects and big burst background that can get any graphic design into real retro action.

4. Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

This tutorial sets you up to explore and learn some fun skills such as creating the familiar flowery retro abstract shapes, using transform and desaturate, and that familiar 3D vintage game effect. Tetris, anyone?

5. Retro Grunge Poster

Eight steps are all it takes to rock a retro grunge design with this tutorial. Take note that grungy does not equate to dirty. This guide will teach you to use the pen tool and some textures to achieve the real "grunge" effect.

6. 1950s-Style Movie Poster

A very friendly and entertaining lesson on how color, geometric shapes and text can bring back modern photos in "reel time." The point of this tutorial focuses on achieving authenticity and presenting maximum impact.

7. Sweet Old School Album Cover

Your newest digital camera may be sweet but it surely doesn’t have the vintage sauce of old-school lomo cameras such as the Holga and the Diana. This tutorial shows how a pseudo cross processed method achieves that old yet groovy style.

8. B-Movie Poster Art

Flying saucers, giant creatures, and invaders from Mars. Don’t you just love B movies that’ll make you crack up? You can bring this cinematic experience to your graphic design with the help of this tutorial. Learn how combining 3D renders with stylized photography, text and smoke emulates the 1950′s popcorn experience.

9. Make Your Own Pop Art

This five-page tutorial brings to light the birth of the consumer culture of the 1950′s. The era saw product posters and even soup cans make their way to the art galleries. Learn how to glorify mundane things using this style via layering, the Live Trace tool, filters and image selection.

Are there any great retro tutorials you are aware of? Please share them in the comments!

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