With all the marketing aplomb of basement-coders worldwide, NFTs were named with an acronym that does little to clarify their utility. You probably know by now that NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token; what is perhaps less clear is what "Fungible" actually means; in this context, it means interchangeable. Consider an ounce of platinum. That platinum […] The post Myth-Busting NFTs: 7 Claims Fact-Checked first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

I’ve been admiring the lettering work on vintage insurance maps lately. These old documents were originally drawn up by hand by master penmen, who illustrated the title page with ornate lettering and detailed embellishments. Painstakingly illustrating artwork like this by hand is a dying art form that would have taken years of training to become […] The post Video Tutorial: Vintage Text Effect in Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Every product in this all-new design resources bundle is completely different from the next, making it an extremely versatile collection of tools that will prepare you for any future project. You'll be equipped with some of the best artistic resources, giving you the ability to create everything from retro to futuristic effects with brushes, patterns, […] The post This Versatile Bundle of Artistic Design Resources is Just $29 appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

This year at Laracon US in NYC Bill Condo sat down with each speaker and did a quick interview. Those have all been posted on our podcast and you can listen to all the interviews in your podcast app of choice or online. The post Laracon US 2019 Sp...

Christmas is on the way! Whether you’re designing festive party flyers, looking for Christmas mockups, or a holiday icon set, we have a great collection for you today! We’ve pulled together a fantastic collection of Christmas flyers and templates, mock-ups, icons, vectors, and much more. Some of them are completely free, some cost a few […]

My friend is a steel structure engineer – his company has been involved in putting up enormous structures, like the iconic Gherkin in London. If he doesn’t get it right,... The post The UX Mistakes That Cost Companies Millions appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

(This is a sponsored post.) Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you'll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. As well it should. Even if you resize your images to the exact specifications of your website and run them through a compressor, they can still put a strain on performance and run up bandwidth usage. Worse, all of that image manipulation can compromise the resulting quality.

Every designer is in an endeavor to outbid everything conventional when it comes to web design. In order to attract and engage, sometimes designers ditch best web design practices and resort to something called web design brutalism. The relatively new design principle involves ditching traditional practices like intuitive UI in favor of something that's completely disruptive. Deciphering the Brutalist Web Design Principle Brutalist Web Design came into the picture when Pascal Deville introduced this design trend in the web design arena. As the founder of an online portfolio of brutalist websites, he documents web designs that portray a lack of … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

On the Symfony blog there's a new post announcing the speakers for SymfonyLive London 2018 happening in late September. We're very pleased to announce that the conference schedule for this year's edition of the SymfonyLive conference in London is online. Join us on September 28th for an intense conference day dedicated to Symfony, divided into 2 tracks. Discover now all the speakers selected and the talks they will present there! We're very excited to welcome 14 speakers at the conference. Speakers at this year's event include: Michael Cullum Nicolas Grekas Neal Brooks Samuel Roze Fabien Potencier, founder and project lead for Symfony, will also be there to give the opening keynote for the conference. You can find out more about the conference on the main site and pick up your tickets for either just the training days, just the session days or for a package of both.

In today’s Adobe Photoshop video tutorial I’m going to show you how to make this Eco text effect, which is made up of loads of tiny leaves, along with vines and water droplets. This text style is originally from a logo I created for BioThemes back in 2010, but I recently came across it in […] The post Video Tutorial: How To Create a Leafy Text Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.