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This article is part of our “Weekly Design Inspiration” series. We are showcasing once a week fresh and inspirational website designs. If you think your website belongs here, you can submit it for review (nw).
This post is part of our “Design Coolness” article series where we are showcasing inspiring and cool design stuff like typography, illustration, digital art and photography.
It can be considered as an achievement when you have already established your own business or career that would make you famous and trusted by many. However, being able to grab the people’s attention and making them consider your offer for their needs is not something that can be easily done. You must know what promotional tools to use which would fit your plans and budget too. Go with the basics first like business cards which can help you create the connection that you want.
Using business cards for branding and marketing is a wise move since these custom cards can hold the necessary information that you wish to share. You just need to make sure that your set is appealing and can easily perk the interest of the people for them to grab one and store for future use.
Since it can be tough to think about how your business cards should look like, here are 20 creative and elegant design samples that show the best in marketing through these cards:
Maps are often used in web design, but today we’d like to feature top 10 websites with maps definitely worth seeing. And although the sites differ in purpose and style we hope you will find them inspiring and helpful.
So we invite you to check the screen shots below and see that each of the following websites is using a map in its own way. Sometimes it’s a real map showing a rout or location, sometimes a map is just a design element serving as a background or navigation. And as for a global map, it is a great way to show that a website is open to people all over the world.
Please enjoy the websites with maps and if know other similar designs, let us know in the comments.
Website : cirquedusoleil.com
This is an official site of Cirque du Soleil, a Canadian entertainment company, self-described as a “dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment.” Cirque du Soleil is famous for its incredible shows that combine acrobatics and theatrical approach. The circus employs people from around the world and they have already performed shows on every continent except Antarctica.
If you need something really noticeable and prominent for your poster titles or web designs, you may want to try out this effect. Fortunately, it is not that hard really to setup your own styled bright sparkles for text. In this special guide, we will show you the step-by-step process in achieving this. Let’s start!
The initial step is of course setting up your background for the text effect. This effect wonÕt work well for lighter backgrounds. So once you setup your new document in Adobe Photoshop, you have to create a dark dynamic background for your design.
Of course avoid plain black. Use a gradient color matching the theme that you want to establish. In our example we used the gradient tool to add a dark blue to darker blue radial color gradient to the background (#41768b – #152328)
