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5 Innovative CSS Techniques You Should Know About

We all love CSS but keeping up with the latest techniques can be quite difficult at times. So for your convenience, I’ve compiled five tutorials that showcase useful and innovative techniques that you should know about.



[Just to be clear, I know some form of probably all these techniques may have existed for awhile but I feel these five choices can still be used/improved upon by us developers and/or not fully adapted yet even though they are known by many to be productive. A bump and a nod, if you will.]
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3 Fresh Web Design Ideas

We’re always on the hunt for new techniques, better solutions and just some good ol’ fresh ideas. Here are a couple of simple concepts I found in use on the web that I think help us look at a standard solution and offer a non-standard answer.

Fresh Eggs
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10 Beautiful Antique Toy Ads

Some of the most amazingly intricate wood and metal art ever produced was for toys. To measure up to those amazing standards the catalog ads had to be of equal brilliance — and they were! There’s something truly brilliant about the intricate line-art and fascinating body copy from times gone by. Here are 10 awesome antique ads from the late 1800s – to early 1900s:

Old Toy Ads - Pistols
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10 Elements of Stellar Business Card Design

Business cards, no matter what the print industry is going through these days will always survive. They are a simple, inexpensive and non-cumbersome physical extension of yourself that can continue to serve a functional purpose no matter what technology shifts occur. Here are 10 important elements designers should consider in their quest for business card nirvana:


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50 Beautiful Gig Posters (Flatstock) For Your Inspiration

For those of us who ~heart~ music and art — gig posters are sometimes more beautiful than any Mona Lisa or Picasso painting. It’s the combination of your favorite band with unbridled creative originality that usually does us in. “Flatstock” (as it’s called in the industry) is most often small run/limited edition silk screen art work to promote a musical gig. The designers/studios these days gather up at an event and sell prints (such as at the SXSW or Pitchfork Music Festival for instance). Here is a sampling of 50 from some of the best studios around:

Clinton Reno

Clinton Reno
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10 Smashingly Dapper Brewery Websites

Drunk designer that I often am, beer coasters really catch my eye sometimes. Which got me thinking of how effectively breweries are marketing themselves online. To my surprise, virtually all of the beer companies I know of and wandered through in my research are very competent. There are some that offer exceptional examples either aesthetically, being innovative or in its overall presentation.

Brooklyn Brewery

Brooklyn Brewery Website Screen Shot
I admit some favoritism, but the overall experience and energy of the website was executed very well.
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20 Astonishingly Intricate International Metro Maps

Born and raised in Brooklyn, I grew up on the orange lines of the NYC MTA. I used to stare deeply into the huge maps at each station waiting for my train to show up and have always been in awe of how much detail is in each square inch. Here are some of the most beautiful metro/transit maps from around the world.

(I tried to focus on the most simplified “quick-view” versions meant for scanning on stations rather than intricate street combo versions. These versions have their own unique challenges like — readability, that I felt made them especially designerly.)

Japan

Japan Metro MapClick to Enlarge
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs – The Cover Art

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a new record out and I thought to myself as I picked up the new album (it’s Blitz!) what a great cover art they have. As I listened to the album, I thought what great matches they turned out to be for the actual music of their respective albums…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs album covers
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25 Inspiring Indie Band Websites

The Arts & Crafts Record Label in Canada is my favorite record label. I support many artists including Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, The Dears, The Stills, Brandan Canning and Kevin Drew — so I know this label and what they are about. They are truly interested in making creatively expressive music just as we are interested in making creatively expressive design. So let’s see what happens when one crosses paths with the other.

The 25 Artist Websites of Arts & Crafts Record Label:
Amy Millan

Amy Millan Website Screen Shot
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