7plusDezine » Inspiration

Get Inspiration from 15 Fresh and Awesome Paper Inspired Websites

Sophie — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:30:34 +0000

Innovation has no boundary and limitation. Using patterns of real life things as design elements on a website can give it a very realistic look. In particular, the utilization of paper in a web design is one of the most popular design trends. Paper provides a beautiful and cut-and-paste collage feeling to the design, giving the site more of a personal and hand-crafted image. It has been used as the website backgrounds, navigations, logos, around featured decorations and so on.

Here, I have showcased a collection of 15 fresh and awesome paper inspired websites for your inspiration.

1. Narfstuff

It’s a blog delivers articles related to WordPress development, web and graphic Design. It makes use of the papers holding together with a clamp as the layout of the header, a very impressive paper website.

2. VCU Office of Undergraduate

It is the website of Virginia Commonwealth University’s Undergraduate admissions. The notebook header is very beautiful.

3. Lendl Allen V. Trazo Online Portfolio

This is another graphic and web design site. It uses the old paper to display the part of main introduction of the designer. It also uses some green leaves, candle and goose quill to recover the traditional classic style.

4. Fabrica de Caricaturas

This website is about original and custom works. The home page uses papers to display header and navigation. It takes good advantage of the paper inspiration.

5. kiddk

This is a paper inspired website selling kids books. The notepapers with 3D effects used as the navigation and labels of new books are pretty vivid. These papers also have animation effect when cursor above.

6. Five points interactive

Five Points Interactive is a design firm. This website uses the notepaper with bookmarks, image paper and pencil on it to present the firm information, very fresh and clean.

7. Tohavit

It is a design related German website. It employs a dozen of papers to show the content and decorates papers with other design tools like pencil, eraser, rule, etc. Such a paper website is very unique and catchy.

8. Gardening With Children

Gardening with Children is a website about gardening. The notebook layout and papers navigation on it are very cool.

9. Websmarty

It’s an original website adopting the paper image with a pencil to pass through. The torn paper as the header is awesome.

10. Restaurant l’Antidote

This nice paper inspired website is about a French restaurant. It provides a notebook with paper bookmarks to contain the information about this restaurant, attracting visitors to read them.

11. Ximena Ruiz

As a Spain websites of a web and graphic designer, it uses the layout of a notebook and some other gadgets like paper clip, pendant, USB flash disk, etc to catch attention.

12. Not your average joe

A commercial studio with gorgeous paper images like grocery receipts and fabric made navigation and logo.

13. Cassys Design

This is an Italian website about graphic design. It uses the paper labels tied to a rope as the navigation, so creative. The recent design works are presented on papers with edge cocked up.

14. Thepissbiscuit

This is another blog with paper elements added. The money, paper bookmark of logo, paper labels of navigation, etc are quite attractive and awe-inspiring.

15. Team Green

This travel related website is created by a group of old papers. Although these papers are a little higgledy-piggledy, they show the friendless and make visitors who want a travel feel at ease.

I hope you have enjoyed the above collection of paper website designs. If you find other examples of beautiful paper inspired websites, please share them in the comment below. Thanks!

24 Awesome Website Logo Designs for Your Inspiration

Sarah — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:04:50 +0000

A website logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) for a commercial or non-business website. Typically, a logo design is for immediate recognition for website. With a creative and fabulous logo, website owners can use a symbol and/or font style to convey information about their website that can be easily remembered by existing and prospective subscribers. It empowers a website to communicate using both visual and emotional cues, which makes it more memorable. A logo is an important part for website, which embodies how readers both think and feel about the website.

Therefore, an excellent web designer should be also a skilled logo designer, with creative graphics ability and inherent artistic talents. Good logo designers are always in constant need of inspiration. According to my experience, it is essential to fuel creativity from others’ work. Here I have collected showcases of 24 beautiful, creative and impressive website logo designs, which will hopefully inspire you. Some of these include the usage of simple shapes to create complex effect, or special layout of colors, transparency and many more.

1. Beautiful Color Palette

2. Original Dark Background and Clean Fonts

3. Special Layout of Letters

4. Vivid Shapes Design

From the logos above, you should be noticed that brilliant colors palettes, unique shapes and special typography are essential elements for logo design. Hope the above showcases have brought you some insights in web logo design.

80 Cool Fonts You Can’t Miss For Fantastic Web Design (Part Two)

Caleb — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:03:08 +0000

When you in charge of a web design project, you are likely to take layout, color, flash and fonts into consideration. In my last article, I present you a showcase of 40 cool fonts that are available for free. I wonder if you have made good use of them or have got some design inspiration from those designs. Now, I will show you another 40 free fonts to help you create a unique and attractive website. Hope you like it and get inspired.

1. Logobloqo 2

2. Cube 02™ font

3. Beyond Sky font

4. Grass Number PSD

5 JustOldFashion

6. Rachel

7. Space Light

8. Kilogram

9. Caprica

10. Espesor Olas

11. Shattered 3D Font – Free

12. Days

13. AGE Free Font

14. LOT free font

15. PANHEAD font

16. Seedy Motel font

17. Overcast Skies

18. GoodMorningAfternoon font

19. Moulded Saji font

20. Scruffy Regular and Scruffy Light

21. CS Benwood

22. Evolution True Type Font

23. Absinthe Typeface – Free Font

24. Orbitron

25. Gayatri

26. Weston free font

27. Denigan font

28. Blessed Day

29. Lost Winner

30. Shit Happens

31. maagkramp

32. Sn Boldface

33. Infinity

34. Sketch Block by Lukas Bischoff

35. Angel Tears

36. Karabine by Jonathan Paquette

37. Sketchy by deFaced

38. Popcorn font

39. Barkants

40. Hattori Hanzo typeface

Add 3D Flavor to Your Website – 20 Creative 3D Graphics Usages for Inspiration

Sophie — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 06:41:05 +0000

As 3D design is becoming more and more popular, there is no surprise that designers are focus much more on 3D graphics. If you pay attention to web trends, you will probably notice that a growing number of sites are optimized with awesome three dimensional graphics.

3D effects used correctly in web design can create a feeling of depth and make a website more stylish, unique and impressive. They can also highlight something in particular by drawing the visitor’s attention. 3D graphics can be applied in various elements, such as logo, banner, typography, background, ribbon, sidebar, navigation, menu and other items or the decoration of featured articles.

In this post, you will find 20 amazing 3D graphics for web design to help inspire you. We hope you will enjoy this article share it.

1. Stay Green. Go Red

If you are creating a recycle related website, maybe this 3D graphic will help you gain some inspiration.

2. 3D Type Design by markie darkie

Although this graphic uses typography as a central theme, it may give us inspiration of designing web elements like banner or logo with 3D effects.

3. Steven Wittens

As you see, this is a website that uses 3D template. Such 3D graphic makes a website more impressive and creative.

4. Narhir Design

Obviously, this website creates a depth visual look by the using of 3D design, giving you a unique and cool impression.

5. From The Couch

3D graphics here are used as colorful ribbons to decorate the menu and other parts of the website.

6. Icon Drawer

As its name says, this website is a showcase of icons. The use of drawer like 3D navigation gives you an idea that if you open this drawer, you will find what you need.

7. Marc Mendell

This is a 3D graphic used as a website banner, very impressive.

8. Cube Scripts

This 3D graphic is used as a website layout. It looks like that this site has dozens of pages, just like a book.

9. 3D Business Background

This stock graphic maybe used as an abstract 3D website background. Such 3D graphic will show visitors that this site is about architecture or stock related business.

10. woman to woman

It is another example of using 3D layout to create an impressive website.

11. 3D PaperVision 3D template3D Template

Without doubt, this 3D web banner is very attractive. If your site contains gallery of pictures, you may design an eye catching layout like this.

12. Delibar

Delibar also uses 3D design to create a candy like banner. It well demonstrates the slogan of “Delibar, Delicious client for Mac”.

13. Oasis

The popular oasis drink uses a landscape 3D design as its website background, very funny.

14. Upstate Design

This is a logo using 3D effect. It looks like that the capital letters “UP” is standing up or in an up state, which conveys the company name “Upstate” in a special way. Such creative 3D logo will help viewers remember this website.

15. Summer is going out

This is a typography centered 3D graphic. If you treat typography on your website as 3D design like this, rather than something you ‘type’ into a keyboard, it will look great.

16. Coming through

It is a great looking 3D typography and it can be used as banner or something.

17. Tree

This is an awesome 3D graphic that can help you design a wonderful website template or banner.

18. Stillontherun

This is another great 3D design of typography that can be used as wonderful logo or other web elements.

19. Colorful web ribbons

Surely, you will get some web design inspiration in details like ribbons from such 3D graphic. Visitors are willing to read well designed websites.

20. 3D web icons

These colorful 3D web icons will make your websites more beautiful and attractive.

The above 3D graphics are good examples of 3D usage to make your websites stand out. Hope you will get some inspiration from this showcase, and if you have some great 3D graphics for web design, we will appreciate your sharing in comment.

80 Cool Fonts You Can’t Miss For Fantastic Web Design (Part One)

Caleb — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:10:18 +0000

There is no doubt that web designers make efforts to make their websites unique and attractive to the visitors. Thus they take into account every detail to attract viewers’ attention when it comes to web design. Details including special logo, amazing flash, awesome photography, catchy color schemes and cool fonts are all vital methods used to create visual interest. Fonts, used as your site logo, page headline, flash text, etc, will display a certain position between you and your visitors.

So, are you looking for fonts that are creative, free, but still cool enough? Now, I would like to present a collection of 80 cool fonts, which you can use for web design. The best thing is that all these high quality fonts are available for free. Hope you like this gallery.

If you find some amazing fonts are missing, feel free to add links within the comments section below.

1. Sachiko

2. Soraya

3. Caribbean Tool

4. Chocolate Dealer font

5. Tribbon

6. DAN free font

7. Conglomerfont

8. GOTA Free Font

9. Squareworm by Måns Grebäck

10. Techno Funk font

11. Ferrum font