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Hilariously And Unintentionally Dirty Logos
I know this type of article has been done a million times, and you have probably seen many of these logos before, but it’s still always good for a laugh. You seriously have to ask yourself if the designers of these logos really hated their clients, or was everyone involved in the design process oblivious […]
Futura: The Font That Escaped The Nazis and Landed on the Moon
My love affair with typography started when I purchased my very first computer – a trusty Mac Classic with a tiny black & white screen, and a tinier hard drive. I absolutely loved opening a magazine and finding a floppy disk loaded free fonts, freeware and shareware. Many of the fonts I discovered this way were often useless and hideous, but […]
Logo Inspiration Central
If you are looking for design inspiration when working on your next logo or branding project, Logo Miner is a great website to hit. You can easily view the colour scheme and fonts used for tons of famous logos from around the world. There’s even links to download or purchase the fonts. It is also possible to […]
Awesome Colour Palettes
Check out Spunger’s new weekly feature – Awesome Colour Palettes! Each week we will showcase a new selection of awesome colour palettes, perfect for web or graphic design. This week’s colour palettes come from all around the world, including Canada, Cambodia and Costa Rica.
20 Things You Should Never Ask A Graphic Designer
Would you ask a painter to paint each wall of your bedroom a different colour to see which one you prefer? And you sure wouldn’t ask your dentist to work for free because you have a lot of friends and you’ll tell every one of them how great of a dentist he is. So why […]
Fullscreen Overlay Menus Updated
There are tons of different ways to make a great website navigation menu and WordPress themes are getting more and more creative in this aspect of theme design. However, the standard drop down menu is still the most functional, especially on a desktop computer, giving users quick access to anywhere they want to go. But when you get […]
Flow – An Amazing New WordPress Creative Blog Theme
Creative WordPress blog themes are a dime a dozen – this one of the most popular category of WordPress themes and there are literally thousands of both paid and free themes competing for your attention. As a result, finding a good creative theme can be a massive challenge. Flow, from Elated Themes is a brand new WordPress […]
10 Brutal But Honest Door Hangers For Designers
Every designer has a moment where dealing with people, any people, is painful and frustrating. Whether you’re in the middle of a complicated project, or working through the worst creative block of your life, your neighbours story about their weekend escapades isn’t welcome or helpful. Thanks to Creative Market you can now let people know that you’re […]
20 Amazing 404 Error Pages To Inspire You
Any good website needs a good 404 error page. No matter what caused the error, you should be presenting the user with information about what happened, redirect them back to your home page (or another appropriate page). Under no circumstances should you rely on the your web server’s built in, boring 404 error page. It’s […]
Awesome Instagram Artwork
I love typography and photography, so when I discovered typetodesign.com it made me very happy. All you do is type in anything you want and it searches the Instagram uploads to find images that represent each letter. It’s super cool and super fun. I could literally spend hours playing with this thing. All the character graphics are […]
Client’s From Hell Volume 1
If you’ve been in the business long enough you’ve experienced a terrible client or two. Learning how to deal with these people effectively really helps you grow as a designer and a business person. Below are a few winners our readers have dealt with over the years. All names have been withheld to protect the […]
The Spunger Work Playlist
I have music on pretty much every second I’m awake and especially while I’m working. When in university I took the advice to listen to classical music while studying and found it was actually helpful. Mostly because I needed sound to block out the noise of the surrounding university dorm rooms, but there are studies suggesting […]
Attention Colour Nerds!
Tiny PMS Match is a fantastic blog for colour nerds and designers of all kinds. Seeing these beautiful photos really makes me wish I still had a Pantone chip swatch book – it’s about as old school as you can get, but incredibly cool to see Pantone chips used for a totally different purpose. The photos are great too […]
Killer Framed Artwork, T-Shirts & A Whole Lot More
I might be late to the party but I recently found this amazing website that sells some pretty incredible artwork. Society6 has a pretty massive library of artwork and most of it is pretty great. A majority of the designs come on a variety of formats, including framed artwork, wall tapestries, canvases and even t-shirts and iPhone […]
The Selfie to Own All Selfies
There are the overdone (and usually pretty terrible) selfies that seem to be everywhere lately, and then there is truly amazing photography. Photographer Derek Johnson has completely bridged the two mediums and come up with something totally amazing and unique. To be fair this isn’t a real selfie, since the final image is a Photoshop composition […]
Fullscreen Overlay Menus
There are tons of different ways to make a great website navigation menu. The standard drop down menu is still super functional on a desktop computer, giving users easy access to anywhere they want to go. But when you get to mobile devices this type of menu really falls apart. That’s where other options, like the hamburger […]
