Efforts to keep reggae popular on the world stage have led to a narrow conformist definition of the genre’s visual brand. Dan Mayer goes through the impressions left behind on Jamaica’s album covers to analyze the multitude of contradictions in the postcolonial experience.
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Web Icons Set designed this set with the purpose to be used in e-commerce websites. Exclusively released for Smashing Magazine and its readers, the set includes icons such as Empty Basket, Full Basket, Credit Cards, Delivery, and more.
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Website users want their content delivered to them in a way that is easy to understand, intuitive and engaging. In this post, Anne Sallee Miles focuses on some basic user interface ideas and patterns that Web designers can learn from video games.
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A list of selected newsletters for you to stay on top of the most recent developments in your craft. Valuable insight and information, readability and relevance are some of the most important qualities of the newsletters we have selected.
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Simon Thomas looks at the development of the Berlin street art scene, from its beginnings as a minor West Berlin movement in the late ’70s to its current status. How does street art shapes the public space?
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Marcin Wichary joined Smashing Magazine author Dan Redding for a conversation regarding his fascination with the relationship between humans and machines, his professional career, his interest in photography and a curious creation known as the Crushinator.
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David Morrison explores child- and teen-friendly Web design guidelines to attract more business from clients who deliver Web services to children. Find the steps designers should consider before getting involved in work that will be marketed to kids and their parents or caregivers.
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This artcile looks for influences and ideas that have evolved into what has been known since the mid-20th century as “Scandinavian design”. Katrín Eyþórsdóttir also offers some thoughts on how to incorporate its principles in your work today.
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Want to start making something on your own? Michael Aleo shares his own experience to encourage “makers” and “creatives” out there to build their own projects.
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We, members of the design community, are on an ongoing quest for knowledge and learning opportunities—anything we can find to enhance our skills and share the precious pearls of wisdom we’ve held close to our hearts. Given that most of us are where we are because of the shared advice we’ve managed to accumulate along the way, tips like these can be powerful tools for facilitating professional growth, which we all strive to achieve. And it helps the community to grow and improve. Thus, they should be not greedily hoarded, but rather openly shared.
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