50 Stunning Examples of a great redesign: My Top Picks

A run down of a collection of my favourite redesigns in recent years

A redesign can be worth its weight in gold if you get it right. There is a thin line between freshening up your design, and taking a step backwards with a redesign.  Sometimes a redesign can be subtle and simple, and other times it can be a huge re-vamp of a company and it’s goals. Here’s a look at some of my favourite re-designs in no particular order.

01. AT&T Inc.

This is an ideal example of how a subtle upgrade can make a huge difference.

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02. BP Garage

A completely different direction and modern feel. A huge improvement!

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The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

A SMALL BUT CUTE GIVE AWAY & UPDATE, FREE TWITTER ICONS & CHARACTER

Free Twitter Icons & Illustrations

More freebies, yes I know! This time we’ve put together a free Illustration, beautifully made by Pasquale D’Silva, and a couple of Icons which you can use for your twitter status sections of your site. The file is a transparent background PNG, so can easily be imported and scaled into any design.  

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125+ Unconventional Sources of Web Design Inspiration

A collection of my favourite inspirational sources & Styles

As a web designer I’m always looking for ways to get inspired when working on new projects. Usually this means searching the various web design galleries for some inspirational web designs. However, recently I’ve found inspiration from some quite unusual sources. Take a look at this variety of inspirational work, and you might find that it can help motivate and inspire you on your next project.

The basic point of this post is to show you that you don’t have to rely on the CSS Galleries to inspire you, there is a lot of creative work out there in various other mediums that will help get you in a creative mood.

 

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Function Brush Set: 33 Subtle Grunge Textures & Effects

A SET WE CREATED TO USE OURSELVES, BUT YOU CAN HAVE THEM TOO!

Function Subtle Grunge & Textures Brushes

We’ve put together a great set of free Grunge & Textured brushes for you to use. The idea with these brushes is that they are to be used to create subtle grunge effects within your designs. We’ve made them from various dirty textures, surfaces and fabrics from images taken ourselves.  

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50 More Wallpapers for Designers

You thought your desktop looked okay? Think again, check these out.

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If I could only Read 10 Blogs: My favourite collection

A list of the top 10 blogs that I visit, not in any particular order

A concept inspired by Jacob Cass’ post over at Just Creative Design. I’ve put together my collection of the top 10 blog’s that I’d read if I could only choose 10. I tend to visit a lot of blogs, but there’s only a few which I will stay regularly updated on, & I’d recommend anyone who’s into Design / Development to follow these sites.  

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Free Icons: Function Icon Set, 128 Completely Free Icons

A Set of 128 Free Icons for you to use in any projects, be sure to share!

Function Free Icon Set

We could have gone on making these for ever, but I felt that we had most of the icons that you will find useful made so decided to leave the set at 128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. These free icons are exactly that, free! You can use them anywhere, all we ask is that you share these icons by linking to this page.  

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We are Interviewed on FuelYourCreativity

We’ve recently been interviewed by Adelle Charles, you can read the full interview at FuelYourCreativity.

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