Motivation

Battle of the Bands – Myspace Music Profile Trends Roundup

myspacedesignsYou have a band, you’re ready to rock the world and reinvent the music scene. The only thing between you and a multi-platinum album is a killer Myspace band page. Fear not young rocker, for we are going to outline what is hot right now, come along won’t you?

 

Color Scheme Inspiration – Breakfast Cereal

Breafast Bowl ColorsGood morning designers! Looking for a little bit of color in your life? This round of color inspiration is especially for all the A.M. folks out there.

So wake up, and start the day off right with some well rounded color schemes from the breakfast bowl.

 

Color Scheme Inspiration – Birds

Color Scheme from BirdsHaving trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we’ll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire.

In honor of winter migration, this round of color schemes come from our airborne friends.

(Thumbnail by essjay via Flickr)

 

Color Scheme Inspiration – Desert Landscapes

Desert Color SchemesHaving trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we’ll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire.

Dry and desolate? Try creative and motivational! Pack some water because this round of color schemes focuses on some of the hottest desert spots of the planet.

Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for more on the author), and color schemes are available to download on COLOURlovers.

 

12 Sites Great at Being Green

Great at GreenGreen is a great color. This showcase focuses on websites that decided to go with a more natural shade of design. Take some inspiration from the shades of green used fantastically in the following twelve sites.

Many of these pages use green to illustrate a nature theme. There are also a couple of great examples like Emotions by Mike which use green simply because it works with the design. Take a look:

 

8 Sites with Excellent jQuery Navigation

Excellent jQuery NavigationThis is a gallery of sites that use jQuery to make the navigation clean, sharp, and elegant. These sites use the framework to do more than just add gratuitous effects.

Even though I’m a huge fan of Actionscript, Flex, and Flash in general, I love when navigations can keep usability while achieving fluid animation. A couple of these are so fluid you may forget it’s not Flash.

 

Color Scheme Inspiration – Shells and Stones

Color Scheme Shells and StoneHaving trouble finding a good color scheme? Color scheme inspirations will aim to fix that! Each post, we’ll pick out a topic and build color schemes out of it to inspire. For this round, we’ll look down to the usually unnoticed rocks and shells we walk on.

Photos are all found on Flickr (follow image links for more on the author), and color schemes are all available to download on COLOURlovers.

 

Designer’s Holiday Hangover Cure – Awesome Offices

Office Space MotivationCongratulations! You’ve made it through stage one of the holiday season, but are you losing the will to create to a hectic schedule and long lines everywhere? If so, you’re probably suffering from a holiday hangover.

Don’t worry, it’s treatable and we’re here to help. Grab a cup of cocoa, get comfortable, and take a look through this batch of holiday hangover cures to get some of that lost motivation surging again.

Today we’ll be focusing on the offices, digs, and productivity pads of fellow web workers from around the world.

 
 

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