Does Web Minimalism Still Exist?

Recently, while exploring a number of web design trends and discussions, I found myself exploring the intricacies of web minimalism. On researching the topic further, it got me wondering, where is the line drawn between flat design and minimalist design? When is a design considered to be flat or minimalist? And does minimalism as a design them still even exist?

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How To Create WebFont Icons From Scratch

There’s been a lot of discussion in design communities as of late into WebFont Icons. There’s no doubt, that image/raster based icons in web design are fast becoming a relic of the past.
Since the early days of CSS, image based icons in web design have been an industry standard. But that has all changed as screens with higher PPI’s and PAR’s have become increasingly affordable. Having said that, the vast majority of displays used to browse the web at the moment, are still using around 72 – 150 PPI, well below minimum requirements for ‘retina’ support.

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Getting Started With SASS

You’ve probably heard a lot about things like Sass, Grunt, Less or even Gulp and other web deployment related workflows lately. People everywhere are raving over Sass and Grunt as if they’re gods gift to front-end developers. 

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Storytelling For Clicks - How Brands Are Exploiting The Storytelling Trend

It’s no secret that the art of storytelling has seen significant resurgence over the past few months through the likes of blogging services like Medium and small brands and companies. At the beginning of the year, many predicted that storytelling would be a growing trend throughout 2014 and so far, predictions are exceeding expectations.

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Is Photoshop Still Industry Standard?

I guess a more appropriate title would be “Should Photoshop Still Be Industry Standard?“. Like a lot of people, I’ve been an avid fan of Photoshop for quite some time now. It’s been my go-to tool for the best part of 6 years for a range of purposes, from photography to web design.

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Case Study: Apple’s “Exploring New Depths”

Today we’ll be doing a bit of a web design and development “case study”, something i’ll be exploring more regularly in the future on this site.

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150+ Best High-Quality Free Fonts For Download

Here at Pencil Scoop, we live, breathe and eat typography. So much so that today, we are bringing you the greatest 150 free fonts on the web.

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110+ Best High-Quality Free WordPress Themes

No matter what your design, coding or blogging experience, WordPress is easily the most comprehensive, reliable and complete content management system.

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Design & Dev Monthly Periodical – April 2014

Each month we be post a brief review-article featuring the very best of what’s been happening in the world of design and development over the course of the previous month. This typically includes news, features, newly released fonts, freebies, plugins and other important happenings across our industry, keeping you up to date on what’s trending each month.

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Simple jQuery-Free Snippets with JavaScript

You might have noticed lately there’s this whole thing with front-end developers using “pure” JavaScript (i.e JavaScript), rather than third-party libraries like jQuery.

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