Animate SVG Icons with CSS3 & jQuery

Recently, there’s been a lot of buzz throughout the web design and development community on using SVG for icons. Due to a number of limitations and inconveniences, using raster-based images for your icons, has become an increasingly painful and restricting endevour.

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150+ Best Free PSD Mock-Ups for Designers

Mock-ups are an essential part of any good designers creative repertoire. Our ideas and work may be great, but ultimately if not presented properly, a good design can often go astray. Which is why we have mockups. They serve as a integral visual aid to both ourselves and the client in helping bring concept to concrete. Not to mention they save both time and money, letting us focus our attention on what we do best: Design.
So whether you’re designing an app, a website,  a business card, brochure, book, poster, t-shirt, packaging or an entire brand identity, having a good collection of mock-ups is integral. Of course you can always pay or create your own custom mock-ups, but today with so much free content it’s relatively easy to visualize your latest project for free.
So today we have compiled this comprehensive list of free PSD mock-ups, including everything from apps to packaging. We hope you find something handy for your next project.

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100+ Best Free jQuery CSS Image Hover Effect Demos & Plugins

JQeury hover effects add a nice finishing touch to any website or project. With increasing support of jQuery on modern broswers, along with HTML5 and CSS3 integration, hover effects have become more powerful and easier to implement than ever.
Whether you are using hover effects for images, text, buttons, there are a number of free solutions on the web. Today we have brought you this awesome collection of the best 100 free jQuery CSS image hover effects including both demos and plugins. We hope you find something useful here for your project. Enjoy.

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Weekly Font Review: FatFrank

Every week, as part of our on-going weekly posts segment, we post a review-article on an exciting typeface or font for your enjoyment.
This week, we are bringing you a fantastically friendly font called FatFrank.
FatFrank comes from Dutch based font foundry Regular Bold Italic (RBI) – a collaborative effort between graphic designers Jeff Schreiber and Timo Kuilder who share a passion for letter design. Since, its original release, the typeface has recently been updated with a complete set of new glyphs including a brand new set of lowercase letters.
FatFrank carries a friendly character through its smoothly curved design and compact nature. However it still grabs headline attention through it’s thick weight and retro feel. It’s a great font for flat-style web design with a retro theme, or even print-poster work. Even better, its available for purchase for only €10! Head over to the RBI website and check it out. If you want to try it out first, RBI is offering a free limited sample you can download here.

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Fizz or Fame: 10 Design Trend Predictions For 2014

Yes it’s that time of the year again, closing time where every design blog under the sun pulls out the crystal ball in an attempt to make some form of definitive predictions for the coming new-year.
As with any prediction, it’s never 100% accurate, no matter the amount of market research involved. However if you keep your ear low enough to ground, you should be able to make some educated assumptions.

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30 Nostalgia Evoking 8-bit Pixel-Art Designs

 Do you remember the good old days of the 80’s and 90’s? When life was simpler, the sun shined brighter, you spent more time outdoors and used AltaVista as a search engine.

Do you remember playing DK and two-player Double Dragon on Nintendo or Prince of Persia on the Macintosh ? Do you remember going to the local arcade because the graphics were better and screens were bigger?

I remember when I was about 8 years old, I arrived home from school on day, only to find our house had been robbed. Much to my brother and I’s despondency, a colossal void lay center of the living room where our Nintendo had resided. It was a loss evocative of the damage caused by a boy losing his pet dog, leaving my brother and me with faces like a wet week-end. A few of days later, upon arriving home from school again, a pleasant surprise awaited me in the living room. A brand-spanking new Super Nintendo. It shined like the Holy Grail in a da Vinci painting, totally inundating the void that was left previously. Dad had secretly gone off and bought it for us. Boy, that was one of the greatest days of my early childhood, a memory I will never forget.

Of course you may remember it differently, depending on your age and cultural background etc.. but that’s pretty much my recollection of the times. Whatever your memory does serve up, one thing’s for sure, if you played video-games back then you would distinctly remember 8-bit style graphics and rending.

So what better way to spark reminiscence than some old-school, retro 8-bit style poster designs. Today I’ve scoured the web to bring you this awesome collection. Enjoy.

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