Today we have browsed the most valuable source of inspiration simply known as “Flickr” and extracted a useful list of groups for Logo and Web Design inspiration and displayed two images of sample work by members of these groups for your inspiration.

Logo Designing

1. Design the Logo

Members: 6,762
Items:16,602
“Design the Logo” is Flickr group completely dedicated to graphic designing especially creating logos, having huge amount of creative logos design projects for inspiration and ideas for your projects.

2. The Brand Identity Design

Members: 1,014
Items: 3,413
“Brand Identity Design” group has huge and increasing collection of logo design and branding for logo and branding lover’s inspiration.

3. Real Graphic Design

Members: 1,382
Items: 1,098
Real Graphic Design is an splendid showcase of web layout, typography, logo creation and branding.

4. LOГO

Members: 998
Items: 5,770
LOГO has huge collection of logo designs for your inspiration.

5. Logopond Lillies

Members: 740
Items: 1,584
“Who doesn’t love identity design Logopond brings you the best from around the world, but sometimes you want to check out business cards, websites, and other collateral materials. Here is an opportunity to share your work with a like minded creatives.”

6. Logo Design Pro

Members: 683
Items: 2,769
Logo Design Pro provides you quality Logo design, Corporate Logo design, Best logos, Brand identity, Brand identity Design and more.

7. Identity + Logo Design

Members: 1,986
Items:4,611
Identity + Logo Design enables you to showcase your own creations as well as you favorites logo designs.

8. Loco Logos

Members: 470
Items:1,857
Loco Logos provide you quality corporate logo designs majorly submitted by the group users.

9. Logo Design

Members: 435
Items:1,566
In “Logo Design” you can share your logos and identity design packages and discuss topics relating logo designing.

10. Logo Design Showcase

Members: 203
Items: 1,009
Logo Design Showcase is another Flickr group exhibiting professional logo designs for you inspiration.

11. Logo Designer Blog User Submitted Designs

Members: 219
Items: 568
This Flickr group is official Flickr group of Logo Design Blog, all the logo designs are submitted by Logo Design Blog’s readers.

Web Design

1. Web Design

Members: 7,098
Items: 12,252
“Web Design” Flickr group has massive number of inspirational web designs, which can be used for inspiration as well as you can get constructive idea for your next web designing project.

2. Webdesign Inspiration

Members: 1,881
Items: 3,133
This Flickr group is a showcase for websites, graphics, logos and all things for designer’s inspiration.

3. Web Development

Members: 610
Items: 1,340
This group is dedicated to Web development, scripting and web layouts.

4. Web Design Edge

Members: 380
Items: 1,570
“Are you wondering how to develop that perfect website for you or your business but are concerned about costs? Are you uncertain about how to market yourself online? Are you looking for knowledgeable, reliable support… looking for an Edge? “Web Design Edge” is here to help you achieve your goals and make plain sense out of the world of website development and online marketing.”

5. Boagworld: Web Design Inspiration

Members: 977
Items: 1,653
This group is official Flickr group of Boagworld blog run by web strategist Paul Boag, in this group you will find awesome web designs and layout for your web design inspiration.

6. Web designs

Members: 489
Items: 1,874
Web designs is another Flickr group where you can find professional web layouts.

7. Web ultimate

Members: 259
Items: 872
Flickr group devoted to provide you quality web-design, web-interface, web 2.0, portals, promo-pages, online-shops and GUI.

8. Best of Web Design

Members: 186
Items: 653
Best of Web Design, as name signifies, provides you best websites designs ever created. You can add your work as well as your favorite well designed sites.

9. Web2.0 Interface

Members: 250
Items: 284
“Web2.0 Interface” showcases beautiful web2.0 designs and user interfaces.

10. ChurchDots – Church Web Design

Members: 135
Items: 85
“ChurchDots is a Flickr group dedicated to showcasing beautiful church websites from around the world. The goal of ChurchDots is to inspire the church community to create better websites to effectively communicate with each others.”

11. WooThemes

Members: 254
Items: 144
WooThemes is one of the leading WordPress premium theme provider. In this Flickr group you can add your own WordPress themes.

If you know other informative and useful Flickr groups then please share with us. :)

Now let’s have a look at some of the great work we’ve found for you this time.

Enjoy!

We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection of 75 green logos. As usual we would love to hear your opinion in the comments, and remember to share the article if you liked it.

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Some web designs use solid or gradient colors as their background, others use illustration to make it look attractive. As for textures, you can add it as the background of a web design, create a certain effect on the text, or even add it to the buttons or other web graphic elements. In this post, we will show you 5 types of texture in web design for your inspiration.

Vintage

Retro/Vintage look is timeless. It may look old, but somehow this texture always get our attention and appreciation. Most web designers will use this type of texture to create the warm feel, others use it for travel and tour sites with Polaroid as the images frames.

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Dog House Cards

Vintage Web

The Big Chandelier Web

Corvus Art

The Foggy Google

The Cowboy Star

North Point Springfield

Team Fannypack

fivecentstand.com

Grunge

To avoid the “Web 2.0″ style, web designers use grunge texture to gives their design a less uniform, less structured, more organic look and feel. It doesn’t necessarily stand for dirty, though it’s easily recognized by the gritty texture, uneven/torn edges, worn, faded and aged graphic elements. This texture is best to use on any extreme sport, rock band, or any web design whose target is young people.

The Third Floor

Jazz Sequence

Renovatus

Target Productions

Snickers Online Campaign

Cogitatur

Generation Church

Soma Communities

Sourcebit

Syc Fuk Fashion

Elegant

If you’re planning to create an elegant look for a web design, using a texture can be an alternative to make it more appealing. Though, you have to be selective in choosing the texture. Subtle textures work best for this type of look, although sometimes you can also use leather, wood, or even fabric texture.

Marcus James Wine

Abundant Life Christian Center

Outline to Design

Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007

Sarahlongnecker.com

Pizza Venetia

Moore Family Heritage Project

Café Rouge

East Point

Traffik

Doodle

Doodle look is another alternative for your web design. Most graphic designer and illustrator will prefer to use this look in order to blend their portfolio into the web design. Although sometimes it creates the childish look, but for the creatives like illustrator it’s smart and unique.

So Interactive

Instand Ad Legend

Allen Design Group

Yok Boyle Bir Yer

Ceynur

Odosketch

Dawghouse Design Studio

Legwork Studio

10 Words

Suiepaparude

Miscellaneous

In some case, one type of look may not be enough. There are no limit in web design. So be creative, mix several types of look by using textures for the design.

Grunge Retro

Tvrdek

NarStuff

Jay Hafling

El Original Movimiento

Allen Solly

Andrew Brown

Bar Alternativo

Love of Jesus Family Church

Reskinned Blog

Conclusion

Whatever the type of texture you choose to use on your web design project, make sure it delivers the right look and feel based on your design concept. Let us know what type of texture do you use the most for your web design project or any thoughts about the topic in our comment section.

Preloader is what you see before the main page appears. It can be done by simple bars or counters or percentage signs, but to make website interactive and stand out designers develop and implement creative ideas of making preloads. Today we have compiled some examples of creative flash preloads for your inspiration and enhance your imagination and creativity.

1. Happy Greenville

2. Ad Eight

3. Agence Secondlife

4. Antpaw

5. BBH

6. BTOB

7. Bunker

8. ZUNE

9. Limbus Studio

10. Elipse Agency

11. Dave Werner’s Portfolio

12. Food of the Food

13. Oops! Design Inc.

14. XIXI NO BANHO

15. AB “Pieno žvaigždės”

16. ZZZ

17. DeVotchKa

18. Starbucks Coffee

19. Sir-Patroclo

20. Sourcebits TangledDecals

21. YESS MISS

22. Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers

23. Maria Filó

24. Por Liniers

25. Frontier Room

26. Red Bull Soapbox Racer

27. WATERLIFE

28. Vicente Díaz Peñas

29. Galaicofolia

30. David Ohana

31. Critter Creative

32. CONCEPT 007 / 005

33. Dissident-wear

34. Mynthon Kaira Ice Fishing Game

35. ZEEBEE VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS

36. Coca-Cola Happiness Factory

37. Sleepy animated preload!

38. Sazacat Portfolio

39. Cheese & Burger Society

40. Corny

1. Resume by xiruxiru

The designer here has used fruit, and the caption “Full of Vitamin Creativity” to appeal to

2. Rei’s Resume by Rei-pash

A lovely background texture with a spotlight effect creates a beautiful backdrop for this resume.

3. Resume by zxcxvxc

The paint splash here shows the artists creative side.

4. Resume by brazilnut

This resume has been lain out beautifully with lines, and the logo merging well.

5. Typographic Resume by mac1388

I’m not sure whats with the tilting trend, but I love it here, especially with the name centrepiece.

6. My Recent Resume by pixelprop

This resume appeals to an employers humorous side with a horror film poster theme.

7. My Resume by darthkix

A personal favourite, beautiful colours, nothing over the top, and plenty information.

8. Resume by cheektocheek

This resume also takes on the arty poster persona, and it works brilliantly!

10. Resume by KevinPire

With bold, attention grabbing titles, and the use of lime green, this is an eye catcher.

11. Resume by Kyuzengi

This artist uses the contrast between the black and white to separate the headings, and information which works incredible well.

12. Resume by heydani

Subtle but powerful, this resume puts typography to its uses with its awesome header.

13. Resume Upgrade by mac1388

An update to a previous resume, this time with less bold headers, but equally powerful.

14. Resume Updated by twolapdesigns

Clever usage of colour and outlines mixed with a different choice of typeface make this resume stand out, but maybe less readable.

15. icART resume by icasialnrdy

The fact that is an artists resume is instantly apparent with the media images alongside the persons skills and education.

16. Resume by Akashrine

Getting personal with rabbit/squirrel gives an insight into the personality of this resume’s owner.

17. Resume Espanol by rogaziano

The avatar here alone, and the bright colours used show this persons love for colour, and art.

18. Resume by bdechantal

This resume makes use of browns and greys, and along with the logo, and title font, gives a nice old feel.

19. Curriculum Resume by toromuco

Beautiful graphics are used here to get across the information in a pleasant way whilst showing off the authors skills.

20. Resume by puziah

A mix of gradients and splashes here work well alongside a personal picture to sell this person’s resume.

21. Personal Resume 2010 by heeeeman

An absolutely stunning infographic style resume which shows Steve Duncan’s life in a sort of time-line.

22. Resume W.I.P. by AchisutoShinzo

A interesting usage of a train/underground map to show this persons life paths.

23. Resume by ILICarrieDoll

Getting fairly personal with this resume which shows what the user has around them.

24. Server Resume by rkaponm

Making use of a waiters notepad to get a job as a waiter? Very clever!

25. My Resume by littlearashi

This resume gives the feel of old school ink printing for this Graphic Designer.

26. Resume by LordGabsta

This black and white CV shows creative things that interest the applicant.

27. Resume by spen

Another life info-graphic here, though I did find it slightly harder to follow.

27. The Birth of My Resume by NoviceXyooj

The oriental nature of this resume is perfect, especially in making it look more arty.

28. Resume by tenbiscuits

The curly brackets, texture, and drop shadow used in this resume allow it to have some depth, making it almost look like a scrap book style resume.

29. Creative Resume First Edition by NikonD50

The bright colour, shades of purple, and beautiful typography here work. They work incredibly well!

30. My Old Designer’s Resume by ExtremeJuvenile

Very bright and cartoony. It’s certainly an attention grabber.

31. Curriculum Vitae by arbrenoir

This is as much a piece of artwork as it is a resume. Absolutely stunning.

32. My new Resume by living2prove

A less illustrative, but equally informative info-graphic here.

33. CV by Verine

Again, the use of bright colours on the time-line gives an artistic feel.

34. Updated CV by xchingx

Simple and to the point, this resume puts the information down, and subtly registers the persons interest in art.

35. CV by Giemax

I’m unsure how practical this is, but you can’t deny its intricate beauty.

36. CV by Johnnywall

Rotation here is used to split up the text, and create easily definable sections without having to create dividers.

37. My Creative Resume by liagiannjezreel

Very personal, this takes the approach of being cartoony and artistic, but it doesn’t offer much of a professional feel.

38. My curriculum vitae by flaterie

A purely lack and white CV that gets across all the info in a clean and precise way.

39. CV Tudor Deleanu by iTudor

A very creative approach to a resume. Instead of a piece of paper, what about slide out cards?

40. Adam Balazy CV by Balazy

The grungy texture, and flowing icons really top this resume off.

Further Discussion

Well there you have it; 40 truly inspiring examples of how you can get across more than just your life achievements in your CV / Resume, but show off your creative, and illustrative side as well. If you know of further fantastic examples of inspiring Resume designs, then as always, get them down in the comments for us all to see!

Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments, suggestions and impressions which artwork actually stayed in your mind the most. Okay, ready? –  let’s get started!

Digital-Creative Portfolio by Para-Project

Beautiful lightning effects through whole site helps to grab attention and create really light and stunning impression. White plus blue gradient looks great here!

MG Portfolio v2 by mgportfolio

What I liked here the most is texture based in the center of layout really making this design to stand out. Such textures are really easy to use, but as we can see it’s really rewarding –  love language switcher and purple on dark as always make right links to stand out. Only thing which is missing for me is great logo, this one just looks little bit not in a place here.

Taste and Delicious by Pilej

Pilej is really talented designer, each of his works are stunning. This work is especially tasteful and delicious, would love to see it live version.

Intentio by edumicro

Really light website showing how everything can be monochrome, almost with no color used –  great effect is achieved!

Khabarya by zee7

I am surprised how such subtle, but still bright color mix can look so harmonic in the same time! With several hand drawn style elements design is created to be still very modern –  nice achievement.

Included photos also emphasize design, which is not easy to do, usually designer just go the easiest path by creating easy portfolio layout, with few cool photos –  if you are doing the same, this is a great case study ( some times I am guilty of overusing big thumbs too, that’s the easiest way..but not always the best one).

Creative by badboythemer

I just love main navigation shining in front of me, interesting color mix in overall design, though I think those line brushes are a little bit overused here, little less would look better in my opinion.

Colone Portfolio No.7 by h1xndesign

Again one more example with beautiful texture doing all the hard background work for you! Dotted lines and colourful navigation look really beautiful as well –  case study!

WithoutPress by DouglasEltz

I am really loving light designs lately, this design just come really natural to your eye observing all the information easily. Promising project and notice also main navigation – good presentation and use of color.

Locked LTD by alexdesigns

This design stands out by NOT using standard table based layouts, but pulling down straight lines and emphasizing right elements like blue/grey section “Get your files locked up”.

Notice that element is far from being at the top of layout, but simple use of bright color and icon does the job perfectly grabbing all the attention to subscribe for their monthly newsletter.

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Omega by Revoken

Do you like dark designs? Learn how to create beautiful and easy observable design right here. Only section which I think is not finished is footer, designer could give little more whitespace there to separate content from footer.

GMIMI portal design by fuxxo

Playful design with a lot of rounded corners and nice gradient effects, interesting and unique style.

Blog On the Wall by F-l-a-g

This design has interesting concept behind it –  all the elements are on wall (check that neat search button). Usually designs miss good concept, you can see here nice changes and good thinking.

Take your designs to the next level as well, in your next design do some case study and focus on one topic –  like here! It will be a lot easier for you to choose right elements, which you will use, because of natural resemblances.

Farin Innovations by alisalem

Tasteful design with interesting 3d look in main section and beautiful texture to emphasize the main message.

Triquo Page by Frozz

Triangles, triangles, triangles –  really interesting concept showing how to think outside the box!

Collins Harper-Web Developers by LOUDAMedia

I cannot image how much designer sat on this one, but outcome is amazing. Great 3d perspective will get you really inspired, at least it worked for me! Carbon and tech websites have become really popular lately, usually such designs are created for application sites like Iphone Apps.

Underwater Diving by DjDillen

Very well executed underwater scene, site is about diving so very appropriate!

Meteora by Revoken

Pascal Crott portfolio v2 by jk9o

Retro Creative Media by SencerBugrahan

I must agree to comment there “freaking sexy” –  beautiful lightning effects and guy with big hair/sunglasses look stunning, cannot imagine anything else suited better for that place.

AVG – Esserio by

AntoniaVG

Elementic Portfolio by misht

Very interesting concept without logo at all, just with main header and did you know monochrome can look really stunning and stand out with its subtle elegance? Check out his live website as well with nice mouseover effects.

I was really cheered up because of mention about 1stwebdesigner as one of the sites “Where I learn from”!

Profolio by Revoken

Aura Zoo 2 by finesy

Learn how to consume and showcase a lot of information in good way, nice texture in background.

Charcoal Portrait by 

skriki

Nice use of textures and overall design is really good executed bringing the right message to advertise their product in 3 simple texts. Only thing here to change would be smart logo, good branding is lacking here.

Firepoint by 

zygat3r

Gaming fans will love this design, my favorite section is bold title “’Firepoint” and the way how it looks engraved in stone.

AC Simulation Site by carl913

Fresh studio website by REDFLOOD

Creative_Web by arEa50oNe

Cenzin redesign by t3t5uo

ELEXION – For Sale by AndasoloARTS

Primakomp BWI by ryzzus

Business Layout by zottel89

WebPoint business template by gabshot

Roofing company by kegajewski

Phenomart Portfolio by phenomart

Aqua water system by atcreation

Ah this is it –  I must say my apologies for such short inspirational list, but truth is –  I really wasn’t able to find that much great artworks, which deserved to be showcased here! However enjoy this showcase –  currently trends aren’t changed, just getting more and more polished.

Keep updated and let’s watch together what September will bring to us :)

97bottles

Julius Mattsson

Andreas Hinkel

IconDock

Games for her by you

Redeemer Covenant Church

Andrew Bradshaw Media

Dog House Cards

Church on the Rock

Viget Advance

classics

designfabrika

101prints

We Eatt

Matthias Schuetz

The Typography Manual

Komodo Media

taptaptap

Tea Round App

Onskelista

VAEL Project

Fliprate

Cookmate

Fruit Ninja

Shane Seminole Mielke

created by Clark

Matt Bernstein

thethingswemake

Meubelen Van Aerde

Weblounge

SoulCore

Quality XHTML

Moore Family Heritage Project

Respiro Media

fontex

GabeDiaz

nataliadevalle

bcandullo

Paul Wallas

Kendo

enrichmint

Pepper & Koffee

xGraphica

Bills

Kalyan Chatterjee

Kuhboom

Creative Comic

Kyle Haskins

Cottonseed Oil Tour

siebennull

Further Reading and Resources

So you like what you, and want to design yourself something similar making use of wooden textures? Well there are plenty resources out there for you to use for free. Here are some fantastic round ups of such materials.

• 28 high-resolution wood textures for designers
• 70 high resolution wood textures for designers
• 70 awesome wooden texture packs from deviantart

Of course, as always, if you have further fantastic resources, or inspirational examples that you know of, put them up in the comments for everyone to see!

Today we have collected some captivating examples of elegant colorful web designs for your inspiration. Have a look.

Colors are not only important to our personal life but it is very significant in every field of life, like in web designing. Excellent use of colors scheme in designing a website can make your website highly noticeable, it is all about impression, if your website has elegant color scheme then it will give a delightful impression to your visitors which will make them visit again.

1. WeareHughes.com

2. Rareview.com

3. Havaianas.com

4. MattSalik.com

5. PixelCool.com

6. ILoveColors.com.ar

7. CuriousGenerationGroup.com

8. MarcosXotoko.com

9. K4Lab.info

10. Tanq.cl

11. Duirwaigh.com

12. NybbleTech.com

13. The Red+White Sale

14. Boomerang TV

15. Nokia Trends Lab

16. Brasil Cine

17. SheridanandCo.com

18. CocaCola Website

19. Fidelity

20. Bebiko

21. Dreft

22. Colorful Design by JenniElfi

23. Smudge design

24. Paperclay Holderisms layout

25. SolidGiant.com

26. WebDesignerWall.com

27. WebDesignerDepot.com

28. RotaCups.com

29. LifeMusicFoundation.org

30. JasonBradbury.com

31. AdaptD.com

32. Garamiz.hu

33. GetMeFast.com

34. Beautiful2.com

35. Twenty2Designs.com

36. Giancarlo-Fajardo.com

37. DesignFabrika.com

38. Creative Sessions | Tuts+

39. TutCandy.com

40. Pampaneo.es

41. DivVoted.com

42. CubeClub-Chemnitz.de

43. DouglasMenezes.com

44. CtlOnline.org

45. JulioSilver.com

46. Burubundi.es

We hope you enjoyed this inspirational article. You thoughts?

This time we’re gonna have a look at 75 great bird-themed logos of different styles, where the designers have come up with a really nice end result. Here’s a great variety of different colors and styles to inspire you for your own designs, or to just look and be amazed. With the rise of Twitter, we’ve also seen an increase in the use of birds – at least in tech and web related businesses.

Enjoy!

We hope you’ve enjoyed this collection. We’d also love to hear your comments below. Which is your favorite?

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2. The Boom of Social Sites

3. iPad Data Visualized

4. BSA Anniversary & Infographic

5. World Of Programming

6. A Modern History of Human Communication

7. Open Source Open World

8. Open Courseware: Stats & Facts

9. What Are People Really Buying Online?

10. The State of Social Porn

11. The Gulf Oil Spill: 88 Days Later

12. The Current State of Twitter

13. The History of the iPhone

14. SEO In Pictures

15. State Of The Internet 2009

16. The Cost of Spam: CO2 Emissions

17. The 2010 Social Networking Map

18. How Google Works

19. How Do I Win Rock Paper Scissors Every Time?

20. Which Blogging Platform Should You Use?

21. How Come Cheap Airlines Are So Cheap?

22. The Top Cameras On Flickr

23. Music & Piracy

24. The iPad Apples Next Gold Rush

25. So You Want To Watch Youtube?

26. 100 Pixar Characters

27. What Dose Your Email Provider Say About You?

28. Satellites Orbiting Earth

29. My Digital Life

30. The Yahoo! Developer Network Metro Map

Tell us which of these you like the most if you some other interesting infographics to share do mention them in comments.

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