Clodagh Mahoney of design firm Kooba has written in to let us know that the team there are regular DesignFestival readers — and they’ve accomplished a lot with their small Irish shop, including receiving a 2011 eircom Golden Spider, an Irish web award. You…
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Our first featured reader is Dragos Muntean of DVision Design. Dragos is a freelance designer from Romania, a country that is home to many more designers, developers and even startups (such as Paymo) than many people in the English-speaking world realize. Dragos…
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At SitePoint we know it’s the readers who keep our sites going — and on DesignFestival, we want to offer you the opportunity to have your work featured on the blog. We’ll be publishing regular features that include some insight from our featured reader-designers,…
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Android has long been criticized for its lack of a focused user interface design language. Apps running on the platform often don’t feel like they’re apps for the same platform at all, lacking a sense of coherence and uniformity. While Apple’s clearly…
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Almost everyone with an iPhone or iPad spends a lot of time trying out new apps. Soon enough, your home screen is cluttered and most things you’ve installed go unused. It’s important for designers to get the design of their icons right…
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Got an eye for design and some skills to share? We’re looking for new writers to contribute to DesignFestival, with content focused on web, mobile and print design. Specifically, we’re looking for in-depth tutorials using Photoshop, Illustrator or even CSS and HTML…
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It’s the start of an exciting new year and to celebrate the enthusiasm that comes with the start of January, we want to give you the chance to go wild in the comments and brag about the latest projects you’ve been working on.…
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Thanks to Karthick Kumar of Killer Icons, we’re offering DesignFestival users a free download of this Killer Social Media Icons set in PSD format. Consider it it our Christmas gift! You can use this Killer Icons set in your commercial and non-commercial projects — the…
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Need icons in a hurry for your next web project? Here are five icon sets that can be had for free, perfect for web projects of all kinds and including a social services icon set. Token Glyphish WebAppers Icon Set Sapphire Icon Set Polaroid Social…
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Have you or your business sent out your Holiday or Christmas cards for the year yet?? 99designs asked their amazing design community to create several unique and professional cards for the upcoming festive season, and are offering these designs to you completely FREE…
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