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Cool and creative business card designs

OSH Editorial — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:58:13 +0000

If you are running a company or just working as a freelancer you probably know how important a good business card design can be, but there are still a lot of freelancers and company’s that dont have a (good) business card.

What kind of design is right for me? Well it depends mostly on you profession, for example a graphic designer would use a cool illustration and a photographer would use an simple but elegant design. But still the most important thing on the card is the information on it.

I have created a small list of cool and creative business card designs for those how dont have a business card or for those how are creating a new card. This list include some very good designs, also this list includes some none normal(paper) cards. I have included some really cool pvc/plastic, metal and creative shapes cards.

Paper Business cards

PVC Business cards

Metal Business cards

Creative Shaped Business Cards

Resources

Business card gallery’s

Business card tutorials

Business card templates

GraphicRiver templates

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Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 3

OSH Editorial — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:18:23 +0000

WordPress is growing and growing, more and more people are building their sites on WordPress or they’re switch to this powerfull open source CMS tool. This means that the number of beautiful designs built on WordPress will grow.

I will present every couple of weeks a small list of beautiful designs built on WordPress as inspiration for you and promotion for the site owner(s). Do you have a beautiful design build on WordPress and you want to see your site here on OpenSourceHunter? Just drop me a line!

Mozilla Labs

Laboratories are where science and creativity meet to develop, research, and explore new ideas. Mozilla Labs embraces this great tradition — a virtual lab where people come together to create, experiment, and play with new Web innovations and technologies.

IconDock

IconDock is brought to you by N.Design Studio. We know your time is valuable, that is why we offer stock icons in vector and pixel format that you can quickly snap in your projects to speed up the development.

Raskulls

Raskulls is a bone-shakingly crazy action platformer to be released on Xbox Live Arcade in early 2010. Enjoy the adventures of the huge cast of mischievous characters in the single player Mega Quest, individual Grand Prix racing matches, and online around the world with Raskulls Multiplayer. Jump, fall, swim and bash your way through a massive variety of levels and enjoy every inch of the rich Raskulls world!

n.designstudio

N.Design Studio was founded by me, Nick La, a Toronto based illustrator and web designer. I am also the creator of the popular blog Web Designer Wall, Design Jobs on the Wall, IconDock, and Best Web Gallery. My main focuses are designing stock icons, illustrations, and beautiful CSS websites. My work has been featured in many online portals and design publications such as: Computer Arts, Web Designer, Practical Web Design, Digit, and Web Design Index.

Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is the the founding developer of WordPress and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Akismet, and more. He blogs at ma.tt.

X3 Studios

X3 Studios is an award-winning design studio, committed to excellence in all its forms.

WOW toys

WOW toys don’t require any batteries and still have amazing functions and features to discover. We only use high grade materials and every toy is rigorously tested to make sure it is durable and safe.

Dzucle

This is the personal blog and design portfolio of Dzuc, who lives in Hanoi, Vietnam.

h Mag

h MAG is a high end luxury magazine for the Hoboken market. We print 15,000 copies that are placed in every room at The W Hotel, delivered to every doorstep in town, distributed to over 100 retail establishments and handed out at the Path and Ferry stops.

TruSpeaks

This blog is a testament to what happens when you acknowledge your weaknesses, face you fears, and step outside of your comfort zone. You see, I have a problem with “sometimes”….my problem is quite simple really…sometimes I’m consistent and sometimes I’m not. Therein lies my problem. I am not a “writer” by trade i.e.~ school background, but I am a writer at heart. I love to write, but my punctuation… well, it will be flawless after some time passes with this blog.

Missed the other parts? Well you can find part 1 here, and part 2 here.

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15 cool html vCard designs

OSH Editorial — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:07:21 +0000

A html vCard is an minimalistic design that contains just the right information that a visitor needs to know(most of the times). It contains(most of the times), anabout, porfolio, social(very important) and a contact section/page. This kind of sites are mostly used for personal sites.

The html vCard trend was started by Tim van Damme and his design has been copy and use for inspiration multiple times now.

Why use an html vCard for your site? The best reason to use an vCard design is if you dont have a lot of information for your site and you dont want use a design that has a lot of whitespaces in it.

Here are a couple of cool, professional designed html vCards, click on the images to visited the sites.

Tim van Damme

Rogie King

Jan van Lysebettens

Mike Jolley

Lji Jinaraj

Margot DOLEWSKA DYER

John Bloomfield

Katrina Neufeld

Ali Bahşişoğlu

Eugen Buşoiu

Chris Carey

Lee Adams Norris

Thierry Castel

Matthias Kretschmann

Shuffle Groove

Resources

If you think wow i want a vCard design to, and your not that creative, dont have the time or are just lazy, well the best thing is to buy an ready to go vCard template. Here are some useful, professional and cheap vCard templates.

Professional vCard

V-card site template

vCard Professional Portfolio

vCard Personal Mini-Site

Introducto – Personal Website / V Card Template

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Free files of the month september 2009

OSH Editorial — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:48:56 +0000

ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, FlashDen, VideoHive and AudioJungle are well knowen marketplaces where you can buy and sell very profesional templates, graphics, flash and audio files. Every month these marketplaces are providing a free downloadable item with permission of there authors. You can see the list for this month below.

ThemeForest

You’re a great PHP programmer, but you find that your web applications aren’t visually appealing? In that case, Ultimate Admin Theme provides the perfect solution!

Author: rzepak File: AdminTheme – Ultimate Admin Panel Solution

GraphicRiver

20 unique design symbols set. The pack includes PSD + AI + EPS + PDF

Author: logorado File: Design Symbols Set

FlashDen

XML driven
Unlimited categories
Unlimited news
Unlimited content per post
Posts can be fully contained in the viewer, or if you wish you can leave out the full post and just link the list item to an external URL
Users have cookies stored in their browser and upon returning to your site they are notified of any new news items and categories since their last visit
HTML Formatted Text fields using CDATA
Supports SWF ’s and Images with an expansion animation upon rollover
Easy to set up, use, and customize

Author: FlashJunkie File: XML News

VideoHive

A slow moving, beautifully flowing animation. It appears to be a fabric, or abstract lights that smoothly move throughout the screen. The gray/silver color scheme help achieve the appearance of a liquid metal substance.

Author: Bushido File: Glossy Surface Collection – Silver 1

AudioJungle

This calm and introspective piano melody is beautifully arranged in this lovely track courtesy of tomh. Give your listeners the feeling of warm and tender emotions with this endearing and fully loopable song!

Author: tomh File: Paradise Looped

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Free files of the month august 2009

OSH Editorial — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 12:46:19 +0000

ThemeForest

The Atlantica PSD Package features 2 full PSD files featuring over 10 style variations and 4 primary page layouts (Home, Generic Content Page w/submenu, Blog Post, Portfolio).

The “Atlantica” theme is a bold, clean, and professional layout that is ideal for artists, designers, photographer, and other creatives that are in need of a portfolio template that is professional and “to the point”. Even if you don’t need the huge image gallery page, this template will also work great for sites that need to showcase a few images above each content-page in a slick, sophisticated way.

Author: Epicera File: Atlantica PSD

GraphicRiver

High quality, detailed laptop. Can be scaled to any size. Easily add your own image to the laptop screen with the included object mask. All objects are layered, grouped and labeled, for easy customization. All these features make this a value-packed offering for free through August!

Author: Contempoinc File: Sexy Vector Laptop

FlashDen

So, you want to show off your business card design, but want something cooler than just an image? This Papervision3D file is the perfect thing. Click the card and it’ll spin to the other side. When it drops down onto the concrete, it bounces and spins to a random angle giving it a realistic effect.

Adding your own business card image is as easy as can be. There’s no need to even open the Flash file and you don’t need any special software. Just replace the back and front png images with your own design. The card will automatically resize based on your image size. You can even customize the background image or resize the stage without need the Flash.

Author: dxc381 File: 3d Business Card Viewer

VideoHive

Brilliant After Effects project file. Featuring a high-tech feel, this project is perfect as an video display and show opener. The camera movements are fantastic and carry the viewer through the entire piece. Couple that with the 3D particles that seem to be the focal point, and the clever transitions that keep the movement going. This project is a must have for any video editor!

Author: MassFocus File: Float

AudioJungle

This free audio from AudioJungle continues our series of free files we offer each month. Perfect for Web, video, podcast, or game productions, this audio will sound great in your next creative project. Be sure to download for FREE any time throughout August 2009!

Author: leto File: Victory

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Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

OSH Editorial — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Smashingmagazine has recently published an article about new cool features of CCS3. Read the whole article here.

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Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 2

OSH Editorial — Fri, 22 May 2009 21:58:57 +0000

Yes it’s time for beautiful designs build on WordPress part 2. This time another 10 beautiful design that are build on the world famous WordPress. You can find part 1 here.

If you know some great designs that run on WordPress please place a comment here and if there are really nice designs then i will place them on the next parts that will come.

See you at part 3

Tutorial9

We are Tutorial9 – a collection of teachers, experts, and caring folk from around the world, all gathered in one place to pass along our knowledge to absolutely anyone interested in learning.

Made In Space

Hello there! I am Fabrice and this place is where you will find my Web Development Portfolio and soon some of my discoveries or experiments in Flash, Flex or Air.

Namie Taniguchi’s Design Portfolio

I am a web designer working in New York. My inspiration came from my hometown, Nagano Japan where is surrounded by beautiful mountains.

Zinaz

My name is Hendrik van Zwol and during my training Communication & Multimedia Design, I created zinaz to work with customers to develop ideas and various new Internet concepts to remember.

ReservoirBuzz

Culture web, buzz, communication…

Light Echo

Founded in 2003, LightEcho is a premier web development, design, and programming team. Our expertise extends beyond that of a traditional design company as we have extensive knowledge rooted in online businesses and successful business practices. The LightEcho team includes best in class designers, programmers, and online business experts.

Deborah Cavenaugh

Deborah Cavenaugh is a self-taught American watercolor artist working in Wilmington, North Carolina. Her colorful and inspirational fine art and prints invite viewers into a world where she explores the familiar subjects of home and family.

Hooverdust

Hooverdust is a pop culture blog designed and developed by James Sann. I cover a range of topics such as Film, Music, TV, Photography, Design and teh internets.

Narfstuff

Wordpress Development, Web and Graphic Design

Octwelve

Welcome to Octwelve – personal blog of web designer,Luc Melgar. This is my crib on the world wide web, a journal where I will post and share my interests, thoughts, experiences and some stuff that might be useful for you hopefully.

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10 Beautiful blue themes from ThemeForest

OSH Editorial — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:21:29 +0000

ThemeForest is the third of the Envato digital goods marketplaces and offers a place to buy and sell website templates and themes for content management systems like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Because blue is one of my favorite colors i have made a small list of blue themes on ThemeForest.

Sadly to say that these themes are not free, but they dont cost a lot of money(where living in dark times so we don’t want to spend a lot of money). The prices range between 10 – 30 dollars. Notice that these blue themes aren’t the only blue themes that are available on ThemeForest there are lots more of blue themes.

This list contains HTML and WordPress themes. All with layerd PSD and help when needed(just send the author a message). A couple of these themes comes in more then one color.

Business Layout with Smooth Blue Color

Corporate / Business Layout with Smooth Blue Color is a clean layout for corporate / business, web agency or anything you want. This template have two column layout, fix width and blue color.

EZI theme

This is a modern template which uses a lot of jQuery to create great user experience. This theme comes in 4 colors(red, green, blue and black).

Mezzo Folio | Designer portfolio

A portfolio for creative designers, artists or companies. This is a full pack HTML / CSS with 5 different graphic themes (GRAY, BLUE , RED, GREEN and OCHER ). All sections are included in a page, which are managed by javascript, with a highlighting presentation of your work. Everything is ready for use, managing the update of your work is very simple to make.

Bluelight Wordpress | 2.0 Portfolio and Blog

Bluelight is a mash-up of a 2.0 business website and a personal portfolio site. It can be used for either, or both. This template will get you up and running in no time!

Memex Business + Portfolio + Blog Template

Memex Business + Portfolio + Blog Template ( 960 Grid system)

CleanCorp – Business template

CleanCorp is a clean, simple and professional looking html template for businesses.

Corporate Business – Simple Template (3 colors)

Corporate Business – Simple Template is great for corporate companies and personal portfolios. This template is flexible and can be customized with ease.

Corporate Business + Blog + Portfolio Template

This theme is a fixed layout with two columns. This site is best suitable for a business, company, Blog, portfolio, or freelancer portfolio website as well.

QuikTab

Introducing QuikTab, a standards-compliant, one-page theme powered by WordPress and jQuery. All the content is loaded in one place, then navigated through with jQuery so users get smooth animations and no page reloads.

IceBreaker WordPress Theme

Clean, modern with cool colors WordPress Theme. It can be used as a personal portfolio, business website or blog. Easy to customize and use.

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Beautiful designs build on WordPress part 1

OSH Editorial — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:57:46 +0000

I really love WordPress and nice designs so i made a list of beautiful designs build on the world famous WordPress. This list contains just 10 websites but as you can see this is part 1 so there will be more…………many more.

If you know some great designs that run on WordPress please place a comment here and if there are really nice designs then i will place them on the next parts that will come.

See you at part 2

TUT Candy

TUTcandy is a new site bought to you by freelance designer Che McPherson of PixelPimps.net. There are not that much video tutorials so if you have one submit it to them.

Outlaw Design Blog

Outlaw Design Blog is founded and run by Danny Outlaw. This site contains lot’s of good resources, tutorials, news and many more.

Dezignus

Dezignuz was founded by Stanly. Dezignus offers lots of great design resources and more. Check out the cool effect in the header (hover the mouse over it).

Vector Lady

Vector Lady was founded and run by Ann. This site contains lots of free vector illustrations.

MauRusso

Maurizio Russo is a illustrator/creative designer living in Italy. Recently Maurizio publish a tutorial on vector tuts how he has design his site.

Webdesigners Wall

Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery.

Absolute Bica

Absolute Bica is founded by Bryan Kohlmeier. Check out the switch of the theme’s of this site, you can choose between 4 themes (Sunrise, Afternoon, Sundown or Night)

Afflecks

Afflecks is an emporium of eclecticism, a totem of indie commerce in Manchester’s Northern Quarter and above all else a fantastic place to SHOP for anything from Top hats to tattoos.

Getting crazy on the waltzers

Well the site is in italian so a little description for the owner “the blog is about inspirational songs, I take a quote from a well known song and comment it, referencing it to everyday life”.

Eric’s Empire

Eric Franklin is a Web Designer residing in Raleigh, NC.