Web Design, Icon Design, Freelance, Onur Oztaskiran – Monofactor

Whether it is for graphic design or web design, or any other medium that contains visual elements; typography is one of the top critical subjects that comes with a few important rules.

These rules are global. But for web design, it slightly differs from other mediums. (more…)

Well, title says it all.

This story is about how to get inspiration to build a good design and the making of Monofactor as an example to that.

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In the previous article, I tried to give small hints about getting prepared to set up and start the design process with ease.

Once we have the blocks of information and the important information areas determined, we can have a look at the design elements and how they can be used to interprete the ideas and messages, using the visual language.

So, here we go: (more…)

As many of us know; rules inherited from graphic design, good web design consists of a few professional sights and terms.

At the institute I work, most of my class hours pass by giving students design works and to-dos. Like “œcreate a design layout for x consulting company website” or “Create an iPhone presentation page without using iPhone images but injecting the essence of it’s features visually” etc.

After declaring the work, almost all students (and most of the designers) open up Photoshop, and start gazing at the blank screen with blurred and blank eyes, for hours… We might almost call this “Designers’ block“- which I will be talking more about in an another article soon-, but it really isn’t.

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It all begins with the word “blogging” by blogger.com. The web started to become even more transparent, visitors gain more controls on where they visit.

Websites went more individual than corporate sheets, communities had more features and usable functions to bring together more people.

We had AJAX technologies, script libraries and frameworks to present better and more functional websites.

It is all good, all amazing and will be like that as long as Internet enables us and our visitors to have more abilities when surfing, getting everyone closer online.

Though, this article is not about the features of what we call “web 2.0″, but the visual effects of this trend.

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When we were children, we all used to dream about becoming someone, something; very good at whatever it is.

Doctor, scientist, f-16 pilot, football star, singer…The list goes on. The following episodes starting by this one; is for those who used to have a lot of abstract visions and dream of becoming a good and successful designer.

I prepared these article series mostly depending on my career experiences and amateur to professional background in the business. (more…)