Microsoft has managed to produce a phenomenon that no one is able to ignore – flat design – starting with Windows 7 and going on with Windows 8 designed for smartphones, tablets, portable computers and all kinds of other useful devices. Let’s see if the flat interface design matches your everyday needs by looking at 15 apps that you can download for your Windows phone (and also for Android and iOS).

As a digital artist or designer, receiving feedback or ensuring visibility for your work is crucial. Setting up your own online portfolio is an option, but then there’s the problem of driving traffic to it. So before you get there, you can showcase your work alongside fellow designers on websites created especially with this purpose.

Hi there, guys! Since I suppose some of you are already gone on vacation, others are getting ready to leave and others are busy hating the all the above mentioned, I decided to write a quickie today, so that you don’t get too bored reading it.
And to show you that I don’t only think about myself when I write here, I’ve put together for you today a really cute and inspiring showcase of 10 vector illustrations for Cinco de Mayo.

Metro is a user interface created by Microsoft (much like Windows Phone, Zune and Xbox), which is meant to allow the user to interact directly with the content and have the same experience on all media formats. It achieves this by relying more on typography rather than graphic elements: “content before chrome” and has been adapted as a design style due to its clean and dynamic build.

Whether you’re just starting a career in graphic design, web design, photography or in any other possible art domains, the first and most important thing you need to consider is your portfolio. But building an interesting and most appealing portfolio is not such an easy thing to do, not even for professional and experienced designers.
And if you don’t settle with plain C Vs featured on freelancer job portals it means you’ve already decided to have your own portfolio website. And that’s when the pain begins.