Author: Brant Wilson

I'm the editor-in-chief of Bittbox.com. I'm a designer and developer by day, and a writer and musician when the feeling strikes. I enjoy vintage advertisements and puzzles with an absurd amount of pieces. Follow me on Twitter.
30 Unique Website Designs with Illustrated Graphics
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30 Unique Website Designs with Illustrated Graphics

In the realm of digital illustration there’s a lot to be learned from web design. Many layouts rely on illustrated vector graphics to enhance branding, content, and functionality. In fact modern illustration design and web design seem to be closely interlinked through a very systematic methodology. I’ve put together a series of websites featuring illustrated…

Mixing Artistic Ideas into your Web Design Workflow
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Mixing Artistic Ideas into your Web Design Workflow

There is a broad spectrum of designers who have never studied art yet still have the skills to create brilliant websites. Whether consciously or not, designers borrow a lot of aesthetic principles from the art world. Before digital interfaces old-world artisans would design objects like clothes, furniture, decorations, and these would follow very similar ideas….

Tips for Planning and Structuring a Responsive Website Layout
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Tips for Planning and Structuring a Responsive Website Layout

The process of building a naturally responsive layout takes quite a bit of practice. You’ll need to spend time studying other responsive websites to see how they behave. Then with a visual library of responsive elements you can put together a design that best suits your project. Once you’ve built a few responsive websites the…

Unique Web Fonts to Spice Up your Layout Designs
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Unique Web Fonts to Spice Up your Layout Designs

It goes without question that CSS3 has been a major improvement on how we build websites. Beyond the additional properties I’ve found CSS3 web fonts to be a groundbreaking addition to the developer’s tool belt. You can import external fonts or even include your own custom-made fonts with just a few lines of code. But…

Tips for Learning the Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop
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Tips for Learning the Pen Tool in Adobe Photoshop

Everyone who’s tried their hand at Photoshop knows about the pen tool. At first it’s agonizingly difficult and practically mocks every newcomer. But there is a rhyme & reason to the madness. I do hope this post offers enough useful tips for anyone interested in learning this tool. I’ll preface by saying that to get…

Animated Web Design for a Unique Eye-Catching Experience
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Animated Web Design for a Unique Eye-Catching Experience

The process of creating a dynamic website takes hard work along with a deeper understanding of design principles. Animation in web design can enhance almost any page element, and the popularity of jQuery allows anyone to build these effects for free. Most of these techniques can be learned from practice and studying what other websites…

Primary Differences Between Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks
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Primary Differences Between Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks

It’s fair to say that Adobe is the premier company for any digital creative artists. Their software has pioneered into areas of film editing, audio engineering, animation, print design, concept artwork, and of course web design. In this article I want to focus on the web & graphics side of this monolithic corporation’s software library….