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Call for entries. Be featured on designstar.org

Posted on 26 September 2009 by designstar

We are currently generating some mad traffic and I need to start getting designers to feature on the site.

If you are or know someone who is a great designer and would like to be featured please click the link below to submit your work for consideration.

You can see a sample interview format here

I am looking for designers of any kind, web, print, industrial, interior, etc.. You do not have to specifically be a graphic or web designer but it would help if you have an online portfolio we can link to or some digital ready assets that can be used in the interview.

If you are selected I will contact you shortly and send you over the interview packet with everything you need. Once I get a good selection of designer to feature I will be running a contest that will allow users to vote on which artist is their favorite and there will be some prizes involved.

Submit your work here

Websites from various types of entertainment-related industries can often be a source of design inspiration. Bands and musicians need to have a website that is attractive to visitors and provides all of the necessary information that fans will want to find. In this post we’ll feature 25 websites for your design inspiration.

<a ” href=”http://www.chriscornell.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Chris Cornell</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.chriscornell.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/23.jpg” alt=”Chris Cornell” width=”525″ height=”322″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.alanjackson.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Alan Jackson</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.alanjackson.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/21.jpg” alt=”Alan Jackson” width=”525″ height=”300″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.darrylworley.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Darryl Worley</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.darrylworley.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/1.jpg” alt=”Darryl Worley” width=”525″ height=”299″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.justintimberlake.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Justin Timberlake</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.justintimberlake.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/2.jpg” alt=”Justin Timberlake” width=”525″ height=”306″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.anthonyhamilton.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Anthony Hamilton</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.anthonyhamilton.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/24.jpg” alt=”Anthony Hamilton” width=”525″ height=”280″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.francescamusic.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Francesca Battistelli</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.francescamusic.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/26.jpg” alt=”Francesca Battistelli” width=”525″ height=”282″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.rocketclub.info/”><strong>Rocket Club</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.rocketclub.info/”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/4.jpg” alt=”Rocket Club” width=”525″ height=”312″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.u2.com/index/home/”><strong>U2</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.u2.com/index/home/”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/5.jpg” alt=”U2″ width=”525″ height=”292″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.daughtryofficial.com/us/home”><strong>Daughtry</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.daughtryofficial.com/us/home”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/9.jpg” alt=”Daughtry” width=”525″ height=”298″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/home/”><strong>Death Cab for Cutie</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/home/”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/20.jpg” alt=”Death Cab for Cutie” width=”525″ height=”311″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.jakeowen.net/”><strong>Jake Owen</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.jakeowen.net/”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/25.jpg” alt=”Jake Owen” width=”525″ height=”276″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.zacbrownband.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Zac Brown Band</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.zacbrownband.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/13.jpg” alt=”Zac Brown Band” width=”525″ height=”290″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://bradpaisley.musiccitynetworks.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Brad Paisely</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://bradpaisley.musiccitynetworks.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/15.jpg” alt=”Brad Paisely” width=”525″ height=”317″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.dariusrucker.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Darius Rucker</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.dariusrucker.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/6.jpg” alt=”Darius Rucker” width=”525″ height=”328″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.madonna.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Madonna</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.madonna.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/7.jpg” alt=”Madonna” width=”525″ height=”280″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.thespecials.com/index.php”><strong>The Specials</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.thespecials.com/index.php”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/19.jpg” alt=”The Specials” width=”525″ height=”351″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://jasonaldean.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Jason Aldean</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://jasonaldean.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/8.jpg” alt=”Jason Aldean” width=”525″ height=”311″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.musze.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Maxwell</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.musze.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/10.jpg” alt=”Maxwell” width=”525″ height=”280″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://jasonmraz.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Jason Mraz</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://jasonmraz.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/11.jpg” alt=”Jason Mraz” width=”525″ height=”319″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.rascalflatts.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Rascal Flatts</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.rascalflatts.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/12.jpg” alt=”Rascal Flatts” width=”525″ height=”316″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://timmcgraw.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Tim McGraw</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://timmcgraw.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/14.jpg” alt=”Tim McGraw” width=”525″ height=”331″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.davidcookofficial.com/us/home”><strong>David Cook</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.davidcookofficial.com/us/home”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/16.jpg” alt=”David Cook” width=”525″ height=”304″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.matkearney.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Mat Kearney</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.matkearney.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/17.jpg” alt=”Mat Kearney” width=”525″ height=”319″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.jenniferhudsononline.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Jennifer Hudson</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.jenniferhudsononline.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/18.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Hudson” width=”525″ height=”290″ /></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.kelliepickler.com/”target=”_blank”><strong>Kellie Pickler</strong></a>

<a ” href=”http://www.kelliepickler.com/”target=”_blank”><img style=”border: 1px solid #e0ddd2; padding: 9px; background-color: #f2f0e7;” src=”http://vandelaydesign.com/images/0909/music/22.jpg” alt=”Kellie Pickler” width=”525″ height=”314″ /></a>

<span style=”color: #2e241a; font-family: Arial,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;”>From <a href=”http://www.vandelaydesign.com/” target=”_blank”>http://www.vandelaydesign.com</a></span>

Popularity: 15% [?]

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21 Free Web Tools For Web Designers

Posted on 31 May 2009 by designstar

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free And Useful Web Tools For Web Designers. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
Pixlr

Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter.

Stripemania
Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.

FreshGenerator
FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.

ColorSchemer ColorPix
ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats. You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

Photoshop.com
This is your online photo sharing, editing and hosting resource. You can upload, organize, edit, store (up to 2GB free) and share your photos.

Are My Sites Up?
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.

PatternCooler
Add your own colors to contemporary and retro pattern designs, or browse from thousands of pre-colored patterns in the seamless pattern background library. All artworks on this site can be used freely on personal blogs, mobile phone wallpapers, MySpace profiles and non-commercial web projects.

Kuler
Adobe Kuler is the web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

Browsershots
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.

RoundedCornr
This online tool generates HTML/CSS code and images to decorate your Web site with rounded corners and gradient.

Picreflect
Picreflect helps you to give the reflection on any image, to resize your image, to make them tranparent or rotate them to any angle.

WhatTheFont
For using WhatTheFont font recognition system, Just upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in their database.

Resize Image
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.

Wordoff
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code.

SUMO Paint
SUMO Paint is an online image editor. This is an easy to use professional tool for creating and editing images within browser.

CSS Layout Generator
This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

Wix
With Wix you can create a free website or make free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

net2ftp
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories — without installing any software.

Color Wizard
The color wizard lets you submit your own base color, and it automatically returns matching colors for the one you selected.

splashup
Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.

BgPatterns
This is a web based tiled backgrounds designer, you can create any pattern your site needs just in few minutes. Adjustable size, pictures, colors, texture and transparency is available.

Popularity: 50% [?]

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