Garry Aylott Design

Last week’s vacation left a lot extra suggestions to go through and there were lots of potentially great looking options. Lets get going…

1.  SuperKrolik is the online space for visual designer Keefe Au. Great visuals and overall nice looking site:

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Happy Monday everyone. Week #8 is here so lets crack on…

1.  First up is Postbox 2. There are few good local email clients and Postbox is one of the better ones. Their site for Postbox 2 is really clean and flows well and features some great looking buttons:

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Hey all. Week No17 is here so lets get straight into it…

1.  The personal site for Daniel van Cuylenburg is eye catching and interesting. Nice layout and really makes use of social media:

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Hey everyone. It’s been a while since I posted anything other than my weekly inspiration round-ups due to time constraints etc so I thought I’d start doing some more short tuts and quick tips.

I’ve been doing a lot of designs recently for web sites and emails that feature a polaroid style image and have been experimenting with different types of drop shadow. I’ve had a good scan around lots of sites and the majority seem to be happy with Photoshop’s default setting when applying the Drop Shadow layer style but I wanted something that looks slightly different and cool.  Lets look at three different variations. This may be basic to some of you but for any beginners or anyone wanting to change up their drop shadows, read on…

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Hey folks, week 16 is here so lets dive straight in…

1.  Designed by Mike Kus, Amazee Labs is the perfect mix of layout, texture, type and imagery:

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Hey everyone! Fifteen weeks of inspiration and showcasing the best of the web is still a struggle as there’s so many good sites to choose from. Take a ganders at what this week has to offer…

1.  First up is Courier. An awesome product of sending your files to your peeps via all the popular social networks. It’s a great concept and can see this doing very well. Site wise it’s clean, has a good text-to-image ratio, easy to navigate etc, it all just works:

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Hey! The weeks are rolling by and no14 is here already, where is the year going?!? Anyway down to business, this weeks awesome sites:

1.  Hugs for Monsters grabs you straight away with it’s great illustration and heavy texture. I love Joe’s visual style and the font used in the nav and title is perfect:

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Hello again, week 13 is here and more awesome sites…

1.  First up is Savvy Belfast. Immediately loved the quirky large header text and round badges used for the headers. Some nice use of texture also:

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