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		<title>50 Inspiring Portfolio Designs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. We just can’t get tired of browsing around websites to check out layouts, colors, typography, styles and everything else that a cool site can offer. With this selection, I will show you 50 inspiring portfolio designs. Some of them you probably already know, others are new – some are minimalist, others are colorful and full of elements. The idea here is to show different ways to show your work online. ]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/50-inspiring-portfolio-designs/</link>
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		<title>35 Beautiful E-Commerce Websites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-commerce design. Customers want the shopping process to be quick and easy, and merchants want to increase sales by making their stores attractive and popular. Thus, e-commerce design tends to combine a look and usability that is at once unique and eye-catching.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/35-beautiful-e-commerce-websites/</link>
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		<title>The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I had to looking for some attributes to describe the japanese style in web design I’d choose: essential, minimalist, with an intensive use of Adobe Flash, animations and music in background (mainly solo piano, inspired by Ryuichi Sakamoto’s compositions), traditional and modern at the same time. Here is a collection of some beautiful examples of japanese websites for your daily inspiration.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/the-beautiful-art-of-japanese-web-design/</link>
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		<title>50 Inspirational and Fresh Minimally Designed Web Sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most important factor for minimal to work well, as it should be with all design styles (but, not always the case), is the content. Without good writing or a strong portfolio, the style has no impact and the web design looks cheap. And that is the key to minimal, in the hands of a skilled web designer, they know that the site design has to accentuate the content, and the content, in return, accentuates the web design.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/50-inspirational-and-fresh-minimally-designed-web-sites/</link>
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		<title>Raising $10,000 in 10 Hours for ALS on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday, October 1, 2009 I'm working with a group of volunteers to raise money for ALS  (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”).

Basically, I’m working on a project with the marketing team at Quicken Loans and Quizzle to raise $10,000 for ALS in 10 hours by asking everyone we know to donate $1 (or more if you wish).]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/raising-10000-in-10-hours-for-als-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>Effective Twitter Backgrounds: Examples and Current Practices</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine has been on Twitter for about a year now (@smashingmag), and it turned out to be a great medium to communicate with our audience, build connections, discuss design-related topics and give away some nice prizes. However, even a year later, we still don’t have a Twitter background page and now is a good time to change that.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/effective-twitter-backgrounds-examples-and-current-practices/</link>
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		<title>50+ Beautiful Navigation Menus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I’m looking at excellent websites for design inspiration, one of my favorite aspects of design to notice is the navigation menu. While I enjoy seeing excellent designs of all types (minimal to artistic to colorful to dark) and various aspects of the site (including headers and footers), a well-designed and well-executed navigation menu can have more impact on my appreciation of a site than any other single piece of the design.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/50-beautiful-navigation-menus/</link>
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		<title>Letterpress Business Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something I'd been wanting for a long time was letterpress business cards. I love the tactile nature of them - the deep impression in soft cotton paper certainly stands out from ordinary business cards, and aside from being just a business card, I think they can serve as a nice little piece of miniature art. Papered Together in Minneapolis recently had a sale on letterpress cards, (the cost of the cards was the high temperature of the day) so I took advantage of the promo and got my first set of letterpress cards.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/letterpress-business-cards/</link>
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		<title>Excellent Business Card Designs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Showcasing some very cool business cards and different approaches compared to the traditional ways of the business cards. I have been building up this posts for quite some time now…here is a Flickr group that has some great business cards.]]></description>
		<link>http://christopherkaufman.com/excellent-business-card-designs/</link>
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		<title>60 Stunning Typography Inspirations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading, tracking and kerning.

We have selected 60 Most Stunning Typography Inspiration of All Time. Please feel free to suggest your favorite ones as well. Enjoy.]]></description>
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