Archive for April, 2008

Graphic design festival in Breda

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

If you are like me, you probably never heard of Breda (Netherlands) and didn’t know that a graphic design festival is held there. Looking at the website of the event really makes me want to go there sometime between may 23 and june 29. Many famous designers like iLoveDust, Stefan Sagmeister or Pixelgarten will be [...]

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Sunday, April 27th, 2008

The impossible art of Li Wei
Cider package design by Amore
Nice covers for the Divine Comedy
Soviet retro posters
Street art in East Village

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RSS awareness day

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

The RSS awareness day is a great initiative by Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. The goal is to spread the word about RSS, how to use it and why you should use it.
If you are not using RSS yet, you should definitely take a look at the RSS day homepage.

Commercials that are so bad that they’re good

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The following bad commercials are what saves me when I feel down. I just watch a few of those and I immediately feel better. Bad design, shitty actors, wacky typefaces, everything is so bad in it that it just makes you feel good about yourself. Enjoy!

The best of all, an old polish ad that just [...]

The Pantone madness

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Designers tend to quickly become obsessed with their every day working tools or habits. The pantone book is a good example, it has gone from being a simple way to have a good color reference, making printing work easier, to everyday objects.
Following are a few examples of creative use of Pantones in objects. If you [...]

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Saturday, April 19th, 2008

A cool dress on Flickr
Nice short animation for the Zürich Chamber Orchestra
The great sketchbook of Jim Stoten
Food that has taken the shape of its container
New graphic design in China
The Helvetica Neue t-shirt
Build, share and download fonts with FontStruct

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Pre-fabricated construction can be nice

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Three of the exterior walls are floor-to-ceiling glass and of those, two are encased in horizontal cedar-screens for privacy, shade and light effects inside. One of the cedar screens has a large opening providing a direct view of the sunset from the built-in bed. The rest of the screen has random smaller gaps to allow [...]