Design and Design is a community for sharing your designs, whether you are a graphic designer or a product designer. You’ll see there some great work, and you can register to submit your own. Doing so, you might end up in their yearly publication: the Design and Design Book of the Year.

When I first saw the above piece of furniture by Takeshi Miyakawa, my first thoughts were: wow, what a brilliant design! Then I did some more practical thinking and realized that it wouldn’t fit in most standard appartments, as well as I wouldn’t know what to put in it. A question that I never could […]

Infographics are surely a great topic for a thesis, but they get even better when they are funny, like on the above picture comparing the effect of LSD and alcohol. This one is part of an amazing serie of graphics showing different substances and how we behave towards trees after using them (not sure if […]

Sometimes you mind wanders in the most unusual places. It happened to me the other day as I was releasing the few extra beers I drank, and found myself concentrating on that little fly in the urinal. Then I thought about how that little insect made life a little better for the cleaning people who […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 You can of course follow me on my Tumblelog is you […]

Great portfolio by “I love dust”. I know it’s in flash, but they have a cute preloader.

If you don’t know Bill Plympton yet, just watch these videos and become a fan. Enjoy.

Typorganism is a seris of communication experiments exploring computational interaction design and interactive kinetic typography based on the metaphorical notion of typography “Type is a life form”, which lives on the Net, responds to user’s stimulus, evolves through time, has intelligence powered by computational algorithm. http://www.typorganism.com

PS Hero is a Photoshop tutorials blog that designers should read. He has some good, well explained tutorials that are really helpful most of the time. Following are five good examples of what you’ll find there. Cardboard and torn paper business card Intensify a dull sky The Velvia effect Vector coffee cup Basic image adjustment

Interesting to see how one book’s cover is changed from country to country. Anyway, you should buy Freakonomics, it’s a really great book.

Creative review has a good post about the new branding of Swisscom, the main telecom company in Switzerland. I really don’t what to think about this logo, it quite smooth but too complicated. The typography is nice but feels a bit odd. I really have mixed feeling on this new logo, maybe it’s because I […]

There is a cool song chart meme that you can find on a Flickr album. People take a song and make a chart out of it, most charts are very basically designed but there is some really great ideas. I like these rap charts and graphs even better.

Being on social networks has become almost inevitable if you want to reach other people on the internet. For me, sites like Facebook or MySpace before are of no interest at all, some others like Twitter or LinkedIn are nice to keep in touch with friends, but that’s about all there is to it. What […]