Most business cards, even well-designed ones, don’t make much of an impression when you hand them to people you meet. People usually just acknowledge that they got your contact information and thank you for it, but they barely look at the card. MobileCG found a good way to get their business cards noticed, they turned it […]

For the awards that the Academy of Book Cover Designers distributed in early March, the British association received over 900 submissions. These awards are a great occasion to have a good overview of the state of book cover design in the UK, as covers submitted come from all backgrounds, from supermarkets top-sellers to small publishers’ […]

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If you want an impressive demo of what can be done with laster cutting technologies, check out this greeting card designed by Studio Pression. A perfect way to illustrate what they do and to give ideas to their clients. Via Graphic Exchange.

Commissioned by the architecture studio Aamodt/Plumb to design their new visual identity, TwoPoints.net built the whole branding system around the slash in the name and the duality it implies. The diagonal separation is found throughout all the architects’ marketing material, it works particularly well on brochures and catalogues. The design agency also did a great […]

Tetris was a big deal for my generation when growing up. It had such an impact that designers keep creating things that are inspired by the little assembling blocks, like Tetris bookshelves, Tetris soap, or Tetris sticky notes, for example. For Romlab architects, design studio Bleed also took some inspiration from Tetris to create a […]

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If you follow world politics a little, there is at least one of Henry David Thoreau’s concepts that you are already familiar with: civil disobedience. If you are not familiar with that book or the ideas it promotes, just know that examplary people like Martin Luther King or Gandhi used this book as inspiration to […]

For their usernames, some Reddit users don’t look too far and just describe what they do, like shitty_watercolour for example. Another user has been playing with photos he find on Reddit, Your_Post_As_A_Movie. That user, who is probably a designer with a lot of time on his (or her) hands, takes photos on the social network and […]

As usual when Penguin launches anything, designers around the world take a good look and enjoy the work. They opted for a minimalist style with a clever use of color for the covers. The colors may seems randomly chosen, but each color is attached to the original language of the book. Orange is for English, […]

Created in 2008, this stationery design for the branding of a horror TV channel from Germany still deserves to be featured here after being awarded many times. The design was directed by Jacques Pense, creative director at Jung von Matt in Hamburg, Germany. It takes advantage of the interactions of each medium with its every […]

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Marco Schembri is not a graphic designer, he currently works as an industrial designer in his home country, Italy. He did however show some good branding design skills and a sense of humor with his funny logo project. The Italian designer took some popular brands and tried to imagine what they would look like if […]

For its bid to organize the 2024 Summer Olympic games, the city of Los Angeles decided to communicate around the good weather and went for this slogan: “Follow the sun”. This already sounds like a cult advertising, but you get the full cult-feeling only when watching their weird promotional video (see it at the end […]

It’s always risky for movie directors to take on popular books and adapt them for movie theaters. Nevertheless, Ben Wheatley was willing to take that risk to create a version of High-Rise, JB Ballard’s best selling book. You can already see some previews of the movie, but the purpose of this blog post is to check […]