Articles exploring digital design, user experience, interfaces, visual trends, creative tools, and how design influences usability, branding, and interaction.
Play on Logo Symbols
A logo is very important in branding. One must be careful in putting together elements to the design. It is after all its the first contact the consumer has on a product. Here are cool examples of logos that play with symbols as elements in the design.
"The Dressing Bar" - The main component ...
Unusual Wedding Invite
After you proposed. Did she say Yes? If she did then its time for the wedding invitation to be sent. Here is a cool invite we found. Its rather unusual but very ingenious. The invitation is the work of designer Chris Trivizas. The invite is inside the specially made tin cans. The tin cans com ...
Designs for a Cause
One of the most challenging work one can do is that of designs for a cause. Found two very special work of designer Magdalena Czarnecki. The first one is called "This is Origami" empty paper bags, containing simple step by step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, in order t ...
Creative Mobile Packaging
INQ Mobile dubbed as the first Social Mobile with its Easy access to your favourite things: Switcher gives you instant access to Facebook, Messenger, Skype and other services via a scrollable carousel of icons on the INQ¹ home screen.But not only that, what caught our attention was the creative box ...
Paper Matters – Logo Inspiration
Paper Matters is a company that specializes in eco-friendly paper products. The logo inspiration is the combination of 2 distinct elements the origami of a crane and a leaf. The origami crane represents the art and craft and quality of paper while the leaf represented the eco-friendly quality of t ...
Bullet Inspired Packaging
Packaging is one important aspect in branding specially if it involves consumer goods. Found one that was very cleverly designed by Jenny Kim. The Design is called the Milli Shoe Box. The inspiration is that Milli stands for "millimeters" the unit that measures the size of bullets. It also stand ...
Cool Promotional Design
Found this very cool promotional material made by Shine Advertising Co. in Madison, WI designed this flashlight box wrapper as a promotional piece for their agency. The look is a pretty sweet 1800’s ephemera inspired style and inside is a mini Maglite flashlight. We letterpress printed in f ...
Cardboard Box Packaging
We will see more and more sustainable and recyclable packaging in the future as more companies are adhering to the call of the masses to save Mother Earth. Here are some great examples of recycled packaging created by Ambalaj Design Studio.
The Sennheiser earphones here are packaged using 100% r ...
Juice Pack Air
The juice pack airâ„¢ is a rechargeable external battery concealed inside of a protective form-fitting case for the iPhone 3G & iPhone 3G S. It offers you the full protection of a hard-shell case while providing virtually twice the battery life of the iPhone alone; all in an ultra-thin, light-w ...
Celebrity Caricature
Celebrities are cool subjects for caricatures. What is a caricature? A caricature can refer to a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of s ...
Strong Branding: Have a coke!
I was linked the video below the other day by a friend, and just love seeing things like this. The advert is from 1954, and the Coca-Cola branding is still as strong today, even through the massive cultural changes. Now that's branding.
1954 Coke Advert:
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Creating Wire-frames
David Perel over at Obox design has created a great little video of him creating a wire-frame for an update to the Obox site. It is speeded up but gives an excellent example of how a wire-frame can be created. Personally my wire-frames have a lot of rubbing out with them too :)
Wire-framing is ...
The 4 Elements Text Effects – Video Tutorials
Alright, Photoshop designers and artwork creators out there. Here is four text effects that might help you to gain a little more understanding to the 4 elements along with the most common tools used in Photoshop. I wanted to present something unique for once when it comes to tutorials and in this po ...
“Speed Painting” on Youtube.
I was given this link this other day by my good friend @lydonator and it completely blew me away. Nico Di Mattia paints in good old Photoshop, he records his work and then speeds it up and makes it look as easy as putting on a hat. Nico is an incredibly talented man, and I just had to feature him ...
Jumbo Stuff-Let’s Go Large
It seems that not only can we get Go-Large items when we purchase our drinks and fries from our favorite fast food outlets but we can also get jumbo supplies.
Having a hard time getting people to notice your message? Jot down your notes on this Jumbo Stick It Notes Pads. The stick it pads is 36 ...