I just discovered these paper foldables and totally loved it. In fact they even get better when used for promotional purpose (see the handsome family one).
The evolution of big companies logos is always interesting, and I found car companies logo designs to be among the most interesting to inspect. One of my favorite aspect of these is to see how logos are handled when two or more brands are merging (see Audi, Mercedes-Benz or Mitsubishi).
Renault
If you think that bikes are pretty boring, think again. These bicycles or concepts will maybe convince you to drop your car, or at least they will be please your eyes.
Foldable bicycles
These are the best if you want to take your bike in the train or have no place to park it.1. A bike that folds
Unfortunatly I never had the opportunity to do client work on an infography, but it seems to be one of the most challenging task for a graphic designer. The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy. The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.
1. Ancient Hebrew Cosmology
30+ HQ Free Icon Sets Awesome Social Media
Jumat, 11 Juni 2010 | Label: Free Icon Pack, InspirationsThere’s no such thing as a free lunch! Or is there? Well if you can eat icons there is. Here are 35 fresh, high quality icon sets free for download. There is a vast amount of free icons sets out there and this is a mere sampling of some of the good ones. If you’re planning to use them for a specific application then you may need to hunt around a bit more. Some of the websites dedicated to icons have decent search facilities that can help.
While these are free, always check any usage limitations. For example some may not allow commercial use. Be careful of attribution if required, and also that you’re getting the set from an appropriate source.
I’ve grouped them into four rough categories: Web, Useful, Social Media and Awesome.
Web Icons
Web Applications Icons – Ray Cheung
A neat, colorful simple set of 3D web icons.
The wonderful world of web design powers on recentlessly into 2010. Where is the juggernaut heading now? In the maelstrom of new design methodologies, styles and technologies it’s important to stay on top of the trends. Below are some of the new kids on the block who are making an impact on this ever-changing web design landscape.
Typography rich sites
With the proliferation of tools such as Cufon, sFIR and Typekit designers can now much more easily put a bit of typography into their websites. But it’s not just these JavaScript tools that are out there.HTML5 uploads fonts to the server to be downloaded to the client on request if required. This means the designer can rely on the site being displayed as he or she intended. So now we are seeing an art form that was once the domain of the print media coming across to web. Typography design is closely linked to structured grid design, which has also come across the print media.
With the different styles and trends that are emerging in the fashion world, we often loose track of what’s in and what’s not. However, admittedly, the retro look never really gets outdated. Not in the literal sense of course… May it be on games, fashion and even designs, retro concepts are still used.
If you are one of those designers who finds retro fashion fascinating, here’s a set of photoshop brush resources that you can download and use for your designs. 500+ Free Photoshop Retro Brushes are compiled below for your perusal. Designers dedicated to this type of concept has created this one-of-a-kind brushes just for you. Have fun and enjoy!
Retro Circles
If you are a seasoned designer, for sure you are quite familiar of the term fractal. Otherwise, to give you an idea of the term, fractal is generally defined as a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,” a property called self-similarity. On some designers, Fractals are also used as photoshop brushes for designs and images.
This post is generally an Ultimate Compilation of Photoshop Fractal Brushes for additional items on your list of resources. Come and download the brushes that you like and use them for your designs!
Photoshop Fractal Brushes
Fractal Brush Set
Interested in Mobile and Web Application Development? If yes, well here’s the post for you! We have collected some cool icons for your current and future projects. The icons showcased here are specially designed for mobiles and web applications of all sorts. Nevertheless, you may also use the items other than web development.
Free Mobile and Web Application Icons has been showcased. You sure wouldn’t want to miss these amazing freebies. The icons presented here are all unique. So download the icon of your choice and get started with your project!!!
Free Mobile and Web Application Icons has been showcased. You sure wouldn’t want to miss these amazing freebies. The icons presented here are all unique. So download the icon of your choice and get started with your project!!!
Free Mobile & Web Application Icons
Mini Icons
20+ Amazing Examples of Monochrome Photos
Kamis, 10 Juni 2010 | Label: Inspirations, Monochrome PhotosMonochrome is defined as an object or image is whose range of color consists of shades of a single color or hue. This type of artistic work is often described to be a painting, drawing, design, or photograph in one color or shades of one color. Confused? Well then, here is a must-see collection to all photographers out there…
Amazing Examples of Monochrome Photos is showcased here to give you a better view and understanding of Monochromatic photography… Be amazed and, of course, inspired as we take you to a short journey of cool and unique photographic images. Have fun browsing through this collection and enjoy!!!
Monochromatic Photography
Rusty
Ricardo Gimenes has a very vivid, very vivacious imagination and he injects some of that life and humor into some wonderful illustrations that he designs for a project of his. The project is called "Behind The Websites" where he picks a random website that takes on his fancy and expresses what he thinks about it in one single, tongue-in-cheek illustration. This is the piece he did for LBOI and I love it! Makes me look good, very good!
Ricardo has kindly offered readers of LBOI 2 "Behind The Websites" Illustrations for FREE! To Win this super-fun and amazing prize and see what your website/blog will look like "behind the website", this is what you have to do.
I recently had to design some boxes and packaging style graphics for announcing new launch and releases on websites. And I thought, how cool it would be if I designed a set for you guys that you could use in your projects both personal and commercial, absolutely free! So here are 5 high quality icons of boxes/cartons that you can use to announce the launch of a new application or on your portfolio websites. There is plenty of space to add your own flavor to the graphics like your name, important dates, blog names, app names etc.
These icons are free for personal and commercial use. They come in 2 sizes each 512px and 256px and are in PNG format. Don’t sell them! Go Nuts! If you use them anywhere, I’d love to see how you used them, not necessary, but it would be fun.
Deviantart houses some extremely talented people. They are not only gifted and quirky but immensely generous too. How else would you have access to these spectacular vector packs that would enable you to bring retro alive on your screens? Continuing on with our focus on all things "retro" this month, we present you with 25 funky and free vector packs that have quirky retro images ranging from cassettes and polaroids to boomboxes, records, rockets and Rubik’s cube. They have been graciously made available for download by their respective designers, so be sure to leave them a sweet comment or two and please check their terms of use before you use them. These should be pretty fun to design with.
I have never watched a single part of "Saw" or "The Evil Dead" or "The Exorcist" or "Halloween" .. you get the gist. When it comes to horror movies, I scare easily. On the other hand I adore "The Blair Witch Project" and most good Asian Horror movies like "Ringu", "Ju-On", "Shutter", "The Tale Of Two Sisters", "Into The Mirror" and "Dark Water". I like the thrill factor that these movies work so well because I don’t have the stomach for gore. Even then most scenes from these movies have been watched through my fingers, focusing on the top right corner of the screen to avoid seeing anything extremely twisted and ghastly so as to give me nightmares.
So you can very well understand why I won’t sleep tonight. I have 53 incredibly dark, insanely creepy and macabre photo manips for your viewing pleasure. If you are anything like me, they’ll scare the pants off you. If you are not, well I salute you my brave friend, but even then, they leave an unsettling feeling in the pit of your stomach for the idea they represent. From a design point of view, they are absolutely genius, the touch of surreal horror perfectly done. You do have to applaud the imagination and effort that went into these awesome photo manipulations.
For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with my zoom lens and manual focus at different times of the day. As we head into spring here in Australia, the sky is quite a surprise mix of colors at different times. The different angles of the sun hitting objects of nature, changes their colors too. What would otherwise be a boring, mundane bark, suddenly stands out starkly against some lush green foliage, every nook and crevice enhanced due to the light hitting it perfectly. I have some amazing textures for you to download today. There are 10 beautiful, raw, decay, urban-style grungy wood bark textures with some unusual colors of greens, blues and yellows popping up most unexpectedly. As usual these are FREE for personal and commercial use, please read myTerms Of Use in the zip file. Each file is 3000×2000px and the zip pack is over 33MB. Resale of textures is NOT ALLOWED! If you use them, leave me a comment, I’d love to see creative uses of these beautiful textures.
Here are the 10 files in more details. Download zip file after the images.
Fonts are one of the most powerful weapons in a designer’s arsenal. They can change the way one perceives a design. Fonts can make or break a design instantly. Proper usage of fonts or typography sets the scene for your design and conveys a visual message before your client/visitors even start reading. The retro look has been around for a while and shows no signs of slowing down. In the first of a 5-part series I have rounded up 10 amazing, absolutely free retro fonts that will put the "quirky" back in your designs hinting at a postmodern past that was rich with big circles, psychedelic swirls, vinyl sofas, cute volkswagons, candy striped milkshake bars, big happy flowers, space invaders and whimsy jukeboxes. And that is not all. Each image also comes with some design tags that the font conjured up for me. These tags are a great inspiration source, they tell you what the fonts could work best with. Click on the images to go to the source of the font.
According to Wikipedia "A fictional brand is a non-existing brand used in artistic or entertainment productions — paintings, books, comics, movies, TV serials, etc. The fictional brand may be designed to imitate a real corporate brand, satirize a real corporate brand, or differentiate itself from real corporate brands." And you may have seen instances of such a fictional brand in various media. But we are not talking about such a brand today. Today, we are going to take a look at how to create what logo designers fondly or grudgingly [in most cases] call "fake brands" or "fake logos"
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