To This Day

Some people think Facebook is a place for us adolescents to waste our lives, but between the likes and comments there are "groups" and "pages" full of inspiration from Design to Health; and nestled within the "vines"and pictures, I fell across this beautifully designed, heart wrenching and thought provoking video about children, the education system and "beauty".

Talk by David Bailey

David Bailey of Kiosk talks about the importance of imperfection and perfection within design and how some design is                and isn't "important".

                                 

Owt Discourse - David Bailey from OWT creative on Vimeo.

Smoking Designers - Beautiful Collection of Typography Designs

Print Bench - Alternative Business Card Design Collection

To Love or to Loath?

Comic Sans is the butt of many design jokes (probably) and is hated by all with knowledge of good design and typography.

Yet, Russian designer Oleg Tarasov has broken the rules, recreating a selection of famous brands using the dreaded Comic Sans.. To love or to loath is the question?

His full range of "rebranding" awaits you.. 

http://youandsaturation.com/famous-logos-recreated-comic-sans/

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Not-strong-mark/5226613

Let Your Lighter Side Out

Three Blind Mice created black and white story boards for the up coming advert.

http://www.three-blind-mice.co.uk/blog/?p=3681

Design Alphabet

http://printbench.com/design-alphabet/?utm_content=buffer39980&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

SmokingDesigners

SmokingDesigners is a blog that publishes amazing examples of design, type, photography and much more.. another medal to add to the breast pocket of research sources!

Post : Super Cool Examples of Branding

My love for branding is shown with these two gorgeous examples from the related post, beautifully creative with the triangular business cards to the breath taking vintage design, I would love to create a brand that would fit into both of these categories to produce something that is completely fresh and original.

Yoni Alter

Yoni Alter was someone I fell across while looking through my emails, he was featured in an email from BlogSpoonGraphics inspirational newsletters.

http://cargocollective.com/yoni/Shapes-of-Cities

I think this work is clean, refreshing and fun! It also falls in to his particular style.

Inspiration from all corners (of the Kitchen)

After looking for a recipe out of an old cookery book I had in my early teens, I went to investigate what happened to the young chef to find out he's still doing his thing, with a beautifully designed website and new book.

I love the style and layout of the book, making it feel more interactive and fun to those who might fine other cook books a little heavy going. I try and learn as much as possible from these types of examples to aid my own layout and spread work.

http://www.virgintoveteran.com/html/sam-books.html <-- Check it out yourself!

Simplicity...

... is the ultimate form of sophistication.

A creation by Mehmet Gozetlik on Behance.

Some brands work far better than others, but it's amazing how a message can still get across,

 even with something so basic and clean.

Digital Revolution

http://shop.dandad.org/events/the-digital-revolution-revisited-27-mar-2013/

A difficult choice to make.. well not really, just me being pedantic about only having 6 days until then.

Awesome Merchandise.com

I found them last year when we first looked at self promotion, actually bought a sample pack for £2, look what I got!

Yay I'm awesome!

8 different type of stickers, a window clinger sticker, 3 types of business cards, 3 types of leaflets, 2 types of magnets, 5 types of badges, a compact mirror, a bottle opener, a lighter, a guitar pick, a zipper pull/key chain and a A3 poster!

Craft Beer

Brains Craft Brewery

Harviestoun Brewery

Hogs Back Brewery

Hook Norton Brewery

Meantime Brewery

Alternate beer labels sourced from Behance.net, the first four are by a Swedish typographer Martin Schmetzer, I'm in love with his typographic style.

  I really like the simplicity to these two beer labels, they feel fresh and modern and don't feel 'cluncky'

This Rock Ice beer is a very different take on the Craft Beer, being light hearted and fun.

Typographic Minions

Experimenting with how to create imagery with typography alone. My second attempt as my first was over complicated, it could be better but a final idea, it's not bad.

Dementia Friends

Knocked these out within 30-45 Minutes for the Dementia Friends group... mainly created using Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet.

Then quickly finalised the idea with copy... not bad I guess.

Handimania

... is a Facebook group with some handmade and unique posts. I absolutely love this, beautiful and clever in so many different ways.

Pinterest link here!

Journey

Journey is a beautiful game that holds no prisoners when it comes to the love and soul that went into creating it and successfully appeals to EVERYONE.

Here's a video by the creators on the Journey Artwork.. which I will be looking at in my next review.

Pablo the Pixel Art Builder

I fell across this Photoshop Add-on while looking for more examples of Pixel Art for EYS.

Pablo the Pixel Art Builder!